Filmed in glorious black and white, this Twilight Zone-style parody turns out in the end to be a pitch for passing a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trading.
But the sight of an angry mob of little old ladies and bankrupt small business owners pursuing a guilt-stricken banker with calls to "tax the 1% who ruined our economy" is more than worth the price of admission.
This video was uploaded to YouTube by ProtestInTheUSA on January 3, 2012.
The Heritage Foundation's Paul Dans is leading a group of former Trump officials preparing an "America First" agenda for the next Republican president – whoever that is, Politico reported Tuesday.
The program, called Project 2025, seeks to roll back what the group sees as a longtime liberal encroachment on Washington D.C.
"They want to overturn what began as Woodrow Wilson’s creation of a federal administrative elite and later grew into a vast, unaccountable and mostly liberal bureaucracy (as conservatives view it) under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, numbering about two and a quarter million federal workers today," wrote Politico.
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Defunding the Department of Justice, dismantling the FBI, and breaking up the DHS are just a few of the goals the group has on its agenda – which is to create a MAGA government for many presidents to come.
"In an effort to implement this agenda — which relies on another Reagan-era idea, the controversial 'unitary theory' of the Constitution under which Article II gives the president complete power over the federal bureaucracy — Dans has formed a committee to recruit what he calls 'conservative warriors' through bar associations and state attorneys general offices and install them in general counsel offices throughout the federal bureaucracy," writes Hirsh.
“This is a coming-together of the movement that has never been seen before,” says Dans. “It CAN Be Done.”
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Also in the sights of the project are people either convicted or awaiting trial for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, told Politico, "We have political prisoners in America for the first time I can remember."
“We have people that are in jail that are no threat to their community and no flight risk, that are being mistreated in jail. The court system has adopted a paradigm that they are a threat to democracy," he said.
Read the full report over at Politico.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Tuesday denied he was to blame for fighting among Republicans after he pushed for shutting down the government instead of passing a temporary funding measure.
During an interview on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Gaetz responded to two New York Times columns both agreeing and disagreeing with his tactics to manipulate House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
One columnist noted that McCarthy had "become the not-so-glorified puppet of the House Republican conference's radicals, folks like Dan Bishop, Chip Roy and, most prominently, Matt Gaetz."
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Gaetz told Bannon he was seen as "some sort of chaos agent."
"Why am I to blame for the chaos of the fact that these appropriations bills weren't here already?" he gasped. "Right? Like, how come we didn't do defense appropriations right alongside the National Defense Authorizing Bill?"
"You see, this is not a bug of the system," he continued. "It is a feature. They hold everything to the very end so that everyone feels rushed and under the pressure to avoid a shutdown. And that's how the administrative state continues."
A California sheriff's deputy has been fired after he sent a photo of his genitals to a woman he met responding to a 911 call claiming she was suicidal, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Patrick Walker responded to the call that was made by the 21-year-old woman's friends, who said she had gone missing and intended to commit suicide. After using his work cellphone to text the woman, deputies located her and checked her into a hospital where she stayed for three days on a mental health hold, the Bee reported.
About a week later, Walker texted the woman to check on her, but the ensuing texts ventured into personal subject matter, with Walker eventually telling her that he wanted to have sex with her. The two agreed that he would pay her $100 for every nude photo she sent him. He also sent her a photo of his genitals, the report said.
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After she sent him a pornographic video of herself, he blocked her on Facebook Messenger but she then texted him and asked him to send her money, which he did.
The woman's stepfather then called the sheriff's department and told them that Walker was using his position of authority to manipulate the woman.
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“The evidence in this case is undisputed,” Chief Deputy Matt Peterson wrote in an internal memo in November 2022. “Deputy Walker overtly expressed his sexual desires ... via digital messages. He ultimately paid $400 for a nude video of herself.
"Deputy Walker acknowledged his behavior was wrong and ‘brought shame to this department.’ Deputy Walker clearly understood that his conduct was unacceptable, as indicated by his attempts to conceal his conversations by transitioning them from his work phone to Facebook Messenger and then by deleting all the messages from his devices."
Read more at The Sacramento Bee.
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