Again, does the constituents of Georgia's 14th Congressional District want this person to serve their interests?
She barely does her job as a lawmaker and has spent less than 15% of her time in the district.
She and boyfriend Brian Glenn moved to the McLemore Golf Resort and Club in Rising Fawn to keep her district seat. She was facing a disqualification due to her being outside the district, her support for the insurrection and the peddling of noise.
She opens herself for an ethics investigation with the House of Representatives.
On top of that, it makes it apparently clear that she has no interest in doing anything for those living in Northwest Georgia.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the most laziest member of the House of Representatives. She is also the most visible member who is openly promoting white nationalism and conspiracy theories. She is a die hard supporter of Washed Up 45.
So die hard she would travel to West Palm Beach for Turning Point USA's conference on how to win 2024 with culture wars and violence.
Greene even had an opportunity to appear in a music video with MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow (aka Vanilla Lice). The rapper calls himself the Mayor of Magaville. He is a Florida based entertainer who associates with the Proud Boys.
Blow born Kurt Jantz, 38 he is the grandson of Auto-Trader founder Stuart Arnold.
He advocated for Washed Up 45 to pardon controversial rapper Kodak Black and new Floridian Lil Wayne.
Kodak Black and Lil Wayne have lost support and their album sales slumped since their endorsement of Washed Up 45.
Greene has recently got into a slew of controversial issues. She was apparently booted from the House Freedumb Caucasians over her remarks at fellow insufferable member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
Greene gave Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) a headache when she rant on about impeaching President Joe Biden and vowing to cut military aid to Ukraine.
Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (whom appeared in Forigato Blow's videos) tried to bring Russian operative Tara Reade into Congress to testify her allegations of sexual assault by Biden.
Greene has become a part of the very thing she hates: the establishment.
Carlee Russell was found safe. The FBI and Alabama authorities have not determined what had happened but the woman who went missing on Thursday was returned to her home. She is currently at a Birmingham hospital being evaluated.
Russell showed up at the home in Hoover, Alabama that she shared with her parents at around 10:45 p.m. Saturday.
"She walked up, banged on the door, and that was her," Hoover Police Chief Nicholas Derzis told the station.
Officials have not released any details about where Russell was, how she got back home, or her condition.
"We work with facts," Chief Derzis said. "With social media, you got so many people that think they know what’s taken place. Right now, we’re just very pleased that she’s home."
The search began for Russell on Thursday night. That night, she called 911 and then spoke to a family member, saying that she saw a young child walking on the side of Interstate 459 South near Mile Market 11 in Hoover, Alabama.
Carlee's mother Talitha Russell said her daughter was on the phone with a family member when she pulled over to check on the child.
"My daughter-in-law could hear her ask if the child was OK, and the child didn't respond - at least she didn't hear her respond," Russell said. "Then she heard our daughter Carlee scream."
While the family lost contact with Carlee Russell, the line remained open.
When officers arrived at the location, they found Russell's red Mercedes still running by the interstate, but they were unable to find her or a child in the area.
"Her car door was open," Talitha Russell said. "They have found her wig and her hat, and her cell phone."
The phone is now undergoing a forensic examination to see if there are any clues to help them find Carlee. Investigators say no children had been reported missing in the area.
Police say a witness reported seeing a man standing beside Russell’s vehicle just before officers arrived at the scene.
"A single witness has reported possibly seeing a gray vehicle with a light-complexioned male standing outside Carlee's vehicle," Hoover Police Lt. Daniel Lowe said at a press conference.
The leads are still open and the law will talk to Russell. Hopefully, we will get some answers to how she disappeared.
Thanks to Black Twitter, Carlee got national attention.
Missing white women syndrome, a phrase coined by Gwen Ifill is described as a sensational media coverage of a white woman going missing. The junk food media obsesses over the coverage. The it forces Republicans to draft bills that push draconian punishments.
I am having some red flags to this but I will not address them until we get a detailed answer from law enforcement.
Carlee Russell was reported missing after phoning 911 after spotting a toddler on the freeway.
In the latest controversy surrounding Missing White Women Syndrome, Black Twitter is generating buzz about a missing Alabama woman who may have been abducted after she tried to be a good samaritan.
Had the woman been a white woman living in Mobile, Huntsville or well off, the junk food media would be covering this obsessively. They will be dramatizing events of a suspect, have wall-to-wall coverage and draft draconian laws to ensure harsher punishments for offenders.
