all PB
a lot of us got it wrong on this one
i can admit i was not seeing this
from a desk at end of hall
god work anon who showed us all
how it was captured
i love when things make sense
thanks fren
no more wondering wtf it is
i truly thought it was shopped i love proof and facts and there it is
'we love to say no
don't buy this shit
chrissy teigen kardashian jenner
Safely Brand
https://getsafely.com/
We love saying "no"
When it comes to the stuff we use every day in our homes—we don’t compromise. That’s why we always say “no” to: harsh chemicals, artificial stabilizers, and dyes.
and are they not ripping off Johnson and Johnson teardrop logo a bit???
> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/woman-shot-dead-georgia-supermarket-telling-man-wear-face-mask/
video will be leaked soon
not even kidding
search term death mask
i wanted to search for those death mask that are made once dead and holy cow her story is top of search
the cashier getting shot and killed is the first in the search
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=death+mask&iar=news&ia=news
now she can have a forever mask
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=death+mask&iax=images&ia=images
Death mask
A death mask is a likeness of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or be used for creation of portraits. It is sometimes possible to identify portraits that have been painted from death masks because of the characteristic slight distortions of the features caused by the weight of the plaster during the making of the mold.
weird
go look news (she is top)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=death+mask&iar=news&ia=news
then same for images
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=death+mask&iax=images&ia=images
de-briefing vid from police:
https://www.facebook.com/817733288363329/videos/2907743969543523/?so=watchlist&rv=video_home_www_playlist_video_list
https://youtu.be/fqGi5kD8jqg
Georgia supermarket cashier shot to death, deputy wounded in mask dispute: sheriff
by: Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Jun 14, 2021 / 08:03 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 14, 2021 / 08:04 PM CDT
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DECATUR, Ga. (NEXSTAR) – A triple shooting at a Georgia grocery store Monday afternoon started with a dispute over a mask and left a cashier dead and both the suspect and a deputy wounded, authorities say.
The suspect, 30-year-old Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., of Palmetto, Georgia, was checking out when he got into an argument about his mask with a female cashier at Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Tucker walked out without buying anything but immediately returned, pulling out a handgun and allegedly shooting the cashier shortly after 1 p.m. She was rushed to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead.
One of several people in the store at the time of the shooting was a 30-year DeKalb County Police Dept. veteran now working with the sheriff’s office as a reserve deputy, DeKalb County Sheriff Melody Maddox said.
The off-duty deputy, who was providing security for the store at the time, shot the gunman but was hit twice during the exchange of gunfire, according to the GBI. The bulletproof vest he was wearing likely saved his life, Maddox said.
“This is what he is trained to do,” Maddox said. Reserve deputies are certified law enforcement officers who don’t actively work for an agency and can volunteer or work part time security jobs.
The officer, who authorities didn’t publicly identify, is being treated at Atlanta Medical Center and was in stable condition at the Monday afternoon.
“He is a stand-up, professional individual and he loves what he does,” Sheriff Maddox said. “As you see, he’s continuing to do what he does to make sure that everybody is safe as they go in and out of that store.”
Dekalb County police officers arrested Tucker as he tried to crawl out of the grocery store, according to the GBI. Tucker was hit “a couple of times” Maddox said and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition.
A bullet grazed a second cashier who was treated at the scene for her injury, according to the GBI.
The GBI’s investigation was still ongoing Monday evening and will be turned over to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for review once investigators have finished.
Decatur is an Atlanta suburb located about 6 miles east of downtown.
I wonder why CNN and MSNBC have not told us about this Corona MASK event today
https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2021/06/victor-lee-tucker-jr-palmetto-georgia-man-kills-decatur-cashier-face-mask-dispute/
Victor Lee Tucker, Palmetto, Georgia man shoots dead cashier at Decatur Big Bear Supermarket following dispute over face mask. Suspect and off duty deputy injured. Suspect had prior rap sheet.
A dispute over a face mask at a Georgia grocery store led to a store cashier being shot dead along with the suspect and a deputy wounded according to reports.
Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., 30, of Palmetto, Georgia, was checking out Monday just past noon, when he got into an argument over refusing to wear a mask with a female cashier at Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Victor Lee Tucker, Palmetto, Georgia man shoots dead cashier at Decatur Big Bear Supermarket following dispute over face mask. Suspect and off duty deputy injured. Suspect had prior rap sheet.
A dispute over a face mask at a Georgia grocery store led to a store cashier being shot dead along with the suspect and a deputy wounded according to reports.
Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., 30, of Palmetto, Georgia, was checking out Monday just past noon, when he got into an argument over refusing to wear a mask with a female cashier at Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Pictured, Victor Lee Tucker Jr. Palmetto, Georgia man shoots dead cashier at Decatur Big Bear Supermarket following dispute over face mask. Image via DeKalb County, GA police bookings.
Suspect tried to crawl out of store after shoot out
‘This is what he is trained to do,’ Maddox said. Reserve deputies are certified law enforcement officers who don’t actively work for an agency and can volunteer or work part time security jobs.
The officer, who authorities didn’t publicly identify, is being treated at Atlanta Medical Center and was in stable condition at the Monday afternoon according to FOX8.
‘He is a stand-up, professional individual and he loves what he does,’ Sheriff Maddox said. ‘As you see, he’s continuing to do what he does to make sure that everybody is safe as they go in and out of that store.’
Dekalb County police officers arrested Tucker as he tried to crawl out of the grocery store, according to the GBI. Tucker was hit ‘a couple of times’ Maddox said and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition.
A bullet grazed a second cashier who was treated at the scene for her injury, according to the GBI.
A regard outside the Big Bear store stipulated shoppers being required to wear a face mask inside the store 11alive reports.
‘I have a friend who works in this store and I think it was her who got shot and it’s just really sad,’ witness Marquisha White told WSOC-TV. ‘I don’t know what the world is coming to — period.’
Victor Lee Tucker Jr. Palmetto, Georgia man shoots dead cashier at Decatur Big Bear Supermarket (pictured).
Big Bear Store Owner to ban guns in store
The incident led to the owner of Big Bear, who did not give his name telling WSOC-TV that he had hired an off-duty deputy to help enforce the mask policy at the store.
After Monday’s triple shooting, the un-named owner said he was contemplating whether to allow customers to carry any guns inside the store going forward
‘How come they carry all the guns in a public place like that?’ the owner asked, calling the practice ‘bad.’
People who frequent the store say the gunman is well known at Big Bear and they believe he may have some mental health issues.
A regard of Victor Lee Tucker, Jr’s prior rap sheet included the Georgia man having a series of prior arrests including, driving under the influence of drugs. Other previous arrests include family domestic battery, cruelty to children along with wilful obstruction of law enforcement officers.
Monday’s incident was the latest in a slew of ongoing disputes over face masks since the coronavirus made its way in the US last year, with previous altercations also ending up in gun deaths, spitting, assault, urinating and fatal stabbings.
The GBI’s investigation was still ongoing Monday evening and was scheduled to be turned over to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for review once investigators have finished.
Decatur is an Atlanta suburb located about 6 miles east of downtown
Fauci and fake news pushed him to do this
can be his defense
overwhelmed by the tyranny and crazy mask people
and snapped
not even joking a bit
his attorney should push for this and demand $$$ pain and suffering for the black man who felt he was being enslaved allover again just trying to buy some milk
Victor Lee Tucker, Palmetto, Georgia man shoots dead cashier at Decatur Big Bear Supermarket following dispute over face mask.
even though he did kill someone
a jury may be sympathetic
that he snapped over all the mask shit
sue Fauci and fake news for $$$$
their dirty hands
making crazy shooters
over forcing the fake mask shit
many a jury in todays climate would say yes
pay the man as they are making people wound the fuck up
over all the demands to put on a mask to buy shit
>https://twitter.com/matt_holland026/status/1404631236522299392
hot as fuck right now in Metro Phoenix even in a/c house
easy to get mad fast as it is hot as fuck
104 degrees at 9:53 pm
sounds like aporno if you just listen
>>13906744 hey fag feeling guy
did i say there was?
i simply am stating that a jury may be lenient with him considering the current times
whether it be anti masker or blacks that want justice
a good atty will get a mix of both on a jury
and the justy may even see eye to eye black and whites
just sayin
Dear BeBe
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Is Israel involved?
