Button pushing meme here. Obviously Desantis a huge piece of shit, but I also hate sports teams getting public funds
I really doubt this happens, or if it does, that it's not reversed. The tax breaks to shitty corporations don't stop, just like the donations to shitty politicians don't stop.
I don't know who own them, but it would be a real shame if they spent millions of dollars in dark money shitting on him
Obviously the reasoning is wrong, but an MLB team does not need a tax funded spring training facility
Henslee actually. That was the name of a family that helped settle the area before moving to Texas prior to The American Slavers’ Rebellion. But yeah, they definitely fought for the racist slaver rebels while in Texas after the rebellion started.
My sister got Ancestry for me one Christmas. Which is basically a homework assignment. But from that I learned that my great great great* grandfather's brother was killed in Nicaragua as part of William Walker's filibuster force where slave supporters tried to take over Nicaragua to add a slave colony for the US before the Civil War. Hope that prick died real fucking slow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
they did the old “act like you got her nose but it’s actually just your thumb” trick and said they wouldn’t return it unless she voted to confirm
Stu Sternberg. I have no idea about his political affiliations (rich white dude, so probably conservative), but he fucking sucks as an owner. He's been lobbying for years to get the government to fund a fancy new stadium while simultaneously advocating to move the team to Montreal for half the season or permanently if it doesn't happen. He's also done next to nothing (to the best of my knowledge) for the area surrounding the stadium in St. Pete. He's basically the polar opposite of incredible Tampa sports team owner Jeff Vinik who transformed the Lightning into a model franchise and downtown Tampa into a tourism/hospitality destination versus the ghost town that it used to be 10 years ago. I'd probably applaud DeSantis doing this if it were for a legitimate reason or even no reason at all. But he had to do it for the most fascist reason possible so fuck him too.
Love to see (a) department of health ensuring that vulnerable populations are exposed to unvaccinated people unnecessarily. Embarrassing for the spec olympics leadership too smfh.
Most arrested for drug smuggling are U.S. citizens. Don't count on GOP to stop attacking migrants Republicans have been very weirdly angry about the large amount of drugs that U.S. border officials have seized from failed smuggling attempts. These outbursts are not serious, but instead part of Republicans’ demonization of asylum-seekers and other migrants. “800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October,” claimed a November tweet from Elise Stefanik, the number three House Republican and racist “replacement theory” proponent. “This is Biden’s Border Crisis.” Spoiler “Border crisis” echoes the wording put out by an anti-immigrant hate group at the very start of the Biden administration, but that’s a whole different issue. The reality is that it’s overwhelmingly U.S. citizens who get caught with drugs, available data shows. “Out of the 42 incidents in which a person's nationality was reported, 33 (79%) involved US citizens. Just 3 incidents involved a smuggler without legal status,” American Immigration Council Senior Policy Counsel Aaron Reichlin-Melnick shared in a Twitter thread this week. He said data from official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) releases and social media posts from December 2021 to May 2022 showed the overwhelming majority of seizures were from passenger vehicles at ports of entry, followed by pedestrian lanes. “Only TWO publicly-reported seizures were linked to people crossing between ports of entry,” he wrote. “The data is of course incomplete, because CBP doesn’t publish details on every single seizure,” Reichlin-Melnick continued. “But it does back up what the less detailed but more complete monthly statistics show; there is no measurable link between migrants and fentanyl smuggling.” “For Republicans to criticize the seizures is a little weird,” MSNBC’s Steve Benen wrote last year. “In fact, common sense suggests GOP officials should focus attention elsewhere, since the seizures disprove one of the party's favorite talking points: If the president had implemented an ‘open-border’ policy, as the right routinely claims, U.S. Customs and Border Protection wouldn't have stopped these shipments before they entered the country.” But then what would Republicans like Greg Abbott use to justify their expensive, ham-handed border stunts? The right-wing governor in April launched a short-lived political stunt forcing commercial vehicles to undergo inspections by state officers. Because these were redundant checks happening after Customs and Border Protection officers had already done their checks, Abbott’s stunt turned up nothing. The Texas Tribune reported that state inspectors cited a couple of hundred drivers for minor infractions that included under-inflated tires and oil leaks. Meanwhile, the disastrous stunt cost Texas more than $4 billion in damages, an economic consulting firm in the state has estimated. As mentioned earlier, replacement theory proponent Stefanik and other Congressional Republicans have mimicked the “border crisis” rhetoric put out by designated anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) just one day after President Biden’s inauguration. “Within days of the release, Republicans began to echo the same language in their messages on social media,” The American Independent reported earlier this year. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers had mimicked FAIR’s “border crisis” term nearly 40 times altogether through March, the report found. “The call to repeat the ‘border crisis’ language also appeared in a memo from the House Republican Study Committee that urged party members to use the term and blame it on President Biden,” Oliver Willis wrote. They’re a vocal bunch alright, but when it comes to denouncing racist rhetoric tied to racist mass murderers, cat’s got their tongues. “The highest-ranking Republican official in U.S. government, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, repeatedly refused to denounce ‘replacement theory’ in a press conference Tuesday afternoon,” Daily Kos’ Joan McCarter wrote last month. “That puts him in company with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third in command among House Republicans, who seems to be an adherent of the white nationalist conspiracy theory.”
Sort of alarming that you can be President of the United States and your conceptual understanding of government is that if you can successfully kill the Vice President you get an immunity idol or something
Let me preface this tweet by saying that I don't know if this guy knows anything or even if he has brain worms. I'm choosing to believe it on this particular day.
Considering she was able to be relatively cordial with the Trump Administration despite all the embarrassing stories she broke, Maggie Haberman must’ve have been reliable when it came to keeping things “off the record”. Bit of an ethical tightrope to walk.
There's a saying about an attorney who defends himself. I wonder if there's also one for some random idiot who does it