While in Hoover, Alabama, Carlee Russell was traveling on Interstate 459, a bypass freeway in suburban Birmingham, she saw a child walking on the freeway.
After stopping and realizing this was a toddler, she called 911 and her family.
While on the phone with her family, Carlee was soon interrupted by something and thus silence.
The Hoover Police Department said 25-year-old Carlethia "Carlee" Nichole Russell made a 911 call on Wednesday to report that she saw a toddler walking on the side of Interstate 459 in Alabama at around 9:30 p.m.
Russell then stopped her car to check on the toddler and called a family member to report what she saw. The family member lost contact with Russell, but the line remained open, according to police.
About 50,000 vehicles travel on Interstate 459 in Birmingham.
Police who responded to her 911 call found the Russell's vehicle and some of her belongings at the scene when they arrived. But, they were unable to find her or a child in the area.
Police said they have not received any additional calls of someone missing a small child.
Police said a single witness reported seeing a grey vehicle and a man standing outside Russell's car, but police have no further information about that person or the vehicle.
Russell was wearing a black shirt, black pants and white Nike shoes, according to police.
An anonymous donor is offering $20,000 for the safe return of Russell and Crimestoppers of Metro Alabama are offering an additional $5,000.
"We are leaving nothing off the table and no stone unturned in investigating some of these facts," Hoover Police Department Lieutenant Daniel Lowe said at a press conference.
The well established sexual predator. This privileged white man is accused of murdering four women in Long Island. Allegedly he killed 14 more.
The disappearance and murders of 11 women, most who worked on the stroll was big news in the state of New York. The cases remained unsolved until now. Some of the victims were men and one was a small child.
Even actor Billy Baldwin said he was shocked. He is the younger brother of Alec Baldwin.
He said was mind-boggling that a man he went to high school with turned out to be a serial killer and sexual predator.
Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann.
Berner High School Massapequa, New York Class of 1981
Married, two kids, architect. “Average guy… quiet, family man.” Mind-boggling… Massapequa is in shock.… pic.twitter.com/Tms0IWVazN
The state announced the arrest of a 59-year old white predator.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
More than a decade after 11 bodies were found on Long Island and a year after he came onto officials' radar as a potential suspect, a New York architect was charged in the Gilgo Beach murders, a series of killings of mostly young women.
"Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks amongst us, a predator that ruined families,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said Friday after the suspect pleaded not guilty to three first-degree murder charges.
Heuermann, 59, was arrested Thursday evening at his Manhattan office and arraigned Friday in the deaths of three women. He is also suspected in the disappearance and death of a fourth woman, officials said.
The grisly discoveries were made after a sex worker went missing in 2010. As officials searched for that woman, they discovered the remains of 11 other people.
During a news conference Friday afternoon, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney, who was joined by members of the victims’ families, said solving the cases has been a priority for him and area law enforcement since he took office in January 2022.
Heuermann came to be known to a Gilgo Beach task force in March 2022, Tierney said. From there, a secret grand jury was utilized to secure more than 300 subpoenas and search warrants.
“We were playing before a party of one because we knew the person responsible for these murders would be looking at us," Tierney said. "So we were very careful how we handled the investigation. We maintained the integrity of the investigation. Most importantly of all, we maintain the secrecy of that investigation.”
Let me make this clear: Criticism of Israel, the treatment of the Palestinians, the campaign to peddle influence in the United States and its leaders is not anti-semitic.
Claims that events happening in the world being the faults of greedy Jews is anti-semitic.
I do not have any hatred of religions. I am not a practicing religious person. I don't claim to be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Satanist or any religion.
Conspiracy theorist and Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was caught on camera making outlandish remarks about the origins of the coronavirus and equating troupes.
Absolutely disgusting and insane. The @nypost obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the… pic.twitter.com/reTqaEc1aL
Kennedy is the son of the late U.S. senator and Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
His father was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning in California. His uncle was John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. His uncle was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. His other uncle, Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts senator ran in the 1980 Democratic primary against the 39th President Jimmy Carter.
RFK, Jr. is an environmental advocate, conspiracy theorist and far right lunatic.
Kennedy claimed that the coronavirus was specifically invented to target Blacks and Whites.
“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged.
