The Sexual Revolution Is Over. Sex Won.
Conservative Republicans just chalked up another big defeat in their continuing losing streak in the culture wars. The Supreme Court ruled today that L.G.B.T. rights are indeed included in Title VII, which mandates equal treatment for all "on the basis of sex." Discriminating against someone because they are gay or transgendered (by firing them, for example) is just as unconstitutional as it is to discriminate against all women (or all men, for that matter). To put it another way, what could be called the final battle of the Sexual Revolution just ended, and the counterculture has now absolutely routed the field of conservatives.
Astonishingly, the decision was 6-3. Chief Justice John Roberts seems to be emerging as the key swing vote on the high court, likely because his name is on it (it'll be more his legacy than that of the other eight if "the Roberts court" issues a monumentally bad decision, in other words -- and he knows it). But added to the four liberals on the court, this still only means five votes. The truly astonishing thing is that a justice named by Donald Trump was the sixth vote for equality before the law.
It was not Justice Fratboy who joined the majority. It was, in fact, Justice Stolen-From-Merrick-Garland, who actually wrote the majority opinion. He based his reasoning on what he considers sound conservative legal thinking -- namely, that it is impossible to discriminate against someone because they are gay without doing so "on the basis of sex," as the law clearly states. He reasoned that if two people who were both attracted to men were to be treated differently by an employer because one of them was male and one was female (which is the essence of discrimination against a gay man), then of course they were being discriminated against because of their sex. Justice Stolen-From-Merrick-Garland did admit that the legislators who wrote the text of the law almost assuredly did not intend the law to be read this way, but that it was actually impossible to read the law any other way. Since the law says what the law says, he reasoned, then L.G.B.T. discrimination is forbidden, period.
This will not be the actual end of the culture war over gay people (and all sexual freedom), but it is likely to be the last major battle. The victory at Yorktown wasn't actually the end of fighting in the American Revolution, but it was the final decisive battle, and thus it is remembered as being the point where the war was won. While some already saw the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage as representing this final victory, it really wasn't, since there were no state-level anti-discrimination laws protecting gay people in roughly half of the states. So gay people could get fired or otherwise discriminated against purely because they were gay in plenty of places in America. That ends today.
Of course, there will still be minor skirmishes before this culture war is completely over. President Donald Trump -- on the wrong side of history, as always -- recently overturned yet another Obama regulation, which insisted on nondiscrimination in medical insurance. Trump has now officially freed up health insurers to deny people policies because they are gay or transgendered. Trump also continues to try to limit L.G.B.T. people in the military as much as he is able, to turn back the clock even further. But with the court now signaling their strong opposition to such moves, these efforts will almost assuredly fail, in the end.
The Sexual Revolution meant a lot of things to a lot of different people and groups. The first major victory was Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized birth control for all women. Even (gasp!) unmarried women. The very notion of a state being able to make The Pill illegal is a strange one to even consider, nowadays, but that is really the true measure of how far we've come. The "free love" hippies and the Stonewall protesters used to be referred to as the "counterculture" because they were seen as being so far out of the mainstream of American life that they actually ran counter to it. This is no longer the case. Sex is no longer the taboo subject it once was. Sexual behavior is now seen as a personal decision, not something the government should even be trying to regulate. With today's decision, the government finally firmly came down on the side of the counterculture, in essence stating that the culture itself has changed so much that the definition of discrimination now has to encompass everyone -- no matter how "counter" anyone else thinks they are.
This isn't to say that the conservatives have changed their tune much. The Republican Party continues to cling to their outdated definition of who truly belongs to American culture (at their peril). Their party platform still states their strong opposition to marriage equality, even though they don't talk about it as much anymore. Donald Trump is still free to try to impose legalized discrimination as long as he is president. Just last week in Virginia, a Republican member of the House was just ousted (not by an actual primary but by a party convention, but "primaried" just the same) for the sin of actually officiating at a gay wedding. So it's not like Republicans have given up this fight or anything. As of this writing, Trump has yet to tweet about the court's decision, so we'll have to wait and see what direction he decides to take, at this point.
