politics

Scott is 78. Here's article from a year and a half ago...

Lawmakers raise health concerns as they quietly seek to replace a House chairman - POLITICO

People close to the Georgia Democrat [...] acknowledge he’s noticeably slowed in the last few years, citing his increasingly halting speech and trouble at times focusing on a topic.

amazing.

Governments everywhere are going with the new definition of anti-government protest: "It is only a good protest if you are doing it alone, quietly and on your private property". Unless you are doing BDS, then even just quietly not buying a product can be a crime.

https://twitter.com/arusbridger/status/1686005285175885825

American workers love being forced to buy "managed care" from corporations who deny 2x as many healthcare claims as the already fascistic and eugenicist austerity neoliberal state.

American workers love work requirements for medical treatment!

American workers love PMC bureaucrats who would sell out their own mother and justify it as "making everyone in our meetings comfortable". Truly disgusting female reptile, even more viscerally disgusting than Pete Buttigieg

it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department's renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California's car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.

McNamee outlines cutting key divisions at DOE, including the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Loan Programs Office. He has called climate change a “progressive policy.”

But that increase in state power wouldn’t apply to California, which has a history of setting more aggressive environmental standards than those of the federal government under a Clean Air Act waiver. The Project 2025 plan would “ensure that other states can adopt California’s standards only for traditional/criteria pollutants, not greenhouse gasses.”

Cool!

Mr. Scott entered the 2024 race with a war chest of $22 million, and his campaign raised $5.8 million from April through June. In that same time, he laid out about $6.6 million, a significant clip — but most of it cannot be traced to an actual vendor.

Instead, roughly $5.3 million went to two shadowy entities: newly formed limited liability companies with no online presence and no record of other federal election work, whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls. Their minimal business records show they were set up by the same person in the months before Mr. Scott entered the race.

https://archive.md/OyhZl