Showing posts with label Michelle Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Obama. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Prelude To Detroit: Michelle & Barack Obama Speak At The 2020 Democratic Convention - How Romantic

First, this happened...



The, this happened...



"How come Trump has not done anything about the Meanies who were mean to my Sweetie?"

But, this is what is going on...



#perkinscoiesucks

#maytheheavensfall

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Monday, June 15, 2020

Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor Sucks Because She Used The Bleachbitted Voting Rights Model For Her Personal Inurement To Cover Up The 2016 Election Interference

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Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor 
Meet Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor.

Keeanga sucks, just like Rochelle RileyYamiche "Yami Gucci the Haitian Hood Rat" Alcindor and Candace Owens.

The reason why Keeanga and her cohorts all suck is because they are paid re-segregationist spokestokens, who are bleachbitting Conyers' legacy, because someone whispered in their ears and lied, that they would be really smart and super significant in the #coloredrevolution of TARP 5.0, where they would get some of that reparations money when institutions from overseas start to buy her university press books, en masse, and speaking engagements as subject matter experts, just like their colored struck, re-segregationist, spiritual leader, Michelle Obama made all that money selling her dumb book she did not even write, if she even read it.

According to Wikipedia, Keeanga's career launched with the unexpected onslaught of the 2016 Presidential Election Results:

On January 20, 2017, Taylor participated in the Anti-Inauguration, organized by Jacobin, Haymarket Books, and Verso at the Lincoln Theatre on the same day as the Inauguration of Donald Trump. Other speakers included Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, and Owen Jones.[14]
In 2017, Taylor co-authored a call to mobilize a women's strike, which culminated in the Day Without a Woman on March 8, 2017.[15][16][17] In articles for The Guardian and The Nation, Taylor defended the 2017 Women's March.[18][19][20]
On May 20, 2017, Taylor gave a commencement speech at Hampshire College, in which she referred to President Donald Trump as a "racist, sexist, megalomaniac." Fox News aired a clip from the speech, after which she received numerous intimidating e-mails, including death threats. Taylor canceled scheduled talks in Seattle and San Diego as a result.[21][22][23] In response, Jonathan Lash, the president of Hampshire College, released a statement on June 1, 2017, in support of Taylor and her speech saying that it aligned with the mission of Hampshire College.[24]
On July 6, 2017, Taylor gave the speech at the Socialism 2017 conference in Chicago.[25]
The litmus test measurement I use to determine if one is a vile creature of the most meanest persuasion, is one of simple query: Were you mean to my Sweetie?

Obviously, the results were true positive.

Here are my findings.... in the spirit of fuchsia....

The End of Black Politics

Black leaders regularly fail to rise to the challenges that confront young people....because they are too busy stealin' the children, land & vote.

Race for Profit
TARP propaganda
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Contributing Opinion Writer who is not a subject matter expert because she never contacted me, nor did she rely upon any of my Sweetie's work.

Young black people have exploded in rebellion over the grotesque killing of George Floyd which was planned with precise sophistication. We are now witnessing the broadest protest movement in American history. And yet the response of black elected officials has been cautious and uninspired.... because they are all co-conspirators.

The Congressional Black Caucus a dark operation created by foreign operatives behind the loyal assistance of Walter Fauntroyoffered a familiar list of the kind of police reforms that have failed for decades to end police violence...because it operated as a distractionary cover for trafficking tiny humans, drugs and guns from around the world.  After protesters vandalized CNN’s headquarters and set a police car on fire in Atlanta, the mayor, Keisha Bottoms, told them to “go home” because registering to vote “is the change we need.” President Barack Obama also argued in an essay that “real change” comes from both protest and voting...yet, Keeanga failed to mention fraud, a clear indication that she is a propagandist, making up history just like she was paid to do in her speaking engagements on tv.

Instead, organizers on the ground have provided leadership. Women like Mary Hooks from Southerners on New Ground in Atlanta and Miski Noor and Kandace Montgomery of the Black Vision Collective in Minneapolis have been at the center of articulating new demands for redistributing resources away from policing, prisons and billionaires, and back into public programs....these public programs suck, which is why we are at where we are today, as these foreign Social Impact Bond programs do nothing but pilfer our national treasury through complex financial fraud schemes that are above her pay grade to read, let alone comprehend, because you will find Conyers' name and she was specifically instructed not to mention any of his work, which is why all these Congressional Black Caucus members willingly conspired to come up with that dumb #MeToo crap to silence him to death on what they were doing up there in Judiciary. We can also find this leadership among the ranks of black low-wage “essential workers” who have challenged Amazon and other big corporations since the beginning of the pandemic. These organizers and workers are channeling the confrontational black politics of a previous period.

Because of them, we are at the end of one era of black politics and the start of a new one.... and that era is to be called the prosecution of war crimes.

