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In my neck of the woods, these people are suddenly experts on....saving the whales.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/whale-deaths-nj-shore-wind-turbines-conspiracy-theories-20230314.htmlConspiracy theorists on Facebook are ‘winning the information war’ about N.J. whale deaths
Are wind turbines to blame for recent New Jersey whale deaths? Scientists say no, Facebook says yes.
They named the whale Windy.
“Windy was a young humpback whale taken in the prime of her life,” read the caption on a March 3 post in the Facebook group Protect our Coast NJ showing the diseased humpback whale on the beach near Seaside Park.
“Her gravesite is dug — this will be her final resting place.”
The caption ended with five emojis: prayer hands, crying face, whale, blue heart, another prayer hands.
ADVERTISEMENTBefore long, it had been shared 1.7K times, with 420 comments, many tracing the whale’s death, and that of nearly two dozen others along the coast of New York and New Jersey since early December 2022, to work being done in advance of several large-scale wind turbine farms off the Jersey coast. It is a connection scientists and government agencies have dismissed.
Even as necropsies find evidence of ship strikes in nearly half of the whales, which have been dying in elevated numbers since 2016, the drumbeat of scapegoating wind energy has intensified.
The debate has split, perhaps predictably, along political lines, frustrating those who say they really are just worried about the whales, and those who may have other concerns about the full impact of wind turbines.
‘Amateur scare tactic’
“When do we March?,” said one poster, whose Facebook bio is “SURVIVOR, RESPECTFUL, DEDICATED, PERSISTENT, PATRIOT.” “I’m so mad I could spit.”
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Workers walk near a dead whale that washed ashore in Seaside Park N.J. on March 2, 2023. New Jersey officials say a wide array of research and preventive measures are either under way or planned soon to protect marine mammals during the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. Some people blame offshore wind preparation for a spate of whale deaths on the U.S. East Coast this winter, but three federal science agencies say there is no evidence linking the deaths to offshore wind preparation. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Read moreWayne Parry / APElection conspiracy theories soon followed, with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy a frequent target of derision.
They quoted the Book of Jonah, pondered whether to march on Trenton, packed local municipal meetings.
ADVERTISEMENTOne frequent Facebook post argued, falsely, that Murphy had a share in a company involved with wind energy called JECS Offshore, a name similar to one that he formed to buy his property in Italy. (JECS are the first initials of his children’s name.)
“Phil has no interest in stopping the project because he’s set to make $$$$, always follow the money,” wrote one poster.
The accusation is baseless.
“There is no connection between JECS Ltd. and JECS Offshore Services, and any claim otherwise is absolutely false,” said Alexandra Altman, Murphy’s deputy communications director, in an email.
ADVERTISEMENT“Conflating two companies with similar names is another amateur scare tactic being used by groups whose sole focus is to stall the progress of New Jersey’s clean energy future.”
On Facebook, Brett Whiting, Offshore Operations Director at JECS Global Offshore Wind, said, “I’ve been called a little bugger in my time, but this is the first time I’ve been named and shamed in a conspiracy involving a United States Governor and a Leading Global Energy Supplier!”
‘Consuming my life’
Posters reflected personally on every whale death.
“You just gave me anxiety….like everything you said I was a whale in the water experiencing it,” said one poster.
ADVERTISEMENT“This is really bad,” said another. “How long before we start seeing dead children washing up on the beach?”
At least 178 humpback whales have died from Maine to Florida since 2016, with necropsies completed on half. About 40% bear evidence of being struck by a vessel or entangled in fishing gear, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Marine Fisheries Service, which designated the time period as an unusual mortality event predating offshore wind-energy activity.
For Tricia DeVoe, an Ocean County, N.J. resident who works for a whale watching company in the summer who posted the photo of the whale they call Windy, that marine mammal death was just the latest in a string of gut wrenching strandings that are, frankly, taking over her life.
She became emotional when asked in how the effort was affecting her.
