2022 elections. The steady march for sanity continues.

Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Her area doesn't need to be gerrymandered
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it's true...i (unfortunately) have to travel to her district now and then...the entire area is full of fucked up rednecks, just the worse kind of magats and karens. if a hurricane wiped them all off into the ocean, the country would be a better place for it...but the ocean would suffer.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Roger A. Shrubber said:
it's true...i (unfortunately) have to travel to her district now and then...the entire area is full of fucked up rednecks, just the worse kind of magats and karens. if a hurricane wiped them all off into the ocean, the country would be a better place for it...but the ocean would suffer.
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If a hurricane washes Coloradans into the sea, I daresay we have bigger problems.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Roger A. Shrubber said:
oh, were we talking about boebee barbie? i thought we were talking about horseface greene, my bad...i have trouble distinguising between them, without visual clues...one stupid hateful karen is much the same as the next
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I backtracked because I wasn’t sure.

Even so, a hurricane on the east approach of the front range is improbable but not impossible. Weirder things have happened.

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Great Lakes Storm of 1913 - Wikipedia

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more recently (and, uniquely, without having a tropical cyclone leftover as a source of energy and structure),

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1996 Lake Huron cyclone - Wikipedia

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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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hanimmal

hanimmal

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Last year, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida appointed his longtime friend and financial adviser Bernie Navarro to an advisory committee that helped select potential nominees for federal judgeships, even though Navarro had no law degree and no legal experience. Just three months earlier, Navarro — who runs a private equity mortgage lender — extended Rubio a short-term "bridge loan" of $850,000 that allowed the Republican senator to purchase a house.

To be clear, there is nothing inherently unethical or suspicious about taking out a bridge loan. As the name suggests, they are often used in business or real estate transactions to bridge the gap between more conventional and permanent forms of financing. Homeowners can use bridge loans, for instance, to complete the purchase of a new home while they wait for their current home to sell, as was apparently the case with Rubio.

But this case seems noteworthy for a number of reasons, starting with the long, close personal and financial relationship between Rubio and Navarro. Furthermore, Rubio received his loan from Benworth Capital, Navarro's company, on Jan. 18, 2021, but did not disclose it publicly for more than a year and a half, until his most recent financial disclosure form on Aug. 30, 2022. In April of 2021, after receiving the loan from Benworth but long before disclosing it, Rubio appointed Navarro to the Southern District Judicial Advisory Commission, which was responsible for picking finalists for several important federal appointments in south Florida, including U.S. district judges, U.S. marshals and the U.S. attorney.

Rubio got his $850,000 loan in January 2021, but didn't disclose it for more than a year and a half. During that time, he appointed the lender to a commission that recommended federal judges.

Adam Bozzi, vice president for communications at the advocacy group End Citizens United, said he saw a clear "threat of conflict of interest" in Rubio's relationship with Navarro. "It becomes worse when you actually are in debt to the person and you put them on a board that gives them special access [to give] advice to you," he added, "and it becomes even worse when you don't disclose it."

Navarro has extensive career experience in real estate finance, investment, development and construction, but has no evident qualifications to serve as an adviser on judicial appointments. According to the Benworth Capital website, the company offers bridge loans with "a less stringent approval process" for real estate buyers with "less than perfect credit."

Those transactions have led to a certain amount of controversy over the years. In 2017, Benworth foreclosed on the family home of a 14-year old girl with cerebral palsy. Her parents had stopped making monthly payments, saying they had been "misled into taking out a high-interest, short-term loan ... that they could not afford to pay back," the Miami Herald reported. Ultimately, the family was allowed to stay in their home, after Benworth agreed to a settlement of $240,000 — nearly $100,000 more than the original loan amount.

In 2020, Navarro registered Benworth as a "woman-owned business," in an attempt to fast-track receipt of emergency COVID relief funds under the Paycheck Protection Program. Salon was unable to determine whether one or more women own at least 51% of the company, which is the federal government's definition of that term.