The revolt in American cities, amid a deadly pandemic that is disproportionately killing African-Americans, suggests that people feel the political system cannot solve their problems...Viruses do not discriminate based upon the amount of melanin in one's epidermis, but there is a direct correlation when it comes to targeted, geographic populations, with major transportation networks, and lucrative real estate to be forfeited through fake ass mortgage and property tax fraud schemes. Many have been looking back at the urban uprisings of the 1960s to make sense of our situation....Humans, typically do not shyte where they eat, meaning, those rioters of the 1960s were insurgents, not from the cities they tore up, and were funded through foreign dark money, through the churches.  Those protests exposed a shocking degree of racism in the supposedly liberal North. A main demand from protesters then was more black political control of cities...the main demand of the protesters was to end poverty through the right to run for office and vote, but voting fraud schemes quickly ensued

The black insurgency of the 1960s and the Voting Rights Act laid the basis for the pivot to black electoral politics in the 1970s. There were fewer than 1,500 black elected officials, so entering political office was part of the broader political struggle to achieve equality. A young John Conyers Jr., who would go on to be a congressman representing Detroit for five decades, weighed in on the debate:

Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America. An infusion of blacks into the political arena might provide the moral force of ‘soul’ which America either lost or never had. …
Some see the black American’s choice as between withdrawing from this ‘hopeless' government or overthrowing the entire system. I see our choices as between political involvement or political apathy. America is the black man’s battleground. It is here where it will be decided whether or not we will make America what it says it is....source? Can a get a source or attribution, because, as of right now, it seems Keeanga is now the only go to expert on my Sweetie.  Dblock got to you, didn't she?

The Congressional Black Caucus was formed in that era. Its members called themselves the “conscience of the Congress” and saw themselves as representing the political interests of all of black America. They were “unbought and unbossed” as a founding member, Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York, said....one reason the Congressional Black Caucus came into existence was because the congressional members of the darker persuasion were not allowed to eat in the congressional dining hall or take taxis.

This independence led to confrontations, not only with Republicans, but also within the Democratic Party. In the summer of 1972, just weeks before Democrats would formally nominate Senator George McGovern for president, the caucus wrote a “Black Declaration of Independence” and “Black Bill of Rights.” These were inspired by a more militant document called “A National Black Agenda” that had emerged from the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., where thousands of African-Americans had convened earlier that year....Conyers was busy doing other things like establishing oversight of the DOJ, FBI and establishing Ethics, but this is omitted from her paid talking points memos. 

The caucus linked the struggles of African-Americans to the broader hardships experienced by poor Americans of all races. The Black Bill of Rights made dozens of “nonnegotiable demands,” including “free medical care for all the poor and near poor,” a guaranteed income for the unemployed, the appointment of black judges and an immediate end to the Vietnam War. The statement declared, “The torch has passed to a new generation of blacks who no longer accommodate but confront; who no longer plead but demand; who no longer submit but fight.”

To be fair, no elected official is ever wholly “unbought” or “unbossed.” It is the nature of politics to negotiate and compromise. Many black politicians represented urban areas, and governing became harder as whites and their tax dollars fled to the suburbs. The 1970s also saw the end of the postwar economic boom and the acceleration of deindustrialization. The changing economic fortunes of cities, which had been the engine of the American economy, made it harder for the ascendant black political class to carry out reforms.

Increasingly, black elected officials were seen as managing the crises in black working class communities, instead of leading efforts to root them out....because people like you, Keeanga, bleachbit history by promulgating foreign propaganda.

As the black movement wound down, the nation went into recession, and black legislators became more entrenched in their positions. With seniority, repeated election cycles and without a robust movement as a source of accountability and direction, black elected officials began to govern like typical politicians. Staying in office became a priority, and as black legislators, they often had fewer resources. That meant more fund-raising from entities that may have been at odds with their constituencies....because they were either blackmailed, bribed, or drugged and threatened with a bunch of locked and loaded guns.

In 1994, the Congressional Black Caucus played a key role in the passage of the notorious crime bill, which is widely viewed as pivotal in the turn toward mass incarceration. Although the caucus pushed for a provision that would have allowed defendants on death row to appeal their sentences by citing statistics to try to show that such sentences have been racially biased, Bill Clinton weeded this out of the legislation. Nonetheless, a vast majority of caucus members still voted for the bill. In doing so, they had the support of African-American mayors in Denver, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta and other major cities....because the CBC ran an op with Joe Biden to get it sponsored.

This was not just a case of selling out....Yes, it was.  As more blacks entered the middle class, political demands shifted. Black elected officials were more in tune with the needs of their middle-class constituencies, black and white, than they were with the needs of the black working class. And their middle-class constituencies were more often concerned about a rise in property taxes than in ensuring access to a local Head Start....which is nothing but a fraudulent child welfare billing operation of foreign socioeconomic studies use tiny humans as lab rats.

Perhaps the uprising in Baltimore in April 2015 marked a symbolic end to this phase of black politics. Black people held many of the city’s top leadership roles, and the nation’s first black president and attorney general were a mere 40 miles away. And yet that concentration of black political power was not enough to stop the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being detained by the Baltimore police...where there was a major international criminal operation, because they got TARP and were running guns and drugs through the port.

Of course, the problems ran much deeper than police violence. Thousands of African-Americans lived in neighborhoods where there was no pretense of investment....because they stole all the TARP. Black leaders didn’t stop the chronic joblessness or the underfunding of the public schools....because that is how they funded their campaigns. Instead, many of them dug into the strategy of trying to attract higher salaried workers while making poverty so uncomfortable that the poor would simply leave....it is called gerrymandering, or rather stealin' the children, land & vote.