Democrats are already on board with being anti-discrimination, of course. Because they didn't know how the Supreme Court was going to rule, the House passed a bill earlier to specifically add explicit L.G.B.T. language to the law prohibiting discrimination. This bill -- along with hundreds of others -- is gathering dust over in the Senate. Even though it is pretty hard to envision Mitch McConnell deciding to do the right thing at this point, sooner or later such a bill will become law (likely with a Democratic House, Senate, and Oval Office). So it's pretty easy to see which side the two major parties are on in this fight.
The long arc of history has bent towards justice today. Getting fired for being gay should be unconstitutionally illegal in this day and age -- and it now is, thanks to the Supreme Court. The final skirmishes still have yet to take place, but the Sexual Revolution is now really largely at an end. The moralists and the anti-sex factions have lost. They put up a good fight -- these battles have been raging since the 1960s, after all -- but they could not turn back the tide of public opinion which has become a whole lot more liberal on the question of sexual behavior in the intervening decades. The pro-sex forces have just added to their roster of victories, continuing a winning streak which has only been accelerating over the past ten years or so. Which is why I say that even though there may be a few rear-guard battles left to fight, the Sexual Revolution is now over. Sex won.
-- Chris Weigant
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A great day in America and, a very nice title for a column today.
A nice "big picture" perspective on this decision.
Thanks for giving us Gorsuch's "sound conservative legal thinking" on how legislation written with language that applied to one era must be reinterpreted with the changing times. I wonder if the Federalist Society will expel him for abandoning the sacred precepts of "Originalism" in this case, at least.
This was a huge day for Equality, but sadly it is not the end of our fight. One thing that this ruling does not address is being fired because your employment goes against your employer’s religious beliefs. Which means people still have to deny their true selves if they want to work for certain religious organizations.
I loved working for YoungLife, it was my dream job and I loved the folks I worked with, but I finally realized that I could not honestly claim that I wasn’t gay...so I had to resign. I did not want to fight for my job, thinking it would harm the organization if I did. I still hope that they will change their ways...because I know that there are folks on staff there today struggling the same way I did.
Russ,
One thing that this ruling does not address is being fired because your employment goes against your employer’s religious beliefs.
How is that fight going? Isn't (employer) discrimination based on (the employer's) religion unconstitutional, practically speaking?
@liz,
presumably the religious right's next move is to try to carve out a first amendment exception to title VII, for organizations like the one russ worked for. i'm guessing they will claim that a LGBTQ person's right to non-discrimination is offset by the other employees' right to do business based on their religious beliefs - kinda like those pharmacists who refused to fill prescriptions for birth control.
JL
Can this problem be solved with legislation?
Actually, it probably wouldn't hurt to pass legislation to amend title VII so that sex = sexual orientation and gender identity, too. After all, what the high court can grant, the high court can also take away.
Still, a great day, all around.
I may have mentioned recently, around here … wrote, to be more precise … that America is circling the drain. Must have been in some dark mood. Because, I was wrong. In fact, I think the opposite is happening.
It is heartening to see all of the peaceful protests by Americans and that is behind those protests and to see it spread across the world. America is actually leading again!
I guess the three amigos don't know much about sex and how all-encompassing that word is. Thankfully, they don't get to limit its definition. :)
CW: As of this writing, Trump has yet to tweet about the court's decision, so we'll have to wait and see what direction he decides to take, at this point.
Yes, of course we know he'll take both directions; he'll say one thing and do another and take both sides of near every issue like he always does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqK9bVhrsA
He'll lie to your face and do exactly the opposite of what he claimed he'd do. Same shit, different day.
All Americans are entitled to the same rights regardless of their race, their religion, their gender, their choice of who they love, etc. This ain't rocket science!
Do y'all GOP dipshits and rubes need a simple slogan for that?
M'kay then: All sex lives matter.
The SCOTUS has spoken. :)
And, the promise of America is alive and well!
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All sex lives matter.
Ha! Wish I'd thought of this one!
The thing I've always thought about gayness (or whatever) is who would choose to be bullied by their classmates, risk being tossed out of their families and sometimes risk their lives out in public voluntarily?
No one, that's who. Hence, we're all born with a particular sexuality that is simply not optional.
No one should be discriminated against for who they are. Freedom of Religion is meaningless without freedom from Religion.
The same applies to abortion, too.
