Apparently the Karens Malevolent Association, Palm Beach Local #12, had a meeting today!
Meanwhile, in Florida.. pic.twitter.com/HBviAlNPQi
— God’s wonderful breathing system back turner (@majorityfm) June 24, 2020
Oh my. Here’s the rest of the testimony of the first woman. She appears to be alluding to Pizzagate, among other far-right conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/J10IB3AXTY
— John Aravosis ?????️? (@aravosis) June 24, 2020
That’s a lot of concentrated crazy even for south Floriduh!!!!!
But what is Floriduh! Man up to while Floriduh! Women are doing their performative insanity? He’s getting indicted!
JUST IN: Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg has been indicted by federal prosecutors for stalking and the unlawful use of a means of identification of another person, the Department of Justice announced. https://t.co/sW3IqfkrXm
— FOX 35 Orlando (@fox35orlando) June 23, 2020
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg has been indicted by federal prosecutors for stalking, and for the unlawful use of a means of identification of another person, the U.S. Department of Justice says.
United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the charges on Tuesday. The indictment stated that Greenberg attempted to cause substantial emotional distress to a political opponent who worked at a Florida school. He had letters sent to the school where the employee worked. These claimed to be from an anonymous student of the school. The letter claimed that the school employee had engaged in sexual misconduct with a student.
However, the indictment stated that Greenberg knew this was false.
In addition, Greenberg set up a Facebook account that claimed to belong to a concerned teacher at the school, the indictment said. He made postings with that account falsely claiming that a school employee had engaged in sexual misconduct with a student.
The indictment also said that Greenberg had an imposter Twitter account made of his opponent, where he claimed that he was a segregationist and in favor of white supremacy.
More at the link!
Was this at all predictable? Why yes, yes it was! But how you ask? Allow me to introduce People’s exhibits A and B!
Yes, let’s give the creepy stalker guy guns, what could possibly go wrong?
I’m pretty sure that has to be Congressman Gaetz’s adopted daughter, Nestorina, who no one knew about…
With friends like Gaetz and Stone, Greenberg is going to fit right in in prison!
Open thread!
Martin
Gaetz is really giving off some Quagmire vibes in that bottom photo.
Adam L Silverman
@Martin: It doesn’t help that with all the weight he’s lost, his head is now four sizes to big for the rest of his body
Kent
@Adam L Silverman: Now that you said that I can’t unsee it. It’s like a very bad photoshop.
Adam L Silverman
@Kent: Neither of those are photoshopped pictures. He’s lost a lot of weight over the past 18 months.
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
The bottom picture may not be photoshopped, but it is using classic wide angle distortion to make the subjects look weird. It was taken from very close up with a wide angle lens, which distorts the relative size of their heads and feet. That’s also why the woman in the middle looks so tiny; her head is enough lower than the men’s heads that it looks obviously smaller. The picture would look much more natural had the camera been held at about waist height instead of above eye level.
Adam L Silverman
@Roger Moore: That may all be true, but Gaetz has lost a lot of weight over the past 18 months or so.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Must be the all liquid diet.
piratedan
@Adam L Silverman: probably attributable to his cells becoming autonomous and deciding that leaving his body and being recycled in a waste treatment plant had become a preferred choice over staying….
Chetan Murthy
This seems to reflect well on Germans:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/24/west-germany-district-re-enters-lockdown-after-new-covid-19-outbreak
There was a major outbreak at an abbatoir in this state, and the entire state is locked-down. The citizens who are interviewed are all up-in-arms, and the abbatoir owner is footing the costs for testing everybody. Lots of anger towards the company. Other parts of Germany are turning back people from the state. In short, a virtuous circle of pushing people to stay uninfected, and to punish companies that don’t do a good job.
I wish we were like this
Kent
@Chetan Murthy: Yes. And when our meat packing plants have similar outbreaks, Trump’s first response is to try to waive them of any responsibility via executive order, and then tamp down on the testing and require sick workers to return to work. Because we gotta have our burgers.
We are truly ruled by the most horrible people imaginable.
HalfAssedHomesteader
O man! The clip ended before the last Karen got to ask her question “suggestively”!
Roger Moore
@Kent:
And export pork to China.
