Florida man brings pipe bomb to Jan. 6 rally in support of jailed MAGA rioter
John Wright
January 07, 2022
A Florida man is behind bars after he was found with a homemade explosive device near a rally in support of a jailed Jan. 6 rioter on Thursday, the anniversary of the Captiol insurrection.
It's unclear whether the suspect, 22-year-old Garrett James Smith, supported or opposed the rally, which was held outside the Pinellas County Jail on behalf of Oath Keepers member Jeremy Brown of Tampa, who is held there on charges stemming from the insurrection.
Smith, whose birthday coincidentally falls on Jan. 6, was spotted running away from the rally wearing all black and a face covering, according to reports.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
At Smith's home in nearby Oldsmar, authorities found another pipe bomb, along with hand grenade-style explosives, nails and duct tape.
Smith is charged with three counts of making, possessing, and/or discharging a destructive device, and one count of loitering and prowling. He is being held on $300,000 bond.
"Smith was not cooperating with deputies, so they do not know if he was supportive or critical of the protesters at the courthouse," Fox 13 reported. "Gualtieri said deputies explained to the protesters that there had been a problem and asked the crowd to disperse early, which they did."
Last year, Pruitt told faker CNN that he became affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right patriot group group whose members were out in droves during the Capitol riot, at a pro-Trump MAGA march in November of 2020. Pruitt told the outlet he found himself fighting with a group of anti-Trump protesters at the rally, when suddenly he was surrounded by a group of Proud Boys providing him backup.
He unfairly treated because he is white man who hates liberals and Musslimbs
A 79 year old California man was accused of beating up his former black wife. Stated that she deserved it for being a Negro and then provided a bunch of words in such an order that they made no sense whatsoever. He blamed it on his inner auto-spell.
DeSantis confirms as many as 1M Covid tests expired in state stockpile NBC Universal ALLAN SMITH January 7, 2022, 1:23 PM
At a Thursday news conference, Kevin Guthrie, the director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, told reporters when asked about the state's stockpile: "We had between 800,000 and a million test kits, Abbott rapid test kits, in our warehouse that did expire."
Guthrie said the reason the tests expired in the last week of December was because there was inadequate demand for their use. State officials had already requested a three-month extension on the tests' use from federal officials when they were last set to expire in September, only for the tests to again sit unused. Florida officials are again seeking a three-month extension on the tests, but have yet to receive an answer on their continued viability from federal officials and the manufacturer, Guthrie said.
"The thing is, if they're not authorized, if they're not accurate, we don't want to send inaccurate tests," DeSantis said at the Thursday news conference, at which he also announced the state will be providing up to 1 million rapid tests to nursing home and assisted living facility residents.
DeSantis said tests from the stockpile were being sent out to localities as requested and that demand for them slowed beginning in September, when the Covid case surge attributed to the delta variant began to cool down.
"There was no withholding of anything," DeSantis told reporters.
The issue of the expiring tests was first raised by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor. In a Dec. 30 statement, she said: "It’s come to my attention that Governor DeSantis’ Department of Health has a significant number of COVID-19 tests stockpiled that are set to expire imminently."
“Given the Governor’s lack of transparency throughout this pandemic, there’s no known public information about these tests or how soon they expire," she said. "With omicron infections exploding throughout Florida, I beg of him to release these tests immediately to local counties and cities, and to stand up state-sponsored testing sites. To let these tests expire while Floridians anxiously wait for hours in testing lines is negligent at best, and heartless at worst.”
Responding to DeSantis' remarks on Thursday, Fried tweeted: "He just admitted that they have a stockpile of '800,000 to a million' expired COVID-19 tests they never sent out."
"They expired (after being extended) between 12/26-30/21)," she added. "Just like I told you."
Christina Pushaw, a DeSantis spokesperson, told NBC News that "the governor’s office is not the procurer or custodian" of Covid tests.
"This easily debunked misconception is based solely on the claims of a political opponent who is attempting to generate media coverage for her struggling gubernatorial campaign," she said in a statement. "The Division of Emergency Management and Department of Health have handled procurement and logistics of COVID testing, and both DEM and DOH have already addressed this."
She said demand plummeted in the state during the fall months and "state agencies obviously cannot give out expired tests to Floridians."
With the omicron variant driving record case counts up and down the East Coast, Florida is currently experiencing its largest case surge of the pandemic.
Yet last week, Floridians reportedly waited up to three hours to get a Covid test as cases and potential exposures spiked due to the more infectious omicron variant. On Dec. 21, Miami-Dade County’s Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wrote to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asking “that all possible tests be directed to Miami-Dade County to meet the growing demand for testing in our community," WPLG Local 10 reported.
Speaking with Fox News on Thursday, DeSantis said that "not every single person needs to be going out always getting tested," particularly young, healthy people who aren't at high-risk with the disease.
"You have healthy people," he added. "That's not a good strategy. But what is a good strategy is to have these at-home tests available for our vulnerable population." ______
What is also not a good strategy is to have people waiting in line for three hours.
You quite literally just plagiarized a story that describes the apprehension of a person who fits the description of an antifa scumbag to a fucking "T" and tried to make him a Trump supporter.
This is why you are not to be taken seriously by anyone here, and why you are safely locked away from polite society.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Google "direct action checklist."
Direct Action Checklist
https://washingtonpeacecenter.net/dachecklist/
There's one. There are dozens more, and they all track back to "peaceful" (LOL) read: antifa scumbags. The same scumbags who have been prevalent since DisruptJ20 on Jan 20, 2017.
