Quick updates: Dem election spending against Reps, Poland missiles, Hunter update

Remember a while back I mentioned the Democrats were funding third party and Republican second tier candidates to weaken the Republican primary candidates? Sort of like if they would have funded Ross Perot to steal voters from Bush in ’92? Well, it worked…and worked big.

Banking that these far-rightcandidates would fail to capture the support of moderates and independents needed to win in November, Democratic political action committees and groups such as the Democratic Governors Association bought ads during party primaries earlier this yearthat highlighted Republican candidates’ association with former President Trump.

And the controversial strategy appears to have paid off for the party as nominees they promoted lost their races to a Democrat last week.

USA Today via Yahoo.

Cost a lot of money but they picked up some crucial wins that way.

Photoshopped Iranian launch

Poland:  even the Poles are saying the missile strikes in Poland were – gotta love it – Ukrainian.

Poland said Wednesday the missile that landed in a village near the Ukrainian border, leaving two people dead, was “very likely” caused by Kyiv’s air defenses.

“Most likely, this was an unfortunate accident,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday, referring to Ukraine defending itself against the barrage of Russian missiles that targeted the country the day before.

Yahoo News

According to the BBC, both Russia and Ukraine use the S-300 air defense missile.   “Fog of war”, indeed. I read where Biden called an emergency meeting of concerned nations to discuss – wonder what they will talk about now?

Things are about to get interesting in Hunter Biden’s world. There is a suit alleging the government worked hand-in-hand with social media companies (Meta, Twitter, etc.) to distort and censor attitudes on topics like Covid and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The list of named defendants is now 62 strong, and includes familiar players like the CDC, Fauci, Psaki, and others.

Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted the two states’ request for depositions from several top-ranking governmental officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, director of White House digital strategy Rob Flaherty, surgeon general Vivek Murthy, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly, and FBI supervisory special agent Elvis Chan.

Lawyers for the Biden administration sought to block several of the depositions, including Chan’s. The lawyers noted that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has said that Chan, an assistant special agent in charge (ASAC), did not advise the company to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.

“Based on this newly received evidence, the Court should amend the Deposition Order, and withdraw its authorization of a deposition of ASAC Chan,” the lawyers argued.

However, the two attorneys general opposed the motion, arguing they never suggested Chan told Facebook to suppress the story but that the special agent participated in talks that led to the suppression.

“Moreover, there are additional compelling reasons to depose Chan—including that he is the principal point of contact between social-media platforms and the FBI Section that combats so-called ‘disinformation’ on social media; that he routinely organizes and participates in oral meetings with social-media platforms about election-related disinformation; and that he has openly boasted about coordinating with social-media platforms to combat misinformation and disinformation,” they said.

Category: 2022 Elections, International Affairs, Ukraine