Navarro's two companies, Benworth Capital and Presto Payday, received at least $308,000 in COVID relief while his firm processed PPP loans. Benworth has continued to expand, opening an office in Puerto Rico, and donating more than $56,000 to Republican candidates and PACs, along with $14,200 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Rubio and Navarro reportedly met in Florida Republican circles, and became friends long before the former entered politics. In April of 2015, Navarro hosted an intimate gathering for Rubio and a group of friends, family members and political allies at Navarro's suburban Miami home, trumping the senator's announcement by introducing him as "the next president of the United States."

Navarro hosted several fundraisers for Rubio, first for his short-lived presidential campaign and then for his 2016 re-election to the Senate, serving as finance chairman for both campaigns. Navarro has personally contributed over $25,500 to Rubio's campaigns and associated PACs throughout his career.

There is nothing manifestly illegal about Rubio's personal or financial relationship with Navarro, although it points toward a number of unanswered questions. But as Adam Bozzi of End Citizens United sees it, this is a textbook example of how shadowy backstage deals involving money and influence have contaminated American politics.

"Giving these types of people influence where they can advocate for judges that will help corporations or help themselves rather than consumers or Florida families," Bozzi told Salon, "that is the kind of quid pro quo corruption that hurts people and turns off voters."
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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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CunningCanuk said:
Is this a euphemism?
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Unfortunately, it is a fact. I think Sherman camped out in her district on his march to the sea or something, they traded in their grey kepis and white hoods for a more up to date fashion statement, a red hat. Hey, their great, great granddaddy was a fascist traitor who fought at the battle of who gives a fuck. The fact that they celebrate and honor it is troubling, there's nothing wrong with remembering, just as long as they remember they lost.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Good ole Donald, you can count on Donald, not to pay you back, but to fuck you for doing him a favor, you can also count on him to sow chaos and division wherever he goes and to destroy anything he controls, the more control he has the faster and more complete the destruction. Mitch is in the barrel now and it appears Donald is going off the deep end, now that his feds are closing in and his high paid slick lawyer told him to study up on prison life. Ok, here's 3 million bucks in advance to get me out of this jam! "There is no way out, you are going to prison for the rest of your life", imagine paying 3 million bucks to be told that! Easy money, Donald will look elsewhere for legal advice, sucker! :lol:


Trump THREATENS McConnell's life in UNHINGED racist post
68,878 views Oct 1, 2022 In a psychopathic rant on his failing social media platform, Trump makes death threats against Mitch McConnell and then makes disgusting racist comments about McConnell's wife. Troy breaks down what might be Trump's most deranged social media post yet.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Good ole Donald, you can count on Donald, not to pay you back, but to fuck you for doing him a favor, you can also count on him to sow chaos and division wherever he goes and to destroy anything he controls, the more control he has the faster and more complete the destruction. Mitch is in the barrel now and it appears Donald is going off the deep end, now that his feds are closing in and his high paid slick lawyer told him to study up on prison life. Ok, here's 3 million bucks in advance to get me out of this jam! "There is no way out, you are going to prison for the rest of your life", imagine paying 3 million bucks to be told that! Easy money, Donald will look elsewhere for legal advice, sucker! :lol:


Trump THREATENS McConnell's life in UNHINGED racist post
68,878 views Oct 1, 2022 In a psychopathic rant on his failing social media platform, Trump makes death threats against Mitch McConnell and then makes disgusting racist comments about McConnell's wife. Troy breaks down what might be Trump's most deranged social media post yet.
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Well well, maybe Fetterman can get his homey ‘s the crips to do what needs doing lol.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/02/us-supreme-court-cases-monumental-impact-democracy
we have to keep the majority we have, and expand it by a few seats...or THIS^...
the day after the elections, impeachment proceeding need to be started against at least Kavanaugh and Barrett for being perjurous liars...and a separate investigation into clarence thomas and his fucking freak queen wife for all kinds of shit...from her influencing him with her radical views and associations, to him knowingly making rulings on issues he has personal involvement with, through her...
unless we want to end up living in gillead, with the government controlling every aspect of our daily lives, we have to fucking stop them here and now.
 
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