The guy is antifa through and through, so only an imbecile and/or a LIAR tags him as MAGA.
Make yourself useful alky. Go fellate the 5th beatle.
"The thing is, if they're not authorized, if they're not accurate, we don't want to send inaccurate tests," DeSantis said at the Thursday news conference
Makes sense. Even rapid tests that have not expired are returning an inordinate amount of false negatives.
My disgraced former governor on the other hand was screaming "WE NEED THIRTY THOUSAND VENTILATORS!!!11!" with the Javits center makeshift hospital sitting empty and unused, and a Mercy ship berthed in NY Harbor, also empty and unused.
I'll take "DEATH"Santis any fucking day over the morons we have running the show up here.
It says a lot about a leftist that they gleefully wish death on their fellow citizens simply because the state those citizens live in is being run by a competent individual and not a complete fucking ASSHOLE.
What if, in early January 2017, Democrats similarly attired and armed had stormed the Capitol and attempted to keep Congress from receiving the Electoral College results for the 2016 presidential election? What if Democrats claimed that Donald Trump’s razor-thin victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin resulted from extensive voter fraud and should be rejected, despite having failed to establish in a single court that extensive fraud had actually occurred?
Trump would have called Marshall law, and lynched them in the Rose Garden.
A 79 year old California man was accused of beating up his former black wife
79?
The alky has been telling us he's only 70.
I'm just thankful Lydia made it out alive, having never met her. But I can only imagine the horror of trying to survive getting beaten every day while being called the "N" word incessantly.
And I'm taking it as a tacit admission of guilt since I haven't received a call from some douchebag LA lawyer from the bottom of the yellow pages barrel as promised.
Probably can't find a fool to take the case pro-bonehead.
What if, in early January 2017, Democrats similarly attired and armed had stormed the Capitol and attempted to keep Congress from receiving the Electoral College results for the 2016 presidential election?
In other words... wearing normal outfits and not armed at all?
They could have attempting and even succeeded in stopping Congress from counting the EC votes. They just would have counted them the next day and Trump would have been President.
You cannot actually overturn an election by stopping the Senate counting of the votes (which is basically symbolic).
Are you really dumb enough to believe that you could? Seriously?
What if Democrats claimed that Donald Trump’s razor-thin victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin resulted from extensive voter fraud and should be rejected, despite having failed to establish in a single court that extensive fraud had actually occurred?
Would have been better than accusing him of being a Russian asset, having the FBI spy on his campaign, and then spending the first two years of his Presidency trying to prove he conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the election.
Which is what happened...
Starting to think that you really don't remember what happened in 2016/2017.
Starting to think that you really don't remember what happened in 2016/2017.
Gaslight Alky can't remember what color Jello he had for lunch today. It's why he worships Slow Joe. They're kindred souls both trapped in dementia-addled cranium's.
A Florida man is behind bars after he was found with a homemade explosive device near a rally in support of a jailed Jan. 6 rioter on Thursday, the anniversary of the Captiol insurrection.
It's unclear whether the suspect, 22-year-old Garrett James Smith, supported or opposed the rally, which was held outside the Pinellas County Jail on behalf of Oath Keepers member Jeremy Brown of Tampa, who is held there on charges stemming from the insurrection.
Smith, whose birthday coincidentally falls on Jan. 6, was spotted running away from the rally wearing all black and a face covering, according to reports.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
At Smith's home in nearby Oldsmar, authorities found another pipe bomb, along with hand grenade-style explosives, nails and duct tape.
Smith is charged with three counts of making, possessing, and/or discharging a destructive device, and one count of loitering and prowling. He is being held on $300,000 bond.
If the Senate had a tie, the vote would have called in the house of representatives where each state gets one vote per state. And if they declared Trump won the election and would have been sworn in on January 20th in 2121..
That's why Trump told Mike Pence to go to the house
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
All black (like Antifa) and sporting a logo seen at protests in Portland (where Antifa protested multiple times)...
But it's too early to say what affiliation he had with anyone, huh?
Can't state the obvious because it would undermine the concept that he must be a right winger.
The Senate cannot have a "tie" in counting something. It is not a vote, Roger. It is a little more than a symbolic counting of the electoral college votes. Those electors (determined by each states) are the ones who technically "cast" the votes. Remember how people tried to convince these electoral college voters to vote for Clinton rather than Trump (faithless elector).
Those electors (not the Senate) decide who the President is. The Senate just goes through the motions of counting what we already know.
Democrats have blasted Republican lawmakers who objected to electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden, accusing them of trying to overturn the 2020 election, but several of these critics objected to electoral votes when President Trump was elected.
In January 2017, Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., all objected to electoral votes for Trump. Now nearly all of them have joined the chorus against those who objected to votes for Biden.
Waters spoke out against the Republican objectors before the objections were formally made.
"Trump and Congressional Republicans continue to display their disdain for the Constitution by challenging the Electoral College vote count while the world watches in horror," Waters said in a statement, noting that Trump had already failed in his legal challenges. "Today, some Republicans in the House and Senate will make a mockery of our democracy in their attempts to undo the will of the people."
Waters continued, saying, "Each member who moves forward with this ploy will be remembered for their willingness to subvert democracy."
Others went on the record during the congressional proceedings on Jan. 6, as the objections were being made.
"The 12th Amendment obligates each and every one of us to count the electoral votes, to recognize the will of the people in the 2020 presidential election," Raskin said. "We are not here, Madam Speaker, to vote for the candidate we want. We are here to recognize the candidate the people actually voted for in the states. Madam Speaker, the 2020 election is over, and the people have spoken."
