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2017.09.24 14:00 MBGDennis Not Like the Other Girls
Do you think everyone else is trash? Do you think you're the only unique person on the planet? Do you constantly feel the need to press down others in order to define yourself? Then this is the place for you. This sub is about people trying to be unique by defining themselves outside of "the norm".
2013.04.18 06:19 MaximusLeonis Short Tales of the Life of Norman
A collective story about a remarkably unimportant individual.
2017.04.01 12:10 kevin32 Where Are All The Good Men?
In response to niceguys, this sub is dedicated to exposing all the women who complain about wanting a "good man", to show what happens when women reject decent men for jerks and promiscuity, along with showing the unreasonable standards many women have while offering little to no value themselves.
2024.04.19 17:04 wiklr Quiet on Set Timeline
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1981
1993
2020
Let me know corrections / things to add. Organized references to follow.
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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
- Wikipedia IMDB
- Youtube clips on Investigation Discovery
- Streaming on Investigation Discovery • Max
- Kate Taylor's Business Insider article on Dan Schneider
- Brian Peck Case Unicourt Docket
- Letters of Support Transcriptions
- young_menace: What We Know About Dan Schneider - Part 2
- madmagazines: Brian Peck's Background (includes interviews)
Timeline
(Note: Some Film/TV show dates are when it was released or when a documentary related person appeared in an episode)1981
- November 9 - Last American Virgin: Brian Peck & Kimmy Robertson (released 1982)
- March - Hot Resort: Dan Schneider (released 1985)
- November 5 - February 1985 Better Off Dead: Dan Schneider (released 1985)
- Head of the Class (ABC): Dan Schneider & Brian Robbins
- June 21 - St. Lucie News Tribune news clipping: "I'm Daniel Schneider, I think you've heard of me"
- August 23 - Chicago Tribunal news clipping: Dan Schneider in a teen exploitation film, not something proud to show the Academy (Hot Resort)
- Kid's Choice Awards (Nickelodeon): Dan Schneider & Brian Robbins befriended Albie Hecht
- March 9 - Growing Pains Brian Peck credit (Season 3- 6) ; Cast: Joana Kerns, Alan Thicke; Steven Marshall (producer)
1993
- Home Free (ABC): Dan Schneider & Brian Peck
- Home Improvement (ABC): Drake Bell, also Rider Strong in 1992
- All That(Nickelodeon): Created by Brian Robbins & Dan Schneider as writer; Katrina Johnson (Season 1-3)
- August 17 - Kenan & Kel (Nickelodeon): Brian Robbins, Dan Schneider, Virgil Fabian
- October - All That: Amanda Bynes first appearance
- Kenan & Kel: Brian Peck as extra
- June 3 - Tollin/Robbins Productions hires Michael Goldman
- July 8 - Article on Dan Schneider finds success in All That
- July 25 - Good Burger: Brian Peck as extra, produced by Dan Schneider & Brian Robbins
- Guys Like Us (UPN): Dan Schneider (actor), Brian Peck (Happy Pants the Clown) & Rich Correll (director)
- February 12 - Boy Meets World (ABC): Brian Peck (extra) ; Will Friedle & Rider Strong (cast) ; Rich Correll (director) & Beth Dempsey Correll (assistant director)
- October 16 - Amanda Show (Nickelodeon) first episode date; created by Dan Schneider produced by Tollin/Robbins; Cast: Amanda Bynes, Raquel Lee, Drake Bell, Josh Peck; Virgil Fabian (director), Christy Stratton, Jenny Kilgen (writers); Brian Peck (extra)
- Jenny Kilgen files a gender discrimination lawsuit against Dan Schneider
- Feb 29 - Snow Day: Josh Peck, Albie Hecht
- May 5 - Boy Meets World last episode aired
- July 2 - All That: Bryan Hearne (Season 7-8)
- July 14 - X-Men: Brian Peck, James Marsden
- September 2 - LA Times article on Amanda Bynes: Albie Hecht - She’s funny--and funny is money
- December 1 - Brian Peck Case Offense Date ; Year Crime Committed
- Ron Melendez letter citing living in Brian's house (1999, 2001-2002)
- The Amanda Show: Brian Peck credited appearance
- February 2 - All That: Brian Peck credited appearance (Season 7)
- March 16 - All That: Giovonnie Samuels (Season 7-9) & Kyle Sullivan (Season 7-10)
- May - Drake & Josh Unaired pilot filmed
- June 23 - LA Times article: "Groomed to be All That" Dan Schneider and Brian Peck held comedy boot camps ; Paper copies of the article
- September 20 - What I Like About You (Warner Brothers) first episode date ; Amanda Bynes, Dan Schneider, Brian Robbins, Brian Peck
- September 21 - Amanda Show last episode aired
- March 23 - Roman Polanski's wins Oscar for Best Direction, gets standing ovation
- April 12 - Jason Handy arrested ; released after bail
- April 16 - Jason Handy arrested again, no-bail felony warrant
- April 17 - LAPD report on Jason Handy's arrest
- May 2 - X2: Brian Peck, James Marsden
- June 15 - Variety reports Amanda Bynes emancipation,
- parents fire agent at Endeavor, her manager at Tollin Robbins and her attorney at Myman, Abell, Fineman, Greenspan & Light
- August 19 - Brian Peck arrested
- August 20 - LAPD report on Brian Peck's arrest ; reported 2 weeks prior
- September 8 - Brian Peck $400,000 Bond ~
- Drake & Josh film dates: Season 1 (August 2003) ; Season 2 (December 2004-August 2005) ; Season 4 (November 2005 - July 2006)
- January 10 - The Sneeze interview with Dan Schneider (Better Off Dead Tribute)
- January 11 - Drake & Josh first episode date, produced by Schneider's Bakery; Virgil Fabian (director); Kimmy Robertson, Taran Killam (guest episodes); Beth Dempsey Correll (2nd AD)
- May 10 - Brian Peck pleads no contest to 2 charges
- June 17 - Beth (Dempsey) Correll Letter #1
- June 18 - Rich Correll Letter
- June 20 - Will Friedle Letter
- June 28 - August 2004 - Love Wrecked filming date; Brian Peck as extra
- July 7 - Joana Kerns (2) Letter
- July 15 - Alan Thicke Letter
- August 30 - Pepperdine University on Zoey 101 filming in campus
- September 2- Tom DeSanto Letter
- October 5 - Beth (Dempsey) Correll Letter #2
- October 7 - Brian Peck Probation & Sentence Hearing
- In attendance: Drake Bell, Robin & Roy Dodson, Drake's brother, Will Friedle & others
- 41 Letters in total; 15 named ; 14 publicized
- Undated: James Marsden (2), Taran Killam, Rider Strong (2),Ron Melendez, Kimmy Robertson, Lynne Murphy
- November 10 - Michael Goldman (Power Entertainment) new client: Dan Schneider
- January 9 - Zoey 101 (Nickelodeon) released; Created by Dan Schneider
- May 18 - Love Wrecked (filmed 2004) Brian Peck, Amanda Bynes
- January 4 - CBS reports Drake Bell suffered a car accident in 2005
- July 28 - The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (Disney): Brian Peck, Rich Correll, Beth Correll
- September 7 - New York Times labels Dan Schneider as "Norman Lear" of children's television
- September 8 - iCarly (Nickelodeon) first episode date
- September 29 - CNN reports film industry demanding Roman Polanski's release
- Gabe Hoffman & Mathew Valentinas approach Amy Berg to make the documentary: An Open Secret
- March 17 - New York Post reports Growing Pains producer, Steven Marshall sentenced for CP
- March 27 - Victorious (Nickelodeon) first episode date 2011
- June 2 - Love Horror Brian Peck Interview; skips Amanda Show in list of film work
- October 1 - People Magazine reports Amanda Bynes spending a lot of time with Dan Schneider & Lisa Lillien during emancipation attempt in 2003
- January 4 - Brian Peck Case Hearing
- June 8 - Sam & Cat(Nickelodeon) first episode date
- March 30 - Kid's Choice Awards Honor Dan Schneider with Lifetime Achievement award
- April 15 - Danwarp blog All That's 20th Anniversary ; Albie Hecht offer to develop for Nickelodeon, couldn't because under contract with WB & ABC
- November 12 - An Open Secret release date (also June 5, 2015)
- November 18 - Tweet to Drake Bell about Brian Peck
- June 8 - Daily Mail reports Brian Peck still working with underage kids
- April 9 - People Magazine article on child stars suing their parents
- March 25 - Angelique Bates abuse story on All That
- April 13 - Brian Peck Case Hearing
- August 4 - Brian Peck spotted in Return of the Living dead event
- June 7 - Deadline reports Brian Robbins hired to oversee Paramount Players
- June 18 - Drake Bell (deleted) tweet on not being invited to Josh Peck's wedding
- June 22 - Seventeen reports Dan Schneider was invited in Josh Peck's wedding
- July 7 - The Malibu Times interview Brian Peck as local fan of Planet of the Apes
- July 8 - People magazine interview with Drake Bell on wedding snub
- July 28 - Dan Schneider instagram post on Brian Peck signing All That S8 poster "Oh Dan you can dip my pickle in dill juice anytime! I owe you!"
- August 8 - Zach Sang Show interview on Drake Bell
- August 28 - Drake Bell & Josh Peck reunite in VMA vlog
- August 31 - David Dobrik vlog surprised by Drake and Josh
- October 5 - New York Times article on Harvey Weinstein ; paid off accusers
- October 10 - New Yorker article on Harvey Weinstein accusers tell their stories
- December 1 - Drake Bell case: Cleveland Concert
- December 16 - Seventeen tweetJosh Peck missing in Drake Bell's birthday
- December 23 - New York Times on Vice Media letting go 4 employees ; 2 executives on leave (January 2, 2018)
- All Your Screens Guest Column on Dan Schneider: "This is Me Screaming"
- March 9 - Washington Post report Dan Schneider leaving Nickelodeon
- March 27 - Liz Feldman (deleted) tweet: worked for Schneider, confirms inappropriate behavior
- July 23 - Drake Bell talks about feud with Josh Peck
- October 1 - Deadline reports Brian Robbins named President of Nickelodeon
- October 8 - Tana Mongeau interviews Josh Peck, hating Drake & being a child star, asked about D&J reboot
- October 10 - Dan Schneider deleted 14,000 tweets ; screenshots ; twitter thread
- October - Drake Bell's victim made a report to local police (Canada) ; forwarded to Cleveland police
- November 1 - Hollywood Reporter: Brian Robbins wants to reboot All That
2020
- February 10 - Hollywood Reporter: Josh Peck cast in Turner & Hooch reboot
- March 4 - Reddit post video deleted, Drake said he doesnt want a reboot anymore
- March 13 - Forbes interview on Drake Bell's album
- August 12
- Melissa Lingafelt twitter thread alleging abuse by Drake Bell
- Variety reports Drake Bell denies abuse allegations from Melissa Lingafelt
- February 8 - Twitter thread naming Drake Bell as Brian Peck's victim
- April 23 - Rick Ellis reflections on working on Schneider piece
- May 23 - Rick Ellis article on the iCarly reboot
- June 4
- Deadline reports Drake Bell arrested in Ohio
- Daily Beast exclusive: Melissa Lingafelt abuse allegations against Drake Bell
- June 23 - Deadline reports Drake Bell plead guilty to 2 charges: attempted endangering of children & disseminating matte harmful to juveniles
- June 30 - The New York Times Dan Schneider article
- July 2
- Kayla Alpert tweet on Schneider as worst person to work with, said "women aren't funny"
- Christy Stratton tweet about Schneider being vindictive
- July 4
- Rick Ellis article on The New York Times and Its Whitewash of Dan Schneider
- July 12
- Law & Crime video on Drake Bell sentencing
- New York Times article mentioning Drake Bell "will have to register as a sex offender"
- March 17 - BFFs podcast with Josh Peck about Drake Bell; never close & confronting at VMAs
- March 20 - Drake & Janet video where Drake Bell clarifies his feud with Josh Peck (clip)
- May 2 - Medium article We (Don't) Need to Talk About Dan Schneider
- June 13 - Sony Pictures TV deal with Maxine (Quiet on Set production company)
- August 3 - New York Times article on Jennette McCurdy
- August 9 - Release of Jennette McCurdy book "I'm Glad My Mom Died", published by Simon & Schuster
- August 31 - Business Insider article by Kate Taylor: Dan Schneider Expose
- September 1 - Christy Stratton tweet on Schneider having her agent and manager fire her
- September 14 - Drake Bell (deleted) tweet: "You want the real truth about what went on behind the ORANGE curtain? You want the stories that will crush an entire network? Give me a call (a)simonschuster"
- September 25 - All Good Things podcast interview with Josh Peck; mentions Amanda Show offered by Nickelodeon president
- December 17 - CDAN post that Drake Bell will end up as the next Aaron Carter (Dead)
- Early 2023 - Drake Bell first approached by Quiet on Set film makers (as mentioned in this QoS panel)
- April 10 - Good Guys podcast Josh Peck on Dan Schneider as "tough boss" ; blocked by Jennette McCurdy and scrapped episode, "owes us" comment
- April 13 - USA Today reports Drake Bell found safe after going missing
- April 21 - Entertainment Weekly reports Drake Bell's wife files for divorce
- April 22 - Drake Bell tweet compliments Jennette McCurdy's book I'm Glad My Mom Died
- April 27 - New York Post reports Drake Bell seen sucking on balloon
- May 5 - Brian Peck Case Motion Hearing (Also June 7 & July 10)
- July 17 - Drake Bell tweet writing a book called "I Found a Way"
- October 4 - Variety reports iCarly reboot canceled by Paramount+ after 3 seasons
- October 21 - Cancelled podcast Josh Peck on Dan Schneider "not a fan"
- October 30 - Deadline reports Paramount $1.62B sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR Investment firm
- November 22 - Good Burger 2 release
- January 19 - Vulture interview with Taram Killam, mentions Michael Goldman, same manager as Amanda Bynes
- February 5 - Quiet on Set trailer drops
- February 19 - Pod Meets World episode on Brian Peck
- February 27 - Indiewire reports Zaslav is out of Paramount Business
- March 5 - Business Insider reports Drake Bell as Brian Peck's victim
- March 13 - Rick Ellis article on Quiet on Set
- March 17
- Quiet on Set episode 1 & 2 airs
- Amy Berg tweet Dan Schneider as boss; he left Nickelodeon to work on Guys Like Us
- March 18
- Quiet on Set episode 3 & 4 airs
- New York Times issues a retraction on Drake Bell article (removed sex offender claim)
- March 19 - Business Insider interview with Drake Bell
- March 20
- Nancy Sullivan on Drake Bell
- Hollywood Reporter exclusive: Dan Schneider Breaks Silence
- Youtube video: Dan Schneider talks about Quiet on Set
- March 21
- Drake Bell Tiktok telling people to take it easy on Josh Peck, talked privately
- Angelique Bates on why she declined Quiet on Set
- Allie Dimeco story on underage girl / older man kiss on Naked Brothers Band
- Jack Salvatore on Dan Schneider as a boss
- Madisyn Shipman statement
- March 22
- Michael Bower's story about Brian Peck
- Matt Bennett statement
- Josh Peck statement
- Abby Wilde statement
- Chris Massey & his mom's reaction
- Marc Summers tweet on Quiet on Set bait and switch
- March 24 - Amber Frank story on porn in laptops
- March 15 - Drake Bell Interview with Yordi Rosado
- March 27
- Raquel Lee reaction on Quiet on Set
- Quinton Reviews video on Dan Schneider
- March 29 - Matthew Underwood on child abuse & responses on reddit
- March 31
- Quinton Reviews video on Timmy Turner movies (feat Drake Bell)
- Jenny Kilgen letter to SAG
- April 2 - Drake Bell interview in Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast
- April 4 - Deadline article on Marc Summers walking out
- April 6 - Drake Bell tweet: about talking to Rider Strong privately and has forgiven him
- April 7 - Quiet on Set episode 5 (Additional: Shane Lyons & Soledad O'Brien; Will Friedle soundbite from Pod Meets World podcast)
- April 9 - Drake Bell interview on We Are Man Enough podcast
- April 11
- Quiet on Set cast panel (Drake, Gio & Brian)
- Raquel Lee reaction on not being invited to panel
- April 12 - Chelsea Fagan tiktok regarding Jennette McCurdy footage
- April 16
- Entertainment Weekly article on Christy Calrson Romano callin QoS "Trauma Tourists" ; Romano is co-hosts with Will Friedle on another podcast
- Alexa Nikolas reaction on not being invited to panel & Christy Carlson Romano article
- April 18 - Sony in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount
- April 19 - Salon article on unethical filmmaking practices and deceiving interviewees
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2024.03.18 12:02 AdditionalWar8759 Give them Lala Podcast: Episode from March 18th, “BONUS: The LeTired Q+A”
***This podcast episode was recorded before the reunion.
Tell us more about your relationship with Ambyr and the girls these days (Timestamp: 9:48) - Lala: Oh, I love this question. I don't see the girls very often because they're older and they go to school and they've got friends and they're out and about, but they came to Ocean's birthday party and Ambyr and I, we talk, if not every day, at least every other day. We're constantly in the mix. - Lala: I mean, she's like a family member at this point because number one, we share children, but also we have a very just strong bond that you obviously create when you've experienced similar things. And it's really fun to talk to each other about just the dating scene. - Lala: A lot of people think our bond comes from that and it doesn't. That could not be more irrelevant, right? So let's not give so much credit, right? You're like, you could insert anybody, doesn't matter. But she and I have the best time talking about dating.
How did you tell your VPR castmates about pregnancy? (Timestamp: 13:32) - Lala: So let's see, Scheana, I told in Palm Springs because it was really important for me to tell her, I think we talked about this on Amazon live. The first person I called that was a friend, like outside of our little group was Stassi. I didn't know the next time that I would see her and we had just had dinner. So I was very excited. - Lala: She was like, I want you to take the test now. And then was like, I could never do that to Lisa. You can't take it now. So when I took in the next night, I was like, girl, OMG, I'm so glad I did not take this with you. Because it was positive. It was important for me to tell Scheana and her family in person because they're like, just like I wouldn't text my mom that or call her. - Lala: So I told her in person in Palm Springs. And then Ariana, I told her at the Vanderpump Rules premiere party because I didn't know the next time I would see her and I wanted, it was important for me to tell her in person as well, mostly because she's the worst texter ever. - Lala: And if I were to send something like magical like that, and she just never responded, that could affect the friendship, I'm just saying. And then Ally, I just, Ally I texted, and then the rest of the cast just found out on socials. - Jessica: So you told Ally, but not James. - Lala: I was a little worried about telling James. James kind of, when he gets affected, if you don't want him to say certain things, he'll go out and say it. So she goes, can I tell James? - Lala: And I was like, I think maybe you hold off, but just in case, he may see an episode and I say something he doesn't like, and he's like, and by the way, Lala's pregnant. You know, I was like, let's just keep this light and fun.
We have a lot of questions asking details on Brittany and Jax’s separation. (Timestamp: 15:23) - Lala: I said this on Watch What Happens Live. I just want my friend to be happy, and if that means getting rid of someone in her life who's no longer serving her, I think that that's what she should do, and if she decides that they wanna work on it, I will be here to support her. - Lala: I know that I kind of hurt Jax’s feelings when I said what I said, but it's no surprise, it didn't just come out of left field in the left field that I always pick the chick. - Lala: Like to be shocked by that, and just like what I've been through, my mantra is leave him. Whether it's you, someone else, doesn't matter. The end game is always leave him, all right? - Lala: If he's not coming correct, bye, bye. Right? And my whole thing is, the biggest thing is women who are parents, I can't speak for men, because mostly I don't want to and I don't get it, but there have been women who are like, I'm gonna stay in the relationship until my kids are grown. - Lala: And it's like, you're gonna be a better mom if you get out of a situation that you're not entirely happy in. So I hope, it is devastating when you have to share your child, whether it's half the time or less than that. One day a week, every other week, it does not matter, it is gut wrenching.
How is your relationship with Stassi grown and did she make a mistake not being on the new show? (Timestamp: 18:36) - Jessica: I'm assuming they mean The Valley. - Lala: The Valley. No, I don't think she made a mistake not being on that show. - Jessica: Yeah, you gotta wanna be on the show. - Lala: And she's just in such a great place. She's got like a beautiful marriage. She's got happy and healthy children. Her podcasts are thriving. You know, at this point in time, I just don't know that that show would be a good fit for her. She doesn't kick it with any of those people. - Easton: I think she's a little too elevated for it. - Lala: She's very elevated, not saying that The Valley is not elevated. - Easton: I'm just saying. - Lala: She's just in a different zone. Just like I think, I don't know that she would feel that Vanderpump Rules was a good fit. Now, I don't want to speak for her. - Lala: Who knows if they came to her tomorrow and said, would you like to join again? But my friend's in a really, really happy place. And I don't know how she and I got closer. - Lala: Actually, I do know how we got closer. We had a dinner after a birthday party. I think it was Ocean's and she had announced her pregnancy. And then she was like, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. And I said, I was a little hurt that I found out through social media. Like if you notice on her photo, all I wrote was congrats. - Lala: Cause I was like, I'm a little bummed, but at the same time has nothing to do with you cause this is your child and your announcement and you should be able to tell whoever you want. - Lala: Just like if someone came to me and they were like, I'm offended you didn't tell me in person. It's like, there's obviously a reason please don't put me on the spot. - Lala: But because she brought it up, I was like, is this a me thing? It has nothing to do with you. Just put that out there. This is a me feeling hurt. But it's okay. And after that dinner at the Ivy on Robertson, we have just been thick as it gets.
I feel like Katie always has to be someone's bitch. First it was Stassi, now it's Ariana. Thoughts? (Timestamp: 21:04) - Lala: That is a very hot take. - Jessica: That is a very hot take. I don't agree with that. - Lala: Very interesting. And the reason why I'm thinking I don't agree with that is last year whose bitch was she? - Jessica: I know. I feel like if anything, Katie, I understand you're saying like, I think Katie is a strong woman and I think she feels like she is defending her friends and maybe she is. I think she's a good friend to these people, right? - Lala: I think she takes loyalty to new heights. - Jessica: Yeah. - Lala: Yeah, like she's, I ain't asking questions, where do we bury the body? That's the type of friend that Katie is.
A lot of people asking baby names that you're comfortable to say that you aren't gonna end up going with. (Timestamp: 33:31) - Lala: Yes, I can totally do that. Because you guys will die. And they're gender neutral. Let's not say the two that I'm thinking about. - Jessica: Utah - Lala: Utah was one. Teton was another. Canyon. I was thinking of a lot of stupid names that I'm not gonna use. I also had Mighty. I had Lion. And the third, can I tell you, producer John will love this. I did add it to the list. Rampage.
***end of recap
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Tell us more about your relationship with Ambyr and the girls these days (Timestamp: 9:48) - Lala: Oh, I love this question. I don't see the girls very often because they're older and they go to school and they've got friends and they're out and about, but they came to Ocean's birthday party and Ambyr and I, we talk, if not every day, at least every other day. We're constantly in the mix. - Lala: I mean, she's like a family member at this point because number one, we share children, but also we have a very just strong bond that you obviously create when you've experienced similar things. And it's really fun to talk to each other about just the dating scene. - Lala: A lot of people think our bond comes from that and it doesn't. That could not be more irrelevant, right? So let's not give so much credit, right? You're like, you could insert anybody, doesn't matter. But she and I have the best time talking about dating.
How did you tell your VPR castmates about pregnancy? (Timestamp: 13:32) - Lala: So let's see, Scheana, I told in Palm Springs because it was really important for me to tell her, I think we talked about this on Amazon live. The first person I called that was a friend, like outside of our little group was Stassi. I didn't know the next time that I would see her and we had just had dinner. So I was very excited. - Lala: She was like, I want you to take the test now. And then was like, I could never do that to Lisa. You can't take it now. So when I took in the next night, I was like, girl, OMG, I'm so glad I did not take this with you. Because it was positive. It was important for me to tell Scheana and her family in person because they're like, just like I wouldn't text my mom that or call her. - Lala: So I told her in person in Palm Springs. And then Ariana, I told her at the Vanderpump Rules premiere party because I didn't know the next time I would see her and I wanted, it was important for me to tell her in person as well, mostly because she's the worst texter ever. - Lala: And if I were to send something like magical like that, and she just never responded, that could affect the friendship, I'm just saying. And then Ally, I just, Ally I texted, and then the rest of the cast just found out on socials. - Jessica: So you told Ally, but not James. - Lala: I was a little worried about telling James. James kind of, when he gets affected, if you don't want him to say certain things, he'll go out and say it. So she goes, can I tell James? - Lala: And I was like, I think maybe you hold off, but just in case, he may see an episode and I say something he doesn't like, and he's like, and by the way, Lala's pregnant. You know, I was like, let's just keep this light and fun.
We have a lot of questions asking details on Brittany and Jax’s separation. (Timestamp: 15:23) - Lala: I said this on Watch What Happens Live. I just want my friend to be happy, and if that means getting rid of someone in her life who's no longer serving her, I think that that's what she should do, and if she decides that they wanna work on it, I will be here to support her. - Lala: I know that I kind of hurt Jax’s feelings when I said what I said, but it's no surprise, it didn't just come out of left field in the left field that I always pick the chick. - Lala: Like to be shocked by that, and just like what I've been through, my mantra is leave him. Whether it's you, someone else, doesn't matter. The end game is always leave him, all right? - Lala: If he's not coming correct, bye, bye. Right? And my whole thing is, the biggest thing is women who are parents, I can't speak for men, because mostly I don't want to and I don't get it, but there have been women who are like, I'm gonna stay in the relationship until my kids are grown. - Lala: And it's like, you're gonna be a better mom if you get out of a situation that you're not entirely happy in. So I hope, it is devastating when you have to share your child, whether it's half the time or less than that. One day a week, every other week, it does not matter, it is gut wrenching.
How is your relationship with Stassi grown and did she make a mistake not being on the new show? (Timestamp: 18:36) - Jessica: I'm assuming they mean The Valley. - Lala: The Valley. No, I don't think she made a mistake not being on that show. - Jessica: Yeah, you gotta wanna be on the show. - Lala: And she's just in such a great place. She's got like a beautiful marriage. She's got happy and healthy children. Her podcasts are thriving. You know, at this point in time, I just don't know that that show would be a good fit for her. She doesn't kick it with any of those people. - Easton: I think she's a little too elevated for it. - Lala: She's very elevated, not saying that The Valley is not elevated. - Easton: I'm just saying. - Lala: She's just in a different zone. Just like I think, I don't know that she would feel that Vanderpump Rules was a good fit. Now, I don't want to speak for her. - Lala: Who knows if they came to her tomorrow and said, would you like to join again? But my friend's in a really, really happy place. And I don't know how she and I got closer. - Lala: Actually, I do know how we got closer. We had a dinner after a birthday party. I think it was Ocean's and she had announced her pregnancy. And then she was like, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. And I said, I was a little hurt that I found out through social media. Like if you notice on her photo, all I wrote was congrats. - Lala: Cause I was like, I'm a little bummed, but at the same time has nothing to do with you cause this is your child and your announcement and you should be able to tell whoever you want. - Lala: Just like if someone came to me and they were like, I'm offended you didn't tell me in person. It's like, there's obviously a reason please don't put me on the spot. - Lala: But because she brought it up, I was like, is this a me thing? It has nothing to do with you. Just put that out there. This is a me feeling hurt. But it's okay. And after that dinner at the Ivy on Robertson, we have just been thick as it gets.
I feel like Katie always has to be someone's bitch. First it was Stassi, now it's Ariana. Thoughts? (Timestamp: 21:04) - Lala: That is a very hot take. - Jessica: That is a very hot take. I don't agree with that. - Lala: Very interesting. And the reason why I'm thinking I don't agree with that is last year whose bitch was she? - Jessica: I know. I feel like if anything, Katie, I understand you're saying like, I think Katie is a strong woman and I think she feels like she is defending her friends and maybe she is. I think she's a good friend to these people, right? - Lala: I think she takes loyalty to new heights. - Jessica: Yeah. - Lala: Yeah, like she's, I ain't asking questions, where do we bury the body? That's the type of friend that Katie is.
A lot of people asking baby names that you're comfortable to say that you aren't gonna end up going with. (Timestamp: 33:31) - Lala: Yes, I can totally do that. Because you guys will die. And they're gender neutral. Let's not say the two that I'm thinking about. - Jessica: Utah - Lala: Utah was one. Teton was another. Canyon. I was thinking of a lot of stupid names that I'm not gonna use. I also had Mighty. I had Lion. And the third, can I tell you, producer John will love this. I did add it to the list. Rampage.
***end of recap
2024.03.18 11:59 AdditionalWar8759 Give them Lala Podcast: Episode from March 18th, “BONUS: The LeTired Q+A”
***This podcast episode was recorded before the reunion.
Tell us more about your relationship with Ambyr and the girls these days (Timestamp: 9:48) - Lala: Oh, I love this question. I don't see the girls very often because they're older and they go to school and they've got friends and they're out and about, but they came to Ocean's birthday party and Ambyr and I, we talk, if not every day, at least every other day. We're constantly in the mix. - Lala: I mean, she's like a family member at this point because number one, we share children, but also we have a very just strong bond that you obviously create when you've experienced similar things. And it's really fun to talk to each other about just the dating scene. - Lala: A lot of people think our bond comes from that and it doesn't. That could not be more irrelevant, right? So let's not give so much credit, right? You're like, you could insert anybody, doesn't matter. But she and I have the best time talking about dating.
How did you tell your VPR castmates about pregnancy? (Timestamp: 13:32) - Lala: So let's see, Scheana, I told in Palm Springs because it was really important for me to tell her, I think we talked about this on Amazon live. The first person I called that was a friend, like outside of our little group was Stassi. I didn't know the next time that I would see her and we had just had dinner. So I was very excited. - Lala: She was like, I want you to take the test now. And then was like, I could never do that to Lisa. You can't take it now. So when I took in the next night, I was like, girl, OMG, I'm so glad I did not take this with you. Because it was positive. It was important for me to tell Scheana and her family in person because they're like, just like I wouldn't text my mom that or call her. - Lala: So I told her in person in Palm Springs. And then Ariana, I told her at the Vanderpump Rules premiere party because I didn't know the next time I would see her and I wanted, it was important for me to tell her in person as well, mostly because she's the worst texter ever. - Lala: And if I were to send something like magical like that, and she just never responded, that could affect the friendship, I'm just saying. And then Ally, I just, Ally I texted, and then the rest of the cast just found out on socials. - Jessica: So you told Ally, but not James. - Lala: I was a little worried about telling James. James kind of, when he gets affected, if you don't want him to say certain things, he'll go out and say it. So she goes, can I tell James? - Lala: And I was like, I think maybe you hold off, but just in case, he may see an episode and I say something he doesn't like, and he's like, and by the way, Lala's pregnant. You know, I was like, let's just keep this light and fun.
We have a lot of questions asking details on Brittany and Jax’s separation. (Timestamp: 15:23) - Lala: I said this on Watch What Happens Live. I just want my friend to be happy, and if that means getting rid of someone in her life who's no longer serving her, I think that that's what she should do, and if she decides that they wanna work on it, I will be here to support her. - Lala: I know that I kind of hurt Jax’s feelings when I said what I said, but it's no surprise, it didn't just come out of left field in the left field that I always pick the chick. - Lala: Like to be shocked by that, and just like what I've been through, my mantra is leave him. Whether it's you, someone else, doesn't matter. The end game is always leave him, all right? - Lala: If he's not coming correct, bye, bye. Right? And my whole thing is, the biggest thing is women who are parents, I can't speak for men, because mostly I don't want to and I don't get it, but there have been women who are like, I'm gonna stay in the relationship until my kids are grown. - Lala: And it's like, you're gonna be a better mom if you get out of a situation that you're not entirely happy in. So I hope, it is devastating when you have to share your child, whether it's half the time or less than that. One day a week, every other week, it does not matter, it is gut wrenching.
How is your relationship with Stassi grown and did she make a mistake not being on the new show? (Timestamp: 18:36) - Jessica: I'm assuming they mean The Valley. - Lala: The Valley. No, I don't think she made a mistake not being on that show. - Jessica: Yeah, you gotta wanna be on the show. - Lala: And she's just in such a great place. She's got like a beautiful marriage. She's got happy and healthy children. Her podcasts are thriving. You know, at this point in time, I just don't know that that show would be a good fit for her. She doesn't kick it with any of those people. - Easton: I think she's a little too elevated for it. - Lala: She's very elevated, not saying that The Valley is not elevated. - Easton: I'm just saying. - Lala: She's just in a different zone. Just like I think, I don't know that she would feel that Vanderpump Rules was a good fit. Now, I don't want to speak for her. - Lala: Who knows if they came to her tomorrow and said, would you like to join again? But my friend's in a really, really happy place. And I don't know how she and I got closer. - Lala: Actually, I do know how we got closer. We had a dinner after a birthday party. I think it was Ocean's and she had announced her pregnancy. And then she was like, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. And I said, I was a little hurt that I found out through social media. Like if you notice on her photo, all I wrote was congrats. - Lala: Cause I was like, I'm a little bummed, but at the same time has nothing to do with you cause this is your child and your announcement and you should be able to tell whoever you want. - Lala: Just like if someone came to me and they were like, I'm offended you didn't tell me in person. It's like, there's obviously a reason please don't put me on the spot. - Lala: But because she brought it up, I was like, is this a me thing? It has nothing to do with you. Just put that out there. This is a me feeling hurt. But it's okay. And after that dinner at the Ivy on Robertson, we have just been thick as it gets.
I feel like Katie always has to be someone's bitch. First it was Stassi, now it's Ariana. Thoughts? (Timestamp: 21:04) - Lala: That is a very hot take. - Jessica: That is a very hot take. I don't agree with that. - Lala: Very interesting. And the reason why I'm thinking I don't agree with that is last year whose bitch was she? - Jessica: I know. I feel like if anything, Katie, I understand you're saying like, I think Katie is a strong woman and I think she feels like she is defending her friends and maybe she is. I think she's a good friend to these people, right? - Lala: I think she takes loyalty to new heights. - Jessica: Yeah. - Lala: Yeah, like she's, I ain't asking questions, where do we bury the body? That's the type of friend that Katie is.
A lot of people asking baby names that you're comfortable to say that you aren't gonna end up going with. (Timestamp: 33:31) - Lala: Yes, I can totally do that. Because you guys will die. And they're gender neutral. Let's not say the two that I'm thinking about. - Jessica: Utah - Lala: Utah was one. Teton was another. Canyon. I was thinking of a lot of stupid names that I'm not gonna use. I also had Mighty. I had Lion. And the third, can I tell you, producer John will love this. I did add it to the list. Rampage.
***end of recap
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Tell us more about your relationship with Ambyr and the girls these days (Timestamp: 9:48) - Lala: Oh, I love this question. I don't see the girls very often because they're older and they go to school and they've got friends and they're out and about, but they came to Ocean's birthday party and Ambyr and I, we talk, if not every day, at least every other day. We're constantly in the mix. - Lala: I mean, she's like a family member at this point because number one, we share children, but also we have a very just strong bond that you obviously create when you've experienced similar things. And it's really fun to talk to each other about just the dating scene. - Lala: A lot of people think our bond comes from that and it doesn't. That could not be more irrelevant, right? So let's not give so much credit, right? You're like, you could insert anybody, doesn't matter. But she and I have the best time talking about dating.
How did you tell your VPR castmates about pregnancy? (Timestamp: 13:32) - Lala: So let's see, Scheana, I told in Palm Springs because it was really important for me to tell her, I think we talked about this on Amazon live. The first person I called that was a friend, like outside of our little group was Stassi. I didn't know the next time that I would see her and we had just had dinner. So I was very excited. - Lala: She was like, I want you to take the test now. And then was like, I could never do that to Lisa. You can't take it now. So when I took in the next night, I was like, girl, OMG, I'm so glad I did not take this with you. Because it was positive. It was important for me to tell Scheana and her family in person because they're like, just like I wouldn't text my mom that or call her. - Lala: So I told her in person in Palm Springs. And then Ariana, I told her at the Vanderpump Rules premiere party because I didn't know the next time I would see her and I wanted, it was important for me to tell her in person as well, mostly because she's the worst texter ever. - Lala: And if I were to send something like magical like that, and she just never responded, that could affect the friendship, I'm just saying. And then Ally, I just, Ally I texted, and then the rest of the cast just found out on socials. - Jessica: So you told Ally, but not James. - Lala: I was a little worried about telling James. James kind of, when he gets affected, if you don't want him to say certain things, he'll go out and say it. So she goes, can I tell James? - Lala: And I was like, I think maybe you hold off, but just in case, he may see an episode and I say something he doesn't like, and he's like, and by the way, Lala's pregnant. You know, I was like, let's just keep this light and fun.
We have a lot of questions asking details on Brittany and Jax’s separation. (Timestamp: 15:23) - Lala: I said this on Watch What Happens Live. I just want my friend to be happy, and if that means getting rid of someone in her life who's no longer serving her, I think that that's what she should do, and if she decides that they wanna work on it, I will be here to support her. - Lala: I know that I kind of hurt Jax’s feelings when I said what I said, but it's no surprise, it didn't just come out of left field in the left field that I always pick the chick. - Lala: Like to be shocked by that, and just like what I've been through, my mantra is leave him. Whether it's you, someone else, doesn't matter. The end game is always leave him, all right? - Lala: If he's not coming correct, bye, bye. Right? And my whole thing is, the biggest thing is women who are parents, I can't speak for men, because mostly I don't want to and I don't get it, but there have been women who are like, I'm gonna stay in the relationship until my kids are grown. - Lala: And it's like, you're gonna be a better mom if you get out of a situation that you're not entirely happy in. So I hope, it is devastating when you have to share your child, whether it's half the time or less than that. One day a week, every other week, it does not matter, it is gut wrenching.
How is your relationship with Stassi grown and did she make a mistake not being on the new show? (Timestamp: 18:36) - Jessica: I'm assuming they mean The Valley. - Lala: The Valley. No, I don't think she made a mistake not being on that show. - Jessica: Yeah, you gotta wanna be on the show. - Lala: And she's just in such a great place. She's got like a beautiful marriage. She's got happy and healthy children. Her podcasts are thriving. You know, at this point in time, I just don't know that that show would be a good fit for her. She doesn't kick it with any of those people. - Easton: I think she's a little too elevated for it. - Lala: She's very elevated, not saying that The Valley is not elevated. - Easton: I'm just saying. - Lala: She's just in a different zone. Just like I think, I don't know that she would feel that Vanderpump Rules was a good fit. Now, I don't want to speak for her. - Lala: Who knows if they came to her tomorrow and said, would you like to join again? But my friend's in a really, really happy place. And I don't know how she and I got closer. - Lala: Actually, I do know how we got closer. We had a dinner after a birthday party. I think it was Ocean's and she had announced her pregnancy. And then she was like, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. And I said, I was a little hurt that I found out through social media. Like if you notice on her photo, all I wrote was congrats. - Lala: Cause I was like, I'm a little bummed, but at the same time has nothing to do with you cause this is your child and your announcement and you should be able to tell whoever you want. - Lala: Just like if someone came to me and they were like, I'm offended you didn't tell me in person. It's like, there's obviously a reason please don't put me on the spot. - Lala: But because she brought it up, I was like, is this a me thing? It has nothing to do with you. Just put that out there. This is a me feeling hurt. But it's okay. And after that dinner at the Ivy on Robertson, we have just been thick as it gets.
I feel like Katie always has to be someone's bitch. First it was Stassi, now it's Ariana. Thoughts? (Timestamp: 21:04) - Lala: That is a very hot take. - Jessica: That is a very hot take. I don't agree with that. - Lala: Very interesting. And the reason why I'm thinking I don't agree with that is last year whose bitch was she? - Jessica: I know. I feel like if anything, Katie, I understand you're saying like, I think Katie is a strong woman and I think she feels like she is defending her friends and maybe she is. I think she's a good friend to these people, right? - Lala: I think she takes loyalty to new heights. - Jessica: Yeah. - Lala: Yeah, like she's, I ain't asking questions, where do we bury the body? That's the type of friend that Katie is.
A lot of people asking baby names that you're comfortable to say that you aren't gonna end up going with. (Timestamp: 33:31) - Lala: Yes, I can totally do that. Because you guys will die. And they're gender neutral. Let's not say the two that I'm thinking about. - Jessica: Utah - Lala: Utah was one. Teton was another. Canyon. I was thinking of a lot of stupid names that I'm not gonna use. I also had Mighty. I had Lion. And the third, can I tell you, producer John will love this. I did add it to the list. Rampage.
***end of recap
2024.01.03 04:46 thumpbachwhale This is a list of most of the unique names in the Epstein flight logs. Some were murdered. Some went into hiding. The list includes many famous people, many of whom were never indicted or questioned about their travel aboard the "Lolita Express".
• Craig Adams
• John Alessi
• Mats Alexander
• Deborah Amselen
• Laura Andrew
• Lisa Andrew
• David Anton
• Mylene Arm
• Doug Band
• Sloane Barnette
• Spencer Barnette
• Anthony Barrett
• Jessica Bauer
• Gwendolyn Beck
• Sandy Berger
• Sophie Biddle
• Neil Biggen
• Leticia Birkholder
• Nadia Bjorlin
• Magali Blachon
• Magale Blachou
• Gary Blackwell
• David Bolivaras
• Julian Borees
• Evelyn Boulet
• Kelly Bovino
• Bob Breslen
• John Brockman
• Zina Broukis
• Cocoa Brown
• Jean-Luc Brunel
• Juliette Bryant
• Dana Burns
• Kimberley Burns
• Stefanie Burns
• Chris Camaros
• Naomi Campbell
• Greg Carpenter
• Ray Carroll
• Karen Casey
• Alison Cayne
• Jim Cayne
• Patricia Cayne
• Didier Cazaudumec
• Bill Clinton
• Julie Concebaugh
• Richard Cook
• Ryan Coomer
• Valdson Cotrin
• Sherrie Crape
• Roger Dahle
• Chauntae Davies
• Teala Davies
• Telea Davies
• Daniel Dennet
• Catherine Derby
• Alan Dershowitz
• Dawn Devito
• Ryan Dionne
• Alexandria Dixon
• Glen Dixon
• Inca Doerrig
• Inka Doerrig
• Mike Donovan
• Jim Dowd (unidentified)
• Manny Duban
• Celina Dubin
• Eva Dubin
• Glenn Dubin
• Jordan Dubin
• Michael Durberry
• Ron Durkle
• Mandy Ellison
• Ralph Ellison
• Jeli Epstein
• Karen Epstein
• Mark Epstein
• Paula Epstein
• Tatania Espinosa
• Christina Estrada
• Andrew Farkas
• Alexander Fekkai
• Frederic Fekkai
• Julie Fierson
• Catherine Finglas
• Diane Fleetwood
• Jo-Jo Fontanella
• Lynn Fontanella
• Ben Forester
• Lynn Forester
• Chris Gamble
• Frank Gamble
• Jean Gathy
• Leslie Gelb
• Sheridan Gibson
• John Glenn
• Bob Gold
• Jerry Goldsmith
• Francis Stolofsky Goodmanm
• George Goyer
• Tiffany Gramza
• Alan Greenberg
• Kathy Greenberg
• Svetlana Griaznovic
• Matt Grippi
• Eileen Guggenheim
• Paula Halada
• Arthur Hallering
• Susan Hamblin
• Clementine Hambro
• Laura Hames
• Bill Hammond
• Shelly Harrison
• Victoria Hazell
• Clare Hazell-Iveagh
• Shannon Healy
• Daniel Heller
• Greg Holburt
• Alyssa Holders
• Stacy Igglucksengh
• Francis Jardine-Deuss
• Henry Jarecki
• Pamela Johanaoff
• Elizabeth Johnson
• Nicole Junkermann
• Jennifer Kalin
• Deweidy Karv
• Nina Keita
• Sarah Kellen
• Christine Kenneally
• Bobby Kennedy III
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Jim Kennez
• Gary Kerney
• Gary Kervey
• Jack Kessler
• Dave Killary
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• Sean Koo
• Abgail Koppel
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• Anouk Lavalee
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• Ricardo Legoretta
• Steve Lester
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• Michael Liffman
• Kenneth Lipper
• Steve Lister
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• Cindy Lopez
• Todd Lucky
• Melinda Luntz
• Cheri Lynch
• Ira Magaziner
• Anna Malova
• Natalya Malyshov
• Heather Mann
• Jonathan Mano
• Dan Maran
• Nadia Marcinkova
• Peter Marino
• Barry Massion
• Brian Mathis
• Karina Matson
• Maex Mcafee
• Charles Thomas McMillen
• Todd Meister
• Paul Mellon
• Mark Middleton
• Celina Midelfart
• Carolyn Miller
• Steve Miller
• Marvin Minsky
• Andrew Mitchell (unidentified)
• George Mitchell
• Heather Mitchell
• Andrea Mitrovich
• Anna Molova
• Larry Morrison
• Adriana Mucinska
• Phillipe Mugnier
• David Mullen
• Bill Murphy
• James Murphy
• Nathan Myhrvold
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• Diedri Neal
• Eric Nonacs
• Joe Novich
• Patrick Ochin
• Joe Pagano
• Fabriame Palheo
• Ralph Pascale
• Joel Pashcow
• Lauren Pashcow
• Andres Pastrana
• Tom Payette
• Itzhak Perlman
• Adam Perry Lang
• Lauren Petrella
• Yves Pickardt
• Steven Pinker
• Alberto Pinto
• Linda Pinto
• Robin Plant
• Tom Pritzker
• Tommy Quinn
• Audrey Raimbault
• Gary Rathgeb
• Pete Rathgeb
• Peter Rathgeb
• Alex Resnick
• Sharon Reynolds
• Virginia Roberts
• Jack Robertson
• David Rockwell
• Kristy Rodgers
• Patsy Rodgers
• Henry Rosovsky
• David Ross
• David Roth
• David Rothman
• Pete Rotholg
• Gary Roxburgh
• Scott Rueber
• Oliver Sachs
• Forest Sawyer
• Jeff Schantz
• Doug Schoettle
• Chuck Schumi
• Jeff Shantz
• Julie Shay
• Rhonda Sherer
• Steve Sherman
• Dougle Shouetle
• Natalie Simanova
• Edwina Simmonds
• Nick Simmonds
• David Slang
• Gayle Smith
• Kevin Spacey
• Kelly Spamm
• Warren Spector
• Ellen Spencer
• Melissa Stahl
• Jes Staley
• Melanie Starves
• John Stefanidis
• Pamela Stevens
• Andy Stewart
• Larry Summers
• Lisa Summers
• Rodey Swater
• Craig Tafoya
• Emmy Tayler
• Felicia Taylor
• Brent Tindall
• Frederique Todd
• Jantelle Torie
• Donald Trump
• Pia Trusell
• Chris Tucker
• Judy Tuckerman
• Steve Tuckerman
• Ed Tuttle
• Cresencia Valdez
• Francois Verenia
• Larry Viskosi
• Chris Wagner
• Alexia Wallert
• Cristalle Wasche
• Casey Wasserman
• Laura Wasserman
• Aline Weber
• Margaret Whippet
• Warren Whippet
• Rebecca White
• J. L Whitehead
• Andrew Windsor ("Prince Andrew")
• Freya Wissing
• Michael Wolf
• Isering Yangkey
• Nina Zagat
• Tim Zagat
• Mark Zeff
• Ira Zicherman
• Igor Zinoviev
It is important to note that flying on the plane does not denote visited to the island. There is no runway on the island.
Ghislaine Maxwell had a helicopter license and operated a submarine. Nobody used "The Lolita Express" to get to Little St. James.
https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1704173037933140.jpg
At least 7 of the WEF's Global Leaders for Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders flew on the Lolita Express
Michael Wolf US businessman, YGL 2000
Nathan Myhrvold 3 August 1959 Microsoft CTO who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrés Pastrana Colombia 17 August 1954 Colombian deep state operative, Colombian Ambassador to the US 2005-6, President of Colombia 1998-2002
Lynn Forester de Rothschild 2 July 1954 Member of the Rothschild family and leading member of deep state networks
Lawrence Summers US 30 November 1954 US Deep State actor "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted"
Chris Tucker US 31 August 1971 US comedian and actor, YGL, flew the Lolita Express
Casey Wasserman 28 June 1974 WEF YGL 2008 who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
61 of the names in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book also appear on the Lolita Express flight logs
Adam Perry Lang
Alberto Pinto 1943 5 November 2012 "Interior designer known for his lavish-beyond-lavish creations for the superrich." Flew on the Lolita Express.
Eva Andersson-Dubin Sweden 1961 Former Miss Sweden who dated Jeffrey Epstein for 11 years, then married hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin. Mentioned in Epstein's Black book, flew the Lolita Express.
Andrea Mitrovich
Andrew Farkas
Anthony Barrett
Nadia Bjorlin 2 August 1980 US actress who flew the plane and whose name is in Epstein's black book
Bob Gold
Kelly Bovino US 30 January 1988 Ran a children's charity for at-risk kids during her Jeffrey Epstein days called The Story Project. Virginia Giuffre stated "she sexually abused me with Epstein."
Brent Tindall
Jean-Luc Brunel France 1946 19 February 2022 Accused right hand of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Started a model agency with money from Epstein. Was convicted for prostitution of a minor in Florida in 2009. Reportedly committed suicide in 2022 while awaiting a second trial involving accusations of raping French minors.
Naomi Campbell UK 22 May 1970 1990s supermodel with many interesting acquaintances.
Catherine Derby
Cindy Lopez
Clementine Hambro
Cristalle Wasche
Dawn Devito
Alan Dershowitz US 1 September 1938 A supporter of torture and legal defender of Jeffrey Epstein
Eileen Guggenheim
Elizabeth Johnson
Christina Estrada Supermodel who married and divorced a Saudi billionaire. She is mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's black book and in the Lolita Express log books.
Felicia Taylor
Gary Kerney
Clare Hazell-Iveagh UK 1975 Friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, flew Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express 32 times.
Ira Zicherman
Itzhak Perlman
Jack Kessler
Henry Jarecki 15 April 1933 Billionaire in Epstein's Black book
Joe Pagano
Joel Pashcow
Robert F. Kennedy Jr US 17 January 1954 Prominent vaccine and environmental safety activist. Announced intention to stand as the Democratic Party candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election campaign. In the Jeffrey Epstein/Black book and flew Lolita Express on two occasions.
Sarah Kellen Epstein associate
Larry Morrison
Laura Wasserman
Magali Blachon
Mandy Ellison
Mark Epstein
Mark Zeff
Todd Meister US deep state connected businessman in Epstein's black book
Melinda Luntz
Mark Middleton US 12 October 1962 7 May 2022 Special assistant to US President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, where he admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on multiple occasions. Shot dead like other former Epstein friends in 2022.
Marvin Minsky US 9 August 1927 24 January 2016 Influential cognitive and computer scientist. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Nathan Myhrvold 3 August 1959 Microsoft CTO who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrés Pastrana Colombia 17 August 1954 Colombian deep state operative, Colombian Ambassador to the US 2005-6, President of Colombia 1998-2002, Epstein's black book
Paula Epstein
Tom Pritzker US 6 June 1950 Member of one of the United States' richest families, the Chicago Pritzker family.
Ralph Ellison
Robin Plant
David Ross 10 July 1965 UK billionaire businessman, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, flew on the Lolita express and was listed in Epstein's black book
Ryan Dionne
Shannon Healy
Sophie Biddle
Kevin Spacey 26 July 1959 American actor who flew around the world together with Bill Clinton on Jeffrey Epstein's plane.
Jes Staley US 27 December 1956 Suddenly quit as Barclays CEO after a probe relating to his ties with his friend
Steve Tuckerman
Emmy Tayler UK 1975 British actress in Epstein's black book.
Donald Trump 14 June 1946 Billionaire businessman puppet leader who was US president 2017-2021
Chris Tucker US 31 August 1971 US comedian and actor, YGL, flew the Lolita Express
Warren Spector 2 October 1955 US role-playing and video game designer, flew on the Lolita Express
Casey Wasserman 28 June 1974 WEF YGL 2008 who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrew Windsor UK 19 February 1960 Member of the UK royal family who was close to Jeffrey Epstein and "provided zero cooperation" to US legal system in that regard.
https://archive.org/details/epstein-flight-logs-unredacted_202304
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250471-Epstein-Docs
Epstein Docs released today: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
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• Andrew Windsor ("Prince Andrew")
• Freya Wissing
• Michael Wolf
• Isering Yangkey
• Nina Zagat
• Tim Zagat
• Mark Zeff
• Ira Zicherman
• Igor Zinoviev
It is important to note that flying on the plane does not denote visited to the island. There is no runway on the island.
Ghislaine Maxwell had a helicopter license and operated a submarine. Nobody used "The Lolita Express" to get to Little St. James.
https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1704173037933140.jpg
At least 7 of the WEF's Global Leaders for Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders flew on the Lolita Express
Michael Wolf US businessman, YGL 2000
Nathan Myhrvold 3 August 1959 Microsoft CTO who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrés Pastrana Colombia 17 August 1954 Colombian deep state operative, Colombian Ambassador to the US 2005-6, President of Colombia 1998-2002
Lynn Forester de Rothschild 2 July 1954 Member of the Rothschild family and leading member of deep state networks
Lawrence Summers US 30 November 1954 US Deep State actor "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted"
Chris Tucker US 31 August 1971 US comedian and actor, YGL, flew the Lolita Express
Casey Wasserman 28 June 1974 WEF YGL 2008 who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
61 of the names in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book also appear on the Lolita Express flight logs
Adam Perry Lang
Alberto Pinto 1943 5 November 2012 "Interior designer known for his lavish-beyond-lavish creations for the superrich." Flew on the Lolita Express.
Eva Andersson-Dubin Sweden 1961 Former Miss Sweden who dated Jeffrey Epstein for 11 years, then married hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin. Mentioned in Epstein's Black book, flew the Lolita Express.
Andrea Mitrovich
Andrew Farkas
Anthony Barrett
Nadia Bjorlin 2 August 1980 US actress who flew the plane and whose name is in Epstein's black book
Bob Gold
Kelly Bovino US 30 January 1988 Ran a children's charity for at-risk kids during her Jeffrey Epstein days called The Story Project. Virginia Giuffre stated "she sexually abused me with Epstein."
Brent Tindall
Jean-Luc Brunel France 1946 19 February 2022 Accused right hand of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Started a model agency with money from Epstein. Was convicted for prostitution of a minor in Florida in 2009. Reportedly committed suicide in 2022 while awaiting a second trial involving accusations of raping French minors.
Naomi Campbell UK 22 May 1970 1990s supermodel with many interesting acquaintances.
Catherine Derby
Cindy Lopez
Clementine Hambro
Cristalle Wasche
Dawn Devito
Alan Dershowitz US 1 September 1938 A supporter of torture and legal defender of Jeffrey Epstein
Eileen Guggenheim
Elizabeth Johnson
Christina Estrada Supermodel who married and divorced a Saudi billionaire. She is mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's black book and in the Lolita Express log books.
Felicia Taylor
Gary Kerney
Clare Hazell-Iveagh UK 1975 Friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, flew Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express 32 times.
Ira Zicherman
Itzhak Perlman
Jack Kessler
Henry Jarecki 15 April 1933 Billionaire in Epstein's Black book
Joe Pagano
Joel Pashcow
Robert F. Kennedy Jr US 17 January 1954 Prominent vaccine and environmental safety activist. Announced intention to stand as the Democratic Party candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election campaign. In the Jeffrey Epstein/Black book and flew Lolita Express on two occasions.
Sarah Kellen Epstein associate
Larry Morrison
Laura Wasserman
Magali Blachon
Mandy Ellison
Mark Epstein
Mark Zeff
Todd Meister US deep state connected businessman in Epstein's black book
Melinda Luntz
Mark Middleton US 12 October 1962 7 May 2022 Special assistant to US President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, where he admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on multiple occasions. Shot dead like other former Epstein friends in 2022.
Marvin Minsky US 9 August 1927 24 January 2016 Influential cognitive and computer scientist. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Nathan Myhrvold 3 August 1959 Microsoft CTO who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrés Pastrana Colombia 17 August 1954 Colombian deep state operative, Colombian Ambassador to the US 2005-6, President of Colombia 1998-2002, Epstein's black book
Paula Epstein
Tom Pritzker US 6 June 1950 Member of one of the United States' richest families, the Chicago Pritzker family.
Ralph Ellison
Robin Plant
David Ross 10 July 1965 UK billionaire businessman, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, flew on the Lolita express and was listed in Epstein's black book
Ryan Dionne
Shannon Healy
Sophie Biddle
Kevin Spacey 26 July 1959 American actor who flew around the world together with Bill Clinton on Jeffrey Epstein's plane.