“We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons,” he claimed. “They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”
Despite Kennedy’s claims that Ashkenazi Jews had a higher immunity to COVID-19, in June of 2020, the Office for National Statistics released data revealing Jews had a higher mortality rate from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom compared to other ethnic groups. At the peak of the pandemic, in April 2020, Jewish mortality from COVID-19 was twice that of non-Jews.
Kennedy went on to claim that a future pandemic could be expected with a “50% infection fatality rate” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park.”
The coronavirus pandemic started in late 2019. Washed Up 45 stopped the White House Pandemic Response Team once Barack Obama left the White House. The coronavirus officially made it to the United States in December and slowly creeped from coast to coast
Washed Up 45 declared the U.S. was in a pandemic in March 2020.
He quickly declared the pandemic over despite thousands of Americans dying.
Kennedy and Moms for Liberty praised the former president for easing restrictions.
Kennedy complained about the U.S. offering cluster ammunition to the Ukrainian government to fend off Russia. The far left believe it is a proxy war and the far right believe that Ukraine should cede land to Russia and end its funding.
Not since 1960, the U.S. entertainment industry went on strike.
The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild of America-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are both on strike after talks with the studio executives failed.
This affects television, radio, music and podcasts. This affects millions.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Congress have not reacted to this.
Assuming how the Republicans act, they are willing to call the entertainers and writers hypocrites because they work for Hollywood, Broadway and Silicon Valley. They ignore that these people work hard to make your favorite sitcoms, favorite game show, favorite radio program, favorite talk show, favorite late night program, favorite animation, favorite dramas and every motion picture.
Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery are refusing to negotiate with the unions. The strike is voted upon after talks failed.
The unions are asking for fair wages, more pay due to streaming, artificial intelligence and syndication rights.
Usual film sites like Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Austin have seen shutdowns of filming.
Promotion of films, television programs and events are no longer available.
Actors are not promoting upcoming movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Fran Drescher, current president of WGA-AFTRA has slammed network executives. The executives are claiming the networks are losing money. However, they are taking nine figure salaries. Some are actually taking joy in watching the actors, writers and costume makers suffer.
Drescher said actors were being “marginalised, disrespected and dishonored” by a business model that has been drastically changed by streaming and artificial intelligence.
“What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” she said.
“We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.
“I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history.”
Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a former Navy SEAL and businessman won his congressional seat in 2022.
He is a freshman Republican lawmaker representing parts of Tucson, Phoenix, almost all of Northern Arizona which includes the reservations as well as Flagstaff.
He is 43 years old.
Before he became a lawmaker, he was the Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush type. All bullshit and no cattle.
He is the asshole type of veterans. He thinks his shit don't stank. I smell alcohol, cocaine and adultery.
Prove me wrong.
Crane referred to Black people as "colored people" on Thursday during floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or Black people or anybody can serve,” the first-term Republican said. “It has nothing to do with any of that stuff.”
The remark came as lawmakers were debating a series of GOP-backed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House is aiming to pass by the end of the week.
Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a former Navy SEAL, reality TV personality and far right blogger said on the House floor that the military should matter on whether "colored people" served.
Crane said his amendment would prohibit the Defense Department from considering race, gender, religion, political affiliations or "any other ideological concepts" as the sole basis for recruitment training, education, promotion, or retention decisions.
"The military was never intended to be, you know, inclusive. Its strength is not its diversity. Its strength is its standards," said Crane, a 43-year-old combat veteran.
"I’m going to tell you guys this right now you can, you can keep playing around these games with diversity, equity and inclusion. But there are some real threats out there. And if we keep messing around, and we keep lowering our standards it’s not going to be good," he added.
Immediately after Crane finished his remarks, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) asked that the derogatory phrase he used be stricken from the record.
“I find it offensive and very inappropriate,” said Beatty, who was the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in the previous Congress. “I am asking for unanimous consent to take down the words of referring to me or any of my colleagues as colored people.”
Crane interjected with a request to amend his comments to "people of color." Beatty insisted, however, that the words be stricken from the record. They were removed by unanimous consent.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and Columbus, Ohio mayor Andrew Ginther great First Lady Jill Biden.
Asked for comment about his choice of words, Crane said he “misspoke.”
“In a heated floor debate on my amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the color of one’s skin in the Armed Forces, I misspoke,” Crane said in a statement. “Every one of us is made in the image of God and created equal.”
Beatty, 73, had criticized Crane's amendment as trying to "undermine the freedoms for us to learn about one another, for us to hire one another, for us to understand our cultures."