FPC
Michale wrote
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Once is a "mistake"..
Two is a "coincidence"..
Three is an agenda...
You cited a Fox News "headline" about Winston Churchill's face not loading up along with his bio on Google as an example of Left Wing bias. The article doesn't even use the words "Left Wing bias" so Michale how do you make that leap? And what are your other news sources?
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I concur, wholeheartedly.
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Kewell. Mongo have strong feelings for
Elizabeth Miller's opinion!
I'm feelin' kind of patriotic, so, here y'all go …
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=prism+american+music&view=detail&mid=24CEF70439C26870075924CEF70439C268700759&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dprism%2bamerican%2bmusic%26form%3dEDGEAR%26qs%3dPF%26cvid%3d43b107c26d6248c19d729d86eb440e6c%26cc%3dUS%26setlang%3den-US%26elv%3dAQj93OAhDTi*HzTv1paQdnjbsSKrPLTvy5BJLj*oSEgKyv0WdYkGYqJ33Spib5ZuGsJGttG7fR0QHOR%2521fEnfxGOWZGigM9nBCP*Ovcf16DBv%26plvar%3d0
American music, you can hear it all over the world!
American music, you can shout it all over the world!
Right now, somewhere, this minute, there's a radio playin' on ...
And, it's playin' that rhythm and blues
Hot dresses and high heeled shoes
With the Ikettes kicking and the Four Tops singin' that
Same old song...
It's the lovely flip-side to the Guess Who's American Woman, which doesn't get nearly the air play that it so richly deserves.
So NASCAR and the NFL have bailed on Trump, went and got themselves woke and such.
I'm only one Veteran and your vote counts every bit as much as mine. I don't mind anyone "taking a knee" in the least. That's because I swore to defend Mr. Kaepernick's right to do just that. I admire his principled courage, in fact. One's oath to our Constitution doesn't mean much if one doesn't grant Freedom of Speach to everyone. Including football players.
What MtnCaddy said! In spades!
And where the hell does it say not standing for the anthem is disrespectful to our Veterans?
Indeed!
Foster parenting and adoption are still problematical for the LGBTQ community, depending on where one lives. This is a barrier that needs to fall.
And, it surely will! These are AmeriCans we're talkin' about, after all!
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=prism%27s+night+to+remember&view=detail&mid=2FC8294A4D27656486832FC8294A4D2765648683&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dprism%2527s%2bnight%2bto%2bremember%26form%3dEDGEAR%26qs%3dPF%26cvid%3d52b910a050e3492882494d1e74f056a9%26cc%3dUS%26setlang%3den-US%26elv%3dAQj93OAhDTi*HzTv1paQdnjbsSKrPLTvy5BJLj*oSEgKFhlZwzo2dKMD90lBEAWvT3dHM4RGFHW5toGzvtXxn6KujtO*GF7%2521rjF1DeSe7TT2%26plvar%3d0
This particular Canadian classic rock band was most definitely ahead of its time ...
MtnCaddy [11],
The thing I've always thought about gayness (or whatever) is who would choose to be bullied by their classmates, risk being tossed out of their families and sometimes risk their lives out in public voluntarily?
A sinful person who prioritizes really great sex. Homophobia is all about projection.
Jesus is my Imaginary Friend; I shall not gay marry.
He maketh me to lie down green currency.
He leadeth me to cherry-pick Leviticus.
He demandeth my cash.
He teacheth me to fire sinners for His name’s sake.
Yea, though I eat ham & shrimp, I will fear no evil cognitive dissonance.
For Thou art with me.
My delusions and hallucinations, they comfort me.
Thou prohibiteth the use of the English word “marriage” by mine gay enemies.
Thou filleth my head with homophobia.
My psychotic episodes runneth over.
Surely, self-righteousness and hypocrisy shall define me all the days of my life
and I shall wallow in the idiotic hocus pocus of the Bronze Age goat-herders forever and ever.
Or else.
[6] Elizabeth Miller wrote:
"Can this problem be solved with legislation?"
Doubtful! Remember all the controversy over baking a cake for a gay wedding? Even though there are laws in some states and localities against that kind of discrimination, there are still those who try to claim and use or hide behind their religion and free practice there of in order to justify their discrimination against gay people, because their religion supposedly teaches or requires them to do so as part of their religious practice.
