Third Estate Sunday Review

The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Truest statement of the week

Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke. And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.

-- Jane Fonda accepting the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award.

A note to our readers

Hey --

Monday.

Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's K itchen,

Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

And what did we come up with?

Peace.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

Whose presidency is it anyway?

Good question.

Alien Musk and Donald Chump -- not a brain between the two. Headed for a show down and judging by their past relationships with other men, the break up will not be pretty.

Illustrations are Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "White House Service: Donald Tries To Please His Man" and "The Tongue Bather In Chief"

Media: Musk a purveyor preying on children

Some things seem obvious to us. For example, ZERO DAY -- the new Robert De Niro mini-series on NETFLIX. Like Meryl Streep, we've never really been impressed with De Niro's acting (creepy and odd like in too many films including STANLEY & IRIS and FALLING IN LOVE). By contrast, we love the work of Al Pacino and find him exciting and experimental even in bad project. AMAZON's HUNTERS lasted two seasons and we don't think it should have lasted even one episode -- it certainly wasn't worthy of Al. So when we heard The Water Cooler Set was hissing and sputtering about ZERO DAY, we couldn't wait to watch and to call out De Niro.

The mistake we made was in watching because there went all our plans of going to town on Robert. ZERO DAY is a tense thriller and melodrama. We hate binge watching but we got pulled in on that first episode and watched it all the way through. Not only was it worthy of praise but so was De Niro, some of the finest acting he's done in years. And as producer, he also deserves some of the credit for the outstanding performances of Angela Bassett, Mozhan Navabi, Joan Allen and Clark Gregg who all demonstrate shadings and levels that you just don't see from a TV cast that often.

Some things seem obvious to us like the fact that ZERO DAY is quality television that captures the viewer.

Some things seem obvious to us like the GOP today will turn their back on any supposed core belief, they will embrace what they have claimed to hate and that's most obvious when it comes to Convicted Felon Donald Chump's co-president.

That, of course, is South African born Alien Musk. The media likes to present the racist as the person behind Telsa (sales are tanking and a self-driving model crashed into a light post) or the person behind the disaster that is SPACEX (debris crashing in Poland, debris falling on populated islands in the North Atlantic Ocean). Alien's considered a successful businessman. That's in part due to the fact that (a) journalists write bad books that avoid the topic of his government welfate that the US has pumped into his companies and (b) because people don't tell the truth.

Let's deal with the government welfare first. IO Dodds (INDEPENDENT) explains:

Elon Musk is on a crusade against government spending. Unless, apparently, it's going to him.
"If action is not taken to curb the deficit, America is in deep trouble. No different than a person who gets into too much debt," said the DOGE boss on his social network X in December.
[. . .]
Yet according to federal data analyzed by The Independent, Musk's own companies have been promised or awarded nearly $21 billion by the U.S. government since 2008.
The cash was still flowing as of Feb 17, with another $76.7 million promised since Donald Trump's inauguration.
So how much of money is the American taxpayer forking over to each of Musk's companies, and what is it all for?

$21 billion in US tax payer dollars. We think most people in America would be billionaires . . . if the US government gave them $21 billion. $200 million pounds from the UK. $1.4 billion from the Chinese government. The list goes on, but we'll stop there. Musk is the original and definitive Welfare Queen.

And yet he's been made, by Chump, someone in charge of deciding who remains a federal worker and who doesn't. He has no skill in that. And that's become increasingly clear.

RAW STORY notes:

In just a few short weeks, the Trump administration has brought drastic changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health. Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets in January 2025, the Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Feb. 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let go. About 10% of the CDC’s staff have been removed, with plans for additional firings.

And it's never just one mistake, mind you. Week after week, day after day, Alien Musk keeps screwing up. Christine Peterson (MOTHER JONES) notes:

A President’s Day weekend swept by fear and grief from the sudden termination of thousands of federal employees in the US Forest Service and Department of Interior left chaos and uncertainty after the latest assault on the federal workforce by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

For people on the ground in mountain communities, small towns and rural areas, the cuts were nothing short of devastating. They came with no explanation, warning or discernment, and the impact on public land and wildlife, observers say, will be felt for years.

“It’s pretty hard to fathom,” said Claire Thompson, 35, a trail leader who was fired Friday afternoon after eight years with the US Forest Service. “It feels like they’re punishing the people who least deserve it. We have chosen to stay in careers working for so little money. We are literally the boots on the ground, physically working all day.”

