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Hinderaker Believes NONE Of His Enduring Privilege In The US Stems From Forced Labor. I KNOW That To Be False.

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Hinderaker is back on his jag of whining against the possibility of reparations for slavery — and forced labor, in various locales around the US.

Y A W N.

He claims he’s never benefited from the institution in the US — ever.

Based on what I know of his family’s four generations of (non-immigrant, landed Dakotas, moneyed real estate, and trusts and estates law practicing) history… that is highly likely a false statement. [And of what I know of his wife’s family history. Thus his childrens’ and grandchildrens’.]

But without doubt — what I know of where he was educated (undergrad, and law) — and where he was, for over 20 years, a law firm partner — I KNOW that is a false statement.

It is so immensely tedious — to listen to his lies… day, after day, after monotonous day.

His whining… is like asking the goldfish to recognize that the water in his bowl… is changed from time to time, by… someone.

It literally is in the air he breathes. He cannot see it.

D A M N.

First “Vigilante / Bounty Hunter” Suit Now Filed In Texas: Women Who Aided An Ex-Wife In Abortion… Sued For $1 Million. Appalling.

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I am pretty much left speechless, by this.

The idea that the GOP in Texas thinks people of good will will want to live for any amount of time, under this oppressive regime… is puzzling, to me at least.

Here is that appallingly misguided action, as allowed (at least for now) by Texas’s fundamentally unconstitutional statute:

…Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion. It’s another test of state-enforced bans since the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.

In a lawsuit filed late Thursday in Galveston County, Marcus Silva alleges assisting in a self-administered abortion is tantamount to aiding a murder. Silva is seeking $1 million in damages.

The woman who took the medication in July — weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place since 1973 — is not named in the lawsuit. Texas law protects women who get an abortion from being held liable….

This suit is destined to be tossed, if need be, on appeal. And Mr. Silva ought to ashamed of himself. Onward, with better things ahead this afternoon, on a gray Saturday.

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Ms. Stauffer Offers Sock Puppet / Crisis Actor: Y A W N.

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Yep. She’s lost the argument. She well knows it, too. [The woman Betsy relies on… whom I won’t name, has been widely regarded as an unhinged conspiracy theorist — doing poor scholarship since 2014. She’s anti vax, and believes hijabs mostly empower women. She’s been a lost soul since at least 2010.]

Here Elizabeth offers her — as a defense to the mob felony murder of Ashli Babbitt. Why? Because this phony offers an “apology” from a fake liberal / newly-minted sock puppet / crisis actor / attention whore.

No facts. No legal precedents. 100% Betsy emoting.

Relying on… just a mush-headed former Clinton-ista… who’s lost some friends.

Well thanks, Bitsy!

That settles it. Sure glad you cleared that up.

The QAnon Shaman is doing 41 months by agreement… for nuthin’, right?

Riiiiiiiight.

You are… an idiot.

Sit down.

Out.

Betsy Stauffer — Political Hack, And Pandemic Abatement / Virology / Biology Moron.

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So… all Betsy Stauffer confirms this morning… is… that she is a… know nuthin’.

A malevolent know-nuthin’, at that. [Even if we take her false claims as true, she cannot point to one thing she or Hinderaker could have done differently, to improve outcomes. But we can, to be certain.]

She is (like Hinderaker, before her — as we showed yesterday) utterly unaware that whether it came from a lab or the wild… the over 1 million US deaths were due to Tangerine’s foot dragging, and utter disdain for real science.

But now that it is clear that Trump and Betsy and John did worse than the nation did a century earlier (without a vaccine candidate) — in the Spanish Flu of 1918 — far worse, she must blame someone… anyone.

Anyone but Trump.

Charming.

And just transparently… silly.

Just To Make Plain How Little Scott Johnson Understands About The Twitter Files Story He Loves So Much…

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Well… Scott is precious again this morning. Back on the Twitter story. So… lost, is he.

As EmptyWheel pointed out, this morning — the frothy far right once used to care about businesses under SEC consent decrees making their customers’ private details available to “journalists” — for private political retribution… as something the government ought not allow.

But Scott Johnson cannot even keep track of the players, here — let alone what constitutionally protected interests are actually in play.

Here’s EW — Scott, sit down and learn, at her feet, from a cogent review of these goofy hearings:

…Taibbi described that someone besides Elon Musk invited him to have unfettered access to a company under a consent decree. Given the likelihood that this person was not even a Twitter employee, it gives the FTC far more reason to want to know why a company under a consent decree made information on individual users available to journalists….

Yeh — Scott, I’m old enough to remember when the real conservatives would have been more troubled by what EW points out, above — than this stupid clown show the GOP is running.

