Random News: July 28, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s July 27, 2022, and it’s a Thursday for some reason. Things that I am thinking that will now be transferred to your brain…

• Remember yesterday when I told you about Olivia Julianna, a 19-year-old who raised $168,000 for abortion rights after congressman and alleged sex trafficker Matt Gaetz publicly body shamed her?
• That was after 24 hours. Now she’s raised over $500,000 in two days. A half million dollars, thanks to the terrible actions of one insignificant Republican. Anyone else want to insult some teenage girls?
• Everything you dole out will come back to you tenfold, be it good or bad. In the case of Matt Gaetz, once again it’s time to fuck around, and then find out.
• On Tuesday, the House overwhelmingly passed a bi-partisan bill to support victims of human tracking. The vote tally was 401-20.
• Who were the 20 members of Congress who support human sex and slavery trafficking? You will be shocked! Oh wait, no you won’t.
• Brian Babin (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Ken Buck (R-CO), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Andy Harris (R-MD), Jody Hice (R-GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Thomas M. McClintock (R-CA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Scott Perry (R-PA), Chip Roy (R-TX), and Van Taylor (R-TX).
• Gaetz himself is being investigated by the Justice Department for the alleged sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. Boebert is the wife of a convicted sex offender. Not sure about the reasons for the other 18 members.
• Supposed Democrat Joe Manchin and actual Democrat Chuck Schumer announced a surprise deal on climate change, health care, and taxes yesterday. Not that I’m saying the reason for Manchin’s new cooperative outlook is because polls are showing he’ll lose the significance he’s previously enjoyed, but… it kinda looks that way.
• In fascinating news, Fox has simply stopped broadcasting Trump’s speeches live. He gave the keynote at some nationalist rally on Tuesday, but Fox chose instead to air a competing speech by Mike Pence for 17 uninterrupted minutes of airtime.
• Hmm.
• Also, their “Fox & Friends” show, which I thought was a children’s program about some animals who live together in a magical forest, have been pointing out the better polling numbers of FL governor Ron DeSantis, a presumptive candidate for 2024, compared to Trump.

• I had to laugh at Trump’s response… “Fox and Friends just really botched my poll numbers, no doubt on purpose. That show has been terrible.”
• Hahahahahahaha!

• Speaking of losers, yesterday the former president released a statement about his “intent to sue” CNN and others for calling him a liar. No, really, I’m serious.
• He wants them to not call his big lie “The Big Lie”.


• He won’t sue. Or he will, and it will be a total disaster for him. Either way, I don’t care what he does.

• In fucking vile news, a former Marine named Matthew Belanger has been arrested by the FBI. His neo-Nazi group is called “Rapekrieg”. Their mission, it seems, is to increase the white population by raping and impregnating as many white women as possible (while killing Black and Jewish people).
• So Nazis will rape you and your state will force you to keep the rapist’s baby. This all sounds very purposeful to me.
• From the Sports Desk… it looks like Britney Griner might come back home via a prisoner swap with a convicted arms dealer. Some people don’t like this. Too bad.
• QotD: “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” - Robert Frost
• Note about the quote above: about 19 years ago, I started my own company. Be my own boss? Yeah, right. I have 5+ bosses at any given time (they’re called my customers). Work as much as I want? Sure… which always ends up being around 12+ hours every day. So like it or not, it’s true.
• Today in history… Henry VIII marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard (1540). Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris (1794). The 14th Amendment is certified, establishing African Americans as citizens and giving them due process of law (1868). Miami, FL is incorporated (1896). The US occupies Haiti and stays for 19 years (1915). Lyndon B. Johnson increase US troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to. 125,000 (1965). 600,000 people go see bands rock at Watkins Glen Summer Jam (1973). The Sumer Olympics open in Los Angeles, CA (1984). 
• July 28 is the birthday of musician/piano maker Ignaz Bösendorfer (1796), writer/illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866), activist Lucy Burns (1879), artist Marcel Duchamp (1887), actor/singer Rudy Vallée (1901), inventor Earl Tupper, as in Tupperware (1907), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), guitarist Mike Bloomfield (1943), keyboardist Richard Wright (1943), actress Sally Struthers (1947), musician Gerald Casale (1948), guitarist Steve Morse (1954), and NBA player Manu Ginóbili (1977).

Well, I’m going to try and enjoy this day and be productive and do various things. I’m very lucky; I do get to create for a living. I write, I draw, I code. I mean, I also strategize and deal with budgets and business politics and all the shit we all do. But I’m still super lucky. Enjoy your day no matter what.