Octopus Overlords

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:49 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:10 pm (with help from China, Iran, Antifa, and the Caravan).

Chiran and Caratifa. Soon to be Chifa.

Wait, can't forget COVID. Covivififa.

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:10 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:55 am Well he has gone further and ordered an investigation into the Mayor of Seattle for allowing the CHAZ thing to happen. The DOJ is a full-on Trumpist organization right now. Though to be somewhat fair to the good people resisting this absolute corruption, I'm pleasantly surprised that Durham apparently is currently resisting pressure to release the 'Russia investigation' investigation report.

Barr will have it out one way or another, and it will prove that Biden was behind a scheme to undermine Donald Trump from the beginning (with help from China, Iran, Antifa, and the Caravan).

coopasonic wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:02 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:49 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:10 pm (with help from China, Iran, Antifa, and the Caravan).

Chiran and Caratifa. Soon to be Chifa.

Wait, can't forget COVID. Covivififa.

How about just covfefe?

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:49 pm Covivififa.

Michael Caputo — the top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services who recently took medical leave following controversial social media posts — has been diagnosed with metastatic head and neck cancer, according to a new report by the Buffalo News.
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Caputo, who was appointed assistant secretary of public affairs in April, has seen his short tenure marked with a litany of controversies. In April and May, CNN unearthed a series of since-deleted tweets in which Caputo made racist comments about Chinese people and directed sexist comments toward women.

The controversy intensified in September when Politico detailed how Caputo, an ally of disgraced campaign advisor Roger Stone, allegedly worked to interfere with CDC findings on COVID-19.

Just last week, Caputo announced he would be taking a 60-day medical leave, days after posting a bizarre video on social media in which he claimed government scientists were practicing "sedition" and warned of an armed revolt.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:14 pm Emily Miller out as FDA spokesperson.

"Effective immediately, Emily Miller will no longer serve the FDA as the assistant commissioner for media affairs and will no longer be the official spokesperson for the Agency," Hahn wrote in an email to senior leaders that was shared with POLITICO. "I will appoint someone to an acting role in that position in the interim."
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Colleagues said that Miller, with no prior medical or science experience, was a bad fit inside an agency rushing to fight a pandemic. "There was an inability to do anything inside the agency," said one health official. "She couldn't even pronounce convalescent plasma."

No medical experience? No Agency experience? She must have had some sort of redeeming qualities, no?

Spoiler:

Fucking pathetic. And people still argue that we're not compromised top to bottom..

Back in August, the Food and Drug Administration ousted Emily Miller from her role as the agency’s top spokesperson. Miller, a right-wing activist and former One America News reporter, was installed in the FDA by the White House and given the role of assistant commissioner for media affairs, a role typically held by nonpartisan civil servants. She held the post for a mere 11 days and was fired amid intense controversy after several high-profile agency missteps.

But now it appears that Miller never left the FDA. She’s still at the regulatory agency and has since been given a new—perhaps more prestigious—title. And as before, she is causing problems for the agency.

Miller is now the senior advisor to the chief of staff at the FDA. As an FDA employee, she has publicly promoted an unapproved drug as being “like a cure” for COVID-19 on Twitter. Her tweets support unproven and potentially dangerous statements from President Trump and may violate FDA regulations. The drug she promoted is currently being reviewed by the FDA for emergency use, raising concerns about the agency’s impartiality.

Though Miller’s Twitter account has been altered in recent days to remove her title at the FDA and any connection to the agency, she is still listed on the FDA’s website. The website does not list her new or old title, however.

Elliott Broidy, a former top political fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, plans to plead guilty to participating in an illegal foreign lobbying scheme and cooperate with investigators in the matter, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Broidy was charged on Oct. 8 with illegally lobbying the Trump administration to stop investigating the embezzlement scandal at the 1MDB Malaysian state investment fund. Jho Low, a Malaysian fugitive who was charged as the mastermind of the 1MDB fraud, initially paid Broidy $6 million to lobby the U.S. Justice Department to stop its investigation and promised an additional $75 million if the lobbying succeeded, prosecutors said.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:22 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:14 pm Emily Miller out as FDA spokesperson.

"Effective immediately, Emily Miller will no longer serve the FDA as the assistant commissioner for media affairs and will no longer be the official spokesperson for the Agency," Hahn wrote in an email to senior leaders that was shared with POLITICO. "I will appoint someone to an acting role in that position in the interim."
....
Colleagues said that Miller, with no prior medical or science experience, was a bad fit inside an agency rushing to fight a pandemic. "There was an inability to do anything inside the agency," said one health official. "She couldn't even pronounce convalescent plasma."

No medical experience? No Agency experience? She must have had some sort of redeeming qualities, no?