>>613193
We are saving Israel for last.
Very specific reason not mentioned a single time.
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HE lost his election in Israel
I wonder why
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WEATHER systems issue????
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/southwest-airlines-flights-grounded-in-phoenix-nationwide-due-to-weather-system-issue/ar-AAL2VSi
Southwest Airlines flights grounded in Phoenix, nationwide due to weather system issue
Kaila White, Arizona Republic 54 mins ago
Southwest Airlines passengers were stuck for hours at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, as well as airports across the country, due to technical issues on Monday, the airline confirmed.
People began posting on social media on Monday evening that their flights were grounded, with some reporting that they were told it was due to issues with their electronic system to monitor the weather.
Southwest Airlines said in tweets replying to several people on Twitter that they were "experiencing a system error" and "working quickly to get things resolved tonight."
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The airline later said in a statement to The Arizona Republic that "our third-party weather data provider experienced intermittent performance issues earlier this evening preventing transmission of weather information that is required to safely operate our aircraft."
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Southwest spokesperson Dan Landson confirmed the airline implemented a ground stop while working to restore connectivity, that the issues were systemwide across the country, and that flights were beginning to resume by 9 p.m.
Hollywood Burbank Airport in California tweeted around 7:30 p.m. that "Southwest Airlines has suspended all departures from Hollywood Burbank Airport due to network issues." The airport posted flights resumed there by 8:15 p.m.
Denver International Airport tweeted around 8:45 p.m. that "Southwest Airlines is experiencing computer issues which is resulting in flight departure and arrival delays.
People posted that they were also stuck in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Southwest Florida International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport and more.
As for Phoenix Sky Harbor, Air Service Development Manager Alexandria "Lexie" Pierce confirmed at least six Southwest flights were canceled and every flight scheduled after 7 p.m. was delayed.
Passenger Patrick C Miller posted that he was at Phoenix Sky Harbor and a pilot told the crowd the airline's server in Dallas, as well as its backup server, were unavailable. Miller told The Arizona Republic that, after being stuck for hours, he was back in the air before 9 p.m.
"Most of the anxiety was coming from various forms of miscommunication and speculation vs. actual news from the source. I heard everything from total system outage, to hackers to Russians while I was listening to all of the other passengers," Miller said via Twitter DM.
Other airlines were not affected in Phoenix, according to Pierce.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Southwest Airlines flights grounded in Phoenix, nationwide due to weather system issue
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@PatrickCMiller
At #PHX, flight delayed over an hour.
@SouthwestAir
captain says that the weather computer at HQ is down. Curious if this is affecting all flights?
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Just heard that it is affecting all
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Lots of hate being thrown at
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Pilot says that the
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I’m resisting the urge to give the entire plane a lecture on why we have printed weather packets. No, we can’t just have the captain use an app. “What did we do before computers?” Well, we had many more delays.
Be nice to your flight attendants. They don’t control this.
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Required deplaning. Headed back into the PHX airport. Flight attendant are repeating that the flight is not cancelled.
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The scene at C concourse of PHX. Gate agent just said all computers are down. Not sure if that means even the gate agents and customer service reps. I’m in line to ask and find out.
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Just got word that the weather system is back up.
Patrick C Miller
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Reboarding. Stay tuned to see if we actually make it off the ground. Again, everyone please have patience with the
@SouthwestAir
airport/ground staff. They are doing everything they can.
Patrick C Miller
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Actually boarding.
Patrick C Miller
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Officially in the air and en route to PDX from PHX. 2 hours on plane from boarding to deplaning. About an hour more waiting at gate for all-clear and re-boarding. Maybe 15 mins in queue on tarmac before actual takeoff.
Patrick C Miller
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I know others are having a much worse experience than I did. Hope everyone gets somewhere safe. Remember to be kind to each other.