Jes Staley US 27 December 1956 Suddenly quit as Barclays CEO after a probe relating to his ties with his friend
Steve Tuckerman
Emmy Tayler UK 1975 British actress in Epstein's black book.
Donald Trump 14 June 1946 Billionaire businessman puppet leader who was US president 2017-2021
Chris Tucker US 31 August 1971 US comedian and actor, YGL, flew the Lolita Express
Warren Spector 2 October 1955 US role-playing and video game designer, flew on the Lolita Express
Casey Wasserman 28 June 1974 WEF YGL 2008 who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Andrew Windsor UK 19 February 1960 Member of the UK royal family who was close to Jeffrey Epstein and "provided zero cooperation" to US legal system in that regard.
https://archive.org/details/epstein-flight-logs-unredacted_202304
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250471-Epstein-Docs
Epstein Docs released today: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
2023.11.28 09:03 nuraman00 The Beverly Hills 90210 Show Podcast: Episode 110: Fortunate Son.
Professor Shari Weiss from Teen Drama Whore, and Drancy Jackson (Isaiah) are guests.
* Larry Mollin has a car in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He leaves the car in August, comes back in April. He takes the negative cable off the car battery off. When he comes back, he starts the car. It starts back up.
* This episode was after sweeps.
* There's a lot of standalone elements, because they weren't ready for Kelly's cocaine addiction yet.
* This episode has an unusually large amount of writing credits. They have never had this many writers before.
* Lana Freistat Melman, John Whelpley, John Eisendrath, Jessica Klein, Steve Wasserman.
* This was maybe the last Double Ups before Christmas.
* Everyone was cranky and ornery just trying to finish these.
* This is the only show Melman has written for in her career.
* Melman's husband is a director.
* Jason Wiles (Colin) says he'll come on the podcast. Previously, he hadn't said he would.
* The Brandon - Nat gambling story was a late addition. It worked because it was self contained.
* They have the Unreliable Narrator, where they say the Walsh parents aren't coming back for Christmas. Then Cindy comes back this season.
* Weiss points out that in season 3, Brandon was gambling on basketball. But in this episode, they say it's football.
* Mollin says they dropped the ball on that one. So many writers, and no one caught it.
* Jackson had an amazing experience with everyone on the cast.
* Jackson was 16 or 17, playing an 11 year old.
* Jackson auditioned for Aaron Spelling. He remembers the 24 karat pinball machine, as well as the carpet.
* Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green were great to work with.
* The power went out in the dressing room. Jackson and Brian Austin Green played a racing drifter game when that happened.
* Tiffani Amber Thiessen let Jackson's grandmother watch Days Of Our Lives in Thiessen's still working dressing room.
* Jackson hadn't been watching every single episode, but he had been watching the show, before the audition. He knew all the characters.
* The liquor store scene was the first thing they shot.
* Afterwords, Jackson got recognized for being on the show.
* Larry Mollin wanted to do something like Boyz N The Hood. He wanted to show other stories from L.A.
* Mollin says this was an example of Pay It Forward, before Pay It Forward came out.
* Jackson appreciates how this episode brings to light a real life issue not just in his community, but everyone's community.
* It has significant meaning to him.
* Weiss asks, is this enhancing the white savior trope?
* Mollin says that term didn't exist back then.
* And that Isaiah and Donna help each other. Isaiah helps Donna when they're being harrassed by those local gangsters. So it's mutual helping.
* Plus, as Rose Princesses, Lisa and Donna are helping each other out.
* Mollin says this episode is about kindness from people, and walking a mile in their shoes.
* It might be the white savior, but Mollin says anything can be critisized, and the heart's in the right place.
* Jackson agrees with the positive message.
* Mollin said this episode is about helping each other and building bonds.
* Jackson agrees.
* Mollin says they were a show with white cast members, until Jesse came along.
* But they did have diversity with guest stars.
* Jackson says he was treated with the upmost respect. He saw everyone as his fellow actors and actresses, and not anything else.
* Jackson says Spelling was humble and down to earth.
* Jackson had a teacher on set.
* Jackson says the gist of the episode is about a single parent leaving her son at home while she works.
* Jackson liked the popularity that came after his appearance. He soaked it up like a sponge.
* Jackson wants to get back into acting, and to let him know about opportunities.
Steve:
* Mollin says post college, he would have put Steve in a similar talent agency role, and not the Beverly Beat.
* When Steve gets a phone call from Jonathan Erwich, that is an inside joke. Craig Erwich was the EVP of FOX.
* Steve picking up a copy of Variety is a meta joke. Variety was important in making Beverly Hills, 90210 popular.
* Mollin says there's a meanness to the industry Steve is in. When he has to fire that woman.
* The same thing happened to Larry Mollin. When he went to join the WWE, he gets called upstairs with the guy who hired him. The guy who hired him just got fired, and he told Larry that.
* Mollin says he would have had Steve in show biz, post graduation.
* Weiss brings up that Steve did explore becoming a sports agent, in season 8's "The Way We Weren't".
* Weiss says that Steve working at the Beverly Beat doesn't bother her. But she could also see him becoming an agent too.
* Weiss says she thinks it's realistic for people with an affluent upbringing to have a rude awakening when they're let loose.
* She also understands that it doesn't follow Mollin's vision of "ordinary people with extradorinary lives".
* Ferriero says Brandon could have still have been a reporter.
* Larry Mollin repeats that he would have had Brandon do something with the Dryer.
* Or interning with a congressman.
Auction plot:
* They like the Kelly-Colin-Valerie auction plot.
* Weiss likes how they had the real life artist, Peter Tigler, on a few podcasts ago.
* Weiss asks, is Valerie telling the truth, when she says tha thte portrait was supposed to be David's Christmas gift?
* Neither Pete Ferriero nor Mollin believe that.
Brandon's gambling:
* Weiss asks, all of those shots of the dice throwing, how to you ensure they're going to land on the right numbers?
* Mollin says it's an "insert crew" and they have to do as many takes as it requires for the numbers to come up.
* Mollin says it's like when Cress Williams (D'Shawn Hardell) shoots baskets and can't make a shot. They have to keep reshooting.
* Mollin likes the scenes of Brandon sweating.
* The director, James Fargo, did this episode, and "All This And Mary Too". Mollin says that was a forgettable episode.
* This might have been the last Double Up of the season.
* The actress that played Lisa, Tembi Locke, would costar with Luke Perry on "Windfall".
* Larry Mollin's new book, "Road To Shambala", is printed correctly now.
* Kathleen Robertson tells Pete Ferriero to tell Larry Mollin, that she thinks Mollin is one of the few that understood Clare.
* Mollin thanks Weiss for challenging him on the white savior stuff.
* Mollin says he wouldn't do anything differently today, because he thought it was even handed how everyone helped everyone.
* Also, Lisa did push back on Donna, by saying "we don't need Saint Donna coming into this family's life". So she did represent that view.
* Mollin also says that they used the idea of the Rose Court where Princesses help each other. Donna covers for Lisa at the store.
* They have now been in talks to have Jason Wiles (Colin) come on the podcast. They just need to agree on a date.
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* Larry Mollin has a car in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He leaves the car in August, comes back in April. He takes the negative cable off the car battery off. When he comes back, he starts the car. It starts back up.
* This episode was after sweeps.
* There's a lot of standalone elements, because they weren't ready for Kelly's cocaine addiction yet.
* This episode has an unusually large amount of writing credits. They have never had this many writers before.
* Lana Freistat Melman, John Whelpley, John Eisendrath, Jessica Klein, Steve Wasserman.
* This was maybe the last Double Ups before Christmas.
* Everyone was cranky and ornery just trying to finish these.
* This is the only show Melman has written for in her career.
* Melman's husband is a director.
* Jason Wiles (Colin) says he'll come on the podcast. Previously, he hadn't said he would.
* The Brandon - Nat gambling story was a late addition. It worked because it was self contained.
* They have the Unreliable Narrator, where they say the Walsh parents aren't coming back for Christmas. Then Cindy comes back this season.
* Weiss points out that in season 3, Brandon was gambling on basketball. But in this episode, they say it's football.
* Mollin says they dropped the ball on that one. So many writers, and no one caught it.
* Jackson had an amazing experience with everyone on the cast.
* Jackson was 16 or 17, playing an 11 year old.
* Jackson auditioned for Aaron Spelling. He remembers the 24 karat pinball machine, as well as the carpet.
* Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green were great to work with.
* The power went out in the dressing room. Jackson and Brian Austin Green played a racing drifter game when that happened.
* Tiffani Amber Thiessen let Jackson's grandmother watch Days Of Our Lives in Thiessen's still working dressing room.
* Jackson hadn't been watching every single episode, but he had been watching the show, before the audition. He knew all the characters.
* The liquor store scene was the first thing they shot.
* Afterwords, Jackson got recognized for being on the show.
* Larry Mollin wanted to do something like Boyz N The Hood. He wanted to show other stories from L.A.
* Mollin says this was an example of Pay It Forward, before Pay It Forward came out.
* Jackson appreciates how this episode brings to light a real life issue not just in his community, but everyone's community.
* It has significant meaning to him.
* Weiss asks, is this enhancing the white savior trope?
* Mollin says that term didn't exist back then.
* And that Isaiah and Donna help each other. Isaiah helps Donna when they're being harrassed by those local gangsters. So it's mutual helping.
* Plus, as Rose Princesses, Lisa and Donna are helping each other out.
* Mollin says this episode is about kindness from people, and walking a mile in their shoes.
* It might be the white savior, but Mollin says anything can be critisized, and the heart's in the right place.
* Jackson agrees with the positive message.
* Mollin said this episode is about helping each other and building bonds.
* Jackson agrees.
* Mollin says they were a show with white cast members, until Jesse came along.
* But they did have diversity with guest stars.
* Jackson says he was treated with the upmost respect. He saw everyone as his fellow actors and actresses, and not anything else.
* Jackson says Spelling was humble and down to earth.
* Jackson had a teacher on set.
* Jackson says the gist of the episode is about a single parent leaving her son at home while she works.
* Jackson liked the popularity that came after his appearance. He soaked it up like a sponge.
* Jackson wants to get back into acting, and to let him know about opportunities.
Steve:
* Mollin says post college, he would have put Steve in a similar talent agency role, and not the Beverly Beat.
* When Steve gets a phone call from Jonathan Erwich, that is an inside joke. Craig Erwich was the EVP of FOX.
* Steve picking up a copy of Variety is a meta joke. Variety was important in making Beverly Hills, 90210 popular.
* Mollin says there's a meanness to the industry Steve is in. When he has to fire that woman.
* The same thing happened to Larry Mollin. When he went to join the WWE, he gets called upstairs with the guy who hired him. The guy who hired him just got fired, and he told Larry that.
* Mollin says he would have had Steve in show biz, post graduation.
* Weiss brings up that Steve did explore becoming a sports agent, in season 8's "The Way We Weren't".
* Weiss says that Steve working at the Beverly Beat doesn't bother her. But she could also see him becoming an agent too.
* Weiss says she thinks it's realistic for people with an affluent upbringing to have a rude awakening when they're let loose.
* She also understands that it doesn't follow Mollin's vision of "ordinary people with extradorinary lives".
* Ferriero says Brandon could have still have been a reporter.
* Larry Mollin repeats that he would have had Brandon do something with the Dryer.
* Or interning with a congressman.
Auction plot:
* They like the Kelly-Colin-Valerie auction plot.
* Weiss likes how they had the real life artist, Peter Tigler, on a few podcasts ago.
* Weiss asks, is Valerie telling the truth, when she says tha thte portrait was supposed to be David's Christmas gift?
* Neither Pete Ferriero nor Mollin believe that.
Brandon's gambling:
* Weiss asks, all of those shots of the dice throwing, how to you ensure they're going to land on the right numbers?
* Mollin says it's an "insert crew" and they have to do as many takes as it requires for the numbers to come up.
* Mollin says it's like when Cress Williams (D'Shawn Hardell) shoots baskets and can't make a shot. They have to keep reshooting.
* Mollin likes the scenes of Brandon sweating.
* The director, James Fargo, did this episode, and "All This And Mary Too". Mollin says that was a forgettable episode.
* This might have been the last Double Up of the season.
* The actress that played Lisa, Tembi Locke, would costar with Luke Perry on "Windfall".
* Larry Mollin's new book, "Road To Shambala", is printed correctly now.
* Kathleen Robertson tells Pete Ferriero to tell Larry Mollin, that she thinks Mollin is one of the few that understood Clare.
* Mollin thanks Weiss for challenging him on the white savior stuff.
* Mollin says he wouldn't do anything differently today, because he thought it was even handed how everyone helped everyone.
* Also, Lisa did push back on Donna, by saying "we don't need Saint Donna coming into this family's life". So she did represent that view.
* Mollin also says that they used the idea of the Rose Court where Princesses help each other. Donna covers for Lisa at the store.
* They have now been in talks to have Jason Wiles (Colin) come on the podcast. They just need to agree on a date.
2023.11.16 21:24 como365 What's Going On In Columbia November 16-22
This is your weekly events post, comments, additions, or suggestions welcome! Remarkably, I'm on time this week.
This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of poetic and soulful texts. Passages from Matt’s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports, and additional texts by Johnson and Browne are poignantly appointed throughout the work.
SLOTHRUST W/ SPECIAL GUEST PRONOUN - November 16, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
Songs We Like To Sing - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Boone County History and Culture Center
Join Broadways actors Jennifer Hemphill, John Hemphill, and Lisa Brescia as they sing some of their favorite songs from Broadway to Pop with special guest vocalist Nollie Moore and Jamey Grisham. The incredible Travis McFarlane will accompany the concert on the History & Culture Center's one-of-a-kind Blind Boone Piano. Tickets are limited so reserve yours today at https://boonehistory.org/events/
THE JANUARY LANTERNS W/ SPECIAL GUESTS BRIAN BULGER AND RIVER & RAIL - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
CHRIS KNIGHT W/ SPECIAL GUEST JOE STAMM BAND - November 17 8:00 p.m. - The Blue Note
Melanie Maclaren w/ Liv Burney – November 17 7:00 p.m. - Compass Inc.
An intimate evening of music with modern singer songwriters, Melanie MacLaren and Liv Burney in the Listening Room at the Compass Music Center. Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:00pm. Parking is available in the Hillel parking lot, street parking and parking garage located next to the Compass Music Center. Light refreshments will be provided. $15 Adv $20 Dos
Melanie MacLaren’s natural aptitude for nuanced delivery, wistful guitar playing, and her ability to write about life as if life were simply writing itself is everything you could want from a modern folk musician. Melanie’s lyrics have been described as “haunting yet humorous” and possessing a “sentimental cynicism” that “oozes with Gen-Z relatability.” This duality shines through in all aspects of her music— classic finger-style guitar rests on beds of ethereal, ambient synthesizers, while distorted trad instruments like banjo, bouzouki and fiddle punctuate the compositions, demonstrating a keen artistic ability to combine a unique tongue-in-cheek sensibility with timeless folk style. More Info: https://melaniemaclaren.com/
Having spent the last half decade performing with her acclaimed family band, Liv Burney has stepped out as a singular, confident voice in our local music pool. Deftly flipping between gentle melodies and impassioned deliveries, Burney’s hybrid approach to indie rock, folk and country harkens to classic sounds beyond her years.
Open Mic Night - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Love Coffee
Doors open at 6 Mic opens at 7. Come early to enjoy some food and drink before performing. Donations are encouraged for the Love Coffee organization, as well as the U. C. Music Scholarship Fund.
Annie Jr. by TRYPS Children’s Theater - November 18, 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. November 19 2:00 p.m. - Launer Auditorium (Columbia College)
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy. Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
BLACK STONE CHERRY + GIOVANNIE & THE HIRED GUNS W/ SPECIAL GUEST JIGSAW YOUTH - November 18, 8:00 p.m. - The Blue Note
Out of Pocket" is the band's first new song since the release of their 2020 album The Human Condition and is another trademark rocker from their locker. Emotionally rousing with a roof-raising battle cry chorus, it shows the band at their anthemic best. The lifelong friends Chris Robertson, vocals/guitar; Ben Wells, guitavocals; and John Fred Young, drums, welcome their new bass player Steve Jewell on his first studio recordings, having slayed the stages with them over the past two years. Talking about the song Chris Robertson says, "’Out of Pocket’ is a song born out of that exact feeling. The song was what I personally, and I think a lot of us, felt over these very trying last couple of years. Facing your demons, knowing that you have to come out the other side stronger than before." Over the past two decades, the Kentucky Southern rockers have shaken stages from arenas to festivals across Europe, bringing the good times every time. In 2021 they fulfilled a lifetime ambition of playing London's iconicRoyal Albert Hall, bringing an incredibly emotional and powerful performance. Now it's time to blow the roof off those arenas once again. Black Stone Cherry have 2023 firmly in their sights and are taking it, lock, stock and barrel.
One of the most crowd-thrilling bands to burst onto the national scene in recent years, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have pushed the boundaries of rock-and-roll and country to forge an irresistibly gritty sound all their own. After building a massive grassroots following on the strength of their explosive live show, the Stephenville, Texas-based five-piece ascended to new heights with their smash hit “Ramon Ayala”—a 2021 release that climbed to #1 on the Active Rock Radio Chart and the Alternative Radio Chart, marking the first time in over 15 years that an artist’s first career-charting radio single reached the top spot on both tallies. Fueled by the enormous success they’ve achieved as an entirely independent act, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have now signed to Warner Music Nashville just in time for the release of their third full-length, Tejano Punk Boyz: an immediately vital body of work cementing their status as an essential new force in redefining the possibilities of Texas music.
CHAT PILE W/ SPECIAL GUESTS LITTERED WITH ARROWS & BAD INVESTMENTS - November 18, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
Nclusion Plus: Drag2Nite - November 18, 7:30 p.m. - Serendipity Salon and Gallery
Come out with your dollar bills and support these drag entertainers as they grace the Serendipity Stage in an all live vocals event. This is an 18+ Event.
Community Showcase Mondays' - November 20, 7:00 p.m. - Cafe Berlin
Join us Monday nights for our Community Showcase “Open Mic” Sign up to play: https://www.signupgenius.com/…/10c084ea5a82fa7fcc25… We’re featuring several local favorites and fresh faces. Get here early for Happy Hour 5-7 and find a good seat. This is part of an ongoing series – if you miss a Monday, we’d love to see you at the next! Email booking@cafeberlincomo.com with any questions!
WILD TURKEY WEDNESDAY FT. JACOB GAPSCH - November 22, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
The past haunts the present in Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's chilling fusion of folk horror and political thriller, inspired by the real-life indictment of Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. In La Llorona, Enrique Monteverde (Julio Díaz), an infamous, aging military dictator, stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Maya communities. Amidst his legal troubles and the public's cry for justice, Enrique and his family become trapped in their palatial mansion. The arrival of an enigmatic Kaqchikel housekeeper Alma (María Mercedes Coroy) triggers a series of disturbing supernatural occurrences that forces Enrique to wonder if he will face extrajudicial punishment.
This screening will be followed by a community conversation led by the Cambio Center, exploring topics such as Indigenous identity, political movements, and folklore in Latin America. Please note that FREE tickets for the public will be available online and at the Ragtag Box Office starting Thursday, November 16 at 12PM.
The Persian Version - November - Ragtag Cinema
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, The Persian Version is a joyous and heartfelt portrait of a queer, Iranian-American daughter and her Iranian mother confronting the secrets they have kept from one another. Leila (Layla Mohammadi) has spent her life navigating the opposite expectations of American and Iranian culture while boldly embracing her dual identity. When her family reunites in New York City for her father's heart transplant, Leila is forced to spend time with her mother Shireen (Niousha Noor), and abruptly reveals that she's pregnant. Leila's pregnancy forces her and her mother to notice the parallels between their lives and for Shireen to share what she has long kept hidden from her only daughter. Filled with bright colors, quick wit, and unexpected dance numbers, The Persian Version delivers a relatable story of family, belonging, and staying true to oneself.
Killers of the Flower Moon - November - Ragtag Cinema
American auteur Martin Scorsese returns to cinemas with a riveting adaptation of David Grann's bestselling, nonfiction novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. In the midst of the Roaring 1920s, unexpected fortune comes to the members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma after oil is discovered under their land. This overnight wealth disturbs the racial hierarchy established by white settlers. Soon after, members of the Osage Nation are mysteriously murdered one after another forcing the nascent FBI to investigate. Told through the surprising romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic American western crime saga that crosses real love with unspeakable betrayal.
Priscilla - November - Ragtag Cinema
Before she became Priscilla Presley, she was teenager Priscilla Beaulieu living with her family on a German army base listening to Bobby Darin, Fabian, and... Elvis Presley. After locking eyes at a party on the base, Priscilla discovers the man Elvis, separated from his star image: a best friend, a first love, a lonely person. Directed by Sofia Coppola, Priscilla tells the unseen side of the great American myth of Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi), from their relationship's origin to its tumultuous end. Priscilla is an intimate and ravishingly detailed portrait of a young woman's life irrevocably changed by love, fame, and fantasy.
The Holdovers - November - Ragtag Cinema
Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is a curmudgeonly academic at a prestigious New England boarding school who is loathed by students and ignored by his colleagues. Every year Barton Academy closes for winter vacation, and this year Mr. Hunham is forced to supervise the holdovers — the students who cannot go home during winter vacation. Instead of a group of Barton students, the holdovers are Mr. Hunham, troubled student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), and grieving school chef Mary Lamb (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). This unlikely trio spends the winter vacation learning about one another and confronting what's missing in their lives respectively. The Holdovers is a dramatic comedy about the unexpected connections anyone can make in a familiar space.
The Saltburn - November - Ragtag Cinema
Director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) delivers a sumptuous tale of privilege and desire in Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a working-class student, struggles to fit in with his wealthier classmates at Oxford University. It is only after Oliver befriends Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), an alluring aristocratic, that his world starts to expand. When summer break arrives and Oliver does not wish to return home, Felix invites him to his massive family estate, Saltburn. Oliver accepts the invitation blind to the fact that Saltburn is an ominous place where outsiders rarely leave after entering its confines.
Live Music – November 18 - Dive Bar
Karaoke Night - November 18 - Arch n' Column Pub
Sunny Sunday's - November 19 - Cafe Berlin
Berlin Nights presents SUNNY SUNDAYS: Vinyl on the stage (bring your own if ya please!), happy hour, board games! Pregame your evening plans (lookin’ at you, Summerfesters!) and join us for some good ole patio chillin’! FREE + HAPPY HOUR 5-7! RAIN OR SHINE!
We love our local breweries! Start the work week off right with a $4 local pint.
Geeks Who Drink - November 22 - Cafe Berlin
Geeks Who Drink live hosted bar trivia is coming to Cafe Berlin starting on September 20! Join us for 2 hours of entertaining trivia, that is free to play and PRIZES awarded. Geeks Who Drink rules limit the total number of players on your team to 6, so gather your smartest friends and come down.Questions? Email us [booking@cafeberlincomo.com](mailto:booking@cafeberlincomo.com)Drink specials, happy hour 5-7!Galleries and Exhibits
The Great Flood of 1993 - Ongoing - Boone County History and Culture Center
A retrospective on the 30th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1993 exploring its impact on Boone County and Columbia. Includes artifacts, boats, a wall mural timeline, newspaper articles, Missouri River Mud, and photo displays. Closes in February
A Star Is Born – Ongoing - Costume Museum Exhibition Stephens College Costume Museum and Research GalleryThis new fashion Gallery exhibit features the clothing of films from the 1930s through 2021. It celebrates women in screenwriting, fashion, and the arts, showcasing ways these industries influenced women worldwide to follow the “Hollywood” style. Some of the chosen films represent women connected to Stephens College, to Columbia, and to Missouri. The Gallery is open to the public on the dates and times below. visit site
Boone County Art Show - Ongoing - Columbia Art League
https://columbiaartleague.org/current-exhibitions-1
2023 NOVEMBER EXHIBIT Stephen Gammell Zoe Hawk - November 3 to18 - Sager Reeves Gallery
This month's featured sponsors: Holly Roberson & John Goldstein, Julia Ames
SMALL TOWNS, BIG STORIES Sep 26, 2023 to Feb 10, 2024 - State Historical Society of Missouri Art Gallery
Since 1949, professional photographers from around the country, including Missouri, have captured images of life in rural Missouri towns as part of the Missouri Photo Workshop, established at the Missouri School of Journalism. SHSMO is hosting an exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the workshops. Visitors can study more than 100 images taken in 51 towns across the state over the past 75 years.
Please join us for a public reception on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1:30-3 p.m. The curators of the exhibit will be available to answer questions ad provide further insight into the lives of the photographers and subjects featured in the exhibit.
Each year, a town in Missouri is chosen as the host community. Workshop participants document a story with their cameras under the guidance of faculty who are some of the industry’s most prominent photographers and editors. The body of work then becomes part of an extensive archive of life in small-town Missouri. The exhibit is being supported by the Missouri School of Journalism, Miller’s Professional Imaging, and the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.
Mizzou Men’s Basketball vs. Jackson State - November 19 - Mizzou Arena
Mizzou Women’s Basketball vs. Southern Indiana - November 20 - Mizzou Arena
Columbia College Men's Basketball vs. Evangel University - November 21 - Southwell Complex
Mizzou Men’s Basketball vs. South Carolina State - November 22 - Mizzou Arena
Join us for our 11th annual Colored Stone Showcase! Pop a balloon for your chance to win your entire purchase free up to $5,000 or a 20-40% OFF prize. We’ll have special colored stone lines, gorgeous museum-quality pieces in the cases and of course a few drinks and snacks. Stop by and say hi! We’re looking forward to it.
Make a Lavender Holiday Wreath – November 18 and 19 - Battlefield Lavender in Centralia
In the gift shop at Battlefield Lavender.
Sushi Party-Cooking Class - November 18 - Back 2 Basics Cooking on the Business Loop
During this fun class, we will go over how to make your own sticky rice, which is essential for proper sushi rolling. Then we will prepare a cucumber roll, chicken teriyaki roll, then finally a California roll, tasting each of our creations along the way. By the end of this class, you will have the skills to roll your own sushi at home! This class is intended for adults; however, children are welcome as long as they can work on their own and have an adult attending with them. Everyone attending will need their own ticket. Read more here: Seating is first come, first serve! Book here:
Holiday ’23 Market: Curated. Crafted. Created. - November 19 - Columbia Mall
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On Stage
MU Choral Union and University Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra: Considering Matthew Shepard - November 16, 7:00 p.m. - Jesse Hall AuditoriumThis three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of poetic and soulful texts. Passages from Matt’s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports, and additional texts by Johnson and Browne are poignantly appointed throughout the work.
SLOTHRUST W/ SPECIAL GUEST PRONOUN - November 16, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
Songs We Like To Sing - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Boone County History and Culture Center
Join Broadways actors Jennifer Hemphill, John Hemphill, and Lisa Brescia as they sing some of their favorite songs from Broadway to Pop with special guest vocalist Nollie Moore and Jamey Grisham. The incredible Travis McFarlane will accompany the concert on the History & Culture Center's one-of-a-kind Blind Boone Piano. Tickets are limited so reserve yours today at https://boonehistory.org/events/
THE JANUARY LANTERNS W/ SPECIAL GUESTS BRIAN BULGER AND RIVER & RAIL - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
CHRIS KNIGHT W/ SPECIAL GUEST JOE STAMM BAND - November 17 8:00 p.m. - The Blue Note
Melanie Maclaren w/ Liv Burney – November 17 7:00 p.m. - Compass Inc.
An intimate evening of music with modern singer songwriters, Melanie MacLaren and Liv Burney in the Listening Room at the Compass Music Center. Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:00pm. Parking is available in the Hillel parking lot, street parking and parking garage located next to the Compass Music Center. Light refreshments will be provided. $15 Adv $20 Dos
Melanie MacLaren’s natural aptitude for nuanced delivery, wistful guitar playing, and her ability to write about life as if life were simply writing itself is everything you could want from a modern folk musician. Melanie’s lyrics have been described as “haunting yet humorous” and possessing a “sentimental cynicism” that “oozes with Gen-Z relatability.” This duality shines through in all aspects of her music— classic finger-style guitar rests on beds of ethereal, ambient synthesizers, while distorted trad instruments like banjo, bouzouki and fiddle punctuate the compositions, demonstrating a keen artistic ability to combine a unique tongue-in-cheek sensibility with timeless folk style. More Info: https://melaniemaclaren.com/
Having spent the last half decade performing with her acclaimed family band, Liv Burney has stepped out as a singular, confident voice in our local music pool. Deftly flipping between gentle melodies and impassioned deliveries, Burney’s hybrid approach to indie rock, folk and country harkens to classic sounds beyond her years.
Open Mic Night - November 17, 7:00 p.m. - Love Coffee
Doors open at 6 Mic opens at 7. Come early to enjoy some food and drink before performing. Donations are encouraged for the Love Coffee organization, as well as the U. C. Music Scholarship Fund.
Annie Jr. by TRYPS Children’s Theater - November 18, 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. November 19 2:00 p.m. - Launer Auditorium (Columbia College)
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy. Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
BLACK STONE CHERRY + GIOVANNIE & THE HIRED GUNS W/ SPECIAL GUEST JIGSAW YOUTH - November 18, 8:00 p.m. - The Blue Note
Out of Pocket" is the band's first new song since the release of their 2020 album The Human Condition and is another trademark rocker from their locker. Emotionally rousing with a roof-raising battle cry chorus, it shows the band at their anthemic best. The lifelong friends Chris Robertson, vocals/guitar; Ben Wells, guitavocals; and John Fred Young, drums, welcome their new bass player Steve Jewell on his first studio recordings, having slayed the stages with them over the past two years. Talking about the song Chris Robertson says, "’Out of Pocket’ is a song born out of that exact feeling. The song was what I personally, and I think a lot of us, felt over these very trying last couple of years. Facing your demons, knowing that you have to come out the other side stronger than before." Over the past two decades, the Kentucky Southern rockers have shaken stages from arenas to festivals across Europe, bringing the good times every time. In 2021 they fulfilled a lifetime ambition of playing London's iconicRoyal Albert Hall, bringing an incredibly emotional and powerful performance. Now it's time to blow the roof off those arenas once again. Black Stone Cherry have 2023 firmly in their sights and are taking it, lock, stock and barrel.
One of the most crowd-thrilling bands to burst onto the national scene in recent years, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have pushed the boundaries of rock-and-roll and country to forge an irresistibly gritty sound all their own. After building a massive grassroots following on the strength of their explosive live show, the Stephenville, Texas-based five-piece ascended to new heights with their smash hit “Ramon Ayala”—a 2021 release that climbed to #1 on the Active Rock Radio Chart and the Alternative Radio Chart, marking the first time in over 15 years that an artist’s first career-charting radio single reached the top spot on both tallies. Fueled by the enormous success they’ve achieved as an entirely independent act, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have now signed to Warner Music Nashville just in time for the release of their third full-length, Tejano Punk Boyz: an immediately vital body of work cementing their status as an essential new force in redefining the possibilities of Texas music.
CHAT PILE W/ SPECIAL GUESTS LITTERED WITH ARROWS & BAD INVESTMENTS - November 18, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
Nclusion Plus: Drag2Nite - November 18, 7:30 p.m. - Serendipity Salon and Gallery
Come out with your dollar bills and support these drag entertainers as they grace the Serendipity Stage in an all live vocals event. This is an 18+ Event.
Community Showcase Mondays' - November 20, 7:00 p.m. - Cafe Berlin
Join us Monday nights for our Community Showcase “Open Mic” Sign up to play: https://www.signupgenius.com/…/10c084ea5a82fa7fcc25… We’re featuring several local favorites and fresh faces. Get here early for Happy Hour 5-7 and find a good seat. This is part of an ongoing series – if you miss a Monday, we’d love to see you at the next! Email booking@cafeberlincomo.com with any questions!
WILD TURKEY WEDNESDAY FT. JACOB GAPSCH - November 22, 8:00 p.m. - Rose Music Hall
On Screen
La Llorona - November 16 - Ragtag CinemaThe past haunts the present in Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's chilling fusion of folk horror and political thriller, inspired by the real-life indictment of Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. In La Llorona, Enrique Monteverde (Julio Díaz), an infamous, aging military dictator, stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Maya communities. Amidst his legal troubles and the public's cry for justice, Enrique and his family become trapped in their palatial mansion. The arrival of an enigmatic Kaqchikel housekeeper Alma (María Mercedes Coroy) triggers a series of disturbing supernatural occurrences that forces Enrique to wonder if he will face extrajudicial punishment.
This screening will be followed by a community conversation led by the Cambio Center, exploring topics such as Indigenous identity, political movements, and folklore in Latin America. Please note that FREE tickets for the public will be available online and at the Ragtag Box Office starting Thursday, November 16 at 12PM.
The Persian Version - November - Ragtag Cinema
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, The Persian Version is a joyous and heartfelt portrait of a queer, Iranian-American daughter and her Iranian mother confronting the secrets they have kept from one another. Leila (Layla Mohammadi) has spent her life navigating the opposite expectations of American and Iranian culture while boldly embracing her dual identity. When her family reunites in New York City for her father's heart transplant, Leila is forced to spend time with her mother Shireen (Niousha Noor), and abruptly reveals that she's pregnant. Leila's pregnancy forces her and her mother to notice the parallels between their lives and for Shireen to share what she has long kept hidden from her only daughter. Filled with bright colors, quick wit, and unexpected dance numbers, The Persian Version delivers a relatable story of family, belonging, and staying true to oneself.
Killers of the Flower Moon - November - Ragtag Cinema
American auteur Martin Scorsese returns to cinemas with a riveting adaptation of David Grann's bestselling, nonfiction novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. In the midst of the Roaring 1920s, unexpected fortune comes to the members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma after oil is discovered under their land. This overnight wealth disturbs the racial hierarchy established by white settlers. Soon after, members of the Osage Nation are mysteriously murdered one after another forcing the nascent FBI to investigate. Told through the surprising romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic American western crime saga that crosses real love with unspeakable betrayal.
Priscilla - November - Ragtag Cinema
Before she became Priscilla Presley, she was teenager Priscilla Beaulieu living with her family on a German army base listening to Bobby Darin, Fabian, and... Elvis Presley. After locking eyes at a party on the base, Priscilla discovers the man Elvis, separated from his star image: a best friend, a first love, a lonely person. Directed by Sofia Coppola, Priscilla tells the unseen side of the great American myth of Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi), from their relationship's origin to its tumultuous end. Priscilla is an intimate and ravishingly detailed portrait of a young woman's life irrevocably changed by love, fame, and fantasy.
The Holdovers - November - Ragtag Cinema
Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is a curmudgeonly academic at a prestigious New England boarding school who is loathed by students and ignored by his colleagues. Every year Barton Academy closes for winter vacation, and this year Mr. Hunham is forced to supervise the holdovers — the students who cannot go home during winter vacation. Instead of a group of Barton students, the holdovers are Mr. Hunham, troubled student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), and grieving school chef Mary Lamb (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). This unlikely trio spends the winter vacation learning about one another and confronting what's missing in their lives respectively. The Holdovers is a dramatic comedy about the unexpected connections anyone can make in a familiar space.
The Saltburn - November - Ragtag Cinema
Director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) delivers a sumptuous tale of privilege and desire in Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a working-class student, struggles to fit in with his wealthier classmates at Oxford University. It is only after Oliver befriends Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), an alluring aristocratic, that his world starts to expand. When summer break arrives and Oliver does not wish to return home, Felix invites him to his massive family estate, Saltburn. Oliver accepts the invitation blind to the fact that Saltburn is an ominous place where outsiders rarely leave after entering its confines.
Talks and Lectures
**none I could find this week :(**Bars and Nightlife
Live Music – November 17 - Dive BarLive Music – November 18 - Dive Bar
Karaoke Night - November 18 - Arch n' Column Pub
Sunny Sunday's - November 19 - Cafe Berlin
Berlin Nights presents SUNNY SUNDAYS: Vinyl on the stage (bring your own if ya please!), happy hour, board games! Pregame your evening plans (lookin’ at you, Summerfesters!) and join us for some good ole patio chillin’! FREE + HAPPY HOUR 5-7! RAIN OR SHINE!
We love our local breweries! Start the work week off right with a $4 local pint.
Geeks Who Drink - November 22 - Cafe Berlin
Geeks Who Drink live hosted bar trivia is coming to Cafe Berlin starting on September 20! Join us for 2 hours of entertaining trivia, that is free to play and PRIZES awarded. Geeks Who Drink rules limit the total number of players on your team to 6, so gather your smartest friends and come down.Questions? Email us [booking@cafeberlincomo.com](mailto:booking@cafeberlincomo.com)Drink specials, happy hour 5-7!Galleries and Exhibits
Galleries and Exhibits
Stephen Bybee, Kevin Dingman & Notley Hawkins Photography - Nov. 6 - Dec. 16 - Sidney Larson Gallery @ Columbia CollegeThe Great Flood of 1993 - Ongoing - Boone County History and Culture Center
A retrospective on the 30th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1993 exploring its impact on Boone County and Columbia. Includes artifacts, boats, a wall mural timeline, newspaper articles, Missouri River Mud, and photo displays. Closes in February
A Star Is Born – Ongoing - Costume Museum Exhibition Stephens College Costume Museum and Research GalleryThis new fashion Gallery exhibit features the clothing of films from the 1930s through 2021. It celebrates women in screenwriting, fashion, and the arts, showcasing ways these industries influenced women worldwide to follow the “Hollywood” style. Some of the chosen films represent women connected to Stephens College, to Columbia, and to Missouri. The Gallery is open to the public on the dates and times below. visit site
Boone County Art Show - Ongoing - Columbia Art League
https://columbiaartleague.org/current-exhibitions-1
2023 NOVEMBER EXHIBIT Stephen Gammell Zoe Hawk - November 3 to18 - Sager Reeves Gallery
This month's featured sponsors: Holly Roberson & John Goldstein, Julia Ames
SMALL TOWNS, BIG STORIES Sep 26, 2023 to Feb 10, 2024 - State Historical Society of Missouri Art Gallery
Since 1949, professional photographers from around the country, including Missouri, have captured images of life in rural Missouri towns as part of the Missouri Photo Workshop, established at the Missouri School of Journalism. SHSMO is hosting an exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the workshops. Visitors can study more than 100 images taken in 51 towns across the state over the past 75 years.
Please join us for a public reception on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1:30-3 p.m. The curators of the exhibit will be available to answer questions ad provide further insight into the lives of the photographers and subjects featured in the exhibit.
Each year, a town in Missouri is chosen as the host community. Workshop participants document a story with their cameras under the guidance of faculty who are some of the industry’s most prominent photographers and editors. The body of work then becomes part of an extensive archive of life in small-town Missouri. The exhibit is being supported by the Missouri School of Journalism, Miller’s Professional Imaging, and the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.
Sports
Mizzou Football vs. Florida - November 18 - Faurot FieldMizzou Men’s Basketball vs. Jackson State - November 19 - Mizzou Arena
Mizzou Women’s Basketball vs. Southern Indiana - November 20 - Mizzou Arena
Columbia College Men's Basketball vs. Evangel University - November 21 - Southwell Complex
Mizzou Men’s Basketball vs. South Carolina State - November 22 - Mizzou Arena
Other
11th Annual Fall Color Show – November 16 - Betz JewlersJoin us for our 11th annual Colored Stone Showcase! Pop a balloon for your chance to win your entire purchase free up to $5,000 or a 20-40% OFF prize. We’ll have special colored stone lines, gorgeous museum-quality pieces in the cases and of course a few drinks and snacks. Stop by and say hi! We’re looking forward to it.
Make a Lavender Holiday Wreath – November 18 and 19 - Battlefield Lavender in Centralia
In the gift shop at Battlefield Lavender.
Sushi Party-Cooking Class - November 18 - Back 2 Basics Cooking on the Business Loop
During this fun class, we will go over how to make your own sticky rice, which is essential for proper sushi rolling. Then we will prepare a cucumber roll, chicken teriyaki roll, then finally a California roll, tasting each of our creations along the way. By the end of this class, you will have the skills to roll your own sushi at home! This class is intended for adults; however, children are welcome as long as they can work on their own and have an adult attending with them. Everyone attending will need their own ticket. Read more here: Seating is first come, first serve! Book here:
Holiday ’23 Market: Curated. Crafted. Created. - November 19 - Columbia Mall
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2022.11.05 14:42 Recent-Development10 [A Terran Space Story: Lieutenant Saga] - Chapter 55
An unexpected find leads John down an entirely different rabbit hole. But just as the investigation heats up something depressing strikes for the impatient Lieutenant. Hope you enjoy!
The next chapter will be out on Tuesday. If all goes to plan there will be 3 chapters a week (Usually Tues-Thurs-Sat) through the end of December. Unless I add a few chapters that means I'll be wrapping things up just before my winter vacation in January.
A Terran Space Story: The Lieutenant Saga
Academy Days First Previous Next
Despite his shift having ended nearly eight hours earlier, John was still inspecting the random stuff, they had taken back with them. Everything was laid out in a grid pattern. Officers could walk around and inspect everything.
John was down to one knee as he was inspecting a terminal. It caught his attention because of the surprising tangle of wires. His focus was laser-like on this weird terminal. This was odd as there were far too many wires for a normal terminal.
“What in the hell?” John muttered under his breath.
Private David Olson picked up a tray and looked at it. He sighed, documented it, and brought it over to other similar items. After dropping it off he noticed his commanding officer’s head was practically buried in a terminal.
“Sir, what are you looking at?”
“A terminal. Pick up another one and let me know if you see a shitload of wires near the rear access port. Should be like way more than normal.”
“Sure thing, boss,” the young private said happily.
John then heard snickering from the chief engineer behind him. He turned to look at him. Omar was shaking his head in disgust at him.
“You’ve seriously never seen that have you?”
“I’m not an engineer, chief. I kill things really well though,” John said sarcastically.
“It’s a quantum module. Old one by the looks of it. The new ones are built into the boards of terminals these days. Modules like that haven’t been used in a hundred years.”
John looked back down at it, “It’s that old? How sure are you?”
“Absolutely certain. And it’s because we, being the Confederacy, don’t connect to the super database on Luna with those modules. Not anymore, that is.”
“Lieutenant, I ain’t finding shit in all these other terminals,” David shouted from the other end of the hold.
John rose to his full height holding the terminal, “So this connects to a server or other computer through… entanglement, right?”
Omar nodded, “Yup. The question is whose server or computer, is it? And why would anyone make new modules of stupidly old tech?”
John nodded, “Can this be separated and tied to another terminal?”
“Probably, let me take a look at that,” Omar said as he walked over and took the terminal, “Yup, clicks off just like this.”
Omar then plugged it back in and out. As much as he may not like the scheme-filled Lieutenant, he was the kind of man to educate so he wouldn’t have to answer the same question twice. And Omar appreciated when others respected his vast knowledge of all things mechanical and technological. He then handed the terminal and quantum device back to John.
“And it just powers on like that?” John asked.
Omar shrugged, “Depends. You should see it in the connected modules window of the terminal. The earliest ones didn’t have much in the way of safety protocols. They were on or off and had a connection to a server. So, you should be able to power that thing on and see whatever server it is paired to.”
“And the only way to sever that connection is to pull the pairing, right?”
Omar nodded, “Ahh so you did know some about it.”
“Not much, again, my specialty is command and killing.”
“That’s why our forebearers bailed on the original plan. Way too much of a pain in the ass to monitor and control. Lose one half of the pair then the other needed to be located, pulled, and then replaced with another.”
“How likely would someone be monitoring a server setup with old tech like this.”
“I honestly have no clue. Database management isn’t exactly my cup of tea. Would depend on how organized the group that has a setup like that.”
“Dave,” John shouted as he tossed the terminal sans quantum module, “Catch. Also, check that piece and let me know whose room we got that out of. I have something to do.”
John nodded to Omar in respect and headed out of the cargo hold. He hurriedly walked to his room. Once there he set the quantum computing device on his desk and stared at it. For nearly ten minutes he pondered his next move.
“Eve, is there any way to remotely scan a terminal to see if one of these is installed on the base or ships?”
“Not without physical access to the terminal.”
“Shit. What can you tell me about this device?”
“Please plug in the primary connector. Do not connect the power cable,” Eve said.
John did as he was instructed. The primary connector supplied a minimal amount of power, just enough to verify current could flow through the board. Several commands and diagnostic runtimes were flipping through the screen.
“Device is functioning as expected.”
“Is there any way to know where or what server this is paired to?”
“Crosschecking the serial number,” Eve said leaving the room silent for a moment, “This quantum pairing was produced in 2138. The server component was last checked into a Naval storage facility in Alpha Centauri in 2204.”
“That means it was stolen sometime after that.”
“The facility was raided by an Alliance special forces team. Several server halves were stolen without the team fully being aware of what it was that they stole. The terminal component was stored in another facility. Which was also raided.”
“Fuck, no clue how many times it changed hands over the years. Ok, is there a way to activate and log into the server without the other pair being aware?”
“This serial number corresponds to a pairing line that lacked any security protocols. The server would have no clue if you were logged in, provided the server pair was active,” Eve continued to speak, “However, if you interact with any files, they will know you are online.”
“Look but don’t touch. Ok, I’m going to plug this,” John said as he plugged in the power adaptor to it, “Turn it on, let’s see what we have.”
Eve did as she was told. The quantum computer began drawing power. John’s terminal immediately detected it and transferred to its screen. A loud belly laugh was left out.
“Holy shit balls,” John said as he scrolled through the list of files.
He was seriously tempted to copy as much as he could and transfer it to his server. Somehow cooler heads prevailed. John powered the device off and leaned back in his chair. All he could do was blankly stare at his terminal. Several different plans and methods were popping up in his mind. But the two primary things were to be patient and to do a hell of a lot of research.
9 days later, July 17th. 09:25 St. Mary’s Station – Admiral Nelson’s Office
John was ordered to meet with the operation’s ultimate leaders. He was getting a halfhearted dressing down of his actions. It was painfully obvious to both Admiral Nelson and John that the admiral didn’t really mean anything he was saying. But the Admiral was either unwilling or couldn’t admit fault for such a broad order that was given to John.
“Ok, enough with that bullshit,” Admiral Nelson said, “How many suspects are you down to?”
John shrugged, “The VIs are running non-stop, however, we’re still well over two hundred possibilities.”
“How long until you feel confident about reporting any particulars?”
“I’d prefer to narrow the list to under ten. I also…”
Admiral Nelson interrupted him, “No, you do not have the authorization to break into anyone’s personal quarters. We also inspected the workplace terminals our staff uses. No quantum computing devices were attached to them.”
“Which is why…” John was interrupted once again.
“No. You are not going into anyone’s quarters unless you were specifically invited into them,” Admiral Nelson took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes, “I appreciate your dogged focus, but I cannot order you to break the law. Nor can I suggest you do that. This investigation needs to be clean.”
“What if it doesn’t need to be, sir? Plus, they wouldn’t know.”
“The answer is still no. And it doesn’t matter if you can violate their rights and get away with it,” Admiral Nelson said rubbing his forehead, “The quantum device doesn’t work?”
“It appears it was either sabotaged by its former user or damaged when we pulled the terminal from the wall,” John was lying expertly through his teeth, “A would-be promising find resulted in utter disappointment. Also, I’m kind of leaving this discovery out of any reports at this time.”
“That is unfortunate. Admiral Zhang’s complaint was received by the way. She’s not happy with how things turned out,” Admiral Nelson put his glasses back on, “Son if this mission ends in success, I can assure you that the complaints are just going to disappear into the ether. If it’s a marginal success I doubt they will do any real damage to you aside from Zhang never wanting you in her fleet. If we don’t…”
John interrupted the Admiral, “We will succeed, sir.”
“On that note, Fleet Command and our civilian government have reiterated their mission parameters that Dr. Norman be taken alive. His top Agent, Lisa Benning, has also been flagged for capture.”
John looked down at the Admiral with a look of disgust on his face, “Surely you jest.”
“Computer, turn off all recording devices,” Admiral Nelson said as he held a button on his terminal, “Son, officially what I’m about to tell you never happened. Kill Lisa, she’s no use to us and frankly is a looser cannon than you are. The task force agrees with capturing Dr. Norman, there are things he can do to help us.”
John almost recoiled with that statement, “His work is tainted by the lives of thousands he brutally slaughtered or injected with poison. He doesn’t even deserve a swift death. The moment the Alliance figures out we’re using him they will flip the fuck out.”
General Mizrahi said gruffly, “I don’t disagree with you on a personal level. However, if he is on our side…”
“General, you don’t understand this man. Right now he’s authorizing rogue groups to conduct illegal and unethical medical research on our citizens. He will not stop his plans if we are his goalers. Instead, our state will be the one sponsoring said eugenics research.”
“And forfeit the moral ground over the Alliance in any war or conflict that stems from this. The others are aware of it and are accepting of the risk,” Admiral Nelson leaned back in his desk, “When, or if, the final attack happens on his organization, a special task force will be accompanying you to ensure his capture.”
John closed his eyes and took a deep breath, “What, in theory, would happen if I say over my dead body, sir?”
“Fleet Command has said you can accept the order or be reassigned with immediate effect.”
John grinned, “Reassigning me means the task force is destined to fail. You don’t have the connections that I do that are critical to the success of this mission without starting another war.”
Admiral Nelson stood up from his desk and pulled a shade down to peak out of his office, “I have told Fleet Command this. Their stance didn’t change. Computer, turn back the standard recording devices on. Lieutenant, what is your choice?”
John once again lied expertly, “I will accept Fleet Commands' decision, however unwise as I personally see it, and accept their assistance when we finally assault his compound.”
“Good, you are dismissed. Enjoy a couple of well-earned days off,” Admiral Nelson said.
John saluted to both men and walked out of the room. General Mizrahi stood up and paced near the door to the office. He looked every bit as sick as John had.
“I agree with the Lieutenant. This is too risky,” Uri said.
“Can’t say I disagree with you, old friend,” Admiral Nelson grabbed a pair of glasses from his shelf and set them on his desk, “I’m surprised he accepted their demands.”
Admiral Nelson pulled a bottle of scotch from his desk and poured a drink for the pair.
Uri picked the glass up and drank it in one gulp, “Off the record, he’s going to kill Dr. Norman with or without permission.”
Admiral Nelson grinned, “Of course he is. The question is how is he going to do that? He can’t underestimate the special task force that command will assign to us during the last push. They do one thing and only one thing and are kitted out with even more advanced gear than we have.”
Uri nodded, “They are soldiers through and through. They aren’t John though.”
“What do you mean?”
“John isn’t a soldier, he’s a wolf in a soldier’s clothing. He’s a consummate professional, but deep-down Naval Intelligence made him a highly effective murderer. Once he’s locked on nothing will stop him. Including those special forces.”
“I hope you are right because these orders made my skin crawl. The cabinet cannot seriously think this won’t go sideways in the future.”
“Oh, they know it will, but they are confident the gains we receive will be offset by a meager war or two,” Uri said sardonically.
“Uri, what’s going to happen to them when John does kill him?”
“Fleet Command will likely sweep it under the rug. They have too, their willingness to keep him is half-hearted at best. The civvies are the ones that want him. The question I have is how far would they go for retribution?”
“The question is less how far they would go Uri, and more what he will do to them if they try anything.”
2 days later, July 19th. 17:35 St. Mary’s Station – Residential Wing
The Lief-Robertson residence was quiet. John was scavenging leftovers from the fridge for his dinner this evening. While he did enjoy cooking meals for himself and Alice, leftovers were a guilty pleasure for the young man. Alice walked out of the bedroom dressed for an evening out on the town.
Alice looked at John from the kitchen island, “Are you sure you don’t want to go out?”
John laughed and turned to face Alice, “Go out with you and six women and one highly queer co-worker?”
“We are a bunch of fun though!” Alice grinned.
“Ah hell, I know that,” John turned to look back at his wife, “And yes I know Finn is cool shit. But man, he is just…”
“Fabulous?”
“More like flamboyantly out there and highly fabulous. He’s also super tiring to be around. And he doesn’t like fighting,” John shrugged.
Alice rolled her eyes, “Finn is only tiring to you. You are probably just going to nerd out at home.”
“More like work, though I need to talk to an expert,” John shrugged as he walked with his plate of food to the couch and looked at the screen.
“Well don’t have too much fun. You know where we are going to be,” Alice said as she walked over to the couch and shook his shoulders, “Love you!”
“Love you too,” John patted Alice’s butt as she walked by but as soon as he did his focus was changed to the TV, “Kevin, buddy, thank God you answered.”
“Hey bud, how are things?” Kevin smiled as he looked at John.
“Things are a little chaotic. So, the reason I called, and apologies it wasn’t to shoot the shit or anything fun, but how knowledgeable are you of those old ass quantum-paired computers?”
Kevin’s eyes lit up, “I know of them. We even got to play with a couple during the academy. My high school had one of them too.”
“Sweet, is there a way to spoof one of them?”
“That’s a hard negative. On the plus side there’s no removing their access without physically pulling the paired server core,” Kevin leaned back in his chair, “That means their IT department or whatever needs to be on top of things.”
“What about hiding one’s actions while logged into a pair?” John asked.
“That’s not exactly my area of expertise buuuuuut,” Kevin dragged out his statement a moment, “It is possible to hide some actions from a logger.”
“Is there a way to surreptitiously identify if other users are online or modify a log file?”
“Fairly easily actually. If you know what you’re looking for that is. I’ll send you what I know. The military kept a lot of this shit real hush-hush. There were way more flaws with it than the public knew.”
“Hold the fuck on. That’s like no security at all.”
Kevin chuckled, “Yeah basically. Hence why they went with a different system. But then we were too stupid to actually destroy our shitty technology. We at least stored the pairs in different locations at least.”
“I fucking never heard about that. This is crazy. These were actually on ships?”
“Sure was. The servers were all stored at a military facility. When the civilian version of it was launched the security concerns were worked out.”
“Hold on, how the hell do you know all this?”
Kevin almost fell out of his seat laughing, “I cannot wait to tell Andern that I know something you don’t. Hot damn. One of the professors told my class about the disadvantages of it.”
John noticed Kevin’s message on his tablet. He opened it hurriedly and skimmed through the contents. Laughter was all John could muster in response to this.
“Kevin, you have got to be shitting me!”
“Well, there’s a limit to all of that. You can modify the log, but the fact that it was manually changed is going to be pretty obvious to any competent server administrator.”
John gently tossed the tablet on the table and shook his head, “Good lord man. This is nuts.”
“Well good luck with whatever sketchy shit you’re planning.”
John tried to look offended, “What makes you think it’s sketchy?”
“You are involved with it,” Kevin laughed, “When aren’t you trying to do something questionable? Or something that is outside your orders? Or actively doing sketchy shit.”
“Hey, technically…” John stopped and laughed, “Yeah I can’t speak about it but technically…”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. Hey, so when are you going to be out my way?”
“Been out in your neck of the woods a couple of times. Been all over the place with this operation.”
“So, are you done with command now?” Kevin sounded concerned.
“Nah, not for good. My unique set of skills was necessary just for this operation. I should have my own ship by the end of this shitshow.”
“Unique my ass,” Kevin laughed, “Well hey, Theresa is getting off her shift soon and I told her I’d make dinner.”
“Take ‘er easy. We’ll catch up soon.”
John switched the TV’s screen to that of his terminal. He was reviewing the potential list of presumed traitors. There were now just over one hundred names remaining on the list. There were far too many names on the list for him to act. But a troubling figure began showing up on the screen.
“Eve, confirm the elimination time.”
“Time to eliminate potential subjects has increased exponentially. The remaining individuals have substantially more contact with other individuals either in person or in writing. As a result, the time to eliminate a person has increased up to twenty hours or more.”
“I presume you are using as many run-times as possible?”
“All available resources are being used.”
John looked a bit defeated, “Estimated time to get to ten names?”
“Three to six months.”
“Fucking hell,” John said dejectedly, “Finally have a bit of good news, and now this. Damnit.”
The good mood that John was in was soured. Knowing his luck, it’d be closer to six months than three. Which meant a best-case scenario would involve this operation last at least another year. Maybe more. Though that time frame largely depended on how quickly they could find some hard evidence to use against Dr. Norman.
Little did John know at the time, but this estimated target was woefully underestimated. His secretive VI farm would take more than nine months to narrow the list to twelve individuals. The task force was anything but lazy. They eliminated forty-two more labs in that time. Only a third were captured while operational though.
The number of detainees continued to grow as a result of those raids. An entire prison on the surface of Manchester was dedicated to holding the former employees of the illicit labs. It was curious to see that many highly educated, but highly disturbed, individuals were locked up in the same place.
Sadly, the number of horrors they discovered continued to grow as more bases were assaulted. Eight members of his platoon were rotated out due to medical, or specifically in this case mental health, reasons.
So much more work needed to be done before they could take the fight to Dr. Norman in his territory. But first John had housecleaning work that needed to be done. There was a traitor, but who could it be? John certainly had his theories, but to what lengths was he willing to go to prove them?