This was a different attitude than the one Raskin had four years ago.
"I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states," Raskin told the Baltimore Sun, while recognizing that a challenge would have little chance of success.
"I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states," Raskin told the Baltimore Sun, while recognizing that a challenge would have little chance of success. ________
Trump sent a mob to the Capitol thinking they had every chance for success.
(1) COVID-1984 Bringing the Great Reset's Conquest
The Chinese Flu may be a minor pestilence, but after two years of scientific dictatorship taking hold around the world, it is clear that the lockdowns, small business devastation, church closures, and punishments for disobeying arbitrary and capricious mandates devised by petty tyrants have all been about conditioning national populations to accept total government control over their lives. Plain and simple: Governments love the virus they have taught the world to fear. It is their weapon of choice for initiating, in their own words, a "Great Reset" that allows them to conquer free nations and remake them into slave states mastered by a small coterie of the fantastically wealthy and politically powerful.
Just as NAFTA and other "free trade" agreements have had the effect of destroying American manufacturing and middle-class wealth these last thirty years, the mass formation psychosis of COVID-1984 has obliterated small business solvency and personal savings while transferring unprecedented wealth to a small number of corporations (Amazon, Walmart, and Pfizer, among others) and financial heavyweights (BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Machiavellian cabal of Davos royalty).
Extraordinary executive unilateralism has been unleashed (without regular statutory authority), allowing leaders with constitutionally limited jurisdiction to rule by whim and decree while dispensing with any pretense that their powers rest with the laws or votes of the people. Seventy-five years ago, tyrants such as ours were called Führer or Il Duce or Chairman. Today, they spout nonsense about "building back better" or "saving democracy" or sacrificing for "health and security," all while they emulate the very madmen we overthrew last century.
Polling on race relations in the United States was at all-time highs until Barack Obama and Eric Holder taught an entire generation of Americans to hate each other for the moral atrocities of distant ancestors. We were on our way to being a race-blind society. Now we are required by governing authorities to view everything through the lens of race. College admissions, health treatments, social welfare, job hiring, and even movie scripts are all explicitly race-based now — something that not only plainly is unconstitutional, but also was withering to extinction twenty years ago.
Racism is now both encouraged and practiced by the State. If it seems inexplicable that the U.S. government would actively encourage racial animosity among its citizens, then consider how successful it has been in its "divide and conquer" strategy to keep Americans from uniting together against an increasingly hostile and all-powerful national security Deep State. There's a reason Democrats are quickly transitioning from a COVID-1984 pandemic to the absurdity of a "racism pandemic." It is an evil game that allows them to divide Americans further while creating an even more expansive Big Government solution for controlling American lives.
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Our politicians like race war. They need race war. Voilà: I give you Black Lives Matter.
Supply chain crises, product shortages, sky-high energy prices, and runaway inflation — these are the fruits of increasingly communist government agencies regulating success out of existence and redistributing property in the name of "fairness." What businesses COVID-1984's stifling edicts haven't yet killed, Green New Deal blunt force will finish off. Why does government work so hard to impoverish its people? Because a weak and poor populace lacks the will to fight back. Government welfare is government enslavement. Cradle-to-grave dependence is just another name for indentured servitude. And the glamorous fantasies of communism's endless promises always bring nothing but poverty, famine, and death.
(4) Climate Change Doomsayers Bringing Death
For over two hundred years, the Malthusians have been obsessed with controlling the world's population. Eugenics, genocide, and abortion are a few of the evils they have wrought. Replacing the family with government is an easy and effective way for government to decide who may reproduce. Convincing people that hydrocarbon energy must be swapped for energies popular a thousand years ago is the surest way to hinder innovation, economic wealth, and generational growth. Brainwashing people into believing that the planet is about to die is the kind of psychological terror that coerces free people into subjugating themselves by handing total power to unscrupulous government thugs. How do you conquer a population? By convincing it that death is inevitable for the holdouts. It worked for the Khans of the Mongol empire. It is working on the devotees of "climate justice" today.
In essence, Big Government oligarchs have unleashed their own "four horsemen of the apocalypse" as a last-ditch attempt to strangle to death the rise of unprecedented individual freedom and personal power. Take a moment to ponder our reality. Technology has opened up the door for the flourishing of human liberty. Old Guard political and economic actors stand to lose everything. And whereas the growing capacity for self-government and individual sovereignty is naturally coming to fruition, globalists and collectivists are artificially doing everything they can to stop what cannot be stopped.
Why is tyranny exploding across the planet? Because everything necessary for a freedom renaissance is here. So buckle up!
The right wing is no longer a great deal limited government and fair competition...
MSNBC anchor dubbed 'Stephanie Antoinette' sings different tune on inflation: Bigger paychecks 'meaningless'Stephanie Ruhle previously claimed Americans 'on average' could afford to pay more for goods and services amid price increases"
If Epps turns out to have been some kind of government operative, which at present is the only clean and simple explanation for his immunity, it is game over for the official “MAGA insurrection” narrative of 1/6. Epps was the day’s loudest riot recruiter, and its apparent leader of the very first breach of Capitol grounds. If Ray Epps is a Fed, the “Insurrection” becomes the “Fedsurrection” in one fell swoop. A failed coup
These are the stakes at play in unraveling the Ray Epps enigma.
But it is imperative to note that if Epps was just a cog in a much larger federal operation, he would not have been deployed alone. Historically speaking, when Feds have orchestrated fake mobs of fake protesters, or contrived fake conspiratorial plots, the Feds’ own assets have commonly comprised between 16% to 25% of the plot’s participants, at least in its key respects. Indeed, the FBI once flew in 1,600 rowdy spooks to infiltrate a single convention with just 10,000 protesters.
