>>18348710

TYB

Taylor Lorenz in Twitter feud with ‘Sopranos’ meme account over COVID vaccine

February 14, 2022

Washington Post internet reporter Taylor Lorenz accused a “Sopranos”-themed meme account on Twitter for promoting “anti-vaxxer COVID denialism” after the operator of the Twitter handle mocked her for having a “no-show job.”

Lorenz, who has more than 355,000 Twitter followers, took umbrage over the weekend at a humorous tweet from the Twitter account known as “Socialist Sopranos Memes.”

The Twitter account, which is run by an operator who goes by the handle @gabagoolmarx, posts memes inspired by characters from the hit HBO crime drama that starred the late James Gandolfini, which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007.

The meme targeting Lorenz featured mobster Christopher Moltisanti, who was played by actor Michael Imperioli, having a conversation with his uncle, family boss Tony Soprano.

“She’s called Taylor Lorenz, T,” the caption reads.

“She’s supposed to be a journalist but all she ever does is tell people they’re ableist if they go to a restaurant for some dinner.”

“Think we can get in on some no-show jobs like that?”

Lorenz fired back after being mocked.

“The socialist sopranos meme account has joined the anti vaxxer covid denialist harassment campaign against me today,” she tweeted.

“Very cool and leftist to align yourself with these people.”

The operator of the meme account clapped back, tweeting: “I got the vaccine the moment it was made available to me, actually. April 2021. But this Washington Post ‘Journalist’ likes to make things up about meme accounts, apparently.”

Lorenz then clarified her criticism, accusing the meme account operator of “hopp[ing] in on an anti vaxxer led harassment campaign / pile on” by posting claims that were “indistinguishable from what those far right accounts are saying.”

Lorenz has been a vocal critic of the lifting of COVID lockdown measures and mitigation strategies such as mandatory masking, saying that the relaxation of pandemic-era rules and restrictions places people with pre-existing conditions at increased risk.

In December,Lorenz, who frequently wears masks in public due to her~~immunocompromised~~ top retard status, raised eyebrows when she posted a tweet that at first glance appeared to be an endorsement of China’s controversial “zero COVID” strategy.

She criticized her own newspaper for an exposé that cast China’s COVID mitigation efforts as a failure in light of the renewed spread of the virus in recent months.

“Choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people (as the US is doing) isn’t a ‘critical flaw,’” Lorenz tweeted. She later denied that the tweet was an endorsement of China’s policies.

Since the start of the pandemic in late 2019, China has sought to completely stamp out the virus by using what many consider draconian tactics, including forcibly isolating infected citizens and cordoning off entire towns and cities.

The government in Beijing recently reversed course on its “zero COVID” strategy after it sparked massive, widespread unrest among the population.

Lorenz has often generated controversy with her social media posts.

In November, she called out a Washington Post colleague, columnist Helaine Olen, who criticized radio shock jock and notorious germaphobe Howard Stern for not leaving his apartment.

Lorenz last year also slammed MSNBC for “mishandling” a segment during which she broke down in tears and described suffering from trauma and suicidal thoughts in the face of “abuse” from online critics.

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/taylor-lorenz-in-twitter-feud-with-sopranos-meme-account/

Taylor Lorenz, the David Hogg of journalism

QUID PRO BRO

James Biden's 'name didn't hurt' when firm hired him to broker secret $140M Saudi deal while Joe was veep, docs reveal

President Joe Biden’s brother Jim Biden was allegedly hired to help negotiate a $140 million settlement between a private US company and the Saudi government – purely because his family name “didn’t hurt,” a new report said Tuesday.

February 14, 2023

Now-first brother James Biden was hired to help a Philadelphia construction company resolve a decades-old dispute with the Saudi government because he was the sibling of then-Vice President Joe Biden, court documents reveal.

The 2017 admission by James Biden, referenced in two affidavits from May 2021, is certain to draw the attention of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee as it investigates the first family’s influence-peddling dating back years.

The affidavit, first obtained by DailyMail.com, was filed in a dispute between the construction company, Hill International, and one of three law firms it hired to help claw back approximately $140 million the Saudis owed for a desalinization plant built by a Hill subsidiary in the 1980s.

That firm,Lankford & Reed, claims that Hill International also hired James Biden, now 73, in 2011 to negotiate a secret deal with the Saudis to settle the dispute – and get out of paying Lankford the 40% cut outlined in their contract.

In July 2017, Thomas Sullivan, a former Treasury Department official-turned-private investigator hired by Lankford, drove to James Biden’s home in suburban Philadelphia to discuss his role with Hill.

According to Sullivan’s sworn statement, James Biden said he was hired to handle Hill’s “business development” and had been assigned to help with the company’s interests in Saudi Arabia.

The first brother added that he was often tapped to represent Hill in meetings “because, of course, the name didn’t hurt,” Sullivan recalled.

==James Biden also told Sullivan he had attended a February 2012 meeting with Saudi officials at which Hill would receive “final payment” for the desalination plant. Biden added that he had attended the meeting “because of his position and relationship” with his older brother, then Barack Obama’s No. 2.