They have trouble making the distinction that the private practice of their religion stops when it begins to impinge on or restrict the public expression of other people's constitutional rights.
FPC....
MC,
You cited a Fox News "headline" about Winston Churchill's face not loading up along with his bio on Google as an example of Left Wing bias. The article doesn't even use the words "Left Wing bias" so Michale how do you make that leap? And what are your other news sources?
Actually I cited FNC who was citing google... And I told you how you could prove to yourself Google's Left Wing bias...
If you don't want to do it, it proves you are afraid of the facts....
Astonishingly, the decision was 6-3. Chief Justice John Roberts seems to be emerging as the key swing vote on the high court, likely because his name is on it (it'll be more his legacy than that of the other eight if "the Roberts court" issues a monumentally bad decision, in other words -- and he knows it). But added to the four liberals on the court, this still only means five votes. The truly astonishing thing is that a justice named by Donald Trump was the sixth vote for equality before the law.
I wouldn't be so cocky if I were you...
Chief Justice Roberts simply went along with the Liberal side so HE would be the one who actually wrote the opinion.. That way, the opinion could be tailored and narrowed to fit the conservative opinion...
Had CJR NOT sided with the liberals, then the liberals still would have won, but it would be RBG who would write the opinion and CJR knew THAT opinion would be overly broad and be totally against what Conservatives wanted...
CJR's vote was tactical in nature, allowing the conservatives to control the narrative and write the opinion in the way the conservatives wanted it written...
Quite the genius, Chief Justice Roberts is, eh?? :D
So LGBQRSTABCLUSERSXYZ groups won the battle but lost the war... :D
MC
The thing I've always thought about gayness (or whatever) is who would choose to be bullied by their classmates, risk being tossed out of their families and sometimes risk their lives out in public voluntarily?
When you were in high school, did you have groups that liked to stand out?? Be apart from the norm?? Flagrantly flaunted their differences to set them apart from the crowds??
In my high school way back when there were WOBs Wearers Of Black... They wallowed in being different.. It was new off the wall fun and exciting..
The gay lifestyle is simply more of the same... People wanting to be different.. Wanting to be "speeshal".. Special rights, special protections..
These days you say your gay and you have a built in support group, hundreds of thousands of activists who will take to the streets for you and laws tailor made to give you more protection under the law.. You get people treating you with kid gloves, totally afraid of yer wrath should you decide to throw a hissy fit..... Being gay means yer treated like a Diva...
I mean with all those bennys, who WOULDN'T want to dabble in the gay lifestyle???
I'm just sayin....
FPC.....
Liz,
}}}That description was NOT what was going through MY }}}head but, through the head of a former officer of 20+ }}}years.
Well, she's wrong.. If you want to give me a link, I'll show you why she is wrong...
You got that link for me???
MC,
No one should be discriminated against for who they are. Freedom of Religion is meaningless without freedom from Religion.
I completely agree with this and have said this exact saying many MANY times here in Weigantia over my 16 years of being here...
But you bring up an interesting conundrum for you to answer...
Liz is on record as saying that Joe Biden should NOT pick any cabinet member that was a President Trump supporter... That's discrimination..
You yourself have attacked and vilified President Trump supporters. That's discrimination..
Aren't BOTH of ya'all (not to mention everyone else here in Weigantia, myself included) guilty of discrimination???
How do you reconcile your NO ONE SHOULD BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST creed with your obvious Trump/America hate???
You can't have it both ways..
Either discrimination is OK or it is not OK...
Which is it???
It's funny how you Lefties are always tripped up by ya'all's own mantras, eh??
First ALL WOMEN ARE TO BE BELIEVED...
Then Joe McSniffyHair Biden is accused of rape and, JUST LIKE THAT, all women are NOT to be believed..
NO DISCRIMINATION!!! PERIOD!!! all of the sudden becomes WELL, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS IS ALLOWED..
Why is it that you Lefties are always tripped up and falling all over ya'all's own creeds and mantras??? :D
I find that hilarious.. It sure makes my job of ridiculing Democrats and the Democrat Party so much easier.. :D So I guess I should be thanking ya'all for that.. :D
Tanks..... AND PLANES!!!!