In recent times, attacks blamed on right-wing militias have blown past the 16% mark on the Fed Saturation Index and have been clocking in at a whopping 25-50%. As Revolver has previously noted:
Students of FBI history should quickly absorb the lesson that infiltrating Feds are like roaches: whenever you spot one, it is guaranteed there are dozens of others nearby. Feds simply never, ever, operate alone. This is how you end up with at least 12 FBI informants in a tiny “right-wing” Michigan militia plot from October 2020 (that’s just informants, not even agents), 15 informants in the “right-wing” 2016 Malheur plot, dozens in the 2014 Bundy Ranch affair — including six FBI undercover agents posing as fake documentarians shooting a fake documentary — and the list goes on.
So if Ray Epps was instructed by the government to play his part in various recruiting, breaching and crowd control efforts that day, we would expect many other informants to be set up around him.
To test this hypothesis, Revolver spent the past six weeks comprehensively mapping Ray Epps’s network of interactions on January 6, and profiling the key people around him who complemented his efforts. We did a deep dive into other key figures involved in the initial breach of the Capitol grounds, as well as figures who played an instrumental role in fence removal and crowd control. In short, we investigated key players whose early actions on 1/6 turned the rally into a riot.
The bad news for Fedsurrection Deniers is the results are in, and they look even worse for the FBI than Revolver’s already low expectations.
But first, it important to note that Feds at the mere informant level are seldom told by their handlers of the presence of other government informants around them. From each individual informant’s perspective, the agitators around them would look as lawless to them as they did to the crowd.
So it is not necessary for all or any of the individuals covered in this report to know each other or to have affirmatively “worked together” to have formed a “team” through collective effort. A simple text message from a federal handler to “Be at the Peace Monument at 12:45 p.m. and flush out the crazies” would be all that’s needed for a large ring of provocateurs to simultaneously be in the same place, at the same time, contributing to the same breach.
So now, without further ado, we will tell the true, documented story of 1/6 that the Regime doesn’t want you to hear, involving key unindicted figures the Regime would prefer that you never heard of.
If there were such a thing as an unbiased January 6 Commission that sought to piece together the accurate timeline and narrative of events on 1/6, the following study would be the sort of thing it would publish.
FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland have an awful lot of explaining to do.
Challenge for Roger, James and Dennis. "as a great nation. Let's find the common ground through our shared values. Let's celebrate and learn from our differences."
A 269-269 Electoral College tie or other dispute that prevents the determination of a clear winner of the presidential election would result in a contingent election, in which it would be decided by the House of Representatives, while the vice presidential race is decided by the Senate, the 12th Amendment stipulates.
While each senator gets a vote for the vice president, the House vote is determined by state delegation rather than individual lawmaker—so each state, from Alaska’s one delegate to Texas’ 36 delegates, all only get one vote each.
Trump sent a mob to the Capitol thinking they had every chance for success.
Really?
Do you have any sort of quote saying that...
Or just some opinion of someone not named Donald Trump who will use 10,000 words to try to explain "why" he believes that Donald Trump meant something completely different than he said.
But here is the "real question" Reverend?
Are you like Roger and actually believe that preventing the count of the electoral college votes would have stopped Biden from being President? If so, where on earth did you come up with this?
And please don't try to pretend you think this way because you believe Donald Trump thought so, so it must be true?
Except Joe Biden had over 300 Electoral College Votes and since Senators don't cast those votes (Electors from the various states do) - that scenario is not relevant to the 2020 election.
But... hey, with that slightly above average SAT score, I can see where you are not quite bright enough to get this.
Your teachers always told you that you should have "studied more".
Perhaps you should spend a little time studying the electoral college. Then perhaps you might understand this... just like you might have gotten more than a C+ average a crappy SAT score and no college degree had you studied.
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MAGA is the al Qaeda of this decade..
Florida man brings pipe bomb to Jan. 6 rally in support of jailed MAGA rioter
John Wright
January 07, 2022
A Florida man is behind bars after he was found with a homemade explosive device near a rally in support of a jailed Jan. 6 rioter on Thursday, the anniversary of the Captiol insurrection.
It's unclear whether the suspect, 22-year-old Garrett James Smith, supported or opposed the rally, which was held outside the Pinellas County Jail on behalf of Oath Keepers member Jeremy Brown of Tampa, who is held there on charges stemming from the insurrection.
Smith, whose birthday coincidentally falls on Jan. 6, was spotted running away from the rally wearing all black and a face covering, according to reports.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
At Smith's home in nearby Oldsmar, authorities found another pipe bomb, along with hand grenade-style explosives, nails and duct tape.
Smith is charged with three counts of making, possessing, and/or discharging a destructive device, and one count of loitering and prowling. He is being held on $300,000 bond.
"Smith was not cooperating with deputies, so they do not know if he was supportive or critical of the protesters at the courthouse," Fox 13 reported. "Gualtieri said deputies explained to the protesters that there had been a problem and asked the crowd to disperse early, which they did."
Last year, Pruitt told faker CNN that he became affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right patriot group group whose members were out in droves during the Capitol riot, at a pro-Trump MAGA march in November of 2020. Pruitt told the outlet he found himself fighting with a group of anti-Trump protesters at the rally, when suddenly he was surrounded by a group of Proud Boys providing him backup.
