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Florida Dem Rep Plays the Race Card After Her FEMA Cash Fraud Indictment

https://wokespy.com/florida-dem-rep-plays-the-race-card-after-her-fema-cash-fraud-indictment/

According to the DOJ release, “Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021.

In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.”

“The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source,” the DOJ stated.
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In her statement, she said, “Well, it’s an unjust indictment, and it seems like these intimidation tactics have been pervasive. We spent all week seeing different members getting censured, all in hopes of intimidating and kind of distracting from the Epstein files, and I look forward to my day in court so I can prove myself and actually state the truth.”

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But if this is what Congress is becoming, where they’re always trying to intimidate you, scare tactics, especially attacking minorities, black and brown people, then we’re going to have to keep fighting for the district, and everybody has been giving me so much support, and we are going to keep fighting until the district gets what it needs, which is fair prices, housing, and fair representation in Congress. Thank you so much.

Innocent people of any skin color do not reflexively Play the Race Card.

A College Student Speaks

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/a-college-student-speaks.php

The Texas A&M University student newspaper published an op-ed by an anonymous teacher that is described by the College Fix: “The professor’s 1,000-plus word op-ed defends woke faculty and DEI-related issues, and urges students to organize against conservative political interference allegedly undermining academic freedom.” That op-ed drew a response by a student named Justino Russell. The student paper wouldn’t print Russell’s response, but here it is. This kid has a future:

Dear Anonymous Professor:

You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.

We are the most depressed, anxious, suicidal, obese, addicted, and indebted generation in American history, and the first to be worse off than our parents. We are forced to take pointless courses, buy outrageously expensive textbooks for information freely available online, and serve as a captive audience in a system where everyone—from publishers, administrators, and banks to professors like you—profits while we drown in debt.

The numbers don’t lie: almost 40% of students drop out, burdened by loans but no degree. Half of those who graduate end up in jobs that never required a degree in the first place. A bachelor’s degree has become a $100,000 high school diploma.

What caused this collapse, you ask?

Italics as in the article.

The conservative student committed truth, so the granite-pizza-equivalent was "deserved".

Here is a shot from the real world:

Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Declines

https://www.fb.org/news-release/cost-of-thanksgiving-dinner-declines

Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for your friends and family will cost less than last year, marking the third straight year of price declines. The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 40th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of Thanksgiving staples that make up a classic holiday feast for 10, which is $55.18 or about $5.52 per person.

This is a 5% decrease from 2024. Three years of declines don’t fully erase dramatic increases that led to a record-high cost of $64.05 in 2022.

The centerpiece on most Thanksgiving tables – the turkey – dramatically decreased in price, which helped bring down the overall cost of dinner. The average price for a 16-pound frozen turkey is $21.50. That is $1.34 per pound, down more than 16% from last year. While the wholesale price for fresh turkey is up from 2024, grocery stores are featuring Thanksgiving deals and attempting to draw consumer demand back to turkey, leading to lower retail prices for a holiday bird.

Farm Bureau volunteer shoppers checked prices the first week of November. Grocery stores often feature whole turkeys at even lower prices in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.  According to the most recent USDA Agricultural Marketing Service data, the average per-pound feature price for whole frozen turkeys declined further during the second week of November.

My emphasis.

So, contrary to Miles Archer's unsupported claim, grocery prices for a meal have declined ~5% compared to 2024, when LIEden was still POTUS. And wrt 2022 when the price of this meal was highest, remind me, who was POTUS in 2022? And in more than 11 months of 2021, when prices were increasing "dramatic(ally)"?

WRT the price for turkeys, I bought a frozen turkey a week or so ago at Lucky (a regional grocery chain) for $0.57/lb. The AFBF article mentions the trend of stores lowering turkey prices soon after November 1st, which is when the AFBF did their pricing.

"AFBF" is an acronym for American Farm Bureau Federation, yet another reason for DU-folk to continue hating farmers.

ETA: Looking at my local Lucky store's flyer, https://luckysupermarkets.com/stores/757/flyers?flyerId=b9ff412f-8972-355d-9861-5cff7947fca6 :

* Their price for a fresh turkey is $0.87/lb. and $0.35/lb. for a frozen turkey;

* $2.27/lb. for a Cook's spiral-sliced half ham, and BOGO for an unsliced Cook's shank or butt half ham;

* A store bakery apple or pumpkin pie is $6;

* Combined with the prices of green beans, garnet yams, and other stuff, a Thanksgiving dinner plus leftovers for us would be $30.36.

20# frozen turkey - $7.00
5# of Yukon Gold - $1.98
2# of green beans - $0.98
5# of garnet yams - $2.45
2 cans of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce - $5.00
Applesauce made from 5# of Gala apples - 9.95
$3.00 for butter and brown sugar

* Beef ribeye roast is $12.99/lb.

That was like shooting fish in a 5-gallon bucket with a double-barrel shotgun, very unsporting, .

We talked about voting was the way to deal with Fascists.

That’s not generally how fascism works.

Let me know when Trump starts nationalizing industry, making CEOs pledge to act in America’s interest (or else go to jail), disarming the population, centralizing the economy, putlawing the Democratic Party, and the like.

Hey KS Toronado! Now try a real, convicted, pedophile, Michael English, Democrat candidate for mayor of Providence, RI, https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/20/dem-says-his-disgusting-criminal-record-shouldnt-influence-mayoral-run-n4946212 .