According to the president’s sibling, Hill’s payment for its subsidiary’s work “would be made in both cash and ‘a very large amount'” of future business==, Sullivan said.

After the meeting, Sullivan alleged, JamesBiden’s wife Sara walked him to his car and revealed that her husband and his older brother Joe were very close, and that they told each other everything.”

Sara Biden also told Sullivan that “he doesn’t like us talking to people,” the ex-Treasury man recalled.

“I didn’t ask for a further explanation,” Sullivan said, “since I was looking at two large men in dark suits, in a big black sedan parked on a side street looking directly into their house down the walkway I had just exited. I thought they were some type of security, probably Secret Service.”

In a separate affidavit, Lankford & Reed partner Thomas Lankford alleged that his firm and the Saudis had tentatively agreed on a settlement of Hill’s claims worth around $100 million by November 2011. However, after James Biden’s February 2012 meeting with Saudi officials in Riyadh, Hill initially “went dark” — then claimed that the Saudis had backed off on the settlement.

According to Lankford, Hill International CEO Irvin Richter had told him that he had retained James Biden because the Saudis “would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.”

Lankford’s affidavit does not elaborate on why Richter believed Joe Biden would be “instrumental” to any settlement.

After James Biden’s February 2012 meeting, Lankford said, Richter “seemed indifferent” to the ongoing dispute and communicated with the law firms “only infrequently.”

In addition, Lankford claimed, US government officials, “who had previously been helpful, became guarded and emphasized that Hill was doing lots of business in Saudi Arabia.”

At some point after 2014, when Lankford said Richter declined his offer to sue the Saudis to settle the debt, James Biden revealed that Hill and Riyadh “had secretly agreed to settle … through the award of future contracts.”

According to Lankford, James Biden “also stated that the settlement may have involved a cash payment to Richter.”

As of May 2021, Lankford claimed, Hill International and its affiliates had been awarded $358 million from the Saudis in construction management contracts since February 2011 after doing “virtually no business” with Riyadh prior.

It is unclear from the affidavits how much James Biden was paid for his work on Hill’s behalf. A rep for the first brother didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/jim-biden-helped-negotiate-saudi-deal-due-to-joe-biden-ties-report/

>>18348914

Milley:First Missile Fired at Fourth 'Balloon' Missed, But Landed Harmlessly

February 14, 2023

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley today confirmed reports that one of the missiles fired on Sunday by the U.S. Air Force missed its target over Lake Huron. A second missile brought the unidentified object down.

"Yes, the first shot missed on the fourth balloon, so we're talking about the balloon that was downed over Lake Huron."

Milley noted that it took only one missile to down the other three floating objects, including the enormous Chinese spy balloon downed off the coast of South Carolina a week ago Saturday; the first unidentified object shot down over the north coast of Alaska last Friday; and the second object shot down in the Yukon on Saturday.

"So the most important thing for the American military is to protect the American people," Milley said:

"So we evaluate the risk; we evaluate the risk of the balloons themselves, are they a kinetic threat or not, yes, no? Are they an intelligence threat, are they a threat to civilian aviation? All those things we go through very, very carefully.

"We determine what the debris field is likely to be, with one of these platforms landing on the earth's surface or in the water. So we go to great lengths to make sure that the air space is clear, that the backdrop is clear, out to the max effective range of the missile.

"And in this case, the missile landed harmlessly in the water of Lake Huron. We certainly tracked it all the way down. And we made sure that the air space was clear of any commercial and/or recreational traffic.

"We do the same thing for the maritime space. So we're very, very deliberate in our planning ..to make sure that those shots are, in fact, safe."

Milley said none of the debris from the three most recent objects has been recovered, and he said it will take a while to get to the crash sites, given the difficult terrain of the three debris fields.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/milley-first-missile-fired-fourth-balloon-missed-landed-harmlessly

They didn't want to shoot it down and disclose the crap shape they're currently in, imho.

MISSED?

MISSED?

MISSED the slowest moving airborn object in the sky? Holy sheet..

White Supremacist kills at MSU. Not really, it's a chocolate covered killer.

Michigan State gunman Anthony McRae turned ‘evil’ after mom died: dad

February 14, 2023

The crazed man who killed three Michigan State University students and critically injured five others Monday sank into a deep depression that made him “evil” after his mother died in 2020, his dad said.

Police said there is no clear motive for gunman Anthony Dwayne McRae’s violent rampage, but his father described his dark spiral in the past two years in an interview with NBC News Tuesday morning.

“He was a mama’s boy. He loved his mom. They were tight. His mom was like his sister,” said Michael McRae, who lived with his son in Michigan.

“He was grieving his mom. He wouldn’t let it go. He got bitter, bitter and bitter.

“His mom died, and he just started getting evil and mean. He didn’t care about anything anymore,” the dad continued.

McRae, 43, refused to leave his room and quit his job after his mother, Linda Gail McRae, died suddenly on Sept. 13, 2020, from a stroke.