ADVERTISEMENT“I‘m holding back the tears because that question made me cry,” she said in an interview. “I’ve been basically so consumed on trying to learn more and raise awareness. Literally my son just said to me, the whales better stop dying because it’s consuming my life and [that of] many others. It’s very, very personal.”
‘A very local phenomenon’
The wind companies have pushed back, citing conclusions by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Marine Mammal Commission, and the NOAA that preparation for building the turbines, including sonar mapping activities, is not to blame for whale deaths.
Atlantic Shores holds one lease to build a wind farm off Atlantic City whose turbines that will be visible, at least on the clearest of days, from the lease area, 183,000 acres between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light. Phase one will be 200 turbines.
“There’s not a shred of evidence connecting ocean wind farms or surveying activities to the harming of whales,” said CEO Joris Veldhoven, in an interview.
“We’re mapping the sea floor,” he said. “We’re not installing turbines. We’re not installing cables. We’re very concerned about how the opposition is trying to draw a causal relation with the wave of whale beachings and deaths.”
He said the discourse seems to be “very much a local phenomenon,” and said there is “only a limited window for all citizens of the U.S. and this world to do something about climate change.”
‘All my Trumper friends’
That discourse had taken on a life of its own, every dead whale intensifying the debate. U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican who represents Atlantic and Cape May County, along with about 30 local mayors have called for a moratorium on wind energy.
Cape May County will hold a hearing on March 15. Van Drew is calling witnesses at the Wildwood Convention Center on March 16 for a hearing entitled: “An Examination into Offshore Wind Industrialization.” Two other Republican congressmen will be there.
“That side is winning the information war,” save Joseph Reynolds, of the Save Coastal Wildlife organization, who wrote a piece called, “Stop lying about whale deaths.”
“They’re so wrapped up in all this propaganda,” he said. “They have all these people on blogs and Facebook and social media and friends in the media. As soon as there’s a dead whale, they’re down there.”
Reynolds wants the emphasis to shift to slowing down marine traffic to avoid injuries the dead whales are showing evidence of, though many on Facebook are sure those injuries occurred after whales were disoriented by sonar mapping related to the turbines.
On New Jersey Reddit, a poster asked earlier this month, “Why are all my Trumper friends suddenly “Save The Whales” when they’ve never cared about the environment before?” Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have taken up the cause.
The Heartland Institute, a national libertarian think tank that has been closely aligned with fossil fuel groups, recently filed comments with the BOEM against an offshore wind project in Virginia “to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.”
There is near-certainty among the faithful.
“Please... we all know it’s the wind farm surveys. Stop the killing,” said one poster on the Facebook page of the Brigantine, N.J.-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center , which itself has been a target of conspiracy theories after its necropsies turned up evidence of ship strikes.
Elected officials busy with culture war and other Republican talking points like Ocean City School Board member Robin Shaffer, who is advocating for the district to denounce state health and sex education standards, are active in the whale-wind turbine movement.
“Is there a lawyer out there?” Shaffer posted. “Is it possible that Orsted and/or Governor Murphy could be brought up on charges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for environmental crimes?”
Former N.J. Superior Court Judge, Michael J. Donohue, a prominent Republican operative in Cape May County, was named Special Counsel to the County on windmill issues. On Facebook, he’s compared the assertion that whale deaths are not tied to wind energy to “The virus did not leak from a Chinese lab,” and “If you get the vax, you can’t get the virus or spread it.”
Meanwhile, Tricia Devoe says they weren’t even thinking about the wind turbines when they named the dead whale Windy. “It was just ... really windy at the time,” she said.
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I’ll bet it was vaxxed and boosted, up to date.The Juggler said:In my neck of the woods, these people are suddenly experts on....saving the whales.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/whale-deaths-nj-shore-wind-turbines-conspiracy-theories-20230314.htmlConspiracy theorists on Facebook are ‘winning the information war’ about N.J. whale deaths
Are wind turbines to blame for recent New Jersey whale deaths? Scientists say no, Facebook says yes.
They named the whale Windy.