Patrick C Miller
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Reflecting on this now that I am in flight… it was inconvenient and very frustrating. Southwest could have handled it much better with more immediate communication through social media, being transparent about what happened and what to expect…
Dave Marcus - 100% POWERED BY TRENBALONEY SAMMIES
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Replying to
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3, 2, 1 …. Ransomware or Russians?
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Squirrels driving backhoes.
highlights:
due to issues with their electronic system to monitor the weather.
Southwest Airlines said in tweets replying to several people on Twitter that they were "experiencing a system error"
airline later said in a statement to The Arizona Republic that "our third-party weather data provider experienced intermittent performance issues earlier this evening preventing transmission of weather information that is required to safely operate our aircraft."
issues were systemwide across the country
Phoenix Sky Harbor and a pilot told the crowd the airline's server in Dallas, as well as its backup server, were unavailable.
"Most of the anxiety was coming from various forms of miscommunication and speculation vs. actual news from the source. I heard everything from total system outage, to hackers to Russians while I was listening to all of the other passengers,"
cause it is totally normal to have this happen and be held
Investigators Looking Into 'Unauthorized Passenger' On Plane With John Legend, Chrissy Teigen
14,251 views•Dec 27, 2017
https://youtu.be/-bmd44K7Y28
for normies
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reddit+tiegan+and+legend+flight+tunarund&ia=web&iai=r1-0&page=1&sexp=%7B%22biaexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22msvrtexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22mliexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22earlydeep%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22soslexp%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22langexp%22%3A%22a%22%7D
https://chrissyteigen.medium.com/hi-again-3bb3faffa76d
Hi again
chrissy teigen
chrissy teigen
12 hours ago·5 min read
Hi all. It has been a VERY humbling few weeks.
I know I’ve been quiet, and lord knows you don’t want to hear about me, but I want you to know I’ve been sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment, the ultimate “sit here and think about what you’ve done”. Not a day, not a single moment has passed where I haven’t felt the crushing weight of regret for the things I’ve said in the past.
As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced. I’m truly ashamed of them. As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?
I’ve apologized publicly to one person, but there are others — and more than just a few — who I need to say I’m sorry to. I’m in the process of privately reaching out to the people I insulted. It’s like my own version of that show My Name is Earl! I understand that they may not want to speak to me. I don’t think I’d like to speak to me. (The real truth in all of this is how much I actually cannot take confrontation.) But if they do, I am here and I will listen to what they have to say, while apologizing through sobs.
There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets. My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor.
I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.
I want to go a little further here, thinking of those I’ve hurt and friends I’ve disappointed.
When I first started using social media, I had so much fun with it. I made jokes, random observations. Think of all the engineers, working day and night to develop this amazing new platform and technology, connecting people all over the world to learn, create, and find kindred spirits. And I used it to snark at some celebrities.
In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world where I thought I needed to impress strangers to be accepted. If there was a pop culture pile-on, I took to Twitter to try to gain attention and show off what I at the time believed was a crude, clever, harmless quip. I thought it made me cool and relatable if I poked fun at celebrities.
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Now, confronted with some of the things that I said, I cringe to my core. I’ll honestly get sharp, stabbing pains in my body, randomly remembering my asshole past, and I deserve it. Words have consequences and there are real people behind the Twitter handles I went after. I wasn’t just attacking some random avatar, but hurting young women — some who were still girls — who had feelings. How could I not stop and think of that? Why did I think there was some invisible psycho-celebrity formula that prevents anyone with more followers from experiencing pain? How did I not realize my words were cruel? What gave me the right to say these things?
I wasn’t mean in my everyday life. More than once, someone would come up to me and say, “You’re so much nicer in person.” Why was that not a huge red flag? But I took it in and tossed it aside. I did book signings where girls would call me a bad ass bitch, and I’d stretch my arm toward them as they walked away, looking at my friends and saying, “I promise, I’m not!”
At the time, I just didn’t get it. Believe me, I get it now.
I’m telling you this for context, not seeking or deserving any sympathy. There’s no justification for my behavior. I’m not a victim here. The subjects of your sympathy — and mine — should be those I put down.
