Friday, February 21, 2025

So....

Kash Patel in the FBI.

The U.S. senate confirmed Kash Patel, the controversial conspiracy theorist as the FBI director. 

Matt Schlapp has another sexual abuse allegation. CPAC 2025 is happening and President Donald J. Trump among others are expected to appear.

An Alabama city police is disbanded after allegations of a criminal enterprise emerged.

Trump job approval is sinking faster. The Americans are more concerned about the economy and the potential fallout from firing government employees.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), the adulter and racist asshole decided to hold a town hall and he felt a blistering amount of constituent anger.

Israel has dropped leaflets telling Gazans to evacuate again. It's in violation of the ceasefire. Israel has violated the ceasefire over 300 times since it went into effect.

Three Israelis are being charged with intentionally detonating three public buses.

Boosie BadAzz, Rod Wave, Kodak Black were among a large gathering of Black conservatives at the White House. Frequent agitators Terrence K. Williams, Leo Terrell, Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Robinson, Joy Villa were there.

1. The confirmation of Kash Patel.

The 44-year old Indian American will be the first person of color to lead the agency. DEI? 

Patel, a longtime loyalist to President Donald Trump, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — an agency he has talked about drastically restructuring while echoing Trump’s claims of the “weaponization” of the bureau’s powers in its Capitol riot investigations and other recent cases.

Patel was opposed by a pair of Republican senators: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins. But he won support from every other Republican, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, who had opposed some of Trump's other nominees. The final vote was 51-49, with all Senate Democrats opposing Patel.

Patel's confirmation comes at time of significant turmoil and turnover at the FBI. Since Trump took office a month ago, an Elon Musk affiliate was among those brought into the bureau, sparking worries about partisan political figures taking the reins of the powerful law enforcement agency. The head of the Washington Field Office — which oversaw the sprawling Jan. 6 probe — was forced out, as were six of the FBI’s most senior executives and multiple heads of FBI field offices around the country.

Patel is expected to carry out smear campaigns and Trump’s revenge tour. So I expect Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Hillary Clinton's emails, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Joe Biden’s alleged deal with Burisma and Stormy Daniels porn history to be on the Trump revenge tour.

Christopher Wray who was nominated to be FBI director by Trump in his first term. He served only seven years of the required ten years. He resigned to avoid a public firing. Wray like former FBI director James Comey have vowed to take on MAGAland through social activism. Trump has been gunning for Wray since the Hunter Biden laptop, the Jan. 6 insurrection and his controversial holding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

2. CPAC and Matt Schlapp's sexual abuse allegations.

Matt Schlapp gropes another man.

CPAC 2025 is the victory lap. The Republicans won on culture wars and the economy. They proved to be the master manipulators. 

The American Conservative Union hosts CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. 

The organization leaders Matt and Mercedes Schlapp are allegedly swingers. I put them in the same as Jerry Falwell, Jr. and his wife Becki. Ain't nothing wrong with being swingers. In the far right, utter hypocrisy.

Another man comes out with allegations that Matt Schlapp grabbed his crotch and tried to position him for sex. 

The convention comes a week after new accusations emerged in an article by gay Zionist journalist Yashar Ali that Schlapp, a confidant of Trump, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia a few days earlier during a gathering of conservatives.

Several people have accused Schlapp of sexual assault in the past, allegations that he has denied and his allies have dismissed as an “attempt at character assassination.” Schlapp has not been charged with any crimes related to the accusations. The details of the latest episode were also documented in a report by the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office that was obtained by The New York Times. A previous accuser received a $480,000 settlement after dropping his lawsuit against Schlapp, 57, who opened Thursday’s session with his usual conservative bombast.

“Are you glad that America is back on track?” Schlapp said. “Has it been a long, tedious four years? Are you ready to tell the whole world that America is ready to be America again?”

Schlapp appeared onstage with his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, who was Trump’s White House director of strategic communications during his first term and has also played an outsize role at CPAC events. The next part of Thursday’s program featured her moderating a discussion with Vice President JD Vance, the first headliner at the showcase, which was expected to include speeches by Trump and the president’s billionaire ally, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is the elite favorite at CPAC.

President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) [UN Secretary nominee], Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), former British prime minister Liz Truss, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly, Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Sara A. Carter, Mike Lindell, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), Kari Lake, Mike Huckabee [Ambassador to Israel nominee], Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Mike Rowe, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Dean Cain, Benny Johnson, Lindy Li and others are expected to speak.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) had an altercation with someone at his Washington, DC apartment. It was not his wife and the victim was not identified. More on this later.