“Windy was a young humpback whale taken in the prime of her life,” read the caption on a March 3 post in the Facebook group Protect our Coast NJ showing the diseased humpback whale on the beach near Seaside Park.
“Her gravesite is dug — this will be her final resting place.”
The caption ended with five emojis: prayer hands, crying face, whale, blue heart, another prayer hands.
ADVERTISEMENTBefore long, it had been shared 1.7K times, with 420 comments, many tracing the whale’s death, and that of nearly two dozen others along the coast of New York and New Jersey since early December 2022, to work being done in advance of several large-scale wind turbine farms off the Jersey coast. It is a connection scientists and government agencies have dismissed.
Even as necropsies find evidence of ship strikes in nearly half of the whales, which have been dying in elevated numbers since 2016, the drumbeat of scapegoating wind energy has intensified.
The debate has split, perhaps predictably, along political lines, frustrating those who say they really are just worried about the whales, and those who may have other concerns about the full impact of wind turbines.
‘Amateur scare tactic’
“When do we March?,” said one poster, whose Facebook bio is “SURVIVOR, RESPECTFUL, DEDICATED, PERSISTENT, PATRIOT.” “I’m so mad I could spit.”
Workers walk near a dead whale that washed ashore in Seaside Park N.J. on March 2, 2023. New Jersey officials say a wide array of research and preventive measures are either under way or planned soon to protect marine mammals during the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. Some people blame offshore wind preparation for a spate of whale deaths on the U.S. East Coast this winter, but three federal science agencies say there is no evidence linking the deaths to offshore wind preparation. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Read moreWayne Parry / APElection conspiracy theories soon followed, with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy a frequent target of derision.
They quoted the Book of Jonah, pondered whether to march on Trenton, packed local municipal meetings.
ADVERTISEMENTOne frequent Facebook post argued, falsely, that Murphy had a share in a company involved with wind energy called JECS Offshore, a name similar to one that he formed to buy his property in Italy. (JECS are the first initials of his children’s name.)
“Phil has no interest in stopping the project because he’s set to make $$$$, always follow the money,” wrote one poster.
The accusation is baseless.
“There is no connection between JECS Ltd. and JECS Offshore Services, and any claim otherwise is absolutely false,” said Alexandra Altman, Murphy’s deputy communications director, in an email.
ADVERTISEMENT“Conflating two companies with similar names is another amateur scare tactic being used by groups whose sole focus is to stall the progress of New Jersey’s clean energy future.”
On Facebook, Brett Whiting, Offshore Operations Director at JECS Global Offshore Wind, said, “I’ve been called a little bugger in my time, but this is the first time I’ve been named and shamed in a conspiracy involving a United States Governor and a Leading Global Energy Supplier!”
‘Consuming my life’
Posters reflected personally on every whale death.
“You just gave me anxiety….like everything you said I was a whale in the water experiencing it,” said one poster.
ADVERTISEMENT“This is really bad,” said another. “How long before we start seeing dead children washing up on the beach?”
At least 178 humpback whales have died from Maine to Florida since 2016, with necropsies completed on half. About 40% bear evidence of being struck by a vessel or entangled in fishing gear, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Marine Fisheries Service, which designated the time period as an unusual mortality event predating offshore wind-energy activity.
For Tricia DeVoe, an Ocean County, N.J. resident who works for a whale watching company in the summer who posted the photo of the whale they call Windy, that marine mammal death was just the latest in a string of gut wrenching strandings that are, frankly, taking over her life.
She became emotional when asked in how the effort was affecting her.
ADVERTISEMENT“I‘m holding back the tears because that question made me cry,” she said in an interview. “I’ve been basically so consumed on trying to learn more and raise awareness. Literally my son just said to me, the whales better stop dying because it’s consuming my life and [that of] many others. It’s very, very personal.”
‘A very local phenomenon’
The wind companies have pushed back, citing conclusions by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Marine Mammal Commission, and the NOAA that preparation for building the turbines, including sonar mapping activities, is not to blame for whale deaths.
