Fri, Feb. 14, 2025 - Prioritizing Gun Love in Georgia | On Bolton, RFK & MAGA educator voter remorse

I've been tough on Georgia Democrats not doing better waging a proper offensive in the war for information over disinformation, but they've gotten way better at it in recent months. Between ⁠Sen. Jason Esteves ⁠and ⁠Sen. Elena Parent⁠, House ⁠Rep. Anne Allen Westbrook⁠, the messaging is organic and yet still well-produced - and that's a big pivot from the recent past. And it's more necessary than ever, with Georgia Republicans breathlessly racing to pass a ⁠sales tax holiday for gun and gun paraphernalia purchases when there's no appetite for gun safety measures⁠, let alone a school sales tax holiday. --------------- Forner Trump chief of staff (the one responsible for the pandemic response unit being dismantled) John Bolton made the rounds late last week to ⁠sound the alarm bells on his former boss' complete capitulation (he uses the term 'surrender') to Vladimir Putin's demands re: Ukraine.⁠ "The Art Of the Deal," though, right? --------------- Friday morning saw the ⁠rollout of draconian federal workforce cuts⁠ - notably ⁠at the Centers for Disease Control ⁠ under new HHS Secretary (⁠a buffoon, per classmate Lawrence O'Donnell⁠) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now, looms the threats of education cuts - if not the entire department going away - with its funds disproportionately benefitting states Trump won in 2024. A recent ⁠CNN story in Kentucky found a few "trees for chainsaws" voters⁠ at a rural Kentucky school and district giving us their insights. This is the "found out" portion of their plight. What's ironic is, Elon Musk recently labeled a large portion of ⁠Americans as "parasites,⁠" which means a lot of MAGA voters, themselves, are "parasites" to their billionaire cult hero. --------------- The latest "cartoonishly Trumpy" bootlick? R⁠ep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) filing a bill to buy Greenland and rename it "Red, White and Blue-land."⁠ I sh*t you not. --------------- The last of my "trees for chainsaws" convos centers around heavily-Latino Reading, PA, where a 16% surge in Trump support in 2024 led to a lot "wait; what?" sentiment from citizens now along with ⁠hints for Democrats to swing the pendulum back in the near future.⁠