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Meanwhile, Rick “Put those bums on Social Security to work” Scott … tapdances for agent orange seeing red

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Rick Scott Panics When Asked About Trump’s Racist Truth Social Post

CNNSen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried his best at justifying former President Donald Trump’s racist Truth Social post from Friday, in which the ex-commander in chief said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a “DEATH WISH” and called his former transportation secretary Elaine Chao "Coco Chow.”...
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hanimmal

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A private plane took off in Texas with a group of migrants who signed bogus waivers handed to them by a woman only known as "Perla." Now the woman has been found, the New York Times reported Sunday.

According to the report, the woman is Perla Huerta, "a former combat medic and counterintelligence agent, was discharged last month after two decades in the U.S. Army that included several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to military records.”

Huerta had a Venezuelan migrant who was working with her and who identified her to the police. Waivers signed by the migrants revealed that the English version of the waiver said something entirely different from the Spanish version.

"Several of the migrants on Martha’s Vineyard photographed her during the recruitment process in San Antonio, according to Rachel Self, a lawyer representing the migrants," said the report.

Huerta is located in Tampa, Florida, the reports explain.

"The man who said he worked with her to help sign up other migrants agreed to speak on the condition that his name not be used because the events are under investigation. He said he first met Ms. Huerta on Sept. 10 outside the Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio," the Times revealed.

Huerta was accused of seeking to target Venezuelan migrants, but he felt "betrayed" because she never said she was working on behalf of the Florida government.

“I was also lied to,” he told the Times. “If I had known, I would not have gotten involved.” All she said was that “she wanted to help people head up north.”

Venezuelans have been coming to the United States fleeing socialism, something Republicans claim they're against.

"The effort to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard appeared to have been far less organized than the more sweeping program created by Mr. Abbott in Texas that already had bused more than 11,000 migrants from the state to three northern, Democratic-run cities — Washington, New York and Chicago," said the report.

According to DeSantis, the migrants coming into Florida are only doing so by "onesies-twosies," not in large numbers. So, he had to go into Texas to take migrants there and deport them. No one told the Texas governor it was happening and the Republican Massachusetts governor wasn't informed they were coming either.

Public records show that Vertol Systems was the charter airline company that was paid $615,000 on Sept. 8 and $950,000 less than two weeks later for what was identified as "project 1," and "projects two and three." The funds came from $12 million in funding for the Department of Transportation “to facilitate the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state.” None of the people flown to Martha's Vinyard were "unauthorized aliens from this state."

Read the full report by the New York Times.
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Roger A. Shrubber

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hanimmal said:
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desantis is just as big a fuckface bag of dicks as trump ever was, just for slightly different reasons...Very slightly different.
He's just such a fucking attention whore, he just said that florida isn't having a big immigration problem, so he goes to fucking texas to find some immigrants to fuck over, so he can have his moment in the news...I hope this moment in the news chokes him and his entire administration to death.
 
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On Nov. 9, 2020, as Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes told members of his paramilitary group to get ready to fight for President Donald Trump in the streets of Washington, D.C., one listener was secretly recording, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.

An “increasingly alarmed follower” recorded the meeting and shared it with law enforcement, prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler said Monday in the federal trial of Rhodes and four others accused of a seditious conspiracy to keep Trump in office. But the tip, sent to the FBI on Nov. 25, 2020, was apparently ignored. Special Agent Michael Palian said in the second day of his testimony that he only saw the message when the tipster re-sent it in March 2021, after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and he was not aware of anyone reaching out to the person earlier.

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday on the testimony. Federal and local law enforcement officials received an avalanche of tips warning of violence in Washington to keep Trump in power, yet the Capitol was only lightly protected when lawmakers convened to certify Biden’s victory on Jan. 6. A Justice Department inspector general’s investigation into security failures is ongoing.

On the November call, according to court records, Rhodes told over 100 people that “we’ve got to be in D.C. … You’ve got to make sure that [Trump] knows that you are willing to die, to fight for this country.”

As he did repeatedly after the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, Rhodes said he hoped Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act, which he believed would allow the president to authorize the Oath Keepers to use force against fellow Americans.

“If he does that, then D.C. gun laws won’t matter,” Rhodes said. “I … want some Oath Keepers to stay on the outside and to stay fully armed and prepared to go in armed if they have to.”

Palian testified that Kenneth Harrelson, Kelly Meggs and Jessica Watkins, three Oath Keepers on trial with Rhodes, were also on the call.

After the call, Palian testified, Meggs sent a message to fellow Florida Oath Keepers: “We have been issued a call to action for DC. This is the moment we signed up for.”

Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence officer from Virginia who was not a dues-paying Oath Keeper, is also on trial with Rhodes. He has argued through an attorney that his role on Jan. 6 was insignificant. But chats read by Palian indicate Caldwell was directly involved in Oath Keepers’ preparations and hosted Rhodes at his home that fall.

Trump did not name Jan. 6, 2021, as the day for a “wild” D.C. rally until December, and the earlier messages between the Oath Keepers suggest they were planning for action on Inauguration Day.

