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Recent revelations about her health are giving them added anxiety. According to a recent report from HuffPost, Sotomayor travels with a medic -- something no other justice does.
"The revelation comes from newly released U.S. Marshals Service records obtained by the nonpartisan court watchdog Fix the Court, which requested information about security for current and former Supreme Court justices," the outlet reports. "And it amplifies questions that many only whisper about the long-term fitness of the oldest Democratic-appointed justice on the court."
In February 2018, a medic from Grand Junction, Colorado, accompanied Sotomayor on a trip she made to southern Florida, according to the records.
On a three-day book tour with stops in Illinois and Tennessee in October of that year, the Marshals Service incurred costs for "baggage (medic)," which could refer to medical personnel or be a more benign reference to medical equipment in the justice's luggage. Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 7 and gives herself insulin shots multiple times a day.
Both trips occurred after a January 2018 episode in which paramedics treated her at her home for low blood sugar.
In 2021 and 2022, Sotomayor made at least four trips -- to Florida, New York and Puerto Rico -- in which the Marshals Service mentioned baggage containing "medical gear," or redacted a description of "baggage/medical supplies."
Well I think it's clear that Huffington Post is, as usual, making up crap to further their political agenda. It seems to me that "baggage (medic)" just refers to her insulin, which probably has to be stored in an iced bag. Sounds like it's just shorthand for "baggage (medical)."
No one calls a medic "baggage." Medics call Hillary Clinton baggage, but they're not themselves baggage.
I think I'll rename the GAINZZZ thread "POWERING THROUGH with Hillary and Ace."
So this is fake news, but it is interesting that the Huffington Post decided to push this fake news. They left is panicking about Biden's increasingly unlikely bid for reelection to be elected for the first time. They don't want another Ruth Bader Ginsburg situation, with an ailing leftwing Justice dying just in time for the Trump presidency.
Biden said he wanted to quote Lincoln, to show that our "better angels" can bring us together, then said "Wait, I want to get this quote exactly right" as he consulted the note cards his nurses and caregivers had carefully written in big letters.
As Biden told it: "And, you know, standing here in front of this portrait of the man behind me here, he -- he said -- and I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right. He said, 'The better angels --' he said, 'We must address counsel -- and adjust the better angels of our nature.' And we do the -- and we do well to remember what else he said. He said, 'We're not enemies, but we're friends." This is in the middle of -- this is in the -- in the part of the Civil War. He said, 'We're not enemies, but we're friends. We must not be enemies'."
Let's compare the actual Lincoln quote:
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The mystic chords of memory -- did Biden trip over that? Did those words remind him that his brains are rotten?
Did Lincoln troll Biden from the grave?
He went on to surpass himself:
Biden again claims he "traveled 17,000 miles" with China's Xi Jinping, who he calls the "head of Russia."