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NCDem47's JournalFlorida CFO nominates Musk for Nobel Peace Prize
“Elon Musk’s free speech advocacy and use of Starlink satellites to help hurricane victims in Florida mean he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis.
Patronis wrote to the Sweden-based Nobel Foundation on Friday to throw his support behind Musk’s nomination, which Norwegian lawmaker Marius Nilsen floated earlier in the week.”
But working against Musk:
“Musk has styled himself as a “free speech absolutist” but has also threatened to sue journalists who alleged “hate speech” had increased since he bought Twitter. He also endorsed an antisemitic tweet in November 2023.”
“The help to Ukraine, however, was complicated by the news that Musk refused to allow the Ukrainian military to use Starlink to launch an attack on Russian forces in Crimea.”
[link:https://floridapolitics.com/archives/661278-jimmy-patronis-elon-musk-deserves-nobel-peace-prize/|
So, has the media decided they are going to report on every DeSantan utterance?
I get the "newsworthiness" of it all (he is an official Presidential candidate), but cable, online, broadcast network, print...BREATHLESS coverage of anything he says. Every day. Is it going to be this way until he flames out?
Florida resident here, so you can imagine the regional ampage. My local NBC affiliate can't get enough of this man. Feels like lead story every other day.
why are we fed election "coverage" all...the...damn...time? 24/7
SC Mifepristone decision today
I know there are several potential outcomes for this, but my money is on a 4:58 pm ET annoucement with every Republican heading for the hills for the weekend.
So Protasiewicz wins, but looking like R might win WI Senate seat
All this talk of the R legislature turning around and impeaching her. Play it out for me…can Rs pull that off? Who would replace her?
So…F’n…infuriating! Talk me down someone.
Oh, Rs already at work to muddy waters on who wants to "cut" Medicare
Here in Tampa, Fl. Just saw a tv commercial on NBC affiliate with bowling seniors talking about Medicare Advantage being cut. The call-to-action was to contact the White House to tell them not to cut it.
WTF?!
Is this to confuse people into thinking Biden wants to cut so seniors don’t trust anyone on this? And we alllllllll know who not to trust on this.
If the Rs have House, Sente and President, they will cut no matter WHAT they say or promise. Mark my words.
Respect for Marriage Act...question
If I marry in one state, it MUST be recognized by another state, even if that state outlaws. Federally, gay and interracial marriage is protected. Period. The U.S. Supreme Court could not intervene on this.
But, could a future Republican House, Senate and President all togther get rid of it?
Immigration hardliner DeSantis' great-great-grandmother was nearly barred from America
Old article, but very timely!From Tampa Bay Times.
A Florida-based genealogist traced DeSantis' family tree from Italy to America. His great-great-grandmother just made it in.
By Steve Contorno
Former Times staffer
Published Aug. 21, 2018
As a lawmaker and now a candidate for governor, he has advocated for buildingTrump's border wall and closing the door on programs that allow family of recentimmigrants into the country. A century ago, the door was almost closed on his great-great-grandmother fromhis mother's side of the family. Luigia Colucci left Italy in early 1917 and arrived at Ellis Island on Feb. 21. WhileColucci crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Actof 1917. Among other restrictions on "undesirable" immigrants, it barred illiterate people from entering the United States. Colucci couldn't read or write, according to immigration documents. But she wasspared; the law didn't go into effect until May. She was allowed in. The details of Luigia Colucci's journey were unearthed by Megan Smolenyak, aprofessional genealogist, and recently published on Medium. A former chiefhistorian for Ancestry.com, Smolenyak has consulted for the U.S. Army to locate family members of more than 1,200 unaccounted for soldiers of foreign conflictsand has also worked on television shows, like the NBC series, Who Do You ThinkYou Are?, where celebrities trace their heritage.
Lately, though, she and other genealogists are researching the origin stories ofimmigration hardliners. They have found that many of the staunchest critics of illegal immigration have ancestors who couldn't meet today's standards to enter the country. Some couldn't meet the standards of the time period when theyarrived, but found a way in anyway. For example, Smolenyak discovered that the grandfather of Rep. Bob Goodlattelied during his naturalization process. He was still given citizenship. Goodlatte, aVirginia Republican and the chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, hassaid he doesn't support a pathway to citizenship for "those who have broken our immigration laws."