“They are not the leaders of what happened that day,” Watkins’s attorney, Jonathan Crisp, said in his opening statement. “They joined it in some respects. But they didn’t breach the Capitol.”

But prosecutors argued that the Oath Keepers were consistently preparing for violence in Washington, using the Insurrection Act as “legal cover” for what they knew was an illegal plan. In the November meeting, played in court, Rhodes is heard telling others to “have discipline” and “don’t make it easy for them to pop you with a conspiracy charge and do you like they did those guys in Michigan” — a reference to a kidnapping plot against the state’s Democratic governor over coronavirus precautions.

“They said out loud and in writing what they intended to do,” Nestler said in his opening statement in U.S. District Court in Washington. “In some ways, they planned their conspiracy in plain sight.”

Days before the recorded meeting, Palian testified, Rhodes sent a series of messages calling for armed resistance to Biden in a group chat that included Trump confidant Roger Stone.

What you need to know about the Oath Keepers trial

“The final defense is us and our rifles,” Rhodes wrote on Nov. 7, according to the records. “Trump has a duty to stand, but so far [he] hasn’t. As Roger Stone said. Trump has one last chance, right now, to stand. But he will need us and our rifles too. But will he FINALLY act? Only if WE act and call on him to lead us.”

Rhodes repeatedly referenced the 2000 overthrow of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, saying Trump supporters needed to follow the same playbook — which included storming the country’s parliament building and setting it on fire.

Stone, who helped organize “Stop the Steal” protests for Trump, was in Washington on Jan. 6 with Oath Keepers who later stormed the Capitol, according to prosecutors. The Justice Department has been investigating tiesbetween the rioters and Stone, who is not charged and has denied any involvement in the riot.

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Defense attorneys told jurors that the inflammatory messages were taken out of context.

“You may not like some of the things you see and hear … but they did nothing illegal that day,” Phillip Linder, one of Rhodes’s attorneys, said in his opening statement.

David Fischer, who represents Caldwell, echoed Linder, telling jurors, “They selectively edit and they take the most outrageous statements that politically attuned and politically active people make.” He suggested his client said nothing worse than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has, one of several defense assertions that Judge Amit P. Mehta asked the jury to ignore.

Who are the Oath Keepers going to trial on seditious conspiracy charges?

Palian had been working on health-care fraud cases before Jan. 6, he testified, when he was called to the Capitol to protect members of the U.S. Senate. Two days later, he began investigating the people responsible and quickly focused on a group seen entering the building in a “coordinated fashion.”

Their outfits bore the label “Oath Keepers.”
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hanimmal

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BOSTON (AP) — Three major medical associations have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening violence against children’s hospitals and physicians that provide gender-affirming health care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Children’s Hospital Association wrote to Garland on Monday. Their demands come amid a spate of threats against doctors and institutions that provide medical care for transgender kids, sometimes including hormones or surgery for older teens.

Children’s hospitals nationwide have substantially increased security and are working with law enforcement, while some providers now need constant security, the associations said.

Garland did not immediately comment publicly, and a spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday. Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said this summer that the Department of Justice will ensure equal protection of transgender people under the law.

Rollins said she would not let “hate-based criminal activity” continue in her district after Boston Children’s Hospital said in August that its doctors and other staffers were being threatened with violence over its surgical program for transgender youths. The hospital is home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States. Other U.S. children’s hospitals were also being harassed online.

The medical associations said in their letter that the social media threats have continued, coupled with harassing emails, phone calls and protesters at health care sites, causing “elevated and justifiable fear among families, patients and staff.” One hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit went on lockdown because of a bomb threat, they said.

“From Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children’s hospitals, academic health systems and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based health care,” the letter states. “These attacks have not only made it difficult and dangerous for institutions and practices to provide this care, they have also disrupted many other services to families seeking care.”

The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics are two of the nation’s most influential physician groups, helping shape government policy at the national level and in doctors’ offices. The Children’s Hospital Association represents more than 220 hospitals serving kids nationwide.

Laws and proposed legislation in several states seeking to limit kids’ access to transgender care or criminalize doctors and parents who seek it have emboldened attacks by popular conservative Twitter accounts. Some tweets have misled their large followings about the procedures for gender-affirming care.

Boston Children’s became the focus of far-right social media accounts, news outlets and bloggers after they found informational YouTube videos published by the hospital about surgical offerings for transgender patients.

The medical associations argue that the attacks are rooted in an “intentional campaign of disinformation.” While Americans agree that online disinformation is a problem, there is widespread apprehension around federal efforts to monitor domestic, online disinformation, with privacy and free speech advocates expressing concerns about the government impinging on free speech rights.

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security, for example, launched and then quickly shuttered a Disinformation Governance Board that had been intended to counter falsehoods that foreign adversaries, such as Russia, try to pump into the social media feeds of Americans.
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hanimmal

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schuylaar said:
Smashy Fashy.

That guy who copied New World Order from some Oathkeeper and put it in newsstands was quickly let's say shut down by Free Market..they're bigger than New World Order.
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I am not sure if you mean something that actually happened, because I haven't heard anything about this.
schuylaar said:
I blame Paul Ryan and his love of Ayn Rand.
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I would think more Ron Paul, but same stupid book.
 
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