The Jan. 6 pardoned members were banned from CPAC. Walter Masterson, a progressive comedian and troll was also banned. White nationalist Nick Fuentes was banned.

CPAC also took a hardline stance when it comes to Israel. It supports the apartheid ethnostate without question.

3. Hanceville, Alabama disband the police.

Hanceville Police chief and his officers were arrested in a pattern of corruption.

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief.

Five Hanceville police officers were arrested and charged amid a probe into the department, Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker said. The spouse of one of the officers was also charged, he said.

"This is a sad day for law enforcement, but at the same time, it is a good day for the rule of law," Crocker said during a press briefing on Wednesday.

Crocker provided limited details on the case. Though the investigation encompassed the department's evidence room and the death of a Hanceville dispatcher, 49-year-old Christopher Michael Willingham, who was found dead from a toxic drug combination at work, officials said.

The Cullman County grand jury found that the Hanceville Police Department has "failed to account for, preserve and maintain evidence and in doing so has failed crime victims and the public at large," making the evidence "unusable," Crocker said.

The grand jury further found that Willingham's death was "the direct result of the Hanceville Police Department's negligence, lack of procedure, general incompetence and disregard for human life," Crocker said.

None of the defendants were charged in Willingham's death, Crocker said. Though the "unfettered access that a lot of people had" to the evidence room is the basis of the grand jury's finding regarding the dispatcher's death, Crocker said.

"One of the most concerning things that we discovered in this process is that the Hanceville Police Department's evidence room was not secured," Crocker said.

All charges are felonies except for tampering with physical evidence, which is a misdemeanor, Crocker said. That charge alleges that the defendants "mishandled or removed evidence from the evidence room," he said.

The employment status of the officers charged was not immediately clear, Crocker said.

The defendants surrendered on Wednesday and have since made bond, Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry said. Attorney information was not immediately available.

"There's nothing more important to us in law enforcement than good, honest law enforcement. When we have those that do wrong, it hurts us all," Gentry said during Wednesday's briefing.

Among nearly a dozen points raised by the grand jury, it found that the department is a "particular and ongoing threat to public safety," has a "rampant culture of corruption" and has "recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency," Crocker said.

Crocker said the grand jury recommended that the Hanceville Police Department "be immediately abolished" and that another law enforcement agency be tasked with protecting the citizens of Hanceville, which has a population of around 3,000.

Gentry said the sheriff's office has not received a formal request to take over the Hanceville area in Cullman County, "but we are making preparations."

"We will do whatever is necessary to protect our citizens in Hanceville," he said.

Hanceville Mayor Jim Sawyer said he and the City Council are fully cooperating with the investigation.

"The Council will carefully consider all recommendations and act swiftly and decisively to address the problems within the Police Department," he said in a statement on Wednesday. "Our citizens, industries, and businesses deserve a resolution, and we will pursue and implement the necessary corrective actions openly and aggressively. We deeply regret the negative impact this situation has had on our community and the hard-working employees of our city."

"It is unfortunate that the actions of a few have tarnished our city's good name," he added.

4. Trump's job approval.

Y'all voted for this!

Trump's approval rating has ticked slightly lower in recent days as more Americans worried about the direction of the U.S. economy as the new leader threatens a host of countries with tariffs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The six-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, showed 44% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 45% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 24-26. Trump's approval rating stood at 47% in a January 20-21 poll conducted in the hours after the Republican's return to the White House.

The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen more substantially, to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% right after he took office.

Trump enjoys a relatively high rate of approval on his immigration policy, with 47% of respondents backing his approach that has included promises to ramp up deportations of migrants in the country illegally. The share was little changed from January.

But the share of Americans who think the economy is on the wrong track rose to 53% in the latest poll from 43% in the January 24-26 poll. Public approval of Trump's economic stewardship fell to 39% from 43% in the prior poll.

A pillar of Trump's political strength has been public belief that his policies will be good for the economy, and his rating on the economy remains significantly higher than the final readings of his predecessor in office, Democrat Joe Biden, who ended his term with a 34% approval rating on the economy. But Trump's rating for the economy is well below the 53% he had in Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted in February 2017, the first full month of his first term as U.S. president.

5. Town hall frustrations.

Rich McCormick faces a tough crowd.