A Terran Space Story: The Lieutenant Saga
Academy Days First Previous Next
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The next chapter will be out on Tuesday. If all goes to plan there will be 3 chapters a week (Usually Tues-Thurs-Sat) through the end of December. Unless I add a few chapters that means I'll be wrapping things up just before my winter vacation in January.
A Terran Space Story: The Lieutenant Saga
Academy Days First Previous Next
Chapter 55: Closing the Trap
One day later, July 8th. 04:15 CNS Fargo – Secondary Cargo HoldDespite his shift having ended nearly eight hours earlier, John was still inspecting the random stuff, they had taken back with them. Everything was laid out in a grid pattern. Officers could walk around and inspect everything.
John was down to one knee as he was inspecting a terminal. It caught his attention because of the surprising tangle of wires. His focus was laser-like on this weird terminal. This was odd as there were far too many wires for a normal terminal.
“What in the hell?” John muttered under his breath.
Private David Olson picked up a tray and looked at it. He sighed, documented it, and brought it over to other similar items. After dropping it off he noticed his commanding officer’s head was practically buried in a terminal.
“Sir, what are you looking at?”
“A terminal. Pick up another one and let me know if you see a shitload of wires near the rear access port. Should be like way more than normal.”
“Sure thing, boss,” the young private said happily.
John then heard snickering from the chief engineer behind him. He turned to look at him. Omar was shaking his head in disgust at him.
“You’ve seriously never seen that have you?”
“I’m not an engineer, chief. I kill things really well though,” John said sarcastically.
“It’s a quantum module. Old one by the looks of it. The new ones are built into the boards of terminals these days. Modules like that haven’t been used in a hundred years.”
John looked back down at it, “It’s that old? How sure are you?”
“Absolutely certain. And it’s because we, being the Confederacy, don’t connect to the super database on Luna with those modules. Not anymore, that is.”
“Lieutenant, I ain’t finding shit in all these other terminals,” David shouted from the other end of the hold.
John rose to his full height holding the terminal, “So this connects to a server or other computer through… entanglement, right?”
Omar nodded, “Yup. The question is whose server or computer, is it? And why would anyone make new modules of stupidly old tech?”
John nodded, “Can this be separated and tied to another terminal?”
“Probably, let me take a look at that,” Omar said as he walked over and took the terminal, “Yup, clicks off just like this.”
Omar then plugged it back in and out. As much as he may not like the scheme-filled Lieutenant, he was the kind of man to educate so he wouldn’t have to answer the same question twice. And Omar appreciated when others respected his vast knowledge of all things mechanical and technological. He then handed the terminal and quantum device back to John.
“And it just powers on like that?” John asked.
Omar shrugged, “Depends. You should see it in the connected modules window of the terminal. The earliest ones didn’t have much in the way of safety protocols. They were on or off and had a connection to a server. So, you should be able to power that thing on and see whatever server it is paired to.”
“And the only way to sever that connection is to pull the pairing, right?”
Omar nodded, “Ahh so you did know some about it.”
“Not much, again, my specialty is command and killing.”
“That’s why our forebearers bailed on the original plan. Way too much of a pain in the ass to monitor and control. Lose one half of the pair then the other needed to be located, pulled, and then replaced with another.”
“How likely would someone be monitoring a server setup with old tech like this.”
“I honestly have no clue. Database management isn’t exactly my cup of tea. Would depend on how organized the group that has a setup like that.”
“Dave,” John shouted as he tossed the terminal sans quantum module, “Catch. Also, check that piece and let me know whose room we got that out of. I have something to do.”
John nodded to Omar in respect and headed out of the cargo hold. He hurriedly walked to his room. Once there he set the quantum computing device on his desk and stared at it. For nearly ten minutes he pondered his next move.
“Eve, is there any way to remotely scan a terminal to see if one of these is installed on the base or ships?”
“Not without physical access to the terminal.”
“Shit. What can you tell me about this device?”
“Please plug in the primary connector. Do not connect the power cable,” Eve said.
John did as he was instructed. The primary connector supplied a minimal amount of power, just enough to verify current could flow through the board. Several commands and diagnostic runtimes were flipping through the screen.
“Device is functioning as expected.”
“Is there any way to know where or what server this is paired to?”
“Crosschecking the serial number,” Eve said leaving the room silent for a moment, “This quantum pairing was produced in 2138. The server component was last checked into a Naval storage facility in Alpha Centauri in 2204.”
“That means it was stolen sometime after that.”
“The facility was raided by an Alliance special forces team. Several server halves were stolen without the team fully being aware of what it was that they stole. The terminal component was stored in another facility. Which was also raided.”
“Fuck, no clue how many times it changed hands over the years. Ok, is there a way to activate and log into the server without the other pair being aware?”
“This serial number corresponds to a pairing line that lacked any security protocols. The server would have no clue if you were logged in, provided the server pair was active,” Eve continued to speak, “However, if you interact with any files, they will know you are online.”
“Look but don’t touch. Ok, I’m going to plug this,” John said as he plugged in the power adaptor to it, “Turn it on, let’s see what we have.”
Eve did as she was told. The quantum computer began drawing power. John’s terminal immediately detected it and transferred to its screen. A loud belly laugh was left out.
“Holy shit balls,” John said as he scrolled through the list of files.
He was seriously tempted to copy as much as he could and transfer it to his server. Somehow cooler heads prevailed. John powered the device off and leaned back in his chair. All he could do was blankly stare at his terminal. Several different plans and methods were popping up in his mind. But the two primary things were to be patient and to do a hell of a lot of research.
9 days later, July 17th. 09:25 St. Mary’s Station – Admiral Nelson’s Office
John was ordered to meet with the operation’s ultimate leaders. He was getting a halfhearted dressing down of his actions. It was painfully obvious to both Admiral Nelson and John that the admiral didn’t really mean anything he was saying. But the Admiral was either unwilling or couldn’t admit fault for such a broad order that was given to John.
“Ok, enough with that bullshit,” Admiral Nelson said, “How many suspects are you down to?”
John shrugged, “The VIs are running non-stop, however, we’re still well over two hundred possibilities.”
“How long until you feel confident about reporting any particulars?”
“I’d prefer to narrow the list to under ten. I also…”
Admiral Nelson interrupted him, “No, you do not have the authorization to break into anyone’s personal quarters. We also inspected the workplace terminals our staff uses. No quantum computing devices were attached to them.”
“Which is why…” John was interrupted once again.
“No. You are not going into anyone’s quarters unless you were specifically invited into them,” Admiral Nelson took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes, “I appreciate your dogged focus, but I cannot order you to break the law. Nor can I suggest you do that. This investigation needs to be clean.”
“What if it doesn’t need to be, sir? Plus, they wouldn’t know.”
“The answer is still no. And it doesn’t matter if you can violate their rights and get away with it,” Admiral Nelson said rubbing his forehead, “The quantum device doesn’t work?”
“It appears it was either sabotaged by its former user or damaged when we pulled the terminal from the wall,” John was lying expertly through his teeth, “A would-be promising find resulted in utter disappointment. Also, I’m kind of leaving this discovery out of any reports at this time.”
“That is unfortunate. Admiral Zhang’s complaint was received by the way. She’s not happy with how things turned out,” Admiral Nelson put his glasses back on, “Son if this mission ends in success, I can assure you that the complaints are just going to disappear into the ether. If it’s a marginal success I doubt they will do any real damage to you aside from Zhang never wanting you in her fleet. If we don’t…”
John interrupted the Admiral, “We will succeed, sir.”
“On that note, Fleet Command and our civilian government have reiterated their mission parameters that Dr. Norman be taken alive. His top Agent, Lisa Benning, has also been flagged for capture.”
John looked down at the Admiral with a look of disgust on his face, “Surely you jest.”
“Computer, turn off all recording devices,” Admiral Nelson said as he held a button on his terminal, “Son, officially what I’m about to tell you never happened. Kill Lisa, she’s no use to us and frankly is a looser cannon than you are. The task force agrees with capturing Dr. Norman, there are things he can do to help us.”
John almost recoiled with that statement, “His work is tainted by the lives of thousands he brutally slaughtered or injected with poison. He doesn’t even deserve a swift death. The moment the Alliance figures out we’re using him they will flip the fuck out.”
General Mizrahi said gruffly, “I don’t disagree with you on a personal level. However, if he is on our side…”
“General, you don’t understand this man. Right now he’s authorizing rogue groups to conduct illegal and unethical medical research on our citizens. He will not stop his plans if we are his goalers. Instead, our state will be the one sponsoring said eugenics research.”
“And forfeit the moral ground over the Alliance in any war or conflict that stems from this. The others are aware of it and are accepting of the risk,” Admiral Nelson leaned back in his desk, “When, or if, the final attack happens on his organization, a special task force will be accompanying you to ensure his capture.”
John closed his eyes and took a deep breath, “What, in theory, would happen if I say over my dead body, sir?”
“Fleet Command has said you can accept the order or be reassigned with immediate effect.”
John grinned, “Reassigning me means the task force is destined to fail. You don’t have the connections that I do that are critical to the success of this mission without starting another war.”
Admiral Nelson stood up from his desk and pulled a shade down to peak out of his office, “I have told Fleet Command this. Their stance didn’t change. Computer, turn back the standard recording devices on. Lieutenant, what is your choice?”
John once again lied expertly, “I will accept Fleet Commands' decision, however unwise as I personally see it, and accept their assistance when we finally assault his compound.”
“Good, you are dismissed. Enjoy a couple of well-earned days off,” Admiral Nelson said.
John saluted to both men and walked out of the room. General Mizrahi stood up and paced near the door to the office. He looked every bit as sick as John had.
“I agree with the Lieutenant. This is too risky,” Uri said.
“Can’t say I disagree with you, old friend,” Admiral Nelson grabbed a pair of glasses from his shelf and set them on his desk, “I’m surprised he accepted their demands.”
Admiral Nelson pulled a bottle of scotch from his desk and poured a drink for the pair.
Uri picked the glass up and drank it in one gulp, “Off the record, he’s going to kill Dr. Norman with or without permission.”
Admiral Nelson grinned, “Of course he is. The question is how is he going to do that? He can’t underestimate the special task force that command will assign to us during the last push. They do one thing and only one thing and are kitted out with even more advanced gear than we have.”
Uri nodded, “They are soldiers through and through. They aren’t John though.”
“What do you mean?”
“John isn’t a soldier, he’s a wolf in a soldier’s clothing. He’s a consummate professional, but deep-down Naval Intelligence made him a highly effective murderer. Once he’s locked on nothing will stop him. Including those special forces.”
“I hope you are right because these orders made my skin crawl. The cabinet cannot seriously think this won’t go sideways in the future.”
“Oh, they know it will, but they are confident the gains we receive will be offset by a meager war or two,” Uri said sardonically.
“Uri, what’s going to happen to them when John does kill him?”
“Fleet Command will likely sweep it under the rug. They have too, their willingness to keep him is half-hearted at best. The civvies are the ones that want him. The question I have is how far would they go for retribution?”
“The question is less how far they would go Uri, and more what he will do to them if they try anything.”
2 days later, July 19th. 17:35 St. Mary’s Station – Residential Wing
The Lief-Robertson residence was quiet. John was scavenging leftovers from the fridge for his dinner this evening. While he did enjoy cooking meals for himself and Alice, leftovers were a guilty pleasure for the young man. Alice walked out of the bedroom dressed for an evening out on the town.
Alice looked at John from the kitchen island, “Are you sure you don’t want to go out?”
John laughed and turned to face Alice, “Go out with you and six women and one highly queer co-worker?”
“We are a bunch of fun though!” Alice grinned.
“Ah hell, I know that,” John turned to look back at his wife, “And yes I know Finn is cool shit. But man, he is just…”
“Fabulous?”
“More like flamboyantly out there and highly fabulous. He’s also super tiring to be around. And he doesn’t like fighting,” John shrugged.
Alice rolled her eyes, “Finn is only tiring to you. You are probably just going to nerd out at home.”
“More like work, though I need to talk to an expert,” John shrugged as he walked with his plate of food to the couch and looked at the screen.
“Well don’t have too much fun. You know where we are going to be,” Alice said as she walked over to the couch and shook his shoulders, “Love you!”
“Love you too,” John patted Alice’s butt as she walked by but as soon as he did his focus was changed to the TV, “Kevin, buddy, thank God you answered.”
“Hey bud, how are things?” Kevin smiled as he looked at John.
“Things are a little chaotic. So, the reason I called, and apologies it wasn’t to shoot the shit or anything fun, but how knowledgeable are you of those old ass quantum-paired computers?”
Kevin’s eyes lit up, “I know of them. We even got to play with a couple during the academy. My high school had one of them too.”
“Sweet, is there a way to spoof one of them?”
“That’s a hard negative. On the plus side there’s no removing their access without physically pulling the paired server core,” Kevin leaned back in his chair, “That means their IT department or whatever needs to be on top of things.”
“What about hiding one’s actions while logged into a pair?” John asked.
“That’s not exactly my area of expertise buuuuuut,” Kevin dragged out his statement a moment, “It is possible to hide some actions from a logger.”
“Is there a way to surreptitiously identify if other users are online or modify a log file?”
“Fairly easily actually. If you know what you’re looking for that is. I’ll send you what I know. The military kept a lot of this shit real hush-hush. There were way more flaws with it than the public knew.”
“Hold the fuck on. That’s like no security at all.”
Kevin chuckled, “Yeah basically. Hence why they went with a different system. But then we were too stupid to actually destroy our shitty technology. We at least stored the pairs in different locations at least.”
“I fucking never heard about that. This is crazy. These were actually on ships?”
“Sure was. The servers were all stored at a military facility. When the civilian version of it was launched the security concerns were worked out.”
“Hold on, how the hell do you know all this?”
Kevin almost fell out of his seat laughing, “I cannot wait to tell Andern that I know something you don’t. Hot damn. One of the professors told my class about the disadvantages of it.”
John noticed Kevin’s message on his tablet. He opened it hurriedly and skimmed through the contents. Laughter was all John could muster in response to this.
“Kevin, you have got to be shitting me!”
“Well, there’s a limit to all of that. You can modify the log, but the fact that it was manually changed is going to be pretty obvious to any competent server administrator.”
John gently tossed the tablet on the table and shook his head, “Good lord man. This is nuts.”
“Well good luck with whatever sketchy shit you’re planning.”
John tried to look offended, “What makes you think it’s sketchy?”
“You are involved with it,” Kevin laughed, “When aren’t you trying to do something questionable? Or something that is outside your orders? Or actively doing sketchy shit.”
“Hey, technically…” John stopped and laughed, “Yeah I can’t speak about it but technically…”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. Hey, so when are you going to be out my way?”
“Been out in your neck of the woods a couple of times. Been all over the place with this operation.”
“So, are you done with command now?” Kevin sounded concerned.
“Nah, not for good. My unique set of skills was necessary just for this operation. I should have my own ship by the end of this shitshow.”
“Unique my ass,” Kevin laughed, “Well hey, Theresa is getting off her shift soon and I told her I’d make dinner.”
“Take ‘er easy. We’ll catch up soon.”
John switched the TV’s screen to that of his terminal. He was reviewing the potential list of presumed traitors. There were now just over one hundred names remaining on the list. There were far too many names on the list for him to act. But a troubling figure began showing up on the screen.
“Eve, confirm the elimination time.”
“Time to eliminate potential subjects has increased exponentially. The remaining individuals have substantially more contact with other individuals either in person or in writing. As a result, the time to eliminate a person has increased up to twenty hours or more.”
“I presume you are using as many run-times as possible?”
“All available resources are being used.”
John looked a bit defeated, “Estimated time to get to ten names?”
“Three to six months.”
“Fucking hell,” John said dejectedly, “Finally have a bit of good news, and now this. Damnit.”
The good mood that John was in was soured. Knowing his luck, it’d be closer to six months than three. Which meant a best-case scenario would involve this operation last at least another year. Maybe more. Though that time frame largely depended on how quickly they could find some hard evidence to use against Dr. Norman.
Little did John know at the time, but this estimated target was woefully underestimated. His secretive VI farm would take more than nine months to narrow the list to twelve individuals. The task force was anything but lazy. They eliminated forty-two more labs in that time. Only a third were captured while operational though.
The number of detainees continued to grow as a result of those raids. An entire prison on the surface of Manchester was dedicated to holding the former employees of the illicit labs. It was curious to see that many highly educated, but highly disturbed, individuals were locked up in the same place.
Sadly, the number of horrors they discovered continued to grow as more bases were assaulted. Eight members of his platoon were rotated out due to medical, or specifically in this case mental health, reasons.
So much more work needed to be done before they could take the fight to Dr. Norman in his territory. But first John had housecleaning work that needed to be done. There was a traitor, but who could it be? John certainly had his theories, but to what lengths was he willing to go to prove them?
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2022.07.12 23:08 roastbeeffan In Search of the 313th Greatest Survivor Player of All Time: Part 2
This is part 2 of my ongoing investigation where I am attempting to find the 313th greatest Survivor player of all time (626 people have played the American version of the game, so the 313th best player would be right in the middle). Yesterday I eliminated all winners (too good to be considered) and everybody who was the first person voted out of their tribe prior to a tribe swap. This left me with a little over 500 possible candidates. Today I'm going to attempt to whittle the field down a little further.
The Losing Finalists
"We can go around here and find positive attributes for why everybody's worthy, but the fact remains Rich and Kelly are the two sitting here. Clearly these two played the game the best."
-Jeff Probst, Survivor Borneo (The Final Four)
Among hardcore Survivor fans, second place is not always seen as a particularly prestigious spot. The second place finisher has accomplished what a large majority of the cast did not, and they have made it the full 39 days. On the other hand, the fact they failed to win a jury vote is the ultimate criticism of their game. They had 39 days to make a case for why they should win the game, and in the end they failed to do so. However, the vast, vast majority of Survivor players never make it to final tribal council in the first place.
When I asked for feedback on how to further whittle the field in my last post, the most popular suggestion by far was that I look at the losing finalists, particularly runners up, and *especially* those who received votes. I will now present my initial findings on the non-winners who have made FTC at least once.
I consider the following players to be absolute locks in the upper half of Survivor players. If you'd like to argue any of these choices in the comments I'm happy to defend them, but the following are players I think will be accepted by most of you within the top half without controversy. These finalists include Kelly Wiglesworth, Colby Donaldson, Neleh Dennis, Stephenie Lagrossa (more on the strength of her Palau game than Guatemala), Danielle DiLorenzo, Ozzy Lusth, Amanda Kimmel, Stephen Fishbach, Coach Wade, Spencer Bledsoe (more for Cagayan than Cambodia), Tasha Fox (again, more for Cagayan), Aubry Bracco, Domenick Abbate, and Mike White. I think all of these finalists had reasonable paths to victory in at least one season, and I feel fairly confident including them here.
After some additional legwork I feel fairly confident including Kim Johnson, Clay Jordan, Matthew von Ertfelda, Katie Gallagher, Becky Lee, Cassandra Franklin, Dreamz Herd, Courtney Yates, Susie Smith, Sugar Kiper, Stephen Fishbach, Russell Hantz, Mick Trimming, Chase Rice, Phillip Shephard, Albert Destrade, Sabrina Thompson, Michael Skupin, Lisa Whelchel, Dawn Meehan, Sherri Biethman, Gervase Peterson, Jaclyn Schultz, Carolyn Rivera, Tai Trang, Hannah Shapiro, Brad Culpepper, Troyzan Robertson, Chrissy Hofbeck, Gavin Whitson, Dean Kowalski, Deshawn Radden, Xander Hastings, and Mike Turner.
This leaves me with 16 finalists that I still have some reservations about including in the top half of players. These include Lillian Morris, Twila Tanner, Sash Lenahan, Natalie Tenerelli, Chelsea Meissner, Monica Culpepper, Woo Hwang, Missy Payne, Will Sims, Ken McNickle, Ryan Ulrich, Laurel Johnson, Angelina Keeley, Julie Rosenberg, Noura Salman, and Romeo Escobar. These players either received zero votes or to my mind did not ever have a clear path to a winnable FTC. So putting those 16 aside for now, I have ruled out 47 additional players so far in this post for being too skilled to be considered the 313th best player.
Zero Correct Votes
At this point I would like to eliminate a chunk from "the bottom" of the remaining players. I'm now going to eliminate every player who quit or was medically evacuated in the pre-merge, or never voted correctly during all of their in-game appearances(not counting first boots who I have already ruled out). This eliminates Stacy Stillman, Carl Bilancione, Linda Spencer, Gabriel Cade (I'm willing to issue a "swapscrewed exemption" for players who swapped into a minority, but given Gabe swaps into a 5-3 majority I feel okay including him), Stephanie Dill, Robb Zbacnik, Daniel Lue, JoAnna Ward, Michelle Tesauro, Osten Taylor, John Paylok, Mia Galeotalanza, Brady Finta, Jolanda Jones, Willard Smith, Misty Giles (you can make a stretch case that she's swapscrewed, but the division of OG tribes is 2-2-2-1, so I wouldn't consider it a classic example, and also she may have been first out of her tribe anyway), Erica Durousseau, Gary Stritesky, Ashley Massaro, Mikey B, Chet Welch (not technically a quit, but he asked to be voted off and supposedly he would have been evacuated eventually for his foot anyway), Kathy Sleckman, Mike Borassi, Betsy Bolan, Kristina Kell, Krista Klumpp, Stephanie Valencia, Stacey Powell, Kourtney Moon, Dana Lambert, RC Saint-Amour, Hope Driskill, Shamar Thomas, Marissa Peterson, Colton Cumbie, Cliff Robinson, Lindsey Ogle, Val Collins, Nina Poersch, Roark Luskin, Jessica Johnston, Chris Noble, Pat Cusack (I shouldn't have eliminated him in my last post, I should have eliminated Jessica Peet instead. My mistake. But they're both out now), Bi Nguyen, and Jackson Fox (I messed up by elminating Jackson in my last post instead of Marya Sherron. My only defense is in the last 7-10 seasons my brain shuts down from skimming all these voting charts. Needless to say, they're both out now).
Fallen Angels
By now I've eliminated 92 players, and I'd like to break into triple digits if I can. So I'm quickly going to rule out anybody who was the final person voted out but who could likely have beaten all of the finalists had they made it to FTC. This includes, by my reckoning, Rudy Boesch, Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien, Jan Gentry (lol), Rob Cesternino (I'm actually fairly 50-50 on if he beats Jenna, but he's too good to be 313 in any case so I won't lose sleep over it), Terry Deitz, Yau-Man Chan, Matty Whitmore, Brett Clouser, Ashley Underwood, Malcolm Freberg, Kelley Wentworth, and David Wright.
Over the course of this post I've eliminated 104 players, leaving me with 415 to go. There is much more work to be done, but for now I really have to pee.
Please feel free to comment below predictions on who will, in fact, turn out to be the most mediocre player of all time (Eliza Orlins? Dave Johnson? Chanelle Howell? James Clement? Jeremiah Wood? Stacy Kimball? Liz Kim? Jason Siska? Kat Edorsson? Tammy Leitner? Sally Schumann? Pete Yurkowski? Kelly Sharbaugh? Rocky Reid? Shii Ann Huang? Ali Elliott?)
Additionally, if you have ideas on criteria for moving forward here I'm open to suggestions, I have a few ideas on how to proceed whittling down the field, but outside input is always welcome. I will likely post part 3 some time tomorrow.
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The Losing Finalists
"We can go around here and find positive attributes for why everybody's worthy, but the fact remains Rich and Kelly are the two sitting here. Clearly these two played the game the best."
-Jeff Probst, Survivor Borneo (The Final Four)
Among hardcore Survivor fans, second place is not always seen as a particularly prestigious spot. The second place finisher has accomplished what a large majority of the cast did not, and they have made it the full 39 days. On the other hand, the fact they failed to win a jury vote is the ultimate criticism of their game. They had 39 days to make a case for why they should win the game, and in the end they failed to do so. However, the vast, vast majority of Survivor players never make it to final tribal council in the first place.
When I asked for feedback on how to further whittle the field in my last post, the most popular suggestion by far was that I look at the losing finalists, particularly runners up, and *especially* those who received votes. I will now present my initial findings on the non-winners who have made FTC at least once.
I consider the following players to be absolute locks in the upper half of Survivor players. If you'd like to argue any of these choices in the comments I'm happy to defend them, but the following are players I think will be accepted by most of you within the top half without controversy. These finalists include Kelly Wiglesworth, Colby Donaldson, Neleh Dennis, Stephenie Lagrossa (more on the strength of her Palau game than Guatemala), Danielle DiLorenzo, Ozzy Lusth, Amanda Kimmel, Stephen Fishbach, Coach Wade, Spencer Bledsoe (more for Cagayan than Cambodia), Tasha Fox (again, more for Cagayan), Aubry Bracco, Domenick Abbate, and Mike White. I think all of these finalists had reasonable paths to victory in at least one season, and I feel fairly confident including them here.
After some additional legwork I feel fairly confident including Kim Johnson, Clay Jordan, Matthew von Ertfelda, Katie Gallagher, Becky Lee, Cassandra Franklin, Dreamz Herd, Courtney Yates, Susie Smith, Sugar Kiper, Stephen Fishbach, Russell Hantz, Mick Trimming, Chase Rice, Phillip Shephard, Albert Destrade, Sabrina Thompson, Michael Skupin, Lisa Whelchel, Dawn Meehan, Sherri Biethman, Gervase Peterson, Jaclyn Schultz, Carolyn Rivera, Tai Trang, Hannah Shapiro, Brad Culpepper, Troyzan Robertson, Chrissy Hofbeck, Gavin Whitson, Dean Kowalski, Deshawn Radden, Xander Hastings, and Mike Turner.
This leaves me with 16 finalists that I still have some reservations about including in the top half of players. These include Lillian Morris, Twila Tanner, Sash Lenahan, Natalie Tenerelli, Chelsea Meissner, Monica Culpepper, Woo Hwang, Missy Payne, Will Sims, Ken McNickle, Ryan Ulrich, Laurel Johnson, Angelina Keeley, Julie Rosenberg, Noura Salman, and Romeo Escobar. These players either received zero votes or to my mind did not ever have a clear path to a winnable FTC. So putting those 16 aside for now, I have ruled out 47 additional players so far in this post for being too skilled to be considered the 313th best player.
Zero Correct Votes
At this point I would like to eliminate a chunk from "the bottom" of the remaining players. I'm now going to eliminate every player who quit or was medically evacuated in the pre-merge, or never voted correctly during all of their in-game appearances(not counting first boots who I have already ruled out). This eliminates Stacy Stillman, Carl Bilancione, Linda Spencer, Gabriel Cade (I'm willing to issue a "swapscrewed exemption" for players who swapped into a minority, but given Gabe swaps into a 5-3 majority I feel okay including him), Stephanie Dill, Robb Zbacnik, Daniel Lue, JoAnna Ward, Michelle Tesauro, Osten Taylor, John Paylok, Mia Galeotalanza, Brady Finta, Jolanda Jones, Willard Smith, Misty Giles (you can make a stretch case that she's swapscrewed, but the division of OG tribes is 2-2-2-1, so I wouldn't consider it a classic example, and also she may have been first out of her tribe anyway), Erica Durousseau, Gary Stritesky, Ashley Massaro, Mikey B, Chet Welch (not technically a quit, but he asked to be voted off and supposedly he would have been evacuated eventually for his foot anyway), Kathy Sleckman, Mike Borassi, Betsy Bolan, Kristina Kell, Krista Klumpp, Stephanie Valencia, Stacey Powell, Kourtney Moon, Dana Lambert, RC Saint-Amour, Hope Driskill, Shamar Thomas, Marissa Peterson, Colton Cumbie, Cliff Robinson, Lindsey Ogle, Val Collins, Nina Poersch, Roark Luskin, Jessica Johnston, Chris Noble, Pat Cusack (I shouldn't have eliminated him in my last post, I should have eliminated Jessica Peet instead. My mistake. But they're both out now), Bi Nguyen, and Jackson Fox (I messed up by elminating Jackson in my last post instead of Marya Sherron. My only defense is in the last 7-10 seasons my brain shuts down from skimming all these voting charts. Needless to say, they're both out now).
Fallen Angels
By now I've eliminated 92 players, and I'd like to break into triple digits if I can. So I'm quickly going to rule out anybody who was the final person voted out but who could likely have beaten all of the finalists had they made it to FTC. This includes, by my reckoning, Rudy Boesch, Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien, Jan Gentry (lol), Rob Cesternino (I'm actually fairly 50-50 on if he beats Jenna, but he's too good to be 313 in any case so I won't lose sleep over it), Terry Deitz, Yau-Man Chan, Matty Whitmore, Brett Clouser, Ashley Underwood, Malcolm Freberg, Kelley Wentworth, and David Wright.
Over the course of this post I've eliminated 104 players, leaving me with 415 to go. There is much more work to be done, but for now I really have to pee.
Please feel free to comment below predictions on who will, in fact, turn out to be the most mediocre player of all time (Eliza Orlins? Dave Johnson? Chanelle Howell? James Clement? Jeremiah Wood? Stacy Kimball? Liz Kim? Jason Siska? Kat Edorsson? Tammy Leitner? Sally Schumann? Pete Yurkowski? Kelly Sharbaugh? Rocky Reid? Shii Ann Huang? Ali Elliott?)
Additionally, if you have ideas on criteria for moving forward here I'm open to suggestions, I have a few ideas on how to proceed whittling down the field, but outside input is always welcome. I will likely post part 3 some time tomorrow.
2022.06.03 22:40 GentleRottweiler A list of public figures who support Amber Heard
Hello everyone!
Over the last week, I've been compiling a list of public figures who support Amber, either by putting out directly supportive statements, or interacting with supportive posts (such as on Instagram or Twitter). By request, I am posting this growing list here! It's a LOT longer than it was when I first started (it's grown since the morning, even), and I'm certain it'll keep growing. Please feel free to comment more names and I will add them when I can. As far as I know, a list like that has yet to be posted to this subreddit via a main post, so I hope this isn't violating any rules!
Conversely - if anyone backtracks or equivocates, let me know, and I will remove them.
Finally (for now, at least) I'd like to give a BIG shoutout to bortlesforbachelor, who helped compile this list into helpful categories of support, and Curious-Constant-52, who made a post covering figures supporting both AH and JD a couple of weeks ago - thank y'all so much! (https://www.reddit.com/Deuxmoi/comments/utmg5e/what_celebrities_and_other_public_figures_have/)
**Latest update: Nov. 4, 2022; 390+ names and counting.
July 16th, 2022: Milestone update! Since this post was first published about a month and a half ago, it's received over half a million views! Specifically, over 514,000 to date!
*Note, August 2nd, 2022: We are now two months past the verdict, and I feel that the unsealing of these court documents (lol, thanks JD fans!) marks a critical turning point in the changing tide of public opinion regarding Amber. Per the request of one user in the comments, I'll be annotating people who began to show support after the unsealing with a single asterisk ().
Direct Support
Indirect Support
Supporting Pro-Amber Celebrities
Working on Sorting
Selena Gomez (singer, actress, entrepreneur, cozy TV cook)
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Over the last week, I've been compiling a list of public figures who support Amber, either by putting out directly supportive statements, or interacting with supportive posts (such as on Instagram or Twitter). By request, I am posting this growing list here! It's a LOT longer than it was when I first started (it's grown since the morning, even), and I'm certain it'll keep growing. Please feel free to comment more names and I will add them when I can. As far as I know, a list like that has yet to be posted to this subreddit via a main post, so I hope this isn't violating any rules!
Conversely - if anyone backtracks or equivocates, let me know, and I will remove them.
Finally (for now, at least) I'd like to give a BIG shoutout to bortlesforbachelor, who helped compile this list into helpful categories of support, and Curious-Constant-52, who made a post covering figures supporting both AH and JD a couple of weeks ago - thank y'all so much! (https://www.reddit.com/Deuxmoi/comments/utmg5e/what_celebrities_and_other_public_figures_have/)
**Latest update: Nov. 4, 2022; 390+ names and counting.
July 16th, 2022: Milestone update! Since this post was first published about a month and a half ago, it's received over half a million views! Specifically, over 514,000 to date!
*Note, August 2nd, 2022: We are now two months past the verdict, and I feel that the unsealing of these court documents (lol, thanks JD fans!) marks a critical turning point in the changing tide of public opinion regarding Amber. Per the request of one user in the comments, I'll be annotating people who began to show support after the unsealing with a single asterisk ().
Direct Support
- Aaron Gillies (Technically Ron, comedy writer; posted this tweet the day of the verdict: https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1532099066129047554?cxt=HHwWhICj1fb-jcMqAAAA)
- Aaron Rupar (reporter; shared the Michael Hobbes article)
- Abby Govindan (comedian and writer; has posted critical takes regarding the trial on Twitter and retweeted Kamilla with her own comments)
- Adam Ellis (artist)
- Abby Elliott (comedian and actress, liked Amber's IG statement)
- A.H. Reaume (writer and activist)
- Alex Ross Perry (director)
- Alex Winter (actor, filmmaker, Bill S. Preston, Esq., tweeted against verdict)
- Alexa Nikolas (actress)
- Alexandra Brodsky (civil rights attorney and founder of Know Your IX; retweeted Nicole Bedera, Ella Dawson, and Dr. Mary Anne Franks; interviewed by Eliana Dockterman about the trial)
- Alexander Chee (writer, reviewer, journalist; retweeted Michael Hobbes)
- Alia E. Dastagir (reporter, USAToday; see this thread for her articles and her perspectives on the trial: https://twitter.com/alia_e/status/1532538983053414400?cxt=HHwWgMCylbuF1sQqAAAA)
- Amandabb_ (Youtuber)
- Amanda Hess (culture critic, The New York Times; wrote “TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine”
- Amanda Marcotte (journalist, senior politics writer for Salon)
- Amanda Palmer (singer-songwriter and musician; 1/2 of the musical duo the Dresden Dolls; shared A.O. Scott's "The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial" along with her own comments on her Facebook)
- Amanda Seyfried (actress, a mouse, duh!, shared the Jessica Valenti post)
- Amber Sparks (writer)
- Ambra Battilana Guttierez (model)
- Amelia Wedemeyer (writer and social media producer)
- Andrea González-Ramírez (writer for NY Magazine's The Cut; wrote “The Verdict Proved Her Point”: https://www.thecut.com/2022/06/johnny-depp-verdict-proves-amber-heards-point.html)
- Ann Olivarius (lawyer; openly supportive of Amber on Twitter; retweeted Jill Filipovic and Kamilla amongst others)
- Anna Fitzpatrick (writer; retweeted Princess Weekes and Michael Hobbes; shared Rayne Fisher Quann’s “who’s afraid of amber heard?” in addition to her own statements)
- Anneliese Spiteri-Staines (academic at the University of Melbourne; co-authored “The Online Hate for Amber Heard” https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-online-hate-for-amber-heard)
- Angelica Jade Bastién (culture critic and writer for Vulture; has retweeted Moira Donegan, Elle Dawson, Adam Davidson and more)
- Anita Sarkeesian (writer, filmmaker, and critic)
- Anya Zoledziowski (reporter, Vice; wrote “We’ve All Failed Amber Heard” in addition to other articles: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vm3b/weve-all-failed-amber-heard)
- A.O. Scott (New York Times film critic, wrote "The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/arts/depp-heard-trial-malice.html)
- April Rose Pengilly (actress)
- Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura (genocide researcher and lecturer)
- Arthur Gies (editor, Wirecutter; co-founder, Polygon)
- Ashley Bardhan (writer at Inverse and Kotaku; wrote Vilifying Amber Heard Shows We Learned Nothing From GamerGate)
- Ashley Judd (actress and activist)
- Ashley Reese (writer and journalist)
- Ashley Spencer (entertainment reporter; shared AO Scott’s article on Twitter)
- Audra Heinrichs (writer, Jezebel)
- Barbara Muschietti (producer, has liked Amber's IG statement)
- Bekah Martinez (Bachelor contestant; posted stories in support of Amber despite backlash and losing followers)
- BelleAntoinette (YouTuber and podcaster, has made videos supporting Amber)
- Bill Press (author and talk radio host; former chair of the California Democratic Party; wrote The Jury and I Both Got It Wrong on Amber Heard)
- Bojana Novakovic (actress, has liked Amber's IG statement)
- Bolu Babalola (author; posted anti-Depp tweet)
- Brandy Jensen (writer and editor; retweeted Joan Summers's "The Depp/Heard Verdict Is Just the Beginning")
- Brooke Williams (actress, has liked Amber's IG statement)
- Broti Gupta (comedian and writer on the Simpsons; has retweeted Kat Tenbarge and also this: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/BrotiGupta/status/1532099724374749184?cxt=HHwWgMCl_Z6ljsMqAAAA*)
- Carey O'Donnell (podcaster)
- Carlos Maza (journalist and video producer; formerly with Vox and Media Matters for America)
- Caroline Walsh-King (writer; wrote "We Don't Want to Believe: The Public Abuse of Amber Heard is Nothing New": https://andbytheway.substack.com/p/we-dont-want-to-believe)
- Carolyn Hinds (film critic)
- Casey Mink (writer; tweeted some sage advice
- Carrie Goldberg (writer and personal injury lawyer against big tech)
- Charlotte Proudman (lawyer and academic)
- Charlotte Shane (writer, retweeted Nicole Bedera and A.H. Reaume, amongst others)
- Chloe Morello (beauty influencer, openly tweeted her support for Amber))
- Christina Ricci (actress)
- Christine Lahti (actress and director)
- Claire Lampen (writer, NY Magazine’s The Cut; see her author page to read her articles on the trial and its fallout: https://www.thecut.com/authoclaire-lampen/)
- Claudia Black (actress)
- Clementine Ford (writer)
- Connie Schultz (journalist and wife of Ohio senator Sherrod Brown; shared Moira Donegan's article "The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogyny" on Twitter)
- Constance Wu (actress)
- Corinne Fisher (cohost of "Guys We Fucked;" comedian, posted in support of Amber; recently released a GWF episode addressing the trial (Episode 469))
- Dan Savage (journalist and media personality; writer of the “Savage Love” advice column; retweeted Jill Filipovic, added his own comments on the trial)
- Dana Schwartz (journalist and writer)
- Danielle Binks (writer)
- David Challen (domestic abuse awareness campaigner and National Centre for Domestic Violence ambassador; has shared articles and threads supportive of Amber on Twitter, along with his own comments)
- David Guetta (liked Amber's IG post)
- David Krumholtz (actor, openly supported Amber)
- David Roberts (journalist)
- Delia Cai (writer, Vanity Fair; retweeted Taylor Lorenz, Jessica DeFino, and Kat Tenbarge)
- Dolph Lundgren (actor, engineer, 1/2 of former power couple with Grace Jones, spoke positively of Amber in interview)
- Drew Dixon (writer and producer; openly pro-Amber on Twitter)
- Dustin Rowles (entertainment writer; founder and co-owner of Pajiba; wrote "Johnny Depp's Case Against Amber Heard Was Textbook DARVO")
- E. Jean Carroll (journalist and advice columnist; has shared a Jessica Bennett article on her twitter and wrote this…interesting piece: https://ejeancarroll.substack.com/p/i-introduced-amber-and-johnny/comment/6832109 and says she believes Amber in its comments)
- Eliana Dockterman (writer, Time Magazine; wrote “The Depp-Heard Trial Perpetuates the Myth of the Perfect Victim”: https://time.com/6183505/amber-heard-perfect-victim-myth-johnny-depp/)
- Elie Mystal (attorney and writer, justice correspondent for The Nation; tweeted this and retweeted Jessica Valenti)
- Eliza Skinner (writer, actress, and comedian; shared Jessica Winter’s article in addition to her own supportive statements on Twitter: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/elizaskinnestatus/1532829331185029120?cxt=HHwWgMCqqfmJ2sUqAAAA*)
- Elizabeth McGovern (actress)
- Elizabeth Picciuto (writer and editor)
- Elizabeth Reaser (actress, liked and retweeted supportive statements)
- Elizabeth Spiers (journalist, founding editor of Gawker.com, former editor of The New York Observer; has tweeted about the trial verdict in addition to retweeting Jessica DeFino, Margaret Sullivan, and others)
- Ella Dawson (writer)
- Ellen Barkin (actress)
- Elsie Fisher (actress)
- EJ Dickson (reporter, Rolling Stone)
- Emeraude Toubia (actress and model, shared supportive story on IG)
- Emily Ratajkowski (actress and model)
- Emma Katz (domestic violence researcher)
- Eoin Higgens (journalist; spoke with EJ Dickson about the trial here: https://www.callin.com/episode/men-always-win-breaking-down-the-johnny-depp-XAVZXOmLmw)
- Erin Biba (science journalist; has retweeted several supportive takes on Twitter)
- Esther Gallois (academic at the University of Melbourne; co-authored “The Online Hate for Amber Heard”)
- Evan Ross Katz (podcaster)
- Evette Dionne (journalist and former EIC of Bitch; retweeted Ivana Escalera and shared Andrea González-Ramírez’s “The Verdict Proved Her Point” amongst other supportive statements)
- Evie Muir (writer and domestic abuse specialist – see https://jennifercrichton.substack.com/p/there-are-no-winners-in-the-deppheard)
- Farrah Safia Khan (gender justice advocate; has tweeted in support of Amber and other survivors of domestic and gender-based violence)
- Felicia Sonmez (journalist)
- Fern Riddell (historian; tweeted multiple statements critical of the trial and its effects)
- FKA twigs (singer-songwriter; see her comments about the trial here: https://www.standard.co.uk/esmagazine/fka-twigs-on-learning-to-be-the-boss-b1010646.html
- Franchesca Leigh Ramsey (comedian, activist, and television personality; former host of MTV’s Decoded; retweeted multiple pro-Amber statements and has thanked Kamilla for her work!)
- Garnet Henderson (journalist, producer, and podcaster; retweeted Kamilla with her own comments)
- Geraldine DeRuiter (writer and travel blogger)
- Hannah Phifer (culture critic)
- Hunter Harris (writer)
- Isaac Chotiner (writer at the New Yorker; shared Michelle Goldberg piece)
- Ira Madison III (podcaster, Keep It!)
- Jamelle Bouie (NYT columnist)
- James Surowiecki (journalist)
- Jamie Loftus (comedian and podcaster; shared Princess Weekes video on Twitter and guest on a You’re Wrong About episode that is supportive of Amber)
- Jeff Zhang (culture critic, runs the Strange Harbors blog)
- Jennifer Gunter (gynecologist and New York Times columnist; retweeted Michael Hobbes and shared the Rolling Stone article "The Trouble with Johnny Depp" and the New York Times article "The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial" by A.O. Scott)
- Jennifer Robertson (actress; linked the Jessica Valenti article on her IG story)
- Jessica Bennett (journalist, The New York Times; see her NYT profile to read the articles she's written about the trial: https://www.nytimes.com/by/jessica-bennett)
- Jessica DeFino (beauty journalist, retweeted Kelsey Weekman and Brandy Jensen; tweeted https://twitter.com/jessicadefino_/status/1532117986911346689?cxt=HHwWgoCzvaHMlsMqAAAA)
- Jessica Friedmann (writeeditor)
- Jessica Valenti (writejournalist)
- Jessica Winter (Editor at The New Yorker; wrote "The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial is Not as Complicated as You May Think": https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial-is-not-as-complicated-as-you-may-think)
- Jill Filipovic (writer, lawyer; wrote https://jill.substack.com/p/a-misogynist-carnival-comes-to-a)
- Joan Summers (writer; wrote "The Depp/Heard Verdict Is Just the Beginning": https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-depp-heard-trial-wasnt-just-celebrity-spectacle)
- Joanna Schroeder (writeeditomedia critic)
- John Matthias (forensic psychologist and co-host of the Hidden True Crime podcast; see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxv1AP1VXqk)
- Jolyon Maugham (barrister, founder of the Good Law Project; shared Moira Donegan's article "The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogyny" on Twitter)
- Jon Lovett (podcaster, comedian, and writer; partner of journalist Ronan Farrow)
- Jonathan Dean (writer, The Sunday Times; LMAOOOO https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/johnny-depps-album-review-what-he-sings-and-what-he-means-93mn3s6b8)
- Jordan Simone (TikToker)
- Jordan Theresa (Youtuber)
- Josie Duffy Rice (writer and lawyer; retweeted Michael Hobbes and shared the Madison Malone Kirchner piece)
- Jourdain Searles (writer, comedian, playwright, podcaster; has tweeted multiple about the shittiness of the trial (also see this hilarious tweet: https://twitter.com/judysquirrels/status/1532476706036015113?cxt=HHwWkoCznbvcucQqAAAA)
- Julia Claire (writer, comedian, and podcaster; co-host of Reply Guys podcast with Kate Willett; retweeted Michael Hobbes, EJ Dickson, and Kamilla’s first DARVO thread, and more, in addition to her own statements)
- Julia Métraux (freelance journalist; openly critical of the trial’s effects and treatment of Amber on Twitter)
- Julia Fox (actress, model, luxury grocery run outfit enthusiast)
- Julie Owens (expert consultant and speaker on domestic violence; see her website; download her analysis of the case here)
- Justine Musk (writer and former wife of Elon Musk; wrote the following reflection on the trial: https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/justine-musk-on-johnny-depp-amber-heard-power-abuse)
- Kaitlyn Tiffany (writer, The Atlantic; wrote “Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard”: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/05/modern-celebrity-fandom-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/629887/) and retweeted Michael Hobbes)
- Kalhan Rosenblatt (reporter, NBC News; has retweeted EJ Dickson and Kat Tenbarge and shared Madison Malone Kirchner’s article in addition to writing her own piece: “Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial memes could have ‘a chilling effect’ on victims of domestic abuse, expert says”: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/amber-heard-johnny-depp-trial-memes-chilling-effect-victims-domestic-a-rcna28572)
- Karina Longworth (critic, author, journalist; discussed the trial in the 1987 episode of "You Must Remember This)
- Kat Blaque (Youtuber)
- Kat Tenbarge (journalist, openly supportive of Amber on Twitter)
- Kate Nash (liked Amber’s post)
- Kate Willett (comedian, actress, writer, and co-host of Reply Guys podcast with Julia Claire; has retweeted many supportive statements in addition to providing her own: https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1532223469437476865?cxt=HHwWgoCzxZPIxsMqAAAA)
- Katelyn Burns (journalist; co-host of "Cancel Me, Daddy" with Oliver-Ash Kleine)
- Katie B. Edwards (writer, broadcaster, and academic; wrote "Amber Heard has shown astonishing fortitude and she won’t be silenced": https://inews.co.uk/opinion/amber-heard-astonishing-fortitud-wont-be-silenced-1689145)
- Katie Hill (former California Congresswoman; supportive of Amber on Twitter)
- Kathleen N. Walsh (freelance journalist; wrote “Amber Heard Didn’t Ask for Any of This”: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/amber-heard-trial-johnny-depp-verdict-abuse-b2092457.html)
- Kathy Griffin (comedian)
- Katy Stoll (actress, producer, and podcast host, Worst Year Ever and Some More News; supportive of Amber on Twitter)
- Kayleigh Donaldson (writeculture critic; retweeted Ella Dawson and her own thoughts about the negative effects of the trial)
- Kelsey Weekman (reporter, BuzzFeed News; tweeted and retweeted statements supportive of Amber)
- Krystyna Hutchinson (comedian/actress; co-host of "Guys We Fucked"; definitely recommend listening to episode 469 to hear how Krystyna has reflected on her perspectives throughout the trial)
- Kylie Cheung (writer, Jezebel)
- Kyndall Cunningham (reporter, The Daily Beast; wrote “The Ugly Ways Tik-Tok Corrupted the Depp-Heard Trial”: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-ways-tiktok-corrupted-the-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial)
- Lara Parker (author; openly supports Amber on Twitter)
- Lara Michèle Witt (writer and Editorial Director of Prism; retweeted Zing Tsjeng and Taylor Lorenz, amongst others)
- Laura Bassett (journalist and Editor-in-Chief at Jezebel; retweeted takes critical of the trial)
- Laura Benanti (supported Amber on the Cut post)
- Laura Richards (host, The Crime Analyst podcast; see this episode with Lucia Osborne-Crowley: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzUwNDQ1ODQucnNz/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vbS5jb20sMjAyMi0wNi0wNjovcG9zdHMvODA5NjMwNQ?ep=14)
- Lee Phillips (sex therapist, psychotherapist, and couples counselor; guest host on episode 469 of "Guys We Fucked" where they talked about the trial)
- Lena Headey (actress; liked Amber’s post)
- Lexi McMenamin (News and Politics Editor, Teen Vogue)
- Louis Peitzman (writer and editor; formerly with Buzzfeed; retweeted Michael Hobbes + shared his article about the trial)
- Louis Staples (writer; see these tweets lol: https://twitter.com/louisstaples/status/1532379757853216770)
- Louise Milligan (journalist)
- Lindsey Boylan (former candidate for U.S. Congress and whistleblower; former aide to N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo)
- Lucia Osborne-Crowley (writer)
- Lundy Bancroft (writer and consultant on domestic violence and domestic abuse; author of "Why Does He Do That?")
- Lyz Lenz (writer and author of "God Land"; has retweeted Michael Hobbes's posts and other supportive statements; wrote "We Keep Telling the Same Story: On #MeToo and Amber Heard": https://lyz.substack.com/p/we-keep-telling-the-same-story)
- Madison Malone Kirchner (senior writer at Slate and podcaster, ICYMI; wrote “The Depp-Heard Verdict Shattered the Greatest Myth About TikTok, Once and for All”: https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/06/amber-heard-johnny-depp-trial-tiktok-video-conspiracy.html)
- Margaret Kertesz (academic at the University of Melbourne; co-authored “The Online Hate for Amber Heard”)
- Margaret Sullivan (media columnist for the Washington Post; shared Taylor Lorenz and Moira Donegan articles)
- Marisa Tomei (actress; retweeted anti-Depp article)
- Marlow Stern (senior entertainment editor, The Daily Beast; professor at the Columbia School of Journalism; openly supportive of Amber on Twitter)
- Mary Anne Franks (law professor, University of Miami Law School)
- Matt Hartmann (writer, tweeted in support of Amber)
- Meecham Meriweather (writer)
- Megan Garber (writer, The Atlantic; see this article)
- Melanie Lynskey (actress; tweeted in support of Amber)
- Melayna Williams (writer, podcaster, and anti-racism advocate; wrote "Amber Heard's legal defeat is an enormous loss for victims" for Lainey Gossip: https://www.laineygossip.com/amber-heards-legal-defeat-enormous-loss-for-victims-represents-major-legal-victory-for-darvo/71085)
- Melissa Schuman (singer)
- Mia Brett (writer, activist, and college instructor; openly supportive of Amber)
- Mia Farrow (actress; tweeted in support of Amber)
- Michael Flood (researcher on gender and violence)
- Michael Hobbes (journalist and Maintenance Phase podcaster, wrote an article in support of Amber)
- Michele Dauber (Stanford law professor)
- Michelle Goldberg (journalist and Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times)
- Moira Donegan (journalist)
- Molly Jong Fast (writer)
- Molly McAleer (TV writer and podcaster, Trend Lightly; retweeted Kat Tenbarge and Kamilla’s second DARVO thread)
- Monica Lewinsky (wrote an article supporting Amber)
- Morgan Sung (internet culture reporter, NBC News; openly critical of the trial and its effects on Twitter)
- Myf Warhurst (podcaster)
- Myriam Gurba Serrano (writer)
- Nancy Jo Sales (author and journalist)
- Natalie Wynn/Contrapoints (Youtuber)
- Natasha Devon (writer; discussed trial and retweeted Dr. Proudman and this: https://twitter.com/donnadotpaella/status/1532090519429472256)
- Nathalie Emmanuel (actress; liked anti-Depp tweets)
- Natasha Jokic (staff writer, Buzzfeed)
- Nicole Bedera (sociologist)
- Nikki Glaser (comedian, posted in support of Amber)
- Noah Berlatsky (freelance writer; has posted interesting, thoughtful threads about the trial and its consequences on Twitter)
- Oliver-Ash Kleine (journalist and producer; cohost of “Cancel Me, Daddy” with Katelyn Burns)
- Patricia Arquette (actress, defended Amber against doxxing)
- Pearl Mackie (actress)
- Phoebe Bridgers (singer-songwriter)*
- Princess Weekes (youtuber, made supportive video)
- Rabia O’Choudry (writer, attorney, and author of “Adnan’s Story”; retweeted Kamilla and Mia Brett amongst others; plainly says Depp is an abuser)
- Rae Sanni (writer and comedian; posting multiple anti-Depp statements on Twitter)
- Rachael Denhollander (lawyer, advocate, and former gymnast; retweeted and responded to one of Kamilla’s threads)
- Rachel Millman (producer and podcaster, Wrestleplania; retweeted the Vice article about the Daily Wire in addition to other statements critical of the trial)
- Raphael Bob-Waksberg (creator of Bojack Horseman, tweeted this: https://twitter.com/RaphaelBW/status/1532436171136962560)
- Raven Smith (writer and columnist for Vogue; wrote "Why It's Time to Believe Amber Heard": https://www.vogue.com/article/why-its-time-to-believe-amber-heard)
- Rayne Fisher-Quann (writer and activist; wrote who's afraid of amber heard?)
- Rebecca Lavoie (writer and podcaster, retweeted pro Amber content)
- Rebecca Bodenheimer (writer and ethnomusicologist; retweeted Kamilla with her own supportive comments added)
- Rebecca Kavanagh (criminal defense attorney, legal analyst, and writer; shared critical takes regarding the trial in addition to Raven Smith's article on Twitter)
- Rebecca Watson (writer and podcaster; shared one of Princess Weekes's video re: the trial on Twitter)
- Rob Rogers (editorial cartoonist, formerly of the Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; LOL https://robrogers.com/2022/06/09/johnny-depp/)
- Rosanna Arquette (actress, liked and retweeted pro-Amber content)
- Roslyn Talusan (writer)
- Rachel Riley (TV presenter, tweeted anti Depp content)
- Rosaline Elbay (actress)
- Rossalyn Warren (editor, Reuters; see this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/rossalynwarren/status/1532085444850089987)
- Roxane Gay (writer and professor)
- Ruth Glenn (president and CEO, National Coalition against Domestic Violence; has openly supported Amber on Twitter and elsewhere)
- Ryn Weaver (singer)
- Saba Hamedy (news editor; NBC News; formerly with CNN; shared the AO Scott article and retweeted Kat Tenbarge, EJ Dickson, Jill Filipovic, among others).
- Salamishah Tillett (Pulitzer Prize winning writer and activist; professor at Rutgers University; interviewed by Rebecca Carroll here: https://wearethemeteor.com/the-supposed-death-of-metoo/
- Sarah N. Ahmed (writer and queer theory scholar; author of "Living a Feminist Life" and "Complaint!"
- Sarah Marshall (podcaster; You’re Wrong About; released an episode supportive of Amber)
- Sarah Pascoe (actress)
- Sarah Paulson (actress)
- Sarah Polley (actress, writer, director; liked pro-Amber tweets)
- Sarah Steele (actress; liked Amber’s post)
- Sarah Z (Youtuber)
- Seo-Young Chu (activist and professor, Queens College CUNY)
- Scaachi Koul (writer and reporter; Buzzfeed; wrote “Why the Depp v. Heard Trial Verdict is So Brutal”: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/johnny-depp-amber-heard-defamation-trial-verdict)
- Shanita Brown (counselor and professor, East Carolina University)
- Shannon Ashley (freelance entertainment journalist)
- Shannon Keating (writer and editor; Buzzfeed; wrote “Mainstream Feminism Has Failed Us,” where she mentions the trial and its consequences: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/abortion-rights-amber-heard-girlboss-feminism)
- Shauna Thomas (co-founder and executive director, Ultraviolet)
- Simi Garewal (actress)
- Soledad O'Brien (producer and broadcast journalist, former CNN anchor; retweeted Michael Hobbes and Taylor Lorenz, amongst others)
- Solomon Georgio (writecomedian; retweeted pro Amber content)
- Sooze Kempner (comedian; openly supports Amber on Twitter)
- Soraya McDonald (writer and culture critic; retweeted supportive takes/articles by Zing Tsjeng and Alia E. Dastagir, amongst others)
- Stephanie McNeal (reporter, BuzzFeed News; wrote "I Can’t Wait To Watch The Inevitable Documentary About How We All Wronged Amber Heard")
- Stephanie Yeboah (writer)
- Sunny Singh (writeprofessor, London Metropolitan University; retweeted supportive statements by Kat Tenbarge, Roslyn Talusan, and others)
- Sydette Harry (writer)
- Talia Lavin (journalist; retweeted Princess Weekes in addition to tweeting their own statements: https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/1532080611443322881?cxt=HHwWgsC9xdzMhcMqAAAA; shared Rayne Fisher-Quann’s “who’s afraid of amber head?”)
