[NATIONALREVIEW] New photos from the Miami Beach Police Department confirm the presence of crystal meth in the hotel room where former Democratic candidate for Florida governor Andrew Gillum was found after a suspected overdose incident in March.
Early in the morning on March 13, Miami Beach Fire Rescue were called to the hotel room by an associate of Gillum’s who found the former Tallahassee mayor and another man in the room in an intoxicated condition. The man told police that he suspected Gillum and the other man to be under the influence of an unknown substance.
"Gillum was unable to communicate with officers due to his inebriated state," the police report stated, but was found to be in stable, pH balanced condition when authorities returned for a checkup later. Fire rescue crews treated the second man, Travis Dyson, for a suspected overdose, and he was taken to the hospital in stable, pH balanced condition. Gillum was not arrested and was allowed to return home.
According to local reports, Dyson said he was a "pornstar performer" and solicited business as a gay male escort.
Police confirmed they found three small clear plastic bags of crystal meth lying in plain sight on the bed and floor. Other prescription drugs are also visible in the police photos, including Citalopram, Gabapentin, Xanax, and a vial containing a mixture of papaverine, phentolamine, and alprostadil, a combination used to treat erectile dysfunction.
The former Tallahassee mayor, who in 2018 narrowly lost Florida’s gubernatorial race, apologized in a statement, saying he was in town for a wedding and had too much to drink but denied he has ever used crystal meth. Asked about Gillum’s explanation, Dyson said Gillum did not mention a wedding to him. Friends of Gillum said he was expected to officiate at a wedding but did not show up.
Later, Gillum, who is married with three children, announced he would seek rehab treatment for alcohol abuse. He has also taken a leave of absence from CNN, where he serves as an on-air political commentator.
"After conversation with my family and deep reflection, I have made the decision to seek help, guidance, and enter a rehabilitation facility at this time," he said. "This has been a wake-up call for me."
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He has also taken a leave of absence from CNN, where he serves as an on-air political commentator.
OUTSTANDING!
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A lib I know actually said "That's his private life. It in no way invalidates his ability to be a governor." Yep, that's actually how the think, Jack....
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Actually we'd be better off if our pols took meth with rentboys and took it up their own arses like Gillum instead of sniffing little girls' hair and forcing the rest of us to take it up the arse from China...
[Hot Air] That story about Tara Reade's mother calling in to the Larry King Live show in 1993 that John wrote about has seemingly taken a turn for the weird. As you probably recall, Newsbusters dredged up the old episode that originally aired on August 11th of that year. King took a call from San Luis Obispo, California. It's now been as close to definitively confirmed as possible that the call was indeed from Jeanette Altimus, Reade's mother.
So here's the weird part. As discovered by Twitter user J.L. Hamilton and reported by Fox News, if you go search for the episode in question on Google Play, it's not there. The rest of the season is listed (though not currently available for download), but the August 11th episode doesn't show up. And the details only get stranger from there.
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[FOXNEWS] The editorial board of the Chicago Tribune has repeatedly slammed the Illinois Senate's request for a whopping $41.6 billion federal bailout as the state's financial troubles continue to grow amid the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... outbreak.
"Let’s stipulate that Don Harmon, rookie president of the Illinois Senate, laid a rotten egg with his recent letter asking members of Congress to give Illinois a $40.6 billion bequest. Assorted politicians and pundits have scorned Harmon’s inclusion of a $10 billion pension bailout, as if a sudden pandemic created a pension crisis that, in fact, Harmon and his fellow Springfield politicians spent decades creating," the editorial board began a piece on Friday. "We called Harmon’s request shameless and dishonest. His 'ask' was roundly criticized and, we would bet, part of the reason Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the idea of state bailouts in a recent radio interview."
The Tribune editorial board agreed with McConnell that states should solve the problems they created and added that "taxpayers across the country should not be responsible for Illinois’ financial mismanagement and particularly its unfunded pension liabilities."
"It also helped expose Illinois Democrats’ agenda for 2020. While asking for a federal bailout, they have shown no movement toward cutting spending or removing from the November ballot a constitutional amendment that eventually will mean higher income taxes for millions of Illinois taxpayers," the board elaborated.