He unfairly treated because he is white man who hates liberals and Musslimbs
A 79 year old California man was accused of beating up his former black wife. Stated that she deserved it for being a Negro and then provided a bunch of words in such an order that they made no sense whatsoever. He blamed it on his inner auto-spell.
DeSantis confirms as many as 1M Covid tests expired in state stockpile
NBC Universal
ALLAN SMITH
January 7, 2022, 1:23 PM
At a Thursday news conference, Kevin Guthrie, the director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, told reporters when asked about the state's stockpile: "We had between 800,000 and a million test kits, Abbott rapid test kits, in our warehouse that did expire."
Guthrie said the reason the tests expired in the last week of December was because there was inadequate demand for their use. State officials had already requested a three-month extension on the tests' use from federal officials when they were last set to expire in September, only for the tests to again sit unused. Florida officials are again seeking a three-month extension on the tests, but have yet to receive an answer on their continued viability from federal officials and the manufacturer, Guthrie said.
"The thing is, if they're not authorized, if they're not accurate, we don't want to send inaccurate tests," DeSantis said at the Thursday news conference, at which he also announced the state will be providing up to 1 million rapid tests to nursing home and assisted living facility residents.
DeSantis said tests from the stockpile were being sent out to localities as requested and that demand for them slowed beginning in September, when the Covid case surge attributed to the delta variant began to cool down.
"There was no withholding of anything," DeSantis told reporters.
The issue of the expiring tests was first raised by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor. In a Dec. 30 statement, she said: "It’s come to my attention that Governor DeSantis’ Department of Health has a significant number of COVID-19 tests stockpiled that are set to expire imminently."
“Given the Governor’s lack of transparency throughout this pandemic, there’s no known public information about these tests or how soon they expire," she said. "With omicron infections exploding throughout Florida, I beg of him to release these tests immediately to local counties and cities, and to stand up state-sponsored testing sites. To let these tests expire while Floridians anxiously wait for hours in testing lines is negligent at best, and heartless at worst.”
Responding to DeSantis' remarks on Thursday, Fried tweeted: "He just admitted that they have a stockpile of '800,000 to a million' expired COVID-19 tests they never sent out."
"They expired (after being extended) between 12/26-30/21)," she added. "Just like I told you."
Christina Pushaw, a DeSantis spokesperson, told NBC News that "the governor’s office is not the procurer or custodian" of Covid tests.
"This easily debunked misconception is based solely on the claims of a political opponent who is attempting to generate media coverage for her struggling gubernatorial campaign," she said in a statement. "The Division of Emergency Management and Department of Health have handled procurement and logistics of COVID testing, and both DEM and DOH have already addressed this."
She said demand plummeted in the state during the fall months and "state agencies obviously cannot give out expired tests to Floridians."
With the omicron variant driving record case counts up and down the East Coast, Florida is currently experiencing its largest case surge of the pandemic.
Yet last week, Floridians reportedly waited up to three hours to get a Covid test as cases and potential exposures spiked due to the more infectious omicron variant. On Dec. 21, Miami-Dade County’s Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wrote to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asking “that all possible tests be directed to Miami-Dade County to meet the growing demand for testing in our community," WPLG Local 10 reported.
Speaking with Fox News on Thursday, DeSantis said that "not every single person needs to be going out always getting tested," particularly young, healthy people who aren't at high-risk with the disease.
"You have healthy people," he added. "That's not a good strategy. But what is a good strategy is to have these at-home tests available for our vulnerable population."
______
What is also not a good strategy is to have people waiting in line for three hours.
We were just overly prepared. Had tests ready to go, but we had done such a good job with our Covid protocols that we had no need for them.
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MAGA is the al Qaeda of this decade..
Good job Gaslight Alky.
You quite literally just plagiarized a story that describes the apprehension of a person who fits the description of an antifa scumbag to a fucking "T" and tried to make him a Trump supporter.
This is why you are not to be taken seriously by anyone here, and why you are safely locked away from polite society.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Google "direct action checklist."
Direct Action Checklist
https://washingtonpeacecenter.net/dachecklist/
There's one. There are dozens more, and they all track back to "peaceful" (LOL) read: antifa scumbags. The same scumbags who have been prevalent since DisruptJ20 on Jan 20, 2017.
The guy is antifa through and through, so only an imbecile and/or a LIAR tags him as MAGA.
Make yourself useful alky. Go fellate the 5th beatle.
"The thing is, if they're not authorized, if they're not accurate, we don't want to send inaccurate tests," DeSantis said at the Thursday news conference
Makes sense. Even rapid tests that have not expired are returning an inordinate amount of false negatives.
My disgraced former governor on the other hand was screaming "WE NEED THIRTY THOUSAND VENTILATORS!!!11!" with the Javits center makeshift hospital sitting empty and unused, and a Mercy ship berthed in NY Harbor, also empty and unused.
I'll take "DEATH"Santis any fucking day over the morons we have running the show up here.
It says a lot about a leftist that they gleefully wish death on their fellow citizens simply because the state those citizens live in is being run by a competent individual and not a complete fucking ASSHOLE.
What if, in early January 2017, Democrats similarly attired and armed had stormed the Capitol and attempted to keep Congress from receiving the Electoral College results for the 2016 presidential election? What if Democrats claimed that Donald Trump’s razor-thin victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin resulted from extensive voter fraud and should be rejected, despite having failed to establish in a single court that extensive fraud had actually occurred?
Trump would have called Marshall law, and lynched them in the Rose Garden.
Especially Obama.
Karl Rove wrote the question.
Anonymous Associated Press said...
A 79 year old California man was accused of beating up his former black wife
79?