The truth is, I’m no longer the person who wrote those horrible things. I grew up, got therapy, got married, had kids, got more therapy, experienced loss and pain, got more therapy and experienced more life. AND GOT MORE THERAPY.
Life has made me more empathetic. I’m more understanding of what motivates trolling — the instant gratification that you get from lashing out and clapping back, throwing rocks at someone you think is invincible because they’re famous. Also, I know now how it feels to be on the receiving end of incredible vitriol. Believe me, the irony of this is not lost on me.
John tells me almost every day how much our daughter Luna reminds him of me. Every day, I try to make sure she’s all the best parts of me, all the things I aspire to be all the time, but fail at sometimes. And we preach kindness to her and Miles every chance we get. Will they eventually realize there is some hypocrisy there? I certainly do. But I hope they recognize my evolution. My goal is to be so good that my kids will think this was all a fairy tale. Not the fake good. The good that has the best intentions, the good who wakes up wanting to make her friends, family, her team and fans as happy as possible. The good who will still fuck up in front of the world but rarely, and never not growing only more good from it.
I’m going to keep working to be the best version of myself for EVERYONE. Everyone deserves better — even my detractors. And better is what you can expect from me. The world needs more kindness and love and I want to contribute to it. I’ve been on a path of self-improvement for the past decade and that path is going to continue.
I truly love that social media has connected me to so many of you. We’ve shared so much, I’ve learned so much, I’ve grown so much, and I love what you have meant to me.
I have so much love to give if you are open and willing to accept it. And if not, that’s okay too. That’s something I work on being more okay with every day. I know I let you down, but I hope I can make you proud. It’s been a heavy few weeks, so I’m going to take some more time to focus on things that are most important — being with my family and taking care of myself.
We are all more than our worst moments.
I won’t ask for your forgiveness, only your patience and tolerance. I ask that you allow me, as I promise to allow you, to own past mistakes and be given the opportunity to seek self improvement and change.
Phew. A lot, I know. Thanks for listening.
chrissy teigen
this makes me think of eating human meat
>I’ll honestly get sharp, stabbing pains in my body, randomly remembering my asshole past
reads like globalist and illuminati illuminate talk
begging to be let back into the club
>sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment, the ultimate
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more shit to drop
getting out in front of it???
>I’ve apologized publicly to one person, but there are others — and more than just a few — who I need to say I’m sorry to.
kris jenner probably wrote this apology as a PR piece to save the "Safely" soap line they just launched together and stand to lose millions
Trying to soften the $$$money bleed???
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/10/chrissy-teigens-scandal-puts-pal-kris-jenner-in-crisis-mode-over-partnership/
Chrissy Teigen’s scandal puts pal Kris Jenner in ‘crisis mode’ over partnership
Jenner ‘likes Chrissy’ but agreed it was necessary to cut the supermodel out of marketing Safely, their new cleaning products company, in the wake of her cyberbullying scandal
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/3023894/chrissy-teigen-cut-safely-kris-jenner-sales-tanked-bullying/
Chrissy Teigen 'CUT' from marketing for Safely cleaning brand with Kris Jenner after 'sales dip' amid bullying scandal
The Sun|9 days ago
CHRISSY Teigen has been "CUT" from marketing for her new Safely cleaning brand with Kris Jenner after "sales tanked" amid her bullying scandal, The Sun can reveal. The latest career blow
>kris jenner probably wrote this apology as a PR piece to save the "Safely" soap line they just launched together and stand to lose millions
>Trying to soften the $$$money bleed???
Maybe contacted the likes of Oprah to see what kind of messaging would go over
and viola,
apology PR letter.
Written like a pro.
Gullibles already are saying they are cool with her.
retarded sheep
can Donald Trump receive the same
>We are all more than our worst moments.
>I won’t ask for your forgiveness, only your patience and tolerance. I ask that you allow me, as I promise to allow you, to own past mistakes and be given the opportunity to seek self improvement and change.