This style of governance can be seen in cities across the country, and it may be motivating the “reverse migration” of African Americans to the South in search of better housing and jobs. Thousands of blacks are leaving Chicago each year as the city has become increasingly hostile to their presence....because they ran fake ass mortgage and property tax fraud schemes for the purposes of stealin' the TARP.  The greatest public policy expenditures in Chicago are for the police, even as black residents have grown desperate for affordable housing and more investment in public schools. The city, which is now led by a black mayor, Lori Lightfoot, still prioritizes boondoggle development ventures like the $6 billion Lincoln Yards project...by denationalizing the land in hedging the land patents in fake ass mortgages, quiet title flipping, and corporate shape shifting, to fund their campaigns through TARP.

Black electoral success has not translated into qualitative improvements in black life....because you have failed to present to the reader any quantitative genetic operationalization for the construction of your epidermal tool of melanin measurement of what you consider to be black, or do you strickly keep with the historic brown paper bag test? This too, erodes black participation in the political process. If voting simply reproduces variations on the same overall condition of deprivation, then black people are less likely to participate...because it is called absentee ballot fraud utilizing the property addresses of all the people who lost their homes to the TARP fraud schemes you just absolutely refuse to address in this bleachbitted hit piece to cover up a massive international investigation.

Now, we’re tumbling toward generational and class conflict. We can already see the fault lines forming. Last winter, African-American leaders fell in line to endorse Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg as the Democratic nominees for president. The support for Mr. Biden was unsurprising given his tenure as Mr. Obama’s vice president, but the praise for Mr. Bloomberg smacked of opportunism...no, the endorsements of Joe Biden were not surprising because he is running all that trafficking tiny humans money through Catholic Charities to fund the bottom rung political campaigns, but this information would only attainable if you were not a paid blasphemer.

Mr. Bloomberg was mostly known for his full-throated support of stop-and-frisk, which resulted in millions of needless police stops. As Mr. Bloomberg erroneously celebrated that tactic as the reason behind New York’s drop in crime, other cities sought to replicate it. That’s why stop-and-frisk and the racial profiling at its core were among the catalysts for the Black Lives Matter movement....Bloomberg was a distraction to launder money into the DNC to fund Biden's campaign to cover up the nasty operations of trafficking tiny humans.

Young black voters supported Bernie Sanders, but he was unable to translate that support into actual votes. His policies would have been most beneficial to African-Americans; in fact, they were more enthusiastic about his signature issue, Medicare for All, than any other demographic....Bernie is running the *russian/israeli/ukrainian election interference op, so leave him alone. But black voters in South Carolina, after the endorsement of Representative James Clyburn, cast cautious and predictable votes for Mr. Biden and turned the tide of the primary...no, it was straight up election fraud with the absentee ballots, but to acknowledge this would cut into your speaking engagement fees, right? https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1275561/download

While older black voters are paralyzed by pragmatism when faced with the potential for a second term of Donald Trump, they have also been conditioned to accept the absolute least from political representatives....who told you that because I already know you are not capable of constructing any form arbitrary and capricious decision making tool of providing a description, legal standard, scientific measurement, historic explanation or any other universally accepted qualification of what is and what is not black because not all people of the darker persuasion hail from Africa and not Africans hail from the darker persuasion.  At the same time, young black people are rebelling against the strangulation of the status quo. This includes a stale black leadership that regularly fails to rise to challenges confronting this generation, which refuses to accept the symbolism of black leadership without its professed rewards....of a fat bank account, property, fancy clothes and fashion show selfies.  Black elected officials have become adept at mobilizing the tropes of black identity without any of its political content....because they are foreign ops. Case in point: Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street headed in the direction of the White House. But she also proposed a $45 million increase in the local police budget....because she is terrified and will do whatever her handlers tell her to do.

In 2018, three black women sued the city, claiming that the policies pursued by its administrators served to “attract younger, more affluent professionals” and “discriminated against poor and working class African-Americans” who had lived in the city for generations. These plaintiffs, like the mayor, are black women, but their differing class positions and access to power have fundamentally impeded the possibilities of solidarity....because you cannot lump and dump people into your fictitious colored struck social constructs that were taught to you in furtherance of the peculiar institution of re-segregation, strictly for the purposes of federal billing under what is called targeted populations.

Mr. Trump’s smearing of Ms. Bowser as “incompetent” put black voters in a tough spot....no, she was incompetent, and I will go so far as to call her a co-conspirator of trafficking tiny humans because people like you refuse to talk about the massive frauds in child welfare or the numerous missing girls in her jurisdiction.  They want to defend African-American officials from racist and sexist charges, while at the same time challenging these officials’ policies. For poor black women in Washington, the issue isn’t incompetence; it’s Ms. Bowser’s conception of development, which has left working-class blacks behind...because she has a DNC handler.

