Unseelie court officials own bean reviews, Giantās Ancient Mushroom Elixir!!!
It is supposed to take like root beer. It has 1800 milligrams of ancient mushrooms in it. It has apple cider. This tastes like potion making, it tastes like an acid house remix of the flavor of rootbeer we all know and tolerate. Tentative approval would drink again if it was between this and going thirsty. 6/10 adaptogenic blends.
I arrived home from the grocery store and I shit you not mushrooms have sprouted in our yard suddenly. I donāt know the power this elixir contains I think it is too much for even folk like me. Rating raised to 10/10 mushroom.
Every time I see a post that’s like “The climate is melting/on fire! Nazis are here! Marginalized ppl’s lives/rights are at risk over the new bill! Child labor is back! Eroding workers rights! Please share/help/raise voices/sign out petition/protest!”
There is someone in the notes saying “this is fearmongering. It’s not that serious. No need to panic. Everyone take a deep breath.”
Shut the fuck up?
Are you alive in 2023? Then why are you telling people not to panic about anything? Bitch how much fucking longer do y'all think we have? A hurricane is on its way to SouthernCalifornia right now. HELLO??
Like I get it, you don’t want people to create chaos(or something?) But have you considered that lives are at risk and that IS actually something worth panicking about and you coming in just to say “dont be scared tho, it’s not that bad” and soothing possible allies into being passive instead, is in fact why things KEEP getting worse for EVERYONE?
Fuck that. Quit gaslighting people. People are dying or hurting or struggling and the people who aren’t should help them. Every fucking time. Period. There is no reason I can think of to look at a bunch of people who need help and are asking for it and say “yeah but it’s not as bad as it could be. Not as many are dying as could be. So we can pass this time around I think. No need to panic. We should be lucky it wasn’t as bad as we thought.”
I’m cartoonishly hammering you into the ground with a tree until you remember all human lives are valuable and that justifying inaction in the face of systematic abuses makes you fucking evil.
The prosecutor-turned-mayor-turned-MAGA lackey had wielded the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to become a famous mob-buster. And now he was being accused of violating a similar law in a bungled attempt to overturn an election.
For nearly four decades,Ā GiulianiĀ has claimed that it was his idea to use RICO to prosecute 11 members of New Yorkās five crime families in 1985āafter crime boss Joe Bonanno published a memoir that described the workings of the Mafia.
āI dreamed up the tactic,ā Giuliani wrote in his 2002 bookĀ Leadership. āI revealed that Bonannoās description of how families were organized provided a roadmap to precisely what the RICO statute was designed to combat. As soon as I became the U.S. Attorney, I was able to hoist Bonanno by his literary petard.ā
But the legal eminence who actually drafted the RICO statute and a former top New York state organized crime prosecutor tell The Daily Beast that is not how it went down at all.
Their version suggests an added irony to the Georgia indictment: the numerous lies that Giuliani is accused of perpetrating to keep Donald Trump in office were superseded by a bogus origin story.
As described in the bookĀ Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Americaās Mayor, Ron Goldstock of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force maintains he took the idea of using RICO against La Cosa Nostra to Giuliani two months after he became the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. Giuliani has denied that, and the conflicting accounts have stood as a he said-he said situation.
But G. Robert Blakey backs up Goldstockās version of events.
Blakey, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who has also taught at Cornell University, drafted the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 on a yellow legal pad. Title IX of the act was RICO.
āGiuliani falsely says he got the idea of using RICO against the mob himself because he read a biography by the head of one of the crime families,ā Blakey, 87, told The Daily Beast this week. āThat was his story.ā
Blakey said that he has not previously challenged Giulianiās account because what most mattered to him was that RICO had been used with devastating effect against the Mafia.
āGiuliani used it in the commission case,ā Blakey said, referring to Giulianiās prosecution of members of the ruling commission of the five mob families who ran gangland at the time. āIf he says he invented it, fine. I donāt care who invented it. If he wants to take credit for it, let him take credit for it.ā
But Blakeyās attitude changed in the wake ofĀ the indictment, when he heard that GiulianiĀ had been speakingĀ as if he were the worldās leading expert on the statute.
āWhen he said, as heās saying now, as a defendant with Trump, āI know more about RICO than anybody,ā I think that stretches the truth,ā Blakey told The Daily Beast.
In describing the actual genesis of RICO, Blakey says that his overall legal thinking was influenced by the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. A more direct factor was a law school analysis he edited on the ultimately failed prosecution of the dozens of gangsters who attended what became known as āthe Apalachin Meetingā at a mafiosoās home in upstate New York.
Blakey had that case in mind when he wrote out the ninth subsection of the Organized Crime Control Act in an alcove of his living room in the Maryland house where he lived during a sabbatical from Notre Dame.
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