>Phew. A lot, I know. Thanks for listening.
chrissy teigen
sometimes i take weeks off from even looking at the board
>Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jake-tapper-on-republicans-need-for-moral-clarity-and-why-election-liars-have-no-place-on-cnn/ar-AAKHNs2
Jake Tapper on Republicans' need for "moral clarity" and why election liars have no place on CNN
Dean Obeidallah 6/4/2021
Tapper, a former Washington correspondent for Salon, explained that the deeper meaning behind the novel's title, "The Devil May Dance," is about the extent to which people dance with the devil in pursuit of power (the GOP's demand of absolute loyalty to Trump comes to mind). The book, while focusing on the 1960s storyline, also raises other contemporary issues, from "catch and kill" deals designed to protect well-known people from bad press — something we all learned about during the time of Trump — to an island where older men go to have sex with younger women (à la Jeffrey Epstein's Little St. James island) and celebrities being able to do whatever they want, in keeping with Trump's proclaimed philosophy: "When you're a star…You can do anything."
Beyond the book, Tapper discussed the politics of today — especially how there needs to be "moral clarity" surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection. Tapper noted that the efforts of some GOP members of Congress to undermine the dangers posed by the Jan. 6 attack is an "affront to the police officers" who were injured defending the Capitol that day.
You can hear my conversation with Tapper about his book, the politics of the day and much more in our "Salon Talks."
The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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"The Devil May Dance," can you tell people about it?
Sure. So the basic premise was inspired by a real story, which is, as people know, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, which was Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Shirley MacLaine and a whole bunch of them. Just imagine your six favorite singer-actors today. If they were all best friends and hung out all the time and made movies together, which doesn't happen.
They worked their hearts out and got JFK elected in a very narrow election in 1960. Then Sinatra expected that President John F. Kennedy would stay with him during some sort of California swing, so he had his estate in Rancho Mirage, which is about two hours outside L.A. and near Palm Springs. He had it built up to add rooms and phone lines and a helipad, and at the same time, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the president's brother, was going after organized crime. He noticed that some of the mobsters he was investigating, mostly Sam Giancana from Chicago, was a very close friend of Sinatra's and had stayed at that same compound.
Robert Kennedy in real life had a tough choice to make. Did he offend one of the biggest stars of the day who had helped his brother get elected or does he let his brother stay at a compound in a bed where literal mobsters had slept? That's the real story, and then the premise of my book is I just had my main characters, Charlie and Margaret, investigate to find out if Sinatra was actually mobbed up or if it was kind of just a gossip.
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The title, "The Devil May Dance," I Googled it and there's no "Devil May Dance." You made it up. You wrote lyrics for the song. Why did you choose to actually create your own song to build the title around, and make this great scene near the end?
It's a great question. There are a couple reasons. First of all, because of intellectual property and copyright laws, you can only quote one line of a song in a book unless you get permission. I learned that in the first book. You try to set little mood scenes and you have a song, but the lawyers swoop in during editing and say, "you can only do one line." And in fact, in this one, they did the same thing and they said, "Tapper, what are you doing? You're killing me. You know you can only do one line and you have an entire Sinatra song in here."
Two, because the theme of the book is, "What happens when you dance with the devil?" What happens when you ally yourself with somebody who is a bad person, has lower standards than you, lower ethics, lower morals? What happens to you? Whether it's JFK with Sinatra or Sinatra with the mob, what effect does it have on you? Look at Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump. What is the effect on Kevin McCarthy like that? You ally yourself with somebody for some reason.
What happens? What does that do to you? That was the theme that I wanted the book to be about. The first book was about what happens to you when you compromise, and how far can you go when you compromise? That was the theme of "The Hellfire Club." This is more about dancing with the devil, and so that's why. I also thought it'd be fun. Now I'm not a musician, so there's no tune. I can't sing it for you, but in any case, that's that. That's the idea behind it, so maybe somebody we'll put it to music.
In the book you have Charlie, who's a congressman, and Margaret, the wife, who's a zoologist. There are some scenes, especially once scene that stands out where Margaret is pushing Frank Sinatra, standing up to him over and over. You made a choice to make Margaret a very strong woman, and it clearly was a choice. Why was that important to you?