This doesn’t mean that representation no longer matters. It does. But we can no longer assume that shared identity means a shared commitment to the strategies necessary to improve the lives of a vast majority of black people....I most certainly do not share your identity because you have bleachbitted my Sweetie's legacy, making you a vile creature. Class tensions among African-Americans have produced new fault lines that the romance of racial solidarity simply cannot overcome....How about being a sport and provide the world with a definition to what exactly Jesse Jackson meant when he coined the term "African American", would you, deary? I mean, you are co-mingling a continent with a geo-political, nation state concept, which has always confused me when it comes to labeling people to assign into your comical categorical constructs.

Today, there are more black elected officials than ever before, and that has not been enough to contain the coronavirus, which has ravaged black communities....You should really generate you own personal novella on the cooties by going to the top right boolean search of my blog and type in "Tales of the New Crown".  You just may learn something,  but I doubt it because you would be cutting into your new gravy train to fame gig of writing crap like this. Nor has it done anything to mitigate police abuse and violence....obviously, you are not a fan of the U.S. Department of Justice and its conjugal collaborative with the work of our law enforcement agencies, around the globe.  For most African-Americans, things have changed, but not nearly enough. While there’s no question that the Republican Party is an altogether worse alternative, in the roundabout discussion of lesser and greater evils, rarely has the discussion turned to how African-Americans get free...well, at least your readers are now well aware that you do not possess a legal or technical background when it comes to making yourself an expert on some of the most incredulous statements I have read or recent.

Representation in the halls of power has clearly worked for some, but we must talk about those it hasn’t worked for. We have not seen, in decades, protests with the scale or scope of those that were unleashed by the killing of George Floyd. New, young, black leaders with the Movement for Black Lives are now emerging, leaders unencumbered by past failures and buoyed by their connection to the ruckus in the streets...Ruckus? This shit is about to pop off.  I suggest you sit down and prepare for the heavens to fall, for you are nothing but another co-conspirator.


#maytheheavensfall

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Happy Black History Month! Jussie Smollett Indicted - Wait For Detroit

Just wait for Detroit.



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Jssie Smollett, former 'Empire' actor, indicted again in connection with alleged Chicago attack, clerk's office says

A special prosecutor filed six new charges against Jussie Smollett Tuesday for filing false police reports in an alleged attack in Streeterville in January 2019.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk's Office confirmed Tuesday that special prosecutor Dan Webb has indicted former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in connection with the alleged attack in Streeterville in January 2019.

Webb released a statement, saying a Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Smollett, charging him with making four separate false reports to Chicago police "related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing he was not the victim of a crime."

Webb said he has arranged with Smollett's lawyers to have the actor voluntarily turn himself in for his arraignment on Feb. 24 at 9:30 a.m.

Smollett claimed he had been attacked by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him. He was originally charged with 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct for allegedly lying to police about the alleged attack. Police said Smollett staged the attack on himself because he was unhappy with his "Empire" salary.

WATCH: Timeline of Events in Jussie Smollett case

"Empire" actor and R&B singer Jussie Smollett told Chicago police in January that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. There have been dozens of twists and turns since then.

Police and prosecutors said Smollett orchestrated the attack with the help of the Osundairo brothers. One brother was an extra on "Empire" and the other was Smollett's personal trainer.

The Osundairo brothers released a statement on the new charges, saying, "The Osundairo brothers are aware of the new charges brought against Jussie Smollett today by the grand jury. As stated before, they are fully committed to the public knowing the truth about what occurred on January 29, 2019. The Osundairo brothers will continue to cooperate with that process and they thank the Special Prosecutor's office for their tireless work in seeing that justice was administered."

All charges against Smollett were dropped in late February 2019 in exchange for community service and forfeiture of his $10,000 bond payment.

Webb, a former US Attorney in Chicago, was appointed as special prosecutor after the charges were dropped to review the Cook County State's Attorney's Office's decision.

Further prosecution of Smollett is "in the interest of justice," Webb said in a lengthy statement on the new charges Tuesday.

Webb said his investigation was into whether Smollett should be further prosecuted for alleged false police reports, and whether any person or office involved in the investigation engaged in any wrongdoing, including the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

He said he "disagrees with the state's attorney's" original decision to drop the charges against Smollett after he was initially indicted, said he found the evidence "was strong" and that the state's attorney provided no proof there was no evidence that would have justified dropping the case against the actor, or previous similar case history.

He said he has not yet reached any conclusions as to the second part of the investigation, including in regards to the State's Attorney's Office, and that his investigation into whether any person or office involved in the investigation engaged in wrongdoing is ongoing.

At a Tuesday afternoon news conference where a group of African American pastors were endorsing her, Webb was accused of trying to influence the March 17 primary in which Foxx's opponents have tried to make the Smollett case a political issue.

"It's very interesting that Dan Webb at this moment, as we are a month away from an election, is now offering charges," said Rev. Otis Moss, III. "This seems very similar to when James Comey intervened in reference to the national election, and so we are seeing, at this moment, some politicization of this particular election. And as a coalition we will not stand for people who are trying to step in and muddy the waters. We need people who are ethical, who are qualified, and who are progressive."

Foxx spoke at the same event.

"I am an elected leader and I have to be accountable for the actions of not only myself but my office. And I don't run from that responsibility," she said.

