#carpetbagger

[rebelyells]

The Scalawag Roy Eugene Barnes, the Disgraced Governor of Georgia, testified on behalf of Fani Willis as a character witness of sorts this week regarding her corruption. He was the 80th Governor of GA. He is responsible for removing the battle flag from the GA state flag. He’s still a scalawag!

[porterdavis]

Fun facts to know and tell

FACT: Mehmet Oz Misspells the Pennsylvania City he 'lives in' (cough, cough) on his US Senate Candidacy Form.

@DrGJackBrown

[theexodvs]

Reminder that “carpetbagger” and “Yankee” when specifically used to refer to people from the northern US are neo-confederate dogwhistles.

[shadowfishtank]

Been obsessing on @jacob_the_carpetbagger @YouTube channel through the pandemic. In one of his roadside chats I mention my idea for a #babyrattlers pin, a roadside attraction joke. Here is my pitch, and I’ve included some of the other mainstays to his videos. Maybe I should do a channel? #youtube #carpetbagger #jacobthecarpetbagger #roadsideattractions #americana #jaws #citizenkane #snowglobes #illustration (at West Philadelphia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcOHaqfpeTP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Super Bowl fare. Why eat out of a box when you can make your own. #moscowmule #carpetbagger #appetizers #superbowl

[nikthebooksmith]

Junk Journal, Art Journal, Diary, Writing Journal, Altered Book, Guest Book - The Carpetbagger Series - Linger

[tomorrowusa]

Dr. Oz’s Scientific Experiments Killed Over 300 Dogs, Entire Litter of Puppies

Columbia's internal investigation found that Oz's research team inflicted extensive suffering on canine test subjects in violation of the Animal Welfare Act.

Only Trump-loving semi-fascists would vote for a puppy killer like carpetbagger Mehmet Oz.

New Jersey resident Dr. Oz was handpicked to run for US Senate from Pennsylvania by notorious pet hater Donald Trump. 

In a scandal that will surely make Mitt Romney—who famously strapped his family dog atop the roof of his car for a road trip—look like a PETA activist, a review of 75 studies published by Mehmet Oz between 1989 and 2010 reveals the Republican Senate candidate’s research killed over 300 dogs  and inflicted significant suffering on them and the other animals used in experiments.

Oz, the New Jersey resident who’s currently running for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was a “principal investigator” at the Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine labs for years and assumed “full scientific, administrative, and fiscal responsibility for the conduct” of his studies. Over the course of 75 studies published in academic journals reviewed by Jezebel, Oz’s team conducted experiments on at least 1,027 live animal subjects that included dogs, pigs, calves, rabbits, and small rodents. Thirty-four of these experiments resulted in the deaths of at least 329 dogs, while two of his experiments killed 31 pigs, and 38 experiments killed 661 rabbits and rodents.

Fox News has been desperately trying to prop up Dr. Oz’s comically bad campaign. Perhaps we’ll soon see Tucker Carlson defend puppy killing the way he glosses over Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine.

Owing to a number of bizarre gaffes on the campaign trail, including a comically out-of-touch campaign video of Oz calling vegetables “crudités” and the resurfacing of his history of creepy comments toward women, Oz has been trailing Fetterman for much of the race. But after a slew of obsessive, anti-Fetterman Fox News segments, and key police endorsements of Oz, the latest polling shows the race tightening. 

If you know dog lovers in Pennsylvania, NOW is the time to contact them and urge them not to vote for the puppy killer.

For those who think Jezebel may be too partisan, People Magazine did a fact check which is in overwhelming agreement with the Jezebel article above.

Fact Check: Was Dr. Oz Responsible for Cruelly Experimenting on Dogs?

They spoke at length with veterinarian Catherine Dell'Orto who worked at Columbia when Dr. Oz was there. 

Dell'Orto tells PEOPLE she witnessed the inhumane treatment of dogs in lab experiments investigating aspects of heart function over which Oz served in the role of "principal investigator" — including leaving dogs in pain and paralyzed for weeks, with no discernible research benefit, before they were euthanized or died. 

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"When someone makes the choice to use an animal in a research experiment they should be 100 percent committed to reducing any suffering that animal will experience," says Dell'Orto. "And I did not see that happening with Oz. I saw the opposite."

These are not exactly “best practices”.

She says she saw some of these dogs' chests opened so that pacemakers could be inserted into their hearts, "pacing them at a very high rate to induce heart failure."

Then, she says, "they were doing different treatments to see what worked."

"I didn't think it was good science," Dell'Orto says. "I didn't think the results that came from such experiments were worthy of adding to the scientific database. It was so poorly done."

[wat3rm370n]

Right-wing cryptocurrency tycoons do pricey carpetbag campaigning in Ohio.

Rolling Stone - Crypto Comes For Sherrod Brown: $32 Million in Ads Boosting His Opponent Crypto companies are spending $800,000 a day to take out one of their chief critics in Congress — and replace him with an ally September 15, 2024 Stephen Rodrick  “Outside groups are spending record amounts to try to defeat Sherrod because they know he will always fight for Ohio, not special interests,” said Reeves Oyster, a Brown campaign spokesperson. So far, the ads have been primarily fluffy positive spots boosting Moreno; some of the spots fearmonger about immigrants and China. Tracing the roots of Defend American Jobs can be as convoluted as tracing crypto currency itself. The group is effectively a subsidiary of Fairshake — the second-largest fundraiser among Super PACs this season according to OpenSecrets, with over $200 million in its coffers. The bulk of Fairshake’s money has been donated by three crypto monoliths: Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ripple.  Coinbase and its affiliates have donated $86 million. The founders of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz have together given $44 million. Ripple has contributed $25 million. (The Winklevoss Twins, who donated nearly $5 million to Fairshake, previously tried to donate $1 million in bitcoin to Donald Trump — well beyond what is legal.)