- Tasya van Ree (painter and photographer; former partner of Amber)
- Taylor Lorenz (journalist)
- Tee Noir (Youtuber)
- Thomas Zimmer (historian, visiting professor at Georgetown)
- Todd in the Shadows (YouTuber)
- Tracey Egan Morrissey (writer and podcaster)
- Tracie Hunt (reporter, WNYC Studios; shared the Michael Hobbes and A.O. Scott articles)
- Trin Lovell (Youtuber; openly supportive of Amber on Twitter)
- Valerie Complex (writer and associate editor at Deadline; retweeted several supportive statements, as well as Amber’s own Twitter statement)
- Wagatwe Wanjuki (activist and writer)
- Yenni Kwok (journalist; shared Kamilla’s thread regarding the trial and domestic violence myths on Twitter)
- Zack Budryk (reporter for The Hill and co-host for podcast Stim4Stim; retweeted Adam Ellis; shared Rayne Fisher Quann’s “who’s afraid of amber heard?”)
- Zan Rowe (podcaster)
- Zara Larsson (singer)
- Zing Tsjeng (editor-in-chief, Vice UK)
Indirect Support
- Adam Davidson (tweeted anti Depp content)
- Aimee Carrero (actress)
- Aimee Mann (singer-songwriter; retweeted Alex Winter)
- Akilah Hughes (podcaster, liked the Reductress post)
- Andrea Shea: (DC Comics editor, wrote a thread about the ramifications of the trial: https://twitter.com/whatthe_shea/status/1532089637509836800)
- Andy Richter (actor and comedian, liked pro Amber content)
- Anthony Rapp (actor and singer)
- Ashley Scott (actress; liked the Reductress post)
- Ashley Spivey (Bachelor contestant, liked pro Amber content)
- Ayo Edebiri (writer, comedian, and actress; liked the Reductress post)
- Bethany Cosentino (1/2 of American rock band Best Coast; liked anti-Depp posts by Isaac Chotiner and others on the band's Twitter page)
- Brian Cox (actor)*
- Busy Phillips (actress and talk show host; liked Ashley Judd's sharing of the Jessica Valenti article)
- Carole Cadwalladr (journalist; tweeted about the trial and being sued for libel herself)
- Celine Semaan (activist; liked the Reductress post)
- Claire Suddath (columnist, Bloomberg Businessweek; wrote “It’s Getting Harder to Be a Woman in America,” a feature examining worrying trends/events, including the trial, as situated within the current U.S. political climate)
- Cody Johnston (podcaster; Worst Year Ever and Some More News; has liked tweets supportive of Amber)
- Edward Norton (actor, liked anti-Depp post on Twitter)
- Emily Sears (model; retweeted Kamilla and Moira Donegan)
- Eric M. Garcia (journalist, The Independent and MSNBC; critical of the effects of the trial on Twitter and has tweeted about Princess Weekes’s videos)
- Finneas (singer-songwriter, liked the Reductress post)
- Gianmarco Soresi (actor and comedian; see this clip lol: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RpS8HznBHDg)
- Heather Matarazzo (Lily Moscowitz!, liked pro Amber content)
- Holden McNeely (podcaster, Page 7/Wizard and the Bruiser; liked anti-Depp posts on Twitter)
- Howard Stern (talked negatively about Depp)
- Imani Barbarin (disability rights activist; see https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1532137978675568641)
- Kelly Oxford (podcaster, liked Reductress post)
- Krys Marshall (actress; liked and commented on Reductress post)
- Jacqui Lewis (writer and reverend; has liked tweets supportive of Amber)
- Jen Statsky (TV writer and comedian, liked pro Amber content)
- Jennifer Beals (actress, liked pro Amber content)
- Jennifer Freyd (emeritus psychology professor; University of Oregon; coiner of the term DARVO; read more about Dr. Freyd's work here: https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html)
- Jenny Lewis (former frontwoman of Rilo Kiley; musician; actress)
- Jenny Nicholson (Youtuber; has liked tweets supportive of Amber, as well as anti-Depp tweets)
- Jenny Trout (author; openly anti-Depp on Twitter)
- JoAnn Sweeny (law professor at the University of Louisville; wrote "Amber Heard's defamation trial should scare social media users": https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/johnny-depp-amber-heard-defamation-verdict-scare-social-media-users-rcna36425)
- Jodie Turner-Smith (actress and model, liked the Reductress post)
- Joel Kim Booster (comedian, actor, writer)
- John Legend (musician, liked pro Amber posts)
- Josh Radnor (actor, liked pro Amber content)
- Karen Attiah (writer and Global Opinion editor for The Washington Post; has liked tweets supportive of Amber)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball legend, wrote “The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: Insufferable Celebrities or Post-Modern Martyrs?”: https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial)
- Ken Klippenstein (reporter)
- Laci Mosley (actress, liked supportive posts)
- Lindsay Ellis (Youtuber)
- Lisa Curry (comedian, writer, and radio host; retweeted one of Kamilla’s threads with her own comments)*
- Maggie Mae Fish (writer, actor, and Youtuber; liked supportive posts on Twitter: https://imgur.com/a/0eVtvK5)
- Maris Kreizman (writer and podcaster; host of The Maris Review; retweeted Elizabeth Picciuto)
- Martina Navratilova (pro tennis legend; retweeted one of Kamilla’s threads with her own comments)*
- Meena Harris (lawyer; niece of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris; liked the Reductress post)
- Mel B (Scary Spice!! Icon!!!)
- Michael Chakraverty (contestant on the Great British Bakeoff and writer; has liked tweets supportive of Amber and posted about solidarity with abuse survivors)
- Michelle Pfeiffer (actress; shared Claire Suddath’s “It’s Getting Harder to Be a Woman in America”)*
- Miles Klee (writer; has liked tweets supportive of Amber)
- Mina Le (Youtuber)
- MJ Knefel (podcaster, Page 7 (Last Podcast Network); liked posts critical of the trial on Twitter)
- Owen Jones (activist, journalist, and political commentator)
- Najma Sharif (writer and editor)
- Paul Feig (actor; liked the Reductress post)
- Rax King (writer; see this tweet thread and others: https://twitter.com/RaxKingIsDead/status/1532346025448460289?cxt=HHwWgsCy_eyl_sMqAAAA)
- Rebecca Carroll (writer and cultural critic; interviewed Dr. Salamishah Tillet for this piece: https://wearethemeteor.com/the-supposed-death-of-metoo/)
- Rian Johnson (director; liked pro Amber tweets)
- Robert Evans (producer, journalist, and podcast host, Worst Year Ever)
- Rosie Holt (comedian)
- Ryan Ken (comedy writer, liked supportive statements)
- Saeed Jones (writer; liked supportive statements on Twitter)
- Samantha Bee (comedian)
- Sarah Andersen (cartoonist, Sarah's Scribbles and Cryptid Club)
- Scott Lynch (author, the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series; liked tweets supportive of Amber)
- Sharon Waxman (journalist and founder, EIC, and CEO of The Wrap; read her tweet thread here: https://twitter.com/sharonwaxman/status/1532579251907571713)
- Sohlae (liked Reductress post)
- Sophia Bush (actress; liked anti Depp posts)
- Sophie Beer (children's author and illustrator)
- Sophie Ross (podcaster, liked the Reductress post)
- Stephanie Land (author, MAID; tweeted about the consequences of the trial verdict)
- Stephen Colbert (comedian; made anti-Depp joke)
- Steve Albini (music producer)
- Tara Mooknee (Youtuber)
- Teresa Drake (law professor and director, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic, University of Florida)
- Vinny Thomas (writer, liked supportive statements)
- Xiran Jay Zhao (writer and Youtuber, retweeted supportive posts)
- Yassir Lester (actor, liked the Reductress post)
- Yhara Zayd (Youtuber)
- Zach Kornfeld (producer, director, and member of the Try Guys; liked the Reductress post and a tweet critical of Depp written by Isaac Chotiner)
Supporting Pro-Amber Celebrities
- Chase Crawford (actor; liked Amy’s post)
- Joseph Gordon Levitt (actor; liked a post where David spoke out about the backlash he received)
- Julia Stiles (actress; liked and retweeted Amy’s post)
- Aja Naomi King (actress)
- Alessandra Ambrosio (former VS model)
- Amanda Gorman (poet)
- Amy Schumer (comedian)
- Benjamin Hollingsworth (actor)
- Bret Easton Ellis (writer and director)
- Brittany Daniel (actress)
- Corinne Olympios (Bachelor contestant; also follows Lily Rose)
- Dan Stevens (actor)
- Danny Trejo (actor)
- Danielle Campbell (also follows Lily Rose)
- Ed Helms (actor and comedian)
- Frances Fisher (actress)
- Jenna Dewan (actress)
- Jessica Alba (actress and entrepreneur; also follows Lily Rose)
- Jessica Chastain (actress)
- Jim Lee (comic book writer)
- Jurnee Smollett (actress)
- Kat McNamara (actress)
- Kathryn Winnick (actress)
- Katie Couric (journalist and newscaster)
- Kiran Deol (writer, director, and comedian)
- Ludi Lin (actor)
- Nicole Kidman (actress)
- Kumail Nanjiani (actor)
- Margaret Cho (actress and comedian)
- Matt McGorry (actor)
- Melissa Benoist (actress and singer)
- Mindy Kaling (actress, comedian, and producer)
- Odette Annable (actress and model)
- Sean Teale (actor)
- Seth Rogen (actor and comedian)
- Thandiwe Newton (actress)
- Vanessa Carlton (songbird, national treasure, purveyor of bops)
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (actor)
- Ziwe Fumudoh (writer and comedian)
Working on Sorting
- Carmen Maria Machado (writer)
- Lauren Mayberry (musician, singer-songwriter)
- Jake Shears (singer-songwriter)
- Michèle Lamy (fashion designer)
- Daniel Kibblesmith (writer and comedian)
- Cate Blanchett (actress and producer)
- Kylie Minogue (queen of the dancefloor)
- Morven Christie (actress)
Selena Gomez (singer, actress, entrepreneur, cozy TV cook)
2022.05.20 16:55 AnnieIWillKnow The Chelsea FC Women May round-up – Double glory to make it another brilliant season for the Blues
The Chelsea FC Women May round-up – Double glory to make it another brilliant season for the Blues
Welcome to the final Chelsea FC Women monthly round-up of the 2021/22 season!This post is a long read, so feel free to skip to the end for a brief overview, and the May preview.
Introduction
Chelsea began the month of May with glory, and history, in our reach.Four wins from four in April had seen us reach the FA Cup Final, and position ourselves one point ahead of rivals Arsenal in the WSL standings, with just two league games left to play.
Win all three games scheduled for May, and we would win the Double - the fourth in the club’s history. It would also mean defending both the league and cup victories won the season previously.
It has been an at-times chaotic season for Chelsea, with injury crises, COVID absences, and shock results - along with the uncertainty off the field, due to the now well-documented sanctions against owner Roman Abramovich.
Given that, Emma Hayes and her Chelsea squad had done brilliantly to rise above this adversity, and put the team in such a strong position going into the final stretch. We have been challenged more than ever before, on and off the pitch - but seem to have found a way to win when it mattered the most.
The team have looked in recent weeks like one with a mission - and if we could keep that up, it mean another trophy-winning season for Emma Hayes’ already legendary side.
Key headlines
Longest serving player Drew Spence to leave ChelseaLast month had seen the announcements that Ji So-Yun and Jonna Andersson are set to leave Chelsea this summer - and this month saw the news that Drew Spence is also to depart, when her contract expires.
Spence is currently the longest-serving player at the club, having signed in 2009. In that time she has been a part of every trophy the Blues have ever won - and is a real stalwart of the club, a leader in the dressing room, and an ever-reliable presence who has remained a key member of the squad, despite all of the star players brought in over the years.
Drew is proper Chels, and will be missed.
Chelsea Women documentary to be finally released
Production first began on Fulwell 73’s behind the scenes documentary back in 2019. News had gone quiet over the past year - with many fearing the series had been shelved.
Thankfully, it was announced this month that the series had been completed - and will be shown for free on DAZN’s YouTube channel, from the 29th May.
The documentary will cover the glorious 2019-2021 period of the club’s history, with exclusive access and unprecedented insight - and will be a must-watch for fans everywhere.
Our first game of May was to be our penultimate of the league season. As it stood, going into the weekend we held a four point lead over second placed Arsenal. With the Gunners playing first, they had the opportunity to put some pressure on Chelsea by cutting that lead - which they duly did, with a 7-0 thrashing of Aston Villa.
Arsenal’s job done, the spotlight swung back to Chelsea as we faced another Midlands outfit, Birmingham City. The Brummies were bottom of the league with just eight points, and looked all but relegated - but with a slim chance of survival, they did still have something to play for.
Of Birmingham’s two league wins this season, one was the shock 2-0 defeat of Arsenal back in January, which remains our title rivals' only league defeat all season. Birmingham’s second win came against Brighton - meaning they were riding a high seldom found for them this season, and a side capable of springing an upset.
Nonetheless, if Chelsea want to win the title, there are no excuses for anything other than a win against the league’s bottom club.
Ann-Katrin Berger was restored to the line-up against her former club, following her suspension for the red card against Spurs the previous weekend. It felt a bit harsh on Zecira Musovic - who has not put a finger wrong when deputising for our number 1, and made crucial saves in both games against Spurs - but it was an understandable move from Emma Hayes.
Hayes also brought Jessie Fleming and Niamh Charles into the side, with Jonna Andersson and Erin Cuthbert missing out.
With Chelsea having two great chances inside the opening ten minutes, you would have thought the opener would seem a matter of time - but it transpired to anything but.
The closest of those two attempts saw Sam Kerr absolutely thump the crossbar from the edge of the box - but that was the closest we came in the entire first half, where we laboured in front of goal, and failed to register a shot on target in the opening 45 minutes.
Chelsea looked rushed - and nervous. The team had been under a lot of pressure in this nail biting title race for a while, especially now we have been established as the frontrunners and most people’s favourites, after having been in the chasing position for most of the season. Both of the wins against Spurs in our previous two league games had been dramatic and hard-fought - which can take a mental toll, and may have explained our struggles in this game.
To give them their due credit, Birmingham were organised and determined - it was hard to believe on the basis of this performance that they have only eight points in the league.
In biblical conditions at St Andrew’s, it was starting to look like Chelsea might need some divine intervention to breach the opposition defence - but as the rain amped up its intensity in the second half, thankfully so too did Chelsea.
We had failed to test Birmingham goalkeeper Emily Ramsey in the first half, but when the questions were asked of her after the break she was able to more than answer them, making several crucial saves to protect her side’s clean sheet.
Hayes had brought Erin Cuthbert on at half time to inject greater energy into a somewhat lethargic Chelsea display, and it was another substitute whose actions led to our eventual breakthrough.
Jonna Anderrson has six assists this season, mainly from her trademark looped crosses from the left flank. Although the Swede will not register an assist for this goal, it came about when her cross into the area led to a handball from Lisa Robertson - and a penalty that gave Chelsea a golden chance to take the lead.
With Danish ice in her veins, Pernille Harder converted an impeccably cool penalty - like there wasn’t the pressure of a league title on the line.
It was a tense end to the game, with Chelsea not managing to get a second to make the points secure, and instead having to professionally see out a narrow lead.
The closest Birmingham came was deep in injury time. Berger had not been at her best against her former side, looking particularly nervous from set pieces - but she produced a fine finger tip save to ensure Whelen’s strike flew over. Chelsea’s mettle passed its test for the third tense game in a row, to earn another vital three points.
This was far from the rampant display of Arsenal in their win, but three points is three points - and with once again an extra game played, we restored our four point lead. The margin of victory in their win over Aston Villa meant our challengers did now have a superior goal difference
The focus would now return to the Gunners, who would make up their game in hand with a huge North London Derby against Spurs at the Emirates midweek, just four days before the final WSL fixtures of the season. A loss there would mean Chelsea win the title - but really, it is hard to see anything other than an Arsenal victory.
Arsenal did go on to win 3-0 - meaning that the title race would go down to the wire.
The scene was set. Twenty league games in the eight months since Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-2 on the opening day of WSL season, the 2021/22 title would finally be decided on the final weekend of the season.
It would be the two London rivals who got this season off to a flyer who were hoping to become champions. Chelsea had taken until late March to claw back the lead Arsenal had held all year in the league, and go top of the table for the first time all season.
It has been the tightest and most hotly-contested title race in years - and Chelsea’s advantage was just one point heading into the final round. The mission for the Blues was simple - win against Manchester United at Kingsmeadow, and we would win the league.
Doing so would make Chelsea the first WSL side to achieve a hat-trick of consecutive titles.
Standing in our way was a side with something of their own to fight for - Man United needed to win (and hope Man City lost) to finish third and qualify for the Champions League for next season. It was a huge game for both sides.
Chelsea have never lost to Man United in the six games contested since they were re-established in 2018 - but they have also arguably never been as competitive as they are now under Marc Skinner, and hugely improved compared to the team we beat 6-1 in the reverse fixture earlier this season. Chelsea would need to be at our best.
We were unlikely to be able to rely on Arsenal dropping points - the Gunners had the much more straightforward prospect of an away game at West Ham, who had nothing left to play for. We needed to win our game, as Arsenal would surely win theirs - and any slip up from Chelsea would therefore mean the trophy heading to North London.
With no new injury concerns for Chelsea, only long-term absentees Fran Kirby and Melanie Leupolz remained unavailable. Emma Hayes opted for a 4-4-2, with Pernille Harder and Sam Kerr starting up front. Beth England and Jessie Fleming dropped out of the starting XI, as such, despite their excellent recent form. With that pair on the bench, alongside the likes of Ji So-Yun (in her final WSL game as a Chelsea player) on the bench, Hayes had difference makers to turn to.
Unfortunately, Chelsea got off to a terrible start, and put in a first half performance that suggested the pressure of the occasion had gotten to the champions.
Man United were by far the better team, with their ferocious press hardly giving Chelsea room to breathe. They looked especially threatening from set pieces - with the Chelsea defence looking disorganised and nervous every time a ball was swung in.
It was therefore not a shock when the away side did take the lead - and unsurprisingly it was through a free kick, with Chelsea’s abject marking allowing Martha Thomas to head home.
The response from Chelsea came quickly - and against the run of play. It took some individual brilliance from Erin Cuthbert, who looked one of the few Chelsea players who was playing without fear - a word most likely not in the tenacious Scot’s lexicon.
This did not spark the revival needed, however, and yet more poor defending saw Chelsea go behind again in the 25th minute - Ella Toone was unmarked at a corner, and her deflected strike put Man United 2-1 up, and Chelsea’s title hopes hanging by a thread.
Chelsea have proven time and time again that we are capable of sensational comebacks and in finding a way to win when the odds are against us - but at half time, it honestly felt over. Man United were playing far better, seeming confident and in control. Chelsea looked overawed, and well short of the side who had won the domestic Treble last year.
With Arsenal drawing against West Ham, they were set to win the title on goal difference - a big turnaround would be needed, not just in the result, but in the performance.
And unbelievably, that was what we got - with the Chelsea side who came out in the second half completely transformed.
Emma Hayes brought on England and Ji, and tweaked the formation to a three at the back - which Chelsea had played for much of the season. Making two subs at half time was the sort of decisive move that we have come to expect from Hayes - and the impact was instant.
Roared on by the brilliant sold out Kingsmeadow crowd, Chelsea flew at Man United - and after just a minute of the second half had equalised for the second time in the game, through a superb Sam Kerr volley.
Kingsmeadow was rocking, and it was Man United’s turn to be left reeling. Chelsea capitalised, and Man United were left in complete disarray when less than 10 minutes later, Chelsea were in front.
A superb through ball from half-time substitute Ji was tapped into Guro Reiten’s path - and the Norwegian finished coolly past Mary Earps to complete the turnaround, and put Chelsea 3-2 ahead..
Whatever Emma Hayes said at half time - and her tactical changes - had completely turned the game, and title race, its head. Credit must also go to the players - who once again showed the mentality and character that has ultimately made us champions.
Key players have stepped up in the biggest moments for us this season - and the player who has done so more than any other produced a moment of sheer quality to secure the win.
The newly-named Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year, Sam Kerr, proved why that accolade is so richly deserved, controlling a poor Man United clearance with her chest and then volleying a lobbed shot up and over the stranded Mary Earps. It was one of the goals of the season - and a goal deserving of a league title win.
With Chelsea 4-2 up, and the Blues rampant in the glorious May sunshine, set to the backdrop of a jubilant home crowd, Man United’s challenge in this game was done. Arsenal had gone ahead against West Ham - but it did not matter.
Once we had that two-goal cushion, it felt like the party had already begun. The scenes of celebration at the final whistle and beyond were the sort that make memories for a lifetime - in what has been the most memorable title fight of this Chelsea side's five WSL title wins.
For the third time in a row, Chelsea were champions - and Emma Hayes called this the “best” of the lot, after a season in which we have struggled with injuries to key players, and been pushed harder than ever before by an Arsenal side who had spent big, and looked rejuvenated under new manager Jonas Eidevall. Chelsea responded to this challenge - and fought with everything we had to retain our title, which comes richly deserved.
The Chelsea players were welcomed onto the pitch one by one to receive their medals, which allowed the home faithfull the chance to give each individual the recognition they deserved, in a season where more than any other we have relied upon a breadth of contribution from across the squad.
The biggest receptions were received for Ji So-Yun and Drew Spence - two absolute legends of the club, who will be leaving at the end of the season.
Ji has quite simply been one of Chelsea’s greatest ever players, and one of the best the WSL has ever seen. She scored the goal which won our first ever trophy back in the 2015 FA Cup Final - and it was a fitting Kingsmeadow farewell that she was one of the half-time substitutes who changed the game, and her brilliant pass created the goal which put us ahead.
Drew Spence leaves as our longest serving player - a stalwart of the club who has been a part of every piece of silverware we have won, and despite the glamorous names brought to the club year on year since Emma Hayes took over, has remained a key member of the squad, and a player who fully understands what it means to be Chelsea. She was a late substitute in this game - and the ovation she received when taking to the Kingsmeadow pitch for the final time was spine-tingling.
Captain Magda Eriksson lifted the trophy to rapturous applause, and the scenes of celebration continued long on this glorious Sunday afternoon.
There is however one more game for Chelsea this season - as we face Man City next weekend in this season’s FA Cup Final, seeking to complete the third Double in our history.
The players would no doubt re-focus for that game - but at this moment, all of the attention could only be on celebrating a sensational comeback and a brilliant title win. No matter what would happen the week after at Wembley - we are champions, and this team deserves every inch of their acclaim.
Chelsea 3-2 Man City (FA Cup Final)
The FA Cup Final may have lost some of its prestige in the men’s game, but it remains the banner fixture of the women’s football season - and takes its rightful place in the schedule as the season finale.
It was to be contested this year between two giants of modern English women’s football - Chelsea, and Man City. Since the cup final first moved to Wembley in 2015, these two sides have won six of the past seven competitions. This calendar year, they have also arguably been the two best sides in England - although Man City’s supreme recent form was not enough to finish higher than a distant third to champions Chelsea, in the WSL.
City’s awful start to the season, which saw them essentially out of the title race by November, handicapped them significantly - but that they managed to finish third despite their shocking early form is testament to their quality and resilience.
Two fitting teams for the FA Cup Final - and especially for an occasion which saw nearly 50,000 at Wembley, a figure which broke the attendance record for the final.
Emma Hayes made two changes from the game which started the final fixture of the WSL season, bringing in Beth England and Aniek Nouwen. This meant that Ji So-Yun, Jonna Andersson and Drew Spence were named as substitutes in their final game for the club.
Joining them on the bench was the very welcome sight of Fran Kirby. Last season’s Player of the Year has been sidelined since February with chronic fatigue - it was unlikely she would feature, being so short of match fitness, but to see her included in a squad warmed all observers’ hearts. Kirby is a rare player who seems to transcend club rivalries.
Man City started the better of the two teams, and already in the first twenty minutes some last-ditch defending was required - Millie Bright in particular contributing two key blocks.
Chelsea were able to grow into the game, and were the first team to have the ball in the net though Sam Kerr - only for it to be ruled out for offside.
It was however still slightly against the run of play when Chelsea did take the lead, legitimately - Bright proving decisive in both penalty boxes. Following a Chelsea free kick, Bright whipped the ball back into the area - it was slightly miscued, but this worked to the Blues’ advantage as it looped over the stranded Ellie Roebuck in the City goal. It may well have been going in anyway - but the predatory Sam Kerr made sure, meaning the Aussie forward had scored in her third cup final of the season.
City continued to put the pressure on, with more determined defending required from Chelsea. Jess Carter made some crucial interventions - and was immense all game.
It was another cup final - the Champions League final in May last year - where Carter had been exposed by a brilliant Barcelona attack, leading to questions about her defensive capabilities.
Carter has more than answered them this season, where she has become established as a lynchpin of the Chelsea defence, which has been especially vital with captain Magda Erikkson suffering recurrent injury issues. Carter has been one of our players of the season, and put in another excellent performance on this day.
However, the Chelsea resistance was to be broken just before the break.
Lauren Hemp is one of City’s many brilliant attacking talents - and this year, has been their best. The winger got the step on Bright, before rifling a strike into the top corner past Ann-Katrin Berger, to make it 1-1 heading into the break. The Man City equaliser had been deserved, on the balance of play.
The second half started much the same as the first - with City having the better chances, but not being able to break through the Chelsea back line. Several players put their bodies on the line to prevent another City goal - and Berger pulled off an outstanding save.
Bunny Shaw, who has displaced Ellen White as City’s starting striker, was looking menacing - and the Chelsea defence understandably wary of a player who screams danger whenever she is on the ball.
Just as in the opening 45 minutes, though, Chelsea emerged from the onslaught unscathed, and were able to take back some control of the game - and then the lead.
This time, it came from the quality of Erin Cuthbert - another of Chelsea’ best players this season, and one who is often unsung. Cuthbert is a player who takes the game by the scruff of the neck, and one to turn to when you need a difference-maker.
The Scot had gotten the first equaliser last weekend against Man United - and after having run relentlessly to aid the defensive effort in this game, she then reminded the watching crowd what she is capable of in front of goal, with a sublime strike from 25 yards that ricocheted off the underside of the bar to beat Roebuck.
Emma Hayes introduced Ji to rapturous applause, for her final Chelsea appearance, with the hope that her experience would help Chelsea to see out the game.
Man City piled the pressure on, although Chelsea remained a threat on the counter - only for the pressure to again tell, this time the equaliser coming with only minutes left to play.
It came through a Man City substitute - Hayley Raso did brilliantly to beat Magda Eriksson to the ball and fire past Berger to make it 2-2, which sent the game into extra time. The watching crowd were only too delighted to be treated to another 30 minutes of what had already been a brilliant cup final - and one in which the talent of the women’s game was fully on show.
Given the balance of play, and the momentum from the late equaliser - it felt like it was CIty’s for the taking. Chelsea barely got out of our own half in the first half of extra time - but when we did it was to take the lead for the third, and eventually final, time.
Big games are often decided by mistakes - especially in extra time, when legs tire and minds fog. It was the unfortunate Alanna Kennedy with the error - and her countrywoman Sam Kerr the beneficiary. The Aussie misjudged a long ball, which Kerr then gleefully collected around the halfway line.
There was only one thing on the Golden Boot winner’s mind. Kerr steamed towards goal, and although a pass to Jessie Fleming may have been the better option, she instead chose to shoot - the strike took a big deflection off of Alex Greenwood to beat Roebuck, again.
It was Kerr’s 32nd goal in all competitions this season - and her fifth in the three cup finals Chelsea have played. The striker has been simply next level this year, and it was fitting that it was her to score the goals that rounded off Chelsea’s year with more silverware.
Chelsea then did what they had not managed in normal time - breaking up play and winding down the clock, with the experienced Maren Mjelde being sent on as reinforcement. We were not to let the lead slip a third time.
The performance was perhaps best summarised in the dying minutes, when Kerr sprinted back to win a tackle, and then ran the ball out into the corner and won a free kick to see us through to full time. Lungs surely bursting at the seams, but still utterly relentless - that was Sam Kerr, and that was Chelsea in this game.
That has been Chelsea FC Women this year - gritty, determined, sprinkled with individual brilliance, and finding a way to win even whilst not at our best, all under the tactical nous and inspirational leadership of Emma Hayes.
A fourth Double. A fitting way to send off the departing club legends Ji So-Yun and Drew Spence in their final game for the club - as well as Jonna Andersson, who came on as a substitute to play a key part in the Chelsea resistance.. Another trophy, and another brilliant season for Chelsea FC Women - who once again painted Wembley, London, and all of English women’s football, Blue.
May results in brief
| Fixture | Result | Competition | Goal scorers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham (A) | 1-0 W | WSL | Harder |
| Man United (H) | 4-2 W | WSL | Cuthbert, Kerr x 2, Reiten |
| Man City (N) | 3-2 W | FA Cup Final | Kerr x 2, Cuthbert |
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Another glorious month of May for Chelsea FC Women, in which we secured two trophies to win our fourth League and FA Cup Double - making it another successful and historic season for the club.It was silverware we were pushed to the absolute limit in order to win. A nervy win against Birmingham, and then a hugely dramatic and remarkable comeback on the final day of the WSL season against Man United - when it had looked like the title had slipped from our grasp, before the divine intervention of the godly Sam Kerr.
A thrilling FA Cup Final against Man City provided the perfect end to what has been an excellent season full of drama and quality across English women’s football. Chelsea took the lead twice against Man City in front of a record crowd of 50,000 at Wembley - only to be twice pegged back as the game went to extra time.
As she has done all season, it was Sam Kerr who stepped up on the biggest occasion to put Chelsea ahead for the third and final time in the game. Chelsea won 3-2 to secure our fourth FA Cup, and our fourth Double. That makes it 11 trophies for the club, all of which have been won under the dynastic Emma Hayes.
In a season where we have been challenged more than ever before - a title race going down to the wire with Arsenal, a topsy-turvy cup final where we had to dig into the very deepest recessions of our character, several injuries to key players. And all in the context of off-field uncertainty and pressure, due to the sanctions imposed on the club due to owner Roman Abramovich’s association with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Chelsea have responded remarkably, and shown their quality and resilience time and time again.
Emma Hayes has called it the best of her four Doubles as Chelsea manager - and given the adversity overcome to win it, it is easy to see why.
If you are interested in learning more about Chelsea FC Women, and keeping a closer eye on the progress of our women's team, then check out our subreddit, /chelsealadiesfc!
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2022.05.20 16:11 AnnieIWillKnow [REVIEW] May round-up – Double glory to make it another brilliant season for the Blues
The Chelsea FC Women May round-up – Double glory to make it another brilliant season for the Blues
Welcome to the final Chelsea FC Women monthly round-up of the 2021/22 season!This post is a long read, so feel free to skip to the end for a brief overview, and the May preview.
Introduction
Chelsea began the month of May with glory, and history, in our reach.Four wins from four in April had seen us reach the FA Cup Final, and position ourselves one point ahead of rivals Arsenal in the WSL standings, with just two league games left to play.
Win all three games scheduled for May, and we would win the Double - the fourth in the club’s history. It would also mean defending both the league and cup victories won the season previously.
It has been an at-times chaotic season for Chelsea, with injury crises, COVID absences, and shock results - along with the uncertainty off the field, due to the now well-documented sanctions against owner Roman Abramovich.
Given that, Emma Hayes and her Chelsea squad had done brilliantly to rise above this adversity, and put the team in such a strong position going into the final stretch. We have been challenged more than ever before, on and off the pitch - but seem to have found a way to win when it mattered the most.
The team have looked in recent weeks like one with a mission - and if we could keep that up, it mean another trophy-winning season for Emma Hayes’ already legendary side.
Key headlines
Longest serving player Drew Spence to leave ChelseaLast month had seen the announcements that Ji So-Yun and Jonna Andersson are set to leave Chelsea this summer - and this month saw the news that Drew Spence is also to depart, when her contract expires.
Spence is currently the longest-serving player at the club, having signed in 2009. In that time she has been a part of every trophy the Blues have ever won - and is a real stalwart of the club, a leader in the dressing room, and an ever-reliable presence who has remained a key member of the squad, despite all of the star players brought in over the years.
Drew is proper Chels, and will be missed.
Chelsea Women documentary to be finally released
Production first began on Fulwell 73’s behind the scenes documentary back in 2019. News had gone quiet over the past year - with many fearing the series had been shelved.
Thankfully, it was announced this month that the series had been completed - and will be shown for free on DAZN’s YouTube channel, from the 29th May.
The documentary will cover the glorious 2019-2021 period of the club’s history, with exclusive access and unprecedented insight - and will be a must-watch for fans everywhere.
Our first game of May was to be our penultimate of the league season. As it stood, going into the weekend we held a four point lead over second placed Arsenal. With the Gunners playing first, they had the opportunity to put some pressure on Chelsea by cutting that lead - which they duly did, with a 7-0 thrashing of Aston Villa.
Arsenal’s job done, the spotlight swung back to Chelsea as we faced another Midlands outfit, Birmingham City. The Brummies were bottom of the league with just eight points, and looked all but relegated - but with a slim chance of survival, they did still have something to play for.
Of Birmingham’s two league wins this season, one was the shock 2-0 defeat of Arsenal back in January, which remains our title rivals' only league defeat all season. Birmingham’s second win came against Brighton - meaning they were riding a high seldom found for them this season, and a side capable of springing an upset.
Nonetheless, if Chelsea want to win the title, there are no excuses for anything other than a win against the league’s bottom club.
Ann-Katrin Berger was restored to the line-up against her former club, following her suspension for the red card against Spurs the previous weekend. It felt a bit harsh on Zecira Musovic - who has not put a finger wrong when deputising for our number 1, and made crucial saves in both games against Spurs - but it was an understandable move from Emma Hayes.
Hayes also brought Jessie Fleming and Niamh Charles into the side, with Jonna Andersson and Erin Cuthbert missing out.
With Chelsea having two great chances inside the opening ten minutes, you would have thought the opener would seem a matter of time - but it transpired to anything but.
The closest of those two attempts saw Sam Kerr absolutely thump the crossbar from the edge of the box - but that was the closest we came in the entire first half, where we laboured in front of goal, and failed to register a shot on target in the opening 45 minutes.
Chelsea looked rushed - and nervous. The team had been under a lot of pressure in this nail biting title race for a while, especially now we have been established as the frontrunners and most people’s favourites, after having been in the chasing position for most of the season. Both of the wins against Spurs in our previous two league games had been dramatic and hard-fought - which can take a mental toll, and may have explained our struggles in this game.
To give them their due credit, Birmingham were organised and determined - it was hard to believe on the basis of this performance that they have only eight points in the league.
In biblical conditions at St Andrew’s, it was starting to look like Chelsea might need some divine intervention to breach the opposition defence - but as the rain amped up its intensity in the second half, thankfully so too did Chelsea.
We had failed to test Birmingham goalkeeper Emily Ramsey in the first half, but when the questions were asked of her after the break she was able to more than answer them, making several crucial saves to protect her side’s clean sheet.
Hayes had brought Erin Cuthbert on at half time to inject greater energy into a somewhat lethargic Chelsea display, and it was another substitute whose actions led to our eventual breakthrough.
Jonna Anderrson has six assists this season, mainly from her trademark looped crosses from the left flank. Although the Swede will not register an assist for this goal, it came about when her cross into the area led to a handball from Lisa Robertson - and a penalty that gave Chelsea a golden chance to take the lead.
With Danish ice in her veins, Pernille Harder converted an impeccably cool penalty - like there wasn’t the pressure of a league title on the line.
It was a tense end to the game, with Chelsea not managing to get a second to make the points secure, and instead having to professionally see out a narrow lead.
The closest Birmingham came was deep in injury time. Berger had not been at her best against her former side, looking particularly nervous from set pieces - but she produced a fine finger tip save to ensure Whelen’s strike flew over. Chelsea’s mettle passed its test for the third tense game in a row, to earn another vital three points.
This was far from the rampant display of Arsenal in their win, but three points is three points - and with once again an extra game played, we restored our four point lead. The margin of victory in their win over Aston Villa meant our challengers did now have a superior goal difference
The focus would now return to the Gunners, who would make up their game in hand with a huge North London Derby against Spurs at the Emirates midweek, just four days before the final WSL fixtures of the season. A loss there would mean Chelsea win the title - but really, it is hard to see anything other than an Arsenal victory.
Arsenal did go on to win 3-0 - meaning that the title race would go down to the wire.
The scene was set. Twenty league games in the eight months since Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-2 on the opening day of WSL season, the 2021/22 title would finally be decided on the final weekend of the season.
It would be the two London rivals who got this season off to a flyer who were hoping to become champions. Chelsea had taken until late March to claw back the lead Arsenal had held all year in the league, and go top of the table for the first time all season.
It has been the tightest and most hotly-contested title race in years - and Chelsea’s advantage was just one point heading into the final round. The mission for the Blues was simple - win against Manchester United at Kingsmeadow, and we would win the league.
Doing so would make Chelsea the first WSL side to achieve a hat-trick of consecutive titles.
Standing in our way was a side with something of their own to fight for - Man United needed to win (and hope Man City lost) to finish third and qualify for the Champions League for next season. It was a huge game for both sides.
Chelsea have never lost to Man United in the six games contested since they were re-established in 2018 - but they have also arguably never been as competitive as they are now under Marc Skinner, and hugely improved compared to the team we beat 6-1 in the reverse fixture earlier this season. Chelsea would need to be at our best.
We were unlikely to be able to rely on Arsenal dropping points - the Gunners had the much more straightforward prospect of an away game at West Ham, who had nothing left to play for. We needed to win our game, as Arsenal would surely win theirs - and any slip up from Chelsea would therefore mean the trophy heading to North London.
With no new injury concerns for Chelsea, only long-term absentees Fran Kirby and Melanie Leupolz remained unavailable. Emma Hayes opted for a 4-4-2, with Pernille Harder and Sam Kerr starting up front. Beth England and Jessie Fleming dropped out of the starting XI, as such, despite their excellent recent form. With that pair on the bench, alongside the likes of Ji So-Yun (in her final WSL game as a Chelsea player) on the bench, Hayes had difference makers to turn to.
Unfortunately, Chelsea got off to a terrible start, and put in a first half performance that suggested the pressure of the occasion had gotten to the champions.
Man United were by far the better team, with their ferocious press hardly giving Chelsea room to breathe. They looked especially threatening from set pieces - with the Chelsea defence looking disorganised and nervous every time a ball was swung in.
It was therefore not a shock when the away side did take the lead - and unsurprisingly it was through a free kick, with Chelsea’s abject marking allowing Martha Thomas to head home.
The response from Chelsea came quickly - and against the run of play. It took some individual brilliance from Erin Cuthbert, who looked one of the few Chelsea players who was playing without fear - a word most likely not in the tenacious Scot’s lexicon.
This did not spark the revival needed, however, and yet more poor defending saw Chelsea go behind again in the 25th minute - Ella Toone was unmarked at a corner, and her deflected strike put Man United 2-1 up, and Chelsea’s title hopes hanging by a thread.
Chelsea have proven time and time again that we are capable of sensational comebacks and in finding a way to win when the odds are against us - but at half time, it honestly felt over. Man United were playing far better, seeming confident and in control. Chelsea looked overawed, and well short of the side who had won the domestic Treble last year.
With Arsenal drawing against West Ham, they were set to win the title on goal difference - a big turnaround would be needed, not just in the result, but in the performance.
And unbelievably, that was what we got - with the Chelsea side who came out in the second half completely transformed.
Emma Hayes brought on England and Ji, and tweaked the formation to a three at the back - which Chelsea had played for much of the season. Making two subs at half time was the sort of decisive move that we have come to expect from Hayes - and the impact was instant.
Roared on by the brilliant sold out Kingsmeadow crowd, Chelsea flew at Man United - and after just a minute of the second half had equalised for the second time in the game, through a superb Sam Kerr volley.
Kingsmeadow was rocking, and it was Man United’s turn to be left reeling. Chelsea capitalised, and Man United were left in complete disarray when less than 10 minutes later, Chelsea were in front.
A superb through ball from half-time substitute Ji was tapped into Guro Reiten’s path - and the Norwegian finished coolly past Mary Earps to complete the turnaround, and put Chelsea 3-2 ahead..
Whatever Emma Hayes said at half time - and her tactical changes - had completely turned the game, and title race, its head. Credit must also go to the players - who once again showed the mentality and character that has ultimately made us champions.
Key players have stepped up in the biggest moments for us this season - and the player who has done so more than any other produced a moment of sheer quality to secure the win.
The newly-named Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year, Sam Kerr, proved why that accolade is so richly deserved, controlling a poor Man United clearance with her chest and then volleying a lobbed shot up and over the stranded Mary Earps. It was one of the goals of the season - and a goal deserving of a league title win.
With Chelsea 4-2 up, and the Blues rampant in the glorious May sunshine, set to the backdrop of a jubilant home crowd, Man United’s challenge in this game was done. Arsenal had gone ahead against West Ham - but it did not matter.
Once we had that two-goal cushion, it felt like the party had already begun. The scenes of celebration at the final whistle and beyond were the sort that make memories for a lifetime - in what has been the most memorable title fight of this Chelsea side's five WSL title wins.
For the third time in a row, Chelsea were champions - and Emma Hayes called this the “best” of the lot, after a season in which we have struggled with injuries to key players, and been pushed harder than ever before by an Arsenal side who had spent big, and looked rejuvenated under new manager Jonas Eidevall. Chelsea responded to this challenge - and fought with everything we had to retain our title, which comes richly deserved.
The Chelsea players were welcomed onto the pitch one by one to receive their medals, which allowed the home faithfull the chance to give each individual the recognition they deserved, in a season where more than any other we have relied upon a breadth of contribution from across the squad.
The biggest receptions were received for Ji So-Yun and Drew Spence - two absolute legends of the club, who will be leaving at the end of the season.
Ji has quite simply been one of Chelsea’s greatest ever players, and one of the best the WSL has ever seen. She scored the goal which won our first ever trophy back in the 2015 FA Cup Final - and it was a fitting Kingsmeadow farewell that she was one of the half-time substitutes who changed the game, and her brilliant pass created the goal which put us ahead.
Drew Spence leaves as our longest serving player - a stalwart of the club who has been a part of every piece of silverware we have won, and despite the glamorous names brought to the club year on year since Emma Hayes took over, has remained a key member of the squad, and a player who fully understands what it means to be Chelsea. She was a late substitute in this game - and the ovation she received when taking to the Kingsmeadow pitch for the final time was spine-tingling.
Captain Magda Eriksson lifted the trophy to rapturous applause, and the scenes of celebration continued long on this glorious Sunday afternoon.
There is however one more game for Chelsea this season - as we face Man City next weekend in this season’s FA Cup Final, seeking to complete the third Double in our history.
The players would no doubt re-focus for that game - but at this moment, all of the attention could only be on celebrating a sensational comeback and a brilliant title win. No matter what would happen the week after at Wembley - we are champions, and this team deserves every inch of their acclaim.
Chelsea 3-2 Man City (FA Cup Final)
The FA Cup Final may have lost some of its prestige in the men’s game, but it remains the banner fixture of the women’s football season - and takes its rightful place in the schedule as the season finale.
It was to be contested this year between two giants of modern English women’s football - Chelsea, and Man City. Since the cup final first moved to Wembley in 2015, these two sides have won six of the past seven competitions. This calendar year, they have also arguably been the two best sides in England - although Man City’s supreme recent form was not enough to finish higher than a distant third to champions Chelsea, in the WSL.
City’s awful start to the season, which saw them essentially out of the title race by November, handicapped them significantly - but that they managed to finish third despite their shocking early form is testament to their quality and resilience.
Two fitting teams for the FA Cup Final - and especially for an occasion which saw nearly 50,000 at Wembley, a figure which broke the attendance record for the final.
Emma Hayes made two changes from the game which started the final fixture of the WSL season, bringing in Beth England and Aniek Nouwen. This meant that Ji So-Yun, Jonna Andersson and Drew Spence were named as substitutes in their final game for the club.
Joining them on the bench was the very welcome sight of Fran Kirby. Last season’s Player of the Year has been sidelined since February with chronic fatigue - it was unlikely she would feature, being so short of match fitness, but to see her included in a squad warmed all observers’ hearts. Kirby is a rare player who seems to transcend club rivalries.
Man City started the better of the two teams, and already in the first twenty minutes some last-ditch defending was required - Millie Bright in particular contributing two key blocks.
Chelsea were able to grow into the game, and were the first team to have the ball in the net though Sam Kerr - only for it to be ruled out for offside.
It was however still slightly against the run of play when Chelsea did take the lead, legitimately - Bright proving decisive in both penalty boxes. Following a Chelsea free kick, Bright whipped the ball back into the area - it was slightly miscued, but this worked to the Blues’ advantage as it looped over the stranded Ellie Roebuck in the City goal. It may well have been going in anyway - but the predatory Sam Kerr made sure, meaning the Aussie forward had scored in her third cup final of the season.
City continued to put the pressure on, with more determined defending required from Chelsea. Jess Carter made some crucial interventions - and was immense all game.
It was another cup final - the Champions League final in May last year - where Carter had been exposed by a brilliant Barcelona attack, leading to questions about her defensive capabilities.
Carter has more than answered them this season, where she has become established as a lynchpin of the Chelsea defence, which has been especially vital with captain Magda Erikkson suffering recurrent injury issues. Carter has been one of our players of the season, and put in another excellent performance on this day.
However, the Chelsea resistance was to be broken just before the break.
Lauren Hemp is one of City’s many brilliant attacking talents - and this year, has been their best. The winger got the step on Bright, before rifling a strike into the top corner past Ann-Katrin Berger, to make it 1-1 heading into the break. The Man City equaliser had been deserved, on the balance of play.
The second half started much the same as the first - with City having the better chances, but not being able to break through the Chelsea back line. Several players put their bodies on the line to prevent another City goal - and Berger pulled off an outstanding save.
Bunny Shaw, who has displaced Ellen White as City’s starting striker, was looking menacing - and the Chelsea defence understandably wary of a player who screams danger whenever she is on the ball.
Just as in the opening 45 minutes, though, Chelsea emerged from the onslaught unscathed, and were able to take back some control of the game - and then the lead.
This time, it came from the quality of Erin Cuthbert - another of Chelsea’ best players this season, and one who is often unsung. Cuthbert is a player who takes the game by the scruff of the neck, and one to turn to when you need a difference-maker.
The Scot had gotten the first equaliser last weekend against Man United - and after having run relentlessly to aid the defensive effort in this game, she then reminded the watching crowd what she is capable of in front of goal, with a sublime strike from 25 yards that ricocheted off the underside of the bar to beat Roebuck.
Emma Hayes introduced Ji to rapturous applause, for her final Chelsea appearance, with the hope that her experience would help Chelsea to see out the game.
Man City piled the pressure on, although Chelsea remained a threat on the counter - only for the pressure to again tell, this time the equaliser coming with only minutes left to play.
It came through a Man City substitute - Hayley Raso did brilliantly to beat Magda Eriksson to the ball and fire past Berger to make it 2-2, which sent the game into extra time. The watching crowd were only too delighted to be treated to another 30 minutes of what had already been a brilliant cup final - and one in which the talent of the women’s game was fully on show.
Given the balance of play, and the momentum from the late equaliser - it felt like it was CIty’s for the taking. Chelsea barely got out of our own half in the first half of extra time - but when we did it was to take the lead for the third, and eventually final, time.
Big games are often decided by mistakes - especially in extra time, when legs tire and minds fog. It was the unfortunate Alanna Kennedy with the error - and her countrywoman Sam Kerr the beneficiary. The Aussie misjudged a long ball, which Kerr then gleefully collected around the halfway line.
There was only one thing on the Golden Boot winner’s mind. Kerr steamed towards goal, and although a pass to Jessie Fleming may have been the better option, she instead chose to shoot - the strike took a big deflection off of Alex Greenwood to beat Roebuck, again.
It was Kerr’s 32nd goal in all competitions this season - and her fifth in the three cup finals Chelsea have played. The striker has been simply next level this year, and it was fitting that it was her to score the goals that rounded off Chelsea’s year with more silverware.
Chelsea then did what they had not managed in normal time - breaking up play and winding down the clock, with the experienced Maren Mjelde being sent on as reinforcement. We were not to let the lead slip a third time.
The performance was perhaps best summarised in the dying minutes, when Kerr sprinted back to win a tackle, and then ran the ball out into the corner and won a free kick to see us through to full time. Lungs surely bursting at the seams, but still utterly relentless - that was Sam Kerr, and that was Chelsea in this game.
That has been Chelsea FC Women this year - gritty, determined, sprinkled with individual brilliance, and finding a way to win even whilst not at our best, all under the tactical nous and inspirational leadership of Emma Hayes.
A fourth Double. A fitting way to send off the departing club legends Ji So-Yun and Drew Spence in their final game for the club - as well as Jonna Andersson, who came on as a substitute to play a key part in the Chelsea resistance.. Another trophy, and another brilliant season for Chelsea FC Women - who once again painted Wembley, London, and all of English women’s football, Blue.
May results in brief
| Fixture | Result | Competition | Goal scorers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham (A) | 1-0 W | WSL | Harder |
| Man United (H) | 4-2 W | WSL | Cuthbert, Kerr x 2, Reiten |
| Man City (N) | 3-2 W | FA Cup Final | Kerr x 2, Cuthbert |
Round-up
Another glorious month of May for Chelsea FC Women, in which we secured two trophies to win our fourth League and FA Cup Double - making it another successful and historic season for the club.It was silverware we were pushed to the absolute limit in order to win. A nervy win against Birmingham, and then a hugely dramatic and remarkable comeback on the final day of the WSL season against Man United - when it had looked like the title had slipped from our grasp, before the divine intervention of the godly Sam Kerr.
A thrilling FA Cup Final against Man City provided the perfect end to what has been an excellent season full of drama and quality across English women’s football. Chelsea took the lead twice against Man City in front of a record crowd of 50,000 at Wembley - only to be twice pegged back as the game went to extra time.
As she has done all season, it was Sam Kerr who stepped up on the biggest occasion to put Chelsea ahead for the third and final time in the game. Chelsea won 3-2 to secure our fourth FA Cup, and our fourth Double. That makes it 11 trophies for the club, all of which have been won under the dynastic Emma Hayes.
In a season where we have been challenged more than ever before - a title race going down to the wire with Arsenal, a topsy-turvy cup final where we had to dig into the very deepest recessions of our character, several injuries to key players. And all in the context of off-field uncertainty and pressure, due to the sanctions imposed on the club due to owner Roman Abramovich’s association with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Chelsea have responded remarkably, and shown their quality and resilience time and time again.
Emma Hayes has called it the best of her four Doubles as Chelsea manager - and given the adversity overcome to win it, it is easy to see why.
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2022.05.08 22:08 Recent-Development10 [A Terran Space Story: Academy Days] - Chapter 152
The final chapter of Academy Days. Hope you enjoy!
We shut the proverbial cover to this anthology. But to answer some questions, yes there will be a new series. It will continue to focus primarily on John. Some old faces will show up here and there but a new cast of characters will appear.
I've got three books planned for the Lieutenant Saga. I basically have the stories that I want to write for the first two books.
With that said though, I likely won't post many chapters until early June. I probably will commit to releasing the first chapter sometime before the end of the month. I also want to take some time to re-proof the first two books and fix many of the grammatical issues in them.
A Terran Space Story: Academy Days
First Previous Next -- The Lieutenant Saga
Dr. Norman was alone in the primary cloning bay. It was a good thing that he was alone for he was beside himself. Two terminals were destroyed thanks to a well-placed chair. He was pacing back and forth in front of a clone of John.
Purely from a physical standpoint, it looked like a perfect clone. Presuming of course John never suffered any of the wounds that left the body well scarred. Clearly, something was wrong with it though to elicit such a strong reaction in Dr. Norman.
“One thousand three hundred and sixteen failures,” Dr. Norman was all but foaming at the mouth, “Then this happens.”
The data slate in his hand was tossed across the room. It struck a corner of a desk, broke, and fell onto the floor unceremoniously. The door behind opened and Lisa walked in.
“Father, is there anything I can help you with?”
Dr. Norman turned to see her but barely acknowledged her presence. He walked to the terminal and keyed in a command. Then he turned to face his pride and joy.
The clone began dissolving into the most basic molecular components humans are made up of. The process took barely two minutes. Lisa seemed to relish seeing that occur to this clone, though she wished she could do so much more pain to the real John.
“It seems our friends tampered with his genetic structure to trigger his psychic capabilities,” Dr. Norman spat the words out.
Lisa walked over to a terminal and skimmed the results, “So they created a look-alike with laughably short lifespans. Not much use to us.”
“Yes, a very amateurish method. It changes what he really is. The perfect genetic clones we’ve created here all lack psychic potential. As you are well aware the offspring between the clones, and you have all been blanks as well. And now we are out of original material to create a clone.”
“Then we are left in the original position. We need to capture him.”
“Tut tut, easier said than done my dear,” Dr. Norman walked over and patted her head lightly, “I appreciate the enthusiasm but as you’ve well known from your experience, he is far more dangerous than he appears. Though with his recent commission that may present new opportunities.”
“Do we know where he is being assigned yet?”
Dr. Norman shook his head, “No, not yet. We will soon. When we do I want you to begin planning and practicing a situation to acquire our specimen.”
“With pleasure father,” Lisa said with an orgasmic delight in her voice.
“Now, how are negotiations with the pirates in the Horizon Expanse. We need a secure facility in the Pegasus system.”
“Slowly father. Their leader seems to think I should bed his son. The son disgusts me as much as our most valuable prey does.”
“Well, we can’t have that, can we? Sweeten the pot with some prototype weapons. Make sure we have control of them though. In case we need to make a point with them down the road.”
Lisa nodded and then left the room. Dr. Norman sat down in a chair and rubbed his temples. He sighed as he accepted the current defeat with great reluctance. He slowly logged into the terminal near where he sat down and activated the VI.
“Please examine the previous one hundred sixteen tests comparing the presumed genetic disposition of children produced between the male test subject and Lisa along with the subject and his current wife, Alice Robertson-Lief.”
The screen displayed the three genetic sequences and then began extrapolating the most likely combinations within children that could be produced. The hyper-computer was able to finish the calculation in record time. It played a chime when it was finished and began speaking to the exhausted and angry man.
“Children produced between Alice and John show a higher predisposition of psychic activity than with Lisa. The current estimate is nearly eighty-two-point three percent likelihood of psychic potential of at least a Level 3A. Twenty-point eight percent change of Level 5 or above.”
“Explain how this is. Alice is not psychic, Lisa is.”
“There appears to be no less than twenty-five strains of pure homo-superiors recorded to date. John and Alice are the only known two of their variants. It is presumed that it is the purest of the variants, given the markers we can extrapolate a higher than likely chance that strong psychic potential will be produced in any offspring.”
“Explain how they are purer.”
There was a pause, followed by the screens changing to display new information. Dr. Norman leaned in and stared at it in disbelief. This VI, thanks to a more open-ended inquiry from the doctor had extrapolated far more data than before.
“Lisa estimated lifespan, presuming illness or injury does not cause her to succumb, is between one hundred eighty and ninety years. We don’t have enough genetic material to do an accurate test on the test subject Alice. John’s lifespan is hard to pin down, but current estimates exceed two hundred and fifty years. It stands to reason that Alice could live ten to twenty years beyond him.”
There was absolutely no question in his mind that John was the key to the new man. This most recent revelation did nothing to dissuade him from that. But that his daughter, the byproduct of his greatest research accomplishment, wasn’t also part of the key was hard to accept.
“Tell me, what are the estimates for psychic offspring between Lisa and John.”
The VI paused for but a moment, “Sixty-five percent chance of Level 2C activity.”
“And what of the supposed chances of alpha plus abilities between both pairings?”
“Twelve-point two percent with Alice. Three-point eight percent with Lisa.”
“Please transmit all output data to my personal server. I’ll review it in due time.”
Dr. Norman signed off the terminal and began walking out of the laboratory. When he was in the doorway he looked back into the room and began to think. Perhaps they should change their mission to capture her. That would absolutely draw him to them. He would keep these recent revelations to himself before doing much more testing.
John was a lethal adversary under normal conditions. Capturing his wife might do more harm than good. While it would absolutely draw him to them, it may make it far more difficult to capture him without suffering grievous harm and damage in the first place. Much more studying, research, and above all else, planning needed to be done.
Friday. 10:13 Armstrong Retail Area—Jewelry floor
John was grinning like an idiot as he walked out of the store. Alice was meeting up with him after stopping in another store. She had purchased new earrings and a more unassuming wedding band to wear while on duty.
She noticed her husband’s grin and knew that he had purchased something ridiculous. It didn’t take longer than a quick glance at his left wrist to determine what specifically he had purchased. Another watch. John’s fascination and near, no this was a full-on, manic obsession with acquiring every watch he saw bewildered her.