Out.

History May Not Echo… But It Occasionally… Rhymes.

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I’ll just leave this reinvigorated bit of litigation posturing (by what was Schering-Plough — and later Merck) here.

I may stop back and explain why it matters, here almost 16 years later… from those long-lost Mylan battles… or I may not.

We shall see.

I guess it depends how busy my Friday turns out to be — and how much snow falls, in the afternoon.

If curled up on the hearth, by the fire, I will get to it. Before shoveling, that is.

We shall see. Smile….

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Team Tangerine Again Tries To Flim-Flam The Courts, In Two Jurisdictions — With Prevaricating Delay Tactics. Y A W N.

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I note it here not because it is in any manner surprising — but because in civil courts, like these — this is often… lethal.

Team Tangerine is lying in two courts at once, about civil cases that have been pending for six and seven years. And now he is going to claim that his need to run for preznit is more important that answering in the courts, for his dishonesty. This will be droll. Here’s the latest letter cross-filed in New York state court:

…We write with respect to the Court’s December 13, 2022 Order, ECF 507, which set a “firm” trial date of January 29, 2024 in this action, to bring to the Court’s attention recent filings by Defendants in People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Index No. 452564/2022 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty.) (the “NYAG Case”), that not only seek to delay the trial in that case, but also propose a new schedule that (believe it or not) would appear to conflict with the firm trial date set by this Court, a date that was set based on Defendants’ representations and assurances — indeed, at their request….

This is… just… deplorable conduct by the former “leader” of the free world. Not surprising. Just… disgusting. Out.

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I Guess No One Should Believe You, Paul — Or Any Current Powerliner, Either.

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This is rich.

This morning, is lecturing Fox News and Rupert Murdoch… about the fact that Tucker Carlson (among many others on that network) lies incessantly about what he really thinks of Trump.

They all hate him.

And Paul absolutely confirms that he thinks Trump is deeply dishonest.

Yet — like Fox, Paul Mirengoff held his fire (with only tiny little ginger exceptions) for five years or more.

So — Paul, in what way did that serve your party? Your nation?

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght. It did not.

So do… just shut the f*ck up.

Hinderaker Is Back To COVID-19 Nonsense / Non-Sequiturs…

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Just for the purpose of proving the obvious: for a moment, let’s humor the senile Hinderaker, in his fantasy: let’s assume he could prove that the virus was an inadvertent escape from a Chinese lab.

Those are his words.

How would he have handled the pandemic crisis differently? Note that he and Trump did no better that the nation did a century ago, in the Spanish flu of 1918.

In fact, since we had a vaccine — he did considerably worse.

Hinderaker said the dying would be over at around 30,000… just a normal bad flu season he said. In the end, more than a million people died in the US alone.

Boy, was he ever a… malevolent idiot. But knowing that it came from a lab would NOT have reduced the vaccine’s effectiveness — no, the only thing that delayed our response… was Trump.

Trump — with his inject bleach, and take horse de-wormer advice.

So — this will likely be the last I’ll mention of Hinderaker’s inability to understand basic pandemic biology. [He just wishes to assuage his guilt — over his deadly wrong advice over the Summer of 2020.]

He has truly lost whatever little sense he ever had, on the topic.

Out.

Hopefully, I Won’t Have To Write Much More On Powerline’s Lack Of Patriotism.

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We must be nearing the end of the “fantasy tour” on 01.06.21 there.

I say so, because Scott Johnson has this morning — ever so gingerly — begun to dissent from his fellow ideologues… as to Tucker’s footage claims.

So, as I likely drop the subject (I am sick to death of their malevolence) — I want to make it graphic, and plain: not one of them has even uttered her name. Not one.

Not Scott.

Not Betsy.

Not John.

Not Tucker.

F*ck the QAnon Shaman, you warped codgers — please explain what was patriotic about leading a clearly mentally disturbed woman (ex-USAF) inside the transom, and then the mob bodily boosting her through a glass pane, after an officer, pistol drawn and cocked, ordered her to stand down or be shot?

Her death is called a felony murder, at law — and every single rioter in that hallway at that moment may be quite properly charged with her murder.

Not that the officer murdered her — his shoot was righteous. No, the mob killed her. That is black letter law. Yes, she’s responsible for disobeying an order — since she’s ex-military, afterall… but not one of these ass-hats will cop to the notion that the Tangerine MAGA surge (an insurrection) got over 100 officers injured, and was the proximate cause of Ashi Babbitt’s death — “suicide by cop”.

In my book, that makes each of these lies not just libelous — but also… traitorous.

So sit down and shut up, Johnson.