Jobs cut included park rangers and interpreters, National Environmental Policy Act coordinators, endangered species biologists, trail crews, maintenance staff, and wastewater treatment operators.

This is one of many 'planned' actions by Alien that had to be fixed afterwards. Why? You can't have summers in the national park for Americans if you don't have the workers. He didn't think of that because he's not that smart. ATLANTA BLACK STAR NEWS observes:

If anyone should’ve felt safe in their government jobs, you’d assume it would be the 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, charged with oversight of the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Never assume.

In what the White House is now calling a mistake, a large swath of NNSA employees were fired last Thursday before the Trump administration realized they had cleared out the wrong agency. By Friday, they were scrambling to rehire these essential workers. All but 28 employees had their dismissals rescinded, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Exactly. And after Alien Musk 'acted,' it was yet again realized that these workers needed to be back on the job. But, oops, they didn't get contact info for the people they fired.

Isn't that something Chump and his flight attendant Alien Musk should have figured out and known before the plane left the runway? Certainly before the two headed off the toilet to join The Mile High Club. Forget partisanship, that -- and other examples -- say to the American people, he's just destroying things -- our things, the possessions of the American people. Musk doesn't know what he's doing.

Musk and Chump don't know what they're doing and they keep lying. ABC NEWS reports:

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, in their hunt for "fraud, waste and abuse" in the federal government, are falsely implying millions of dead Americans are receiving Social Security benefits, experts told ABC News.

It started in the Oval Office last week when Musk -- facing reporters for the first time since the Department of Government Efficiency began its aggressive overhaul of the federal government -- said he found "crazy things" in the Social Security system, including, he said, people who are "150 years old."

[. . .]

Social Security policy experts and economists told ABC News that they are getting it wrong, contending Musk is misreading the agency's records system.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has multiple databases, including one that gets sent to the Treasury Department each month outlining who is receiving payments.

According to agency statistics, of the 67 million people who receive Social Security benefits, only 0.1% are over the age of 100.

"So, when they're throwing around numbers like tens of millions of dead people are getting Social Security, well there's only 67 million total. What are they talking about? Half the people are actually dead? The numbers are so ridiculous. It's not true," said Kathleen Romig, the director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

SSA does make some improper payments, but they are not widespread (roughly 1%) and most of the mistakes made are overpayments to living beneficiaries, according to a July 2024 inspector's general report. That report found from 2015 through 2022, the SSA made $71.8 billion in improper payments. The agency issues $1 trillion in benefits every year.

How many lies do they get to tell and who the hell still believes Alien Musk knows how to provided any form of oversight?

Day after day, we find Musk 'overseeing' an agency he has no knowledge of. He doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't care. This isn't his country, after all. That's why he's a citizen of two other countries -- Canada and his birthplace South Africa.

It's creating chaos and creating huge numbers of people who will be added to the unemployment rolls. Yet it continues, just like their lying continues. Edith Olmsted (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may be trying to inflate the numbers of its spending cuts.

DOGE published an itemized list of canceled government contracts Monday accounting for an alleged $16 billion in spending. Almost half of those savings were attributed to a hefty $8 billion contract for D&G Support Services to provide “program and technical support services” to the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at the the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

There was just one problem: The DOGE website included a screenshot of the award, which showed that it was only worth $8 million, not $8 billion, as was the amount listed directly below the image.

Chump and Musk keep lying. And so do others. Greg Abbott can't stop praising Musk. Here's a typical Tweet -- and again, we don't provide links to Twitter:

Greg Abbott

@GregAbbott_TX

Elon Musk, making Texas proud.

Is he making Texas proud? Abbott's the fool and prude in the governor's office in the state of Texas.

If you don't know, he's having a war on porn. Possibly due to his inability to get erections -- that's what we're told, paralyzed from the waist down, he's always attacking porn. Is there another governor who, in the last four years, who has issued more press releases on porn than Greg Abbott? He's issued over eighty in the last four years.

Doesn't he seem a little obsessed?

As a general rule, we don't care about porn.

But Greggy does and so do other Republicans and they preach family values and they pretend to call out what they label as sin.

So we're confused.

