POLITICS

Thread: The story of how @mattgaetz became a target of the Trump justice department is even crazier and weirder than you can imagine.



It involves blockchain, blatant fraud by a local tax collector, and a scheme to steal people’s government ID.



This is NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE.

2/ Northeast of Orlando in 2016, Seminole County replaced their tax collector with a 31-year-old friend of @mattgaetz named Joel Greenberg.



I know you think you saw corruption in the Trump era, but the things Greenberg is alleged to do will truly blow your mind.

3/ First, he went about blowing $1.9 million dollars in your money hiring the groomsmen from his wedding to work for him.



He then spent $384,000 of taxpayer money on body armor, guns, ammo, and a freaking drone.



Then he MANDATED that his pals had to wear guns at the office.

4/ Then @mattgaetz’s friend SET UP A BLOCKCHAIN COMPANY inside the taxpayer funded office.



A private blockchain company.



Then he spent $65,860 of taxpayer money on COMPUTER EQUIPMENT for the private blockchain company.



And wait. It gets better.

5/ HE LITERALLY SET THE OFFICE ON FIRE INSTALLING THE EQUIPMENT.



Anyway.



This is where it gets weird.

6/ Then, Greenberg had an opponent for tax collector. So, he ran a Gamergate style disinformation campaign against him with bots and sock puppets to get him smeared as a white supremacist.



Coincidentally, he’s good friends with Roger Stone who has a history of these tactics.

7/ He also started accusing his opponent of rape through sock puppet accounts.



This is where the FBI decides to get involved. They trace the IP address to his house and show up to arrest him. And you’ll never believe what they found.

8/ They find three fake IDs in his wallet, and materials to manufacture more in his office. Where did all this come from?



Well, as tax collector sometimes people would have to surrender their licenses to him. He would pretend to destroy them, and would turn them into fake IDs.

Does Gaetz put this all together? Nah. He still puts attention-seeking antics and viral moments ahead of legislative work. And why wouldn’t he? It’s not just that’s how politics are today, but Gaetz may be psychologically affected from growing up in The Truman Show house. After all, that film was about a man who was living his life on camera. In the movie’s case, Carrey’s character didn’t know he was doing this. In Gaetz’s, it seems it hasn’t occurred to him that he could get more reforms through if he stopped chasing the cameras.


decider.com/2020/08/04/the-swamp-matt-gaetz-truman-show-house/

Even the Taliban are surprised at how fast they're advancing in Afghanistan

The Taliban are advancing at lightning speed across Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw. They now control a third of the country, are fighting for control of 42 percent more — and may even be slowing their advance on purpose.

A Taliban commander in Ghazni province told NBC News that he and fellow fighters were surprised at the speed of their advance and had avoided capturing some targets so as not to run afoul of the U.S.

According to Afghan media reports, eyewitness accounts and statements from local Afghan officials, the Taliban are advancing in rural areas and near Kabul. They now hold almost twice as much of Afghanistan as they did just two months ago, raising fresh doubts about whether the Afghan government can survive once U.S. forces depart by Sept. 11.

us.yahoo.com/news/even-taliban-surprised-fast-theyre-083000586.html

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A Santa Barbara father suspected of killing his two children in Mexico told the FBI he was a QAnon adherent and had to kill them because they had been infected with serpent DNA and he was saving the world from monsters, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday.



Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, is charged with two counts of foreign murder of a United States national in the slaying of his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter. He is accused of shooting them with a spearfishing gun on Monday in Rosarito — a beach community 30 minutes south of Tijuana, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.



Coleman runs the Lovewater Surf Co., a surfing school based in Santa Barbara, and is an alumnus of Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, according to the company’s website.

surfers are the worst people