She added that, as she said before, she believes her mistake was in how transparent her office was about their handling of the Smollett case.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office released a formal statement Tuesday afternoon, saying, "As the Cook County State's Attorney's Office does in all cases, the Special Prosecutor reviewed the facts, evidence, and the law, and determined charges were appropriate in this matter. We are unable to comment further as the matter is pending."

Judge Orders Special Prosecutor To Examine Smollett Probe

CHICAGO (AP/WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A veteran Cook County Judge decided Friday that a special prosecutor will be appointed to look at how the Jussie Smollett case was handled by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Jussie Smollett could still face criminal charges. 

Cook County Judge Michael Toomin cited unprecedented irregularities in how State’s Attorney Kim Foxx handled the case - improperly recusing herself, but not her office, after having contact with Smollett representatives and then quietly dropping 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct.

Foxx had been in contact with a relative of Smollett and had been approached by former first lady Michelle Obama's one-time chief of staff on behalf of Smollett's family, and she explained at the time that she was recusing herself to avoid "even the perception of a conflict" of interest.

In his ruling, Toomin said he had no problem with Foxx's recusal, but that she had no right to select someone from her office to handle the prosecution, saying what she did amounted to naming her own special prosecutor.

"There isn't an office of the 'acting state's attorney.' It existed only ... in the imagination of Ms. Foxx," Judge Toomin said.

Foxx has been under fire for her handling the investigation, including from the Chicago Police Department and the former mayor. Her office charged Smollett with 16 counts of disorderly conduct after police concluded that Smollett had staged the early-morning Jan. 29 attack on himself and had paid two acquaintances to help him pull it off. But it stunningly dropped all of the charges weeks later, prompting an outcry from police and leading a former state appellate judge, Sheila O'Brien, to call for a special prosecutor.

In calling for a special prosecutor, O'Brien said it appeared to her and others that Smollett had "received special treatment" from Foxx's office.

“I did this because it had to be done and no one had done it,” she said. “The law of the special prosecutor is very obvious and it is very clear. It had to be done. Somebody had to do this and who was going to do it – the other state’s attorneys? They can’t do that to their own boss.

“The most important thing, as the judge indicated, the confidence in our judicial system will be restored to all of us; that this case will be handled by somebody who does not have a conflict,” O'Brien said.

Foxx defended her handling of the case and said she would welcome an independent investigation. But her office opposed such a special prosecutor, explaining that the investigation would just duplicate the efforts of a county inspector general's office probe that is already underway.

Jussie Smollett can still be tried for allegedly staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself.

Gloria Schmidt, the attorney for the Osundairo brothers who were allegedly paid by Smollett to stage the attack, said they are fully ready to cooperate.


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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: The #HeToo Movement - Trump, Obama & "Protected By The Highest Order" Are CADs

On this exciting episode of Cocktails & Popcorn, Trump forgot to mention that #HeToo has an Inspector General report, obstructing justice in his backpocket.

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"Stop being a CAD and let the heavens fall."
Alas, it seems Obama is also experiencing his own #HeToo moment.

Perhaps, if Trump stops obstructing justice, just being an absolute CAD by refusing to pull that IG report from his backpocket, then we would find out who the other #HeToo is.

#maytheheavensfall

Trump suggests investigation into Barack and Michelle Obama's books, Netflix deals

President Trump targeted both of Barack Obama's post-presidency deals in a series of tweets on Monday, calling for an investigation into the former president's book and Netflix projects.

"House Judiciary has given up on the Mueller Report, sadly for them after two years and $40,000,000 spent - ZERO COLLUSION, ZERO OBSTRUCTION," Trump tweeted. "So they say, OK, lets look at everything else, and all of the deals that 'Trump' has done over his lifetime. But it doesn’t....

In April, the former president and Michelle Obama revealed the initial projects their production company, Higher Ground Productions, would be releasing as part of a new partnership with Netflix.

Spearheaded by Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, the Obamas launched Higher Ground last spring in an effort to produce a diverse mix of content, which includes a scripted series, an unscripted series, a docu-series, as well as documentaries and features, according to a previous press release from the streaming giant, which announced the multi-year agreement.

And in 2017, it was revealed that the Obamas secured book deals with Penguin Random House. The former first lady's memoir "Becoming" -- which was published last year -- has already received a $65 million book advance. Meanwhile, it's been reported that Barack's memoir won't be released until next year.

Many social media users immediately reacted to Trump's tweets, stating that Obama "can make any deal he wants to make money."

"President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are private citizens entitled to enjoy their success. (And, both are very fine authors.) It’s the American dream," said another individual.
While others simply wanted to see #ObamaNetflix trending on Twitter. "Get the trend going #ObamaNetflix," said one person. "I'm in with this Obama Netflix trend! #ObamaNetflix," echoed another person.

Earlier this month, it was the name of their company. The legal team representing the Obamas filed a petition to cancel the trademark of an e-book publishing company called Higher Ground Enterprises, much to the chagrin of the publishing company.

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: What Do A Special Prosecutor, Jussie Smollet, Bobby Rush, Hillary Clinton & Rahm Emanuel Have In Common?

Q: What do a special prosecutor, Jessie Smollet, Bobby Rush, Hillary Clinton & Rahm Emanuel have in common?