Many U.S, House lawmakers are returning back to their home districts. Several of them are actually doing their jobs by hosting town halls and public meetings with constituent.

Most of the town halls are usually expecting frustration from constituents.

Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) dealt with it.

She handled a MAGALand supporter's question masterfully. Damn shame she will pivot whenever a question about Israel comes up.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) is dating Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) and is in the process of divorcing his wife, Debra. He is a white nationalist, retired U.S. Marine and licensed physican. 

He also was a punching bag in Roswell, Georgia.

McCormick faced some tough criticism and occasional boos from constituents Thursday night as he fielded questions about the Trump administration’s early actions.

The at-times cool reception that greeted GOP Rep. Rich McCormick in Roswell was among other public displays of unrest from Republican voters and a couple GOP members of Congress this week, although the party’s base has largely and vigorously supported President Donald Trump.

At one point, McCormick, who represents the state’s 7th Congressional District, was pointedly asked about the firings of hundreds of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is based in Atlanta: “Why is a supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this?”

“I’m in close contact with the CDC. They have about what, 13,000 employees, 13,000 employees at the CDC. In the last couple years, those probationary people, which is about 10% of their employee base, about 1,300 people, which you’re referring to. A lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI,” McCormick said. The mention of AI led to “no’s” and murmurs from the crowd, leading the Republican representative to say, “I happen to be a doctor. I know a few things.”

Jahana Hayes hosts town halls with ease.

McCormick, who was first elected to Congress in 2022, also answered pointed questions about Trump’s executive power and the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary.

Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) faced a similar reaction from his constituents during a town hall on Wednesday in La Grande, Oregon, where he also received questions on DOGE.

One constituent asked, “Since DOGE was created without the Congress, who is paying for it,” leading to applause from the crowd.

“The DOGE committee, as I understand it, is being filtered into, if that’s the right word for (it) or put into another agency, but we are looking into that now to find out. I don’t know the answer,” he said before being interrupted by some boos and jeers of disapproval.

Rep. Troy Balderson of Ohio, speaking at a business luncheon on Thursday, described Trump’s executive orders as “getting out of control” and said that certain actions are reserved for Congress, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

“Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away,” Balderson said. “Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides.”

And on Wednesday, GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a frequent Trump critic, encouraged fellow lawmakers to join her in standing up to Trump, Alaska Public Media reported.

“It requires speaking out and standing up, and that requires, again, more than just one or two Republicans,” she said during a telephone town hall. “It requires us, as a Congress, to do so.”

Murkowski also spoke out against Trump’s dismissal of federal employees, saying at the town hall, “If the president, for instance, should seek to withhold federal funding that has already been authorized and appropriated, that … violates the Budget Act.”

6. Israel Dropping Leaflets As They Continue Killing.

Israel violates the ceasefire.

In violation of the ceasefire deal brokered in former president Joe Biden’s final days and continued through President Donald J. Trump first weeks, Israel is demanding all Gazans to leave or face death. The apartheid ethnostate without question violated the ceasefire over 300 times.

Israel has also launched a campaign of hasbara to generate sympathy for the killing of settlers in the early months of the genocide.

I refuse to call these folks hostages. They are settlers who were captured. Most of the settlers were members of the Israeli Defence Force. They are not innocent girls or civilians. 

Israel has sparked global outrage after dropping leaflets over the besieged Gaza Strip, warning Palestinians to either cooperate with its forces or face forced displacement or eradication.

The messages, written in Arabic, carried explicit threats, including the chilling statement: "The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist."

The move, condemned as a psychological warfare tactic, has intensified concerns over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, with many seeing the leaflets as an open admission of ethnic cleansing.

The threats also reference a so-called "Trump plan", aligning with recent remarks by the president, who suggested the mass expulsion of Gaza's population to neighboring countries.

The posters featured images of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity and wanted by the ICC.

The United States refuses to acknowledge the ICC warrants. They continue to allow Netanyahu, Americans who served in the IDF and Israeli leaders to freely come into the United States. The U.S. has vowed to sanction the ICC for this. 

Only a few years ago, the U.S. cheered on the ICC for placing Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin in a warrant arrest. Putin only travels to North Korea and Belarus. He often sends his dignitaries on behalf of him. He knows if he appears in a country that recognizes the warrant, he is at risk for arrest. Netanyahu is aware as well. He doesn't travel to Canada, Mexico, Great Britain or Saudi Arabia knowing they will abide to the ICC warrant.