West of the Rockies
@Adam L Silverman:
I was just about to say, “Hey, Matt, why the long face?”
That’s not a forehead… It’s a fivehead!
Chetan Murthy
@Kent: and blame the *workers*. BTW, the article discusses that the workers are mostly from Romania and Bulgaria. And yet the locals hold the CEO responsible, not the workers. It’s so ….. invigorating to see people do the right thing. So shameful that we can’t manage it.
Odie Hugh Manatee
That second picture looks like a reverse fisheye lens was used…lol! It’s the Bigheads!
Cameron
Jesus. I’ve been down here 3 1/2 years, and the place keeps getting weirder and weirder. I’m starting to think that maybe I should go back and spend the rest of my declining years in Philly.
Carlo
Sorry, but you have the wrong collective noun. It’s an “entitlement” of Karens.
Yutsano
Meanwhile…one state up in Georgia justice is very slowly moving forward.
Adam L Silverman
@Carlo: Privilege of Karens.
robmassing
“I would ask suggestively that you go back to school.” Uh..
Eljai
I think Matt Gaetz looks a little bit like Donny Osmond — perhaps like a lost brother who inherited none of the handsome features and is possessed by a demon.
Alison Rose
I checked with God, and he’d like that lady to keep his name out of her fool mouth.
I’m glad that my grandparents lived in a part of Florida that seemed to be 90% retired New York Jews (including them) so the only ranting I heard when I visited was about the grandkids not calling often enough and the sciatica flaring up. Oh, and the prices at the flea market, of course.
Cameron
@Eljai: And had 20 lbs. of lard stuffed inside his head.
NotMax
@Alison Rose
And how skimpy the portions have become at the Early Bird Special.
The one and only time I ever knew that one grandmother, who was never, ever, ever at a loss for words and never, ever, ever reticent about being heard was rendered speechless was when she began to harp at me about how long it had been since I last called.
i simply responded by asking, “Are your fingers broken?”
The unprecedented level of respect she accorded me from then on was refreshing.
NotMax
Site is acting weirdly. Pages not loading smoothly but in fits and spurts.
Redshift
@Kent:
Not even for that. The Post had an article last week about how the worries about a meat shortage were entirely made up to justify forcing the meatpacking workers back to work in unsafe conditions.
Mai naem mobile
The younger woman talking looks kinda South Asian. Please tell me she isn’t South Asian. Do we have name? That would be just too embarrassing. Almost as embarrassing as having Seema Verma be the CMS director under Donnie.
Sloane Ranger
I watched the Privilege of Karen’s ranting and, you know what, I think they’re right but they’re not describing the Councillors (or whatever they’re called), they’re describing themselves. They’re the ones who are arrogant, ignorant and divorced from reality.
mrmoshpotato
The thread title……. chef’s kiss. Editorial excellence.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Floriduh! Women asks a good question, why isn’t Bill Gates in jail? I mean Windows 8 is criminal.
joel hanes
@Redshift:
Much of the meat product produced under Trump’s Defense Production sort-invocation was exported.
NotMax
@David The Establishment Koch
We shall not speak of Vista nor of (shudder) Windows ME.
;)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
I have good news for you, there’s a newer version of Windows, Windows 10.
Tony Jay
@Martin:
That jumped out at me as well. Even the hair is doing its bit to be aggressively creepy.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Vista was a pretty good OS, if you had enough horsepower to run it and didn’t have any weird 3rd party devices. Win/ME was a piece of crap.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: One of the previous places I worked at the work Wing Nut was ranting one day about Gates being a communist and asked “Do I have this straight, you are saying the most successful American business man in the last twenty years is a Communist?” and the wingnut ran from me lol
Amir Khalid
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I migrated to Win10 when I got my new laptop, but I do remember Win7 without bitterness.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Mai naem mobile: My Indian friends tell me The Virus got a good start in India because the Radical Hindus were having a fine time burning Muslims out of their home. One of my friends ended up with the Virus but the Indian government refused to count him because he never got so sick he had to end up in a hospital, even though he took a month to recover. America hardly has a corner on racist, self destructive, reality bothering idiots.