Atlantic Shores holds one lease to build a wind farm off Atlantic City whose turbines that will be visible, at least on the clearest of days, from the lease area, 183,000 acres between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light. Phase one will be 200 turbines.
“There’s not a shred of evidence connecting ocean wind farms or surveying activities to the harming of whales,” said CEO Joris Veldhoven, in an interview.
“We’re mapping the sea floor,” he said. “We’re not installing turbines. We’re not installing cables. We’re very concerned about how the opposition is trying to draw a causal relation with the wave of whale beachings and deaths.”
He said the discourse seems to be “very much a local phenomenon,” and said there is “only a limited window for all citizens of the U.S. and this world to do something about climate change.”
‘All my Trumper friends’
That discourse had taken on a life of its own, every dead whale intensifying the debate. U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican who represents Atlantic and Cape May County, along with about 30 local mayors have called for a moratorium on wind energy.
Cape May County will hold a hearing on March 15. Van Drew is calling witnesses at the Wildwood Convention Center on March 16 for a hearing entitled: “An Examination into Offshore Wind Industrialization.” Two other Republican congressmen will be there.
“That side is winning the information war,” save Joseph Reynolds, of the Save Coastal Wildlife organization, who wrote a piece called, “Stop lying about whale deaths.”
“They’re so wrapped up in all this propaganda,” he said. “They have all these people on blogs and Facebook and social media and friends in the media. As soon as there’s a dead whale, they’re down there.”
Reynolds wants the emphasis to shift to slowing down marine traffic to avoid injuries the dead whales are showing evidence of, though many on Facebook are sure those injuries occurred after whales were disoriented by sonar mapping related to the turbines.
On New Jersey Reddit, a poster asked earlier this month, “Why are all my Trumper friends suddenly “Save The Whales” when they’ve never cared about the environment before?” Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have taken up the cause.
The Heartland Institute, a national libertarian think tank that has been closely aligned with fossil fuel groups, recently filed comments with the BOEM against an offshore wind project in Virginia “to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.”
There is near-certainty among the faithful.
“Please... we all know it’s the wind farm surveys. Stop the killing,” said one poster on the Facebook page of the Brigantine, N.J.-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center , which itself has been a target of conspiracy theories after its necropsies turned up evidence of ship strikes.
Elected officials busy with culture war and other Republican talking points like Ocean City School Board member Robin Shaffer, who is advocating for the district to denounce state health and sex education standards, are active in the whale-wind turbine movement.
“Is there a lawyer out there?” Shaffer posted. “Is it possible that Orsted and/or Governor Murphy could be brought up on charges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for environmental crimes?”
Former N.J. Superior Court Judge, Michael J. Donohue, a prominent Republican operative in Cape May County, was named Special Counsel to the County on windmill issues. On Facebook, he’s compared the assertion that whale deaths are not tied to wind energy to “The virus did not leak from a Chinese lab,” and “If you get the vax, you can’t get the virus or spread it.”
Meanwhile, Tricia Devoe says they weren’t even thinking about the wind turbines when they named the dead whale Windy. “It was just ... really windy at the time,” she said.
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I thought they were going to come to a conclusion that there was more boat activity from the offshore powerplants that were causing this.The Juggler said:In my neck of the woods, these people are suddenly experts on....saving the whales.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/whale-deaths-nj-shore-wind-turbines-conspiracy-theories-20230314.htmlConspiracy theorists on Facebook are ‘winning the information war’ about N.J. whale deaths
Are wind turbines to blame for recent New Jersey whale deaths? Scientists say no, Facebook says yes.
They named the whale Windy.
“Windy was a young humpback whale taken in the prime of her life,” read the caption on a March 3 post in the Facebook group Protect our Coast NJ showing the diseased humpback whale on the beach near Seaside Park.
“Her gravesite is dug — this will be her final resting place.”
The caption ended with five emojis: prayer hands, crying face, whale, blue heart, another prayer hands.
