Crooked Media - What A Day: Beg, borrow, or Thiel

Thursday, April 21, 2022
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

 -Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, whose defense against groping allegations somehow gets worse from there

After days of thumb-twiddling, the Biden administration has taken decisive action to address a major legal threat to one of the federal government’s most powerful pandemic-mitigation authorities: injecting bleach requiring masks in government-regulated public spaces.  
 

Fortunately (???) a more general ambivalence seems to have grabbed hold of the party, just in time for the midterms.

  • Despite messaging from the White House and top party leaders about the vital importance of voting rights and the dangers of election subversion, Democrats seem to have largely ceded the democracy space to Republicans spewing the Big Lie and inverting the truth. 
     
  • The GOP’s disturbingly-successful anti-voting rights offensive is all the more maddening, of course, because the Republican Party is so clearly bent on destruction of democracy. An explosive new report  alleges that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy planned to tell Trump to resign after the events, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell privately stated that Trump should be impeached. But they of course went crawling back, knowing just how existential Trump’s threat to democracy is. 
Despite reams of evidence of their plot to overturn the 2020 election, Republicans are still somehow claiming the high ground on “election security” with the voting public, because Democrats have mostly abandoned the field, just as they ceded pandemic-mitigation to the GOP. Let’s hope the January 6 committee's public hearings provide the party the kick in the butt it needs to get back in the game.

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It turns out JD Vance is just one cog in Peter Thiel’s vast disinformation apparatus. A new Vanity Fair exposé reports that Thiel has also given money to a small army of podcasters, influencers, and bloggers, many of whom have positioned themselves as online “leftists” or even self-described “Marxists.” Regardless of where any particular influencer falls on the political spectrum, the methodology is always the same: Thiel’s conservative Republican (often sneeringly white-nationalist) ideas are funneled through figures purporting themselves to be “post-partisan” populists, to a breathtakingly wide collective audience. Just imagine the worst people on the internet from every ideological extreme banding together as paid-but-undisclosed foot soldiers in the far-right infowars and you basically get the idea.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the city of Mariupol while also ordering his troops not to risk more casualties by storming the giant steel plant where some 2,000 Ukrainian holdouts in the city have created a fortress, calling instead for a full blockade of the facility. But he could scarcely create more carnage: Newly-released satellite images show more than 200 fresh mass graves where Ukrainian officials say Russians have been burying Mariupol residents killed in the violence, triggering an almost-immediate response from the United States. 

We can only hope that Putin is somewhere cursing the sea and crying, “Not my boats!”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will visit two recently-unionized Starbucks and Amazon locations this weekend to congratulate workers, take selfies, and presumably compare what everyone’s favorite soups are.

The Human Rights Campaign announced it has erected billboards condemning Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law in Tampa, Tallahassee, and the Orlando area, with plans for more across Southern Florida.

A new study from Cambridge University of over 12,000 cancer patients, the largest of its kind, uncovered 58 new genome patterns that researchers believe will lead to improved prevention and treatments.

Today is Queen Elizabeth’s 96th Birthday. That’s kind of fun, right? Okay I’m sorry everybody I know it’s not fun. But 96 *is* certainly a lot of years, so congrats, Liz!

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