I'm a real traditional man

My folks got a real rich legacy

They passed on the birthright

So it ain't about you and me

You've been saying you want it

And I believe you do

Just don't to running

At the moment of truth

You've got a nice little chocolate a**

And I got a ten inch White c**k

Then I bend you over

It ain't over till I stop

I know you bow to White men

Just like a n**ger should

I don't know if you're ready for all this White wood

I love taming n**ger boys

Ain't nothing like it

To be clear, those are some of the lyrics to a song -- a song that plays on a video on Twitter, a video of a White man raping a Black man. It's posted by Intimately Colonized whose handle is @propertyofyts. There are also videos at that account where White women abuse Black women.

Is that why it's okay, Greg? Because it's racist porn? Does that make it okay for you?

We really wonder what a hacker might find if they got into Greg Abbott's personal computer.. We fear it would be even more disgusting then the above.

"Race play." That's what those into the racist fetish call it.

There is no real protection for children on Twitter.

As FAMIGUARD notes this month:

Twitter's platform includes a secure search filtering option for all accounts. This will conceal sensitive information (including sexual content, graphic violence, and so forth). However, your children will be able to switch off this function at any time without your permission.

That's not good enough for Greg Abbott when it comes to, for example, PORNHUB. But somehow he's fine with it when it comes to Twitter.

But Greg's war on porn was supposed to be all about protecting children. He's been exposed as a hypocrite.

Is there a reason that today's Republican Party feels the need to hug and glorify a porn merchant?

That's all Alien Musk is.

It's obvious to us. Is it not obvious to others because they're being willfully blind or is it not obvious because the media has spent far too much time glossing over Musk's actions and far too little time noting his role as a purveyor of porn?

Books (Jess, Ava and C.I.)

1summerread

As we did in 2021 and 2023 and 2024, we're attempting to again increase book coverage in the community. This go round, we're talking with Jess about his " ." Joan Rivers was a stand up comic, an actress, a TV host, a screenwriter and an author. So, Jess, you recommend the book.

Jess: Absolutely. It's a very funny book and that's what we ask of a humor book. Someone might try explaining that to Paul Reiser.

In your review, you say it's more scatter shot like Joan's DIARY OF A MAD DIVA.

Jess: Yes. It's kind of moving chronologically but it doesn't have the organization that I HATE EVERYONE . . . STARTING WITH ME has. That's not an insult. The scattershot manner works for the book.

You like humor books, how would you compare this to other humor books?

Jess: Good question. I think I'd compare it to EDITH ANN: MY LIFE, SO FAR. Edith Ann is the character Lily Tomlin created and brought to audiences via LAUGH-IN. Jane Wagner is Lily's spouse and longtime collaborator. For EDITH ANN: MY LIFE, SO FAR, Jane Wagner zoomed in on a series of episodes in Edith Ann's life. And that book also had illustrations. I'd say that it's a similar approach.

You wanted to give us an example of a typical passage in the book.

Jess: Right. Reading this part in:

The last time I visited Heidi she'd already had quite a few husbands, a couple of them her own, and had been involved in more undercover operations than the CIA.

It had been a long time, but the moment she opened the door I knew it was her. Despite that Frederick's of Hollywood exterior, I could still see the old trash for cash girl, the tramp I'd grown up with, the woman whose body language would never consist of more than four0letter words.

She as the only person I knew whose idea of a formal evening as putting sheets on the bbed.

She was thrilled with the No Pest-strips I'd brought. She thought there were just enough to make a skirt.

The place she was living as above an army recruiting center near Larchmont, New York. The decor of the apartment could only be described as Tart Deo. I mean, we're talking Slut City. There were more electric appliancesin the bedroom then in the kitchen! On an average night she could cause a brownout as far north as Buffalo.

She was living there with her son, who had evidently been named after his father. The kid's name was Trick.

Jess (Con't): If you found that funny, I did, this is a book you'll enjoy reading.

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Previous book discussions:

"Books (Stan, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Trina, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Rebecca, Marcia, Ava and C.I.)"

THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF HEIDI ABROMOWITZ (Jess)

Joan Rivers passed away in September of 2014. The comedian was 81 years old and at a high point in her career. She hosted a program on E at the time, she had multiple YOUTUBE programs and she had two bestselling books: 2012's I HATE EVERYONE . . . STARTING WITH ME and 2014's DIARY OF A MAD DIVA. They were both humor books and very funny ones at that. While I knew she'd written other best selling books in her career, I was unaware she'd completed two other humor books in the decades prior.