“Ok, so let’s hear it, my love. How did you justify this one being added to your collection?” Alice said with a grin and slight sigh.
“It’s made out of a ceramite.”
“You have other watches made from that.”
“The skeletonized dial is made from platinum.”
Alice shook her head, “You also have watches with that combination.”
“It has three tourbillons.”
Alice laughed, “That too.”
“But it has three tourbillons, honey,” John immediately switched to a perfect Swiss accent, “Tourbillons, my dearest mademoiselle is so fun to say. Tourbillon.”
Laughter was the only response she could muster for the lovable idiot in front of her, “John, I really do love you even when your being as dumb as Andern.”
She gave him a hug and then held his hand, “So where too now?”
“I want to swing by FedEx to drop ship this junk to my deep storage. Then back to the hotel room to drop off the rest of the swag we’ve got. Then lunch?”
Alice and John then headed to wherever it was the FedEx location was at the station. Neither one seemed to be in that big of a hurry to get there. That was of course until John began to extoll the virtues and abilities, in excruciating length, to Alice.
She laughed when she thought ‘yeah, I married this’ to herself. John continued with the long-winded talk about this new watch. When there was a break in the conversation, or rather that occurred when John stopped talking long enough to take a long breath which gave her the opportunity to speak up and ask an innocent question.
“Ok, so I’ve just accepted that you’re going to spend an inordinate amount of money on watches. I’ve accepted that. But can you explain why you continue to wear mechanical watches? They aren’t as accurate as this smartwatch. I love the watch you bought me, but I’m always afraid I’m going to be robbed by some lowlife when I’m wearing it.”
John looked almost offended, “They are engineering masterpieces. This watch is accurate to within a single second every day. Long-term tests have it within five seconds over a week. Thirteen seconds to a month.”
“Yes, but you have to wind it every day, and it’s still not as accurate as one of these. Not to mention cost way more money.”
“But, but they are the pinnacle of engineering. Some of them can calculate the phase of the moon, or moons depending on the world, and everything. They are amazing. Plus, this one has three tourbillons, look at it. It’s hypnotic.”
John shoved his left arm in front of Alice’s face. She laughed when she looked at the doohickeys spin about in their cage under the watch’s clear crystal. This was just one of many weird quirks that she was going to have to put up with. Plus, it wasn’t like he was even coming close to bankrupting the two.
11:10 Hilton Regency Room 845
John was sitting on the veranda of the penthouse overlooking a green space and a section of the retail space of the station. Displayed on the transparent screen of the terminal was Andern. Alice began laughing when he began whining about work.
“Guys, it is fucking awful here. I mean yeah, the ship is really nice and comfortable. But oh my god. I spent six hours sitting at the same station running diagnostics one after another. And guess what. It’s two full weeks of this! Two weeks of running diagnostics.”
John paused it and started to laugh, “Honey, I think he is going to be broken by the time he gets to the station.”
Alice was laughing, “Did you honestly expect him to be any better?”
“I mean, no, but I was hoping,” John fumbled through his answer as Alice laughed.
John continued the playback, Kristin then walked into frame, “Hi guys. It’s not as bad as he thinks. But it has been a couple of busy days. Getting back into the swing of things with an eighteen-hour day has been weird as hell.”
Andern smirked, “Tell me about it. Have I mentioned how nice this ship is though? Look at our room. It’s fucking huge,” he panned the camera around the luxurious stateroom, “And we’re just junior officers.”
John paused the video and laughed, “God he’s so damned oblivious.”
“Those aren’t normal quarters for junior officers, are they?” Alice said with a sigh.
“No, no they are not. That ship likely has a skeleton crew and since they are engaged, they dropped them in one of the senior officer’s rooms. Now that doesn’t mean that the room isn’t nice. It very clearly is.”
John played it back and Kristin once again corrected him, “It’s because we’re engaged and the ‘captain’ of the ship,” she used air quotes, “isn’t here currently. We got a senior officer’s room. Not complaining about that. Chow is also surprisingly good.”
Andern looked incredibly excited, “Like really good. Better than the cafeteria during the academy. Brian sent an email. Their shakedown cruise wasn’t going that well, so they are putting in some hours to wrap things up.”
“We just wanted to say hi. Don’t enjoy that luxury cruise of yours too much.”
Alice laughed, “Not going to lie, we lucked out so hard.”
“First Fleet has all the nicest and shiniest new ships. Shipyards do the shakedown for us,” John said leaning back in his chair.
“Maybe getting an assignment in First Fleet wasn’t the end of the world,” Alice was smirking.
“For now, it sure doesn’t seem to be that bad.”
Saturday. 22:50 Voidliner Check-In – Delta
Alice was giggling as they waited in line to get checked in. To John, it was moderately annoying that they were even in a line given how much he had spent on the upgraded ticket. There was also no shortage of mumbling about checking their bags.
John was also in a somewhat bitter mood about all the changes to their trip over the last two days. Their flight had been pushed back eighteen hours, then ahead twenty-four, then back twelve. It was bouncing around until they settled on around twelve hours earlier than planned.
“Hey, sorry to bother you but I notice you have Naval travel bags. How did you snag first-class tickets?” a young man next to John said.
“Evening, we got our orders to head to Manchester. Upgraded our tickets so we can spend the time in a little more comfort.”
“Sweet, did you get a military discount?”
John nodded.
“Dare I ask how much it was?”
John looked up at nothing in particular for a moment, “Uh, like twelve and a half I think.”
“Thousand?” the man exclaimed.
“Yeah each. Was pretty spendy.”
“If you don’t mind me asking, what rank are y’all?”
“My wife’s an O1, I’m an O2.”
“Fucking hell. How the hell can you afford that on your salaries? I’m an O4 and I would have to live cheaply for months afterward.”
John grinned, “I married a rich chick.”
Alice punched John in the kidney, “That’s not even funny you asshole.”
“Gotcha, enjoy the trip,” the man said laughing as Alice walked up to the ticket counter.
Ten minutes later their big bags were checked, and they were through the security area. John checked his ticket and noticed that they had an hour to kill. He pointed at the lounge and the couple walked in and found an open seat.
An attendant came over and took their drink order. John was hemming and hawing over what to order. Alice ordered a black coffee immediately. After much deliberation, John settled on a large cappuccino. The attendance could hear Alice laughing as she walked away to get their drinks prepared.
“I thought you said you hated coffee?”
“I do. That shit is terrible. The smell of it is just icky,” John was shaking his head, “But it’s just about noon Manchester time. So, I’m going to get myself accustomed to Manchester time.”
“Ooh, that is brilliant. I didn’t even think of doing that.”
“See, I’m useful.”
Alice laughed, “When you’re not being a chauvinistic asshole.”
John grunted, “Hey, that joke was funny.”
Alice shook her head. John shrugged in response and leaned back and looked at the lounge. Most of the seats were full. He momentarily began wondering where everyone was going until their attendant came back with their drinks.
“Would either of you be wanting to order any food?”
John looked at Alice and she just shrugged, “Do you happen to know when they’ll be serving the first meal onboard DAL M23X1 with service to St. Mary’s station above Manchester?”
Their attendant pulled a tablet out from a pocket and began scanning it, “Six hours after departure. Then every eight hours after that point.”
John looked at Alice, “Want to split a sandwich?”
“We’ll take a chicken and bacon wrap, please. With a side salad for me.”
“Potato salad here.”
Their attendant took the order and pressed a couple of buttons on her tablet. She then excused herself and took orders for other patrons. John continued to look around the lounge.
“I wonder how many of these people are setting off on a new journey in their lives?”
Alice smiled, “I doubt we’d be the only ones.”
“We’ve had a pretty damn good run of things so far, haven’t we?”
“I could have done without a few life and death scenarios, but beyond such minor quibbles, yes. Yes, we have.”
John laughed, “Minor quibbles.”
“You know if you just stayed safe more often my blood pressure and heart would feel more comfortable about everything.”
“I will once again affirm that I will endeavor to be safer for you.”
“Thank you. So, what do you think is going to happen with our initial assignments?”
John’s smile turned to a grimace when he took a drink, “Ugh, I hate this stuff. Well, I suspect you're going to be hitting the books hard over the next two to three years. You should have your Ph.D. by the time you are closing in on promotion to first lieutenant.”
“What about yourself?”
“In a perfect world, two asshats will be dead and buried, never again be able to hassle us. I’d like to have my own ship in three years but that may be a bit too quick,” John paused and raised a finger to his wife, “And no, I won’t be looking to take an escort. Frigate or bigger only. Because I am trying to be safer for you.”
Alice giggled, “Even when you are trying to be sincere you can be an ass.”
“You’re the one that agreed to marry me knowing that,” John shot back.
“I haven’t regretted it one bit,” Alice squeezed John’s hand.
John smiled back at her, “Nor have I. Want to have a friendly wager?”
“It’s about your bag, isn’t it?”
John nodded.
“Let’s add my bag to it. It will be in the first third of the ones that come out.”
John grinned, “I’ll be even more specific. It’ll be in the first fifteen bags that come out.”
“Ok, now your bag. I have faith it’ll be around the halfway point. Yeah. We’ll wait no more than fifteen minutes for your bag.”
“Second to last.”
“Pessimistic, are we?”
“Being a realist doesn’t make me a pessimist. I can’t be let down when my expectations come true.”
Alice sighed, “What’s the wager?”
“Dinner at the swankiest place on the station.”
“You have a bet,” Alice grinned.
The couple’s laughter was interrupted by their attendant bringing out their food. Soon they’d be boarding a ship to take them to their new home for the foreseeable future. They had achieved amazing things in the past four years. Things they rightly should be proud of.
They were graduated at a concerning time. Threats of another interstellar war were being broadcast by a hostile nation. Would it escalate? Almost assuredly, these things never just end with one or two actions.
But the future hadn’t been written yet. Only time would tell how John, Alice, and their friends would grow and react to their newfound stations in life. They were all, maybe Andern less enthusiastically, looking forward to forging their futures. Whether there would be a war or not, it was an exciting time to be alive.
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We shut the proverbial cover to this anthology. But to answer some questions, yes there will be a new series. It will continue to focus primarily on John. Some old faces will show up here and there but a new cast of characters will appear.
I've got three books planned for the Lieutenant Saga. I basically have the stories that I want to write for the first two books.
With that said though, I likely won't post many chapters until early June. I probably will commit to releasing the first chapter sometime before the end of the month. I also want to take some time to re-proof the first two books and fix many of the grammatical issues in them.
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Chapter 152: New Beginnings
Unknown Research FacilityDr. Norman was alone in the primary cloning bay. It was a good thing that he was alone for he was beside himself. Two terminals were destroyed thanks to a well-placed chair. He was pacing back and forth in front of a clone of John.
Purely from a physical standpoint, it looked like a perfect clone. Presuming of course John never suffered any of the wounds that left the body well scarred. Clearly, something was wrong with it though to elicit such a strong reaction in Dr. Norman.
“One thousand three hundred and sixteen failures,” Dr. Norman was all but foaming at the mouth, “Then this happens.”
The data slate in his hand was tossed across the room. It struck a corner of a desk, broke, and fell onto the floor unceremoniously. The door behind opened and Lisa walked in.
“Father, is there anything I can help you with?”
Dr. Norman turned to see her but barely acknowledged her presence. He walked to the terminal and keyed in a command. Then he turned to face his pride and joy.
The clone began dissolving into the most basic molecular components humans are made up of. The process took barely two minutes. Lisa seemed to relish seeing that occur to this clone, though she wished she could do so much more pain to the real John.
“It seems our friends tampered with his genetic structure to trigger his psychic capabilities,” Dr. Norman spat the words out.
Lisa walked over to a terminal and skimmed the results, “So they created a look-alike with laughably short lifespans. Not much use to us.”
“Yes, a very amateurish method. It changes what he really is. The perfect genetic clones we’ve created here all lack psychic potential. As you are well aware the offspring between the clones, and you have all been blanks as well. And now we are out of original material to create a clone.”
“Then we are left in the original position. We need to capture him.”
“Tut tut, easier said than done my dear,” Dr. Norman walked over and patted her head lightly, “I appreciate the enthusiasm but as you’ve well known from your experience, he is far more dangerous than he appears. Though with his recent commission that may present new opportunities.”
“Do we know where he is being assigned yet?”
Dr. Norman shook his head, “No, not yet. We will soon. When we do I want you to begin planning and practicing a situation to acquire our specimen.”
“With pleasure father,” Lisa said with an orgasmic delight in her voice.
“Now, how are negotiations with the pirates in the Horizon Expanse. We need a secure facility in the Pegasus system.”
“Slowly father. Their leader seems to think I should bed his son. The son disgusts me as much as our most valuable prey does.”
“Well, we can’t have that, can we? Sweeten the pot with some prototype weapons. Make sure we have control of them though. In case we need to make a point with them down the road.”
Lisa nodded and then left the room. Dr. Norman sat down in a chair and rubbed his temples. He sighed as he accepted the current defeat with great reluctance. He slowly logged into the terminal near where he sat down and activated the VI.
“Please examine the previous one hundred sixteen tests comparing the presumed genetic disposition of children produced between the male test subject and Lisa along with the subject and his current wife, Alice Robertson-Lief.”
The screen displayed the three genetic sequences and then began extrapolating the most likely combinations within children that could be produced. The hyper-computer was able to finish the calculation in record time. It played a chime when it was finished and began speaking to the exhausted and angry man.
“Children produced between Alice and John show a higher predisposition of psychic activity than with Lisa. The current estimate is nearly eighty-two-point three percent likelihood of psychic potential of at least a Level 3A. Twenty-point eight percent change of Level 5 or above.”
“Explain how this is. Alice is not psychic, Lisa is.”
“There appears to be no less than twenty-five strains of pure homo-superiors recorded to date. John and Alice are the only known two of their variants. It is presumed that it is the purest of the variants, given the markers we can extrapolate a higher than likely chance that strong psychic potential will be produced in any offspring.”
“Explain how they are purer.”
There was a pause, followed by the screens changing to display new information. Dr. Norman leaned in and stared at it in disbelief. This VI, thanks to a more open-ended inquiry from the doctor had extrapolated far more data than before.
“Lisa estimated lifespan, presuming illness or injury does not cause her to succumb, is between one hundred eighty and ninety years. We don’t have enough genetic material to do an accurate test on the test subject Alice. John’s lifespan is hard to pin down, but current estimates exceed two hundred and fifty years. It stands to reason that Alice could live ten to twenty years beyond him.”
There was absolutely no question in his mind that John was the key to the new man. This most recent revelation did nothing to dissuade him from that. But that his daughter, the byproduct of his greatest research accomplishment, wasn’t also part of the key was hard to accept.
“Tell me, what are the estimates for psychic offspring between Lisa and John.”
The VI paused for but a moment, “Sixty-five percent chance of Level 2C activity.”
“And what of the supposed chances of alpha plus abilities between both pairings?”
“Twelve-point two percent with Alice. Three-point eight percent with Lisa.”
“Please transmit all output data to my personal server. I’ll review it in due time.”
Dr. Norman signed off the terminal and began walking out of the laboratory. When he was in the doorway he looked back into the room and began to think. Perhaps they should change their mission to capture her. That would absolutely draw him to them. He would keep these recent revelations to himself before doing much more testing.
John was a lethal adversary under normal conditions. Capturing his wife might do more harm than good. While it would absolutely draw him to them, it may make it far more difficult to capture him without suffering grievous harm and damage in the first place. Much more studying, research, and above all else, planning needed to be done.
Friday. 10:13 Armstrong Retail Area—Jewelry floor
John was grinning like an idiot as he walked out of the store. Alice was meeting up with him after stopping in another store. She had purchased new earrings and a more unassuming wedding band to wear while on duty.
She noticed her husband’s grin and knew that he had purchased something ridiculous. It didn’t take longer than a quick glance at his left wrist to determine what specifically he had purchased. Another watch. John’s fascination and near, no this was a full-on, manic obsession with acquiring every watch he saw bewildered her.
“Ok, so let’s hear it, my love. How did you justify this one being added to your collection?” Alice said with a grin and slight sigh.
“It’s made out of a ceramite.”
“You have other watches made from that.”
“The skeletonized dial is made from platinum.”
Alice shook her head, “You also have watches with that combination.”
“It has three tourbillons.”
Alice laughed, “That too.”
“But it has three tourbillons, honey,” John immediately switched to a perfect Swiss accent, “Tourbillons, my dearest mademoiselle is so fun to say. Tourbillon.”
Laughter was the only response she could muster for the lovable idiot in front of her, “John, I really do love you even when your being as dumb as Andern.”
She gave him a hug and then held his hand, “So where too now?”
“I want to swing by FedEx to drop ship this junk to my deep storage. Then back to the hotel room to drop off the rest of the swag we’ve got. Then lunch?”
Alice and John then headed to wherever it was the FedEx location was at the station. Neither one seemed to be in that big of a hurry to get there. That was of course until John began to extoll the virtues and abilities, in excruciating length, to Alice.
She laughed when she thought ‘yeah, I married this’ to herself. John continued with the long-winded talk about this new watch. When there was a break in the conversation, or rather that occurred when John stopped talking long enough to take a long breath which gave her the opportunity to speak up and ask an innocent question.
“Ok, so I’ve just accepted that you’re going to spend an inordinate amount of money on watches. I’ve accepted that. But can you explain why you continue to wear mechanical watches? They aren’t as accurate as this smartwatch. I love the watch you bought me, but I’m always afraid I’m going to be robbed by some lowlife when I’m wearing it.”
John looked almost offended, “They are engineering masterpieces. This watch is accurate to within a single second every day. Long-term tests have it within five seconds over a week. Thirteen seconds to a month.”
“Yes, but you have to wind it every day, and it’s still not as accurate as one of these. Not to mention cost way more money.”
“But, but they are the pinnacle of engineering. Some of them can calculate the phase of the moon, or moons depending on the world, and everything. They are amazing. Plus, this one has three tourbillons, look at it. It’s hypnotic.”
John shoved his left arm in front of Alice’s face. She laughed when she looked at the doohickeys spin about in their cage under the watch’s clear crystal. This was just one of many weird quirks that she was going to have to put up with. Plus, it wasn’t like he was even coming close to bankrupting the two.
11:10 Hilton Regency Room 845
John was sitting on the veranda of the penthouse overlooking a green space and a section of the retail space of the station. Displayed on the transparent screen of the terminal was Andern. Alice began laughing when he began whining about work.
“Guys, it is fucking awful here. I mean yeah, the ship is really nice and comfortable. But oh my god. I spent six hours sitting at the same station running diagnostics one after another. And guess what. It’s two full weeks of this! Two weeks of running diagnostics.”
John paused it and started to laugh, “Honey, I think he is going to be broken by the time he gets to the station.”
Alice was laughing, “Did you honestly expect him to be any better?”
“I mean, no, but I was hoping,” John fumbled through his answer as Alice laughed.
John continued the playback, Kristin then walked into frame, “Hi guys. It’s not as bad as he thinks. But it has been a couple of busy days. Getting back into the swing of things with an eighteen-hour day has been weird as hell.”
Andern smirked, “Tell me about it. Have I mentioned how nice this ship is though? Look at our room. It’s fucking huge,” he panned the camera around the luxurious stateroom, “And we’re just junior officers.”
John paused the video and laughed, “God he’s so damned oblivious.”
“Those aren’t normal quarters for junior officers, are they?” Alice said with a sigh.
“No, no they are not. That ship likely has a skeleton crew and since they are engaged, they dropped them in one of the senior officer’s rooms. Now that doesn’t mean that the room isn’t nice. It very clearly is.”
John played it back and Kristin once again corrected him, “It’s because we’re engaged and the ‘captain’ of the ship,” she used air quotes, “isn’t here currently. We got a senior officer’s room. Not complaining about that. Chow is also surprisingly good.”
Andern looked incredibly excited, “Like really good. Better than the cafeteria during the academy. Brian sent an email. Their shakedown cruise wasn’t going that well, so they are putting in some hours to wrap things up.”
“We just wanted to say hi. Don’t enjoy that luxury cruise of yours too much.”
Alice laughed, “Not going to lie, we lucked out so hard.”
“First Fleet has all the nicest and shiniest new ships. Shipyards do the shakedown for us,” John said leaning back in his chair.
“Maybe getting an assignment in First Fleet wasn’t the end of the world,” Alice was smirking.
“For now, it sure doesn’t seem to be that bad.”
Saturday. 22:50 Voidliner Check-In – Delta
Alice was giggling as they waited in line to get checked in. To John, it was moderately annoying that they were even in a line given how much he had spent on the upgraded ticket. There was also no shortage of mumbling about checking their bags.
John was also in a somewhat bitter mood about all the changes to their trip over the last two days. Their flight had been pushed back eighteen hours, then ahead twenty-four, then back twelve. It was bouncing around until they settled on around twelve hours earlier than planned.
“Hey, sorry to bother you but I notice you have Naval travel bags. How did you snag first-class tickets?” a young man next to John said.
“Evening, we got our orders to head to Manchester. Upgraded our tickets so we can spend the time in a little more comfort.”
“Sweet, did you get a military discount?”
John nodded.
“Dare I ask how much it was?”
John looked up at nothing in particular for a moment, “Uh, like twelve and a half I think.”
“Thousand?” the man exclaimed.
“Yeah each. Was pretty spendy.”
“If you don’t mind me asking, what rank are y’all?”
“My wife’s an O1, I’m an O2.”
“Fucking hell. How the hell can you afford that on your salaries? I’m an O4 and I would have to live cheaply for months afterward.”
John grinned, “I married a rich chick.”
Alice punched John in the kidney, “That’s not even funny you asshole.”
“Gotcha, enjoy the trip,” the man said laughing as Alice walked up to the ticket counter.
Ten minutes later their big bags were checked, and they were through the security area. John checked his ticket and noticed that they had an hour to kill. He pointed at the lounge and the couple walked in and found an open seat.
An attendant came over and took their drink order. John was hemming and hawing over what to order. Alice ordered a black coffee immediately. After much deliberation, John settled on a large cappuccino. The attendance could hear Alice laughing as she walked away to get their drinks prepared.
“I thought you said you hated coffee?”
“I do. That shit is terrible. The smell of it is just icky,” John was shaking his head, “But it’s just about noon Manchester time. So, I’m going to get myself accustomed to Manchester time.”
“Ooh, that is brilliant. I didn’t even think of doing that.”
“See, I’m useful.”
Alice laughed, “When you’re not being a chauvinistic asshole.”
John grunted, “Hey, that joke was funny.”
Alice shook her head. John shrugged in response and leaned back and looked at the lounge. Most of the seats were full. He momentarily began wondering where everyone was going until their attendant came back with their drinks.
“Would either of you be wanting to order any food?”
John looked at Alice and she just shrugged, “Do you happen to know when they’ll be serving the first meal onboard DAL M23X1 with service to St. Mary’s station above Manchester?”
Their attendant pulled a tablet out from a pocket and began scanning it, “Six hours after departure. Then every eight hours after that point.”
John looked at Alice, “Want to split a sandwich?”
“We’ll take a chicken and bacon wrap, please. With a side salad for me.”
“Potato salad here.”
Their attendant took the order and pressed a couple of buttons on her tablet. She then excused herself and took orders for other patrons. John continued to look around the lounge.
“I wonder how many of these people are setting off on a new journey in their lives?”
Alice smiled, “I doubt we’d be the only ones.”
“We’ve had a pretty damn good run of things so far, haven’t we?”
“I could have done without a few life and death scenarios, but beyond such minor quibbles, yes. Yes, we have.”
John laughed, “Minor quibbles.”
“You know if you just stayed safe more often my blood pressure and heart would feel more comfortable about everything.”
“I will once again affirm that I will endeavor to be safer for you.”
“Thank you. So, what do you think is going to happen with our initial assignments?”
John’s smile turned to a grimace when he took a drink, “Ugh, I hate this stuff. Well, I suspect you're going to be hitting the books hard over the next two to three years. You should have your Ph.D. by the time you are closing in on promotion to first lieutenant.”
“What about yourself?”
“In a perfect world, two asshats will be dead and buried, never again be able to hassle us. I’d like to have my own ship in three years but that may be a bit too quick,” John paused and raised a finger to his wife, “And no, I won’t be looking to take an escort. Frigate or bigger only. Because I am trying to be safer for you.”
Alice giggled, “Even when you are trying to be sincere you can be an ass.”
“You’re the one that agreed to marry me knowing that,” John shot back.
“I haven’t regretted it one bit,” Alice squeezed John’s hand.
John smiled back at her, “Nor have I. Want to have a friendly wager?”
“It’s about your bag, isn’t it?”
John nodded.
“Let’s add my bag to it. It will be in the first third of the ones that come out.”
John grinned, “I’ll be even more specific. It’ll be in the first fifteen bags that come out.”
“Ok, now your bag. I have faith it’ll be around the halfway point. Yeah. We’ll wait no more than fifteen minutes for your bag.”
“Second to last.”
“Pessimistic, are we?”
“Being a realist doesn’t make me a pessimist. I can’t be let down when my expectations come true.”
Alice sighed, “What’s the wager?”
“Dinner at the swankiest place on the station.”
“You have a bet,” Alice grinned.
The couple’s laughter was interrupted by their attendant bringing out their food. Soon they’d be boarding a ship to take them to their new home for the foreseeable future. They had achieved amazing things in the past four years. Things they rightly should be proud of.
They were graduated at a concerning time. Threats of another interstellar war were being broadcast by a hostile nation. Would it escalate? Almost assuredly, these things never just end with one or two actions.
But the future hadn’t been written yet. Only time would tell how John, Alice, and their friends would grow and react to their newfound stations in life. They were all, maybe Andern less enthusiastically, looking forward to forging their futures. Whether there would be a war or not, it was an exciting time to be alive.
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2022.03.29 21:22 david_k_robertson food for thought on - diaspora postings 4
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food for thought on the nba using video images for fans and that mentality, with some personal takes on other topics - movie Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film.
The film’s main concept centers on the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. These fit, attractive, remotely controlled robots ultimately assume their life roles, enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Surrogates was released on September 25, 2009, in the United States and Canada. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $122 million.
Plot
In the near future, widespread use of remotely controlled androids called “surrogates” enables everyone to live in idealized forms from the safety of their homes. Compared to their surrogates, the human operators are depicted as slovenly and homebound. Protected from harm, a surrogate’s operator feels no pain when the surrogate is damaged, and can do acrobatics that a normal person wouldn’t. In Boston, FBI agent Tom Greer has been estranged from his wife Maggie, since their son’s death in a car crash several years before. He never sees her outside of her surrogate and she criticizes his desire to interact via their real bodies.
Tom and his partner, Agent Jennifer Peters, investigate the death of two people who were killed when their surrogates were destroyed at a Fort Point club. Jared Canter (Shane Dzicek), one of the victims, is the son of Dr. Lionel Canter, the inventor of surrogates and the former head of their manufacturing company, Virtual Self Industries (VSI). The two determine that a human, Miles Strickland, used a new type of weapon to overload the surrogates’ systems and kill their operators. After locating Strickland, Tom attempts to bring him into custody. Strickland uses the weapon and injures Tom during the chase; Tom inadvertently crash-lands into an anti-surrogate zone known as the Dread Reservation (one of many throughout the US). A mob helps Strickland and destroys Tom’s surrogate. The Dread leader, a man known as the Prophet kills Strickland and confiscates the weapon.
With his surrogate destroyed, Tom is forced to interact in the world without one. He learns that VSI originally produced the weapon, designed to load a virus that overloads a surrogate’s systems, thus disabling it, under a government contract. Unexpectedly, the weapon also disabled the fail-safe protocols protecting operators. The project was promptly scrapped and all prototypes supposedly destroyed. Tom also learns that Andrew Stone, his FBI superior, supplied the weapon to Strickland and ordered Dr. Canter’s assassination, upon VSI’s request, for his criticism of surrogate use. Jared, using one of his father’s many surrogates, was killed instead. Jennifer is murdered in her own home by an unknown man who hijacks her surrogate, and the Prophet orders the weapon delivered to her. During a military raid on the reservation, the Prophet is shot, revealing he was actually a surrogate, with Canter himself as the operator. Tom steals the weapon’s codes from Stone, but “Jennifer” escapes with the codes.
Immediately travelling to Canter’s home, Tom discovers that Canter has been controlling not only the Prophet, but Jennifer as well. Using Jennifer’s surrogate in FBI Headquarters, Canter uses the weapon to kill Stone and proceeds to upload the virus to all surrogates, which will destroy them and kill their operators. Canter reveals that he only wanted to empower the disabled to live normal lives, but after he was fired from VSI, they capitalized on surrogacy for profit. Convinced his plan is unstoppable, Canter disconnects from Jennifer’s surrogate and swallows a cyanide pill. Tom takes control of Jennifer’s surrogate and, with the assistance of the network’s system administrator, Bobby Saunders, insulates the virus so the operators will survive, but a second step is required to save the surrogates. After a moment of consideration, Tom chooses to let the virus permanently disable surrogates worldwide. With all the surrogates disabled, people emerge from their homes, confused and afraid.
Returning home, Tom shares an emotional embrace with Maggie in her real form. The film ends with an aerial view of the collapsed surrogates along with overlapping news reports of downed surrogates all over the world and how people are now “on their own” again.
Reception
Critical response
Surrogates was not pre-screened for critics. As of June 2020, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 37%, based on 115 reviews, and an average rating of 5.33/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Though it sports a slick look and feel, Surrogates fails to capitalize on a promising premise, relying instead on mindless action and a poor script”. Metacritic gave the film an average score of 45 out of 100 based on 21 critic reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “C” on an A+ to F scale.
IGN gave the film a 6.0/10, saying that “it provides a competently made, relatively predictable and slickly presented piece of genre entertainment, offering just the right amount of action beats and futuristic visuals to keep the viewer engaged without ever having an actual thought. It’s good, escapist fun”. Yahoo! Movies gave it a grade “C+” based on 10 reviews.
Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwarzbaum concluded her positive review saying that “there’s fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis–Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after Pulp Fiction”. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4. Ebert wrote that “while more ambitious than it has to be, the film descends into action scenes too quickly. … Surrogates is entertaining and ingenious, but it settles too soon for formula.” He also says, “The concept, based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, would lead naturally to intriguing considerations.” Some critics, however, were not too favorable to the film: Claudia Puig of USA Today called it “a poor substitute of sci-fi thriller saying that the tone of the movie is rarely satirical and that it’s more concerned with political intrigue involving pockets of anti-surrogate protesters that enjoy bludgeoning the machines.” Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave it a negative review, writing “watchable, but obvious… Surrogates never manages to be anything more than a poor substitute for the real thing.”
Jordan Hoffman of UGO Entertainment gave Surrogates a B+ rating, saying it is intellectually stimulating enough to keep you intrigued while never forgetting its obligation as B movie fun. Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as an intense and eerily plausible science fiction thriller.
Some critics remarked that the plot has some similarities to David Brin’s Kiln People.
Box office
Surrogates played at 2,992 theaters. On its opening weekend, it grossed to $14,902,692, averaging $5,050 per theater, ranking #2 at the U.S. box office, behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. For the second weekend of Oct 2–4, it saw a 45% decrease where it dropped down to 4th place at the box office only to gross $7,241,054. The third domestic weekend release saw a 36% decrease, which was 9% less than its last weekend. The film went on to gross $38,577,772 domestically and $83,867,000 internationally, giving it a worldwide gross of $122,444,772.
ok that is the movie. funny i feel that some might think i posted an article about the new world now.
i posted it because the nba has big video screens that show “fans”, like that really does anything. i would also point that in wake of the pandemic, a growing number of athletes are fore going their season.
another interest to add in is the numbering system used in popular video games like madden football. its gotten so bad that the actual person, then gets their panties in a bunch when they feel they are being disrespected by the video game.
well fuck then, i honestly can this happening. shit the movie surrogates where this leads to. people dont even leave their home. no need to masks because everyone is remote controlling their robot surrogate. video game whatevers set the parameters of what surrogate athletes get and while remote controlling your surrogate, you watch surrogate athletes on tv or smart phone or fuck whatever is the “in thing”, might even be holographic by then.
abit ago i posted on the cornavirus aka covid-19 and the question of what info is being used about covid-19 that is there to learn from covid-1, covid-5, covid-10, covid-15 and all the rest of its strand mutations. i do find it interesting that not one fucking word has ever been uttered from “medical professions” dealing with covid or that clown expert on it about how they are learning from its previous types. well fuck in outbreaks, want to know how to combat it, then find the first patient with it for called patient zero. well the same fucking thing applies here, want to know the base of covid-19 then fucking look at covid-1.
on other topics, got wind that some talking heads on some sports channel were all up in arms about how nba coaches were wearing polo shirts instead of suit and tie. they were all about how its more important about how you look then actually fucking knowing anything. to which that is the typical corporate mentality, i know seen it plenty of times. expensively dressed execs that couldnt fucking get out of wet paperbag, zero talent, zero knowledge, zero ability.
so by the rational of fucking clowns like that, as the saying goes “the suite makes the man”, instead of what is in their mind, heart and soul. on facebook quite some time ago i used the comparison of the “well dressed” with that of magical items in old school dungeon and dragons. so what some custom tailored suit from some expensive whatever is +4, suit from macys is +3, suit from local business is +2 and suit off the rack from jc pennies or sears is +1?
this fucking fashion obsession is why society is where it is. because as the saying goes “dont judge a book by its cover”
David Robertson - 2 years ago
food for thought on congressman lewis - i posted on facebook when some other “famous” person in the political arena had died and all that was ever mentioned so only the “good stuff” about them.
i called that there and will again here, being a serious distortion of who and what they were.
in there lies the problem, once in passing, the only thing is brought out is one sided, then when does the total picture ever get put out? seriously when? it doesnt!
to which is why shit bags like ray gun aka reagan have this “mystic” about them because instead of the whole, total picture of the person, its only the myopic narrow minded picture. so when the particular person goes thru history, the future thinks they are getting the whole picture but instead they are being lied to about it. which is why when, here and there, there are “leaks” of negative information about some “saint”, there is plenty of backlash on the leaker. and in demonizing the leaker is just doing more disservice.
i bring this up because all the talk on this passed congressmen was just the “good stuff”.
i have never heard the stuff like this.
he was so pathetic that when in the democratic primary he attacked bernie sanders on his civil rights participation. he even went repeatedly to make the claim that bernie sanders never did anything at all. although there are pictures that have been out since that time that show he did in fact stand on the side of african americans in the civil rights movement. but lewis never recounted his claims, ever. and why would he do this? its because hillary rodham clinton was the other main democratic primary and instead of being honest and truthful he was totally happy with lying for the clintons. he was a good friend of the clintons, so it seems he had more respect and loyalty to the clintons then to the truth. and for me that seriously tarnishes his civil rights record because when you are totally good with lying about someone elses civil rights record then you sold your morals and integrity a long time ago.
on the topic of morals and integrity, he never had any issue with doing whatever corporate ever asks him to do. if you look at this political voting record, he never said no to anything that corporate ever wanted in congress. in that, shows more lack of morals and integrity for me.
now yes he did do things during the civil rights movement but so did plenty others but of course they dont get the same name recognition as did lewis, shit for the stuff put out you would think he fucking ran the entire thing himself and that he lead every march himself, etc, etc, etc.
there is more but i think those two foods for thought should display that the status quo on this topic only denegrates instead of enlightening the whole. if your going to discuss the good then you had better also discuss the bad as well.
i have done good things in my own life and bad as well, when my time comes i expect both sides to be spoken and known about. as the saying goes “life is a tapestry, pull one tread out and it starts to come apart”
David Robertson - 2 years ago
continuation of food for thought on the show “the alienist” - it seems my positive feelings were caught in the moment because now its clear that this, every other year seasons, is nothing but a shell of what made the show so thinking.
the first season they took the story thru 10 episodes and it was very well done. the first was two hour then the rest were one hour and they even took a week off during its initial run.
now two years later, they are only going with 8 episodes and its 2 hours each sunday. so they are going to cram it in, in one month. so much for seeing an episode, thinking it over during the week then seeing the next chapter of the story.
this one is done so rapidly that there really isnt any true story telling that is being done. to which is such a shame and being disrespectful to its fantastic beginning.
and in doing the format this way i can tell, for disclosure i have not seen any ccc or neilsen ratings, the ratings will suffer even though with this pandemic, there is more eyeballs available then before. its been only two viewing days and the season is already half over, the story which in the ads looked like another story wrapped in another story with twists in the plot that took the right amount of time to lay out.
oh well, leave it to corporate to fuck up a perfectly good show. its sad to say but this show is going like so many before it and in every genre, someones hard work that they had to beg and plead to get shown, then it gets the praise it deserves, then gets fucked up by the “know it all” corporate shit bags that have “ownership” of the show and “think” they can build a better mouse trap but instead they fuck it up so much the mice just go to a different trap.
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food for thought on the nba using video images for fans and that mentality, with some personal takes on other topics - movie Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film.
The film’s main concept centers on the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. These fit, attractive, remotely controlled robots ultimately assume their life roles, enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Surrogates was released on September 25, 2009, in the United States and Canada. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $122 million.
Plot
In the near future, widespread use of remotely controlled androids called “surrogates” enables everyone to live in idealized forms from the safety of their homes. Compared to their surrogates, the human operators are depicted as slovenly and homebound. Protected from harm, a surrogate’s operator feels no pain when the surrogate is damaged, and can do acrobatics that a normal person wouldn’t. In Boston, FBI agent Tom Greer has been estranged from his wife Maggie, since their son’s death in a car crash several years before. He never sees her outside of her surrogate and she criticizes his desire to interact via their real bodies.
Tom and his partner, Agent Jennifer Peters, investigate the death of two people who were killed when their surrogates were destroyed at a Fort Point club. Jared Canter (Shane Dzicek), one of the victims, is the son of Dr. Lionel Canter, the inventor of surrogates and the former head of their manufacturing company, Virtual Self Industries (VSI). The two determine that a human, Miles Strickland, used a new type of weapon to overload the surrogates’ systems and kill their operators. After locating Strickland, Tom attempts to bring him into custody. Strickland uses the weapon and injures Tom during the chase; Tom inadvertently crash-lands into an anti-surrogate zone known as the Dread Reservation (one of many throughout the US). A mob helps Strickland and destroys Tom’s surrogate. The Dread leader, a man known as the Prophet kills Strickland and confiscates the weapon.
With his surrogate destroyed, Tom is forced to interact in the world without one. He learns that VSI originally produced the weapon, designed to load a virus that overloads a surrogate’s systems, thus disabling it, under a government contract. Unexpectedly, the weapon also disabled the fail-safe protocols protecting operators. The project was promptly scrapped and all prototypes supposedly destroyed. Tom also learns that Andrew Stone, his FBI superior, supplied the weapon to Strickland and ordered Dr. Canter’s assassination, upon VSI’s request, for his criticism of surrogate use. Jared, using one of his father’s many surrogates, was killed instead. Jennifer is murdered in her own home by an unknown man who hijacks her surrogate, and the Prophet orders the weapon delivered to her. During a military raid on the reservation, the Prophet is shot, revealing he was actually a surrogate, with Canter himself as the operator. Tom steals the weapon’s codes from Stone, but “Jennifer” escapes with the codes.
Immediately travelling to Canter’s home, Tom discovers that Canter has been controlling not only the Prophet, but Jennifer as well. Using Jennifer’s surrogate in FBI Headquarters, Canter uses the weapon to kill Stone and proceeds to upload the virus to all surrogates, which will destroy them and kill their operators. Canter reveals that he only wanted to empower the disabled to live normal lives, but after he was fired from VSI, they capitalized on surrogacy for profit. Convinced his plan is unstoppable, Canter disconnects from Jennifer’s surrogate and swallows a cyanide pill. Tom takes control of Jennifer’s surrogate and, with the assistance of the network’s system administrator, Bobby Saunders, insulates the virus so the operators will survive, but a second step is required to save the surrogates. After a moment of consideration, Tom chooses to let the virus permanently disable surrogates worldwide. With all the surrogates disabled, people emerge from their homes, confused and afraid.
Returning home, Tom shares an emotional embrace with Maggie in her real form. The film ends with an aerial view of the collapsed surrogates along with overlapping news reports of downed surrogates all over the world and how people are now “on their own” again.
Reception
Critical response
Surrogates was not pre-screened for critics. As of June 2020, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 37%, based on 115 reviews, and an average rating of 5.33/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Though it sports a slick look and feel, Surrogates fails to capitalize on a promising premise, relying instead on mindless action and a poor script”. Metacritic gave the film an average score of 45 out of 100 based on 21 critic reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “C” on an A+ to F scale.
IGN gave the film a 6.0/10, saying that “it provides a competently made, relatively predictable and slickly presented piece of genre entertainment, offering just the right amount of action beats and futuristic visuals to keep the viewer engaged without ever having an actual thought. It’s good, escapist fun”. Yahoo! Movies gave it a grade “C+” based on 10 reviews.
Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwarzbaum concluded her positive review saying that “there’s fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis–Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after Pulp Fiction”. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4. Ebert wrote that “while more ambitious than it has to be, the film descends into action scenes too quickly. … Surrogates is entertaining and ingenious, but it settles too soon for formula.” He also says, “The concept, based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, would lead naturally to intriguing considerations.” Some critics, however, were not too favorable to the film: Claudia Puig of USA Today called it “a poor substitute of sci-fi thriller saying that the tone of the movie is rarely satirical and that it’s more concerned with political intrigue involving pockets of anti-surrogate protesters that enjoy bludgeoning the machines.” Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave it a negative review, writing “watchable, but obvious… Surrogates never manages to be anything more than a poor substitute for the real thing.”
Jordan Hoffman of UGO Entertainment gave Surrogates a B+ rating, saying it is intellectually stimulating enough to keep you intrigued while never forgetting its obligation as B movie fun. Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as an intense and eerily plausible science fiction thriller.
Some critics remarked that the plot has some similarities to David Brin’s Kiln People.
Box office
Surrogates played at 2,992 theaters. On its opening weekend, it grossed to $14,902,692, averaging $5,050 per theater, ranking #2 at the U.S. box office, behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. For the second weekend of Oct 2–4, it saw a 45% decrease where it dropped down to 4th place at the box office only to gross $7,241,054. The third domestic weekend release saw a 36% decrease, which was 9% less than its last weekend. The film went on to gross $38,577,772 domestically and $83,867,000 internationally, giving it a worldwide gross of $122,444,772.
ok that is the movie. funny i feel that some might think i posted an article about the new world now.
i posted it because the nba has big video screens that show “fans”, like that really does anything. i would also point that in wake of the pandemic, a growing number of athletes are fore going their season.
another interest to add in is the numbering system used in popular video games like madden football. its gotten so bad that the actual person, then gets their panties in a bunch when they feel they are being disrespected by the video game.
well fuck then, i honestly can this happening. shit the movie surrogates where this leads to. people dont even leave their home. no need to masks because everyone is remote controlling their robot surrogate. video game whatevers set the parameters of what surrogate athletes get and while remote controlling your surrogate, you watch surrogate athletes on tv or smart phone or fuck whatever is the “in thing”, might even be holographic by then.
abit ago i posted on the cornavirus aka covid-19 and the question of what info is being used about covid-19 that is there to learn from covid-1, covid-5, covid-10, covid-15 and all the rest of its strand mutations. i do find it interesting that not one fucking word has ever been uttered from “medical professions” dealing with covid or that clown expert on it about how they are learning from its previous types. well fuck in outbreaks, want to know how to combat it, then find the first patient with it for called patient zero. well the same fucking thing applies here, want to know the base of covid-19 then fucking look at covid-1.
on other topics, got wind that some talking heads on some sports channel were all up in arms about how nba coaches were wearing polo shirts instead of suit and tie. they were all about how its more important about how you look then actually fucking knowing anything. to which that is the typical corporate mentality, i know seen it plenty of times. expensively dressed execs that couldnt fucking get out of wet paperbag, zero talent, zero knowledge, zero ability.
so by the rational of fucking clowns like that, as the saying goes “the suite makes the man”, instead of what is in their mind, heart and soul. on facebook quite some time ago i used the comparison of the “well dressed” with that of magical items in old school dungeon and dragons. so what some custom tailored suit from some expensive whatever is +4, suit from macys is +3, suit from local business is +2 and suit off the rack from jc pennies or sears is +1?
this fucking fashion obsession is why society is where it is. because as the saying goes “dont judge a book by its cover”
David Robertson - 2 years ago
food for thought on congressman lewis - i posted on facebook when some other “famous” person in the political arena had died and all that was ever mentioned so only the “good stuff” about them.
i called that there and will again here, being a serious distortion of who and what they were.
in there lies the problem, once in passing, the only thing is brought out is one sided, then when does the total picture ever get put out? seriously when? it doesnt!
to which is why shit bags like ray gun aka reagan have this “mystic” about them because instead of the whole, total picture of the person, its only the myopic narrow minded picture. so when the particular person goes thru history, the future thinks they are getting the whole picture but instead they are being lied to about it. which is why when, here and there, there are “leaks” of negative information about some “saint”, there is plenty of backlash on the leaker. and in demonizing the leaker is just doing more disservice.
i bring this up because all the talk on this passed congressmen was just the “good stuff”.
i have never heard the stuff like this.
he was so pathetic that when in the democratic primary he attacked bernie sanders on his civil rights participation. he even went repeatedly to make the claim that bernie sanders never did anything at all. although there are pictures that have been out since that time that show he did in fact stand on the side of african americans in the civil rights movement. but lewis never recounted his claims, ever. and why would he do this? its because hillary rodham clinton was the other main democratic primary and instead of being honest and truthful he was totally happy with lying for the clintons. he was a good friend of the clintons, so it seems he had more respect and loyalty to the clintons then to the truth. and for me that seriously tarnishes his civil rights record because when you are totally good with lying about someone elses civil rights record then you sold your morals and integrity a long time ago.
on the topic of morals and integrity, he never had any issue with doing whatever corporate ever asks him to do. if you look at this political voting record, he never said no to anything that corporate ever wanted in congress. in that, shows more lack of morals and integrity for me.
now yes he did do things during the civil rights movement but so did plenty others but of course they dont get the same name recognition as did lewis, shit for the stuff put out you would think he fucking ran the entire thing himself and that he lead every march himself, etc, etc, etc.
there is more but i think those two foods for thought should display that the status quo on this topic only denegrates instead of enlightening the whole. if your going to discuss the good then you had better also discuss the bad as well.
i have done good things in my own life and bad as well, when my time comes i expect both sides to be spoken and known about. as the saying goes “life is a tapestry, pull one tread out and it starts to come apart”
David Robertson - 2 years ago
continuation of food for thought on the show “the alienist” - it seems my positive feelings were caught in the moment because now its clear that this, every other year seasons, is nothing but a shell of what made the show so thinking.
the first season they took the story thru 10 episodes and it was very well done. the first was two hour then the rest were one hour and they even took a week off during its initial run.
now two years later, they are only going with 8 episodes and its 2 hours each sunday. so they are going to cram it in, in one month. so much for seeing an episode, thinking it over during the week then seeing the next chapter of the story.
this one is done so rapidly that there really isnt any true story telling that is being done. to which is such a shame and being disrespectful to its fantastic beginning.
and in doing the format this way i can tell, for disclosure i have not seen any ccc or neilsen ratings, the ratings will suffer even though with this pandemic, there is more eyeballs available then before. its been only two viewing days and the season is already half over, the story which in the ads looked like another story wrapped in another story with twists in the plot that took the right amount of time to lay out.
oh well, leave it to corporate to fuck up a perfectly good show. its sad to say but this show is going like so many before it and in every genre, someones hard work that they had to beg and plead to get shown, then it gets the praise it deserves, then gets fucked up by the “know it all” corporate shit bags that have “ownership” of the show and “think” they can build a better mouse trap but instead they fuck it up so much the mice just go to a different trap.
2021.11.01 07:16 Watchdogs66 The Great Reset: Part 9-1
Part 1: Initial Development of House Defense and Offense Strategies Part 2-1: Predicting the 2020 Redistricting Cycle for the First 25 States Part 2-2: Predicting the 2020 Redistricting Cycle for the Other 25 States Part 3-1: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (First Half) Part 3-2: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (Second Half) Part 4: Spring 2021 House Offense Update Part 5: Initial Status of Critical State Legislative Races in Virginia and New Jersey Part 6-1: Summer 2021 House Defense Update (First Half) Part 6-2: Summer 2021 House Defense Update (Second Half) Part 7: Summer 2021 House Offense Update Part 8: Fall 2021 Update of Critical State Legislative Races in Virginia and New Jersey
Fall 2021 House Defense Update (First Third)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will focus on defending in the 2022 elections. Several key developments have morphed the overall House of Representatives situation into a new political setting. With the release of the new congressional maps for 6 of the 44 states apportioned with multiple districts this decade, candidates in these states can now optimize their campaign strategies for winning over voters within the districts these candidates wish to represent. Several Republican candidates have also demonstrated significant strength in quite a few vulnerable districts we control, while other Republicans have failed to gain traction. Finally, the Democratic fields in several open-seat races have developed in unique ways, which compels a reevaluation of our chances to win these districts as well as the best strategies to do so. Because of these developments, it is time to make another round of changes of the series’ defense list before the official review takes place. All districts listed in this part will have their PVI and either their incumbents or an OPEN label signifying the lack of an incumbent for the district in question. Districts within states where their redistricting processes are complete will be marked with an asterisk (*) to indicate that their boundaries have been finalized for this decade. I will not include ratings from any political pundits in this part, since this will be of little use until every state has finalized their redrawn congressional maps.
To keep the defense list to a manageable and effective size, I have kept the number of defense districts to a constant 19. The reasoning for the removal/addition of each district is listed below.
No longer on the defense list:
MI-08 (Elissa Slotkin, R+4): Elissa Slotkin continues to demonstrate good progress in her re-election campaign, while both of her potential Republican opponents have only raised four-figure sums so far. Each of the two Republican candidates are also only in the early stages of developing their campaigns and are unable to present a credible challenge against Elissa Slotkin. As a result, I think Elissa Slotkin can handle anything that comes her way and will win another term without too much trouble.
NJ-03 (Andy Kim, R+3): Andy Kim has dominated in the fundraising department since the start of this election cycle by raising obscene amounts of cash in the past three quarters. Both Republican candidates running in this district, on the other hand, have only raised low four-digit amounts as of now and do not appear to be viable challengers. Andy Kim is also one of the more inspiring House progressives out there, and I believe that he will still be around beyond 2022.
TX-07* (Lizzie Fletcher, D+14): Contrary to what I initially predicted of the Texas state legislature’s intentions for this district, Lizzie Fletcher now has a solid Democratic district to run in for the 2022 elections. It now acts as a vote sink to ensure that the surrounding Republican-held districts do not flip in the near future. This means that the district no longer needs our attention when it comes to House defense.
TX-34* (Vicente Gonzalez, D+12): The Texas state legislature redrew this district to be another Democratic vote sink in order to make a neighboring Rio Grande Valley district much more Republican in nature. Additionally, the said neighboring district’s incumbent, Vicente Gonzalez, has decided to run in this solid Democratic district instead. From here on in, we should focus all defensive efforts in the Rio Grande Valley on Vicente Gonzalez’s old district.
New districts added to the defense list:
IL-17 (OPEN, R+2): When I initially removed this district from the defense list in the third part, I said that I would be willing to add it back in if it remained competitive and we have a strong candidate to replace Cheri Bustos. After looking at the congressional map that is headed to J.B. Pritzker for his signature and the candidates who are running in the district’s new version, I believe that both of these requirements have been fulfilled. We definitely need to make up for lost time, as the Republican candidates have a significant head start in fundraising and campaign infrastructure that we need to deal with as soon as possible.
TX-15* (OPEN, D+1): This is Vicente Gonzalez’s old district, and is also the Rio Grande Valley district that the Texas state legislature has made to be far more Republican as part of their plan to create two new solidly Republican districts for the 2022 elections. The reconfigured district swung towards Trump extremely hard in 2020, and the voters there are very prone to Republican economic messaging. Since the Republicans also have massive financial and organizational advantages in this area, we very much need to hit the ground sprinting in order to have a fighting chance of holding the reconfigured district this cycle.
GA-06 (Lucy McBath, D+1): The Georgia state legislature is trying to gerrymander Lucy McBath out while giving Carolyn Bourdeaux a solid Democratic district for the 2022 elections. However, plenty of grassroots organizations are willing to fight to keep her in Congress, even under this scenario. I personally believe that Lucy McBath is one of the most effective and underrated progressive members of Congress. If she was re-elected in 2022, she will have plenty of worthwhile contributions to give to not only her state, but also this country. Finally, this district is a crucial area to keep making inroads in for Georgia’s statewide races, especially the U.S. Senate race that will be held in this state in 2022. Because of these reasons, we need to go all out in defending this district’s next version from the several Republicans who have mounted formidable campaigns there.
NV-04 (Steven Horsford, D+1): Here we have another district that is crucial for elevating our chances of winning important statewide races, most notably the U.S. Senate race in Nevada. A precedent also exists for a hostile national environment sweeping Steven Horsford out of office. This event happened in 2014, when Steven Horsford lost this district to Crescent Hardy. Serious declines in canvassing and voter registration operations in Las Vegas played a considerable role behind this debacle. As someone who is significantly involved in Nevada campaigns this cycle, I can tell you that warning signs of this same reduction in ground operations have already emerged due to our strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols. Given that the Republicans are also mounting a credible challenge to win the district’s next version, I also strongly calling for more resources and volunteers to head to this district to prevent this catastrophe from repeating itself there.
Now that we have covered the changes to the defense list, we can now begin the official comprehensive review of the 19 districts on the list. These districts, which are currently located within 14 states, are first sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts give the best value for our efforts. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into thirds.
In this part’s first third, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating the lack of one, the cumulative Q3 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q3 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q3 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be supplied. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, personal loans are excluded in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is currently the strongest. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered in identifying the most viable candidate in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-06 (Lucy McBath, D+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $2,404,277 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,908,335
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Harold Earls: $422,459 Jake Evans: $407,663 Meagan Myers Hanson: $302,738 Blake Harbin: No report filed yet Paulette Smith: $0 Mary Mallory Staples: $226,041 Susan Voyles: $79,782
Campaign Website: http://www.lucyforcongress.com/
Lucy McBath certainly is in good standing, as she is ahead in the fundraising department right now than she was at the end of 2019’s third quarter. Yet four Republican candidates have established convincing challenges against Lucy McBath. Much of the support behind these campaigns comes from having the Georgia state legislature gerrymandering this district to have a far more Republican configuration, which would enable the candidates to utilize this environment to their advantage. Harold Earls and Mary Mallory Staples have exhibited respectable fundraising and organizational levels. Former State Representative Meagan Myers Hanson has also achieved decent fundraising and campaign infrastructure strength and can use her previous legislative connections and achievements to her benefit. However, the frontrunner seems to be Jake Evans, who loaned himself $500,000 for his campaign, which would allow him to build up name recognition in this district, and picked up some endorsements that include Newt Gingrich and several conservative activists. This could go to a runoff, though, and it is anyone’s guess on who wins the Republican nomination. Optimizing our organizational efforts in this district is crucial, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $2,011,508 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $923,175
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Yahanseh George: $6,755 Richard Dean McCormick: $1,177,417 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) Eugene Chin Yu: $0
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again is raising more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary named Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Richard Dean McCormick is also the unequivocal front-runner in the Republican primary this time around, as he broke the $1 million benchmark in his latest fundraising report. If the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia finishes its redistricting process, Carolyn Bourdeaux will face a rematch against Richard Dean McCormick in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is another key district to enhance our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win Georgia’s 2022 U.S. Senate race.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,108,146 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $852,241
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $10,546 Tim Baxter: $188,827 Gail Huff Brown: $220,820 Karoline Leavitt: $333,114 Matt Mowers: $361,600 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas is still in an okay position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him. But things have heated up over the past few months, as four Republican candidates have established enough support to run serious campaigns, with two of them outraising Chris Pappas this quarter. State Representative Tim Baxter raised an okay amount and has endorsements from 32 New Hampshire state representatives. Thanks to the support of her husband Scott Brown, who was a former U.S. Senator, Gail Huff Brown has raised a decent sum in her Q3 report. Karoline Leavitt and Matt Mowers, are the two candidates to watch right now, as both of them exceeded Chris Pappas’ Q3 fundraising haul, have top-notch campaign websites, and recently picked up national endorsements. These endorsements take the form of Nikki Haley for Matt Mowers, and Madison Cawthorn for Karoline Leavitt. This primary could go either way at this point and will likely be a bloody one, which will certainly be helpful for us. Finally, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much focused on flipping this district at the same time, which adds to the high-stakes nature of this race.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,134,119 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $869,657
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $475,346 Eli Crane: $404,396 Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $19,428 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet Ronald Watkins: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran remains in okay standing at this point. Right now, two serious Republican challengers are running in this district. The first such challenger is State Representative Walter Jack Blackman, who has moderate amounts of name recognition and raised a respectable sum for his campaign so far. The other serious Republican candidate is Eli Crane, who outraised Tom O’Halleran in 2021’s third quarter and is endorsed by a couple of prominent media figures and organizations. In addition to hosting a competitive House race, this district is a vital place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support are thus required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Avery Anderson (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Kirsten Engel (-) – $600,125; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Daniel Hernandez (-) – $506,128; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Kasey Hopper (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos Urrea (-) – $6,385 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical); https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Juan Ciscomani: $616,520 Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Steven Diffie: No report filed yet Lucretia Free: No official report filed, but less than $5,000 Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Douglas Lowell: $25,425 Brandon Martin: $44,690 Young Mayberry: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet George Sakellarakis: No report filed yet Brandon Schlass: No report filed yet Gabriel Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet Kathleen Winn: $2,855
Phew, there are a lot of candidates on both sides who are running in this open-seat race. However, only a few candidates have managed to stand out and demonstrate serious potential of winning over voters. On the Democratic side, State Representative Randall Friese’s recent decision to end his bid has caused much of the support to focus on two contenders, which are former State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez. Both of these candidates have exceeded the $500,000 mark in their Q3 reports and have functioning campaign websites. While I think it could go either way between these two candidates, I think Kristen Engel has the slight edge right now. This is because she has more endorsements among the Arizona state legislature members, which generally provides more weight than the national endorsements that Daniel Hernandez recently acquired. Over in the Republican side, Juan Ciscomani is the clear front-runner, as no other candidate has even broken the $100,000 fundraising mark in their campaign bids so far, while he has raised over $600,000 in his Q3 report. The rapid development of the Democratic field in the time since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement is something to behold, as it shows that there is plenty of energy to draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before making your choice, as I believe that all of them should be fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am confident that we can hold this district’s next version and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,873,862 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,342,306
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $645,346 Clark Bossert: No report filed yet John Kovacs: $9,061 Noah Malgeri: $122,320 Barton Parker: No report filed yet Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $243,921
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee is still on track to win re-election in 2022, but three strong challengers are emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker, Noah Malgeri, and Mark Robertson, with all of them each posting six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these three Republican candidates, April Becker has the edge, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a competitive bid. Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record, causing Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts in this district than they have in previous election cycles. There is also the fact that this area is crucial ground to win in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race. We thus have many reasons to give plenty of our support there.