The House adopted Crane's amendment Thursday night in a 214-210 vote.
In the Senate this week, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., refused to acknowledge that white nationalism is fundamentally racist.
Asked to clarify comments he made in May that appeared to defend white nationalists’ serving in the military, Tuberville insisted in an interview Monday night on CNN that not all white nationalists are racists. He instead suggested that they are simply people “that have a few, probably different beliefs.”
While serving his lifetime in federal time out, convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar was stabbed by a inmate. The inmate was previously a resident of Supermax Florence.
The attacker will likely return to the facility.
Investigators probing disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s stabbing Sunday at a federal penitentiary in Florida are lacking a key piece of evidence: video of the assault.
Nassar was attacked inside his cell, a blind spot for prison surveillance cameras that only record common areas and corridors, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. In federal prison parlance, because of the lack of video, it is known as an “unwitnessed event.”
The inmate, identified as Shane McMillan, was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011, court records show.
McMillan attacked Nassar in his cell.
It’s the second time Nassar, the former U.S. women’s gymnastics team doctor, has been assaulted in federal custody while he’s serving decades in prison for sexually abusing athletes and possessing explicit images of children.
The attack, which left Nassar hospitalized in stable condition with injuries including a collapsed lung, underscored persistent problems at the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Despite the Biden administration’s vow to fix the broken prison system — with new leadership and an emphasis on turning prisoners into “good neighbors” — the agency has continued to struggle with violence, understaffing, abuse and misconduct.
Nassar’s stabbing, just weeks after “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a North Carolina federal medical center and amid lingering fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 jail suicide, also highlighted the agency’s inability to keep even its highest profile prisoners safe.
“This kind of violence in our federal prisons is inexcusable,” said Daniel Landsman, the deputy director of policy at the criminal justice advocacy group FAMM, or Families Against Mandatory Minimums. “The failures that led to this assault are not isolated — too often we see similar incidents impact incarcerated people across the country.”
“The assault of Larry Nassar raises a number of questions regarding safety in in federal prisons,” Landsman said.
The Bureau of Prisons did not respond Tuesday to AP’s questions about Nassar’s stabbing, and violence, low staffing levels and other problems plaguing its facilities. In a statement Monday, the agency confirmed an altercation involving an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Coleman, but declined to identify the person “for privacy, safety and security reasons.”
Nassar, 59, was attacked inside his cell Sunday by a prisoner armed with a makeshift weapon, according to the person familiar with the matter. Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the neck, chest and back. Two officers guarding the unit where Nassar was held were working mandated overtime shifts because of staffing shortages, the person said.
The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and did so on condition anonymity.
Nassar was previously assaulted in May 2018 at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, within hours of being placed in general population — an attack his lawyers blamed on the notoriety of his case and a seven-day televised sentencing where scores of victims made impassioned statements. Nassar’s lawyers did not specify the nature or severity of that attack.
Cell doors on most federal prison units are typically open during the day, letting prisoners move around freely within the facility. Surveillance cameras aren’t positioned to see inside cells, though other cameras may have captured Nassar’s assailant walking in and out of the cell.
At some federal prison facilities, including the Manhattan jail where Epstein died, surveillance cameras been found to malfunction or not record at all — an issue Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) sought to address last December with a law requiring the Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing and outdated security systems. The agency, however, has been slow to make progress.
Facing increased scrutiny in the wake of Epstein’s suicide and an ongoing AP investigation that has uncovered myriad scandals, Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters has pledged to overhaul recruiting and hiring practices and end systemic abuse and corruption.
But changing the culture of the massive agency — the Justice Department’s largest with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion — has proved exceedingly difficult. Correctional workers say they’ve seen no meaningful reforms to fix longtime staffing problems that put inmates’ and their own lives at risk.
Just two weeks before Nassar’s stabbing, workers at the Florida prison complex where he was attacked organized a protest outside a nearby supermarket to highlight what they said were dangerous staffing levels.
“They’re going to have somebody killed, either staff or an inmate, if they don’t fix the problem,” said Jose Rojas, the union president at the Coleman prison complex. “We sounded the alarm, we warned the public, and I hate to be prophetic, but we were right.”
At Nassar’s prison, known as USP Coleman II, nearly one-quarter of correctional officer positions are vacant, according to records obtained by AP. Staffing guidelines show the facility, with more than 1,200 prisoners, should have 222 correctional officers. Only 169 positions are filled.