ADVERTISEMENTBefore long, it had been shared 1.7K times, with 420 comments, many tracing the whale’s death, and that of nearly two dozen others along the coast of New York and New Jersey since early December 2022, to work being done in advance of several large-scale wind turbine farms off the Jersey coast. It is a connection scientists and government agencies have dismissed.
Even as necropsies find evidence of ship strikes in nearly half of the whales, which have been dying in elevated numbers since 2016, the drumbeat of scapegoating wind energy has intensified.
The debate has split, perhaps predictably, along political lines, frustrating those who say they really are just worried about the whales, and those who may have other concerns about the full impact of wind turbines.
‘Amateur scare tactic’
“When do we March?,” said one poster, whose Facebook bio is “SURVIVOR, RESPECTFUL, DEDICATED, PERSISTENT, PATRIOT.” “I’m so mad I could spit.”
Workers walk near a dead whale that washed ashore in Seaside Park N.J. on March 2, 2023. New Jersey officials say a wide array of research and preventive measures are either under way or planned soon to protect marine mammals during the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. Some people blame offshore wind preparation for a spate of whale deaths on the U.S. East Coast this winter, but three federal science agencies say there is no evidence linking the deaths to offshore wind preparation. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Read moreWayne Parry / APElection conspiracy theories soon followed, with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy a frequent target of derision.
They quoted the Book of Jonah, pondered whether to march on Trenton, packed local municipal meetings.
ADVERTISEMENTOne frequent Facebook post argued, falsely, that Murphy had a share in a company involved with wind energy called JECS Offshore, a name similar to one that he formed to buy his property in Italy. (JECS are the first initials of his children’s name.)
“Phil has no interest in stopping the project because he’s set to make $$$$, always follow the money,” wrote one poster.
The accusation is baseless.
“There is no connection between JECS Ltd. and JECS Offshore Services, and any claim otherwise is absolutely false,” said Alexandra Altman, Murphy’s deputy communications director, in an email.
ADVERTISEMENT“Conflating two companies with similar names is another amateur scare tactic being used by groups whose sole focus is to stall the progress of New Jersey’s clean energy future.”
On Facebook, Brett Whiting, Offshore Operations Director at JECS Global Offshore Wind, said, “I’ve been called a little bugger in my time, but this is the first time I’ve been named and shamed in a conspiracy involving a United States Governor and a Leading Global Energy Supplier!”
‘Consuming my life’
Posters reflected personally on every whale death.
“You just gave me anxiety….like everything you said I was a whale in the water experiencing it,” said one poster.
ADVERTISEMENT“This is really bad,” said another. “How long before we start seeing dead children washing up on the beach?”
At least 178 humpback whales have died from Maine to Florida since 2016, with necropsies completed on half. About 40% bear evidence of being struck by a vessel or entangled in fishing gear, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Marine Fisheries Service, which designated the time period as an unusual mortality event predating offshore wind-energy activity.
For Tricia DeVoe, an Ocean County, N.J. resident who works for a whale watching company in the summer who posted the photo of the whale they call Windy, that marine mammal death was just the latest in a string of gut wrenching strandings that are, frankly, taking over her life.
She became emotional when asked in how the effort was affecting her.
ADVERTISEMENT“I‘m holding back the tears because that question made me cry,” she said in an interview. “I’ve been basically so consumed on trying to learn more and raise awareness. Literally my son just said to me, the whales better stop dying because it’s consuming my life and [that of] many others. It’s very, very personal.”
‘A very local phenomenon’
The wind companies have pushed back, citing conclusions by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Marine Mammal Commission, and the NOAA that preparation for building the turbines, including sonar mapping activities, is not to blame for whale deaths.
Atlantic Shores holds one lease to build a wind farm off Atlantic City whose turbines that will be visible, at least on the clearest of days, from the lease area, 183,000 acres between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light. Phase one will be 200 turbines.
“There’s not a shred of evidence connecting ocean wind farms or surveying activities to the harming of whales,” said CEO Joris Veldhoven, in an interview.