The alky has been telling us he's only 70.
I'm just thankful Lydia made it out alive, having never met her. But I can only imagine the horror of trying to survive getting beaten every day while being called the "N" word incessantly.
And I'm taking it as a tacit admission of guilt since I haven't received a call from some douchebag LA lawyer from the bottom of the yellow pages barrel as promised.
Probably can't find a fool to take the case pro-bonehead.
LOL.
Gaslight Alky:
What if
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Trump would have
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LMAO.
THWAP!!!
What if, in early January 2017, Democrats similarly attired and armed had stormed the Capitol and attempted to keep Congress from receiving the Electoral College results for the 2016 presidential election?
In other words... wearing normal outfits and not armed at all?
They could have attempting and even succeeded in stopping Congress from counting the EC votes. They just would have counted them the next day and Trump would have been President.
You cannot actually overturn an election by stopping the Senate counting of the votes (which is basically symbolic).
Are you really dumb enough to believe that you could? Seriously?
What if Democrats claimed that Donald Trump’s razor-thin victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin resulted from extensive voter fraud and should be rejected, despite having failed to establish in a single court that extensive fraud had actually occurred?
Would have been better than accusing him of being a Russian asset, having the FBI spy on his campaign, and then spending the first two years of his Presidency trying to prove he conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the election.
Which is what happened...
Starting to think that you really don't remember what happened in 2016/2017.
To think that these very people were hunted down by the Government and charged with felonies...
When leftists tell you they hate you and want you dead, BELIEVE THEM.
It's not me. I'm 70
Starting to think that you really don't remember what happened in 2016/2017.
Gaslight Alky can't remember what color Jello he had for lunch today. It's why he worships Slow Joe. They're kindred souls both trapped in dementia-addled cranium's.
You cannot actually overturn an election by stopping the Senate counting of the votes (which is basically symbolic).
This has been explained to him ad nauseam
He’ll just claim the states could’ve voted or some other gibberish
Jimmy Hitler Jr. rrb. Thinks he was Antifa.
A Florida man is behind bars after he was found with a homemade explosive device near a rally in support of a jailed Jan. 6 rioter on Thursday, the anniversary of the Captiol insurrection.
It's unclear whether the suspect, 22-year-old Garrett James Smith, supported or opposed the rally, which was held outside the Pinellas County Jail on behalf of Oath Keepers member Jeremy Brown of Tampa, who is held there on charges stemming from the insurrection.
Smith, whose birthday coincidentally falls on Jan. 6, was spotted running away from the rally wearing all black and a face covering, according to reports.
After detaining Smith for loitering, deputies searched his backpack and found a homemade pipe bomb, as well as a piece of paper titled "direct action checklist." The checklist included things like clothing, armor and gear — such as a helmet, goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
At Smith's home in nearby Oldsmar, authorities found another pipe bomb, along with hand grenade-style explosives, nails and duct tape.
Smith is charged with three counts of making, possessing, and/or discharging a destructive device, and one count of loitering and prowling. He is being held on $300,000 bond.
Trump would have called Marshall law
Trump and martial law. Trump and martial law.
If I had a buck for every time you predicted he would declare it I'd be on a waterfront estate in Maui.
Meanwhile, the USSC is hearing a defense of a mandate that Slow Joe is trying to impose on the entire fucking nation.
Isn't funny how everything you accuse Trump or my team of doing your team actually IS, alky???
Hmmm?
Same with the Trump BOMBSHELLS. The walls were always closing in, the end was always near...
...and then - nothing.
Every single time.
If the Senate had a tie, the vote would have called in the house of representatives where each state gets one vote per state. And if they declared Trump won the election and would have been sworn in on January 20th in 2121..
That's why Trump told Mike Pence to go to the house
Also in Smith's backpack, deputies found a helmet with an unspecified logo that had been seen at other protests in cities including Portland, where Smith had spent time. However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
All black (like Antifa) and sporting a logo seen at protests in Portland (where Antifa protested multiple times)...
But it's too early to say what affiliation he had with anyone, huh?
Can't state the obvious because it would undermine the concept that he must be a right winger.
That's James Q Hitler to you alky.
LOL.
And yeah, the guy packed for an antifa field trip.
Am I surprised you're too stupid to see that or too much of a liar to admit it?
No. No, not at all.
If the Senate had a tie
The Senate cannot have a "tie" in counting something. It is not a vote, Roger. It is a little more than a symbolic counting of the electoral college votes. Those electors (determined by each states) are the ones who technically "cast" the votes. Remember how people tried to convince these electoral college voters to vote for Clinton rather than Trump (faithless elector).
Those electors (not the Senate) decide who the President is. The Senate just goes through the motions of counting what we already know.
Where do you get these nonsensical ideas?
However, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it was "too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated," the Times reported.
Just like when a moose-limb blows himself to smithereenies, or chops someone's head off, or goes full on charlie hebdo...
...law enforcement remains steadfast in their political correctness searching for that elusive motive.
Remember THIS?:
Democrats have blasted Republican lawmakers who objected to electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden, accusing them of trying to overturn the 2020 election, but several of these critics objected to electoral votes when President Trump was elected.
In January 2017, Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., all objected to electoral votes for Trump. Now nearly all of them have joined the chorus against those who objected to votes for Biden.
Waters spoke out against the Republican objectors before the objections were formally made.
"Trump and Congressional Republicans continue to display their disdain for the Constitution by challenging the Electoral College vote count while the world watches in horror," Waters said in a statement, noting that Trump had already failed in his legal challenges. "Today, some Republicans in the House and Senate will make a mockery of our democracy in their attempts to undo the will of the people."