Spoiler:

Fucking pathetic. And people still argue that we're not compromised top to bottom..

ars technica

Back in August, the Food and Drug Administration ousted Emily Miller from her role as the agency’s top spokesperson. Miller, a right-wing activist and former One America News reporter, was installed in the FDA by the White House and given the role of assistant commissioner for media affairs, a role typically held by nonpartisan civil servants. She held the post for a mere 11 days and was fired amid intense controversy after several high-profile agency missteps.

But now it appears that Miller never left the FDA. She’s still at the regulatory agency and has since been given a new—perhaps more prestigious—title. And as before, she is causing problems for the agency.

Miller is now the senior advisor to the chief of staff at the FDA. As an FDA employee, she has publicly promoted an unapproved drug as being “like a cure” for COVID-19 on Twitter. Her tweets support unproven and potentially dangerous statements from President Trump and may violate FDA regulations. The drug she promoted is currently being reviewed by the FDA for emergency use, raising concerns about the agency’s impartiality.

Though Miller’s Twitter account has been altered in recent days to remove her title at the FDA and any connection to the agency, she is still listed on the FDA’s website. The website does not list her new or old title, however.

Months after vowing to process a backlog of 160,000 requests for loan forgiveness from students who say they were defrauded by their schools, the U.S. Education Department has rejected 94% of claims it has reviewed, according to a federal judge who is demanding justification for the “blistering pace” of denials.

In a biting decision issued Monday in California, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the department has been denying claims using template letters that are “alarmingly curt." Alsup threatened to suspend the agency from rejecting further requests, saying its approach “hangs borrowers out to dry.”
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In a proposed settlement in April, the Education Department agreed to process the backlog of claims within 18 months. But Alsup scrapped the deal Monday, saying it was undermined by the recent spate of rejections. Instead, he called on the lawsuit to proceed and he authorized the deposition of up to five department officials to explain the denials.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:36 pm Hard to believe the election is just one half-Scaramucci from completion.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:12 pm Now I need an explainer for what it means to accept a pardon for everything Flynn was charged with.

Just like a Biden inauguration would be seen as a major blow to QAnon’s belief system, the reason so many QAnon believers don’t want to see Flynn pardoned is that it would undermine their belief that Trump is in control and about to expose the deep state plot.

But, based on the way the community has tended to react to incidents that have gone against Q’s predictions, if Trump does pardon Flynn, followers will quickly change the narrative to claim this move was part of the plan all along.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:31 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:12 pm Now I need an explainer for what it means to accept a pardon for everything Flynn was charged with.

I have no idea, but QAnon isn't happy about. That means...something.

Just like a Biden inauguration would be seen as a major blow to QAnon’s belief system, the reason so many QAnon believers don’t want to see Flynn pardoned is that it would undermine their belief that Trump is in control and about to expose the deep state plot.

But, based on the way the community has tended to react to incidents that have gone against Q’s predictions, if Trump does pardon Flynn, followers will quickly change the narrative to claim this move was part of the plan all along.

gilraen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:47 pm Elaine Chao (Secy of Transportation) just resigned.

Kraken wrote:Word on my radio is that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is going to be Secretary of Labor. Walsh has solid union bona fides.

With Moscow Mitch out of the way, can we assume that Biden will get the cabinet he wants?

El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:58 pm

gilraen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:47 pm Elaine Chao (Secy of Transportation) just resigned.

Note that per her letter she will remain in office through Monday, which is potentially relevant if the 25th winds up getting invoked.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:59 pm Word on my radio is that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is going to be Secretary of Labor. Walsh has solid union bona fides.

With Moscow Mitch out of the way, can we assume that Biden will get the cabinet he wants?

$iljanus wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:10 pm

Kraken wrote:Word on my radio is that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is going to be Secretary of Labor. Walsh has solid union bona fides.

With Moscow Mitch out of the way, can we assume that Biden will get the cabinet he wants?

I heard this and now I'm wondering who's going to go for the Throne of Boston.

Edit: oooh I'm excited by the possibilities

https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/01/07/ki ... ston-mayor

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:52 pm [trow][/trow]

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:59 pm Word on my radio is that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is going to be Secretary of Labor. Walsh has solid union bona fides.

With Moscow Mitch out of the way, can we assume that Biden will get the cabinet he wants?

This is the not the thread you were looking for.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:20 pm Biden...trump...who can tell them apart?

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:27 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:20 pm Biden...trump...who can tell them apart?

Speaking of which, anyone heard from Drazzil lately?

NEWS: Betsy DeVos has resigned, writing in a letter to the president: "There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me."

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:31 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:27 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:20 pm Biden...trump...who can tell them apart?

Speaking of which, anyone heard from Drazzil lately?

Has anyone seen him and Via Getty together?