Steve Thomas

A sign of our times. [Southwest Airlines] chief executive officer Bob Jordan saw his annual compensation package increase to $9.1 million in 2022. "Meanwhile, thousands of Southwest customers have been stranded in airports around the country in recent days, with little knowledge of where their luggage is or when they will be able to reach their destination." Steve Thomas

And he wouldn't need a passport to go to Cancun. Steve Thomas

I feel sorry for the Russians. Russians don't have very good balance. They're always falling out of upper story windows. Steve Thomas

George Santos’ victory tells a sad story about the state of local news https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/george-santos-win-highlights-sad-state-local-news-rcna62849 “When Santos unsuccessfully ran for the same seat in 2020, he reported having “no assets or earned income.” For his 2022 campaign, the newspaper notes, Santos reported assets worth between $2.6 and $11 million and reported loaning that campaign $700,000. How did Santos go from nothing to millionaire status in two short years? There is no clear answer but we need one given that with this newfound wealth Santos largely funded his 2022 campaign.” “According to The New York Times, after he lost the 2020 election, Santos worked in various financial ventures including one sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for being a Ponzi scheme. (Santos was not personally named in that lawsuit.) Per his congressional disclosure filing, he then created a company called The Devolder Organization that paid him a salary of $750,000. But according to the Times, that company had no assets and was thereafter dissolved for failing to file an annual corporate report. There must be an investigation to determine the source of the funds Santos loaned his campaign to ensure it was not an attempt to circumvent federal election laws, including laws that prohibit straw donors.” This guy's been bought and paid for. The new Congress should refuse to seat him. Steve Thomas

Fourth Utility Station Vandalized In Washington State https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fourth-power-outage-vandalism_n_63aa214fe4b0d6724fb7e2bd "TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A fourth electrical substation was vandalized late on Christmas Day in Washington state, leaving homes in Kapowsin and Graham temporarily without power, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office." Authorities are still calling it vandalism instead of the terrorism that it is. America is being attacked, in no less a fashion than when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Steve Thomas

Christmas. Peace on Earth. Goodwill Towards Men. National Rifle Association https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1607003402709471235?ref_src=twsrc^tfw "Merry Christmas from the NRA — America’s longest-standing civil rights organization. We hope Santa brought you all the guns and ammo." Steve Thomas

https://www.thedailybeast.com/washington-state-power-stations-attacked-leaving-14000-in-the-dark?ref=home "Thousands of residents in the Tacoma, Washington area lost ectricity Christmas morning as local officials reported that three power substations in the area were “attacked” by unknown suspects. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said in a press bulletin that responding officers found signs of forced entry at all three locations, along with vandalized equipment that had caused the outages which affected more than 14,000 people. While authorities said they haven’t taken anyone into custody and are still unclear about motives or possible coordination, the sabotage comes amid a surge in threats to power grids nationwide—with the number of recent events in Washington and Oregon—a hotbed of organized domestic extremism— now standing at eight. In January, The Daily Beast first reported a Department of Homeland Security memo warning that domestic extremists have harbored “credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020,” and in late November the agency released another bulletin saying those threats remained heightened. Days later, unknown actors shot up two power stations in Moore County, North Carolina, knocking out power to more than 40,000 homes in what federal and local officials are calling an “intentional” and “criminal” event." Read it at ABC News Steve Thomas

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-trading-cards-have-lost-this-much-value-one-week-1769495 "Donald Trump's digital trading cards have lost 72 percent of their value in the last week after prices initially soared online, according to figures from the OpenSea website which tracks the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)." Well, that didn't take long. Steve Thomas

Kari Lake Loses Suit Over Her Defeat In Arizona Governor’s Race By Jaques Billeaud Dec 24, 2022, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kari-lake-loses-suit-over-her-defeat-in-arizona-governors-race_n_63a748cae4b0cbfd55dc2a37 PHOENIX (AP) — "A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct. In a decision Saturday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, who was appointed by then-Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, found that the court did not find clear and convincing evidence of the widespread misconduct that Lake had alleged had affected the result of the 2022 general election." The last of the election deniers. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Steve Thomas

Here is the real reason Trump will go down in flames in 2024 by Sophia A. McClennen, Salon December 23, 2022 https://www.rawstory.com/here-is-the-real-reason-trump-will-go-down-in-flames-in-2024/ “Trump isn't just a loser, which is bad enough. He's a boring loser, which is why his political career resembles a third-season Netflix series heading for cancellation.” Steve Thomas

Page 268 of the final report documents how Trump White House official Vince Haley sent a message to Trump White House enforcer Johnny McEntee arguing that no fraud was necessary for Republican-led state legislatures to overturn the will of their states' voters. Rather, Haley proposed, they could simply object to certifying the election results if it prevented "socialism" from overtaking the American republic. Specifically, Haley told McEntee that "“[w]e should baldly assert” that GOP legislatures “have the constitutional right to substitute their judgment for a certified majority of their constituents” if they believe it would block the threat of socialism. McEntee, for his part, was enthusiastic about the idea. "Yes!” he replied. “Let’s find the contact info for all these people now." Steve Thomas

