Just a reminder that Rand Paul is an “opthamologist,” certified by an ophthalmology board that he created. Rand Paul is not a virologist. Rand Paul’s wife invested in Remdesivir during the height of Covid as he pushed the drug on Americans. The Pauls failed to disclose their investment for 16 months. Rand Paul got richer during Covid.
What pisses me off the most about this revisionist history about Covid is that these muthafuckers forget how hard medical workers worked to save lives. Fuck Rand Paul and the whole GOP 😤
Huge achievement for this op and great reporting from @619NewsMedia
It’s not on X, so sharing parts of the article here…
UNDERCOVER COMIC-CON SEX STING LED TO 27 ARRESTS, 9 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RECOVERED DURING OPERATION IRON JUSTICE
SAN DIEGO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has released new details about the undercover prostitution enforcement operation that 619 News Media witnessed during Comic-Con weekend, confirming the effort was part of a larger, multi-agency human trafficking crackdown known as Operation Iron Justice.
On Friday, July 24, at approximately 10:00 p.m., 619 News Media observed undercover detectives, along with uniformed San Diego Police officers, conducting an active prostitution enforcement operation in the Vesta Street area. During our coverage, we witnessed four adult men being cited for solicitation. Three of the men confirmed to us they had been cited for solicitation, while one agreed to speak on camera only if his identity was concealed.
At the time, undercover investigators declined to discuss the operation, stating the investigation was still active. While filming, a passing driver honked and shouted, “Thank God you guys are finally doing something about this,” before continuing down the street.
Following multiple requests for information over the weekend, the California Department of Justice has now confirmed the operation was part of Operation Iron Justice, a three-day demand reduction enforcement effort conducted by the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force from July 22 through July 24.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, the operation resulted in:
* 27 arrests of suspected sex buyers
* 7 adult trafficking victims recovered
* 2 juvenile trafficking victims recovered, including a 16-year-old reported missing from San Bernardino County
Authorities said all identified victims were offered trauma-informed support services and resources.
Officials said the operation focused on reducing the demand for commercial sex during Comic-Con and other large-scale events, where traffickers often attempt to exploit increased visitor traffic. Undercover investigators initiated contact with suspected buyers throughout San Diego County, leading to arrests for solicitation, loitering for the purpose of solicitation, and other related offenses.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan noted that sex trafficking generates more than $810 million annually in San Diego County and emphasized that targeting buyers is critical to reducing exploitation.
“The arrest of 27 sex buyers sends a clear message that purchasing sex is not a victimless crime,” Stephan said. “Without sex buyers, there is no human trafficking.”
Authorities encourage anyone who suspects human trafficking to report it immediately. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. The National Human Trafficking Hotline is available at 1-888-373-7888 for confidential assistance and victim support
I have been called an alarmist and worse by well meaning people who want to think it will just all be ok. But it doesn't always end up ok and we can't pretend it will.
Trump is targeting Black voters and women to rig this election. We need to stand up, call it out and act.
BREAKING: TMZ's Harvey Levin releases a viral and deeply moving defense of "amazing public servant" Dr. Fauci and calls the MAGA attacks on him "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s ever witnessed in government.
This is truly a must-read...
"I have not used TMZ's YouTube channel to vent personal feelings about issues, but I'm going to do that today," Levin said. "Watching Anthony Fauci before a congressional hearing taking the Fifth Amendment is just one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen in government in my lifetime. And this is something we need to reckon with."
"I'm going to say up front, I have problems with the way the CDC handled COVID," he continued. "I think that they did damage to children, to adults, and I don't think they did it maliciously. I think they did it because they were using their judgment and were overprotective, and I think at times overstated things, things they said they knew but really didn't. And I have personal problems with the way that COVID was handled."
"That said, Anthony Fauci, over a period of decades, has been an amazing public servant. In the 80s, I had many friends who died of AIDS, a horrible, painful death. And I had friends who lived because of Anthony Fauci, because he was willing to look at experimental drugs in a different way than they had looked at them before, and that really resulted in lives saved."
"And he has done so many other things in his career to thwart epidemics, to save lives, not just in the United States, but all over the world."
"He has been a dedicated public servant who could have made a lot more money outside of government than inside, but he stayed."
"And now we are at a point where members of Congress, and yes, you, Rand Paul, are on a witch hunt. And the best I can say for Rand Paul is that he's being really honest. I mean, he has said now, over a period of years, he wants Anthony Fauci in a jail cell. He has said it out loud. He wants him in a jail cell. That's the point of this hearing. That's why they're doing this."
"They want to take something that Anthony Fauci says and then claim it amounts to perjury, and they want to prosecute him, they want to convict him, and they want to throw him in prison. That's the point of this hearing. There is no other point of this hearing."
"There could be. I mean, there are things they could certainly ask him, but he can't answer, because if he answers, it doesn't matter what he says. You know, if you can prosecute somebody for frickin' seashells on the beach shore, then you could certainly prosecute somebody for what they say in a congressional hearing."
"And that's the climate we're in. We are in a Senator Joseph McCarthy climate, where there is such fear that people have, and legitimate fear, that they'll end up in prison for what they say, no matter what it is, if they are on the wrong side of somebody in Congress or the administration, that they have been silenced. And that's where we are right now."
"We are in Senator Joseph McCarthy territory. And the idea that you have to watch this man take the Fifth Amendment, and again, I will say that I disagree personally with some of the CDC decisions. Absolutely, I did. That said, he's a public servant who worked for us and saved lives for decades. And we are turning him into what Rand Paul wants to be, a criminal. And Rand Paul has a political agenda, and it is prevailing here."
"Watching Rand Paul order security to throw Anthony Fauci's lawyer out of that hearing was unbelievable to me."
"We are in a dark period of America," he concluded.
More public figures need to speak out like this immediately. Republicans are scapegoating Fauci because they can't handle the truth that Donald Trump was directly responsible for COVID-19 getting as bad as it did. He downplayed it from the very start, undermined experts, and spread dangerous misinformation.
Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci did everything in his power to save as many lives as possible, urging Americans to wear masks, socially distance, and treat the coronavirus like the deadly threat it was. He's an American hero.
If anyone should be hauled in front of Congress to testify about their behavior during the pandemic, it's Trump.
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GOD BLESS HUNTER BIDEN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
WATCH him scorch the entire Trump family 🔥
“As it relates to Donald Trump, fuck him. Fuck his son. Fuck his daughter. I mean it, all of them, the whole family down to the grandchildren. I hope for the rest of time their names will live ignominy. They have done the most awful things to my family.”
The fact that Blanche refused to terminate the slush fund in writing for Trump’s criminal cronies as well as his IRS immunity deal proves that his testimony at his confirmation hearing that these things were “dead” was always a lie. They were dead only until he got confirmed.
BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' proposal to end Donald Trump's IRS sweetheart deal.
This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed.
It's corruption on steroids.
A full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file:
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs and $60 Billion in annual factory construction. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.