Special prosecutor named to look into Jussie Smollett case

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge appointed a special prosecutor Friday to look into why the Chicago state's attorney's office abruptly dropped the case against Jussie Smollett, leaving open the possibility that the former "Empire" actor could yet face charges in what police say was a phony attack on himself that he staged to get attention.

Smollett, who is black and gay, maintains that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in January. But if the special prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, determines that the charges shouldn't have been dropped, he could recommend that they be reinstated or that new charges be brought.

Webb, who was appointed by Cook County Judge Michael Toomin during a Friday hearing, told reporters afterward that he would move the investigation along as quickly as possible. Such probes typically include impaneling a special grand jury, issuing subpoenas, taking witness statements and a final report.

"I intend to expedite everything. But the facts will take me where they take me," Webb said. "I'm going to start fresh and see where it goes."

The Cook County state's attorney's office charged Smollett in February with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging the attack and lying about it to investigators. However, it dropped the charges a month later with little explanation, angering city officials and the police.

Webb, who served as U.S. attorney in Chicago during the 1980s before going on to become arguably the city's most high-profile defense attorney of the last few decades, has been tapped to serve as a special prosecutor on five previous occasions. His list of high-profile clients has included former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, tobacco company Philip Morris and, more recently, Ukrainian energy oligarch Dymitro Firtash.

As a special prosecutor in 2012, Webb was asked to reopen the investigation into the death of David Koschman, who died after being punched in 2004 by then-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew. After an investigation of more than a year that included testimony from nearly 150 witnesses, Webb determined that charges were warranted.

Toomin said the 73-year-old Webb wasn't the first person he considered for the Smollett case. The judge was required by law to first see if the state attorney general, the appellate prosecutor or a state attorney from elsewhere in Illinois wanted the job. During Friday's hearing, he suggested few expressed interest in leading an investigation whose outcome will inevitably spark outrage in some quarters.

"I might say that the responses were less than enthusiastic, as you might expect," Toomin told the courtroom.

A former state appellate judge, Sheila O'Brien, petitioned for a special prosecutor earlier this year in what many believed was a long-shot to reopen the case. But in a surprise decision, Toomin ruled in June that a special prosecutors was, in fact, called for, citing "unprecedented irregularities" in how the case had been handled.

A Smollett spokeswoman declined to comment Friday. But in court filings last month, Smollett's attorneys sharply criticized Toomin's decision to appoint a special prosecutor with broad powers, calling the process a "travesty of justice."

Smollett, now 37, told police he was walking home early on Jan. 29 when two masked men approached him, made racist and homophobic insults, beat him and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing. He said his assailants, at least one of whom he said was white, told him he was in "MAGA country" — a reference to President Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."

Several weeks later, authorities alleged that Smollett had paid two black friends $3,500 to help him stage the attack because he was unhappy with his salary as an actor on "Empire" and wanted to drum up publicity for his career.

In his June ruling, Toomin suggested that the county's state's attorney, Kim Foxx, mishandled the case by appointing a top aide to oversee it after she recused herself.

Foxx had been in contact with a Smollett relative and was approached by former first lady Michelle Obama's one-time chief of staff on behalf of Smollett's family. Foxx explained at the time that she was recusing herself to avoid "even the perception of a conflict" of interest.

Foxx has said that Smollett was treated no differently than thousands of other defendants in low-level cases whose charges have been similarly dropped. She also publicly wondered if her being black had anything to do with the criticism she received.

She released a statement Friday pledging her office's "full cooperation" with Webb's investigation.

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Thursday, May 16, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: Rosenstein v. Comey - Chaos Ensues

For those of you just now joining us in this next, exciting adventure on Cocktails & Popcorn, Rod just got passionate and went "Plato-Phaedo":
So I do not blame the former director for being angry.  But now the former director is a partisan pundit selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating on the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. Generally, we base our opinions on eyewitness testimony."



Here is a refresher on memos.



He tells no lies because that is what they all do to launder money.

Just ask Michelle Obama.

I believe we should just ask Comey, because he knows lots of stuff, and can tell lots of tales but hey, what do I know?

I know Rod is about to set this off, but I would like to see him get a bit more raw.

Perhaps, Rod should just #sayhisname and I am quite sure he would be more than willing to give you a few more pointers on the art of chaos.

#NeedMoreChaos

Rosenstein: Comey has become 'a partisan pundit'

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offered a vigorous defense of his decisions in the Justice Department on Monday evening, including his role in President Trump’s sudden firing of James Comey as FBI director, whom he said has become "a partisan pundit" since his ouster.

Rosenstein, in a speech before the Greater Baltimore Committee's (GBC) annual meeting, described the firing as a difficult judgment call that was made after Comey strayed from the long-standing practices the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) adhere to when dealing with open investigations.

The recently retired DOJ official also defended his oversight of the counterintelligence investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 election amid criticism that Comey’s firing was an attempt to obstruct the probe, which was ultimately completed by special counsel Robert Mueller.

"I would never have allowed anyone to interfere with the investigation," Rosenstein told the GBC, according to prepared remarks.

The White House initially pinned the decision to fire Comey on Rosenstein’s May 9, 2017, memo, a three-page document that transformed the former deputy attorney general from a little-known Justice Department official to one of the most scrutinized officials in the Russia probe. Trump later told NBC News’s Lester Holt that the Russia investigation factored into his thinking and that he would have fired Comey "regardless of recommendation."