Hehe, that NEVER gets old!!! :D
MC
Speaking of discussions..
You were going to go over with me your ideas for police reform, even though the FACTS clearly prove that Officer Chauvin and Officer Rolf did absolutely NOTHING wrong..
I am very interested in hearing your ideas to fix something that's not broken...
I'll be here all day.. :D
MC,
So NASCAR and the NFL have bailed on Trump, went and got themselves woke and such.
I'm only one Veteran and your vote counts every bit as much as mine. I don't mind anyone "taking a knee" in the least. That's because I swore to defend Mr. Kaepernick's right to do just that. I admire his principled courage, in fact. One's oath to our Constitution doesn't mean much if one doesn't grant Freedom of Speach to everyone. Including football players.
Except for one thing...
The players time is not their own.. When they take the field, they are on MY time... I am paying their salaries.. And I don't want to see bullshit America Hate in place of a football game...
So, what's going to happen is exactly what happened the LAST time the NFL tried this crap...
They won't sell tickets to game, people won't watch the game at home, advertisers will lose MILLIONS of dollars. The Stands will be empty, teams will lose MILLIONS of dollars concessions will lose millions of dollars and the NFL will die an ignoble death...
ALL because a handful of bitchy whiner America hating assholes how to put their America hate on display...
Fans want to see FOOTBALL not Politics.. If they get politics, there will no longer be fans.... If they are no fans, NFL dies an ignoble death...
Those who control the $$$ controls the game.. And it's the fans who control the $$$. And us fans would rather see the NFL perish than to be exposed to 3 or 4 hours of America hate...
It's THAT simple...
This was a huge day for Equality, but sadly it is not the end of our fight.
Lemme ask ya'all a question..
What's better for Conservatives??
That Chief Justice Roberts writes the majority opinion??
Or that Ruth Bader Ginsberg writes the majority opinion??
Ahhhh What's that I see?? A little bit of light???
Dawn breaking over the bigotry and hate??
That WWWWOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHH Sound??? The air coming out of ya'all's sails??? :D
The realization that Conservatives actually WON because they are the ones who are writing the Majority Opinion???
Score one for the good guys...
:D
Police Officers All Over America Are Quitting Their Jobs Because Of The George Floyd Protests
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/police-officers-all-over-america-are-quitting-their-jobs-because-of-the-george-floyd-protests
How are ya'all gonna feel (Americans, anyways) when ya'all dial 911 and it's not answered???
I hope ya'all have the decency to feel pretty bad about your ideology and Party...
ournalist Andy Ngo says Seattle's occupied zone is like 'Jekyll and Hyde'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/andy-ngo-seattle-occupied-zone-night
See what the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party is up to with their armed annexation of Seattle...
This is your Democrat Party...
And they don't stand a chance in November...
Democrat Dingell compares Biden poll surge to Clinton in 2016: 'I don't believe these numbers'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-dingell-compares-biden-poll-surge-to-clinton-in-2016-i-dont-believe-these-numbers
At least there is ONE Democrat who has his head on straight and remembers the lessons of the past...
I saw a fascinating report on BBC World News this morning.
The police department in Camden, New Jersey was disbanded almost ten years ago. Policing was reimagined, redefined and reworked. It is now a model for the rest of the country.
Just wondering if anyone here has any personal experience with this great city!
A Comic Interlude...
Amaul and Juan are twins...
Their mother only keeps one photo in her purse..
Because if you've seen Juan, you have seen Amaul...
Ba da diiinnggg
:D
Liz is on record as saying that Joe Biden should NOT pick any cabinet member that was a President Trump supporter... That's discrimination..
Well, that would be an example of discerning discrimination, not based on sex, race, religion, creed, etc.
The world would be a better place, not to mention these comments sections, if there were a little more of that kind of discrimination. Heh.
Hmmm.
The police department in Camden, New Jersey was disbanded almost ten years ago. Policing was reimagined, redefined and reworked. It is now a model for the rest of the country.
All they did was shift Law Enforcement duties to Camden County SO....
That's not abolishing police as the Democrat Party is demanding...
Well, that would be an example of discerning discrimination, not based on sex, race, religion, creed, etc.
Tap dance all you want.. But it's still discrimination..
