While Texas Freezes, Ted Cruz Vacays in Cancun

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Wednesday February 17, 2021 · 10:09 PM PST

2021/02/17 · 22:09

Just confirmed @SenTedCruz and his family flew to Cancun tonight for a few days at a resort they've visited before. Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing. pic.twitter.com/6nPiVWtdxe
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) February 18, 2021

I’m sure my fellow Texans will be glad to know that while we’ve been freezing our asses off in the cold, trying to figure out how we’re suppose to boil water (for those of us lucky enough to have any) without electricity for our stoves, our beloved Senator Ted Cruz has whisked his family off for a family holiday in sunny Cancun. I mean, it’s not like people are freezing to death in their homes, the elderly are suffering in nursing homes without power, and hell, a chimpanzee and some monkeys have died of the cold at a sanctuary . You go, Ted, have a good time. It’s not like us shivering peasants have any right to expect you to stick around and work to fix this situation.

Decades of Republican misrule have lead to this situation. Our governor is blaming AOC for the failure of the power grid, our former governor is saying that we’d rather freeze in the dark than have government regulation on our electricity, and now Teddyboy has fled the country because it’s just too darn cold in the state he was elected to represent. Folks, it’s time like these when people turn to their pitchforks and torches.

Texas is turning blue right before your eyes (in more ways than one),

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Tuesday August 18, 2020 · 3:36 PM PDT

2020/08/18 · 15:36

WILMINGTON, Del. — Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden’s close friendship with her late husband, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

She’s just the latest Republican to join in the convention, after a number of notable GOP former elected officials — including former Ohio Gov. John Kasich — endorsed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on Monday night. It's a continuation of a major theme that Democrats have pushed through the first night of the convention — an effort to broaden the party's appeal to occasional Republicans and disaffected Trump voters.

In an advance clip from the video shared with The Associated Press, Cindy McCain talks about how Biden, then a Delaware senator, met her husband when John McCain was assigned to be a military aide for him on a trip overseas. The two became friends, and the families would gather for picnics in the Bidens’ backyard.

Full story at :Cindy McCain Video On Joe Biden to Air at DNC

This is awesome news, and will do two important things: 1) Help us with the independents and 2)Drive the Orange Nightmare up the wall. He’ll be ranting and attacking a widow and her dead husband for days. Every day he wastes, every news cycle he blows brings us closer to the election.

I hope Cindy McCain’s courage will inspire other prominent republicans to do what’s right.

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Friday August 14, 2020 · 5:08 PM PDT

2020/08/14 · 17:08

A New Jersey congressman is seeking a state grand jury probe after a statement by President Donald Trump that he is holding back funding to the U.S. Postal Service to inhibit the delivery of vote-by-mail ballots.

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) has made a criminal referral to Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to determine if Trump and U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy played a criminal role in disrupting state elections in New Jersey.

“Trump’s open admission confirms recent reporting of widespread delays to Americans’ mail and package delivery and the deliberate sabotage of USPS functions and operations at the behest of administration orders,” Pascrell said in a letter to Grewal. “This includes the removal of hundreds of mail sorting machines from postal facilities across the country — with some being thrown into dumpsters — and orders from Postmaster DeJoy to deliberately slow mail service. According to Pascrell, the state attorney general has jurisdiction over interference in vote-by-mail and state elections.

Full story at: New Jersey Globe

This is the direction to go. Every state Attorney General should be doing the same thing. Bill Barr can’t stop it and if there are charges, Trump can’t issue a pardon. I would encourage those of you living in blue states to contact your reps or your state attorney generals to take action now while we still can. I live in Texas, so my AG is probably out in his pickup yanking up mail boxes as we speak, but if enough of the blue states start investigations and empanelling grand juries, it might be enough to make that toadie DeJoy think twice.

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Sunday December 09, 2018 · 9:57 PM PST

2018/12/09 · 21:57

From BuzzFeed :

Influential evangelical leader and Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr. went into business with a young pool attendant he and his wife met while staying at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County.

The suit, which has not been previously reported, was brought by a father and son who claim that after they helped conceive of the business, the pool attendant and Falwell wrongly cut them out of it. The suit says that while Falwell Jr. and his wife were guests at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in 2012, they developed a “friendly relationship” with the pool attendant, Giancarlo Granda; flew Granda in a private jet; and eventually backed him in a business venture, setting up a hostel that offers low-cost dorm-style nightly accommodations to visitors. The pool attendant, according to public records databases, was 21 when he met the Falwells.

I know what you’re thinking. Shame on you! Can’t a religious zealot and his wife “befriend” a Miami pool boy, fly him around in a private jet, and them give him $800,000 to start a business without everyone’s mind going into the gutter?

Speaking of the gutter, Michael Cohen enters the story:

Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen, who is now facing a federal criminal investigation, helped arrange Falwell Jr.’s endorsement of Trump in January 2016, BuzzFeed News has learned.

(snip)

According to a separate source with knowledge of Trump’s campaign, Cohen was so confident in Falwell Jr.’s support that he and Trump assured others, even before Trump announced his candidacy, that Falwell Jr. would issue an endorsement.

So, Jerry Jr , the Missus, and Giancarlo were all having innocent, pool-related fun when Michael “The Fixer” Cohen showed up and suggested that Falwell throw his support behind the Candidate Most Likely To Be The Anti-Christ and he was all over that like a fundgelical on, well, a buff Miami pool boy. I’m sure there’s nothing to see here. Move along.

Edited to add: Aw, it does my Lurker heart good to make the recommended list. Thanks, guys!

My Mother is About to be Discharged From Nursing Home

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Friday January 01, 2016 · 6:26 PM PST

2016/01/01 · 18:26

I’m in Texas, and the nursing home my mother is in has informed me that they are going to release her on the 9th because her “health has improved”, and by that I mean one of the administrative staff looked out of her window and saw Mom going down the hall with a walker (and a physical therapist right behind to make sure she didn’t fall, as part of her therapy), and decided she was well enough to go home. This also, by coincidence I’m sure, is also about the time that her Medicare benefits run out, and the Medicaid takes over payment in full.

Meanwhile, Mom can’t even sit up in bed without assistance, dress herself, change or empty her colostomy bag, or even go to the bathroom to pee on her own. In fact, in the 3 months that’s she been in the facility, no effort has been made to get her up to go to the bathroom. Instead, a nurse’s aide comes by every few hours to change her diaper.

If she comes home with me on the 9th, she will spend at least 12 hours a day on her own because of my job. I can’t afford to hire someone to stay with her. She has a history of falling even before the nursing home. I don’t know what to do. I don’t how she’s going to mange when I’m not there.

This is my first diary. I’m just a lurker, really. It’s just that I don’t know what to do. The law is so complicated, and it’s a frickin’ holiday weekend to boot, so I can’t find anyone to talk to. If anyone out there knows anything about Texas law and can help me, I really would appreciate it.

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