US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

Oh no:

President Biden on Friday signed an executive order revoking Trump's order that established a "National Garden of American Heroes" that called for erecting statues of hundreds of prominent Americans.
The order called for the garden to be built by July 4, 2026. But with Biden's order on Friday, the park will not be constructed.

I had not heard of this until now.

instead we will build a National Garden of American Turds

The original executive order listed 31 historical figures as examples of those who would receive a statue in the Garden.[2] On January 18, 2021—two days before leaving office—Trump signed a new executive order listing 244 historical figures, including all 31 previously named, of those who would receive statues.[15][16][17][18] The revised list included 192 men and 52 women.[11] Names marked with an asterisk (*) were included in the original executive order.

Ansel Adams
Samuel Adams
John Adams*
Muhammad Ali
Luis Walter Alvarez
Susan B. Anthony*
Hannah Arendt
Louis Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Crispus Attucks
John James Audubon
Lauren Bacall
Clara Barton*
Todd Beamer
Alexander Graham Bell
Roy Benavidez
Ingrid Bergman
Irving Berlin
Humphrey Bogart
Daniel Boone*
Norman Borlaug
William Bradford
Herb Brooks
Kobe Bryant
William F. Buckley Jr.
Sitting Bull
Frank Capra
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Carroll
John Carroll
George Washington Carver
Johnny Cash
Joseph H. De Castro
Joshua Chamberlain*
Whittaker Chambers
Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman
Ray Charles
Julia Child
Gordon Chung-Hoon
William Clark
Henry Clay*
Roberto Clemente
Grover Cleveland
Red Cloud
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Nat King Cole
Samuel Colt
Christopher Columbus
Calvin Coolidge
James Fenimore Cooper
Davy Crockett*
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Miles Davis
Dorothy Day
Emily Dickinson
Walt Disney
William J. Donovan
Jimmy Doolittle
Desmond Doss
Frederick Douglass*
Herbert Henry Dow
Katharine Drexel
Peter Drucker
Amelia Earhart*
Thomas Edison
Jonathan Edwards
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Duke Ellington
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Medgar Evers
David Farragut
Mary Fields
Henry Ford
George L. Fox
Aretha Franklin
Benjamin Franklin*
Milton Friedman
Robert Frost
Gabby Gabreski
Bernardo de Gálvez
Lou Gehrig
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Cass Gilbert
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Glenn
Barry Goldwater
Samuel Gompers
Alexander D. Goode
R. C. Gorman
Billy Graham*
Ulysses S. Grant
Nellie Gray
Nathanael Greene
Woody Guthrie
Nathan Hale
William Halsey Jr.
Alexander Hamilton*
Ira Hayes
Hans Christian Heg
Ernest Hemingway
Patrick Henry
Charlton Heston
Alfred Hitchcock
Billie Holiday
Bob Hope
Johns Hopkins
Grace Hopper
Sam Houston
Whitney Houston
Julia Ward Howe
Edwin Hubble
Daniel Inouye
Andrew Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
Mary Jackson
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson*
Steve Jobs
Katherine Johnson
Barbara Jordan
Chief Joseph
Elia Kazan
Helen Keller
John F. Kennedy
Francis Scott Key
Martin Luther King Jr.*
Coretta Scott King
Russell Kirk
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Henry Knox
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Harper Lee
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Meriwether Lewis
Abraham Lincoln*
Vince Lombardi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clare Boothe Luce
Douglas MacArthur*
Dolley Madison*
James Madison*
George Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
William Mayo
Christa McAuliffe*
William McKinley
Louise McManus
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
Billy Mitchell
George P. Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
Samuel Morse
Lucretia Mott
John Muir
Audie Murphy*
Edward R. Murrow
John Neumann
John von Neumann
Annie Oakley
Jesse Owens
Rosa Parks
George S. Patton Jr.*
Charles Willson Peale
William Penn
Oliver Hazard Perry
John J. Pershing
Edgar Allan Poe
Clark V. Poling
John Russell Pope
Elvis Presley
Jeannette Rankin
Ronald Reagan*
Walter Reed
William Rehnquist
Paul Revere
Henry Hobson Richardson
Hyman Rickover
Sally Ride
Matthew Ridgway
Jackie Robinson*
Norman Rockwell
Caesar Rodney
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Betsy Ross*
Babe Ruth
Sacagawea
Jonas Salk
John Singer Sargent
Antonin Scalia*
Norman Schwarzkopf
Junípero Serra
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Robert Gould Shaw
Fulton Sheen
Alan Shepard
Frank Sinatra
Bessie Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jimmy Stewart
Harriet Beecher Stowe*
Gilbert Stuart
Anne Sullivan
William Howard Taft
Maria Tallchief
Maxwell Taylor
Tecumseh
Kateri Tekakwitha
Shirley Temple
Nikola Tesla
Jefferson Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Jim Thorpe
Augustus Tolton
Alex Trebek
Harry S. Truman
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman*
Mark Twain
Dorothy Vaughan
C. T. Vivian
Thomas Ustick Walter
Sam Walton
John P. Washington
Booker T. Washington*
George Washington*
John Wayne
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
Frank Lloyd Wright
Orville Wright*
Wilbur Wright*
Alvin C. York
Cy Young
Lorenzo de Zavala

