Author: clearandpresentdanger

The high profile case of Ashli Babbitt, whose death on Jan. 6 became a rallying point for conservatives, has since lost the limelight and her wrongful death lawsuit is still up in the air.

A new report by local news outlet ABC8 San Diego detailed a battle that has erupted over money that was intended to be used to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

The lawsuit was supposed to be funded by an online crowdfunding campaign that raised nearly a half million dollars, $462,735 to be exact. The goal was $500,000.

Gerhardt Fox spearheaded the fundraising campaign. But a disagreement between Fox and one of the other campaign organizers led to a separation, which has led to the case stalling.

According to Fox, other organizers were seeing the opportunity as a money grab and didn’t have Babbitt’s memory as their top priority.

It has been exactly a year since the law firm behind the successful crowdfunding campaign withdrew itself from the case, according to state court records. The law firm is Roberts and Wood.

The prior communication between the law firm and Babbitt’s widower has been publicly documented.

Two months after Roberts and Wood withdrew their firm from the case, firm owner Terry Roberts wrote a letter to her widower, Aaron Babbitt, stating, “if you have not retained a lawyer by May 30, 2022, I will take for granted that a lawsuit is not going to (be) filed, and I will refund the crowd-funding money back to the donors.”

Aaron Babbitt then hired a new attorney and filed a petition to transfer the money to Ashli Babbitt’s estate in May 2022. However, in June 2022, a probate judge denied the petition, leaving the half million dollars in a state of uncertainty.

Babbitt was shot after being on the scene of the Jan. 6 insurrection as she broke through a window, in the US Capitol in an attempt to attack members of Congress.

President Jimmy Carter created more jobs per year than Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush combined. 

James O’Keefe — all-around piece of shit and lying dirtbag — was fired from “Project Veritas” (which should be named “Project Bullshit”).

On Monday, right-wing dirtbag James O’Keefe announced he was resigning from his position leading Project Veritas. This move comes after weeks of obvious internal power struggles going on between staff, O’Keefe, and the board members of the nonprofit outlet he helped found. Project Veritas Executive Director Daniel Strack reportedly told people within the company that O’Keefe had issued an “ultimatum demanding that the board of directors resign for him to stay.”

No problem — he’ll land a spot on Faux or OANN or Newsmax — there is always a place for a lying piece of shit in the rightwing propaganda machine.

While THE ONLY President of the US showed us what courage really is, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) explicitly called for dividing the nation. She tweeted: “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this.”  Interesting that elite southern enslavers in the 1850s made this same argument because they resented the majority rule that threatened their ability to impose their will on their Black neighbors.

Former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) helpfully reviewed “some of the governing principles of America” for Greene, tweeting: “Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.”

What Greene had to say next is of more interest in this moment. The Munich Security Conference, the world’s largest gathering for international security discussions, has just reported that the Russian war on Ukraine is a war of authoritarianism on a rules-based international order. At that conference, Vice President Kamala Harris said the U.S. had determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity and noted that the bipartisan U.S. delegation to the conference was the largest we have ever sent. The U.S. president has just entered a war zone to declare U.S. support for democracy and is now in Poland, where he will speak with the leaders of the nine countries that make up NATO’s eastern flank and will deliver a speech that Blinken has described as “very significant.”

In contrast, Greene echoed authoritarian leaders Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Putin himself when she called for splitting the nation over “the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats” and “the Democrat’s [sic] traitorous America Last policies.” Authoritarian leaders insist that the equality that underpins liberal democracy threatens traditional society because it means that LGBTQ people, women, and minorities should have the same rights as white men. Greene is taking the same position. 

Meanwhile, Fox News Channel personalities, including Tucker Carlson, are trying to spin Biden’s visit to Ukraine as proof that he doesn’t care about the train derailment in Ohio. Scholar of disinformation behavior Caroline Orr Bueno noted: “There’s a narrative being planted here; watch how support for Ukraine is framed as incompatible with US national interests.” She notes that a similar narrative in Canada argues that support for Ukraine hurts Canadian veterans.

A filing in Dominion Voter Systems’ lawsuit against FNC for defamation revealed last week that FNC personalities knowingly lied to their viewers about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, acting as a propaganda outlet for Trump. This information is a handy backdrop for the news reported today by Mike Allen of Axios, who says that House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has given to FNC host Carlson—who figured prominently in the election fraud lies—exclusive access to 41,000 hours of footage from the U.S. Capitol of the January 6, 2021, attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. According to Allen, Carlson’s producers have already begun going through it to see what they can use on his show.

Putin is scheduled to address the Russian Federal Assembly tomorrow. Billboards in Russia proclaim: “Russia’s border ends nowhere,” but observers believe that he was hoping for a major victory on a battlefield in Ukraine before the speech. Instead, Russian forces have taken severe losses in their recent stalled offensive in eastern Ukraine near Bakhmut.

Biden’s speech in Poland will follow later in the day.

They don’t want their grandchildren to know that grandma was shouting curses and spitting at a teenaged girl trying to go to school.

They don’t want their kids to learn why US marshals had to escort this 6-yr-old to school.

Notice this is THE President of the USofA . . . not the old blubbering fool living in a motel on a golf course in Florida.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, called on Saturday for President Joe Biden to be impeached over sending aid to Ukraine.

The GOP lawmaker retweeted a video clip from April 2022 of Biden vowing to support Ukrainian citizens amid the Eastern European country’s ongoing war with Russia.

“Joe Biden will be impeached. Ukraine is NOT the 51st state!!! We are in over $34 TRILLION in debt, borders invaded daily by the thousands, and Americans have been poisoned in East Palestine. ENOUGH!!! IMPEACH BIDEN!!!” Greene wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

No details were provided on whether or not Greene has a proposal in place or is considering a plan that would lead to impeaching the president.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The elementary rule of logic: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. The existence of “god” is everyday asserted without evidence, only with “faith”.  Thus, if it can be asserted without evidence, the claim of “god’s” existence can be dismissed without evidence.