NV-04 (Steven Horsford, D+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,399,505 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,121,213
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Tony Lane: $4,080 Samuel James Peters: $367,640 Carolina Serrano: $80,044
Campaign Website: https://www.stevenhorsford.com/
Steven Horsford is in an okay standing for now in terms of fundraising. As I have previously mentioned, however, warning signs are showing up in this district due to our reduced ground operations from our strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols. Out of the three Republicans running against Steven Horsford, Samuel James Peters is the clear front-runner, as he has raised a decent six-figure sum and has name recognition from his previous unsuccessful bid for this district last cycle. The Culinary Union is heavily influential in this particular area to the point that this district is often called the “Culinary District.” Maintaining connections and support with the Culinary Union should thus be a high priority. Establishing a stronger ground game in this area is also essential, as this will improve our chances of not only holding this district’s next version, but also winning Nevada’s U.S. Senate race in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first third. The second third will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Maine. After that, the final third will evaluate our condition in notable districts situated in Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas, and will also provide the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second and final thirds of this part when they are ready.
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Fall 2021 House Defense Update (First Third)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will focus on defending in the 2022 elections. Several key developments have morphed the overall House of Representatives situation into a new political setting. With the release of the new congressional maps for 6 of the 44 states apportioned with multiple districts this decade, candidates in these states can now optimize their campaign strategies for winning over voters within the districts these candidates wish to represent. Several Republican candidates have also demonstrated significant strength in quite a few vulnerable districts we control, while other Republicans have failed to gain traction. Finally, the Democratic fields in several open-seat races have developed in unique ways, which compels a reevaluation of our chances to win these districts as well as the best strategies to do so. Because of these developments, it is time to make another round of changes of the series’ defense list before the official review takes place. All districts listed in this part will have their PVI and either their incumbents or an OPEN label signifying the lack of an incumbent for the district in question. Districts within states where their redistricting processes are complete will be marked with an asterisk (*) to indicate that their boundaries have been finalized for this decade. I will not include ratings from any political pundits in this part, since this will be of little use until every state has finalized their redrawn congressional maps.
To keep the defense list to a manageable and effective size, I have kept the number of defense districts to a constant 19. The reasoning for the removal/addition of each district is listed below.
No longer on the defense list:
MI-08 (Elissa Slotkin, R+4): Elissa Slotkin continues to demonstrate good progress in her re-election campaign, while both of her potential Republican opponents have only raised four-figure sums so far. Each of the two Republican candidates are also only in the early stages of developing their campaigns and are unable to present a credible challenge against Elissa Slotkin. As a result, I think Elissa Slotkin can handle anything that comes her way and will win another term without too much trouble.
NJ-03 (Andy Kim, R+3): Andy Kim has dominated in the fundraising department since the start of this election cycle by raising obscene amounts of cash in the past three quarters. Both Republican candidates running in this district, on the other hand, have only raised low four-digit amounts as of now and do not appear to be viable challengers. Andy Kim is also one of the more inspiring House progressives out there, and I believe that he will still be around beyond 2022.
TX-07* (Lizzie Fletcher, D+14): Contrary to what I initially predicted of the Texas state legislature’s intentions for this district, Lizzie Fletcher now has a solid Democratic district to run in for the 2022 elections. It now acts as a vote sink to ensure that the surrounding Republican-held districts do not flip in the near future. This means that the district no longer needs our attention when it comes to House defense.
TX-34* (Vicente Gonzalez, D+12): The Texas state legislature redrew this district to be another Democratic vote sink in order to make a neighboring Rio Grande Valley district much more Republican in nature. Additionally, the said neighboring district’s incumbent, Vicente Gonzalez, has decided to run in this solid Democratic district instead. From here on in, we should focus all defensive efforts in the Rio Grande Valley on Vicente Gonzalez’s old district.
New districts added to the defense list:
IL-17 (OPEN, R+2): When I initially removed this district from the defense list in the third part, I said that I would be willing to add it back in if it remained competitive and we have a strong candidate to replace Cheri Bustos. After looking at the congressional map that is headed to J.B. Pritzker for his signature and the candidates who are running in the district’s new version, I believe that both of these requirements have been fulfilled. We definitely need to make up for lost time, as the Republican candidates have a significant head start in fundraising and campaign infrastructure that we need to deal with as soon as possible.
TX-15* (OPEN, D+1): This is Vicente Gonzalez’s old district, and is also the Rio Grande Valley district that the Texas state legislature has made to be far more Republican as part of their plan to create two new solidly Republican districts for the 2022 elections. The reconfigured district swung towards Trump extremely hard in 2020, and the voters there are very prone to Republican economic messaging. Since the Republicans also have massive financial and organizational advantages in this area, we very much need to hit the ground sprinting in order to have a fighting chance of holding the reconfigured district this cycle.
GA-06 (Lucy McBath, D+1): The Georgia state legislature is trying to gerrymander Lucy McBath out while giving Carolyn Bourdeaux a solid Democratic district for the 2022 elections. However, plenty of grassroots organizations are willing to fight to keep her in Congress, even under this scenario. I personally believe that Lucy McBath is one of the most effective and underrated progressive members of Congress. If she was re-elected in 2022, she will have plenty of worthwhile contributions to give to not only her state, but also this country. Finally, this district is a crucial area to keep making inroads in for Georgia’s statewide races, especially the U.S. Senate race that will be held in this state in 2022. Because of these reasons, we need to go all out in defending this district’s next version from the several Republicans who have mounted formidable campaigns there.
NV-04 (Steven Horsford, D+1): Here we have another district that is crucial for elevating our chances of winning important statewide races, most notably the U.S. Senate race in Nevada. A precedent also exists for a hostile national environment sweeping Steven Horsford out of office. This event happened in 2014, when Steven Horsford lost this district to Crescent Hardy. Serious declines in canvassing and voter registration operations in Las Vegas played a considerable role behind this debacle. As someone who is significantly involved in Nevada campaigns this cycle, I can tell you that warning signs of this same reduction in ground operations have already emerged due to our strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols. Given that the Republicans are also mounting a credible challenge to win the district’s next version, I also strongly calling for more resources and volunteers to head to this district to prevent this catastrophe from repeating itself there.
Now that we have covered the changes to the defense list, we can now begin the official comprehensive review of the 19 districts on the list. These districts, which are currently located within 14 states, are first sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts give the best value for our efforts. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into thirds.
In this part’s first third, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating the lack of one, the cumulative Q3 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q3 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q3 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be supplied. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, personal loans are excluded in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is currently the strongest. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered in identifying the most viable candidate in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-06 (Lucy McBath, D+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $2,404,277 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,908,335
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Harold Earls: $422,459 Jake Evans: $407,663 Meagan Myers Hanson: $302,738 Blake Harbin: No report filed yet Paulette Smith: $0 Mary Mallory Staples: $226,041 Susan Voyles: $79,782
Campaign Website: http://www.lucyforcongress.com/
Lucy McBath certainly is in good standing, as she is ahead in the fundraising department right now than she was at the end of 2019’s third quarter. Yet four Republican candidates have established convincing challenges against Lucy McBath. Much of the support behind these campaigns comes from having the Georgia state legislature gerrymandering this district to have a far more Republican configuration, which would enable the candidates to utilize this environment to their advantage. Harold Earls and Mary Mallory Staples have exhibited respectable fundraising and organizational levels. Former State Representative Meagan Myers Hanson has also achieved decent fundraising and campaign infrastructure strength and can use her previous legislative connections and achievements to her benefit. However, the frontrunner seems to be Jake Evans, who loaned himself $500,000 for his campaign, which would allow him to build up name recognition in this district, and picked up some endorsements that include Newt Gingrich and several conservative activists. This could go to a runoff, though, and it is anyone’s guess on who wins the Republican nomination. Optimizing our organizational efforts in this district is crucial, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $2,011,508 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $923,175
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Yahanseh George: $6,755 Richard Dean McCormick: $1,177,417 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) Eugene Chin Yu: $0
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again is raising more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary named Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Richard Dean McCormick is also the unequivocal front-runner in the Republican primary this time around, as he broke the $1 million benchmark in his latest fundraising report. If the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia finishes its redistricting process, Carolyn Bourdeaux will face a rematch against Richard Dean McCormick in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is another key district to enhance our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win Georgia’s 2022 U.S. Senate race.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,108,146 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $852,241
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $10,546 Tim Baxter: $188,827 Gail Huff Brown: $220,820 Karoline Leavitt: $333,114 Matt Mowers: $361,600 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas is still in an okay position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him. But things have heated up over the past few months, as four Republican candidates have established enough support to run serious campaigns, with two of them outraising Chris Pappas this quarter. State Representative Tim Baxter raised an okay amount and has endorsements from 32 New Hampshire state representatives. Thanks to the support of her husband Scott Brown, who was a former U.S. Senator, Gail Huff Brown has raised a decent sum in her Q3 report. Karoline Leavitt and Matt Mowers, are the two candidates to watch right now, as both of them exceeded Chris Pappas’ Q3 fundraising haul, have top-notch campaign websites, and recently picked up national endorsements. These endorsements take the form of Nikki Haley for Matt Mowers, and Madison Cawthorn for Karoline Leavitt. This primary could go either way at this point and will likely be a bloody one, which will certainly be helpful for us. Finally, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much focused on flipping this district at the same time, which adds to the high-stakes nature of this race.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,134,119 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $869,657
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $475,346 Eli Crane: $404,396 Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $19,428 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet Ronald Watkins: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran remains in okay standing at this point. Right now, two serious Republican challengers are running in this district. The first such challenger is State Representative Walter Jack Blackman, who has moderate amounts of name recognition and raised a respectable sum for his campaign so far. The other serious Republican candidate is Eli Crane, who outraised Tom O’Halleran in 2021’s third quarter and is endorsed by a couple of prominent media figures and organizations. In addition to hosting a competitive House race, this district is a vital place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support are thus required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Avery Anderson (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Kirsten Engel (-) – $600,125; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Daniel Hernandez (-) – $506,128; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Kasey Hopper (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos Urrea (-) – $6,385 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical); https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Juan Ciscomani: $616,520 Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Steven Diffie: No report filed yet Lucretia Free: No official report filed, but less than $5,000 Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Douglas Lowell: $25,425 Brandon Martin: $44,690 Young Mayberry: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet George Sakellarakis: No report filed yet Brandon Schlass: No report filed yet Gabriel Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet Kathleen Winn: $2,855
Phew, there are a lot of candidates on both sides who are running in this open-seat race. However, only a few candidates have managed to stand out and demonstrate serious potential of winning over voters. On the Democratic side, State Representative Randall Friese’s recent decision to end his bid has caused much of the support to focus on two contenders, which are former State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez. Both of these candidates have exceeded the $500,000 mark in their Q3 reports and have functioning campaign websites. While I think it could go either way between these two candidates, I think Kristen Engel has the slight edge right now. This is because she has more endorsements among the Arizona state legislature members, which generally provides more weight than the national endorsements that Daniel Hernandez recently acquired. Over in the Republican side, Juan Ciscomani is the clear front-runner, as no other candidate has even broken the $100,000 fundraising mark in their campaign bids so far, while he has raised over $600,000 in his Q3 report. The rapid development of the Democratic field in the time since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement is something to behold, as it shows that there is plenty of energy to draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before making your choice, as I believe that all of them should be fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am confident that we can hold this district’s next version and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,873,862 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,342,306
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $645,346 Clark Bossert: No report filed yet John Kovacs: $9,061 Noah Malgeri: $122,320 Barton Parker: No report filed yet Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $243,921
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee is still on track to win re-election in 2022, but three strong challengers are emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker, Noah Malgeri, and Mark Robertson, with all of them each posting six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these three Republican candidates, April Becker has the edge, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a competitive bid. Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record, causing Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts in this district than they have in previous election cycles. There is also the fact that this area is crucial ground to win in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race. We thus have many reasons to give plenty of our support there.
NV-04 (Steven Horsford, D+1):
Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,399,505 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical) 2019 Q3 Fundraising Numbers: $1,121,213
GOP Q3 Fundraising Numbers: Tony Lane: $4,080 Samuel James Peters: $367,640 Carolina Serrano: $80,044
Campaign Website: https://www.stevenhorsford.com/
Steven Horsford is in an okay standing for now in terms of fundraising. As I have previously mentioned, however, warning signs are showing up in this district due to our reduced ground operations from our strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols. Out of the three Republicans running against Steven Horsford, Samuel James Peters is the clear front-runner, as he has raised a decent six-figure sum and has name recognition from his previous unsuccessful bid for this district last cycle. The Culinary Union is heavily influential in this particular area to the point that this district is often called the “Culinary District.” Maintaining connections and support with the Culinary Union should thus be a high priority. Establishing a stronger ground game in this area is also essential, as this will improve our chances of not only holding this district’s next version, but also winning Nevada’s U.S. Senate race in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first third. The second third will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Maine. After that, the final third will evaluate our condition in notable districts situated in Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas, and will also provide the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second and final thirds of this part when they are ready.
2021.09.28 05:02 Competitive_Wash_584 Beebe keeps vicious animal ordinance after Mount Vernon couple talks about 9-year-old son being killed last year by pit bulls ( update)
After hearing an emotional plea from a couple whose 9-year-old son was killed in Mount Vernon last year by a couple of pit bulls, Beebe officials rejected a councilman’s request Monday night to rescind the city’s vicious animals ordinance.
Danny Mahoney, who said he owns an American Bully and was wanting the legislation overturned, was the only Beebe City Council member to vote against keeping the ordinance in a 5-1 decision.
Members of the public on both sides of the issue were given the opportunity to speak before the council voted, including Lyndsey and Robert Taylor, the parents of Robby Taylor, the Mount Vernon child who died after being attacked while checking the family’s mailbox May 28, 2020. Some of the following comments from Lyndsay Taylor contain graphic depictions of what happened to her child.
Beebe keeps vicious animal ordinance after Mount Vernon couple talks about 9-year-old son being killed last year by pit bulls
After hearing an emotional plea from a couple whose 9-year-old son was killed in Mount Vernon last year by a couple of pit bulls, Beebe officials rejected a councilman’s request Monday night to rescind the city’s vicious animals ordinance.
Danny Mahoney, who said he owns an American Bully and was wanting the legislation overturned, was the only Beebe City Council member to vote against keeping the ordinance in a 5-1 decision.
Members of the public on both sides of the issue were given the opportunity to speak before the council voted, including Lyndsey and Robert Taylor, the parents of Robby Taylor, the Mount Vernon child who died after being attacked while checking the family’s mailbox May 28, 2020. Some of the following comments from Lyndsay Taylor contain graphic depictions of what happened to her child.
“Two pit bulls came from three houses over. We live in the country and that’s about a football field away from my house to their house,” Lyndsey Taylor said. “They went through two fence[s] to come to my property and rip my child’s face off. He, whenever we found him, ... had a half of face. He didn’t have ... his whole right face and eye was completely gone and my daughter had to find him, and do you all really want to lift that ban?
“That blood that is going to happen because those dogs attack and kill that’s going to be on your hands if you lift this ban. You can all fight me and say, ‘Oh, it’s how it’s raised, it’s how it’s raised,’ but these kids that have been killed in the past year and a half – they have been a 1-month-old, a 4-month-old – how are you going to tell me a 1-month-old or a 4-month-old deserve to be killed by a pit bull? Are you all willing to take that risk? These pit bulls can get out. They will get out.”
Mahoney had mentioned that one of two pit bulls he had owned had gotten out and Mayor Mike Robertson said it was hit by a vehicle and killed, so Taylor addressed Mahoney, saying, “Your dog got out, didn’t it? And it got hit and killed. I mean, it can happen and you really don’t want to risk that being your kid, ... your daughter, your niece, your nephew, your cousin. You don’t really want that.”
Robert Taylor, who said he served in the Marine Corps for 11 years, said that while he isn’t from Beebe, “we do come here to Walmart to go shopping and eat at the barbecue shop right down the street.”
“We come to Beebe once a week to do our shopping because it is a 30-minute drive to everywhere else [from] where we live in Mount Vernon,” Robert Taylor said. “You all sit here just like I did. Served my country just like the police officers; they serve this community. That’s what you all are doing in these seats right here: You are serving the community, not your own agenda. You are here to protect the community and the surrounding area of Beebe.
“I’m trying to urge you all to do the right thing for the community, for your neighbor, for the person down the street, for the elderly, little children on the playground at the park in Beebe or at the school playground. What if the kids are at recess and the dog gets loose and goes after kids on the playground? That police officer that is at the office might not be there in time to shoot the dog, to kill the dog to protect the kids on the playground. Do you have kids? Do you have grandchildren? Think about them. What if they are in the yard checking the mail like our son was? Just think of that. Thank you for your time.”
Robertson told the Taylors, “I can’t imagine the loss of a child. I am truly sorry for that.”
Mahoney added, “And I’m sorry for that.” He later added after the mayor told him that he and his family love their dog, “And I feel sorry for them [the Taylors]. Don’t think I don’t. I can’t imagine what they go through.”
Robertson continued, telling the Taylors, “And your courage to stand up for what you believe that is the cause, I know that it takes courage to stand up to tragedies. I know that we have had someone at this table that took the courage and stood up for tragedy and brought something positive from that.”
Emails and ordinances
Robertson had said earlier in the meeting that he knows “that there’s a lot of feelings about this issue” and told the council that he had received a couple of emails that he wanted the council to have.
“One email was speaking to keep the ban and one email was seeking to rescind the ban, but I want you to have all the information,” Robertson said.
A member in the audience asked for the emails to be read and City Clerk-Treasurer Carol Westergren asked if anyone who had written one of the emails was present and he said yes.
The first email thanked the council for keeping “us citizens safe ... by having a pit bull ban.” Robertson said the email gave a lot of statistics and history, like “one bite from a pit bull can leave you permanently disfigured, handicapped for life or death.” This email also included information on dog bite fatalities and some comments from doctors and veterinarians on statistics relating to them. It said the majority of those bites were from pit bulls.
The second email Robertson read was from Rebecca Church, who he said was raised in Beebe. “Basically, she’s going on to tell you that she saves pit bulls and she is committed to giving them a home and she doesn’t live in Beebe because of the pit bull ban, so she will not reside here as long as that ban is in place.”
Robertson said the ordinance “banning a breed of dogs, pit bulls, vicious animals” was adopted in 2007. In 2015, Robertson said, a new animal control ordinance was established, making the city’s ordinances “on farm animals, the raising of livestock, running at large, along with the dog ordinance, banned breed of dogs, vicious dog all quantified into one ordinance.” In 2016, there was an ordinance passed to allow an additional dog per household. There had been a limit of three dogs. In 2017, Robertson said, another ordinance was adopted defining pit bulls and vicious animals.
Mahoney’s defense
Robertson said he believed the reason that Mahoney wanted the vicious animal addressed is because Mahoney still owns a pit bull despite the city’s ban, for which Mahoney has been cited. (He is expected back in White County Circuit Court-Beebe Division in September.) Mahoney then clarified that his dog is an American Bully, which is breed derived from the American pit bull terrier and American Staffordshire terrier.
Robertson responded, “You currently have one pit bull, which is approximately 1-year-old.”
Mahoney said he has had pit bulls since he was 12 years old. When he moved back to Beebe in 1993, he had pit bulls and livestock. However, the area where he lived was annexed into the city, which he said grandfathered him into the vicious animal ordinance.
Robertson said an election was held Nov. 7, 2006, that brought Mahoney’s property into the city, but the banned breed of dog ordinance was not adopted until 2007, so it had nothing to do with “grandfathering in.”
“You currently have a dog that is 1-year-old that cannot in anyway be a grandfathered dog,” the mayor said.
Mahoney told Robertson that he has had phone calls from 38 residents who have pit bulls in the city.
He also asked Beebe City Attorney Tess E. Stewart about Cabot or any other cities having revised ordinances on pit bulls. She said that several cities in Arkansas had repealed their “pit bull ban.”
She said, for example, DeWitt amended its ordinance in 2020 and in 2019, Cabot amended “their absolute pit bull ban.” She said both of those cities require “those types of breeds to be registered, permitted, with that permit to be renewed annually.” She said there was also “certain limitations on the pit bull itself, including rabies vaccine, a city license tag worn by the dog at all times, micro-chipped, a photo, sterilization and owner-procured insurance.”
Stewart said Little Rock had a similar ordinance allowing the breed with restrictions and in April of this year, Maumelle “completely got rid of the pit bull ban altogether and does not impose restrictions on the ownership of pit bulls as far as registration and permits are concerned.” Stewart said if there is some type of an attack or an incident involving a pit bull, “then obviously there is recourse for that.”
Audience member Robert West told the council that he had previously never owned a pit bull in his life and he had the same opinion that a lot do “that they are vicious and will attack.”
“That is not true,” West said. “My pit bull is an American pit. He would lick you to death before he would ever, ever fight you. He is a good dog. When I am not home, I know my family is safe. He is going to do what he needs to do. He’s a dog and anybody that has a dog for that reason ... just because mine is bigger and better doesn’t mean that he’s a bad dog.”
Supporting ban
Angel Osborne of North Little Rock, a friend of the Taylors, spoke in favor of Beebe keeping its ban, saying, “Unfortunately, a pit bull attack has affected my life in a much different way than the gentlemen who said they would like to lick you to death. No, they will maul you to death, absolutely. Chihuahuas cause Bandaids not toe tags; let’s get that straight as well.”
Osborne then began giving what she called “some correct statistics.”
“Out of the 42 deaths in 2020 [from dog attacks], 30 of them were pit bulls. That’s a staggering 71 percent of the deaths,” she said. “I want you all to understand that – 30 of the 42 were known pit bull attacks, documented through multiple agencies, DNA sequence, everything like that. Yeah, you can DNA a dog and find out what its heritage is; not a lot of people understand that.”
Something else that Osborne said she wanted everyone to understand was that “from 1962-2012, as a population of dogs, pit bulls represented 4.4 percent and they caused deaths to over 300 people, maimings of over 1,200 people.”
From 2005-17, Osborne said there were seven total deaths caused by other dogs compared to 284 known deaths from pit bull attacks.
“Please don’t put your city through an attack where they have to live with this for the rest of their lives,” Osborne said. “The officers in Mount Vernon are still going through daily for what they saw in Robby Taylor’s death. I’m talking a 9-year-old child, a 3-year-old child.
“What most people don’t understand is that pit bull attacks originate in their own home; they attack their own owners. Pits attack visitors to the home of the owners. They are more dominant. They are not typically socialized dogs because they are not allowed in a lot of socialized areas that dogs are allowed because they are known aggressive. It is a DNA flaw that man made where they bred this type of animal. I just want you to have full presented facts, not think that my pit bull is going to lick you to death.”
She said she has done nothing but research pit bulls for the past year.
“I’m begging you from watching my best friend go through what she has went through this past year,” Osborne said. “I want you to understand as well that the owners of those pit bulls are right now being charged with negligent homicide. ... That is a serious allegation. You will always have that, that follows you for the rest of your life and a lot of that is, I hate to say it in this way, but is ignorance on the behalf of owners because they don’t do the proper research.”
Osborne said she understands that a lot of cities are requiring sterilization, the photo ID, but “a lot of homeowners’ [insurance] won’t even write you a policy if you have a dog that is considered breed specific ... .” She also questioned whether those who “don’t even keep up with their car insurance ... are going to keep up with their dog?”
West chimed in, “I do every year. You know why? Because I love my dog.” Council member Shannon Woods asked that everyone be respectful when someone else is speaking. “Let them speak,” she said.
Before Woods’ reprimand, Osborne added, “I just wanted to present the facts. I hope that this has been eye-opening for you. I appreciate and value your time and please think twice before you vote this, on behalf of Robby’s life.
“The only reason that I came to Beebe to talk about this as well is because I was actually contacted privately by a law enforcement agency, like a law enforcement officer, that told me that they did not want this in their city, that it was not going to be OK. That is the reason I’m here tonight. That is the reason we all got together and we were actually asked to reach out to the mayor and to the City Council. I just wanted to make that clear as to what my position was and why I was asked to be here as well.”
Robertson reminded the council after the Taylors spoke that “when we take office inside the city limits, you are taking office for the health and the safety and the welfare of all the residents in town, and that’s why we pass legislation. We don’t live in the county, we live in the city, and it is to assure we have rules and regulations to live by, and that’s some of the things when we live in the city we have to live by.”
Council member Derrek Goff said he couldn’t vote to “take this ban away,” because “whether it be tomorrow, a year from now or five years from now and something were to happen to a kid, that’s on my conscious that I was one-sixth of a vote that allowed for these animals to be in this town.”
Goff said he also has had “a bad experience with pit bulls. I mean, I think there are good ones and bad ones. My brother was bit in the face at 8 years old when I was 6 where at Thanksgiving, it was my cousin’s dog, and so I’m always cautious of them. But now that I’m in a position where I can make my voice heard to potentially save a life – and I’m not saying that this is obviously the worst-case scenario but if it were to happen – me voting to keep this ban in place to save one live, in my opinion, it’s worth it.”
With that, Goff made the motion to keep the ordinance in place, with Linda Anthony seconding it.
Charged in attack
In the Mount Vernon case, one of the individuals charged in Robby Taylor’s death was found guilty in early August in Faulkner County Circuit Court of class A misdemeanor negligent homicide and sentenced to nine months in Arkansas Community Correction. Trey Edgar Wyatt, 27, of Vilonia also accepted a plea deal Aug. 18 to drug-related charges and was sentenced to six years in the Department of Correction, with all of his sentences to run concurrently.
Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Erin Stone confirmed Tuesday that Wyatt remained in the Faulkner County jail after being arrested May 29, 2020, and held without bond. Wyatt’s attorney, Robert Newcomb, filed a motion to appeal his negligent homicide conviction Aug. 11.
In January, the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway reported that a second Faulkner County resident had been charged in the death.
Lisa Cheyenne Young, 26, of Mount Vernon faces a charge of negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor, and a misdemeanor count of violating the Faulkner County animal ordinance. She was arrested Jan. 14, according to online records, but Stone said Young “is not in custody at the moment.”
According to the affidavits, Young reportedly “told investigators that she was aware of her dogs’ aggressive behavior” after around 20 of a neighbor’s chickens had been killed by them a week earlier. She reportedly said “she let the dogs out to use the bathroom when she got up in the morning to go to work,” but the dogs “were never out of her sight” and she secured them inside the residence when she left.
Lt. Matt Birdsong wrote that when he had interviewed Young at the residence, she reportedly said “she was warned by the deputy the week prior to keep her dogs up. Ms. Young kept explaining to me that her dogs were not vicious, although they did kill chickens.” The affidavit also shows that Young “was also aware the dogs could get out of the fence in the yard.”
Wyatt, who also said he knew about the dogs’ “aggressive behavior,” reportedly admitted to letting them out “after Young went to work.” He went back into the Chambers Lane residence “for several minutes” and “couldn’t see the dogs” when he “went back outside to bring them in.”
After reportedly calling for them and then going back inside to brush his teeth, “Wyatt said he again went outside to get the dogs put up and he noticed them squeezing through a gap in the fence and gate area by his horses in the backyard. He said they were covered in mud. He also said there was some blood on them and he was afraid they had been killing the neighbor’s chickens again.”
The dogs were taken and held by Conway Animal Welfare “for investigative purposes” and a search warrant was executed at the residence. The dogs had been cleaned up, according to Wyatt’s affidavit, but “blood evidence was found in close proximity” to the residence and there were “several spots of what appeared to be blood throughout the house ... several articles of clothing collected that appeared to have blood on them ... [and] several spots that appeared to be blood were found in the tub and around the tub.”
Suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and two firearms also were found in the residence, according to the affidavit.
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Danny Mahoney, who said he owns an American Bully and was wanting the legislation overturned, was the only Beebe City Council member to vote against keeping the ordinance in a 5-1 decision.
Members of the public on both sides of the issue were given the opportunity to speak before the council voted, including Lyndsey and Robert Taylor, the parents of Robby Taylor, the Mount Vernon child who died after being attacked while checking the family’s mailbox May 28, 2020. Some of the following comments from Lyndsay Taylor contain graphic depictions of what happened to her child.
Beebe keeps vicious animal ordinance after Mount Vernon couple talks about 9-year-old son being killed last year by pit bulls
After hearing an emotional plea from a couple whose 9-year-old son was killed in Mount Vernon last year by a couple of pit bulls, Beebe officials rejected a councilman’s request Monday night to rescind the city’s vicious animals ordinance.
Danny Mahoney, who said he owns an American Bully and was wanting the legislation overturned, was the only Beebe City Council member to vote against keeping the ordinance in a 5-1 decision.
Members of the public on both sides of the issue were given the opportunity to speak before the council voted, including Lyndsey and Robert Taylor, the parents of Robby Taylor, the Mount Vernon child who died after being attacked while checking the family’s mailbox May 28, 2020. Some of the following comments from Lyndsay Taylor contain graphic depictions of what happened to her child.
“Two pit bulls came from three houses over. We live in the country and that’s about a football field away from my house to their house,” Lyndsey Taylor said. “They went through two fence[s] to come to my property and rip my child’s face off. He, whenever we found him, ... had a half of face. He didn’t have ... his whole right face and eye was completely gone and my daughter had to find him, and do you all really want to lift that ban?
“That blood that is going to happen because those dogs attack and kill that’s going to be on your hands if you lift this ban. You can all fight me and say, ‘Oh, it’s how it’s raised, it’s how it’s raised,’ but these kids that have been killed in the past year and a half – they have been a 1-month-old, a 4-month-old – how are you going to tell me a 1-month-old or a 4-month-old deserve to be killed by a pit bull? Are you all willing to take that risk? These pit bulls can get out. They will get out.”
Mahoney had mentioned that one of two pit bulls he had owned had gotten out and Mayor Mike Robertson said it was hit by a vehicle and killed, so Taylor addressed Mahoney, saying, “Your dog got out, didn’t it? And it got hit and killed. I mean, it can happen and you really don’t want to risk that being your kid, ... your daughter, your niece, your nephew, your cousin. You don’t really want that.”
Robert Taylor, who said he served in the Marine Corps for 11 years, said that while he isn’t from Beebe, “we do come here to Walmart to go shopping and eat at the barbecue shop right down the street.”
“We come to Beebe once a week to do our shopping because it is a 30-minute drive to everywhere else [from] where we live in Mount Vernon,” Robert Taylor said. “You all sit here just like I did. Served my country just like the police officers; they serve this community. That’s what you all are doing in these seats right here: You are serving the community, not your own agenda. You are here to protect the community and the surrounding area of Beebe.
“I’m trying to urge you all to do the right thing for the community, for your neighbor, for the person down the street, for the elderly, little children on the playground at the park in Beebe or at the school playground. What if the kids are at recess and the dog gets loose and goes after kids on the playground? That police officer that is at the office might not be there in time to shoot the dog, to kill the dog to protect the kids on the playground. Do you have kids? Do you have grandchildren? Think about them. What if they are in the yard checking the mail like our son was? Just think of that. Thank you for your time.”
Robertson told the Taylors, “I can’t imagine the loss of a child. I am truly sorry for that.”
Mahoney added, “And I’m sorry for that.” He later added after the mayor told him that he and his family love their dog, “And I feel sorry for them [the Taylors]. Don’t think I don’t. I can’t imagine what they go through.”
Robertson continued, telling the Taylors, “And your courage to stand up for what you believe that is the cause, I know that it takes courage to stand up to tragedies. I know that we have had someone at this table that took the courage and stood up for tragedy and brought something positive from that.”
Emails and ordinances
Robertson had said earlier in the meeting that he knows “that there’s a lot of feelings about this issue” and told the council that he had received a couple of emails that he wanted the council to have.
“One email was speaking to keep the ban and one email was seeking to rescind the ban, but I want you to have all the information,” Robertson said.
A member in the audience asked for the emails to be read and City Clerk-Treasurer Carol Westergren asked if anyone who had written one of the emails was present and he said yes.
The first email thanked the council for keeping “us citizens safe ... by having a pit bull ban.” Robertson said the email gave a lot of statistics and history, like “one bite from a pit bull can leave you permanently disfigured, handicapped for life or death.” This email also included information on dog bite fatalities and some comments from doctors and veterinarians on statistics relating to them. It said the majority of those bites were from pit bulls.
The second email Robertson read was from Rebecca Church, who he said was raised in Beebe. “Basically, she’s going on to tell you that she saves pit bulls and she is committed to giving them a home and she doesn’t live in Beebe because of the pit bull ban, so she will not reside here as long as that ban is in place.”
Robertson said the ordinance “banning a breed of dogs, pit bulls, vicious animals” was adopted in 2007. In 2015, Robertson said, a new animal control ordinance was established, making the city’s ordinances “on farm animals, the raising of livestock, running at large, along with the dog ordinance, banned breed of dogs, vicious dog all quantified into one ordinance.” In 2016, there was an ordinance passed to allow an additional dog per household. There had been a limit of three dogs. In 2017, Robertson said, another ordinance was adopted defining pit bulls and vicious animals.
Mahoney’s defense
Robertson said he believed the reason that Mahoney wanted the vicious animal addressed is because Mahoney still owns a pit bull despite the city’s ban, for which Mahoney has been cited. (He is expected back in White County Circuit Court-Beebe Division in September.) Mahoney then clarified that his dog is an American Bully, which is breed derived from the American pit bull terrier and American Staffordshire terrier.
Robertson responded, “You currently have one pit bull, which is approximately 1-year-old.”
Mahoney said he has had pit bulls since he was 12 years old. When he moved back to Beebe in 1993, he had pit bulls and livestock. However, the area where he lived was annexed into the city, which he said grandfathered him into the vicious animal ordinance.
Robertson said an election was held Nov. 7, 2006, that brought Mahoney’s property into the city, but the banned breed of dog ordinance was not adopted until 2007, so it had nothing to do with “grandfathering in.”
“You currently have a dog that is 1-year-old that cannot in anyway be a grandfathered dog,” the mayor said.
Mahoney told Robertson that he has had phone calls from 38 residents who have pit bulls in the city.
He also asked Beebe City Attorney Tess E. Stewart about Cabot or any other cities having revised ordinances on pit bulls. She said that several cities in Arkansas had repealed their “pit bull ban.”
She said, for example, DeWitt amended its ordinance in 2020 and in 2019, Cabot amended “their absolute pit bull ban.” She said both of those cities require “those types of breeds to be registered, permitted, with that permit to be renewed annually.” She said there was also “certain limitations on the pit bull itself, including rabies vaccine, a city license tag worn by the dog at all times, micro-chipped, a photo, sterilization and owner-procured insurance.”
Stewart said Little Rock had a similar ordinance allowing the breed with restrictions and in April of this year, Maumelle “completely got rid of the pit bull ban altogether and does not impose restrictions on the ownership of pit bulls as far as registration and permits are concerned.” Stewart said if there is some type of an attack or an incident involving a pit bull, “then obviously there is recourse for that.”
Audience member Robert West told the council that he had previously never owned a pit bull in his life and he had the same opinion that a lot do “that they are vicious and will attack.”
“That is not true,” West said. “My pit bull is an American pit. He would lick you to death before he would ever, ever fight you. He is a good dog. When I am not home, I know my family is safe. He is going to do what he needs to do. He’s a dog and anybody that has a dog for that reason ... just because mine is bigger and better doesn’t mean that he’s a bad dog.”
Supporting ban
Angel Osborne of North Little Rock, a friend of the Taylors, spoke in favor of Beebe keeping its ban, saying, “Unfortunately, a pit bull attack has affected my life in a much different way than the gentlemen who said they would like to lick you to death. No, they will maul you to death, absolutely. Chihuahuas cause Bandaids not toe tags; let’s get that straight as well.”
Osborne then began giving what she called “some correct statistics.”
“Out of the 42 deaths in 2020 [from dog attacks], 30 of them were pit bulls. That’s a staggering 71 percent of the deaths,” she said. “I want you all to understand that – 30 of the 42 were known pit bull attacks, documented through multiple agencies, DNA sequence, everything like that. Yeah, you can DNA a dog and find out what its heritage is; not a lot of people understand that.”
Something else that Osborne said she wanted everyone to understand was that “from 1962-2012, as a population of dogs, pit bulls represented 4.4 percent and they caused deaths to over 300 people, maimings of over 1,200 people.”
From 2005-17, Osborne said there were seven total deaths caused by other dogs compared to 284 known deaths from pit bull attacks.
“Please don’t put your city through an attack where they have to live with this for the rest of their lives,” Osborne said. “The officers in Mount Vernon are still going through daily for what they saw in Robby Taylor’s death. I’m talking a 9-year-old child, a 3-year-old child.
“What most people don’t understand is that pit bull attacks originate in their own home; they attack their own owners. Pits attack visitors to the home of the owners. They are more dominant. They are not typically socialized dogs because they are not allowed in a lot of socialized areas that dogs are allowed because they are known aggressive. It is a DNA flaw that man made where they bred this type of animal. I just want you to have full presented facts, not think that my pit bull is going to lick you to death.”
She said she has done nothing but research pit bulls for the past year.
“I’m begging you from watching my best friend go through what she has went through this past year,” Osborne said. “I want you to understand as well that the owners of those pit bulls are right now being charged with negligent homicide. ... That is a serious allegation. You will always have that, that follows you for the rest of your life and a lot of that is, I hate to say it in this way, but is ignorance on the behalf of owners because they don’t do the proper research.”
Osborne said she understands that a lot of cities are requiring sterilization, the photo ID, but “a lot of homeowners’ [insurance] won’t even write you a policy if you have a dog that is considered breed specific ... .” She also questioned whether those who “don’t even keep up with their car insurance ... are going to keep up with their dog?”
West chimed in, “I do every year. You know why? Because I love my dog.” Council member Shannon Woods asked that everyone be respectful when someone else is speaking. “Let them speak,” she said.
Before Woods’ reprimand, Osborne added, “I just wanted to present the facts. I hope that this has been eye-opening for you. I appreciate and value your time and please think twice before you vote this, on behalf of Robby’s life.
“The only reason that I came to Beebe to talk about this as well is because I was actually contacted privately by a law enforcement agency, like a law enforcement officer, that told me that they did not want this in their city, that it was not going to be OK. That is the reason I’m here tonight. That is the reason we all got together and we were actually asked to reach out to the mayor and to the City Council. I just wanted to make that clear as to what my position was and why I was asked to be here as well.”
Robertson reminded the council after the Taylors spoke that “when we take office inside the city limits, you are taking office for the health and the safety and the welfare of all the residents in town, and that’s why we pass legislation. We don’t live in the county, we live in the city, and it is to assure we have rules and regulations to live by, and that’s some of the things when we live in the city we have to live by.”
Council member Derrek Goff said he couldn’t vote to “take this ban away,” because “whether it be tomorrow, a year from now or five years from now and something were to happen to a kid, that’s on my conscious that I was one-sixth of a vote that allowed for these animals to be in this town.”
Goff said he also has had “a bad experience with pit bulls. I mean, I think there are good ones and bad ones. My brother was bit in the face at 8 years old when I was 6 where at Thanksgiving, it was my cousin’s dog, and so I’m always cautious of them. But now that I’m in a position where I can make my voice heard to potentially save a life – and I’m not saying that this is obviously the worst-case scenario but if it were to happen – me voting to keep this ban in place to save one live, in my opinion, it’s worth it.”
With that, Goff made the motion to keep the ordinance in place, with Linda Anthony seconding it.
Charged in attack
In the Mount Vernon case, one of the individuals charged in Robby Taylor’s death was found guilty in early August in Faulkner County Circuit Court of class A misdemeanor negligent homicide and sentenced to nine months in Arkansas Community Correction. Trey Edgar Wyatt, 27, of Vilonia also accepted a plea deal Aug. 18 to drug-related charges and was sentenced to six years in the Department of Correction, with all of his sentences to run concurrently.
Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Erin Stone confirmed Tuesday that Wyatt remained in the Faulkner County jail after being arrested May 29, 2020, and held without bond. Wyatt’s attorney, Robert Newcomb, filed a motion to appeal his negligent homicide conviction Aug. 11.
In January, the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway reported that a second Faulkner County resident had been charged in the death.
Lisa Cheyenne Young, 26, of Mount Vernon faces a charge of negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor, and a misdemeanor count of violating the Faulkner County animal ordinance. She was arrested Jan. 14, according to online records, but Stone said Young “is not in custody at the moment.”
According to the affidavits, Young reportedly “told investigators that she was aware of her dogs’ aggressive behavior” after around 20 of a neighbor’s chickens had been killed by them a week earlier. She reportedly said “she let the dogs out to use the bathroom when she got up in the morning to go to work,” but the dogs “were never out of her sight” and she secured them inside the residence when she left.
Lt. Matt Birdsong wrote that when he had interviewed Young at the residence, she reportedly said “she was warned by the deputy the week prior to keep her dogs up. Ms. Young kept explaining to me that her dogs were not vicious, although they did kill chickens.” The affidavit also shows that Young “was also aware the dogs could get out of the fence in the yard.”
Wyatt, who also said he knew about the dogs’ “aggressive behavior,” reportedly admitted to letting them out “after Young went to work.” He went back into the Chambers Lane residence “for several minutes” and “couldn’t see the dogs” when he “went back outside to bring them in.”
After reportedly calling for them and then going back inside to brush his teeth, “Wyatt said he again went outside to get the dogs put up and he noticed them squeezing through a gap in the fence and gate area by his horses in the backyard. He said they were covered in mud. He also said there was some blood on them and he was afraid they had been killing the neighbor’s chickens again.”
The dogs were taken and held by Conway Animal Welfare “for investigative purposes” and a search warrant was executed at the residence. The dogs had been cleaned up, according to Wyatt’s affidavit, but “blood evidence was found in close proximity” to the residence and there were “several spots of what appeared to be blood throughout the house ... several articles of clothing collected that appeared to have blood on them ... [and] several spots that appeared to be blood were found in the tub and around the tub.”
Suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and two firearms also were found in the residence, according to the affidavit.
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“How is his arm?” Dr. Norman asked the flight medic.
“It functions. We began therapy sessions on the flight. There’s a high degree of probability that his arm will be fully functional within five months.”
“Good work Doctor. Coordinate with the medical team onsite. Let’s try to speed that recovery time up by a month or two.”
“As you command sir.”
Dr. Norman sighed and reviewed Lisa’s report. He was already sure John was the key to his project. But convincing him was now out of the question. Now they needed to capture him somehow. But that was a problem for another time. The twins failed and failed badly. Punishment was in order, but Lex’s injury put those plans on hold.
“Sit down my girl. I must say I am disappointed,” Dr. Norman sighed.
“I tried the diplomatic approach, but that backfired. He took the implication that his friends and the other restaurant goers’ lives were in danger more seriously than I had presumed.”
“He is a very principled killer, more so than the rumors suggested. That error is on our intelligence team and me. After some of his operations, we had concluded that he uses lives as currency.”
“Father, how many telepaths have you seen radiate their telepathic power through an ethereal light?”
“Several, why?”
“Have you ever seen their eyes be seemingly replaced by that bright blue glow?”
“Once, long ago.”
“It was the first time I had seen that happen. Everyone just got up and left the restaurant and businesses around us. He compelled all of those people at the same time. His eyes never stopped radiating that blue glow throughout the fight. Then during the fight, he attacked both of us psychically.”
“That makes no sense, that shouldn’t be possible. The two of you have been trained to block attacks like that for nearly two decades.”
“Father, I’ve never felt pressure like that. He almost succeeded with me. He stripped away my defenses like it was nothing. If it weren’t for Lex lashing out at him randomly it would’ve succeeded,” Lisa looked genuinely terrified, “If he had that suit, we’d be dead now. We thought we had the upper hand, but we never did.”
Dr. Norman looked down at his terminal and pulled up a new project, “You won’t be going in unarmed next time. While we don’t have his suit, we have begun development on our own kind of psychic power armor. We should have the first prototypes ready to test by the time your brother is fully healed.”
“Father, I’m aware how important he is to you, but is it possible he’s too dangerous to attack?”
“No, we need him. But we’re going to hold on moving him for some time. For starters, your brother needs to be healthy once more, and those suits need to be working.”
“Oh, one last thing father. I don’t believe he’s telekinetic. But he’s a channeler somehow. I wasn’t aware that family shared their secrets with anyone.”
“That is at least one mystery solved by this debacle. And it explains his freakish strength, speed, and reaction times,” Dr. Norman sighed, “Go on, attend to your brother.”
Lisa got up as Dr. Norman swung his chair around to look outside. Everything had been miscalculated. Dr. Norman decided that going forward there’d be no more attempts to convert John. Now he needed to craft a plan that could capture him for their uses.
Wednesday. 05:30 Robertson Estate
Alice literally kicked John out of the bed. John did think it was funny, but it was also highly annoying. He shook his head and looked for a shirt to put then grabbed his shoes and headed out to the gazebo. A light jog later he arrived and started a yoga routine. When John was done, he began his psychic practice.
John replayed his second fight with the twins. He was disgusted with his fight. He didn’t use the gun when he should have. He didn’t press when he could have, attacked when he should have been defensive. It was an abject failure. They were still alive and would assuredly come back with a vengeance in the future.
John resolved then and there that the next time he saw the twins, he’d kill them. There’d be no hesitation, no half measures, no talking, he’d go right for the jugular. He got up and took a deep breath. There was a slight chill in the air. John decided now was as good as any time to go for a run.
He set off at a brisk pace around the estate. He finished running after a bit over two laps had been completed. John looked at his watch and it was just after 07:00. He headed into Alice’s house and headed up to the master bedroom. Alice was snoring loudly and had rolled onto John’s side of the bed. John laughed at the sight and headed into the bathroom to clean up.
“Why are you up already?” Alice said as John walked out of the bathroom.
“Because someone literally kicked me out of bed this morning at 05:30. Wonder who that would be?”
Alice started laughing, “I am sorry about that.”
“Are you though?” John smirked, “You annexed my spot since I left too.”
“Sorry?” Alice smiled, “Well, I’m going to clean up eventually. Are you coming shopping with Alexa, me, and another cousin of mine?”
“Where are you going?” John hollered into the bathroom.
“Downtown.”
John smiled, there were a few stores he could justify going to, “Yeah, I’m in.”
When Alice got out of the shower, she kissed John, “You want to buy a watch.”
John grinned as he showed her three credit chits, “Got some money burning a hole in my pocket.”
Alice just rolled her eyes as she walked into the closet, “I’m not going to help you if you get into legal trouble.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to, not for this stuff anyways.”
Alice rolled her eyes. She walked out of the closet and smiled. She grabbed John’s hand and the couple walked out of the room and out to the waiting car in front of her home. John decided to program the GPS, but he wanted to be in control and drive them downtown. Their first stop was to pick up Alexa. After that John drove to two more homes to pick up three more friends of the girls. John had a sinking feeling as he drove to the retail district in downtown Mobile that he was going to end up carrying a bunch of bags for the girls.
09:45 Retail District
“Y’all can complain as much as you want. I’m not hauling shit that you buy,” John shook his head and put down his foot proverbial, “Only one of you lot might be able to convince me to do that.”
“You are no fun,” Alexa laughed.
“But my arm is soooo sore,” Vanessa smirked.
“Good workout then,” John said.
Alice looked back at him and smirked, “I told you that you wouldn’t get him to do anything. Stubborn is his middle name.”
“Speaking of which, my first stop of the day is right now,” John dashed into the Rolex Boutique.
John was admittedly looking to use some of his looted credits and turn them into physical assets that he could sell down the road. He was also justifying a couple of purchases this morning to wear at the wedding. If Alice could wear multiple dresses to the wedding, he could wear multiple watches to the wedding.
Despite the terrible logic, John browsed through what was available. Since it was a wedding John was looking at a dress watch. His normal preference for sports watches had to be set aside. That did limit his choices somewhat. The boutique, and frankly the brand in general, had far more sports watches than formal watches. There was at least one that had really caught his eye.
In front of John was a Platinum Rolex Day-Date, the band and case were solid platinum. The dial was made out of a sliced meteorite that was acid etched and just looked wicked to John. He didn’t like the diamond baguettes used for hour markers, but that was a minor quibble for how awesome the watch looked.
“Good morning. Would I be able to try on that Platinum Day-Date?” John asked the young lady working at that section of the store.
“Absolutely,” she slid the tray through an opening on her side of the display case and pulled that watch out, “Have you purchased from us before?”
“This specific store no, but I do have a lengthy history with Rolex,” John smiled as he took the watch from the saleswoman, “It’s going to need two extra links to it, but I love this. Getting married soon so I think this would look good on me.”
“Congratulations! Yes, it is a stunning piece. That dial is exceptionally rare in this model. I think that’s the first one we’ve had in two years.”
“Well then, I think I will have to purchase this.”
“Could I get your ID please?” she asked.
“Certainly,” John pulled out his wallet and handed over it to the saleswoman.
“Please give me a few minutes and I’ll be right back to you,” she excused herself and headed to the backroom.
John sat down in the chair and sent a message to Alice. She responded that they were down the street at another store. John responded that he’d swing by after he was done at the boutique.
“Thank you so much for waiting Mr. Lief. The final price will be one hundred sixty-eight thousand credits. We can take dollars too, but I’ve seen that your buy history typically uses credits for purchases.”
“Perfect. Here are a pair of one hundred thousand chits that you can use to run the purchase through.”
“Thank you. Give me a few minutes and I’ll get this purchase finalized.”
She walked to a terminal down the wall and finished the transaction. She handed John a receipt and then placed the watch, box, and papers in a bag. She wished him well at the wedding and to enjoy the watch. John smiled and walked out of the store.
He caught up with the girls and ended up carrying Alice’s two bags she walked out of the store with. The other girls continued to harass John about his refusal to carry their bags. John refused to budge from his position.
Eventually, the group decided to take a break and had lunch. The other girls peppered John with questions about their relationship. What did he think of having kids, future plans, and was he going to be a career man or serve his minimum term? And so many more questions. John answered the questions he wanted to and refused to answer a few as well.
Eventually, they finished all their shopping and headed home. When John got back to the mansion, he laid down on the big couch in the living room. He was not shopping with Alice’s friends ever again.
“I am tired and don’t want to move,” John whined.
“Thank you for coming with us today,” Alice leaned down and kissed John on the cheek, “I love you.”
“Mhmm, love you too,” John was drifting off to sleep.
Alice laughed and went upstairs to put away the stuff she bought. When she got out of her closet, she got a call from Theresa. That prompted Alice to contact all their friends and work out when they were going to fly in. They were quickly nearing the big day.
14:00 Robertson Estate-Main Pool
John was swimming laps in the Olympic-sized pool. John laughed internally that virtually everything he could want or want to do was available here. Alice and Alexa had jumped into the pool, but they were just relaxing in the shallow portion of the pool. John kept on swimming laps for another fifteen minutes. With his workout finished he swam over to the girls and broke through the surface.
Water poured off John’s muscular frame as he walked to the girls. John hadn’t lost any weight during the first two years of the academy. But he had completely transformed his body. Alexa whispered something to Alice who then blushed seven different shades of red.
“You know, just because I can’t hear what you said doesn’t mean that wasn’t sexual harassment,” John smirked.
“You can’t prove anything,” Alexa tried but failed to not laugh defending herself.
John shook his head, “So, what’s up?”
“Well besides getting tired watching you work out not much. Our friends are flying in on Friday,” Alice smiled.
“Have you told them about all of this,” John smirked as he waived his arms toward the estate.
“I did to the girls; did you tell the boys?” Alice shrugged as she looked at John.
“Nah. I kinda want to see them freak out.”
“You are a dick,” Alexa grinned.
John had an impish grin on his face, “No, I believe I am a troll in that regard. So, two weeks and a day before the wedding. Your really cool with them spending that much time around here?”
“Andern is the only one I’m moderately worried about,” Alice said with a bit of apprehension in her voice.
John laughed. “He’s got Kristin around; she’ll keep him grounded.”
“Yeah, about that, he’s fine when she’s around. But when he gets around you and the other boys, he becomes his old self.”
“No, I am not signing up to be his keeper. You are not throwing that responsibility on me,” John was firmly against that plan.
“Fine, you get to pick them up from the airport. Kevin, Theresa, Brian, and Thomas show up in the morning before 09:30. The rest are at 13:00.”
“Works for me. I don’t get to drive nearly as often as I’d want.”
“Yeah, so Alice was saying you wanted to drive an endurance car, right?” Alexa said.
“No. No, we’re not going there,” Alice sounded like she had something to hide.
“What could go wrong? Besides he’s obviously in shape and they will test him before that,” Alexa smiled, “Plus, consider it my present to your new husband.”
John just sat there with a blank face, “So, what is this present?”
“John, Alexa’s uncle runs the McLaren supercar endurance team for the American Endurance League.”
“Oh, I am all over fucking that. When?” John couldn’t get the words out concisely because he was so excited.
“I told you he gets like that when he’s way too hyped up for something,” Alice rolled her eyes.
“On Saturday y’all can come to the team headquarters where you can get in our sim. If you do well, they’ll get you in last year’s car and have a seat made.”
“Oh, so fucking cool. Where are we going to send it on the track?” John asked.
“Barber Motorsports Park. Probably take a private jet up to Montgomery,” Alexa smiled.
“Honey, ten bucks says my bag is the last thing pulled from a private jet too,” John took on a sullen appearance when he said that.
“Deal, there is no way that is happening.”
“Inside joke and I’m on the outside,” Alexa said smiling.
“It’s no joke,” John crossed his arms and looked angry.
“The man-baby I’m marrying somehow, despite paying or upgrading his tickets to first class never gets his bags quickly after the plane lands. They are always within the last four bags made available for pickup at baggage claims.”
“That’s not possible.”
“Right? It shouldn’t be fucking possible, but someone clearly has it out for me because it keeps fucking happening.”
“I’ve seen his outbound folder, there is no joking, at least three hundred emails in there complaining about it.”
“Those are valid fucking complaints,” John continued to pout.
Alice started to laugh, then swam over to John and hugged him, “At least you get to drive a race car big guy.”
“It is contingent on the simulator though. Obviously, if that doesn’t go well, we can’t let you out on the track for obvious reasons.”
John smiled and kissed Alice, “Yeah, replacing a car, fixing damage to the circuit, or fixing myself aren’t expenses anyone wants.”
The three stayed in the pool for a little while longer and talked. John got the baggage issue out of his short-term memory and was just happy to be free from classes. John looked up and smiled as he took in the sun.
“CANNONBALL!!!”
Marcus and Andrew, Alice’s two older brothers, jumped into the bool targeting Alexa and the couple. They succeeded in the immature prank.
