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For the uninitiated, this conspiracy theory would later devolve into Qanon and worse.

On October 30, 2016, a Twitter account posting white supremacist material which said it was run by a Jewish New York lawyer falsely claimed that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had discovered a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party while searching through Anthony Weiner’s emails.[13][2] Throughout October and November 2016, WikiLeaks had published John Podesta’s emails. Proponents of the conspiracy theory read the emails and alleged they contained code words for pedophilia and human trafficking.[1][14] Proponents also claimed that Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., was a meeting ground for Satanic ritual abuse.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

NC has a sordid history with Democracy.

1898-White supremacists do not like newly elected representative, decide to have a massacre etc.

As the violence continued, Waddell led a group to the Republican mayor, Silas P. Wright. Waddell forced Wright, the board of aldermen, and the police chief to resign at gunpoint.[17] Waddel’s group included future U.S. Congressman John D. Bellamy and future NC Assemblyman George Rountree.[2] The mob installed a new city council that elected Waddell to take over as mayor by 4 p.m. that day.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

1969-White supremacists bring bombs, guns and violence in response to school desegregation (only 15 years after Brown v Board), then they blamed the young black protestors, who would spend a decade in prison before release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten

2016-Republican Governor signs bill reducing power of his predecessor. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/16/505872501/north-carolina-governor-signs-law-limiting-power-of-his-successor

2023-Tricia Cotham-Ran on a progressive platform in very blue seat, changes parties because people were mean to her. https://www.wfae.org/2023-04-04/nc-house-democrat-to-switch-parties-creating-gop-supermajority

2024-Republican super-majority signs bill taking away power from incoming Democrat Governor, shifts other powers to its favor. https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/g-s1-37837/north-carolina-gop-lawmakers-governor

So many tv shows broken by two-part episodes!

Spafford was released on $25,000 bond earlier this week. The new details in this case come from new filings from the defense, arguing to block his release.

Prosecutors reiterated why they believe Spafford is dangerous, writing that “while he is not known to have engaged in any apparent violence, he has certainly expressed interest in the same, through his manufacture of pope bombs marked ‘lethal,’ his possession of riot gear and a vest loaded with pipe bombs, his support for political assassinations and use of the pictures of the President for target practice.”

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/fbi-finds-150-homemade-bombs-at-virginia-home-in-one-of-the-largest-such-seizures-prosecutors-say/

From 2014

part of the computer system responsible for controlling the launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles relied on data loaded from 8-inch floppy disks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/60-minutes-shocked-to-find-8-inch-floppies-drive-nuclear-deterrent/

The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements. In the U.S., television viewers are subjected to an especially increasing volume of drug commercials. In 1996, $550 million was spent by pharmaceutical companies on drugs ads. That number increased more than 10-fold by 2020, reaching $6.58 billion annually.

https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/should-the-government-restrict-direct-to-consumer-prescription-drug-advertising-six-takeaways-from-research-on-the-effects-of-prescription-drug-advertising/

The Constitution has changed many times

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution

But, now that presidents can not be charged for “official” acts, who knows?

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5002157/supreme-court-trump-immunity

20 years ago congress let the Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunset (end without renewal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban that was AFTER Columbine.

BUT! That legislation was brought about thanks to an earlier school shooting, in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_schoolyard_shooting

Mitch McConnell is the voice of reason!? Make it make cents, since, sents, scents, sense.

Suddenly I care about Mitch McConnell’s health and well-being, in a way I’ve never felt before.

I’ve hated that guy since I started reading politics. A world where he’s a good guy, needs improvement.

That’s one of the big issues I’m having with this, people do remember. Both Mitch McConnell and Neil Young have experiences directly related to polio, and that’s just off the top of my head.

That being said the last iron lung polio survivor passed away this year. (Last one so far.)

Reminds me of this

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/16/505872501/north-carolina-governor-signs-law-limiting-power-of-his-successor

Combine this with the racist gerrymandered district’s and soon NC will functionally be a one party state.

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-congressional-districts-are-racially-gerrymandered-new-lawsuit-claims/21180373/

Unlike the representative from Florida, Tricia gave the Republicans the supermajority they needed to pass all that dumb private schools voucher garbage, and then later a big pile of money, because they ran out after getting rid of the INCOME LIMIT OF VOUCHER PARTICIPANTS!

Evidence? EVIDENCE? They don’t need evidence.

House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak

The committee’s 520-page report, released on 2 December, offers no new direct evidence of a lab leak, but summarizes a circumstantial case

There is some irony built in if someone does, considering Medical fundraisers now account for 1 in 3 of the website’s campaigns, and that was 2018.

I agree that he ‘Shouldn’t’, but I’m not nominated to be in charge of DHH.

Sadly, yes. The first “Russiagate for children” book. Also the first of 3.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/406877-the-plot-against-the-king