should have been a poll probably

impressed that Trump didn't accidentally nominate George Thorogood instead of Thurgood Marshall

Billy Mitchell
https://i.imgur.com/5gccKWb.jpg

fucking arrogant prick, met him at the Mall of America once

also fuck John Wayne

Trump's order said that the proposed garden would be managed by the Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

lol so much of what they did was indistinguishable from an Onion article

some of those people are not really American but hey, Whitney Houston!

Florida!

We can place Matt Gaetz in a hotel room snorting cocaine with an escort, according to two sources.

A source also says Joel Greenberg will testify that she’s one of 15+ women that Gaetz paid for sex.https://t.co/Gaffy2jibz

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 14, 2021

The tweet itself hides a deeper issue for Gaetz, really:

But what distinguishes this woman, Megan Zalonka, is that she turned her relationship with Greenberg into a taxpayer-funded no-show job that earned her an estimated $7,000 to $17,500, according to three sources and corresponding government records obtained by The Daily Beast.

Levelled-Up Fundraiser: Cocaine W/Yr Congressman!

fuckin Christopher Moltisanti shit, dumbasses

I heard some good advice once, which was if you have to do an illegal thing, don’t do two illegal things.

looks like Gaetz and Greenberg subscribe to the adage "May as well be hanged for a sheep as for a goat."

Was the sheep underage?

We are all the sheep

proving once more that wisdom based in the folkways of agrarian society doesn't translate well to modern life

Good one Matt

Gaetz: “I'm being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors. Yet, Congress has reinstituted a process that legalizes the corrupt act of exchanging money for favors, through earmarks.”

— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) May 15, 2021

“I may have fucked kids but Biden has to be fucking kidding with this infrastructure bill amirite?”

I did nothing wrong but if I did it was legal now

Naughty by Favors • G.O.P.

i have downloaded my twitter archive and confirmed that @noname did not retweet me. i do not remember which thread this was on. i am sorry.

#onethread
#paymentforposts
#sex4vets

The Saudis are in a war that has killed over 350,000 people. They have no startup or innovation culture and total disregard for human rights and democracy. They never faced a Holocaust. I am for a human rights centered policy to Palestinians but reject completely the analogy.

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 16, 2021

getting dumber by the day

so why is the intelligence community/military suddenly 'okay' with talking about unidentified aerial phenomena? given that i don't trust anything that comes out of their mouths and there is no way they would admit to something unless it served their interest somehow, i assume they are trying to cover for advanced aerospace projects like they did in the 50s/60s, trying to bamboozle china/russia, or trying to quietly signify to china/russia that we have some very special new toys and not to fuck with us? not sure why they'd do the latter but i dunno.

something very fishy is going on and i am having trouble figuring out what

They're mad because conspiracies moved away from UFOs and black helicopters to adrenachrome and international nonces, they want to get the attention back.

