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MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan began his show by reminding voters who RFK Jr. is and why they shouldn't be fooled by the far-right Republicans desperate to promote him.
He showed a clip of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talking about the wealth discrepancy that continues to increase and a candidate "willing to condemn the consolidation of corporate power, the evils of environmental racism, and ever-increasing income inequality."
He checked off three "worrying things" that he said any Kennedy fan should look at.
First, Kennedy made his name among the anti-vaccine crowd in 2005 using distorted data to allege a massive conspiracy theory about mercury-based preservatives. During the pandemic, he proposed the 5G vaccine conspiracy theories. Another was the conspiracy that Bill Gates, who didn't create the vaccine, somehow used tracking devices injected into people for unknown purposes. Then he started comparing vaccines to the Holocaust. He put out photos of Dr. Anthony Fauci in a Hitler mustache.
Up until April of 2022, COVID vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 deaths from the disease, the Brown University School of Public Health calculated. Hasan said that it's proof people like Kennedy have blood on their hands.
Second, Kennedy is being backed by far-right organizers Steve Bannon and Roger Stone. Kennedy hasn't addressed why these two would be so supportive of his campaign when the man they support the most, Donald Trump, is also running. He almost got a job in the Trump administration.
Lastly, a big tell is that Kennedy doesn't have any support from his own family. The Democratic stall words have long supported the party and the members of their family that chose to run under its banner. RFK Jr. is the only one to be dismissed by his own family.
"Forgive me, but a Bannon-backed, Tucker-platformed, anti-vaxxer... is perhaps not the progressive, principled, anti-establishment, liberal Democratic Party champion that he might want you to think he is," said Hasan.
Kennedy also confessed that he has a lot of conversations with dead people.
See the clip below or at the link here.
\u201c"Forgive me, but a Bannon-backed, Tucker-platformed, anti-vaxxer... is perhaps not the progressive, principled, anti-establishment, liberal Democratic Party champion that he might want you to think he is."\n\nA reminder, from me, as to who RFK Jr. really is:\nhttps://t.co/WoU5vZwzGZ\u201d— Mehdi Hasan (@Mehdi Hasan) 1685919467
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Former congressman recalls Trump voters saying God chose him to fight liberals guided by the devil
June 04, 2023
Speaking to former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for his Sunday podcast, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) discussed the difference between the dedicated Republican voters and the die-hard MAGA loyalists.
"There's a group of the base — there's a percentage of the base, 30, 35, 37 percent that is not pro-Trum, they're only Trump. Only Trump," said Walsh. "And these people, Michael, believe that the left has destroyed America. They believe the left is guided by the devil. They have told me this, and they believed that God picks, Michael, sometimes flawed dudes to be his warriors. They believe Trump is a flawed human being who God has anointed to destroy the left guided by the devil."
It isn't merely the most loyal Trump followers; it's officials that served the U.S. government who made such comments.
For example, in November 2019, then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry said that Trump is "here at this chosen time because God ordained it."
Billy Graham's son, Franklin Graham, proclaimed in June 2019, “God was behind the last election."
“Only God could deliver such a savior to our nation," said Trump's one-time campaign manager Brad Parscale, in April 2019.
"I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president, and that's why he's there," Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. "I think he has done a tremendous job in supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about."
Walsh explained that people like that don't want another candidate.
"Which is another reason if Trump doesn't get the nomination, DeSantis, whoever it is, good f--king luck. This percent will just leave. They won't vote for any other Republican," said Walsh.
He said that those Trump supporters believe they're in a holy war.
See the discussion below or at the link here.
\u201cSubscribe, listen, rate and share the next raw and unfiltered episode of the \u2066@MeaCulpaPodcast\u2069 featuring Joe Walsh \u2066@WalshFreedom\u2069. \u2066@ApplePodcasts\u2069 \u2066@Spotify\u2069 \u2066@Stitcher\u2069 \u2066@Audacy\u2069 \u2066@Audioboom\u2069 \u2066@audioupmedia\u2069 \u2066@MeidasTouch\u2069\u201d— Michael Cohen (@Michael Cohen) 1685920991
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California AG threatens legal actions against Florida for immigrant flight to Sacramento
June 04, 2023
Speaking to CNNs Jim Acosta on Sunday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the state believes the flight of immigrants dropped off in Sacramento is part of another Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) scheme targeting Latinos.
DeSantis has previously paid to have individuals trick immigrants on the border into flying to a different location. The Florida-funded flights never remove Florida immigrants, but only those on the border with Texas.
"We're deepening our investigation now, and we believe that the state of Florida is involved," said Bonta. "And one of their vendors that they hired with an official budgetary allotment called 'Virtual Systems' was involved in moving these migrants from Texas to New Mexico and then to Sacramento. So, we believe the state of Florida is behind it and we are investigating now to see if there are any criminal or civil laws that have been violated."
The immigrants were interviewed, and they revealed someone gave them false promises of lawmakers being willing to help them find jobs "if they got on this plane and went to another location. They were manipulated. They were mistreated. They were abused and exploited. They came to this country after a three-month journey, most from Venezuela sleeping on the street at night and often not having food to have an opportunity to work here in the United States. The first thing that happened when they got here was someone lied to them. Told them they would help them find the work that they hoped for and dreamed of. But instead, they deserted them, dumped them in Sacramento, and didn't lift a finger to help them find a job."
In a statement, Bonta went on to call it "state-sanctioned kidnapping."
"We are locking down the evidence to demonstrate and prove their involvement," he went on. "This is the same company, the same one that was used when migrants were moved to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. This is part of an official act and budgetary outlay in the state of Florida. It's called their voluntary transportation program, and they've hired Virtual Systems, the state of Florida has to identify migrants in Texas, not in Florida, in Texas, and move them to other states. So there's a pattern here, there's documentation here, the document clearly — that we have in our possession — says the state of Florida. So, we believe that the state of Florida, Gov. DeSantis is behind it. Gov. Desantis has demonstrated his pettiness, lack of substance, his xenophobia and his, discrimination and racism, and his willingness to treat human beings, people, as political pawns. It's wrong, and we are getting to the bottom of it."
See the interview below or at the link here.
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