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Well, I'm married to a very strong woman. Charlie is a good guy and all that, but Margaret's the stronger of the two. I wanted it to be a married couple cause I'm a happily married man, and I kind of wanted to experiment with that because I've never read a book where there was a married couple as the protagonist together, and it was interesting. It was important to me because I'm a feminist. I come from a family of feminists. My daughter's named after a suffragette. It's important to us, and also, this isn't the reason, but women read books more than men. It's awesome. It's good to have strong women characters to meet the audience where they are.
You mentioned that you were happily married. How much is Charlie part of you?
I mean, that's a moral line for me and it's a moral line for Charlie. I felt like I would lose the audience if I had Charlie cheat on Margaret, to be honest. But by the same token, the way that both of these books have worked — this one more than the previous — is they have an adventure [together] and then they kind of have their own adventures. Now, Charlie hangs out with the Rat Pack and he is tempted. I mean, as I imagine, almost any man would be [tempted] hanging out with the Rat Pack, or any woman, to be honest. Then Margaret is seeing the darker side of Hollywood in her own adventure. I chose to have that as a moment of temptation because I thought it was important to show, and also, Charlie is drinking too much. That's one of the themes of the book. He's a World War II veteran. He has post-traumatic stress, even though that term didn't even exist, and he's self-medicating with liquor. I just thought it was important to show the temptations of that world. Again, he's dancing with the devil.
Is this supposed to be a tale for us? Not just about the Rat Pack, not just about the Kennedys, but about today's politics?
Yeah. It's definitely about today's politics, in addition to the politics back then. I mean, look, we live in 2021, which is remarkably different from even 2015 in terms of our awareness about women and young girls and exploitation. By writing about this era in Hollywood, when Tony Curtis leaves his wife, Janet Leigh for, I think a 16- or 17-year-old co-star, which happened in that year, 1961.
That was just going on all the time in Hollywood, by all of our favorite actors. It's mentioned a lot in the book, [what happens to] young women, which becomes a metaphor, kind of, for just women and the way women are treated in Hollywood — and hopefully in an entertaining and sinister way, and not in a preachy way. I tried to talk about how Hollywood and society in general treats women, by using the motifs and the facts of what was going on in reality, and then also obviously a lot of invented stuff, too, on Tom Sawyer Island.
I want to also get your reaction to some things that are actually in the news. We just learned the Trump administration sought phone records and email records of your colleague, Barbara Starr, a CNN correspondent at the Pentagon. How concerning is this?
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Yeah, I was critical of it when Obama did it in terms of subpoenaing records from the Associated Press, and it's alarming still. I don't even know. I think it was a Barbara Starr story about North Korea, but the degree to which our government feels like they can subpoena the records of journalists in order to find out who their sources are is terrifying and chilling. Whether it's Trump or Obama, it is unacceptable.
I think my boss Jeff Zucker has asked the Justice Department to give them an explanation as to what happened and why. We're told that it wasn't the content of her conversations or emails, but just the metadata. Who called her, who she called, who emailed her, whom she emailed, etc. It's shocking. It also tells how incompetent the government is at keeping track of who has secrets in their government.
If they want to subpoena the records of their own employees to figure out who's talking to the press, I don't like it, but that's their own employees. Those are the people who have the top secret classified information and status and all that, but they have so little control or understanding of their own people, and who has the secrets, that they're going to the people who report it. It's incompetence and it's very disturbing and upsetting. I don't know if it was political people or career people, and it doesn't really matter, it's unacceptable and hideous.
The big story in the news now, and it keeps reappearing, is the GOP's efforts to whitewash Jan. 6. Do you think we're better served not engaging in that debate?
I think that we're in an era now where the truth and the facts are bothersome to too many Republicans, especially officials. They want to lie about it. I mean, there's that congressman, there's a picture of him in the house chamber terrified helping to barricade the door, and he's the same one who referred to it, as, "you'd think it was just any other tourist day."