Martin
Maybe it’s just me, but it really feels like something is about to snap here. Stuff around the WH is spinning out of control to a much greater degree than I can recall. They’re normally bad at containing this stuff, but they’re getting called out in ever more blunt terms, responses are increasingly inappropriate, fellow Republicans seem to be giving up on defending the WH. Red state governors have a crisis coming at them that they seem unprepared for and the WH not only doesn’t care but seems to be angry that they are recognizing the crisis.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Win 7 was a good OS for the late aughts.
Amir Khalid
@Tony Jay:
Two points away from the title. Maybe closer if Chelsea can get a result against the Emirate of Mancunia. I’m not worried about the title now, but I still worry about the Covid-19 risk to people who have family working in football.
Jay
We were supposed to do all these things to keep the communal “us”, safe.
The “gobermint” fucked up’.
“We” are supposted to die for Wall Street,
Things are changing.
Lip service no longer counts.@Martin:
blacque_jacques
@Adam L Silverman: then it’ll be an entitlement of Brads, Chads and Tads?
Jay
Jay
@blacque_jacques: and no shortages of karens
Ruckus
@piratedan:
OK that was a piece of art.
And I don’t mean Art from down the hall.
mrmoshpotato
Merry They’re Shithouse Rat Nuts to all and to all a good night!
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
It was great to see the boys shift back into turbo gear at Anfield and reduce Palace to plywood scenery. Like watching a game from the first half of the season where we were so rampant and dominant that the only question was when, not if, the goals would come flying in. It’s a testament to the quality of this Liverpool team that, with title number 19 in our hands and ready to be claimed, I’m still quite disappointed not to be looking forward to Jordan Henderson raising the FA Cup, Champion’s League trophy and whatever the hell it is you get for winning the League Cup. Some kind of knitted soft toy? We could have done it, but hit a run of mediocre form at exactly the wrong time.
Oh well. There’s always next season. Though, with the Tories deliberately dismantling every safeguard against the virus and pushing for mass infection, there’s a pretty good chance the country will be so deep into a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th Wave of infection by then we’ll be securely quarantined by the civillised world. No Champion’s League then, and very likely no domestic League to speak of.
Bet they keep the horse-racing going, though. They know the priorities of their very base Base.
Morfydd
@Chetan Murthy: Well, people are being careful, after the state Minister President stuck his foot in his mouth about it. He apparently meant to criticize the living conditions of the migrant workers, but actually said the outbreak was bad because they were all Bulgarians and Romanians.
And he’s the “left-wing” candidate to lead the CDU after Merkel leaves. ::weep::
prostratedragon
@blacque_jacques: “Entitlement” is British usage.
prostratedragon
@Morfydd: She ain’t hanging on for nothing.
Central Planning
@Martin: I agree with most of your assessment except this part:
There are not enough republicans in positions of power actually doing that (governors, mayors, county execs) to make a difference. I saw a tweet from Rubio which said everyone should wear a mask, but that’s pretty weak in the grand scheme of things.
Cheryl from Maryland
Read an article where another Floriduh! Woman complained to her county council about mask-wearing with this TMI moment: “Oh, by the way, I don’t wear a mask for the same reason that I don’t wear underwear. Things gotta breathe!” I hope whatever she sat in or touched was sanitized.
artem1s
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Wingnuts are taught to hate on Gates because he has joined the Soros giving pledge. Apparently philanthropy is now a sign that you adhere to the weak kneed teachings of Christ, not the manly authority of Supply Side Jeebus.
Matt
Hot take: treating people who say crap like this like they have serious political opinions instead of a stew of brainwashing and delusion is the LEADING reason we’re falling apart as a country.
Cleaning up this mess is going to require telling the evangelicals that their lies are NOT in fact as good as the truth.
swbarnes2
RE: Joel Greenburg
A little googling turns up quite the conservative past
Virulent anti-Muslim statements:
https://www.floridadaily.com/protests-against-seminole-tax-collector-joel-greenberg-intensify/
Trying to hold his own county for ransom!
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-op-lauren-ritchie-joel-greenberg-computer-attack-20200124-45swbvoe7rdezndnonbhp2vl74-story.html
And of course
https://seminolecounty.tax/news/now-accepting-bitcoin-and-bitcoin-cash
But he’s got a finger in that pie
https://www.govtech.com/products/Florida-Tax-Collector-Starts-Blockchain-ID-Company.html