"I've researched thousands of family trees and it's rare to find documentedinstances of immigration hiccups or problems," Smolenyak said. "And yet it keeps on coming up in the families of people who are trying to slam the doors of people trying to come here now."
Smolenyak, a Florida resident, took particular interest in DeSantis, who ran atongue-in-cheek ad in which he builds Trump's border wall out of blocks with hisyoung daughter. DeSantis is running against Agriculture Commissioner AdamPutnam in the Aug. 28 Republican primary.
Her research into DeSantis is timely. Another family tree recently gained nationalattention: that of Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration policies. Miller's uncle, David Glosser, published a widely circulated op-ed in Politico criticizing his nephew and noting that his own ancestors arrived with $8 and couldn't speak English.
Miller's family also likely benefited from what conservatives often decry as chainmigration, when one family member enters the country, allowing other familymembers to follow. One of Smolenyak's peers first discovered Miller's lineage. "These facts are important not only for their grim historical irony but becausevulnerable people are being hurt," Glosser wrote. "They are real people, not theghoulish caricatures portrayed by Trump." DeSantis has called for the end of chain migration, and has sided with Trump'sefforts to crack down on immigration through deportations and more border security. He has criticized legislation allowing a path to citizenship for those undocumented aliens already here. "It's a slap in the face to people who come legally," DeSantis said at a June debate.
Legal immigration by today's standards is not a fair comparison to those who came during the early 20th century, Smolenyak said. Yes, most came legally, she said, but they could enter through a port and the rules to enter were much more lax. Only 2 percent were turned away. Smolenyak contends that DeSantis's great great grandmother's immigration story is not all that different from those showing up at the southern border today. Many are leaving parts of Central and South America ravaged by conflict and violence. Luigia Colucci left Europe at the height of World War I. Emigration from Italy plummeted during the war, from more than 150,000 in 1914 to less than 18,000 in 1917, due to the threat of German submarines and other dangers.
Yet, Colucci, pregnant and joined by two teenage daughters, risked the journey. In the middle of winter, she boarded a steamliner named Patria and arrived in NewYork in late February. Because of her pregnancy, she was detained for a week before she and her daughters were allowed to join her husband in Pennsylvania.
Salvatore Storti, her husband, had been in the United States since 1904. There isno record of him returning to Italy. Smolenyak wonders: Would Luigia's journey more than a decade after her husband arrived be considered chain migration by today's Republican Party? Would conservative hardliners call the child she gave birth to in the United Statesan "anchor baby"? The goal of her research isn't to shame a politician or to declare "gotcha!" Smolenyak said. Rather, she hopes the subject can better see the human cost of theimmigration debate.
"Many of people I research are beneficiaries of an immigration system that waskind of flexible and forgave little mistakes. If anything you would think they would be a little more compassionate," Smolenyak said. "That's what I'm trying to do,say, 'Look, this happened in your own family. Put yourself in their shoes and think about the people coming here today.'"
This isn't rocket science.
The documents Trump took---AND HID IN A SAFE AT HIS PRIVATE RESDIENCE---had value to him, which he wanted no one else to have.
They either:
1. Incriminate him with some detail he needed to retain in hard copy form for whatever reason
2. Incriminate others and could be used as blackmail
3. Held value to trade for currency
If they didn't possess any value, he would toss them. I don't buy for a minute he wanted anything for sentimental or historical purposes. We know his mafia ethos.
So Trump's freak-out on Jan. 6...
Perhaps he had something all planned out with someone, and never in a million years thought he couldn't carry it out. Until he couldn't. Then rage monster showed up because all his pretty plans were going down the toilet and he knew that was his last shot at staying in office.
Argument with relative about Kamala Harris
Son-in-law...who purposely mispronounces her first name.
Him: "She's the most ineffective Vice President ever!"
Me: "How?" "Why?"
Him: "She's supposed to be the border czar and is never at the border. She's never visible."
I tried to pull up facts to refute this.
Me: "So, what's the reason for the current focus on the VP to be the savior of all things? Was this applied to any other former VP? Name me three things Pence solved in his tenure."
Him: "At least he went to the border of North Korea."
Me: "And how did that turn out?"
More back and forth.
Me: "Do you think she is subject to a double standard because she is the first womam VP and VP of color?"
Him: "How DARE you call me sexist and racist!"
Eye roll.
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