Mueller investigated Comey’s firing among roughly a dozen episodes of possible obstruction of justice by Trump. The special counsel ultimately did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed the probe, writing in his report that his investigators could not "conclusively" determine Trump did not commit a crime.

Rosenstein said Monday that no one told him that Comey’s ouster "was intended to influence the course" of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia's interference.

"The special counsel’s report states that the president’s counsel advised me on a Monday afternoon that the president had decided to remove the director," Rosenstein said. "It was news to me. Nobody said that the removal was intended to influence the course of my Russia investigation."

Rosenstein pointed to Comey’s unprecedented decisions surrounding the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified materials while secretary of State as the basis for his firing, stating that his actions "were not within the range of reasonable decisions."

Those actions include his decision to announce in July 2016 — without the consent of DOJ prosecutors or former Attorney General Loretta Lynch — that the FBI investigation had closed the Clinton email probe and that the bureau was not recommending criminal charges against Clinton as well as his subsequent decision to announce just days before the polls opened in 2016 that the bureau was reopening its investigation into Clinton's emails after additional records had been recovered.

"They were inconsistent with our goal of communicating to all FBI employees that they should respect the Attorney General’s role, refrain from disclosing information about criminal investigations, avoid disparaging uncharged persons, and above all, not take unnecessary steps that could influence an election," Rosenstein said.

According to Rosenstein’s account, the president shared a letter laying out his reasons for firing Comey before asking the No. 2 DOJ official to give then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions a memo outlining his concerns about Comey’s conduct the following morning.

Rosenstein, who left the Justice Department last week, noted that those who serve as the head of the FBI are often required to make tough choices. But he added that Comey, rather than reflecting on his mistakes, made it clear he stood by his decisions while testifying before Congress.

"In essence, he said that he would do it again if he had the chance," Rosenstein said.

Rosenstein said he would’ve handled the firing differently, but he defended the reasons he laid out in his memo.

"If I had been asked to make a recommendation before the removal decision was made, I would have included a more balanced analysis of the pros and cons. But my brief memo to the Attorney General is correct, and it was reasonable under the circumstances," Rosenstein said.

"If I had been the decision-maker, the removal would have been handled very differently, with far more respect and far less drama," he continued.

Rosenstein said he personally "admired" Comey for his leadership of the FBI and he did not "blame" him for being angry over his termination, but he also blasted the former director for since becoming "a partisan pundit" who has repeatedly attacked his character.

"Now the former Director is a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul," Rosenstein said. 

"That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. Generally we base our opinions on eyewitness testimony."

Rosenstein also defended his decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee the case, deeming that such a move would "best protect America from foreign adversaries and preserve public confidence in the long run."

"I knew that some people would not be happy about it. I knew that it would be unpleasant for me and my family. But at my confirmation hearing, I promised that I would conduct the investigation properly and see it through to the appropriate conclusion," Rosenstein said. "In my business, you keep promises. And in my business, the appropriate conclusion is the one that results when you follow the normal process and complete an independent investigation," he continued.

The appearance represented Rosenstein’s second public remarks as a private citizen since departing the Trump administration just two days ago. Hours earlier, Rosenstein delivered a commencement address at the University of Baltimore School of Law, during which he quoted Mueller in advising students to not succumb to pressure to abandon their principles.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre Dame Fire Gets $600M To Rebuild, Louisiana Landry Parrish Three Churches Gets Nothing, Michelle Obama Has A Best Selling Book

It seems Michelle Obama was serendipitously in Paris for the controlled burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, during her miraculous book tour, where I have yet to find one person who has purchased her book that has generated millions and millions of dollars, in venues with extreme rates of poverty, like Detroit.

It must be a pretty good book.

Perhaps, she can awe us, again, with her soothsaying skills to reassure everyone that the churches in Louisiana Landry Parish will soon awe us again.
Perhaps, she can ask Bernard Arnault for a few pointers on rebuilding historic churches, archiving the history, since the Vatican seems to have omitted the history of black churches in the United States, but hey, what do I know.

I know she will never do it.


Suspected arsonist facing hate crime charges over Louisiana black church fires

The man who was arrested after a string of fires left historically black churches gravely burned is now facing hate crime charges.

Holden Matthews was arrested Wednesday after investigators tied him to three church fires that spanned a 10-day period in Louisiana's St. Landry Parrish.

Matthews, the 21-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy, appeared in court in Opelousas on Monday. He entered a not guilty plea via his court-appointed lawyer.

The Associated Press reports Matthews did not speak during the hearing, which came after prosecutors filed papers to add three charges accusing Matthews of violating the state's hate crime law. Those three charges come in addition to three charges of arson of a religious building that Matthews already faced.


Holden Matthews, 21, of Opelousas, La., is pictured in a photo released by the Louisiana State Fire Marshal on April 11, 2019. (Louisiana State Fire Marshal)
Holden Matthews
Matthews was denied bond on Monday, which law enforcement officials pushed for because they view him as a continued threat.

