That bitter HS debate club nerd’s time in Congress is the poisonous headwaters of the raging river of bad faith we see from the GOP today.
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“Big Joe” Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock with potentially key information about the sex trafficking ring involving Rep. Matt Gaetz, has pleaded guilty in federal court, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Ellicott’s plea agreement requires him to cooperate with the government in other prosecutions, including possibly testimony before the grand jury and in court. In exchange, Ellicott will not be formally charged by the grand jury, and has a shot at significantly reducing his sentence. He will also enjoy immunity from “any other federal offenses known to the U.S. Attorney’s Office” relating to the two crimes.
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Oh, my. She’s not getting my vote! I think our current SOS has been doing a fine job.
Also, 45’s chosen candidate doesn’t believe women should have jobs. What the hell does this hypocrite think an elected office is? When I get my primary ballot (thanks, incumbent SOS!), I may just end up having to fill in the the R instead of the D (def not filling in L), and encourage everyone I know with no strong opinions about any D candidates getting primaried to do the same.
[edit] Oh, for the love of Dog, her LinkedIn profile says she’s a professor (didn’t click, that was in the snippet the search engine showed me) of some sort. Way to “walk the walk” on this women-shouldn’t-have-jobs front.
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It should deeply worry you that such a quack is endorsed by the former president for the job of Secretary of State
Nope, perfectly on point for that particular asshat.
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My eyes rolled so many times while reading that, but two things in particular struck me as funny: if she thinks a gourmet burger costs $15 then she might not eat McD’s anymore but she’s still eating fast food chain burgers; and, I’d love to challenge her to cook from scratch with me, just to watch her squirm.
Just two stupid bits, out of an entirety of idiocy.
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“We were told fairly regularly we were Trump propaganda,” said a former Real America’s Voice producer, who, like about a dozen other current and former employees of Sigg’s business, spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional reprisal. “That is what our role was. That was the message from the top: ‘We’re a Trump propaganda network.’ That’s where the money was.”
Les Moonves once said something along those same lines, while he was head of CBS.
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I bet he was bought off pretty cheap, too.
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Yep. That bootstraperistic book of his probably didn’t sell all THAT well.
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I actually do have a copy, but have not gotten around to reading it yet. Given his current political BS, I’m not sure I want to now.
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I had trusted friends push it at me awhile back, but I could never get past the cover’s glowing National Review blurb. Made me wonder how those friends blew right past that alarm signal.
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Yeah, that’s true. I don’t know if mine has that or not. But I will read stuff that I know I’m going to disagree with, primarily to see what I think of their arguments and where they are wrong…
I guess it’s a movie now, too, which apparently wasn’t too great.
The thing is, there is a discussion to be had about coal country and the rest belt, but it’s hard to have that conversation when people insist on only focusing on ONE group of people to the exclusion of everyone else.
It happens.
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I haven’t got this book to test the theory, but I submit that it might be worth giving it a try, even if only because what the book says might not be what the National Review (or even the author) thinks it says.
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No doubt. And even worse is that we’re also supposed to focus on that group in basically just ONE way.
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And uncritically!
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You know they are white peop-- I mean human, after all. And some are so very willing to work their way out of their hellholes. Why some even make it all the way to the big city!
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The more bullshit she spews the more predictable she becomes.
It’s like she’s putting right wing Q crazy magnetic conspiracy words onto her refrigerator every day.
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