1984's THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF HEIDI ABROMOWITZ is a humor book revolving around the life story of Heidi -- a childhood friend of Joan's who was known for being a tramp.

Childhood friend? That's what she writes. I have no idea if Heidi existed -- or if she was a composite of several women Joan knew -- or if she was Joan's alter ego.

However, she existed onstage. Joan was forever telling jokes about Heidi in her stand up. Heidi also pops up in the best TV movie of all time (my opinion), 1973's THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO . . . which stars Stockard Channing and Ed Asner with Susanne Zenor playing Heidi . . . Murphy. It's the same mentally stunted Heidi.

It's a funny book, pretending to tell Heidi's story. It even includes a PLAYBOY interview with Heidi. There are illustrations. You can read it for Heidi's tale or you can substitute Nicole Shanahan everytime you see Heidi's name and it's just as funny.

More loosely structured than I HATE EVERYONE . . . STARTING WITH ME, THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF HEIDI ABROMOWITZ is more scatter shot, similar to DIARY OF A MAD DIVA.

Video of the week

2025 passings

In 2025, we'll continue to note passings that we see as significant -- as we did previously "2024 passings" and "2023 passings."

"David Lynch" -- Stan notes the passing of a director.

"Joan Plowright" -- Marcia notes the passing of an actress

"Movies and Leslie Charleson" -- Stan notes the passing of daytime actress Leslie Charleson.

"Roberta Flack" and "Roberta Flack was one of a kind amazing" -- Kat and Elaine reflect on the art of Roberta Flack.

Book List

Book coverage continues in this community. For earlier lists of books covered see 2021's "Books," 2023's "Books" and 2024 "Book List"

Books reviewed in the community this year.

1) "bob hope should be a lesson" -- Rebecca reviews Richard Zoglin.

2) "Shattered Love: A Memoir" -- Marcia reviews Richard Chamberlain's insipid autobiography.

3) "Help! My Apartment Has A Dining Room Cookbook: How to Have People Over Without Stressing Out" -- Trina reviews a cookbook.

4) "Media: OWNED finds Eoin Higgins owned by bad journalism" -- Ava and C.I. take on Eoin Higgins bad book.

5) "Sly's awful books proves Questlove a liar" -- Stan reviews Sly Stone's memoir.

6) "THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF HEIDI ABROMOWITZ (Jess)" -- Jess reviews a humor book by Joan Rivers.

BLUESKY post of the week

The most important elected position in this country is the President of the United States. It's the single most important position. If a Senator or Congressperson has to take a dive to get OUR Presidential nominee over the finish line, then they take a dive. I'm talking to you Rashida Tlaib.
— EthanObama (@ethanobama.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM

Oh, Danielle, you're such a disappointment

Repost of community humor post by

The World Today Just Nuts

Who does she think she's fooling?

Cedric's Big Mix

She poses as a Democrat, she poses as Black

The Common Ills

She'll take you there (or at least half way there)

Ann's Mega Dub

She's just sad, very sad

The Daily Jot

THIS JUST IN! SHE (TRIES TO) SPEAK THE LINGO!

Thomas Friedman is a Great Man

Mixed and Mixed Up

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

WHITE GIRL DANIELLE MOODIE WENT OFF ON A TANGENT AGAINST DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS AS SHE TRIED TO YET AGAIN PRETEND SHE WASN'T A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST (DSA IS A SOCIALIST PARTY). MOODIE BUILT HER NAME AND FAME AFTER THE 2024 ELECTION BY CALLING OUT THOSE WHO WOULDN'T VOTE FOR A BLACK CANDIDATE (KAMALA HARRIS) BUT IT WAS ALL SUBTERFUGE SINCE SHE WAS PART OF DSA -- THE GROUP BEHIND "UNCOMMITTED."

WE CAUGHT UP WITH MOODIE TO ASK HER WHO SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS FOOLING?

"WHOM I FOOLING, BLACK FOLK, I'M FOOLING YOU AND YOU AND YOU TOO! THAT'S 2 PLUS 40 AND COMES TO NINETY AND THE ALGEBRA AIN'T TRAPAZOIDING!"

HUH?