The day Nassar was stabbed, 44 posts were left vacant and unassigned at the prison, records show. One of the officers assigned to Nassar’s unit was working a third straight 16-hour day, while the other officer was on a second straight day of mandated overtime.
The AP has revealed widespread criminal conduct by employees, sexual abuse by workers, inmate escapes, and staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies.
Last August, the Justice Department appointed Peters — a reformer who previously ran Oregon’s state prison system — to replace former Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal, a Washed Up 45 administration holdover who clashed with Congress, claimed staffing wasn’t problematic and had to be subpoenaed before attending one of his last oversight hearings.
Peters, in turn, has focused on shifting the Bureau of Prisons away from its strictly carceral roots, emphasizing that “our job is to make good neighbors, not good inmates.” Peters has rewritten the agency’s mission statement to emphasize employees’ job to “foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety” by preparing people behind bars for successful reentry into their communities.
A far right extremist who participated in the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol is suing the far right cable outlet after former host Tucker Carlson ran a story claiming he was a federal agent.
I remember the "Fed Epps" smear campaign against Ray Epps.
Ray Epps, a supporter of Washed Up 45 sues Fox after the network ignored his request for a retraction. Epps attended the pro-Washed Up 45 rallies in Washington in January 2021 but was not among the people found to have breached the Capitol building and has not been charged for his conduct. In subsequent weeks, then-Fox host Carlson highlighted a video clip of the Arizona man outside the Capitol to suggest that Epps might have been a government informant — a notion that Epps and the FBI have strongly denied.
“Fox, and particularly Mr. Carlson, commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps,” the lawsuit charges, claiming that Epps and his wife, Robyn, have had their lives “destroyed” by those false claims.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Delaware, claims that Fox — and Carlson — knew that Epps was almost definitely not a federal agent but chose to disregard that knowledge, therefore arguing that the network acted with actual malice, the standard necessary to win a defamation case against a public entity.
“Fox engaged in purposeful avoidance of the truth, intentionally ignoring information and evidence that directly contradicted Fox’s outlandish lies about Epps,” the complaint charges. “Fox refused to retract, correct, or apologize for its demonstrably false and defamatory accusations against Epps well after Fox knew definitively that they were false, providing yet additional circumstantial evidence of actual malice. Fox thus broadcast its lies about Epps with a high degree of awareness of probable falsity.”
In a March 23 letter, a lawyer for Epps, Michael Teter, demanded that Carlson and Fox News retract their claims about Epps and put the network on notice of potential legal action. The lawyer set a March 31 deadline for a response to the letter but previously told The Washington Post that he did not receive one. “This lawsuit marks another moment of accountability for Fox News,” Teter said in a statement on Wednesday.
Fox representatives did not return a request for comment on the lawsuit.
Ray Epps and his wife are still hiding due to threats.
Epps rose to attention on the right because of videos shot on Jan. 5, the night before the riot, that showed him arguing with Anthime Gionet, an unapologetic far-right live-streamer who goes by the alias “Baked Alaska.” In the recording, Epps urged Washed Up 45 supporters to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6. “We need to go into the Capitol!” Epps told Gionet.
In his lawsuit, Epps claims he believed parts of the Capitol would be open to the public and that he thought Washed Up 45 supporters would enter the building lawfully. Epps protested outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 but was not initially charged. His photo briefly appeared on an FBI website seeking information about various protesters but was removed in July 2021 after he was interviewed by agents.
The video of Epps, combined with the fact that he wasn’t prosecuted and his photo vanished from the FBI site, became fodder for right-wing conspiracy theorists, who claimed he was planted on the scene by federal agents to provoke otherwise peaceful protesters into committing violence, a notion that trickled into conservative media channels. Carlson began regularly questioning whether Epps was an informant or undercover figure on his broadcasts, describing him as someone who “helped stage-manage the insurrection” in one January 2022 broadcast.
Tucker Carlson is losing influence.
In a January 2023 broadcast, Carlson reminded his audience that Epps had not yet been charged. “Why is that? Well, let’s just stop lying,” Carlson told his viewers. “At this point, it’s pretty obvious why that is.”
In a July 2022 segment of Carlson’s show, one of his guests, conservative commentator and former Washed Up 45 White House speechwriter Darren Beattie, called Epps “the smoking gun of the entire fed-surrection,” a suggestion that Carlson did not rebut.
