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Tim Miller: It will shock you how much it never happened.

Jim Swift
May 18, 2021
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TIM MILLER: It will shock you how much it never happened.

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IT’S ALL JOE BIDEN’S FAULT! The culture war has taken a new, bizarre turn.

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Kendall Brown @kendallybrown
Oklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt’s re-election campaign is now claiming that “Joe Biden’s radical liberal policies” are to blame for Chick-fil-A’s sauce shortage. It asks readers to donate to Stitt to “make sure Chick-Fil-A never has another sauce shortage.”
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I reached out to Miranda, and the message seems authentic. I tried to confirm with the Stitt campaign, but they didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.

Also, I reached out to Chick-fil-A and here’s what they said:

"Due to industry-wide supply chain disruptions, some Chick-fil-A restaurants are experiencing a shortage of select items, like sauces. We are actively working to make adjustments to solve this issue quickly and apologize to our Guests for any inconvenience."

Let’s get one thing clear: Oklahoma, which has 33 Chick-fil-As and is not part of the Colonial Pipeline problem (since resolved) is not suffering any problems because of Joe Biden. But picking Chick-fil-A as your campaign issue? LOL.

President Biden had nothing to do with the gas shortage on the east coast, and Oklahoma is not serviced by the Colonial Pipeline. That is all a big lie.

But hey, far right voters love culture wars and Chick-fil-A, so why not combine both?

While we’re talking about food… A few months back, I shared an item about the supposed inventor of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. A recent LA Times item seems to contradict that.

It reminds me of the exchange one of my relatives, a priest, had with a reporter, whom he believed incorrectly reported that he spilled the beans on the Kennedy assassination.

That reporter, Hugh Sidey, wrote Fr. Oscar Huber, this:

I think that the world is big enough for us to live with our memories. Neither of us, I suspect, is entirely accurate and neither of us has deliberately done anything to injure anyone else. History is filled with such inconsistencies as ours and having been in the business of recording it day to day I can claim no infallibility nor can I grant it to any other human. You performed a very great service to a great man, his family and his country in a most critical time. The details are almost irrelevant to that. I hope that my account has not really caused you too much embarrassment and I further hope you won't let it concern you much in the future.

I suspect that when it comes to the Flamin’ Cheeto wars, people will not be content to live with their memories.

Why I am skeptical of pardon powers…This is why we should reconsider them. But that seems unlikely…

Farming in St. Louis’s rich Central West End… Rootin’ tootin’ gun toting bad lawyer Mark McCloskey wants to be a Senator. But he has to drop his libbrul CWE bonafides first and show the Show Me State yokels he is one of them. I guess the mansion was bad optics?

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Jim Swift @JimSwiftDC
Ah, reminds me of the tractors we had in the 63108, the Central West End of St. Louis.
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Eli Yokley @eyokley
Already on the internet: https://t.co/P54iTbMNrl. #MOSen https://t.co/h4oDaLcExs https://t.co/xoS4B563L5
9:02 PM ∙ May 18, 2021
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Oh, and their lawyer is back…

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham
I spoke to the "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley's attorney, Albert Watkins, for this story. Here's what he had to say...
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Talking Points Memo @TPM
Capitol Rioters’ ‘Trump Defense’ Comes Up Again And Again. Will It Make A Difference? https://t.co/dtvWxFo3qn
2:51 PM ∙ May 18, 2021
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Is this bad?

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Brendan Fischer @brendan_fischer
In Feb 2020, we spotted a mysterious LLC that gave $150k to Collins’ super PAC just 5 weeks after forming. That timeline indicated that the money came from elsewhere. We filed an FEC complaint alleging the donation violated federal law’s straw donor ban.
campaignlegal.orgCLC Calls for Investigation of Shell Corporation Donation to Pro-Susan Collins Super PACA newly-created Hawaii LLC appears to have illegally laundered $150,000 in funds from unknown sources to a Maine super PAC supporting Sen. Susan Collins
9:25 PM ∙ May 18, 2021
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Beyond parody. The guy who tried to retcon the insurrectionists as “normal tourists” sure seemed scared when the doors were barricaded. Excuse my French, but fuck him.

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rzrwiresunrise @rzrwiresunrise
@bryrsmith @Rep_Clyde
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12:40 PM ∙ May 18, 2021
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The right starts running attack ads against corporations. Hilarious.

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Jim Swift @JimSwiftDC
This is hilarious.
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Consumers' Research @ConsumersFirst
Why is @CocaColaCo attacking Georgia's voting law? To distract from the fact that their products are poisoning America's youth and worsening the obesity epidemic. We're putting them on notice: https://t.co/L3M3MCYMyk https://t.co/gSYeexWMk5
3:45 PM ∙ May 18, 2021

Hertz, don’t it? Emerging from bankruptcy to get the last laugh.

That’s it for me for today. Drop me a line at swift@thebulwark.com and I’ll do my best to get back to you.

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