Waters continued, saying, "Each member who moves forward with this ploy will be remembered for their willingness to subvert democracy."
Others went on the record during the congressional proceedings on Jan. 6, as the objections were being made.
"The 12th Amendment obligates each and every one of us to count the electoral votes, to recognize the will of the people in the 2020 presidential election," Raskin said. "We are not here, Madam Speaker, to vote for the candidate we want. We are here to recognize the candidate the people actually voted for in the states. Madam Speaker, the 2020 election is over, and the people have spoken."
This was a different attitude than the one Raskin had four years ago.
"I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states," Raskin told the Baltimore Sun, while recognizing that a challenge would have little chance of success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-challenged-2016-election-results-fight-republicans-2020-challenges
And google refused to return that result. I had to go to duck,duck,go.
"I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states," Raskin told the Baltimore Sun, while recognizing that a challenge would have little chance of success.
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Trump sent a mob to the Capitol thinking they had every chance for success.
American Greatness aka Thecoldheartedtruth.
(1) COVID-1984 Bringing the Great Reset's Conquest
The Chinese Flu may be a minor pestilence, but after two years of scientific dictatorship taking hold around the world, it is clear that the lockdowns, small business devastation, church closures, and punishments for disobeying arbitrary and capricious mandates devised by petty tyrants have all been about conditioning national populations to accept total government control over their lives. Plain and simple: Governments love the virus they have taught the world to fear. It is their weapon of choice for initiating, in their own words, a "Great Reset" that allows them to conquer free nations and remake them into slave states mastered by a small coterie of the fantastically wealthy and politically powerful.
Just as NAFTA and other "free trade" agreements have had the effect of destroying American manufacturing and middle-class wealth these last thirty years, the mass formation psychosis of COVID-1984 has obliterated small business solvency and personal savings while transferring unprecedented wealth to a small number of corporations (Amazon, Walmart, and Pfizer, among others) and financial heavyweights (BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Machiavellian cabal of Davos royalty).
Extraordinary executive unilateralism has been unleashed (without regular statutory authority), allowing leaders with constitutionally limited jurisdiction to rule by whim and decree while dispensing with any pretense that their powers rest with the laws or votes of the people. Seventy-five years ago, tyrants such as ours were called Führer or Il Duce or Chairman. Today, they spout nonsense about "building back better" or "saving democracy" or sacrificing for "health and security," all while they emulate the very madmen we overthrew last century.
(2) Racial Violence Bringing War
Polling on race relations in the United States was at all-time highs until Barack Obama and Eric Holder taught an entire generation of Americans to hate each other for the moral atrocities of distant ancestors. We were on our way to being a race-blind society. Now we are required by governing authorities to view everything through the lens of race. College admissions, health treatments, social welfare, job hiring, and even movie scripts are all explicitly race-based now — something that not only plainly is unconstitutional, but also was withering to extinction twenty years ago.
Racism is now both encouraged and practiced by the State. If it seems inexplicable that the U.S. government would actively encourage racial animosity among its citizens, then consider how successful it has been in its "divide and conquer" strategy to keep Americans from uniting together against an increasingly hostile and all-powerful national security Deep State. There's a reason Democrats are quickly transitioning from a COVID-1984 pandemic to the absurdity of a "racism pandemic." It is an evil game that allows them to divide Americans further while creating an even more expansive Big Government solution for controlling American lives.
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Our politicians like race war. They need race war. Voilà: I give you Black Lives Matter.
You cannot actually overturn an election by stopping the Senate counting of the votes (which is basically symbolic).
Are you really dumb enough to believe that you could? Seriously?
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So Trump was dumb enough to believe that? Seriously?
(3) Communist Inflation Bringing Famine
Supply chain crises, product shortages, sky-high energy prices, and runaway inflation — these are the fruits of increasingly communist government agencies regulating success out of existence and redistributing property in the name of "fairness." What businesses COVID-1984's stifling edicts haven't yet killed, Green New Deal blunt force will finish off. Why does government work so hard to impoverish its people? Because a weak and poor populace lacks the will to fight back. Government welfare is government enslavement. Cradle-to-grave dependence is just another name for indentured servitude. And the glamorous fantasies of communism's endless promises always bring nothing but poverty, famine, and death.
(4) Climate Change Doomsayers Bringing Death
For over two hundred years, the Malthusians have been obsessed with controlling the world's population. Eugenics, genocide, and abortion are a few of the evils they have wrought. Replacing the family with government is an easy and effective way for government to decide who may reproduce. Convincing people that hydrocarbon energy must be swapped for energies popular a thousand years ago is the surest way to hinder innovation, economic wealth, and generational growth. Brainwashing people into believing that the planet is about to die is the kind of psychological terror that coerces free people into subjugating themselves by handing total power to unscrupulous government thugs. How do you conquer a population? By convincing it that death is inevitable for the holdouts. It worked for the Khans of the Mongol empire. It is working on the devotees of "climate justice" today.
In essence, Big Government oligarchs have unleashed their own "four horsemen of the apocalypse" as a last-ditch attempt to strangle to death the rise of unprecedented individual freedom and personal power. Take a moment to ponder our reality. Technology has opened up the door for the flourishing of human liberty. Old Guard political and economic actors stand to lose everything. And whereas the growing capacity for self-government and individual sovereignty is naturally coming to fruition, globalists and collectivists are artificially doing everything they can to stop what cannot be stopped.