Other Fox hosts also raised the topic. During an October 2021 segment of Laura Ingraham’s show, an on-screen graphic asked “Were Federal Assets Involved in Capitol Riot?” while the host talked about Epps’s role.
The Epps conspiracy theory was also embraced by some Republican members of Congress. “I think somebody that worked that hard to get people to go in the Capitol, why aren’t they rotting away in the D.C. jail?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said in a June 2022 live stream.
In May, Epps claims in his lawsuit, the Department of Justice informed him that “it would seek to charge him criminally” — a decision the suit attributes to “the relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure.”
After Carlson’s segments, Epps and his wife were deluged with harassing threats and messages, according to the lawsuit. The conspiracy theories fanned by Carlson forced them to flee their Arizona ranch and the wedding-venue business they operated on the property, selling the property at a fire-sale price, according to the lawsuit.
“It’d be a damn shame to see that place go up in flames,” a caller on one of the harassing voice mails stated, according to the lawsuit.
Now Epps and his wife live in an RV a tenth the size of the ranch house they abandoned because of the threats, according to the lawsuit.
“After destroying Epps’s reputation and livelihood, Fox will move on to its next story, while Ray and Robyn live in a 350-square foot RV and face harassment and fear true harm,” the lawsuit reads.
The Epps case presents another major legal headache for Fox, which in late April paid $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s coverage of the 2020 election. And in late June, the network paid $12 million to settle a workplace discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer, Abby Grossberg. The network is still facing a defamation lawsuit filed by voting technology company Smartmatic, which is expected to go to trial in 2025.
RonNell Andersen Jones, a University of Utah professor who specializes in media law, said that Epps can clearly demonstrate that he was harmed by the on-air comments about him. “But,” she said, “the key question here is whether he was defamed, and that is going to require some careful situating of his facts within the framework that the law recognizes.”
While Carlson never directly stated that Epps was a federal agent, “when the whole story added together leads to a defamatory meaning, it can be found to be defamatory,” Andersen Jones said. “This will almost certainly be the underlying theory of some of Epps’s case.”
Oh by the way, Twitter is losing big time. Since Elon Musk allowed Carlson a platform, his podcasts generated a heavy amount of attention. But with Meta's launch of Threads, Twitter is seeing an exodus of users. The platform made big mistakes since Musk bought the company.
The Fed Epps hashtag was seen on that platform when
Ice Cube, Ye, Kodak Black and folks like then don't care about white nationalists.
Cube's now a civil rights leader according to white leftists and far right extremists.
Palling around with conspiracy theorists like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joe Rogan and Dennis Kucinich. Secretly working with Washed Up 45 and still promoting this Black Contract for America. He ain't too concerned about Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) saying he's proud to be a white nationalists.
He ain't concerned about the Washed Up 45 2024 campaign catering to the noise.
Cube is still dogging on Vice President Kamala Harris.
Republicans had to distance themselves from the remarks made by Tuberville. The Alabama senator who once was a coach for NCAA-1 football teams has doubled down on his white nationalist remarks as well as his stalling of nominees to the Pentagon.
President Joe Biden’s pick to be the nation’s top military officer warned senators on Tuesday that an indefinite blockade of senior officer promotions could cause a brain drain in the ranks. Tuberville's delaying the filling of hundreds of senior positions has left the Marine Corps without a leader for the first time in a century.
Testifying at his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing to be chair of the Joint Chiefs, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown said the effect of a prolonged hold on general and flag officers — launched by Tuberville in protest of Pentagon abortion policies — could have far-reaching impacts on the armed forces that go beyond the officers now delayed.
Tuberville was asked whether he believed white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military. Tuberville said the Biden administration "call[s] them that. I call them Americans." Later that day, his Congressional staff released a statement that said Tuberville "was being skeptical of the notion that there are white nationalists in the military, not that he believes they should be in the military."
But U.S. military leaders have said white nationalism and white supremacy in the ranks are growing.
For example, an October 2020 Pentagon report said there were "white supremacist inroads in the U.S. military". Much independent reporting indicates this as well.
Following the interview, Tuberville's brother Charles commented that he felt “compelled to distance himself” from his brother and his brother's "ignorant, hateful rants", calling Tommy Tuberville's comments "vile rhetoric".
Asked about Tuberville’s comments about white nationalism in the military, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued a forceful denunciation of white supremacy at his weekly leadership conference.
“White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country,” McConnell told reporters.
