He was open to anything, as were some of his well-heeled supporters. The Daily Beast has reports on the fundraising campaign that one of those groups, the Liberty Center for God and Country (LCGC), ran ahead of the election and what they did with that money.
12 wild things that you may have forgotten actually happened in 2020
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It s been a long year.
With all the constant news, it s felt like 2020 has lasted at least a decade and officially overstayed its welcome. And amid all the nightmarish headlines, there were some weird things that happened. No one s blaming you if you don t remember all the bizarre happenings of 2020.
Here are 12 weird, interesting and off-putting things that happened in 2020 that we all forgot about.
January: World War 3 started trending two days in
January 1st, 2020:
January 2nd, 2020:
So I guess World War 3 is happening Brandon Calvillo (@BJCalvillo) January 3, 2020
After U.S. airstrikes killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, World War 3 started trending on Twitter, making for an auspicious start to the year. We avoided a full-scale world war, but if only we knew what was actually coming.
WASHINGTON â It was the nearly forgotten mid-century novelist Nelson Algren who said: âNever play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Momâs. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.â
To this catalog of sagacity, Algren today might add, âNever trust a group that claims to work for God, country or liberty, as any or all three are unlikely to be well-represented.â Just ask David Lopez-Zuniga, the 39-year-old air conditioning repairman who was run off a Texas road in October by a private investigator for the Liberty Center for God and Country.
In today s conspiratorial climate of denial, deceit and a troubling tolerance for vigilantism the forces of extremism have been allowed to surface and flower.