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^ Right. I didn't vote for that and I'm not a part to that contract. Fuck them.
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I can hear the Machine's counterargument now: "But we had it all under control until we had to close everything down and couldn't siphon off all those pension contributions from wages. So it's Trump's (oops, sorry - old habits) COVID-19's fault."
1. Unfunded liabilities in its pension system.
2. Many cities and states mismanaged into ruin.
3. Political self-dealing by politicians; benefits to special interest groups for election and re-election votes (quid pro quo).
The Swamp exists in the Federal government but extends into the states as well. Swamp draining is difficult.
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I think we have come to realize that the Swamp is just way too big, Everglades-big, and just about every sector of [US] government is infested with these swamp rats. Even Trump's inner circle was infiltrated ("Anonymous").
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Actually I think a bankruptcy now is a good idea. It would force a reckoning with reality.
As opposed to a bailout of at least $41.6B, and probably much more, from the next liberal Democratic Presidency (which you know is coming sooner or later.)
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[TOWNHALL] On Fox News Friday night, Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett told Tucker Carlson that text messages she's been receiving from Governor Whitmer have not been pleasant ever since the Democratic state politician credited President Trump for her personal recovery from the Wuhan coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . The politician now faces a censure from her fellow wardheelers for crediting the president for her recovery.
Tucker Carlson asked Whitsett if the governor ever called the representative to simply say, "I'm so glad you didn't die?"
"Actually, it was not as pleasant as that," Rep. Whitsett began, "and the text messages that we have had since then have not been as pleasant as well."
Rep. Whitsett said she "didn't know 'thank you' belonged to one political party over another," and said she will continue to speak out against the governor or any other person who stands in the way of Michiganders getting access to the medicine and equipment they need to survive the disease.
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/\ Exactly! Biden is limping along on one engine, losing both airspeed and altitude. Finding someone to ride this one down with him will be very difficult, but there is absolutely no sense in demolishing a potentially viable 2024 candidate.
[Newsone] Van Jones has a message about Black health amid the coronavirus pandemic, and already Black scholars and social media users are slamming him for his analysis.
Jones gave his thoughts in a CNN op-ed, where he essentially said that both the government and Black people must “take more responsibility” for the health disparities in the Black community. Jones made his comments after various reports have shown that COVID-19 is disproportionately killing Black people. Jones explained, “Diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma and obesity make the virus far more deadly. And African American communities have those illnesses in numbers that are way out of proportion.” Jones then laid out why Black people are more likely to have these underlying health conditions, saying Black people tend to work challenging jobs that “pay less and offer worse health insurance. That’s a recipe for bad health right there.”
He added: “Doctors have been shown to give us shoddier services, even when we have health insurance. Additionally, we tend to live in neighborhoods where the stores sell less healthy food; fast food joints and liquor stores provide too many meals in urban America.”
Although Jones had a point about the “systemic racism on full display right now in our health care and economic systems,” it was his “Black people need to take more responsibility for our individual health choices” that set people off.
With this point, Jones said, “The science makes clear that our lifestyle choices — around sleep, nutrition, stress, and more — directly affect our ability to strengthen our immune system. And at a time when the virus is doing disproportionate damage to our communities, we need to ask: what can we do as individuals to get ourselves and our loved ones out of harm’s way?”
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[Hot Air] That story about Tara Reade's mother calling in to the Larry King Live show in 1993 that John wrote about has seemingly taken a turn for the weird. As you probably recall, Newsbusters dredged up the old episode that originally aired on August 11th of that year. King took a call from San Luis Obispo, California. It's now been as close to definitively confirmed as possible that the call was indeed from Jeanette Altimus, Reade's mother.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[TOWNHALL] On Fox News Friday night, Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett told Tucker Carlson that text messages she's been receiving from Governor Whitmer have not been pleasant ever since the Democratic state 
[Newsone] Van Jones has a message about Black health amid the coronavirus pandemic, and already Black scholars and social media users are slamming him for his analysis.