“Hey, assholes!” Markie smiled.
“Hey cuz, miss us?” Andrew laughed as he splashed Alexa.
“Ugh, you guys are immature jackasses,” Alexa looked put out.
“Markie, take a look at John, he is fucking ripped,” Andrew had swum over to Alice and John and was squeezing John’s arm.
Marcus turned around and looked at John, “Good god. Dude, our kid sister got fucking toned too.”
“Hey, I heard you get whipped with an umbilical. Is that true?” Andrew asked.
John grinned as he stood up and turned around, “Yeah, wouldn’t recommend it.”
“Dude, killer scar!” Marcus was seriously impressed.
“Oh my god, your back looks…” Alexa stopped as she couldn’t find the appropriate words that didn’t come off as rude.
“Yeah, I can see a few fuckups and close calls,” Andrew laughed.
“More close calls than fuck-ups. There’s only one proper fuck up back there.”
Alice rolled her eyes, “And how was the whole umbilical not a fuck up?”
“Wait, an umbilical is that shroud thing that connects a ship to a station and prevents things from floating off right?” Alexa asked.
“Yup. Actually, answer sis’ question. How was that not a fuck-up?” Marcus asked.
“Mission was successful, everything went as planned. The station safety protocols prevented the umbilical from detaching despite the docking arms being retracted. Basically, the computer got wicked confused because things happened out of order,” John shrugged.
“Still sounds like a fuck up to me,” Marcus said.
“When’s Terry get here?” Alice asked.
“Last I heard Wednesday of next week. Oh hey, thanks for making us ushers,” Andrew said.
“Cool and no problem. Thanks for saying yes. I like how everyone on the groom’s side is military, so we didn’t have to splurge for tuxedos.”
“Well, except for those two, men in uniform do look attractive,” Alexa smiled as she pointed at her cousins.
“You mean those three,” Alice smirked.
“Well, he’s off limits but that doesn’t mean he can’t be attractive in one, besides I haven’t seen him in a dress uniform yet. I have seen those two idiots in them.”
The group got out of the pool eventually and kept on talking. Marcus could not get over how much more toned and muscular John was. He remembered him always being a fairly big guy, but he was never in the shape he was in now. Naturally, he wanted to know how he did it. John’s answer was simple, lots of stretching and lots of reps with a bunch of heavy plates on the bar.
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Chapter 73: The Price of Failure
1 Week Later. Terra Geminus System. Location unknown“How is his arm?” Dr. Norman asked the flight medic.
“It functions. We began therapy sessions on the flight. There’s a high degree of probability that his arm will be fully functional within five months.”
“Good work Doctor. Coordinate with the medical team onsite. Let’s try to speed that recovery time up by a month or two.”
“As you command sir.”
Dr. Norman sighed and reviewed Lisa’s report. He was already sure John was the key to his project. But convincing him was now out of the question. Now they needed to capture him somehow. But that was a problem for another time. The twins failed and failed badly. Punishment was in order, but Lex’s injury put those plans on hold.
“Sit down my girl. I must say I am disappointed,” Dr. Norman sighed.
“I tried the diplomatic approach, but that backfired. He took the implication that his friends and the other restaurant goers’ lives were in danger more seriously than I had presumed.”
“He is a very principled killer, more so than the rumors suggested. That error is on our intelligence team and me. After some of his operations, we had concluded that he uses lives as currency.”
“Father, how many telepaths have you seen radiate their telepathic power through an ethereal light?”
“Several, why?”
“Have you ever seen their eyes be seemingly replaced by that bright blue glow?”
“Once, long ago.”
“It was the first time I had seen that happen. Everyone just got up and left the restaurant and businesses around us. He compelled all of those people at the same time. His eyes never stopped radiating that blue glow throughout the fight. Then during the fight, he attacked both of us psychically.”
“That makes no sense, that shouldn’t be possible. The two of you have been trained to block attacks like that for nearly two decades.”
“Father, I’ve never felt pressure like that. He almost succeeded with me. He stripped away my defenses like it was nothing. If it weren’t for Lex lashing out at him randomly it would’ve succeeded,” Lisa looked genuinely terrified, “If he had that suit, we’d be dead now. We thought we had the upper hand, but we never did.”
Dr. Norman looked down at his terminal and pulled up a new project, “You won’t be going in unarmed next time. While we don’t have his suit, we have begun development on our own kind of psychic power armor. We should have the first prototypes ready to test by the time your brother is fully healed.”
“Father, I’m aware how important he is to you, but is it possible he’s too dangerous to attack?”
“No, we need him. But we’re going to hold on moving him for some time. For starters, your brother needs to be healthy once more, and those suits need to be working.”
“Oh, one last thing father. I don’t believe he’s telekinetic. But he’s a channeler somehow. I wasn’t aware that family shared their secrets with anyone.”
“That is at least one mystery solved by this debacle. And it explains his freakish strength, speed, and reaction times,” Dr. Norman sighed, “Go on, attend to your brother.”
Lisa got up as Dr. Norman swung his chair around to look outside. Everything had been miscalculated. Dr. Norman decided that going forward there’d be no more attempts to convert John. Now he needed to craft a plan that could capture him for their uses.
Wednesday. 05:30 Robertson Estate
Alice literally kicked John out of the bed. John did think it was funny, but it was also highly annoying. He shook his head and looked for a shirt to put then grabbed his shoes and headed out to the gazebo. A light jog later he arrived and started a yoga routine. When John was done, he began his psychic practice.
John replayed his second fight with the twins. He was disgusted with his fight. He didn’t use the gun when he should have. He didn’t press when he could have, attacked when he should have been defensive. It was an abject failure. They were still alive and would assuredly come back with a vengeance in the future.
John resolved then and there that the next time he saw the twins, he’d kill them. There’d be no hesitation, no half measures, no talking, he’d go right for the jugular. He got up and took a deep breath. There was a slight chill in the air. John decided now was as good as any time to go for a run.
He set off at a brisk pace around the estate. He finished running after a bit over two laps had been completed. John looked at his watch and it was just after 07:00. He headed into Alice’s house and headed up to the master bedroom. Alice was snoring loudly and had rolled onto John’s side of the bed. John laughed at the sight and headed into the bathroom to clean up.
“Why are you up already?” Alice said as John walked out of the bathroom.
“Because someone literally kicked me out of bed this morning at 05:30. Wonder who that would be?”
Alice started laughing, “I am sorry about that.”
“Are you though?” John smirked, “You annexed my spot since I left too.”
“Sorry?” Alice smiled, “Well, I’m going to clean up eventually. Are you coming shopping with Alexa, me, and another cousin of mine?”
“Where are you going?” John hollered into the bathroom.
“Downtown.”
John smiled, there were a few stores he could justify going to, “Yeah, I’m in.”
When Alice got out of the shower, she kissed John, “You want to buy a watch.”
John grinned as he showed her three credit chits, “Got some money burning a hole in my pocket.”
Alice just rolled her eyes as she walked into the closet, “I’m not going to help you if you get into legal trouble.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to, not for this stuff anyways.”
Alice rolled her eyes. She walked out of the closet and smiled. She grabbed John’s hand and the couple walked out of the room and out to the waiting car in front of her home. John decided to program the GPS, but he wanted to be in control and drive them downtown. Their first stop was to pick up Alexa. After that John drove to two more homes to pick up three more friends of the girls. John had a sinking feeling as he drove to the retail district in downtown Mobile that he was going to end up carrying a bunch of bags for the girls.
09:45 Retail District
“Y’all can complain as much as you want. I’m not hauling shit that you buy,” John shook his head and put down his foot proverbial, “Only one of you lot might be able to convince me to do that.”
“You are no fun,” Alexa laughed.
“But my arm is soooo sore,” Vanessa smirked.
“Good workout then,” John said.
Alice looked back at him and smirked, “I told you that you wouldn’t get him to do anything. Stubborn is his middle name.”
“Speaking of which, my first stop of the day is right now,” John dashed into the Rolex Boutique.
John was admittedly looking to use some of his looted credits and turn them into physical assets that he could sell down the road. He was also justifying a couple of purchases this morning to wear at the wedding. If Alice could wear multiple dresses to the wedding, he could wear multiple watches to the wedding.
Despite the terrible logic, John browsed through what was available. Since it was a wedding John was looking at a dress watch. His normal preference for sports watches had to be set aside. That did limit his choices somewhat. The boutique, and frankly the brand in general, had far more sports watches than formal watches. There was at least one that had really caught his eye.
In front of John was a Platinum Rolex Day-Date, the band and case were solid platinum. The dial was made out of a sliced meteorite that was acid etched and just looked wicked to John. He didn’t like the diamond baguettes used for hour markers, but that was a minor quibble for how awesome the watch looked.
“Good morning. Would I be able to try on that Platinum Day-Date?” John asked the young lady working at that section of the store.
“Absolutely,” she slid the tray through an opening on her side of the display case and pulled that watch out, “Have you purchased from us before?”
“This specific store no, but I do have a lengthy history with Rolex,” John smiled as he took the watch from the saleswoman, “It’s going to need two extra links to it, but I love this. Getting married soon so I think this would look good on me.”
“Congratulations! Yes, it is a stunning piece. That dial is exceptionally rare in this model. I think that’s the first one we’ve had in two years.”
“Well then, I think I will have to purchase this.”
“Could I get your ID please?” she asked.
“Certainly,” John pulled out his wallet and handed over it to the saleswoman.
“Please give me a few minutes and I’ll be right back to you,” she excused herself and headed to the backroom.
John sat down in the chair and sent a message to Alice. She responded that they were down the street at another store. John responded that he’d swing by after he was done at the boutique.
“Thank you so much for waiting Mr. Lief. The final price will be one hundred sixty-eight thousand credits. We can take dollars too, but I’ve seen that your buy history typically uses credits for purchases.”
“Perfect. Here are a pair of one hundred thousand chits that you can use to run the purchase through.”
“Thank you. Give me a few minutes and I’ll get this purchase finalized.”
She walked to a terminal down the wall and finished the transaction. She handed John a receipt and then placed the watch, box, and papers in a bag. She wished him well at the wedding and to enjoy the watch. John smiled and walked out of the store.
He caught up with the girls and ended up carrying Alice’s two bags she walked out of the store with. The other girls continued to harass John about his refusal to carry their bags. John refused to budge from his position.
Eventually, the group decided to take a break and had lunch. The other girls peppered John with questions about their relationship. What did he think of having kids, future plans, and was he going to be a career man or serve his minimum term? And so many more questions. John answered the questions he wanted to and refused to answer a few as well.
Eventually, they finished all their shopping and headed home. When John got back to the mansion, he laid down on the big couch in the living room. He was not shopping with Alice’s friends ever again.
“I am tired and don’t want to move,” John whined.
“Thank you for coming with us today,” Alice leaned down and kissed John on the cheek, “I love you.”
“Mhmm, love you too,” John was drifting off to sleep.
Alice laughed and went upstairs to put away the stuff she bought. When she got out of her closet, she got a call from Theresa. That prompted Alice to contact all their friends and work out when they were going to fly in. They were quickly nearing the big day.
14:00 Robertson Estate-Main Pool
John was swimming laps in the Olympic-sized pool. John laughed internally that virtually everything he could want or want to do was available here. Alice and Alexa had jumped into the pool, but they were just relaxing in the shallow portion of the pool. John kept on swimming laps for another fifteen minutes. With his workout finished he swam over to the girls and broke through the surface.
Water poured off John’s muscular frame as he walked to the girls. John hadn’t lost any weight during the first two years of the academy. But he had completely transformed his body. Alexa whispered something to Alice who then blushed seven different shades of red.
“You know, just because I can’t hear what you said doesn’t mean that wasn’t sexual harassment,” John smirked.
“You can’t prove anything,” Alexa tried but failed to not laugh defending herself.
John shook his head, “So, what’s up?”
“Well besides getting tired watching you work out not much. Our friends are flying in on Friday,” Alice smiled.
“Have you told them about all of this,” John smirked as he waived his arms toward the estate.
“I did to the girls; did you tell the boys?” Alice shrugged as she looked at John.
“Nah. I kinda want to see them freak out.”
“You are a dick,” Alexa grinned.
John had an impish grin on his face, “No, I believe I am a troll in that regard. So, two weeks and a day before the wedding. Your really cool with them spending that much time around here?”
“Andern is the only one I’m moderately worried about,” Alice said with a bit of apprehension in her voice.
John laughed. “He’s got Kristin around; she’ll keep him grounded.”
“Yeah, about that, he’s fine when she’s around. But when he gets around you and the other boys, he becomes his old self.”
“No, I am not signing up to be his keeper. You are not throwing that responsibility on me,” John was firmly against that plan.
“Fine, you get to pick them up from the airport. Kevin, Theresa, Brian, and Thomas show up in the morning before 09:30. The rest are at 13:00.”
“Works for me. I don’t get to drive nearly as often as I’d want.”
“Yeah, so Alice was saying you wanted to drive an endurance car, right?” Alexa said.
“No. No, we’re not going there,” Alice sounded like she had something to hide.
“What could go wrong? Besides he’s obviously in shape and they will test him before that,” Alexa smiled, “Plus, consider it my present to your new husband.”
John just sat there with a blank face, “So, what is this present?”
“John, Alexa’s uncle runs the McLaren supercar endurance team for the American Endurance League.”
“Oh, I am all over fucking that. When?” John couldn’t get the words out concisely because he was so excited.
“I told you he gets like that when he’s way too hyped up for something,” Alice rolled her eyes.
“On Saturday y’all can come to the team headquarters where you can get in our sim. If you do well, they’ll get you in last year’s car and have a seat made.”
“Oh, so fucking cool. Where are we going to send it on the track?” John asked.
“Barber Motorsports Park. Probably take a private jet up to Montgomery,” Alexa smiled.
“Honey, ten bucks says my bag is the last thing pulled from a private jet too,” John took on a sullen appearance when he said that.
“Deal, there is no way that is happening.”
“Inside joke and I’m on the outside,” Alexa said smiling.
“It’s no joke,” John crossed his arms and looked angry.
“The man-baby I’m marrying somehow, despite paying or upgrading his tickets to first class never gets his bags quickly after the plane lands. They are always within the last four bags made available for pickup at baggage claims.”
“That’s not possible.”
“Right? It shouldn’t be fucking possible, but someone clearly has it out for me because it keeps fucking happening.”
“I’ve seen his outbound folder, there is no joking, at least three hundred emails in there complaining about it.”
“Those are valid fucking complaints,” John continued to pout.
Alice started to laugh, then swam over to John and hugged him, “At least you get to drive a race car big guy.”
“It is contingent on the simulator though. Obviously, if that doesn’t go well, we can’t let you out on the track for obvious reasons.”
John smiled and kissed Alice, “Yeah, replacing a car, fixing damage to the circuit, or fixing myself aren’t expenses anyone wants.”
The three stayed in the pool for a little while longer and talked. John got the baggage issue out of his short-term memory and was just happy to be free from classes. John looked up and smiled as he took in the sun.
“CANNONBALL!!!”
Marcus and Andrew, Alice’s two older brothers, jumped into the bool targeting Alexa and the couple. They succeeded in the immature prank.
“Hey, assholes!” Markie smiled.
“Hey cuz, miss us?” Andrew laughed as he splashed Alexa.
“Ugh, you guys are immature jackasses,” Alexa looked put out.
“Markie, take a look at John, he is fucking ripped,” Andrew had swum over to Alice and John and was squeezing John’s arm.
Marcus turned around and looked at John, “Good god. Dude, our kid sister got fucking toned too.”
“Hey, I heard you get whipped with an umbilical. Is that true?” Andrew asked.
John grinned as he stood up and turned around, “Yeah, wouldn’t recommend it.”
“Dude, killer scar!” Marcus was seriously impressed.
“Oh my god, your back looks…” Alexa stopped as she couldn’t find the appropriate words that didn’t come off as rude.
“Yeah, I can see a few fuckups and close calls,” Andrew laughed.
“More close calls than fuck-ups. There’s only one proper fuck up back there.”
Alice rolled her eyes, “And how was the whole umbilical not a fuck up?”
“Wait, an umbilical is that shroud thing that connects a ship to a station and prevents things from floating off right?” Alexa asked.
“Yup. Actually, answer sis’ question. How was that not a fuck-up?” Marcus asked.
“Mission was successful, everything went as planned. The station safety protocols prevented the umbilical from detaching despite the docking arms being retracted. Basically, the computer got wicked confused because things happened out of order,” John shrugged.
“Still sounds like a fuck up to me,” Marcus said.
“When’s Terry get here?” Alice asked.
“Last I heard Wednesday of next week. Oh hey, thanks for making us ushers,” Andrew said.
“Cool and no problem. Thanks for saying yes. I like how everyone on the groom’s side is military, so we didn’t have to splurge for tuxedos.”
“Well, except for those two, men in uniform do look attractive,” Alexa smiled as she pointed at her cousins.
“You mean those three,” Alice smirked.
“Well, he’s off limits but that doesn’t mean he can’t be attractive in one, besides I haven’t seen him in a dress uniform yet. I have seen those two idiots in them.”
The group got out of the pool eventually and kept on talking. Marcus could not get over how much more toned and muscular John was. He remembered him always being a fairly big guy, but he was never in the shape he was in now. Naturally, he wanted to know how he did it. John’s answer was simple, lots of stretching and lots of reps with a bunch of heavy plates on the bar.
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“Yeah, an explanation would help,” Thomas said.
“Fine, I will but get in the car, I’ll explain back where you got all those toys,” John said, “I’d rather not dilly dally around here.”
The group headed back to the car. John opened the frunk and tossed the garbage bag in it. He then hopped into the cargo area. Alice drove off when everyone got in. Theresa reminded her to slow it down on the way back.
“So, I mean there’s lots to talk about. But can we start with how there’s a FUCKING ARM in the frunk?” Thomas was incredulous at this point.
“Another day with John,” Andern shrugged.
“No, no it’s not. First, we get interrupted by the same two that John was worried about months ago. Then everyone just ups and leaves the area. Then we leave and go to a warehouse that is full of military gear. I open a drawer and it’s full of unmarked credit chits. And that’s ignoring the power armor and stealth suit there too.”
“Could be worse,” Kevin said.
“No, I’m not done. Then we come back to the scene of a fight and John is holding a samurai sword, a helicopter is flying away, he’s on the phone effectively buying an apology then he picks up the ARM HE SEVERED.”
“To be fair, this is right up there with getting slapped with an umbilical,” Kristin said.
“I’m bleeding here you know that right?” John said.
“How are you a blackhole for trouble?” Thomas asked.
“Hey, I didn’t ask for this fight. The shitty part is I didn’t end it. Twins are still alive which means they will be back. Fucking cockroaches,” John sighed angrily, “I really wasn’t joking about the bleeding bit; does anyone have a rag?”
Theresa pulled off an armor plate. She tore off and then handed John the liner. It wasn’t perfect but it would at least help.
“Well, at least you only saw the one container. There are two others that are mine too.” John said.
“Are you not worried about them moving?” Kevin asked.
“I own the building, so if they move someone would be doing something unwise.”
“That’s news to me,” Alice shook her head from the driver’s seat.
Brian helped Thomas calm down, but obviously, he was having a hard time accepting the day’s events. The car ride was generally quiet but tense. When they got back to the warehouse the group entered the warehouse quickly and orderly. John went to the frunk and took the bag out.
Everyone was putting their things away quietly. John grabbed the first-aid kit and cleaned out a couple of puncture wounds he had suffered. Alice walked over to him after stowing her gun and body armor and helped him clean out the second wound.
“You’re going to have to talk to them,” Alice looked at John kindly.
“I will after I take care of the arm. Or at least what I’m going to do with the arm.” John smiled. “Can you try to mollify them a bit more?”
Alice nodded and joined the others trying to calm them down. She assured them John would talk to them shortly. John left the container and entered another container. He was holding the garbage bag with Lex’s arm in it. Inside the third container were several devices. John pulled the arm out of the bag and put it on a scanning device.
Andern and Kevin, sick of waiting with the others, walked into the room. Unlike Thomas, they didn’t need any explanations. They watched John quietly do his work. Andern’s impatience forced him to act first.
“I’m guessing there’s a reason why you’re scanning his arm and extracting blood from it,” Andern said
“Need to see if he was genetically modified. Also, trying to prove a theory about the psycho fucker bossing the pair around.”
“You didn’t want us to know about all this did you,” Kevin asked.
John shook his head, “I told Alice, for obvious reasons. But I didn’t want y’all to find out. This hidey hole isn’t supposed to be widely known.”
The computer finished its scan. John walked over and forwarded the scans to intelligence. He also indicated he had the arm in his possession still. John put the arm back in the bag and motioned his friends to join him. The scanner shut down as the door closed behind them.
18:15 Warehouse Gear Storage
Andern and Kevin walked in and joined the group. John followed them and jumped up and sat on the workbench. He was looking at them.
“Alright, any question you ask will be answered, but it doesn’t leave this room. If everyone is clear with that fire away.”
“What is all this?” Thomas asked immediately.
“It’s an intelligence gear drop. Everything in here is off the record. I used it several times on cases around here before I got admitted into the Navy.”
Thomas turned around and pulled out the drawer, “Even this? There are at least a hundred million credits in there.”
“Closer to four or five hundred million. The tubs are stacked two high. Some of that money came from intelligence, most came from my operations. Government bureaucrats don’t blink when you tell them they are getting ten or eleven million credits. If I keep one or two for my uses no one is the wiser.”
“So, is all this gear really off the books?” Brian asked.
“The suits were ‘liberated’ from a black-market dealer,” John used air quotes, “I upgraded the stealth one to make it as close to a Mark 6 suit as I could.
“Forgot to include them in your report?” Alice smirked.
“Something like that,” John smiled, “And all the guns are Navy and Marine issued, but records of them are classified and purposefully lost.”
“Who were the pair?” Kristin asked.
“They work for a faction in the Mercantilist Union. Their leader wants me to join them so they can push forward some insane new world order. We don’t know who he is beyond the fake name he’s given me.”
“Is this the same group that attacked the station?” Thomas asked.
“Yup.”
“How’d you get all the guns?” Brian was still marveling at the hardware in the container.
“Open up the rifle case behind you, there’s a button on the inside near the handle, press it.”
Brian opened the case and did as he said. There was a click. He looked confused and looked backed at John.
“Pull the liner up.”
A false bottom fell down from the case. The case was suddenly twice as big.
“We would go to an armory to sign out a specific gun. The cameras would be disabled, then we load up the rest below the signed-out gun, then head out. Order replacement guns. The extra guns would have their serials removed and they would be removed from the armory’s storage records.”
“So, you’re saying every agent has something like this?” Alice asked.
“No, I can’t really give specifics on numbers, but there were good reasons why we did what we did. Technically I need to move all of this since too many people know about it.”
“You think they will come back?” Thomas asked.
“I can’t imagine they won’t,” John held up the bag, “This one was already mentally unstable. Losing his arm is going to make it worse.”
“If you had your new suit?” Theresa asked.
“They’d be dead,” John said coldly, “But now, I can’t foresee any situation where they wouldn’t be developing their own suits.”
“So, psychic arms race. That’s cool for the rest of us,” Kevin said sarcastically.
“At least we know your gun works to a degree,” John grimaced a bit, “Too bad they destroyed it.”
“Are we cool?” Alice asked the group.
“One last question. You have all this money, why the games with the airlines?” Thomas asked.
“Those stupid motherfuckers always leave my bags for last or put them on the wrong plane. I deserve compensation for it.”
“Hold on there cowboy, now is neither the time nor the place for that diatribe,” Alice shut down John’s conspiracy theory.
“We’re cool, still fucking strange,” Thomas smiled.
“Let’s get out of here. I’m tired and need a shower and need to deliver this arm to someone.”
The group left John’s stash and headed back to the academy. The day had not been a good one. Uncomfortable questions needed to be answered. John’s mystique was somewhat shattered, though, in the long run, he figured that would be for the better.
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“He’s stable. The graft took hold, and the med-printer is now working on creating new muscles and ligaments covering and attaching the bones,” the doctor said.
“How long will it take for him to recover?” Lisa asked.
“The arm should be fully constructed by the time we get home. But it’s going to take months for him to regain full use of that arm.”
“What a bloody failure this operation has been. And that weapon, what was it?”
“There were no unusual readings that we could read during the battle,” the doctor paused, “You’re saying they developed a psychic weapon?”
“It looked like Lex lost control of his abilities.”
“That’s a grave concern for our plans. Please let me know if you have any additional information regarding that. I would suggest contacting your father soon.”
“I will, thank you, doctor,” Lisa sank back in her chair.
Eventually, she stood up and walked to the back of the plane where the medical device was repairing Lex’s arm. She placed her hand on the glass and began to tear up.
“I’m sorry brother, I will try and convince the father that we can neither convince nor capture him at this time. You’re in this state because of me.”
She walked out of the room and closed the door behind her. She walked into another room around mid-ship and entered it. She closed and locked the door behind her. Lisa sat down at the terminal and activated the long-distance communication device. Three minutes later a holographic image of her father shimmered in front of her.
“Hello, father. I bring poor news. We were able to catch John unawares but were unable to secure him. Both of us are alive, but John cut Lex’s arm off.”
“I presume he’s receiving treatment now?” Dr. Norman said without emotion.
“Yes, the doctor onboard our vessel indicated the replacement arm should be finished by the time we arrive. But the doctor cautioned that it may be a year until he is back to normal.”
“We have the best medical technology and services around; I suspect we can do that in months.”
“Father, I must be frank with you and say that I do not believe John will ever become a true believer in our cause, nor do I believe us capable of capturing him at this time. He was substantially more powerful than when we first fought him.”
“That likely would be because he wasn’t feeding his armor most of his power.”
“No father, even accounting for that he was leagues beyond where he was before. If he had that armor…” Lisa let that hang.
“It appears we are going to have to provide the two of you with some additional protection for your next encounter. While we may not be able to convince him of our righteous path, his capture is still essential to our mission.”
“As you will it, father. There’s another thing. I believe he had a psychic weapon of some sort that affected Lex.”
“Explain.”
“After John fired it at Lex, it seemed like Lex struggled with controlling his powers. It was as if he lacked any sense of surrounding power. Attacks would be too small or too big.”
“Thank you, my dear. Play back the attacks and record everything. It appears this will be lengthy and involved debrief.”
Dr. Norman ended the call. Lisa couldn’t tell if he was angry or not, but she figured at a minimum the twins were due some punishment. Which meant time in sensory deprivation tanks. Those tanks nearly broke Lex when he acted out when they were little. She was not looking forward to the debrief.
Thursday. 08:00 Cafeteria
“Am I weird for actually going to miss this place?” Alice said.
“I was thinking the same thing,” Theresa said.
“The more important question though, is that do we get to see Alice’s house?” Andern asked.
“It was a mistake inviting everyone to stay there wasn’t it?” Alice laughed.
“Not yet, the mistake will be made manifest when Andern and Nathan show up,” John smiled.
“What the hell?” Andern tried to sound indignant.
“I will keep him in line Alice,” Kristin sighed as she shook her head.
Alice mouthed ‘Thank You' to Kristin. The group continued to chat. They would be parting ways for three weeks but then they were heading down to Mobile a week before the wedding.
“Ah hell, I need to run,” Andern said, “Flight got moved up forty-five minutes.”
Andern kissed Kristin and then ran back to his dorm room.
“And there goes one,” John smirked, “When are the rest of you flying out?”
“Brian and I are this afternoon,” Thomas said.
“Noon for Theresa and I,” Kevin said as he finished a waffle.
“Can I share a cab with you? John and Alice? My flight is basically at the same time,” Kristin said.
“No problems here, we’re heading out in an hour,” Alice smiled.
“It’s going to be so damn weird to not have any responsibilities, well aside from PE work, for the summer,” John said.
“Please don’t bring trouble home with you,” Alice smirked.
“Hey, I didn’t start any of those fights.”
The friends took their time with breakfast. Andern yelled goodbye to them and waived from down the hallway, then ran outside to catch his cab. They laughed as he ran outside. The conversation drifted from topic to topic. Thomas asked what happened with the arm. John gave it to someone in intelligence the night they got back, but beyond that, he didn’t know what their plans are for it. He recommended it be incinerated.
09:45 Washington-Dulles Airport, Delta Sky Lounge
“Two years down, two to go,” John smiled.
“What a wild and crazy ride it’s been so far.”
“It’s not even over technically,” John snickered to himself, “Not going to be too long and we’re going to be in Monaco and Italy.”
“Honey, I am so looking forward to that trip. Twelve glorious days on the ground.”
“Would the two of you like refills on your champagne?” An attendant asked.
“Why yes, thank you very much,” John held out his glass.
“So, anything you want to do in Mobile?” Alice asked.
“Honestly I’m only really looking forward to getting a workout in this afternoon and relaxing. Tomorrow I’m game for just about anything,” John smiled as he took a sip of champagne.
Alice looked at her tablet, “We’re going to have lunch with some friends of mine tomorrow.”
“Cool. That should be fun,” John couldn’t stop smiling, “Anything else you want to do?”
“Oh, this weekend Paul needs a fourth when they do the Robert Trent Jones Trail.”
“Done and done,” John pulled up his tablet and had his golf clubs pulled out of storage, “May as well just have my clubs stored at your house now.”
“Oh, so what’s mine if yours then?” Alice gave him an impish grin.
“More or less.”
“I really don’t know how I fell for you,” Alice was smiling, “Wait, no, don’t answer that.”
“Ahh, you missed out on me making the most modest comment of all time.”
“That’s not how it works at all,” Alice started to laugh as she leaned over to kiss John, “Here’s to many more years together.”
10:15 Washington Dulles, Tarmac, G15
“Ok boys, the game is the worst name in first-class gets their shit tossed in the coach cargo bay first.” The baggage handler. “Call them names out.”
“Alice Robertson sounds like some preppy white chick,” one spoke.
“Andrew Anderson. This name is terrible,” Another said.
“That one is awful. My vote is Guðmundur Kristjánsdóttir. I doubt it’s pronounced that way and look at all the stupid characters above the letters,” Yet another baggage handler smirked.
“Richard Diggler. Sounds like a porn star.”
“Yeah, but being called Dick Diggler is kinda cool in its own right. My choice is John Leif. Way to go with only eight boring characters.”
The ringleader laughed, “Vote ‘em up”
They went through several votes. After the fourth vote, the winner was declared. Unfortunately for John, he was the winner in this idiotic game the overworked and underpaid baggage handlers played.
10:40 Washington Dulles, Gate G15
“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We are beginning to board flight DAL1356 with service to Mobile, Alabama. At this time, we ask anyone traveling with small children or needing assistance may begin boarding now,” the gate attendant said over the intercom.
“I am so looking forward to getting home,” Alice squeezed John’s arm.
“I can’t say that I’m looking forward to the swamp ass.”
Alice pinched his arm, “God, it’s not that bad.”
“Yes, yes, it is that bad.”
Alice shook her head. The couple waited for a few minutes until another boarding announcement was made. They boarded the plane and walked down the sky bridge. They greeted the flight attendant at the door then walked down the twin aisled plane and found their seats, 3C and 3D in the middle of first class. They got situated in their seats.
Alice started watching a talk show. John couldn’t find a movie he wanted to watch so he chose to watch ESPN. Alice shook her head and laughed to herself when she saw what he chose to watch. John was also reviewing a couple of messages from his stockbroker. John responded to sell his investments and reinvest the earnings into another fund he recommended.
Boarding was finished and the plane was getting pushed back from the terminal. The engines were spooling up and eventually, the plane began its taxi out to the runway. When they got there, they could feel the force of the engines press them into the seat as the plane sped down the runway. Ten minutes later the plane finished its climb to cruising altitude.
Alice pushed on John’s shoulders, “Hey, you can fly one of these, right?”
John smirked, “I’m not certified, but…”
“Of course, I kinda wish I could see Brian’s reaction to that.
The couple laughed and got back to watching their shows. The flight would experience some mild turbulence halfway to Mobile, but beyond that the flight was uneventful. Eventually, the plane landed, and the passengers were able to depart. This was always something John loathed.
John’s bag showed up second to last. They had to wait thirty-five agonizing minutes. John was stewing in anger. The baggage handlers that pranked him should be thankful he didn’t know what they did. Retribution would’ve been swift and violent. Probably not deadly but with John, anything could happen. But they would continue to play their games, unknowingly to all of them that it was a dangerous move.
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Chapter 72: That Uncomfortable Feeling
Tuesday. 17:30 Ocean Delicacies“Yeah, an explanation would help,” Thomas said.
“Fine, I will but get in the car, I’ll explain back where you got all those toys,” John said, “I’d rather not dilly dally around here.”
The group headed back to the car. John opened the frunk and tossed the garbage bag in it. He then hopped into the cargo area. Alice drove off when everyone got in. Theresa reminded her to slow it down on the way back.
“So, I mean there’s lots to talk about. But can we start with how there’s a FUCKING ARM in the frunk?” Thomas was incredulous at this point.
“Another day with John,” Andern shrugged.
“No, no it’s not. First, we get interrupted by the same two that John was worried about months ago. Then everyone just ups and leaves the area. Then we leave and go to a warehouse that is full of military gear. I open a drawer and it’s full of unmarked credit chits. And that’s ignoring the power armor and stealth suit there too.”
“Could be worse,” Kevin said.
“No, I’m not done. Then we come back to the scene of a fight and John is holding a samurai sword, a helicopter is flying away, he’s on the phone effectively buying an apology then he picks up the ARM HE SEVERED.”
“To be fair, this is right up there with getting slapped with an umbilical,” Kristin said.
“I’m bleeding here you know that right?” John said.
“How are you a blackhole for trouble?” Thomas asked.
“Hey, I didn’t ask for this fight. The shitty part is I didn’t end it. Twins are still alive which means they will be back. Fucking cockroaches,” John sighed angrily, “I really wasn’t joking about the bleeding bit; does anyone have a rag?”
Theresa pulled off an armor plate. She tore off and then handed John the liner. It wasn’t perfect but it would at least help.
“Well, at least you only saw the one container. There are two others that are mine too.” John said.
“Are you not worried about them moving?” Kevin asked.
“I own the building, so if they move someone would be doing something unwise.”
“That’s news to me,” Alice shook her head from the driver’s seat.
Brian helped Thomas calm down, but obviously, he was having a hard time accepting the day’s events. The car ride was generally quiet but tense. When they got back to the warehouse the group entered the warehouse quickly and orderly. John went to the frunk and took the bag out.
Everyone was putting their things away quietly. John grabbed the first-aid kit and cleaned out a couple of puncture wounds he had suffered. Alice walked over to him after stowing her gun and body armor and helped him clean out the second wound.
“You’re going to have to talk to them,” Alice looked at John kindly.
“I will after I take care of the arm. Or at least what I’m going to do with the arm.” John smiled. “Can you try to mollify them a bit more?”
Alice nodded and joined the others trying to calm them down. She assured them John would talk to them shortly. John left the container and entered another container. He was holding the garbage bag with Lex’s arm in it. Inside the third container were several devices. John pulled the arm out of the bag and put it on a scanning device.
Andern and Kevin, sick of waiting with the others, walked into the room. Unlike Thomas, they didn’t need any explanations. They watched John quietly do his work. Andern’s impatience forced him to act first.
“I’m guessing there’s a reason why you’re scanning his arm and extracting blood from it,” Andern said
“Need to see if he was genetically modified. Also, trying to prove a theory about the psycho fucker bossing the pair around.”
“You didn’t want us to know about all this did you,” Kevin asked.
John shook his head, “I told Alice, for obvious reasons. But I didn’t want y’all to find out. This hidey hole isn’t supposed to be widely known.”
The computer finished its scan. John walked over and forwarded the scans to intelligence. He also indicated he had the arm in his possession still. John put the arm back in the bag and motioned his friends to join him. The scanner shut down as the door closed behind them.
18:15 Warehouse Gear Storage
Andern and Kevin walked in and joined the group. John followed them and jumped up and sat on the workbench. He was looking at them.
“Alright, any question you ask will be answered, but it doesn’t leave this room. If everyone is clear with that fire away.”
“What is all this?” Thomas asked immediately.
“It’s an intelligence gear drop. Everything in here is off the record. I used it several times on cases around here before I got admitted into the Navy.”
Thomas turned around and pulled out the drawer, “Even this? There are at least a hundred million credits in there.”
“Closer to four or five hundred million. The tubs are stacked two high. Some of that money came from intelligence, most came from my operations. Government bureaucrats don’t blink when you tell them they are getting ten or eleven million credits. If I keep one or two for my uses no one is the wiser.”
“So, is all this gear really off the books?” Brian asked.
“The suits were ‘liberated’ from a black-market dealer,” John used air quotes, “I upgraded the stealth one to make it as close to a Mark 6 suit as I could.
“Forgot to include them in your report?” Alice smirked.
“Something like that,” John smiled, “And all the guns are Navy and Marine issued, but records of them are classified and purposefully lost.”
“Who were the pair?” Kristin asked.
“They work for a faction in the Mercantilist Union. Their leader wants me to join them so they can push forward some insane new world order. We don’t know who he is beyond the fake name he’s given me.”
“Is this the same group that attacked the station?” Thomas asked.
“Yup.”
“How’d you get all the guns?” Brian was still marveling at the hardware in the container.
“Open up the rifle case behind you, there’s a button on the inside near the handle, press it.”
Brian opened the case and did as he said. There was a click. He looked confused and looked backed at John.
“Pull the liner up.”
A false bottom fell down from the case. The case was suddenly twice as big.
“We would go to an armory to sign out a specific gun. The cameras would be disabled, then we load up the rest below the signed-out gun, then head out. Order replacement guns. The extra guns would have their serials removed and they would be removed from the armory’s storage records.”
“So, you’re saying every agent has something like this?” Alice asked.
“No, I can’t really give specifics on numbers, but there were good reasons why we did what we did. Technically I need to move all of this since too many people know about it.”
“You think they will come back?” Thomas asked.
“I can’t imagine they won’t,” John held up the bag, “This one was already mentally unstable. Losing his arm is going to make it worse.”
“If you had your new suit?” Theresa asked.
“They’d be dead,” John said coldly, “But now, I can’t foresee any situation where they wouldn’t be developing their own suits.”
“So, psychic arms race. That’s cool for the rest of us,” Kevin said sarcastically.
“At least we know your gun works to a degree,” John grimaced a bit, “Too bad they destroyed it.”
“Are we cool?” Alice asked the group.
“One last question. You have all this money, why the games with the airlines?” Thomas asked.
“Those stupid motherfuckers always leave my bags for last or put them on the wrong plane. I deserve compensation for it.”
“Hold on there cowboy, now is neither the time nor the place for that diatribe,” Alice shut down John’s conspiracy theory.
“We’re cool, still fucking strange,” Thomas smiled.
“Let’s get out of here. I’m tired and need a shower and need to deliver this arm to someone.”
The group left John’s stash and headed back to the academy. The day had not been a good one. Uncomfortable questions needed to be answered. John’s mystique was somewhat shattered, though, in the long run, he figured that would be for the better.
Location and Time Unknown. Textron Galaxy G700 Void Craft
“He’s stable. The graft took hold, and the med-printer is now working on creating new muscles and ligaments covering and attaching the bones,” the doctor said.
“How long will it take for him to recover?” Lisa asked.
“The arm should be fully constructed by the time we get home. But it’s going to take months for him to regain full use of that arm.”
“What a bloody failure this operation has been. And that weapon, what was it?”
“There were no unusual readings that we could read during the battle,” the doctor paused, “You’re saying they developed a psychic weapon?”
“It looked like Lex lost control of his abilities.”
“That’s a grave concern for our plans. Please let me know if you have any additional information regarding that. I would suggest contacting your father soon.”
“I will, thank you, doctor,” Lisa sank back in her chair.
Eventually, she stood up and walked to the back of the plane where the medical device was repairing Lex’s arm. She placed her hand on the glass and began to tear up.
“I’m sorry brother, I will try and convince the father that we can neither convince nor capture him at this time. You’re in this state because of me.”
She walked out of the room and closed the door behind her. She walked into another room around mid-ship and entered it. She closed and locked the door behind her. Lisa sat down at the terminal and activated the long-distance communication device. Three minutes later a holographic image of her father shimmered in front of her.
“Hello, father. I bring poor news. We were able to catch John unawares but were unable to secure him. Both of us are alive, but John cut Lex’s arm off.”
“I presume he’s receiving treatment now?” Dr. Norman said without emotion.
“Yes, the doctor onboard our vessel indicated the replacement arm should be finished by the time we arrive. But the doctor cautioned that it may be a year until he is back to normal.”
“We have the best medical technology and services around; I suspect we can do that in months.”
“Father, I must be frank with you and say that I do not believe John will ever become a true believer in our cause, nor do I believe us capable of capturing him at this time. He was substantially more powerful than when we first fought him.”
“That likely would be because he wasn’t feeding his armor most of his power.”
“No father, even accounting for that he was leagues beyond where he was before. If he had that armor…” Lisa let that hang.
“It appears we are going to have to provide the two of you with some additional protection for your next encounter. While we may not be able to convince him of our righteous path, his capture is still essential to our mission.”
“As you will it, father. There’s another thing. I believe he had a psychic weapon of some sort that affected Lex.”
“Explain.”
“After John fired it at Lex, it seemed like Lex struggled with controlling his powers. It was as if he lacked any sense of surrounding power. Attacks would be too small or too big.”
“Thank you, my dear. Play back the attacks and record everything. It appears this will be lengthy and involved debrief.”
Dr. Norman ended the call. Lisa couldn’t tell if he was angry or not, but she figured at a minimum the twins were due some punishment. Which meant time in sensory deprivation tanks. Those tanks nearly broke Lex when he acted out when they were little. She was not looking forward to the debrief.
Thursday. 08:00 Cafeteria
“Am I weird for actually going to miss this place?” Alice said.
“I was thinking the same thing,” Theresa said.
“The more important question though, is that do we get to see Alice’s house?” Andern asked.
“It was a mistake inviting everyone to stay there wasn’t it?” Alice laughed.
“Not yet, the mistake will be made manifest when Andern and Nathan show up,” John smiled.
“What the hell?” Andern tried to sound indignant.
“I will keep him in line Alice,” Kristin sighed as she shook her head.
Alice mouthed ‘Thank You' to Kristin. The group continued to chat. They would be parting ways for three weeks but then they were heading down to Mobile a week before the wedding.
“Ah hell, I need to run,” Andern said, “Flight got moved up forty-five minutes.”
Andern kissed Kristin and then ran back to his dorm room.
“And there goes one,” John smirked, “When are the rest of you flying out?”
“Brian and I are this afternoon,” Thomas said.
“Noon for Theresa and I,” Kevin said as he finished a waffle.
“Can I share a cab with you? John and Alice? My flight is basically at the same time,” Kristin said.
“No problems here, we’re heading out in an hour,” Alice smiled.
“It’s going to be so damn weird to not have any responsibilities, well aside from PE work, for the summer,” John said.
“Please don’t bring trouble home with you,” Alice smirked.
“Hey, I didn’t start any of those fights.”
The friends took their time with breakfast. Andern yelled goodbye to them and waived from down the hallway, then ran outside to catch his cab. They laughed as he ran outside. The conversation drifted from topic to topic. Thomas asked what happened with the arm. John gave it to someone in intelligence the night they got back, but beyond that, he didn’t know what their plans are for it. He recommended it be incinerated.
09:45 Washington-Dulles Airport, Delta Sky Lounge
“Two years down, two to go,” John smiled.
“What a wild and crazy ride it’s been so far.”
“It’s not even over technically,” John snickered to himself, “Not going to be too long and we’re going to be in Monaco and Italy.”
“Honey, I am so looking forward to that trip. Twelve glorious days on the ground.”
“Would the two of you like refills on your champagne?” An attendant asked.
“Why yes, thank you very much,” John held out his glass.
“So, anything you want to do in Mobile?” Alice asked.
“Honestly I’m only really looking forward to getting a workout in this afternoon and relaxing. Tomorrow I’m game for just about anything,” John smiled as he took a sip of champagne.
Alice looked at her tablet, “We’re going to have lunch with some friends of mine tomorrow.”
“Cool. That should be fun,” John couldn’t stop smiling, “Anything else you want to do?”
“Oh, this weekend Paul needs a fourth when they do the Robert Trent Jones Trail.”
“Done and done,” John pulled up his tablet and had his golf clubs pulled out of storage, “May as well just have my clubs stored at your house now.”
“Oh, so what’s mine if yours then?” Alice gave him an impish grin.
“More or less.”
“I really don’t know how I fell for you,” Alice was smiling, “Wait, no, don’t answer that.”
“Ahh, you missed out on me making the most modest comment of all time.”
“That’s not how it works at all,” Alice started to laugh as she leaned over to kiss John, “Here’s to many more years together.”
10:15 Washington Dulles, Tarmac, G15
“Ok boys, the game is the worst name in first-class gets their shit tossed in the coach cargo bay first.” The baggage handler. “Call them names out.”
“Alice Robertson sounds like some preppy white chick,” one spoke.
“Andrew Anderson. This name is terrible,” Another said.
“That one is awful. My vote is Guðmundur Kristjánsdóttir. I doubt it’s pronounced that way and look at all the stupid characters above the letters,” Yet another baggage handler smirked.
“Richard Diggler. Sounds like a porn star.”
“Yeah, but being called Dick Diggler is kinda cool in its own right. My choice is John Leif. Way to go with only eight boring characters.”
The ringleader laughed, “Vote ‘em up”
They went through several votes. After the fourth vote, the winner was declared. Unfortunately for John, he was the winner in this idiotic game the overworked and underpaid baggage handlers played.
10:40 Washington Dulles, Gate G15
“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We are beginning to board flight DAL1356 with service to Mobile, Alabama. At this time, we ask anyone traveling with small children or needing assistance may begin boarding now,” the gate attendant said over the intercom.
“I am so looking forward to getting home,” Alice squeezed John’s arm.
“I can’t say that I’m looking forward to the swamp ass.”
Alice pinched his arm, “God, it’s not that bad.”
“Yes, yes, it is that bad.”
Alice shook her head. The couple waited for a few minutes until another boarding announcement was made. They boarded the plane and walked down the sky bridge. They greeted the flight attendant at the door then walked down the twin aisled plane and found their seats, 3C and 3D in the middle of first class. They got situated in their seats.
Alice started watching a talk show. John couldn’t find a movie he wanted to watch so he chose to watch ESPN. Alice shook her head and laughed to herself when she saw what he chose to watch. John was also reviewing a couple of messages from his stockbroker. John responded to sell his investments and reinvest the earnings into another fund he recommended.
Boarding was finished and the plane was getting pushed back from the terminal. The engines were spooling up and eventually, the plane began its taxi out to the runway. When they got there, they could feel the force of the engines press them into the seat as the plane sped down the runway. Ten minutes later the plane finished its climb to cruising altitude.
Alice pushed on John’s shoulders, “Hey, you can fly one of these, right?”
John smirked, “I’m not certified, but…”
“Of course, I kinda wish I could see Brian’s reaction to that.
The couple laughed and got back to watching their shows. The flight would experience some mild turbulence halfway to Mobile, but beyond that the flight was uneventful. Eventually, the plane landed, and the passengers were able to depart. This was always something John loathed.
John’s bag showed up second to last. They had to wait thirty-five agonizing minutes. John was stewing in anger. The baggage handlers that pranked him should be thankful he didn’t know what they did. Retribution would’ve been swift and violent. Probably not deadly but with John, anything could happen. But they would continue to play their games, unknowingly to all of them that it was a dangerous move.
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Thanksgiving break is upon us. Something interesting is brought up and wedding planning begins. Hope you enjoy today's chapter!
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“I think I understand what you went through all those years,” Alice said.
John laughed, “Welcome to military life. You either fucked up colossally or you’re a goddamn hero. The only way anyone knows of you.”
“And how are you not the latter?” Alice asked.
“Because I got her captured,” John shook his head; he was still pissed that it happened that way, “And what we did isn’t something that the general population needs to know about.”
“And about the building that kinda got destroyed from the inside?” Alice tilted her head.
“No comment.”
“John,” she looked at him squarely.
“What do you know of homo sapiens superior?” John looked at Alice.
“The advanced man? It’s a theory but most don’t believe humans are in a position to evolve any more.”
“It’s true, though humanity evolving is exceptionally difficult because of our positions in nature these days,” John shrugged.
“How?”
John shook his head, “Well, the how isn’t really understood. For some people though they are halfway there to a different species. Their genes and DNA are slightly different than baseline humans, but they aren’t so different to be a separate species.”
“So, the super is entirely different than us?”
“Different than them, not us,” John said quietly.
Alice recoiled with that statement, “What do you mean us? I’m not a super.”
John pulled out his tablet and showed her a gene map of her. And of himself. Then overlayed them and showed where the similarities were.
“Not going to lie, I was surprised when I found out about your genetics this last week. I was going to say that I was surprised that you slipped through the cracks but with your family connections that may have had something to do with your results being hidden.”
“But I’m not,” Alice was very confused.
“No, you’re not like me in that sense, but you are different. It seems those psychic abilities appear to be a general quirk in our DNA. In any case, the twins that attacked me one is a sapiens plus, the crazy boy, and the seemingly sane but lusty girl is a super. Interesting that even in twins they were slightly different.”
John got up when their flight announced it was starting to board. He extended his hand to help Alice up. He held her hand as the couple walked out of the lounge.
“So, what does this all mean?” Alice asked needing assurance.
“Well, the twins are a problem for me. As for the rest, it is what it is. Wouldn’t worry about it, besides not like you can do anything about it.”
Alice hugged his arm, “Be safe. I mean it.”
“They don’t want me dead. You may want her head though,” John smiled.
“What? Why?”
“She wants to make babies with me.”
Alice frowned and pinched John, “Two things. That’s not funny and over my dead body.”
John laughed a little as the couple continued walking down the terminal. When they got to their gate, they entered the queue to board. The flight to Mobile was routine. John watched a college football game that was on. Alice watched a rom-com. When they landed the mood went from light and jovial to angry. John’s bag was the last one to be available for pickup.
“I could buy this god-forsaken airline and my bags would still be held back,” John said through clenched teeth.
Alice desperately tried hard to not giggle since she knew this was something that seriously bugged him. But his reaction to it every single time was a little funny to those around them. They took the closest exit to the street and walked down the sidewalk until they found a car that was sent to them by Alice’s parents.
The two tossed their bags in the rear of the luxury SUV and got in the backseat. The drive to the Robertson estate took around forty-five minutes that evening. Alice had many questions about the twins, most of which John couldn’t answer since he didn’t know.
22:00 Robertson Estate
“Good evening you two. So good to see both of you,” Alice ran up and gave Kate a hug.
“Evening Kate. Thanks for having me here,” John just got out of the SUV.
“John, would you be a dear and head over to the office over there? Aaron would like to speak with you.”
“Roger. Cya in a bit,” John waived and walked across the driveway.
The building across from them was an on-site office building Aaron and Paul used to work when they weren’t at their corporate headquarters. John walked up to the oversized front doors and pulled the right door open. He walked in and headed towards Aaron’s office. He knocked on the glass door, Aaron looked up and waved him in.
“Look, Mark, take a look at our new bid and let me know what you think. There’s some wiggle room available to make a deal that works for us both. I think what we’ve offered is more than fair though.”
“I’ll review it in the morning and will let you know my opinion,” Mark said.
Aaron ended the call, “John, so good to see you.”
Aaron reached over his desk to give his future son-in-law a handshake.
John accepted the handshake, “Thanks for having me again.”
“Pour yourself a drink, I have a couple of things I’d like to chat about. A serious one too.”
John turned around and obliged Aaron. He gave himself a very healthy pour of a forty-year-old Lagavulin, “Before you ask me your questions does this emblem or person mean anything to you?”
John pulled out his tab and showed him an image of the man that ordered the twins to attack him.
“Never seen him in particular, but that logo appears to be from the Mercantilist Union.”
“Well fuck me sideways. I was really hoping that wasn’t the case,” John frowned, “Though that is to be expected given why he was kidnapped. Sorry for talking through things.”
Aaron smiled, “That answered a couple of questions of mine. Though I had a question about these two.”
“Lex and Lisa. Lex is barely sane and she’s mostly sane. Alice would love to kill her,” John shook his head.
“What do we do about them?” Aaron asked.
John got up and walked over to the window and leaned against it looking outside. He smelled the scotch and took a drink. He shook his head.
“We don’t do anything. It’s on me at some point, ideally kill them is the easy answer, but not exactly sure how to do that and win yet,” John sighed, “I fought both to a standstill and only got out of it alive and free because of what feels like a technicality.”
Aaron looked concerned, “Are they going to come back for you?”
John nodded, “I’d be shocked if they didn’t. I’ve got a few ideas for round two. If it’s all the same to you though, I’m bloody exhausted. Think we can pick this up in the morning.”
“We’re good, let me know if you need anything. Looking forward to seeing what you and Alice get done planning your nuptials.”
John got up and headed into the main building. Alice and her mother were talking about four sites she wanted to show the couple. They agreed to start first thing after breakfast in the morning. For now, the couple wanted to call it a night and get some rest.
Wednesday. 10:00 West Hills Baptist Church
“We have seating for one hundred seventy-five people. There are two childcare rooms for the little ones if they get upset here as well,” Pastor Mark said.
“It’s the right size for what we want,” John said as he walked down the left aisle, “Gorgeous stained-glass windows here too.”
“I love it, but the question I have is what days are available this summer?” Alice asked the pastor.
“Members of the church do get priority during scheduling, but the summer tends to be our slowest time for weddings. Engagement announcements typically happen then for the congregation,” the pastor smiled.
“Spring term ends the second week of May. The third week of June work?” John was looking at Kate and Alice, “Presuming of course it’s open that weekend.”
“We are free on Saturday the seventeenth.”
“I think we have our date locked down,” Alice was barely containing her excitement.
“Oh, I am so happy for you two,” Kate was also beaming with excitement for her daughter.
“I’ll lock in the date and have the secretary send you the contract along with the deposit amount,” Pastor Mark said.
“What’s the full price? I’ll wire you the money now to take care of that.”
The pastor was taken aback by John. Most couples weren’t usually ready to pay for the full amount this far ahead of time. He excused himself a moment and went to the office to get that information for the couple. He came back to the three to witness a funny argument between Kate and John arguing over who was going to pay for what.
“I suspect this is one of those cases that I am stuck being an unstoppable force and an immoveable object,” Pastor Mark chuckled.
“The ceremony is on me; the reception is on you. How’s that for a compromise?” John smiled.
Alice started laughing, “You offered to pay for the less expensive one you know.”
John turned and shushed Alice a couple of times. Eliciting an annoyed laugh from her directed at him.
“I noticed that too, but I think this is acceptable,” Kate was smiling.
“Excellent, well in that case here is the information you were asking for John.”
John took the card and opened his tablet. He logged into one of his financial institutions. A wire for the full rental amount was sent out. A few minutes later confirmation was received that it had been sent and received by the church. Pastor Mark thanked them and said he looked forward to working with the couple and family on their joyous day.
The three went off and looked at a few reception venues. This was the more contentious thing that they had to do. The reception size hadn’t really been determined yet. John figured that the vast majority of attendees would be connected to the Robertsons via their business. He had wanted a rough number on how many would be there.
The problem with such a demand is that high society weddings, which this very much was, tended to be oversized affairs more for the families rather than the couples themselves. That annoyed both Alice and John but neither seemed able or willing to really fight that. In the end, they decided on two venues. The dinner reception would be limited to three hundred people and be those people that were closest to the couple. The general reception and dance would be held across the street at another venue that could hold over two thousand people.
16:00 Japanese Garden, Robertson Estate
John sat cross-legged on the yoga mat in front of the sand garden. He was playing back the fight between the twins. Radiating off of him was raw psychic power. John ran simulation after simulation of the fight through his mind. There was no situation he ran through his mind where he killed both. Was he to kill one, or would the other twin rage out of control?
Alice interrupted him as she sat down on the stone stool behind him, “What was that device you added to the power armor?” She seemed undisturbed by the psychic energy radiating off her fiancé.
“It siphons some energy from me and routes it back through the suit to enhance its capabilities.”
“So, you robbed Peter to pay Paul?”
John spun around and laughed at the comment, “You aren’t entirely wrong.”
“Were you trying to figure out how to win?”
“Yes,” John had a dejected look on his face.
“Looks like that didn’t go the way you wanted,” Alice was growing concerned.
John leaned back and looked at the blue sky, “I’m stronger individually than either one of them. But their shared sensory ability makes them far stronger than I’m capable of handling.”
“What if…”
“No, you all would die. I appreciate the offer of assistance, but if we come across them again you must run away.”
“But John, we can help you fight.”
John stood up and walked over to Alice, he kneeled down and touched her forehead. He transferred his memory of the fight. Tears began streaming down Alice’s cheeks.