“We’re mapping the sea floor,” he said. “We’re not installing turbines. We’re not installing cables. We’re very concerned about how the opposition is trying to draw a causal relation with the wave of whale beachings and deaths.”
He said the discourse seems to be “very much a local phenomenon,” and said there is “only a limited window for all citizens of the U.S. and this world to do something about climate change.”
‘All my Trumper friends’
That discourse had taken on a life of its own, every dead whale intensifying the debate. U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican who represents Atlantic and Cape May County, along with about 30 local mayors have called for a moratorium on wind energy.
Cape May County will hold a hearing on March 15. Van Drew is calling witnesses at the Wildwood Convention Center on March 16 for a hearing entitled: “An Examination into Offshore Wind Industrialization.” Two other Republican congressmen will be there.
“That side is winning the information war,” save Joseph Reynolds, of the Save Coastal Wildlife organization, who wrote a piece called, “Stop lying about whale deaths.”
“They’re so wrapped up in all this propaganda,” he said. “They have all these people on blogs and Facebook and social media and friends in the media. As soon as there’s a dead whale, they’re down there.”
Reynolds wants the emphasis to shift to slowing down marine traffic to avoid injuries the dead whales are showing evidence of, though many on Facebook are sure those injuries occurred after whales were disoriented by sonar mapping related to the turbines.
On New Jersey Reddit, a poster asked earlier this month, “Why are all my Trumper friends suddenly “Save The Whales” when they’ve never cared about the environment before?” Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have taken up the cause.
The Heartland Institute, a national libertarian think tank that has been closely aligned with fossil fuel groups, recently filed comments with the BOEM against an offshore wind project in Virginia “to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.”
There is near-certainty among the faithful.
“Please... we all know it’s the wind farm surveys. Stop the killing,” said one poster on the Facebook page of the Brigantine, N.J.-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center , which itself has been a target of conspiracy theories after its necropsies turned up evidence of ship strikes.
Elected officials busy with culture war and other Republican talking points like Ocean City School Board member Robin Shaffer, who is advocating for the district to denounce state health and sex education standards, are active in the whale-wind turbine movement.
“Is there a lawyer out there?” Shaffer posted. “Is it possible that Orsted and/or Governor Murphy could be brought up on charges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for environmental crimes?”
Former N.J. Superior Court Judge, Michael J. Donohue, a prominent Republican operative in Cape May County, was named Special Counsel to the County on windmill issues. On Facebook, he’s compared the assertion that whale deaths are not tied to wind energy to “The virus did not leak from a Chinese lab,” and “If you get the vax, you can’t get the virus or spread it.”
Meanwhile, Tricia Devoe says they weren’t even thinking about the wind turbines when they named the dead whale Windy. “It was just ... really windy at the time,” she said.
A few takeaways from this and just purely the eye test.
We have had more whales off shore here in NY after Sandy than I'd ever seen before in the past 35 years. Seeing humpys was a rare occurrence, now? We see them all the time, which is good.
These whale deaths were very, very rare in this area. We have heard about 1/2 dozen since they started working on the off shore stuff so I can see the reason to think it's the cause.
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what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
can someone name one contribution besides dead american bodies?"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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Trickle down economics, only the greatest contribution to America since we won the freedom to get taxed and fleeced by our wealthy land owning countrymen instead of the crown.gimmesometruth27 said:what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
can someone name one contribution besides dead american bodies?Scio me nihil scire
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Bush rightly called it "voodoo economics"... and then was VP.static111 said:
Trickle down economics, only the greatest contribution to America since we won the freedom to get taxed and fleeced by our wealthy land owning countrymen instead of the crown.gimmesometruth27 said:what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
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some people call this trickle on economics.static111 said:
Trickle down economics, only the greatest contribution to America since we won the freedom to get taxed and fleeced by our wealthy land owning countrymen instead of the crown.gimmesometruth27 said:what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
can someone name one contribution besides dead american bodies?