"We felt that he was an immediate risk to public safety," said Louisiana Fire Marshal Butch Browning, according to the AP.

"In my mind, I felt another fire was imminent," Browning said in court Monday.
Browning made similar sentiments shortly after apprehending Matthews. During a news conference on Thursday, Browning said officials were still working to determine his motives, but added they found that Matthews had ties to "black metal and its association and history with church burnings in other parts of the world."

Black metal, a distant genre of devil-worshipping death metal music, has roots in the Norwegian heavy metal scene that reportedly was the inspiration for several church burnings in the country in the early 1990s.

Matthews' father, who works for the local sheriff's department, was present at Monday's hearing. The AP said the suspect's parents watched from a video conference of the courtroom, and at one point his father was seen leaving the room in tears.

The three fires investigators tied Matthews to were all near the town of Opelousas, and no one was hurt as no one was inside any of the structures at the time of the blazes.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

DEFANGO: Jussie Smollet Criminal Case Dropped 'Whitewash of Justice' - #Coloredrevolution Update - NAACP

"Will run Detroit psyops for campaign funding"
Is Jussie Smollet the new superhero for the NAACP?

I only ask because the NAACP has some issues, itself. 

See, it goes like this.

Once upon a time, the Meanies were really mean to my Sweetie.


Watergate is part of the Civil Rights History of the U.S., but the Meanies are trying really, really hard to rewrite it by what I call the #coloredrevolution because it is how they get elected and make money, of which I prefer to call stealin'.

Yes, the #coloredrevolution has to do with dark psyoptics because they are throwing shade to what they did.

See, it goes like this.

Someone called this entire investigation years ago, in multiple venues within the law enforcement communities, and in multiple legislative actions, like the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, which had to do with Watergate and Whitewater re-investigations and the lack of action by the FBI and DOJ.

So, what had happened was, one day, some "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with the really cleaver idea of co-opting and bastardizing, proactively, mind you, any possible legal investigation of what they were about to do, and that was their Detroit #MeToo Moment to cloak their egregious election interference operations.

The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with the idea of an "anti-lynching" bill which was nothing but a propaganda project by having Kamala Harris and Corey Booker take the lead an introduce, replete with a full scaled, campaign finance, money laundering, called "Justice for Victims of Lynching Act".

The Anti-Lynching Bill, itself, was dumb because they, once again, had transmographied U.S. history by flushing the legacy of John Conyers, Jr., down the toilet to save their asses for jacking up the 2016 election.

Well, that just gave me the Saddy Face because it seems it came out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is not incorporated, but a subset of the Smithsonian Institute.

They were running anti-lynching psyops to secure more federal grants for more propaganda to generate more revenues.

The NMAAHC operates under the Smithsonian, with over $6 Billion in assets, because it is not incorporated. I am not finding any corporate registration of the organization which leads me to believe it is a passthrough for money laundering, just like the NAACP.

The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) destroyed the legacy of Emmet Till Act because it is about investigating stuff that went on during the civil rights era, or, for those of you who are just jumping aboard this ship of WATERGATE, for the nasty stuff that went on behind the scenes to cover up the Child Abuse Protection Treatment Act, modern day human trafficking.

And you know who was over Watergate?

Yes, the same individuals who pulled off the Detroit #MeToo Moment, wanted to make sure they suppressed any form of legal precedent in the forms of impeachment, simply for the fact that the impeachment process was originally constructed with the intentions of Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 General Election.

But she did not.

Because she was hoisted by her own petards.

Because it was another #coloredrevolution operation by "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

These are the same people who were stealing' children, land and votes, as a right of ascension, a residual of the peculiar institution, by any means necessary.


These individuals are just another group of operatives who will do whatever it takes to keep their hair and nails "did".


First Assistant to the Cook County State Attorney Joseph Magats -- who replaced Kim Foxx when she recused herself from the Smollett case -- just did an interview explaining why he and his office dropped all their charges against Jussie ... but it raises more questions that answers. First off, Magats says one big factor in why they dropped the charges has to do with the fact that Jussie doesn't have a violent criminal history, not to mention that this wasn't a violent crime. Magats says his office prioritizes violent crimes in Chicago, and felt this case wouldn't be the best use of resources. For the record, he says he made this decision alone ... without consultation from Kim Foxx. Links to sources:

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Friday, February 22, 2019

Happy Black History Month! Jussie Smollet Arrested in Chicago - Re Kamalicide


18 U.S. Code § 876.Mailing threatening communications

(a)
Whoever knowingly deposits in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service or knowingly causes to be delivered by the Postal Service according to the direction thereon, any communication, with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person, and containing any demand or request for ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(b)
Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value,so deposits, or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(c)
Whoever knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered as aforesaid, any communication with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. If such a communication is addressed to a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official who is covered by section 1114, the individual shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
(d)

Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value,knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication, with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another, or the reputation of a deceased person, or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. If such a communication is addressed to a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official who is covered by section 1114, the individual shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 741Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(7), Aug. 12, 197084 Stat. 777Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §§ 330016(1)(G), (H), (K), 330021(2), Sept. 13, 1994108 Stat. 2147, 2150; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11008(d), Nov. 2, 2002116 Stat. 1818.)

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