"IT'S STREET LINGO YOU CAR ALARMS!"

ARE YOU TRYING TO CALL THE ONE WHITE PERSON IN OUR GROUP A "HONKEY"?

"WHAT'S A HONKEY. I'M BLACKER THAN BLACK, SEE HOW I WORK MY NECK AND TOSS AROUND MY WAVE!"

YOU MEAN WEAVE?

"HEY, VANILLA ICE WASN'T JUST A PROPHET, HE WAS A BALLER!"

OH, YOU POOR PATHETIC, CHILD. MIXED AND MIXED UP.

KEEP POSING AS BLACK. YOU'RE SORT OF LIKE THE INVERSE OF THE MOVIE WHITE GIRLS. HERE A WHITE GIRL TRIES TO PRETEND SHE'S BLACK. KEEP FAKING AND SHAKING DANNIE.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Bob Norris was a wee man

And a wee little man was he

He blustered and threatened

As long as the target was a she

Sheriff Bob Norris.

Look at the fat goober. Bob Norris. Of Idaho. Although he seems to believe he lives in Nazi Germany. He's a sheriff who needs to be removed from office immediately. He's a smug looking piece of crap because he's never been held accountable before.

Not for threatening, on duty, to pepper spray a citizen he was disgracing with. Not for anything. From WIKIPEDIA:

In 2023, Norris claimed that books with explicit sexual content were available to teenagers in local libraries, specifically citing the books Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl and Identical.^[15] Norris argued that these books generally violated Idaho state law and should be placed in an area for adult library patrons only.^[16]

Norris's unauthorized removal of two books and his refusal to return them drew public attention to the county.^[17]^[18] The Community Library Network (CLN), which operates the Post Falls library, defended the books following Norris's actions, noting that they are classified as young adult non-fiction. CLN also clarified that minors require parental or legal guardian permission to sign up for a library card.^[19]

The CLN had and continues to have a process in place for people to request that the library reconsider the materials it makes available to youth.^[20]

And:

In July 2024, Pennie Collinson, a photographer who had worked for Norris's opponent from the 2020 election during his 2022 primary campaign for county clerk, filed a notice of tort claim against Norris personally, seeking over $500,000 in damages for defamation.^[21] She alleged that during an April 2024 campaign event, Norris made derogatory remarks about Collinson and her photography business.^[21]^[22]

After the defendants, Norris and Kootenai County, failed to respond to the initial tort claim, Collinson was able to file a lawsuit in October 2024.^[23] The lawsuit accuses Norris of slander, defamation, placing her in a false light, and causing emotional distress.^[24] Addressing the lawsuit once more in a sheriff's office news release, Norris reaffirmed his stance, describing the claim as politically motivated and promising to contest what he termed "a hoax".^[23]^[24] He offered a $10,000 reward to members of the public who could assist with defending himself from the personal lawsuit, issuing his statement on the official sheriff's office letterhead and posting it on the office's Facebook page.^[21]

The Spokane Spokesman-Review reported the response of Fred Scheffelmaier, owner of the Country Barn Bed and Breakfast in Cataldo, who hosted the forum where Norris allegedly made his statements. Scheffelmaier expressed shock at what Norris said, saying, "Why would you call someone something like that in a public meeting?"^[24]

His use of official sheriff's office resources to address personal allegations raised concerns regarding the legality of his actions, prompting inquiries to state agencies for clarification on potential campaign finance violations.^[25]

Let's stay on the last one for a minute. In real time, Alexandra Duggan (THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW) reported on the penis challenged Bob:

Local Coeur d’Alene photographer Pennie Collinson filed the lawsuit Monday against Norris and the county over comments she said he made to her in July. Collinson attended the Kootenai County Republican Party Primary Election Forum in Cataldo at the time, where she was working as a photographer for Mike Bauer, a candidate for sheriff. During the candidate questioning portion of the forum, the lawsuit says, Norris pointed out Collinson and accused her of performing sex acts and photographing child pornography at a local library. More than 50 people attended the event.

The lawsuit, filed in Kootenai County, accuses Norris of slander, defamation, publication in a false light and inflicting emotional distress. Collinson originally filed an intent to sue Norris over the alleged incident in August, but because there was no reply to the claim, Collinson was able to sue.

Since the lawsuit was filed, Norris wrote in a news release on a sheriff’s office official letterhead he will be fighting the accusations and will “expose the extent of this hoax.”