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/michigan-gunman-anthony-mcrae-turned-evil-after-mom-died/

So… a balding 43 year old man won't leave his bedroom AT HIS MOM'S HOUSE… sounds normal..

>>18349034

TRON is now the only made-in-China blockchain supported by Samsung. BitTorrent Protocol is the world's largest decentralized protocol with over 1 billion users. The Protocol was developed and since maintained by BitTorrent Inc.

($.06702) TRX symbol

"novus ordo seclorum"

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tron/

Tron protocol spreads to Bittorrent (BTT):

https://cryptoext.com/bittorrent-launches-a-new-cryptocurrency-with-the-tron-protocol/

>>18349084

>They need to explain this.

>>18349111

>>18349149

colored PVC matters

>>18349150

o7

de nada fren

>>18349066

>Trump is a billionaire.

Who worked very hard to get to that rung of the ladder

>He doesn't go grocery shopping.

He pays an enormous salary to the people who do his shopping, he's making bigger decisions than which roast looks the best.

>He doesn't pump his own gas.

He pays a king's ransom to have his gas pumped, he's spreading the wealth, trickle down economy at work

>He doesn't rotate his tires, change the oil or do the brakes.

Half or better of the people anon knows do not do this basic tasks either. Many were never taught and many don't have the tools or space to do the work.

>He doesn't fix or maintain shit around his house(s)

Sauce? Why would a billionaire fix shit around his own house when he's out there earning to pay others to do it and have gainful employment, a leg up if you will

>He doesn't have to commute back & forth to work in shit traffic

Of course he does. He's not REALLY Batman

>He never had to give anybody rides to school, work or team practice or music lessons

You know this how?

>He didn't lose anybody in his family due to COVID-19

They already took out his parents what more would you have POTUS lose? A good friend was put on a respirator in NYC and died. POTUS lost plenty.

>He didn't lose his job for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine

FFS. Wake the F up and look around you bitter shill anon

>He didn't lose his small business due to COVID closures

He lost plenty, including a legitimate charity, one that was not just a front for nefarious schemes.

>His kids or grandkids weren't on Zoom for school for a whole year

You know this how? You know nothing of POTUS private life or that of his family.

>Trump lives very comfortably in a huge, walled off estate with servants, a private jet, a private chef, golfs whenever or wherever he wants, gives huge Trump "Save America" Rallies with donor money rolling in

Count me in, I'll donate down to the last red cent if I can have my POTUS back.

The anon Erin Brockovich whisperer of yesterday spoke' Erin listened

Erin Brockovich tells residents of East Palestine to 'get out' if they don't feel safe after toxic train explosion and warns locals not to rely on feds for anything as local wildlife begins to drop dead

A train carrying toxic fuel from Madison, Illinois to Conway, Pennsylvania derailed on February 3 in Ohio, near the town of East Palestine

The EPA say the area is safe to return to but residents are reporting fish and chickens dying in large numbers, and some locals complain of coughs

Erin Brockovich, whose environmental crusade was turned into a Julia Roberts film, on Tuesday told residents their priority was taking care of their own health

February 14, 2023

Erin Brockovich has urged those living near the Ohio site where a train carrying toxic waste derailed two weeks ago to prioritize their own safety, telling them to be skeptical of EPA assurances that the site is safe.

Brockovich, an environmental lawyer and consultant, whose work battling Pacific Gas & Electric was turned into the 2000 film starring Julia Roberts, said she was deeply concerned about the reports emerging from East Palestine.

'After 30 years of what I've been through, and what this community is going through - come on,' she said, when asked if she believed EPA statements claiming the site was safe.

'It's vinyl chloride, it's in the air, the fish are dying.

'Does that give you comfort that maybe I should be in this area? Probably not.'

Brockovich, 62, told NewsNation that those living near the site needed to take care of themselves, and trust their gut instincts.

She also stressed the importance of recording what they saw and felt.

'I need the community to act for themselves,' she told the network.

'If you feel unsafe, then please - get out of harm's way. If you feel unsafe, stay sheltered in place. If you're questioning if it's all clear, and you think it isn't, listen to that voice.

'Document what's happening to your own health. Document or videotape the fish that are dying, as you move about your community.

'I think it will be critical.'

Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11751593/Erin-Brockovich-tells-East-Palestine-locals-dont-feel-safe-Ohio-explosion.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11751593/Erin-Brockovich-tells-East-Palestine-locals-dont-feel-safe-Ohio-explosion.html

BOMB

this clip autoplayed after the Erin Brockovich video. WHEN/WHERE did POTUS say this?

"A bomb just went off in NY"

Was this today?

>>18349411

I was racing back to say nvrmd, full retard deployed… kek

>>18349410

It was like make up sex

but without Brady's tiny tiny balls

the Hochuli kiss

and the 50 year drought

>>18349424

there really should be a delete retardation prior to observation by others key/algo/filter…

Anon heard the words, didn't look at the video… until a stupid question was posed..

worse yet, a stupid question was observed……

kek