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gift article...A Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter’s Defeat https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html?unlocked_article_code=sRk_w8rrHdYdaUpLuC5BEED2eMdInXF6oEmbt9nD8gh7wXoD8uoyNk5UUmyjHzwfU2lZc-vDDawKF2P9Gj6StY3F5gsVdJJtZNYZg6Kpv8oEOP4wU4Hlf3v57QWTxh7lvCO6D_UZZAWuac-f1yzUxiDTtRKpn_lqBP-w0VPTZvPWGZ7fZp9hCFCsgS3IAWoqeCVb2jmkiJksoUoEeiOBs0wClM4SLUt6lpir8Pqs7VJskNj251ZgXMNtq83i7pj55iC27iqASXtTpV3YureZNc8xrsFHN4BY69PtV1niikiTsKpLCLX3Pl0x16CtbzJCjQdMucS3Gk2dj2Fcieg3UPiakj0Hjlq8ikHXKrMbP0Q9oT2Qm-FYI0E
Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter’s Defeat
Nearly 43 years later, a prominent Texas politician said he was an unwitting part of a mission to sabotage President Carter’s campaign.
By Peter Baker
- March 18, 2023
WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.
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DeSantis to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all gradesBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRREToday
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don't Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues to focus on cultural issues ahead of his expected presidential run.
The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote next month before the state Board of Education and has been put forward by the state Education Department, both of which are led by appointees of the governor.
The rule change would ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade. The change was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
DeSantis has leaned heavily into cultural divides on his path to an anticipated White House bid, with the Republican aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda that targets what he calls the insertion of inappropriate subjects in schools.
Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the Education Department did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the proposal saying “It’s wrong, it’s completely, utterly wrong.” She called it “part of a disturbing and dangerous trend that we’re seeing across the nation” of targeting LGBTQ people.
Last year's Parental Rights in Education Act drew widespread backlash nationally, with critics saying it marginalizes LGBTQ people and their presence in society. President Joe Biden called it “hateful.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly said the measure is reasonable and that parents, not teachers, should be broaching subjects of sexual orientation and gender identity with their children.
Critics of the law say its language — “classroom instruction,” “age appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate” — is overly broad and subject to interpretation. Consequently, teachers might opt to avoid the subjects entirely for fear of being sued, they say.
The law also kicked off a feud between the state and Disney, one of the state's largest employers and political donors, after the entertainment giant publicly opposed the law and said it was pausing political donations in the state.
At the governor’s request, the Republican-dominated Legislature voted to dissolve a self-governing district controlled by Walt Disney World over its properties in Florida, and eventually gave DeSantis control of the board. The move was widely seen as a punishment for the company opposing the law. The board oversees municipal services in Disney’s theme park properties and was instrumental in the company’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s.
Disney later this year will host a large conference on LGBTQ workplace representation with the group Out & Equal, continuing a longstanding relationship with the organization.
DeSantis has faced calls from at least one Republican presidential contender to go even further than the existing law, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley last month saying the prohibition could be more stringent and extended into later grades.
The proposed rule change this year also signals the governor's willingness to bypass even the compliant state legislature and instead leverage state boards in order to accomplish his high-profile political goals. Late last year, at DeSantis' urging, state medical boards voted to ban children from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria.
“Everything he does is about what can further his own career ambitions,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida. “And it's clear he see the anti-LGBTQ movement as his vehicle to get him where he wants to go.”
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Associated Press reporter Aamer Madhani contributed from Washington.
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DeSantis wants ‘media accountability.’ A new bill makes suing journalists easier.
The Florida governor’s antipathy toward media has been a key part of his brand during a rise in GOP politics. Free speech advocates fear a new libel bill goes too far in codifying that attitude.
Ron DeSantis sat in an anchorman’s chair, peering at a camera as phrases such as “SPEAK TRUTH” flashed on a screen behind him.