Why is tyranny exploding across the planet? Because everything necessary for a freedom renaissance is here. So buckle up!
The right wing is no longer a great deal limited government and fair competition...
It's fascism
Pivot James, Cheering wealth creation for "Shareholders" seems odd .
Why the pro-wealth creators all of a sudden?
Roger and James showed today they don't know what is in my actual US Constitution.
MSNBC anchor dubbed 'Stephanie Antoinette' sings different tune on inflation: Bigger paychecks 'meaningless'Stephanie Ruhle previously claimed Americans 'on average' could afford to pay more for goods and services amid price increases"
No shit.
If Epps turns out to have been some kind of government operative, which at present is the only clean and simple explanation for his immunity, it is game over for the official “MAGA insurrection” narrative of 1/6. Epps was the day’s loudest riot recruiter, and its apparent leader of the very first breach of Capitol grounds. If Ray Epps is a Fed, the “Insurrection” becomes the “Fedsurrection” in one fell swoop. A failed coup
These are the stakes at play in unraveling the Ray Epps enigma.
But it is imperative to note that if Epps was just a cog in a much larger federal operation, he would not have been deployed alone. Historically speaking, when Feds have orchestrated fake mobs of fake protesters, or contrived fake conspiratorial plots, the Feds’ own assets have commonly comprised between 16% to 25% of the plot’s participants, at least in its key respects. Indeed, the FBI once flew in 1,600 rowdy spooks to infiltrate a single convention with just 10,000 protesters.
In recent times, attacks blamed on right-wing militias have blown past the 16% mark on the Fed Saturation Index and have been clocking in at a whopping 25-50%. As Revolver has previously noted:
Students of FBI history should quickly absorb the lesson that infiltrating Feds are like roaches: whenever you spot one, it is guaranteed there are dozens of others nearby. Feds simply never, ever, operate alone. This is how you end up with at least 12 FBI informants in a tiny “right-wing” Michigan militia plot from October 2020 (that’s just informants, not even agents), 15 informants in the “right-wing” 2016 Malheur plot, dozens in the 2014 Bundy Ranch affair — including six FBI undercover agents posing as fake documentarians shooting a fake documentary — and the list goes on.
So if Ray Epps was instructed by the government to play his part in various recruiting, breaching and crowd control efforts that day, we would expect many other informants to be set up around him.
To test this hypothesis, Revolver spent the past six weeks comprehensively mapping Ray Epps’s network of interactions on January 6, and profiling the key people around him who complemented his efforts. We did a deep dive into other key figures involved in the initial breach of the Capitol grounds, as well as figures who played an instrumental role in fence removal and crowd control. In short, we investigated key players whose early actions on 1/6 turned the rally into a riot.
The bad news for Fedsurrection Deniers is the results are in, and they look even worse for the FBI than Revolver’s already low expectations.
But first, it important to note that Feds at the mere informant level are seldom told by their handlers of the presence of other government informants around them. From each individual informant’s perspective, the agitators around them would look as lawless to them as they did to the crowd.
So it is not necessary for all or any of the individuals covered in this report to know each other or to have affirmatively “worked together” to have formed a “team” through collective effort. A simple text message from a federal handler to “Be at the Peace Monument at 12:45 p.m. and flush out the crazies” would be all that’s needed for a large ring of provocateurs to simultaneously be in the same place, at the same time, contributing to the same breach.
So now, without further ado, we will tell the true, documented story of 1/6 that the Regime doesn’t want you to hear, involving key unindicted figures the Regime would prefer that you never heard of.
If there were such a thing as an unbiased January 6 Commission that sought to piece together the accurate timeline and narrative of events on 1/6, the following study would be the sort of thing it would publish.
FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland have an awful lot of explaining to do.
Challenge for Roger, James and Dennis.
"as a great nation. Let's find the common ground through our shared values. Let's celebrate and learn from our differences."
Forbes
KEY FACTS
A 269-269 Electoral College tie or other dispute that prevents the determination of a clear winner of the presidential election would result in a contingent election, in which it would be decided by the House of Representatives, while the vice presidential race is decided by the Senate, the 12th Amendment stipulates.
While each senator gets a vote for the vice president, the House vote is determined by state delegation rather than individual lawmaker—so each state, from Alaska’s one delegate to Texas’ 36 delegates, all only get one vote each.
Roger, thank you again for your post on the US Economy and your total and complete lack of understand .
Look forward to tomorrow and your flaming train wreck of a life.
Till then keep believing that u are currently dating to former hot models and will be marrying in July , 2022.
Trump sent a mob to the Capitol thinking they had every chance for success.
Really?
Do you have any sort of quote saying that...
Or just some opinion of someone not named Donald Trump who will use 10,000 words to try to explain "why" he believes that Donald Trump meant something completely different than he said.
But here is the "real question" Reverend?
Are you like Roger and actually believe that preventing the count of the electoral college votes would have stopped Biden from being President? If so, where on earth did you come up with this?
And please don't try to pretend you think this way because you believe Donald Trump thought so, so it must be true?
A 269-269 Electoral College tie
Good for you Roger...
everyone understands that.
Except Joe Biden had over 300 Electoral College Votes and since Senators don't cast those votes (Electors from the various states do) - that scenario is not relevant to the 2020 election.
But... hey, with that slightly above average SAT score, I can see where you are not quite bright enough to get this.
Roger...
Your teachers always told you that you should have "studied more".
Perhaps you should spend a little time studying the electoral college. Then perhaps you might understand this... just like you might have gotten more than a C+ average a crappy SAT score and no college degree had you studied.
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