It's denialism, but it's truly, when you think about it, an affront to the American people. That house, that Senate, that's ours. Those are our elected representatives. We elect them. Well, maybe not me because I'm in D.C. and I don't have representation in Congress, but you and your viewers and listeners and readers. If they are willing, these people, are willing to rewrite the attack on the people's house, that's un-American, undemocratic and it's a rhetorical and philosophical attack on the American people. I haven't booked Ron Johnson on my show in months. I haven't booked any election liar on my shows since it began, since the election lies began.
I find it very upsetting. I'm not saying I will never have them on because I think there would be value in having Kevin McCarthy on, and challenging him on all his election lies, although I don't think he'd ever agree to it. We in the media have a responsibility to present the facts and the truth to the American people, and that includes exercising some discretion when it comes to the sharing of lies and the amplifying of liars.
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20 years ago we had 9/11. We're almost at the anniversary. George Bush famously said two weeks afterwards to the joint session of Congress, "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists." Look where the GOP is today. We had a terrorist attack and you have them literally defending the people. To me, this is beyond the scope of anything we've seen and truly dangerous to our Republic. How do you see it?
I mean, I see it clear-eyed in the same way that George W. Bush saw it. George W. Bush got a lot of grief for the comments, but the truth is that acts of terrorism, like what Al-Qaeda did to the United States, are stark. It does demand moral clarity, and obviously I'm not comparing what happened Jan. 6 to Al-Qaeda and 9/11, but it's a moment of moral clarity. Now, I think one of the differences is if these people were lying to the rioters, the protestors, they in a way were victims. But not victims of the Justice Department, not victims of Congress, not victims of the media. They were victims of the liars, Trump and Kevin McCarthy and Fox, and all the others that spread the election lies.
They were victims of them. Their minds were, I don't want to say they were brainwashed, but they were. They were fed lies that activated them and incited them, and I think it's important that there be moral clarity about it because they obviously know. If you were outside the Capitol and you weren't being violent, then obviously I'm not talking about you, but if you were inside the Capitol storming, acting violently, as we saw video of, then you were committing an act of domestic terrorism in the name of overturning the election.
It is an affront to the police officers who sacrificed so much that day, Capitol Hill police officers, Metropolitan Police Department officers. To pretend otherwise, I find it stunning. There's an officer who has talked to Don Lemon a few times about what he went through that day and his horrible experiences with the D.C. Police, and he reached out to Kevin McCarthy's office because he wanted to talk to Republican Leader McCarthy. Last time I checked, McCarthy had not returned his call. In between then and now, McCarthy did a Back The Blue cycling event. Well, you can Back The Blue, but it's also important to reach out to police officers who want to talk to you about what happens to them while they were protecting you and your fellow members of Congress.
How concerned are you looking forward for our nation?
I know progressives will disagree with me in this, maybe not you, but other progressives will disagree: I maintain that it is important that we have a thriving, strong, fact-based Republican party. Tens of millions of Americans hold conservative views, and they deserve to have fair, competent and fact-based representation in government, at the state level, city level, federally, period. Now, again, I know there are some progressives who are like, "The whole Republican party is lousy. Who cares?" I don't feel that way.
That said, I am very concerned. That somebody who is a very conservative Republican, like Liz Cheney, can be replaced with a far more liberal Republican, like Elise Stefanik — and not just on ideology. Cheney voted for Trump policies more than the Stefanik did, so it's not even about Trump policies per se. The difference is that Liz Cheney is not willing to lie about the election or the insurrection and Elise Stefanik is. That's it.
It's very concerning to see Mitt Romney, again, a very conservative Republican on any number of issues: taxes, guns, abortion, but somebody who also says the election was not stolen. The insurrection was abhorrent, all that. He's booed by, of all people, the Utah Republican party. It's very disturbing and I hope it changes because, again, we need a fact-based, thriving Republican party to represent all these Americans who have these beliefs in small government, muscular foreign policy, whatever.
They need to have people who are not willing to coddle election liars, insurrectionists, QAnon, etc. It's nuts. It does disturb me, very much so.
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The insurrection was abhorrent, all that. He's booed by, of all people, the Utah Republican party. It's very disturbing and I hope it changes because, again, we need a fact-based,
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