Presiding over a setup that resembled a cable-news panel show, the governor of Florida teed up provocative video clips and welcomed guests into his mock studio for what his office called a “roundtable discussion” that was streamed on social media last month. Topic: “Legacy media defamation practices.” Guests: Plaintiffs and lawyers who had sued major media companies, including Fox News and The Washington Post.
“These companies are probably the leading purveyors of disinformation in our entire society,” DeSantis said. “There needs to be an ability for people to defend themselves.”
The governor, who is expected to challenge Donald Trump and a growing field for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, has made open antipathy toward “corporate media” a key part of his brand in his rapid ascent in conservative politics. He shuns talks with mainstream news outlets in favor of exclusive interviews with conservative platforms. His office keeps a growing catalogue of what it considers media hoaxes. And his press aides mock journalists by sharing their emails on social media.
Now, a new bill moving through the Florida Capitol appears to codify DeSantis’s combative stance toward media — and his portrayal of journalists as partisan players who lack accountability — by making it far easier to sue news organizations for defamation and win.
DeSantis has framed the push to rethink defamation law as wanting to “stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates.”
Under current case law, private citizens actually face a much lower legal threshold than prominent people when it comes to suing for defamation.
While Republican state lawmakers quickly took up his cause, publishers and free-speech advocates, including some from conservative media, warn that the bill would dramatically change how journalists do their jobs.
Bobby Block of the First Amendment Foundation called it “a death knell for American traditions of free speech.” James Schwartzel, the owner of 92.5 FOX News, a talk-radio station that carries Sean Hannity and other conservative personalities, said the bill would be“the death of conservative talk throughout the state of Florida.”
“The devastation will be severe and swift,” he wrote to lawmakers. “Republicans will lose one of their most prominent platforms to reach their base forever.”
Opponents of the bill say a provision that presumes reporting cited to anonymous sources is false could make it harder for journalists to investigate corruption and sensitive topics. They also warn that it could turn Florida into a destination for filing defamation lawsuits — and that ordinary citizens, not just media professionals, could face more lawsuits.
The bill’s author has dismissed concerns as overblown. In an interview with The Post, state Rep. Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola) argued that truthful reporting and even name-calling and satire would still be protected. But under current law, “it’s nearly impossible to bring a defamation claim,” he said — a situation he wants to change.
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Bernie was right but his approach was wrong. And senator whitehouse is right on. Unfortunately, it’s way too late. Hunter’s laptop and all.mickeyrat said:
We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the last hundred years. In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. Today, 45% of all new income goes to the top 1%, and CEOs of large corporations make a record-breaking 350 times what their workers earn.
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Leonard Leo Wants to Use His Dark Money to Remake American Culture
Alongside Peter Thiel and a whole rogue's gallery of the conservative right, their plan is to destroy the left.
By Charles P. PiercePublished: Mar 16, 2023
ImagesRemember back in the good old days when Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the electric television set and told us that she and her husband's administration were the targets of a "vast, rightwing conspiracy," and everybody thought that was hilariously funny, if not deeply paranoid? And we all had a good laugh?
Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowAs the years have gone by, and as a misbegotten Supreme Court decision has turned the brackish tide of corporate money in our politics from a steady stream into a biblical flood, HRC now appears to have low-balled the whole thing.
The good people at ProPublica have given us a thorough examination of the latest iteration of what she was talking about—another project from the laboratory of dark money sorcerer Leonard Leo, this one called Teneo. ProPublica describes an attempt by Leo and his henchpeople (who include, this time, Peter Thiel) to do to the general culture of the United States what they've managed to do to the federal judiciary.
Now, Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country was plagued by “woke-ism” in corporations and education, “one-sided journalism” and “entertainment that’s really corrupting our youth,” said Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American flags. Sitting tucked into a couch, with wire-rimmed glasses and hair gone to gray, Leo conveyed his inspiration and intentions: “I just said to myself, ‘Well, if this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?’” Leo revealed his latest battle plan in the previously unreported video for the Teneo Network, a little-known group he called “a tremendously important resource for the future of our country.
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