Trump has pledged to seize control of the Gaza Strip. He wants to remake it the Rivera of the Middle East. That led to worldwide condemnation. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia warned that the U.S. will be boycotted and banned if they assist in forcing Israel to displaced Palestinians. 

Many Arab nations will kick the U.S. military bases out if they push for Gaza removal.

7. Isrsel bus explosions were done by....

Bus bombings at the peak of the second phase of the ceasefire.

Israel has the means of explosives. Think about what they did in Lebanon back in September 2024. The electronic devices being tampered with and detonated shows how lethal the apartheid ethnostate is.

The February 2005 explosions occurred on three buses in the city of Bat Yam, Israel. No people were injured in the attacks. Two other devices failed to explode.

It seems like Israel will do all it can to generate sympathy, outrage and justifications for the illegal actions conducted by Netanyahu.

Israel's Police Spokesperson's Unit said that the bombs used in the attack resembled those seen in the West Bank. Following the bombings, Hamas's Tulkarm Battalion released a statement that read: "The revenge of the martyrs will not be forgotten so long as the occupier is present on our land… This is a jihad of either victory or martyrdom," without explicitly claiming the attack. A preliminary Israeli investigation found that the attack was conducted by Hamas from the West Bank with Iranian planning and funding. The Shin Bet arrested three suspects the following day, including two Jewish Israelis who were suspected of transporting the bombers.

8. MAGAland rappers at The White House.

Boosie BadAzz puts a suit and tie on for Trump.

Rappers who backed Trump are often associated with the things that Republicans often villianize them for. Embracing crime, drug use, glorified sexualization of women, reckless use of firearms, homophobia, transphobia and degrading cops....

Sounds more like Trump and MAGAland.

Anyway, I can't judge the rappers who visit Trump at the White House. The folks over at Fox never complained.

But picture former president Barack Obama inviting Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, J. Cole, Drake, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Common, Swizz Beatz and T-Pain.

Or former president Joe Biden inviting LL Cool J, Too Short, E-40, Ice-T, Megan Thee Stallion, GloRillia, Cardi B and Quavo.

Cue the outrage from the far right.

But Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy (Draco), Rick Ross, Waka Flocka Flame and Fivio Foreign performing at Trump’s Inaugural Balls..... no outrage.

Boosie BadAzz, Kodak Black and Rod Wave attend the Black History Month celebration at the White House. No outrage.

Boosie and Kodak were federal interns. Trump pardoned Lil Kodak in his first term.

Kodak Black is a longtime supporter of Trump.

Boosie and Kodak are sexual predators. Same with Trump, Department of Government Efficiency Secretary Elon Musk, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Sean "Softball" Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Rupert Murdoch 

The trio of rappers will be joined by television anchor Sage Steele, legendary NFL player Herschel Walker [US Ambassador to the Bahamas nominee], Martin Luther King’s niece Alveda King, and select politicians who have been supportive of Trump.

The timing of this event is interesting given the fact his Defense Department declared “identity months dead,” meaning work hours would no longer be impacted by Black History Month, Women’s History Month, or National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It is even more confusing because, on that same day, the controversial President signed a National Black History Month proclamation calling for “public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”

Black Trump supporters.

Boosie claimed that Biden recharged him for his gun charges.

He is begging for Trump to pardon him.

“Trump CHECK MY CASE OUT MY CASE WAS DISMISSED BUT BIDENS DOJ RECHARGED ME WITH THE SAME GUN CHARGE BIDEN PARDON HIS SON OF,” he typed. “I WAS TOLD I AM THE ONLY PERSON IN THE COUNTRY FACING THAT CHARGE NOW. PRESIDENT TRUMP, I ALREADY WAS GIVEN A 10 YEAR SENTENCE N STATE N 2009 FOR 3 rd offense MARIJUANA ( grams ,grams,grams ) I NEVER WAS EVEN OFFERED REHAB STRAIGHT TO PRISON. TRUMP IM BOOSIE IM A RAPPER/ FILMMAKER FROM BATON ROUGE .I WAS TARGETED.. MY MOUTH N THINGS I STAND ON GET ME N ALOT SH*T BUT IM REAL! My lawyer  MEGHAN BLANCO can explain this case. She knew the charges n against you were bad she even spoke about it on radio.”

I had my tooth pulled and I had so much time on my hand to post. So wish me well as I recover and I will continue to address the issues we face.

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