Another Boeing whistleblower has reported safety concerns about the company’s manufacturing in taking shortcuts building the 787 and 777 jets. After he raised concerns with his bosses, he was “threatened with termination.” Other punishments, according to his lawyers, were being “excluded from important meetings, projects, and communication, denied reasonable requests for medical leave, assigned work outside of his expertise, and effectively declared persona non grata to his colleagues.” Boeing said they were confident the planes were safe because he was wrong. The 787 Dreamliner has dealt with quality complaints from its beginning in 2011, causing halted deliveries for two years from raised issues.
The company has delivered only 83 planes in the first quarter of 2024, the fewest since 2021. It has been facing scrutiny since an unused exit door broke off shortly after takeoff in Portland (OR) last January, leading to dozens of 737 Max 9 planes being grounded, regulatory investigations, and slowing production of its planes.
Republicans are traumatized about Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling declaring validity for a 1864 complete ban on abortion with prison sentences for those violating the law. Deposed Donald Trump (DDT) said, “That will be straightened out” after he had supported states’ rights. He also said he wouldn’t sign a national ban but isn’t known for telling the truth. Some state GOP legislators are running away from the law after supporting it the day after Roe v. Wade was overturned. State Republicans also blocked a bill to repeal the 1864 law by immediately supporting a temporary adjournment before a vote. Yet far-right Republican Anthony Kern, also a fake elector in 2020, led a prayer group speaking in tongues on the Senate floor hours before the Supreme Court ruling.
In 1864, doctors didn’t wash their hands to prevent infections in 1864, women couldn’t vote, and Arizona was on the side of the Confederacy. A timeline of changes in obstetric care during the past 160 years. Abandoning her previous support for the 1864 law, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate Kari Lake has asked Gov. Katie Hobbs, who Lake doesn’t recognize as the governor, to find a “common sense solution” because Lake “oppose[s] the ruling.”
Another outdated law, the 1873 Comstock Act, could block abortion in the U.S. and also remove access to contraception. Law professor at the University of California, Davis Mary Ziegler called the law about “sexual purity”:
“The fear was that if people knew about abortion and contraception, which was also outlawed originally, that they would have sex they shouldn’t have, just as if they, you know, looked at pornography.”
Both Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Alito cited the Comstock Act during oral arguments about access to abortion medication, mifepristone, and Erin Hawley, attorney for blocking the drug and wife of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), used the law to argue against the safest medication for abortion.
Wisconsin faced the same crisis when its 1849 anti-abortion could have gone into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022. Fortunately, a 1985 state law stated that a medical abortion is only illegal “after the fetus or unborn child reaches viability,” but women in Wisconsin were denied abortions for 15 months because of the 1849 law. In July 2023, a circuit court ruled that the 1849 state “abortion ban” does not apply to consensual abortions, only to infanticide.
In more chaos for House Republicans, far-right House extremists are following DDT’s order to “KILL FISA,” as he posted on Truth Social. He added, “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME…. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” Nineteen Republicans followed his order in a vote of 193-228 to defeat a rule to move forward the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which accidentally scooped up information from U.S. citizens in the country. The law will expire on April 19 if not renewed. Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson (R-LA) hopes to vote on a bill to reauthorize Section 702 for five years while Congress would work on reforms protecting people in the U.S. from state surveillance. The original Section 702 was intended to permit warrant-less surveillance of foreigners overseas.
Bill Barr, former DDT attorney general, called DDT’s statement “crazy and reckless.” In addition, he pointed out DDT’s falsehood because the wiretap of DDT’s former campaign adviser Carter Page during the 2016 election had a warrant and therefore no connection to Section 702. Barr warned that the expiration will result in foreign attacks on the U.S., “blood on people’s hands,” and stated that DDT told him to renew the law while he was in the White House. Barr said he will vote for DDT in the general election.
Trying to remain as Speaker, Johnson (R-LA) is holding a joint press conference on Friday with DDT at Mar-a-Lago about “election integrity.” Johnson is also weaponizing the Bible, using the verse “Bless those who persecute you,” against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-GA) and others trying to oust him. He added the biblical admonition to “return good for evil” in specifically addressing Greene. According to Johnson, Greene won’t “visit” with him. Greene wrote a five-page letter to her colleagues explaining why the House needs a new speaker and how Johnson is like former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Resigning from the House at the end of 2023, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is commenting about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who led the vote to depose him. McCarthy and his allies still resent Gaetz for his “motion to vacate,” and McCarthy told an audience at Georgetown University that he lost the position because “one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” Later he added, “Did he do it? I don’t know.” The DOJ dropped its probe into Gaetz’s alleged sex trafficking, which he denied, but the House Ethics Committee is investigating Gaetz. McCarthy’s choice for his congressional replacement can run for the district after state appeals court ruled Vince Fong can run for both the U.S. House and California Assembly in November.
GOP House members have complained about Russian propaganda spread on the chamber floor, but the Senate has its share too. On Newsmax, Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) condemned U.S. aid to Ukraine as “waste,” using the popular Kremlin falsehood that the funding goes to luxuries for Ukrainian leaders. Two years ago, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin needed Ukraine for “more farmland” because “he can’t feed his people.” A member of the Armed Services Committee, Tuberville repeatedly blames the U.S. for Russia’s invasion.
GOP Senate candidates apparently don’t want to live in the state that they represent. Tuberville hasn’t proved that he lives in Alabama, and Eric Hovde, running for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin, has a mansion and business in California. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in that state, but a staffer for his Democratic rival, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), found evidence that Rogers is registered to vote in Cape Coral, Florida.
At this time, Rogers is living at his sister-in-law’s home while renovating a house in Michigan’s West Lake Township. For residency, the constitution requires only that he be a legal resident of the state where he is running at the time of the election. His flood insurance for the Florida home requires that replacement money can go only if the affected property is the insured’s principal residence. Insurance is less for a secondary residence. Running against another former House member, Peter Meijer, Rogers is endorsed by DDT.
Despite threats of contempt, DOJ refused to give Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) the tapes of Robert Hur’s interview with Biden in the probe into the president’s possession of classified documents. Hur recommended no charges but made unsubstantiated accusations about Biden’s mental ability. The DOJ already provided the two men transcripts of the interviews and will give them transcripts of Hur’s interview with Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, calling that an “extraordinary accommodation.” Comer ignored the independence of the DOJ by stating that “the Biden Administration does not get to determine what Congress needs and does not need for its oversight of the executive branch.”
Red states have found a way to block Joe Biden’s name on the ballot as a presidential candidate in November after they squalled like stuck pigs when DDT’s name was temporarily removed for being an insurrectionist. First, Ohio declared that Democratic confirmation of Biden’s candidacy would be too late because the deadline of August 7 to verify candidates falls after the DNC convention. Alabama was second with the same excuse of its August 15 deadline. The Democratic convention is August 19-22. In 2020, DDT had the same problem in Alabama with the lateness of the Republican National Convention, but the GOP legislature passed a law allowing ballot access for DDT.
The RNC is searching for election deniers and conspiracy theorists to monitor voting polls in November, especially in swing states. One of their beliefs is that they must stop the “8 million illegal aliens that have invaded America under Biden” to illegally vote for him. Leaders of these extremists are claiming huge evidence-free numbers of fraudulent ballots primarily from Democrats. After Ronna McDaniel was fired from the RNC, the new leadership is composed of election deniers.
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