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-motion-to-set-aside-sandy-hook-verdict-denied_n_63a6080ae4b0d6f0b9ed7326 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — "A Connecticut judge on Thursday denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ motion seeking a new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The ruling found the motion was not supported “by any evidence or case law.” In October the jury decided that he must pay victims’ families $965 million in compensatory damages, and a judge later added on another $473 million in punitive damages." Yay! Steve Thomas

W., It's been 0 degrees all day in So. IN with 20mph winds. The wind chill is -22 F. Overnight, it's supposed to warm up to 5 degrees. Yay! Steve Thomas

"Tune in for the next couple of hours and watch me get crankier and crankier." "The good news is that I can still feel my face. The bad news is that I still can." From Waterloo, IA. https://twitter.com/MarkWoodleyTV/status/1605961457337712640 Steve Thomas

J6 report reveals Trump privately admitted defeat but kept pushing to overturn election: 'I don't want people to know we lost' by Travis Gettys 12/22/22 https://www.rawstory.com/cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-transcript/ https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20220915_Cassidy%20J.%20Hutchinson%20REDACTED2_Redacted2_1.pdf "I don't want people to know we lost, Mark, [Meadows]" Trump said, according to Hutchinson. "This is embarrassing. Figure it out. We need to figure it out. I don't want people to know we lost." When I think of the hell this man put the Country through over the last two years. Exile's not good enough for him. Steve Thomas

I wonder what the 1960's John Birch Society and the Minutemen would have to say about the 2020's right wing standing with the Communists in Russia? Revilo Oliver must be rolling over in his grave. Steve Thomas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/dec/22/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskiy-tells-us-congress-aid-is-not-charity-biden-announces-185bn-package-including-patriot-air-defence-missiles Russia’s only aircraft carrier catches fire “A fire broke out on Russia’s only aircraft carrier earlier today, Russian state media reported. The Admiral Kuznetsov, a flagship of the Russian navy, suffered a “minor” fire while docked at the Zvyozdochka shipyard in the Arctic port of Murmansk, located in the far north-west of Russia, according to reports by the Russian state-owned Tass and Ria Novosti news agencies.” “Aleksey Rakhmanov, head of the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) which is overseeing a refit of the carrier, was cited as saying the blaze was quickly extinguished and caused no casualties. Tass cited an emergency service source as saying 20 people had been evacuated. The Admiral Kuznetsov has been out of service and in dry dock for repairs since 2018. Rakhmanov told Russian media in June that he expected the 43,000-tonne, 1,000ft warship to return to service in early 2024.” "Only aircraft carrier"? "Minor fire, but 20 people had to be evacuated"? "Been in dry dock since 2018"? Hmmmm... Steve Thomas

This is a different Joe Campisi. The subject of the HSCA file was born April 13, 1911 in Brooklyn, NY. Joe Campisi of Dallas was born October 11, 1917 in Texas. (From Find a Grave) Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump 12/19/2020 12:42 AM “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Two years to the day. "______, thy name is ______" Steve Thomas

Jean Paul, That's my favorite song of all time. When the men on the chessboard... Steve Thomas

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-replacing-trump-qanon-celebrity-du-jour-twitter-rcna61802 "When Elon Musk sent a cryptic tweet to his 120 million followers telling them to “Follow 🐰,” it was immediately celebrated by QAnon followers as a sign that Musk is an Anon, a member of the conspiracy community. The flurry of momentum was one more indication that Americans’ conspiracy fever hasn’t broken — it’s just being stoked by a new QA “Follow the white rabbit” is an allusion used by QAnon members to both “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Matrix,” and evokes a fantasy awakening to a world that lies beyond our own. It is a phrase regularly used by QAnon followers and “Q,” their mysterious leader. In the context of Twitter’s reinstatement of previously-banned QAnon accounts, Musk’s white rabbit tweet has breathed fresh life into a QAnon movement looking for a new messiah in a post-Trump moment." I hadn't heard about the White Rabbit before. God, I hope this isn't The Inevitable End Result of Our Last 56 Years. Steve Thomas

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11552215/Trump-accused-using-copyrighted-images-NFT-collection.html "Former President Donald Trump's recently unleashed line of NFT 'digital trading cards' could potentially land him in legal hot water Trump launched the line earlier this week and while the images were mocked in parts of the left and right, they did sell out of the first 4,500 put up for sale However, members of the media and Twitter users have pointed out that some of them appear to be based on unlicensed, copyrighted photos In fact, many of the designs - including a spacesuit and a cowboy getup - were seen previously on websites for clothing and even stock photos." Poor Donald. He can't even manage grift right. Steve Thomas

Twitter today (12/18/22) announced it would "no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms" on the site, specifying "Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post." in recent days users trying to post links to Mastodon reported that they were falsely flagged as "potentially harmful" or as "malware." Ah yes, isn't free speech wonderful? I wouldn't join Twitter on a bet. Steve Thomas

Donald Trump issues threat and call to action: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109529028482982758 "Our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer. The Crooked FBI, the so-called Department of “Justice,” and “Intelligence,” all parts of the Democrat Party and System, is the Cancer. These Weaponized Thugs and Tyrants must be dealt with, or our once great and beautiful Country will die!!!" The Thugs and Tyrants must be dealt with. Be There. Will Be Wild! Steve Thomas

"They messed with the wrong bitch." "These evil bastards!" Steve Thomas