Bob called it fake news -- apparently like the rumors that all his female partners have had to ask repeatedly over the years, "It it in yet?"

While Norris says it didn’t happen, four witnesses provided written statements in which they corroborated Collinson’s accusations against Norris. Norris said “she likes taking pictures” of pornography and accused her of molesting children, a witness wrote in a statement. Another said he acknowledged Collinson and told the crowd she “likes” performing certain sex acts.

All witnesses in the lawsuit stated the crowd gasped and the room went silent.

Fred Scheffelmaier, the owner of the Country Barn Bed and Breakfast in Cataldo, hosted and emceed the forum. Scheffelmaier opened the meeting with a prayer, he told The Spokesman-Review in August.

“I was dumbfounded,” he said. “Why would you call someone something like that in a public meeting? … It wasn’t right. I just got through stating we were there to promote yourselves, no negative conduct.”

He's an idiot. The big surprise was when he went after books because, frankly, many did not believe he knew how to read. But he's not just any idiot, he went to a certificate training -- "LASO’s prestigious Leadership Certification" -- guess that's supposed to make up for any formal education.

He's in the news due to the video below.

Those are not deputies.

The men attacking Teresa Borrenphohl in the video above are not deputies. They are security guards with LEAR Asset Management. The sheriff, when Tereasa refuses to surrender her Constitutional rights, calls to them. Why? Because he's off duty and he has no power there. (He was there, he insists now, to deliver a prayer. To Satan?)

A reality that the city's Police Chief Lee White has made clear to the media.

No, Boss Hogg Faty Bob actually broke the law and a lawsuit needs to be filed immediately. In addition, he needs to be removed from his post. He has disgraced law enforcement.

Want to send him some love?

Email the Sheriff's Office

Remember, no threats of violence. Just congratulate him for things like not committing suicide despite obviously never have been able to satisfy a woman. Congratulate him on his carny background and how well he performed as Ned Beatty's stunt double in DELIVERANCE. Or maybe just e-mail him a copy and paste of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

If you don't know, he's a self-described "American Warrior" -- one of those nut jobs in Idaho who didn't believe COVID was a real threat.

You know what's a real threat? A bully with a badge who thinks he can override the First Amendment. He and his uneducated ass need to be thrown out of office.

He and two men attacking a woman in public.

Thinking he had gotten away with it, he was strutting and preening until early Sunday. Then he was informed of the videos, of the First Amendment and that he had acted inappropriately. He needs to be removed from office.

Kaye Thornbrugh (COEUR D'ALENE PRESS via IDAHO STATESMAN) reports:

Borrenpohl said she didn’t recognize Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris at first when he approached her in the semidarkness of the auditorium because he was dressed in jeans and a baseball cap. “I was really dumbfounded because he said, ‘Do you want me to pepper spray you?’” she recalled. “That was the first thing he said to me that I remember.” Footage from the event showed Norris take Borrenpohl’s arm with both hands and make multiple attempts to pull her from her seat. Borrenpohl said that after she declined to leave, Norris turned to the unidentified men and said, “Guys, get her.”

[. . .]

[Police Chief Lee] White said it’s not appropriate for law enforcement to forcefully remove a person from a town hall for speaking out of turn or shouting. “I don’t care what your message is, especially in an open town hall like this,” White said. “We have to respect everybody’s First Amendment rights, regardless of what side of the aisle you happen to sit on. I know there’s some people up here who probably disagree with me and would like us to take action and maybe try to silence a voice that’s in opposition to theirs at a town hall, but there’s very little we can do with regard to First Amendment protections. We have to make sure people have the protections afforded them under the Constitution.”

KTVB adds:

Idaho Democratic Party Chair Lauren Necochea released the following statement regarding the incident:

“Our democracy rests on our First Amendment rights. If we can’t question leaders elected to represent us without fear of reprisal, we are not free. The town hall is a valued American tradition that embodies these principles, providing a place for constituents to ask questions and share their opinions on the issues of the day. At the recent Kootenai County Republicans’ town hall, it was clear organizers did not intend to allow dialogue between legislators and the constituents they serve. It is a very sad day when a woman who voices dissent is physically dragged out of a public venue by unidentified men while the event moderator belittles and taunts her. Idaho deserves better.”

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