One does not just, at random, throw out the name Adolph Hitler as “the kind of leader we need today”. Out of the thousands of other examples throughout history, picking Hitler is not just an unfortunate coincidence.
Carl Paladino must spend an good bit of time thinking and musing about Adolf Hitler for that name to jump off his tongue so easily.
Carl Paladino (R-NY) sounds like the perfect MAGA candidate. He rates a 100 on the Assholiness scale, which basically guarantees 100% of the Republican votes.
Amy Coney Barrett Raked In $425,000 For Book Deal
Which makes her only a moderately pricey hooker on the Federalist Society scale.
I’m having a tough time figuring out what kind of book ACB can write that’s worth a $425K advance. It ain’t a legal treatise, that’s for sure. And there’s just nothing noteworthy about her career that would suggest that her book would sell more than a handful of copies, unless it’s an expose of People of Praise.
This would be great news for (now-ex) Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick, who had tried tosueto make this possible, if he hadn’t already conceded the race to rival Dr. Mehmet Oz last week (and Oz still beat him in the hand recount anyway).
Seems weird, or even suspicious, that McCormick conceded the race when litigation before SCOTUS was pending. Everything I read indicated absentee ballots were trending his direction, so why throw in the towel? I’m willing to bet he was somehow induced to concede.
Paladino is the presumptive favorite in the Primary, coming up June 28, in just over two weeks;
If he wins the nomination, and he is likely to, then he is also the presumptive favorite to be the next Congressman from the NY 27th District.
Why? The NY 27th District has been a Republican bastion for decades, and is currently +13 R.
However, if the Democratic put up someone good (Yes, that’s a hell of an “if”), then because Paladino is such a douche bag (the correct pejorative) and has such a long awful track record (removed from a Board of Education, a big deal, btw), we do have a shot.
As for the Facebook post, Paladino claimed on Wednesday that while he didn’t write it himself, he did “carelessly republish it without clearly reading it.”
In his first interview since the Robb Elementary School shooting, the man widely seen as responsible for the delayed police response told the Texas Tribune that it had been a deliberate decision to abandon his primary tool of communication with dozens of other officers before entering the school building on May 24. The choice to ditch his radio, Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arrendondo said, was tactical—he believed carrying his radios would slow him down or hit him as he ran. “I’ve never heard anything like that in my life,” police tactics expert Steve Ijames told the Tribune, explaining that officers are trained to take their radios everywhere. In the interview, published a day after The New York Timesoffered the first confirmation that Arrendondo had known that there were children alive and trapped with the shooter, he claimed that he had not known that he was the incident commander on the scene, and also explained that he had been foiled by a locked door, wasting time “praying” as he tried upwards of two dozen keys. Arredondo explained his 16-day silence following the shooting as a desire not to compound collective grief or cast blame
Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) signaled that the panel is well aware that Jan. 6 wasn’t just a one-off explosion of random violence, and they laid out how Trump had paved the way for the attack even months beforehand:
Trump knew the Big Lie was a lie
Trump perpetuated the Big Lie
Trump tried to use the executive branch to overturn the election
Trump’s call to come to DC on Jan. 6
Trump watched the Capitol attack and did nothing
And to nobody’s surprise, Trump is still perpetuating the Big Lie.
Gotta love that we teachers are expected to coolly and calmly lock the doors when a trained professional could not. (Edit: I should have said work the keys because he was (supposedly) trying to unlock the door)
(In the moment, you never know how you will act so I wouldn’t fault most people for fumbling or messing up but this guy is clearly selling a line of bs to defend himself.)