Probably because they got a taste of that sweet new Space Force money and are trying to shake down for even more.

They're trying to create a soft landing for us when they reveal they've been in contact with aliens since the 50s.

Maybe they're trying to rob conspiracy nuts of one of their pet subjects, so as to lower the general noise level of governmental distrust?

This doesn't strike me as the best move, necessarily.

DEVELOPING:

"Asking a Judge to Unseal Files, Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Demand Explanation for 'Extremely Damaging' Claim That He Might Destroy Evidence" https://t.co/vqbPWb3kTF via @lawcrimenews

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

We mere mortals can't understand the brilliance of the legal strategy from genius Rudy.

i may destroy evidence, streaming now on hbo max

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In their letter, Giuliani's counsel appear to confirm earlier reporting that feds tapped into his iCloud via a "covert warrant" in 2019, and Bill Barr's DOJ wouldn't approve earlier attempts to execute the search warrants.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

so why is the intelligence community/military suddenly 'okay' with talking about unidentified aerial phenomena?

This New Yorker story does a good job of laying out the trajectory of all of that over the past few decades: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously

It's not all because of one particular writer, but she's a big part of it, she's really kind of pushed the doors open. And there are indeed X number of unexplained phenomena and have been for years. Doesn't mean any one thing in particular, but it's interesting.

Meantime, speaking of interesting, this news has surfaced:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2021-05-15/manchester-contributions-probe

Key part:

Documents obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune show at least one witness with the last name Manchester was ordered to provide records and information to a U.S. District Court grand jury last month, “in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation.”

That same person, whose first name was redacted in the U.S. District Court documents, also was commanded to appear at the courthouse on the morning of May 4 — and to bring a slew of materials.

The subpoena orders the recipient to “produce any and all records, documents and correspondence” in their possession, custody or control from May 1, 2017, to the present related to political donations made by Douglas Manchester, the unnamed Manchester and “Douglas or (redacted) Manchester’s family and/ or the nomination of Douglas Manchester to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.”

The demand from federal prosecutors included an option for the witness to provide the requested documents directly to an FBI special agent in lieu of personally appearing at the Washington, D.C. courthouse.

The documents request copies of any communications between the Manchesters, the RNC and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Co-Chair Tommy Hicks. They also demand communications between the witness and any employee or agent and any member of Congress or their staff.

choice little bit from that ufo piece:

After Elizondo resigned, he and other key AATIP participants—including Mellon, Puthoff, and Semivan—almost immediately joined To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, an operation dedicated to U.F.O.-related education, entertainment, and research, and organized by Tom DeLonge, a former front man of the pop-punk outfit Blink-182.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-blown-off-rudy-giulianis-pleas-for-help-as-feds-circle?source=articles&via=rss

lol @ the thought of any of these morons genuinely expecting him to have their backs when shit hit the fan

it's like when you're playing Mario and you think Bowser's gonna let you just waltz past him

Rudy's big mistake was looking like a fool he so transparently is when he was publicly fronting Trump's effort to overturn the election via lawsuits. The runny hair dye incident and Four Seasons Landscaping fiascoes doomed him.

i think we should keep the door open to the idea that rudy has made multiple Big Mistakes

like the time when he wanted the "really good scrutiny" applied to his case

guys i'm very sorry this person is on your shores, but still i'd like you to perhaps book a few free tickets, and definitely DO show up oh yes
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nigel-farage-americas-comeback-tour-2021-pittsburgh-pa-tickets-152757061483

weird

Hm.

Ex-AG Bill Barr's DOJ reportedly used the weight and force of the prosecuting arm of the U.S. federal government to try to unmask a parody Twitter account that trolled a Trump-loyalist Congressman. 🔽 https://t.co/SrYj8qpfhI

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

on an entirely unrelated note, here's a temporary email address generator

https://temp-mail.org/en/

Judge Howell gave DOJ until Wednesday to file a public version of its response, and the only specific instruction is that it must redact the name and contact information of the DOJ attorney(s). That information is almost always public. pic.twitter.com/iBqKRN7W75

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 17, 2021