McConnell’s top deputy, Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-SD), said there’s no room for white nationalists in the GOP or the military.
“I just think there isn’t any place for it. We are a country obviously that has built around a set of principles, that’s welcoming,” he said.
But Thune didn’t want to comment on Tuberville’s argument on CNN that white nationalists aren’t necessarily racist.
“That’s not for me to decide,” he said.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has Cuban heritage, said “ethnic nationalism is un-American and I think it would be problematic in the military.”
“My definition of a white nationalist is someone that believes that America belongs to white people. That’s not American, that’s un-American, and that would be a problem in the military,” he said.
Tuberville’s Alabama colleague, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), also called out Tuberville, telling a reporter for HuffPost: “White supremacy and racism have absolutely no place in our country. Period. The end.”
Tuberville sparked controversy earlier this year when asked whether white nationalists should be able to serve in the military.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris do not get enough credit for the way things are in the United States. The country's unemployment rate still under 4%.
Inflation slowed to 3% last month, according to the latest Consumer Price Index released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
When Russia launched it war against Ukraine, Biden told the American public that sanctions on Russia will drive inflation and it could cripple the U.S. economy in the short term. Well in 2022, gas was souring pass $5 dollars, food prices went up, rent/utilities increased and housing prices soared.
All this talk about a recession is no longer in the news. Republicans were banking on the economy failing. They were hoping that inflation and the policies Biden enacted will bring them back to power.
Well the Republicans barely have control of the House of Representatives.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) are embarrassing the Republicans.
The Republicans are zeroed in on conspiracy theories and culture wars. When they promised to restore sanity into Washington, they really meant that they're planning on confronting Biden with noise.
The Republicans have no actual plans. They refuse to step outside the bubble. They're invested in the noise they've heard off of Fox, Newsmax, The Daily Mail, Breitbart, Twitter and the mouth of Washed Up 45.
Biden's public approval rating held steady at 40% in early July, close to the lowest levels of his presidency, as economic worries continued to trouble Americans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll this week.
The three-day online poll, which asked Americans, "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?" and ended on Monday, showed a marginal decrease from his 41% approval rating a month earlier, within the survey's three percentage point margin of error.
The largest number of respondents -- 21% -- cited the economy as their top concern, following by 15% who cited crime or corruption. The White House in recent weeks has kicked off a series of events aimed to lift Americans' dour mood about the economy, touting what it calls the Democratic president's "Bidenomics" agenda.
Biden's rating is identical to his Republican predecessor Donald Trump's 41% approval at this point in his presidency, a relatively low number compared to their immediate predecessors, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush.
Respondents were evenly split in their views of the Supreme Court's decision last month to strike down Biden's student loan forgiveness program, with 49% supporting the decision and 48% opposed. A majority -- 60% -- said they supported the court's move to end the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
Some 70% of respondents said they would support term limits for Supreme Court justices, including 85% of Democrats and 56% of Republicans. The poll was conducted following the high court’s term, which saw the court strike down college affirmative action programs as well as Biden's student debt plan.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, and collected responses from 1,028 adults, using a nationally representative sample.
The junk food media obsession with Biden's age, his gaffes, Hunter Biden and the latest culture wars have driven these poll numbers. I mean I am not saying the economy is bad, but I rather be working at my previous employer than my current employers. Working two jobs isn't something I like to do.
However, I am surviving and I am not complaining about how things are bad.
Maia Campbell is still prostituting on Atlanta streets.
Troubled entertainer once again goes viral. She literally begging in Atlanta for money to buy crack. Someone posted on social media that she was spotted in a suburban Atlanta gas station asking for money.
Maia Campbell is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. The former actress is a known drug addict and prostitute. Her bipolar disorder and her drug abuse led to the spiralling lifestyle.
She is estranged from her daughter.
Campbell still surviving the streets of Atlanta. Since leaving Hollywood, she struggled with mental illness, alcohol abuse and numerous run-ins with the law.
Bebe Moore Campbell's passing has been really rough on her. Campbell struggled with mental illness.
Since leaving the limelight, she was caught on camera acting erratic. She has been known to be addicted to crack/cocaine and heroin. She tired to get sober many times before.
Campbell lost her daughter because of her addiction to drugs.
Campbell turned down LL Cool J's offer for help and housing. Campbell was on In The House with LL along with Debbie Allen, Alfonso Ribeiro and Kim Wayans.