“Alice, I love you. There are fights that I will need you and our friends with me to win. I say this not because I doubt you or our friends’ capabilities and willingness to fight. These two would cut through every last one of you without breaking a sweat. This is not a fight you can help up close, at this time anyways.”
“How are they that powerful? I thought you said the Confederacy rounds up people like them.”
“They do, but they aren’t from the Confederacy. We’re not sure where they are from, but they work for someone in the Mercantilist Union.”
John turned around and sat back down on the yoga mat and began to close his eyes, “If you want to help, I can bring you along with me into the simulation.”
“Yes,” Alice said eagerly as she sat down on the ground resting against the stool.
Energy began radiating off John. Alice closed her eyes and when they reopened, she was in the office building as the fight was going on. It was as if she was a noncorporeal entity floating around. She sat and observed, and made mental notes about what to talk about. Little did she know everything she flagged John was instantly made aware of, this was his mind after all.
Alice was amazed at how the fight unwound. She noticed something that John hadn’t, the hood may have given the suit additional abilities, but it reduced his overall psychic effectiveness. His reaction times and strength were both reduced based on the power draw of the hood. If that could be adjusted or additional power was given to the suit from elsewhere, it may be enough.
When the simulation ended John stood up and flattened the sand garden with his mind. He began drawing the lines back into the sand as Alice stood up and hugged him from behind.
“You had some good ideas in there,” John smiled.
Alice let go of the hug and walked over to his side and watched the sand be raked into position once more, “I want that psychotic bitches head myself.”
“Unless we can find out some way to make you anathema to her, I doubt you’re going to get that chance.”
“If the two of you would have kids, would they be more powerful?” Alice looked disgusted asking that question.
“There appears to be more evidence that suggests psychic capabilities are not conferred to children of psychics. It appears to be random happenstance regarding who does or doesn’t get born with those abilities.”
“Ok, so then why does the grading scale fail so horribly for you lot? That doesn’t seem to make sense.”
“Easiest answer is that there aren’t many of us that buck the rules in comparison to the rest. So, it’s easier to build a grading scale that accounts for everyone except the exceptional cases. A grimmer view on it is the Confederacy is purposefully training its psychics to be neutered in power.”
The couple walked back to Alice’s mansion after John finished raking the garden in his mind. Dinner was still a couple of hours away. They sat down on the couch; Alice grabbed the remote first, so they were watching what she wanted to. John brought out his tablet and was working on modifications to a psychic power armor suit.
The proposed suit used cutting-edge technology, even more so than the suit that John exploded. Armor plates were using a new alloy that the military was keeping secret. That would reduce the weight on the armor, make it more mobile and give it even more protection against enemy attacks. It would also cost nearly eighty-six times more expensive as well. Since this was a prototype and Intelligence likely had the budget cost wasn’t much of an issue anyways.
A pair of ultra-portable fusion reactors would be used to power the suit. A kinetic barrier system would also be included in its protective suite. The psychic hood would no longer be used to siphon psychic power and turn it into energy. Instead, its sole purpose is to enhance and sharpen the users’ psychic capabilities.
The end result was a much sleeker-looking suit of power armor. It did a better job at protecting the user than the current Mark 6 power armor. It also had a massive amount of power available to use and places for two additional enhancement modules that could be switched out dynamically to account for the mission profile.
The rest of the day came and went without drama or issue. More progress was made with the wedding planning. John freely admitted that planning weddings were absolutely no fun at all. Alice just rolled her eyes at him. They agreed that they’d put off working on the rest of the wedding details until Christmas break. There weren’t that many details left, but the couple was feeling much more comfortable and felt the marriage itself was that much closer to happening.
19:00 Alice’s Living Room
“It’s certainly an interesting design John,” Director LeCroix was very impressed, “Damn costly though.”
“Wouldn’t hurt to have two or three. Can I get one by Monday?”
“That’s a tall ask, but I’ll see what we can do. Why the rush?”
“I’d like to debug the thing before it has to be used in anger,” a frown was forming across John’s brow.
“Understood, we’ll get one made as quickly as possible.”
The call ended. John slumped back into the couch and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes, Alice was there smiling at him, she leaned down and kissed him. She walked around the couch and cuddled in next to him.
“Something’s bugging me.”
“What’s that?”
“It feels like you’re preparing and willing to fight an unwinnable fight. Are you sure we can’t help?”
John smiled, “Until we can find some way to neuter their abilities, I’m going to have to be the one to go after them. Short of us acquiring a tactical nuke or getting a battleship to fire from orbit.”
“I’m going to ignore those last two items. So, is there any substance that reduces the effectiveness of abilities?”
“Rumors have always been out there, but nothing has ever been confirmed, at least from what I know. From experience, I can tell you I’ve never run into something that affects me.”
“So, with the Navy knowing you’re telekinetic does that change things?”
John shot an evil grin toward Alice, “They know I’m a telepath of immense power, but nothing more than that. They think I relied on the power armor to cause all that damage and withstand their attacks. Which did help by the way.”
“You are a sneaky bastard.”
Alice continued to pepper John with questions about how they could help. Long-range sniping seemed to be the only thing John would be willing to entertain. John finally agreed he wasn’t going to be able to keep them away from all fights, but he would at least try to think up new ways for them to help. He said that the standing orders of runaway still applied to the twins until they knew how to mitigate their abilities.
The rest of the Thanksgiving vacation was quiet and relaxing. Some odds and ends relating to the wedding were taken care of. Alice and John had an enjoyable Thanksgiving meal with her parents and Paul. Her other brothers were deployed and couldn’t be home.
John opted to get a workout in on Friday morning instead of going out shopping. Intelligence let him know the armor plates were built and incorporated into a suit already. The psychic amplifier was a bit more trouble. He responded to that email to send what they had, and he’d figure it out on the fly.
John continued to practice and playback the fight at the Zen Garden. Progress was slow to be made, but the progress that was made seemed to be helpful. At the very least there was some hope that the fight could be made, that was something that as early as the morning hadn’t existed.
The couple flew back to the academy Saturday morning. True to form John’s bag was last to show up. Alice was absolutely convinced this was the universe’s way of settling some sort of karmic imbalance that John causes in his day-to-day activities. John on the other hand clung to the belief that there was a conspiracy theory working against him.
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Chapter 54: Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday. 17:00 Delta One Sky Lounge, Washington Dulles IA.“I think I understand what you went through all those years,” Alice said.
John laughed, “Welcome to military life. You either fucked up colossally or you’re a goddamn hero. The only way anyone knows of you.”
“And how are you not the latter?” Alice asked.
“Because I got her captured,” John shook his head; he was still pissed that it happened that way, “And what we did isn’t something that the general population needs to know about.”
“And about the building that kinda got destroyed from the inside?” Alice tilted her head.
“No comment.”
“John,” she looked at him squarely.
“What do you know of homo sapiens superior?” John looked at Alice.
“The advanced man? It’s a theory but most don’t believe humans are in a position to evolve any more.”
“It’s true, though humanity evolving is exceptionally difficult because of our positions in nature these days,” John shrugged.
“How?”
John shook his head, “Well, the how isn’t really understood. For some people though they are halfway there to a different species. Their genes and DNA are slightly different than baseline humans, but they aren’t so different to be a separate species.”
“So, the super is entirely different than us?”
“Different than them, not us,” John said quietly.
Alice recoiled with that statement, “What do you mean us? I’m not a super.”
John pulled out his tablet and showed her a gene map of her. And of himself. Then overlayed them and showed where the similarities were.
“Not going to lie, I was surprised when I found out about your genetics this last week. I was going to say that I was surprised that you slipped through the cracks but with your family connections that may have had something to do with your results being hidden.”
“But I’m not,” Alice was very confused.
“No, you’re not like me in that sense, but you are different. It seems those psychic abilities appear to be a general quirk in our DNA. In any case, the twins that attacked me one is a sapiens plus, the crazy boy, and the seemingly sane but lusty girl is a super. Interesting that even in twins they were slightly different.”
John got up when their flight announced it was starting to board. He extended his hand to help Alice up. He held her hand as the couple walked out of the lounge.
“So, what does this all mean?” Alice asked needing assurance.
“Well, the twins are a problem for me. As for the rest, it is what it is. Wouldn’t worry about it, besides not like you can do anything about it.”
Alice hugged his arm, “Be safe. I mean it.”
“They don’t want me dead. You may want her head though,” John smiled.
“What? Why?”
“She wants to make babies with me.”
Alice frowned and pinched John, “Two things. That’s not funny and over my dead body.”
John laughed a little as the couple continued walking down the terminal. When they got to their gate, they entered the queue to board. The flight to Mobile was routine. John watched a college football game that was on. Alice watched a rom-com. When they landed the mood went from light and jovial to angry. John’s bag was the last one to be available for pickup.
“I could buy this god-forsaken airline and my bags would still be held back,” John said through clenched teeth.
Alice desperately tried hard to not giggle since she knew this was something that seriously bugged him. But his reaction to it every single time was a little funny to those around them. They took the closest exit to the street and walked down the sidewalk until they found a car that was sent to them by Alice’s parents.
The two tossed their bags in the rear of the luxury SUV and got in the backseat. The drive to the Robertson estate took around forty-five minutes that evening. Alice had many questions about the twins, most of which John couldn’t answer since he didn’t know.
22:00 Robertson Estate
“Good evening you two. So good to see both of you,” Alice ran up and gave Kate a hug.
“Evening Kate. Thanks for having me here,” John just got out of the SUV.
“John, would you be a dear and head over to the office over there? Aaron would like to speak with you.”
“Roger. Cya in a bit,” John waived and walked across the driveway.
The building across from them was an on-site office building Aaron and Paul used to work when they weren’t at their corporate headquarters. John walked up to the oversized front doors and pulled the right door open. He walked in and headed towards Aaron’s office. He knocked on the glass door, Aaron looked up and waved him in.
“Look, Mark, take a look at our new bid and let me know what you think. There’s some wiggle room available to make a deal that works for us both. I think what we’ve offered is more than fair though.”
“I’ll review it in the morning and will let you know my opinion,” Mark said.
Aaron ended the call, “John, so good to see you.”
Aaron reached over his desk to give his future son-in-law a handshake.
John accepted the handshake, “Thanks for having me again.”
“Pour yourself a drink, I have a couple of things I’d like to chat about. A serious one too.”
John turned around and obliged Aaron. He gave himself a very healthy pour of a forty-year-old Lagavulin, “Before you ask me your questions does this emblem or person mean anything to you?”
John pulled out his tab and showed him an image of the man that ordered the twins to attack him.
“Never seen him in particular, but that logo appears to be from the Mercantilist Union.”
“Well fuck me sideways. I was really hoping that wasn’t the case,” John frowned, “Though that is to be expected given why he was kidnapped. Sorry for talking through things.”
Aaron smiled, “That answered a couple of questions of mine. Though I had a question about these two.”
“Lex and Lisa. Lex is barely sane and she’s mostly sane. Alice would love to kill her,” John shook his head.
“What do we do about them?” Aaron asked.
John got up and walked over to the window and leaned against it looking outside. He smelled the scotch and took a drink. He shook his head.
“We don’t do anything. It’s on me at some point, ideally kill them is the easy answer, but not exactly sure how to do that and win yet,” John sighed, “I fought both to a standstill and only got out of it alive and free because of what feels like a technicality.”
Aaron looked concerned, “Are they going to come back for you?”
John nodded, “I’d be shocked if they didn’t. I’ve got a few ideas for round two. If it’s all the same to you though, I’m bloody exhausted. Think we can pick this up in the morning.”
“We’re good, let me know if you need anything. Looking forward to seeing what you and Alice get done planning your nuptials.”
John got up and headed into the main building. Alice and her mother were talking about four sites she wanted to show the couple. They agreed to start first thing after breakfast in the morning. For now, the couple wanted to call it a night and get some rest.
Wednesday. 10:00 West Hills Baptist Church
“We have seating for one hundred seventy-five people. There are two childcare rooms for the little ones if they get upset here as well,” Pastor Mark said.
“It’s the right size for what we want,” John said as he walked down the left aisle, “Gorgeous stained-glass windows here too.”
“I love it, but the question I have is what days are available this summer?” Alice asked the pastor.
“Members of the church do get priority during scheduling, but the summer tends to be our slowest time for weddings. Engagement announcements typically happen then for the congregation,” the pastor smiled.
“Spring term ends the second week of May. The third week of June work?” John was looking at Kate and Alice, “Presuming of course it’s open that weekend.”
“We are free on Saturday the seventeenth.”
“I think we have our date locked down,” Alice was barely containing her excitement.
“Oh, I am so happy for you two,” Kate was also beaming with excitement for her daughter.
“I’ll lock in the date and have the secretary send you the contract along with the deposit amount,” Pastor Mark said.
“What’s the full price? I’ll wire you the money now to take care of that.”
The pastor was taken aback by John. Most couples weren’t usually ready to pay for the full amount this far ahead of time. He excused himself a moment and went to the office to get that information for the couple. He came back to the three to witness a funny argument between Kate and John arguing over who was going to pay for what.
“I suspect this is one of those cases that I am stuck being an unstoppable force and an immoveable object,” Pastor Mark chuckled.
“The ceremony is on me; the reception is on you. How’s that for a compromise?” John smiled.
Alice started laughing, “You offered to pay for the less expensive one you know.”
John turned and shushed Alice a couple of times. Eliciting an annoyed laugh from her directed at him.
“I noticed that too, but I think this is acceptable,” Kate was smiling.
“Excellent, well in that case here is the information you were asking for John.”
John took the card and opened his tablet. He logged into one of his financial institutions. A wire for the full rental amount was sent out. A few minutes later confirmation was received that it had been sent and received by the church. Pastor Mark thanked them and said he looked forward to working with the couple and family on their joyous day.
The three went off and looked at a few reception venues. This was the more contentious thing that they had to do. The reception size hadn’t really been determined yet. John figured that the vast majority of attendees would be connected to the Robertsons via their business. He had wanted a rough number on how many would be there.
The problem with such a demand is that high society weddings, which this very much was, tended to be oversized affairs more for the families rather than the couples themselves. That annoyed both Alice and John but neither seemed able or willing to really fight that. In the end, they decided on two venues. The dinner reception would be limited to three hundred people and be those people that were closest to the couple. The general reception and dance would be held across the street at another venue that could hold over two thousand people.
16:00 Japanese Garden, Robertson Estate
John sat cross-legged on the yoga mat in front of the sand garden. He was playing back the fight between the twins. Radiating off of him was raw psychic power. John ran simulation after simulation of the fight through his mind. There was no situation he ran through his mind where he killed both. Was he to kill one, or would the other twin rage out of control?
Alice interrupted him as she sat down on the stone stool behind him, “What was that device you added to the power armor?” She seemed undisturbed by the psychic energy radiating off her fiancé.
“It siphons some energy from me and routes it back through the suit to enhance its capabilities.”
“So, you robbed Peter to pay Paul?”
John spun around and laughed at the comment, “You aren’t entirely wrong.”
“Were you trying to figure out how to win?”
“Yes,” John had a dejected look on his face.
“Looks like that didn’t go the way you wanted,” Alice was growing concerned.
John leaned back and looked at the blue sky, “I’m stronger individually than either one of them. But their shared sensory ability makes them far stronger than I’m capable of handling.”
“What if…”
“No, you all would die. I appreciate the offer of assistance, but if we come across them again you must run away.”
“But John, we can help you fight.”
John stood up and walked over to Alice, he kneeled down and touched her forehead. He transferred his memory of the fight. Tears began streaming down Alice’s cheeks.
“Alice, I love you. There are fights that I will need you and our friends with me to win. I say this not because I doubt you or our friends’ capabilities and willingness to fight. These two would cut through every last one of you without breaking a sweat. This is not a fight you can help up close, at this time anyways.”
“How are they that powerful? I thought you said the Confederacy rounds up people like them.”
“They do, but they aren’t from the Confederacy. We’re not sure where they are from, but they work for someone in the Mercantilist Union.”
John turned around and sat back down on the yoga mat and began to close his eyes, “If you want to help, I can bring you along with me into the simulation.”
“Yes,” Alice said eagerly as she sat down on the ground resting against the stool.
Energy began radiating off John. Alice closed her eyes and when they reopened, she was in the office building as the fight was going on. It was as if she was a noncorporeal entity floating around. She sat and observed, and made mental notes about what to talk about. Little did she know everything she flagged John was instantly made aware of, this was his mind after all.
Alice was amazed at how the fight unwound. She noticed something that John hadn’t, the hood may have given the suit additional abilities, but it reduced his overall psychic effectiveness. His reaction times and strength were both reduced based on the power draw of the hood. If that could be adjusted or additional power was given to the suit from elsewhere, it may be enough.
When the simulation ended John stood up and flattened the sand garden with his mind. He began drawing the lines back into the sand as Alice stood up and hugged him from behind.
“You had some good ideas in there,” John smiled.
Alice let go of the hug and walked over to his side and watched the sand be raked into position once more, “I want that psychotic bitches head myself.”
“Unless we can find out some way to make you anathema to her, I doubt you’re going to get that chance.”
“If the two of you would have kids, would they be more powerful?” Alice looked disgusted asking that question.
“There appears to be more evidence that suggests psychic capabilities are not conferred to children of psychics. It appears to be random happenstance regarding who does or doesn’t get born with those abilities.”
“Ok, so then why does the grading scale fail so horribly for you lot? That doesn’t seem to make sense.”
“Easiest answer is that there aren’t many of us that buck the rules in comparison to the rest. So, it’s easier to build a grading scale that accounts for everyone except the exceptional cases. A grimmer view on it is the Confederacy is purposefully training its psychics to be neutered in power.”
The couple walked back to Alice’s mansion after John finished raking the garden in his mind. Dinner was still a couple of hours away. They sat down on the couch; Alice grabbed the remote first, so they were watching what she wanted to. John brought out his tablet and was working on modifications to a psychic power armor suit.
The proposed suit used cutting-edge technology, even more so than the suit that John exploded. Armor plates were using a new alloy that the military was keeping secret. That would reduce the weight on the armor, make it more mobile and give it even more protection against enemy attacks. It would also cost nearly eighty-six times more expensive as well. Since this was a prototype and Intelligence likely had the budget cost wasn’t much of an issue anyways.
A pair of ultra-portable fusion reactors would be used to power the suit. A kinetic barrier system would also be included in its protective suite. The psychic hood would no longer be used to siphon psychic power and turn it into energy. Instead, its sole purpose is to enhance and sharpen the users’ psychic capabilities.
The end result was a much sleeker-looking suit of power armor. It did a better job at protecting the user than the current Mark 6 power armor. It also had a massive amount of power available to use and places for two additional enhancement modules that could be switched out dynamically to account for the mission profile.
The rest of the day came and went without drama or issue. More progress was made with the wedding planning. John freely admitted that planning weddings were absolutely no fun at all. Alice just rolled her eyes at him. They agreed that they’d put off working on the rest of the wedding details until Christmas break. There weren’t that many details left, but the couple was feeling much more comfortable and felt the marriage itself was that much closer to happening.
19:00 Alice’s Living Room
“It’s certainly an interesting design John,” Director LeCroix was very impressed, “Damn costly though.”
“Wouldn’t hurt to have two or three. Can I get one by Monday?”
“That’s a tall ask, but I’ll see what we can do. Why the rush?”
“I’d like to debug the thing before it has to be used in anger,” a frown was forming across John’s brow.
“Understood, we’ll get one made as quickly as possible.”
The call ended. John slumped back into the couch and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes, Alice was there smiling at him, she leaned down and kissed him. She walked around the couch and cuddled in next to him.
“Something’s bugging me.”
“What’s that?”
“It feels like you’re preparing and willing to fight an unwinnable fight. Are you sure we can’t help?”
John smiled, “Until we can find some way to neuter their abilities, I’m going to have to be the one to go after them. Short of us acquiring a tactical nuke or getting a battleship to fire from orbit.”
“I’m going to ignore those last two items. So, is there any substance that reduces the effectiveness of abilities?”
“Rumors have always been out there, but nothing has ever been confirmed, at least from what I know. From experience, I can tell you I’ve never run into something that affects me.”
“So, with the Navy knowing you’re telekinetic does that change things?”
John shot an evil grin toward Alice, “They know I’m a telepath of immense power, but nothing more than that. They think I relied on the power armor to cause all that damage and withstand their attacks. Which did help by the way.”
“You are a sneaky bastard.”
Alice continued to pepper John with questions about how they could help. Long-range sniping seemed to be the only thing John would be willing to entertain. John finally agreed he wasn’t going to be able to keep them away from all fights, but he would at least try to think up new ways for them to help. He said that the standing orders of runaway still applied to the twins until they knew how to mitigate their abilities.
The rest of the Thanksgiving vacation was quiet and relaxing. Some odds and ends relating to the wedding were taken care of. Alice and John had an enjoyable Thanksgiving meal with her parents and Paul. Her other brothers were deployed and couldn’t be home.
John opted to get a workout in on Friday morning instead of going out shopping. Intelligence let him know the armor plates were built and incorporated into a suit already. The psychic amplifier was a bit more trouble. He responded to that email to send what they had, and he’d figure it out on the fly.
John continued to practice and playback the fight at the Zen Garden. Progress was slow to be made, but the progress that was made seemed to be helpful. At the very least there was some hope that the fight could be made, that was something that as early as the morning hadn’t existed.
The couple flew back to the academy Saturday morning. True to form John’s bag was last to show up. Alice was absolutely convinced this was the universe’s way of settling some sort of karmic imbalance that John causes in his day-to-day activities. John on the other hand clung to the belief that there was a conspiracy theory working against him.
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2021.07.21 13:40 Watchdogs66 The Great Reset: Part 6-1
(Please check my submitted history to find the first two parts of this series.) Part 3-1: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (First Half) Part 3-2: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (Second Half) Part 4: Spring 2021 House Offense Update Part 5: Initial Status of Critical State Legislative Races in Virginia and New Jersey
Summer 2021 House Defense Update (First Half)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will defend in the 2022 elections. The overall House of Representatives situation seems to be stable for now, as there have not been any retirements on our end since the last House Defense update that would drastically impact our chances of holding the House. We now have an early picture of the Republican field in each of the 19 districts on this series’ defense list, which allows us to start developing a plan to neutralize the most likely Republican nominees for these districts. The 19 districts in question, which cover regions located within 15 states, are sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional priority factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts offer the best value to focus our efforts on. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into two halves.
In this part’s first half, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Maine. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating it has no incumbent, the cumulative Q2 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be produced. I will not be including ratings from any political pundits in this part, since doing so will be of little use until the redistricting process is completed for every state that is apportioned multiple House seats. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, no personal loans are included in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is the strongest at this point. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates running in the district currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered on identifying which candidate is the most viable in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates running in open seat races are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,299,169 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $637,347
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Richard Dean McCormick: $551,881 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical)
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again posts fundraising totals that are more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary in the form of Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Assuming that the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia’s redistricting process is completed, all signs point to a rematch between the two of them in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is very much a critical district to optimize our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $778,718 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $583,520
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $5,045 Tim Baxter: No report filed yet Karoline Leavitt: No report filed yet Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas also continues to be in a good position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him in the 2022 elections. Julian Marc Acciard, the only one of his Republican opponents who filed any fundraising reports so far, has only raised a trivial amount. So Chris Pappas has established a decent head start right now. However, things will certainly heat up as the cycle progresses, as State Representative Tim Baxter recently entered the race and could gain enough momentum at a fast enough pace to organize a credible challenge against Chris Pappas. Also, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much bent on flipping this district at the same time.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $757,079 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $566,792
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $137,607 Eli Crane: No report filed yet Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $17,740 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran is still in good standing at this point, but he has a serious Republican challenger by the name of Walter Jack Blackman, who is a sitting State Representative with moderate amounts of name recognition. Several new Republican candidates also entered the race over the past several months and could emerge as viable opponents by the time 2022 comes around. Finally, this district is a critical place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support is thus very much required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Kirsten Engel (-) – $335,019; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Randall Friese – $566,363; https://www.drfrieseforarizona.com/ Daniel Hernandez (-) – $268,340; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Casey Mellen (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos J. Urrea (-) – $2,653; https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet Gabe Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet
The Democratic candidates currently have a much stronger presence in this district than the Republican candidates do, with no Republican candidate even posting a fundraising report. State Representative Randall Friese appears to be the front-runner on the Democratic side, as he exceeded the $500,000 fundraising mark in his Q2 reports and has a sufficiently-organized campaign website for taking down information for recruiting volunteers. However, State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez are also strong Democratic contenders, as both of them raised six-figure sums in their Q2 reports and have established their own campaign websites. I am genuinely impressed at the rapid and massive development of the Democratic field in the months since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement, as it shows that there is plenty of energy that we can draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before choosing who to support, as I believe that all of them should he fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am very confident that we can hold this district’s next version with whoever we nominate and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,245,622 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $903,780
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $394,357 John Kovacs: No report filed yet Noah Malgeri: $7,750 Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $162,342
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee continues to be firmly on track to win re-election in 2022, but two strong challengers are already emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker and Mark Robertson, as both of them posted six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these two Republican candidates, April Becker has the advantage, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a vigorous campaign. More Republican candidates with serious political muscle will probably enter this race, as Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record. The close call has served as a catalyst for Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts to unseating Susie Lee than they have expended in previous election cycles. This district is also crucial ground in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race, which provides another reason why it warrants plenty of our support.
PA-07 (Susan Wild, EVEN):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,179,523 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $629,341
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Kevin Dellicker: No report filed yet Lisa Scheller: $372,727
Campaign Website: https://www.wildforcongress.com/
Susan Wild is demonstrating an excellent performance in her re-election campaign so far. However, former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller is developing a formidable challenge against Susan Wild who brought in a six-figure sum in individual contributions. Lisa Scheller was also Susan Wild’s previous opponent who put up a surprisingly close showing in 2020 and gained plenty of name recognition from that campaign that she can use to her advantage. Additionally, she loaned herself $500,000 in 2021’s first quarter, which makes it easy for her to drown out her primary rivals with advertisements. And finally, Lisa Scheller has plenty of supporters who are intensely devoted to getting her elected to Congress and can provide her campaign with robust volunteering efforts at every part of this election cycle. All of this means that Lisa Scheller has a good chance of winning the Republican primary, and yes, the general election for this district’s next version. So we clearly have our work cut out for ourselves in this area and need to reinforce our positions there by carrying out additional voter outreach procedures.
PA-08 (Matt Cartwright, R+5):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,029,522 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $578,755
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Teddy Daniels: $131,962
Campaign Website: http://www.cartwrightcongress.com/
As one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this cycle, Matt Cartwright is exhibiting a far stronger performance in his re-election campaign than he did in the last election cycle. This is a very good thing, as Teddy Daniels, his only Republican opponent so far, is mounting a credible challenge with his fairly strong fundraising numbers from his 2021 Q2 reports. This is a district that absolutely needs plenty of our backing, especially since more Republican challengers will likely enter this race to secure what they think is an easy Republican gain.
WI-03 (Ron Kind, R+4):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $652,760 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $456,160
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Derrick Van Orden: $754,162
Campaign Website: http://www.ronkind.org/
Ron Kind is currently making good fundraising progress so far, but trouble is brewing for him. This is because Derrick Van Orden, his only Republican opponent so far, outraised Ron Kind in the 2021 Q2 period. Given that Derrick Van Orden put up a shockingly close result in his 2020 showdown against Ron Kind, we need to immediately step up our game in this district. Even if redistricting provides this district with a more Democratic electorate, many Republicans see this district as a very feasible pickup. So we definitely should take any opportunities to improve our positions there.
IA-03 (Cindy Axne, R+3):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,262,325 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $983,530
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mary Ann Hanusa: $37,793 Nicole Hasso: No report filed yet Zach Nunn: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/
Cindy Axne is another incumbent who continues to demonstrate excellent progress, as her fundraising numbers are much higher than what they were at the end of 2019’s second quarter. Former State Representative Mary Ann Hanusa is the only Republican candidate who posted Q2 fundraising reports, which indicate that she has raised an unremarkable amount for her campaign so far and has a long way to go before she can be considered to be a competitive candidate. State Senator Zach Nunn recently entered this race and could prove to be a daunting challenger for Cindy Axne to face in the next several months. However, Cindy Axne has enough of a head start to win re-election if her campaign wisely spends the rest of the summer developing and executing measures to fortify her standing with the district’s voters. In short, I believe that we will have at least a fair fight in the district’s next version that we can certainly win if we properly organize.
ME-02 (Jared Golden, R+6):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,017,887 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $614,751
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Michael Perkins: $8,201 Harold Stewart III: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/
Even though he represents the most Republican district (according to the Cook PVI) held by a Democrat, Jared Golden continues to be in an excellent position for re-election by posting much stronger fundraising numbers than what he achieved in 2019’s second quarter. State Representative Michael Perkins is the only Republican running in this district who has posted fundraising reports, which show that he has only raised an insignificant amount so far. However, State Senator Harold Stewart III recently entered this race and could appeal to enough donors and voters to become an extremely difficult opponent for Jared Golden. So we have a couple of months before the Republicans make significant moves in this district, but we need to use this time very efficiently. This means spending the rest of our summer optimizing our ground game and voter outreach efforts in this district so that we can win its next version in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first half. The second half will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas. It will also go over the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second half of this part when it is ready.
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Summer 2021 House Defense Update (First Half)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will defend in the 2022 elections. The overall House of Representatives situation seems to be stable for now, as there have not been any retirements on our end since the last House Defense update that would drastically impact our chances of holding the House. We now have an early picture of the Republican field in each of the 19 districts on this series’ defense list, which allows us to start developing a plan to neutralize the most likely Republican nominees for these districts. The 19 districts in question, which cover regions located within 15 states, are sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional priority factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts offer the best value to focus our efforts on. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into two halves.
In this part’s first half, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Maine. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating it has no incumbent, the cumulative Q2 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be produced. I will not be including ratings from any political pundits in this part, since doing so will be of little use until the redistricting process is completed for every state that is apportioned multiple House seats. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, no personal loans are included in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is the strongest at this point. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates running in the district currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered on identifying which candidate is the most viable in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates running in open seat races are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,299,169 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $637,347
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Richard Dean McCormick: $551,881 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical)
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again posts fundraising totals that are more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary in the form of Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Assuming that the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia’s redistricting process is completed, all signs point to a rematch between the two of them in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is very much a critical district to optimize our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $778,718 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $583,520
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $5,045 Tim Baxter: No report filed yet Karoline Leavitt: No report filed yet Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas also continues to be in a good position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him in the 2022 elections. Julian Marc Acciard, the only one of his Republican opponents who filed any fundraising reports so far, has only raised a trivial amount. So Chris Pappas has established a decent head start right now. However, things will certainly heat up as the cycle progresses, as State Representative Tim Baxter recently entered the race and could gain enough momentum at a fast enough pace to organize a credible challenge against Chris Pappas. Also, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much bent on flipping this district at the same time.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $757,079 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $566,792
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $137,607 Eli Crane: No report filed yet Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $17,740 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran is still in good standing at this point, but he has a serious Republican challenger by the name of Walter Jack Blackman, who is a sitting State Representative with moderate amounts of name recognition. Several new Republican candidates also entered the race over the past several months and could emerge as viable opponents by the time 2022 comes around. Finally, this district is a critical place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support is thus very much required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Kirsten Engel (-) – $335,019; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Randall Friese – $566,363; https://www.drfrieseforarizona.com/ Daniel Hernandez (-) – $268,340; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Casey Mellen (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos J. Urrea (-) – $2,653; https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet Gabe Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet
The Democratic candidates currently have a much stronger presence in this district than the Republican candidates do, with no Republican candidate even posting a fundraising report. State Representative Randall Friese appears to be the front-runner on the Democratic side, as he exceeded the $500,000 fundraising mark in his Q2 reports and has a sufficiently-organized campaign website for taking down information for recruiting volunteers. However, State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez are also strong Democratic contenders, as both of them raised six-figure sums in their Q2 reports and have established their own campaign websites. I am genuinely impressed at the rapid and massive development of the Democratic field in the months since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement, as it shows that there is plenty of energy that we can draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before choosing who to support, as I believe that all of them should he fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am very confident that we can hold this district’s next version with whoever we nominate and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,245,622 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $903,780
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $394,357 John Kovacs: No report filed yet Noah Malgeri: $7,750 Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $162,342
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee continues to be firmly on track to win re-election in 2022, but two strong challengers are already emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker and Mark Robertson, as both of them posted six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these two Republican candidates, April Becker has the advantage, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a vigorous campaign. More Republican candidates with serious political muscle will probably enter this race, as Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record. The close call has served as a catalyst for Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts to unseating Susie Lee than they have expended in previous election cycles. This district is also crucial ground in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race, which provides another reason why it warrants plenty of our support.
PA-07 (Susan Wild, EVEN):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,179,523 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $629,341
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Kevin Dellicker: No report filed yet Lisa Scheller: $372,727
Campaign Website: https://www.wildforcongress.com/
Susan Wild is demonstrating an excellent performance in her re-election campaign so far. However, former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller is developing a formidable challenge against Susan Wild who brought in a six-figure sum in individual contributions. Lisa Scheller was also Susan Wild’s previous opponent who put up a surprisingly close showing in 2020 and gained plenty of name recognition from that campaign that she can use to her advantage. Additionally, she loaned herself $500,000 in 2021’s first quarter, which makes it easy for her to drown out her primary rivals with advertisements. And finally, Lisa Scheller has plenty of supporters who are intensely devoted to getting her elected to Congress and can provide her campaign with robust volunteering efforts at every part of this election cycle. All of this means that Lisa Scheller has a good chance of winning the Republican primary, and yes, the general election for this district’s next version. So we clearly have our work cut out for ourselves in this area and need to reinforce our positions there by carrying out additional voter outreach procedures.
PA-08 (Matt Cartwright, R+5):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,029,522 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $578,755
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Teddy Daniels: $131,962
Campaign Website: http://www.cartwrightcongress.com/
As one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this cycle, Matt Cartwright is exhibiting a far stronger performance in his re-election campaign than he did in the last election cycle. This is a very good thing, as Teddy Daniels, his only Republican opponent so far, is mounting a credible challenge with his fairly strong fundraising numbers from his 2021 Q2 reports. This is a district that absolutely needs plenty of our backing, especially since more Republican challengers will likely enter this race to secure what they think is an easy Republican gain.
WI-03 (Ron Kind, R+4):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $652,760 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $456,160
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Derrick Van Orden: $754,162
Campaign Website: http://www.ronkind.org/
Ron Kind is currently making good fundraising progress so far, but trouble is brewing for him. This is because Derrick Van Orden, his only Republican opponent so far, outraised Ron Kind in the 2021 Q2 period. Given that Derrick Van Orden put up a shockingly close result in his 2020 showdown against Ron Kind, we need to immediately step up our game in this district. Even if redistricting provides this district with a more Democratic electorate, many Republicans see this district as a very feasible pickup. So we definitely should take any opportunities to improve our positions there.
IA-03 (Cindy Axne, R+3):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,262,325 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $983,530
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mary Ann Hanusa: $37,793 Nicole Hasso: No report filed yet Zach Nunn: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/
Cindy Axne is another incumbent who continues to demonstrate excellent progress, as her fundraising numbers are much higher than what they were at the end of 2019’s second quarter. Former State Representative Mary Ann Hanusa is the only Republican candidate who posted Q2 fundraising reports, which indicate that she has raised an unremarkable amount for her campaign so far and has a long way to go before she can be considered to be a competitive candidate. State Senator Zach Nunn recently entered this race and could prove to be a daunting challenger for Cindy Axne to face in the next several months. However, Cindy Axne has enough of a head start to win re-election if her campaign wisely spends the rest of the summer developing and executing measures to fortify her standing with the district’s voters. In short, I believe that we will have at least a fair fight in the district’s next version that we can certainly win if we properly organize.
ME-02 (Jared Golden, R+6):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,017,887 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $614,751
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Michael Perkins: $8,201 Harold Stewart III: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/
Even though he represents the most Republican district (according to the Cook PVI) held by a Democrat, Jared Golden continues to be in an excellent position for re-election by posting much stronger fundraising numbers than what he achieved in 2019’s second quarter. State Representative Michael Perkins is the only Republican running in this district who has posted fundraising reports, which show that he has only raised an insignificant amount so far. However, State Senator Harold Stewart III recently entered this race and could appeal to enough donors and voters to become an extremely difficult opponent for Jared Golden. So we have a couple of months before the Republicans make significant moves in this district, but we need to use this time very efficiently. This means spending the rest of our summer optimizing our ground game and voter outreach efforts in this district so that we can win its next version in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first half. The second half will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas. It will also go over the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second half of this part when it is ready.
2021.07.21 13:33 Watchdogs66 The Great Reset: Part 6-1
Part 1: Initial Development of House Defense and Offense Strategies Part 2-1: Predicting the 2020 Redistricting Cycle for the First 25 States Part 2-2: Predicting the 2020 Redistricting Cycle for the Other 25 States Part 3-1: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (First Half) Part 3-2: Spring 2021 House Defense Update (Second Half) Part 4: Spring 2021 House Offense Update Part 5: Initial Status of Critical State Legislative Races in Virginia and New Jersey
Summer 2021 House Defense Update (First Half)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will defend in the 2022 elections. The overall House of Representatives situation seems to be stable for now, as there have not been any retirements on our end since the last House Defense update that would drastically impact our chances of holding the House. We now have an early picture of the Republican field in each of the 19 districts on this series’ defense list, which allows us to start developing a plan to neutralize the most likely Republican nominees for these districts. The 19 districts in question, which cover regions located within 15 states, are sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional priority factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts offer the best value to focus our efforts on. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into two halves.
In this part’s first half, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Maine. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating it has no incumbent, the cumulative Q2 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be produced. I will not be including ratings from any political pundits in this part, since doing so will be of little use until the redistricting process is completed for every state that is apportioned multiple House seats. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, no personal loans are included in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is the strongest at this point. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates running in the district currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered on identifying which candidate is the most viable in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates running in open seat races are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,299,169 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $637,347
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Richard Dean McCormick: $551,881 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical)
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again posts fundraising totals that are more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary in the form of Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Assuming that the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia’s redistricting process is completed, all signs point to a rematch between the two of them in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is very much a critical district to optimize our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $778,718 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $583,520
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $5,045 Tim Baxter: No report filed yet Karoline Leavitt: No report filed yet Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas also continues to be in a good position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him in the 2022 elections. Julian Marc Acciard, the only one of his Republican opponents who filed any fundraising reports so far, has only raised a trivial amount. So Chris Pappas has established a decent head start right now. However, things will certainly heat up as the cycle progresses, as State Representative Tim Baxter recently entered the race and could gain enough momentum at a fast enough pace to organize a credible challenge against Chris Pappas. Also, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much bent on flipping this district at the same time.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $757,079 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $566,792
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $137,607 Eli Crane: No report filed yet Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $17,740 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran is still in good standing at this point, but he has a serious Republican challenger by the name of Walter Jack Blackman, who is a sitting State Representative with moderate amounts of name recognition. Several new Republican candidates also entered the race over the past several months and could emerge as viable opponents by the time 2022 comes around. Finally, this district is a critical place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support is thus very much required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Kirsten Engel (-) – $335,019; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Randall Friese – $566,363; https://www.drfrieseforarizona.com/ Daniel Hernandez (-) – $268,340; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Casey Mellen (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos J. Urrea (-) – $2,653; https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet Gabe Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet
The Democratic candidates currently have a much stronger presence in this district than the Republican candidates do, with no Republican candidate even posting a fundraising report. State Representative Randall Friese appears to be the front-runner on the Democratic side, as he exceeded the $500,000 fundraising mark in his Q2 reports and has a sufficiently-organized campaign website for taking down information for recruiting volunteers. However, State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez are also strong Democratic contenders, as both of them raised six-figure sums in their Q2 reports and have established their own campaign websites. I am genuinely impressed at the rapid and massive development of the Democratic field in the months since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement, as it shows that there is plenty of energy that we can draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before choosing who to support, as I believe that all of them should he fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am very confident that we can hold this district’s next version with whoever we nominate and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,245,622 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $903,780
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $394,357 John Kovacs: No report filed yet Noah Malgeri: $7,750 Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $162,342
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee continues to be firmly on track to win re-election in 2022, but two strong challengers are already emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker and Mark Robertson, as both of them posted six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these two Republican candidates, April Becker has the advantage, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a vigorous campaign. More Republican candidates with serious political muscle will probably enter this race, as Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record. The close call has served as a catalyst for Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts to unseating Susie Lee than they have expended in previous election cycles. This district is also crucial ground in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race, which provides another reason why it warrants plenty of our support.
PA-07 (Susan Wild, EVEN):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,179,523 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $629,341
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Kevin Dellicker: No report filed yet Lisa Scheller: $372,727
Campaign Website: https://www.wildforcongress.com/
Susan Wild is demonstrating an excellent performance in her re-election campaign so far. However, former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller is developing a formidable challenge against Susan Wild who brought in a six-figure sum in individual contributions. Lisa Scheller was also Susan Wild’s previous opponent who put up a surprisingly close showing in 2020 and gained plenty of name recognition from that campaign that she can use to her advantage. Additionally, she loaned herself $500,000 in 2021’s first quarter, which makes it easy for her to drown out her primary rivals with advertisements. And finally, Lisa Scheller has plenty of supporters who are intensely devoted to getting her elected to Congress and can provide her campaign with robust volunteering efforts at every part of this election cycle. All of this means that Lisa Scheller has a good chance of winning the Republican primary, and yes, the general election for this district’s next version. So we clearly have our work cut out for ourselves in this area and need to reinforce our positions there by carrying out additional voter outreach procedures.
PA-08 (Matt Cartwright, R+5):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,029,522 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $578,755
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Teddy Daniels: $131,962
Campaign Website: http://www.cartwrightcongress.com/
As one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this cycle, Matt Cartwright is exhibiting a far stronger performance in his re-election campaign than he did in the last election cycle. This is a very good thing, as Teddy Daniels, his only Republican opponent so far, is mounting a credible challenge with his fairly strong fundraising numbers from his 2021 Q2 reports. This is a district that absolutely needs plenty of our backing, especially since more Republican challengers will likely enter this race to secure what they think is an easy Republican gain.
WI-03 (Ron Kind, R+4):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $652,760 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $456,160
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Derrick Van Orden: $754,162
Campaign Website: http://www.ronkind.org/
Ron Kind is currently making good fundraising progress so far, but trouble is brewing for him. This is because Derrick Van Orden, his only Republican opponent so far, outraised Ron Kind in the 2021 Q2 period. Given that Derrick Van Orden put up a shockingly close result in his 2020 showdown against Ron Kind, we need to immediately step up our game in this district. Even if redistricting provides this district with a more Democratic electorate, many Republicans see this district as a very feasible pickup. So we definitely should take any opportunities to improve our positions there.
IA-03 (Cindy Axne, R+3):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,262,325 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $983,530
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mary Ann Hanusa: $37,793 Nicole Hasso: No report filed yet Zach Nunn: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/
Cindy Axne is another incumbent who continues to demonstrate excellent progress, as her fundraising numbers are much higher than what they were at the end of 2019’s second quarter. Former State Representative Mary Ann Hanusa is the only Republican candidate who posted Q2 fundraising reports, which indicate that she has raised an unremarkable amount for her campaign so far and has a long way to go before she can be considered to be a competitive candidate. State Senator Zach Nunn recently entered this race and could prove to be a daunting challenger for Cindy Axne to face in the next several months. However, Cindy Axne has enough of a head start to win re-election if her campaign wisely spends the rest of the summer developing and executing measures to fortify her standing with the district’s voters. In short, I believe that we will have at least a fair fight in the district’s next version that we can certainly win if we properly organize.
ME-02 (Jared Golden, R+6):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,017,887 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $614,751
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Michael Perkins: $8,201 Harold Stewart III: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/
Even though he represents the most Republican district (according to the Cook PVI) held by a Democrat, Jared Golden continues to be in an excellent position for re-election by posting much stronger fundraising numbers than what he achieved in 2019’s second quarter. State Representative Michael Perkins is the only Republican running in this district who has posted fundraising reports, which show that he has only raised an insignificant amount so far. However, State Senator Harold Stewart III recently entered this race and could appeal to enough donors and voters to become an extremely difficult opponent for Jared Golden. So we have a couple of months before the Republicans make significant moves in this district, but we need to use this time very efficiently. This means spending the rest of our summer optimizing our ground game and voter outreach efforts in this district so that we can win its next version in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first half. The second half will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas. It will also go over the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second half of this part when it is ready.
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Summer 2021 House Defense Update (First Half)
With the approach of 2022 comes a brand new redistricting cycle which occurs once every 10 years. When it comes to redistricting cycles, there will be opportunities to make key gains in the House of Representatives. However, there will be far more pressing tasks to defend districts that we currently hold from the Republicans, as such areas will become far more hostile to operate in when their new boundaries are established. This is especially true since the 2020 elections left the Republicans with far more state trifectas than we currently have. Think of redistricting as one big great reset where the country is about to face uncharted territory when deciding who gets to shape the new world as it unfolds. In short, the 2022 political environment is very much a dynamic one, where we can expect far more change than we would normally face in an election cycle. This series will review House defense techniques, how well we carry them out in various regions, and what we can do to improve our operations.
In this part, we will conduct an updated comprehensive review on the 19 districts that this series will defend in the 2022 elections. The overall House of Representatives situation seems to be stable for now, as there have not been any retirements on our end since the last House Defense update that would drastically impact our chances of holding the House. We now have an early picture of the Republican field in each of the 19 districts on this series’ defense list, which allows us to start developing a plan to neutralize the most likely Republican nominees for these districts. The 19 districts in question, which cover regions located within 15 states, are sorted by state and then ordered by priority. Right now, a district’s priority within the defense list is determined whether it is in a state with an important Senate race to support and how soon within the 2022 cycle it began to demonstrate potential vulnerabilities. As the cycle progresses, additional priority factors will be considered and applied to this list in order to keep a fresh look on which districts offer the best value to focus our efforts on. Given the overall length of the list, this part will be split into two halves.
In this part’s first half, our status will be elaborated for key districts that we hold in Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Maine. Each district listed in this post will include its Cook PVI, either its incumbent or an OPEN label indicating it has no incumbent, the cumulative Q2 fundraising figures of each GOP challenger (if available), and an overall analysis. For districts with an incumbent, the incumbent’s campaign website and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers will be provided. For districts hosting open seat races, the campaign websites and cumulative Q2 fundraising numbers of each Democratic candidate (assuming this information is available) will instead be produced. I will not be including ratings from any political pundits in this part, since doing so will be of little use until the redistricting process is completed for every state that is apportioned multiple House seats. Each of the listed candidates in this post come from The Green Papers website. To provide an accurate picture of a candidate's overall appeal, no personal loans are included in any posted fundraising figures.
For each open seat district, I will bold the Democratic candidate who I feel is the strongest at this point. Factors such as any elected offices the Democratic candidates running in the district currently hold, their fundraising prowess, and their overall campaign website organization, are considered on identifying which candidate is the most viable in my perspective. Some Democratic candidates running in open seat races are indicated with a minus or a plus, which indicates the overall quality of their campaign websites (if they have one) according to criteria that was listed in the third part of this series.
No donation pages to candidates or nominee funds will be posted in this step. Any donations intended for retaining House control should be reserved until the 2022 congressional map is fully established for every state. When that time comes, nominee funds will be the first type of donation pages that this series will promote.
GA-07 (Carolyn Bourdeaux, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,299,169 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $637,347
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Lisa Noel Babbage: No report filed yet Michael Allen Corbin: No report filed yet Richard Dean McCormick: $551,881 (Sum of “This Period” numbers used, as “Election Cycle-To-Date” numbers in report seemed illogical)
Campaign Website: https://www.carolyn4congress.com/
Carolyn Bourdeaux remains in excellent condition, as she again posts fundraising totals that are more than double the amount she raised at this point in 2019 as a challenger. However, she has a strong adversary in the form of Richard Dean McCormick, who was her Republican opponent in 2020. Assuming that the district retains a similar political composition after Georgia’s redistricting process is completed, all signs point to a rematch between the two of them in 2022 that will produce a very close result. This is very much a critical district to optimize our organizational efforts in, as it will also help us win the 2022 Senate race taking place in Georgia.
NH-01 (Chris Pappas, R+1):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $778,718 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $583,520
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Julian Marc Acciard: $5,045 Tim Baxter: No report filed yet Karoline Leavitt: No report filed yet Gilead Towne: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.chrispappas.org/
Chris Pappas also continues to be in a good position, as his re-election campaign seems to be organized and ready to withstand whatever the Republicans might throw at him in the 2022 elections. Julian Marc Acciard, the only one of his Republican opponents who filed any fundraising reports so far, has only raised a trivial amount. So Chris Pappas has established a decent head start right now. However, things will certainly heat up as the cycle progresses, as State Representative Tim Baxter recently entered the race and could gain enough momentum at a fast enough pace to organize a credible challenge against Chris Pappas. Also, the Republicans are eyeing the New Hampshire Senate race as one of their top pickups in 2022, and are very much bent on flipping this district at the same time.
AZ-01 (Tom O’Halleran, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $757,079 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $566,792
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Jeremy Abdo: No report filed yet Steven Beaver: No report filed yet Walter Jack Blackman: $137,607 Eli Crane: No report filed yet Katherine Gallant: No report filed yet John Moore: $17,740 Ryan Reyna: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://www.tomohalleran.com/
Tom O’Halleran is still in good standing at this point, but he has a serious Republican challenger by the name of Walter Jack Blackman, who is a sitting State Representative with moderate amounts of name recognition. Several new Republican candidates also entered the race over the past several months and could emerge as viable opponents by the time 2022 comes around. Finally, this district is a critical place to boost Democratic turnout for the 2022 Senate race in Arizona. Our continued attention and support is thus very much required here.
AZ-02 (OPEN, D+2):
Kirsten Engel (-) – $335,019; https://www.engelforarizona.com/ Catherine Euler (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Amy Fitch (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Randall Friese – $566,363; https://www.drfrieseforarizona.com/ Daniel Hernandez (-) – $268,340; https://danielhernandezforcongress.com/ Casey Mellen (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Brett Murphy (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Douglas Nance (-) – No report filed yet; No website yet Marcos J. Urrea (-) – $2,653; https://www.urreaforcongress.com/
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mike Boyd: No report filed yet Troy Davis: No report filed yet Lawrence DeVoto: No report filed yet Christopher Hindle: No report filed yet Marissa Mitchell: No report filed yet Gabe Tapia: No report filed yet Eric Thoutt: No report filed yet
The Democratic candidates currently have a much stronger presence in this district than the Republican candidates do, with no Republican candidate even posting a fundraising report. State Representative Randall Friese appears to be the front-runner on the Democratic side, as he exceeded the $500,000 fundraising mark in his Q2 reports and has a sufficiently-organized campaign website for taking down information for recruiting volunteers. However, State Senator Kristen Engel and State Representative Daniel Hernandez are also strong Democratic contenders, as both of them raised six-figure sums in their Q2 reports and have established their own campaign websites. I am genuinely impressed at the rapid and massive development of the Democratic field in the months since Ann Kirkpatrick’s retirement announcement, as it shows that there is plenty of energy that we can draw from this area for many future campaigns. I definitely suggest that you look at every Democratic candidate and their political views before choosing who to support, as I believe that all of them should he fairly heard so that we can nominate a worthy successor for Ann Karkpatrick. With these promising signs, I am very confident that we can hold this district’s next version with whoever we nominate and achieve the necessary Democratic turnout levels there for the state’s 2022 Senate race.
NV-03 (Susie Lee, R+2):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,245,622 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $903,780
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: April Becker: $394,357 John Kovacs: No report filed yet Noah Malgeri: $7,750 Reinier Prijten: $2,044 Mark Robertson: $162,342
Campaign Website: https://www.susieleeforcongress.com/
Susie Lee continues to be firmly on track to win re-election in 2022, but two strong challengers are already emerging from this district’s Republican field. These challengers are April Becker and Mark Robertson, as both of them posted six-figure sums in their latest fundraising reports. Out of these two Republican candidates, April Becker has the advantage, as she has experience from her unsuccessful but surprisingly strong challenge against Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro in 2020 that she is drawing upon to establish a vigorous campaign. More Republican candidates with serious political muscle will probably enter this race, as Susie Lee only won by 3 points in 2020 against an idiotic pro-wrestler with a horrible police record. The close call has served as a catalyst for Republicans to devote more resources and organizational efforts to unseating Susie Lee than they have expended in previous election cycles. This district is also crucial ground in Nevada’s statewide races, including this state’s 2022 Senate race, which provides another reason why it warrants plenty of our support.
PA-07 (Susan Wild, EVEN):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,179,523 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $629,341
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Kevin Dellicker: No report filed yet Lisa Scheller: $372,727
Campaign Website: https://www.wildforcongress.com/
Susan Wild is demonstrating an excellent performance in her re-election campaign so far. However, former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller is developing a formidable challenge against Susan Wild who brought in a six-figure sum in individual contributions. Lisa Scheller was also Susan Wild’s previous opponent who put up a surprisingly close showing in 2020 and gained plenty of name recognition from that campaign that she can use to her advantage. Additionally, she loaned herself $500,000 in 2021’s first quarter, which makes it easy for her to drown out her primary rivals with advertisements. And finally, Lisa Scheller has plenty of supporters who are intensely devoted to getting her elected to Congress and can provide her campaign with robust volunteering efforts at every part of this election cycle. All of this means that Lisa Scheller has a good chance of winning the Republican primary, and yes, the general election for this district’s next version. So we clearly have our work cut out for ourselves in this area and need to reinforce our positions there by carrying out additional voter outreach procedures.
PA-08 (Matt Cartwright, R+5):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,029,522 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $578,755
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Teddy Daniels: $131,962
Campaign Website: http://www.cartwrightcongress.com/
As one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this cycle, Matt Cartwright is exhibiting a far stronger performance in his re-election campaign than he did in the last election cycle. This is a very good thing, as Teddy Daniels, his only Republican opponent so far, is mounting a credible challenge with his fairly strong fundraising numbers from his 2021 Q2 reports. This is a district that absolutely needs plenty of our backing, especially since more Republican challengers will likely enter this race to secure what they think is an easy Republican gain.
WI-03 (Ron Kind, R+4):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $652,760 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $456,160
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Derrick Van Orden: $754,162
Campaign Website: http://www.ronkind.org/
Ron Kind is currently making good fundraising progress so far, but trouble is brewing for him. This is because Derrick Van Orden, his only Republican opponent so far, outraised Ron Kind in the 2021 Q2 period. Given that Derrick Van Orden put up a shockingly close result in his 2020 showdown against Ron Kind, we need to immediately step up our game in this district. Even if redistricting provides this district with a more Democratic electorate, many Republicans see this district as a very feasible pickup. So we definitely should take any opportunities to improve our positions there.
IA-03 (Cindy Axne, R+3):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,262,325 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $983,530
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Mary Ann Hanusa: $37,793 Nicole Hasso: No report filed yet Zach Nunn: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/
Cindy Axne is another incumbent who continues to demonstrate excellent progress, as her fundraising numbers are much higher than what they were at the end of 2019’s second quarter. Former State Representative Mary Ann Hanusa is the only Republican candidate who posted Q2 fundraising reports, which indicate that she has raised an unremarkable amount for her campaign so far and has a long way to go before she can be considered to be a competitive candidate. State Senator Zach Nunn recently entered this race and could prove to be a daunting challenger for Cindy Axne to face in the next several months. However, Cindy Axne has enough of a head start to win re-election if her campaign wisely spends the rest of the summer developing and executing measures to fortify her standing with the district’s voters. In short, I believe that we will have at least a fair fight in the district’s next version that we can certainly win if we properly organize.
ME-02 (Jared Golden, R+6):
Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $1,017,887 2019 Q2 Fundraising Numbers: $614,751
GOP Q2 Fundraising Numbers: Michael Perkins: $8,201 Harold Stewart III: No report filed yet
Campaign Website: https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/
Even though he represents the most Republican district (according to the Cook PVI) held by a Democrat, Jared Golden continues to be in an excellent position for re-election by posting much stronger fundraising numbers than what he achieved in 2019’s second quarter. State Representative Michael Perkins is the only Republican running in this district who has posted fundraising reports, which show that he has only raised an insignificant amount so far. However, State Senator Harold Stewart III recently entered this race and could appeal to enough donors and voters to become an extremely difficult opponent for Jared Golden. So we have a couple of months before the Republicans make significant moves in this district, but we need to use this time very efficiently. This means spending the rest of our summer optimizing our ground game and voter outreach efforts in this district so that we can win its next version in 2022.
So we have now reached the end of this part’s first half. The second half will go over our standing in significant districts situated in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Texas. It will also go over the conclusions that we should draw from this comprehensive review. Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you will come back for the second half of this part when it is ready.