So, what you are saying now is that SOME discrimination is OK... Some discrimination is actually preferred...
Is that the current claim???
The world would be a better place, not to mention these comments sections, if there were a little more of that kind of discrimination. Heh.
:D So, Democrats are perfectly OK with discrimination as long as THEY are the ones who decide what IS and ISN'T "appropriate" discrimination...
Yea, that's what I figured as well.. Just never thought I would get someone to confirm it.. :D
‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
Conventional indicators suggest the president’s bid for a second term is in jeopardy. But state and local GOP officials see a different election unfolding.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457
I think ya'all need to prepare yerselves for a REALLY rude awakening on 3 Nov, 2020
Discrimination, per se, isn't the bad word you imagine it to be, Michale.
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Well, that would be an example of discerning discrimination, not based on sex, race, religion, creed, etc.
Tap dance all you want.. But it's still discrimination..
So, what you are saying now is that SOME discrimination is OK... Some discrimination is actually preferred...
Is that the current claim???
The world would be a better place, not to mention these comments sections, if there were a little more of that kind of discrimination. Heh.
:D So, Democrats are perfectly OK with discrimination as long as THEY are the ones who decide what IS and ISN'T "appropriate" discrimination...
Yea, that's what I have always figured as well..
Just never thought I would get someone to confirm it.. :D
I wish you were more discriminating, Michale. :)
See?
Discrimination, per se, isn't the bad word you imagine it to be, Michale.
Oh.. Believe me, I get it..
It's only bad when you can fling it at President Trump and his supporters..
It's perfectly acceptable for Democrats to fling the word (and the action) around..
I 1000% get it. I really do...
I wish you were more discriminating, Michale. :)
I am... I don't like terrorists.. I don't like it when the NFL and Infinity Ward honor Terrorists and terrorist groups...
I am very discriminating... :D
Hmmm ...
So, when ya'all attack President Trump for his alleged discriminating, I can point to your own words and say
"Discrimination, per se, isn't the bad word you imagine it to be,"
And we would be in agreement.. Right?? :D
Nice try.
Don't Clean Up the Left's Mess
Leave it exactly as you found it.
This is a message every parent knows. When your children throw a tantrum and wreck their rooms by tossing books, games and clothes everywhere (but oddly enough not their PlayStation or Xbox), you don’t sanction their immature behavior by picking up after them. It’s their mess and they need to live with it until they recognize the error of their ways. If you want to speed up enlightenment, take away the video game system and make its return contingent on results.
With Precinct Vacated, Seattle Chief Says Policing Will Never Be Same
If the grown-ups in America took the same approach to the spoiled brats who have hijacked our major cities, we might well see a rapid learning curve as the mayhem sown by looters and rioters were left to fester and rot as a visible consequence of lawlessness.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/15/dont_clean_up_the_lefts_mess_143442.html
Democrats need to learn a lesson here...
They are on the wrong side of the American people...
And...
For those of you who claim Democrats are not serious or don't actually MEAN abolish the police???
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Because reform won’t happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
Apparently, they are serious...
Which is great for President Trump and America... :D
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Actually I cited FNC who was citing google... And I told you how you could prove to yourself Google's Left Wing bias...
If you don't want to do it, it proves you are afraid of the facts....
I must have missed that memo -- please refresh my memory!
And just because someone doesn't go off on some wild goose chase trying to verify your point doesn't mean "we're afraid of facts." It means that once again you're unwilling/unable to answer the damned question.
Once again, what are your news sources?
Whoops!
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Actually I cited FNC who was citing google... And I told you how you could prove to yourself Google's Left Wing bias...
If you don't want to do it, it proves you are afraid of the facts....
I must have missed that memo -- please refresh my memory!
And just because someone doesn't go off on some wild goose chase trying to verify your point doesn't mean "we're afraid of facts." It means that once again you're unwilling/unable to answer the damned question.
Once again, what are your news sources?
This concludes today's walk down Memory Lane. :)
The SCOTUS on Monday also refused to take up a series of cases seeking to expand gun rights, leaving DC v. Heller as the latest SCOTUS decision regarding Second Amendment rights... wherein the SCOTUS ruled the right to own a firearm is an individual right but that state and local governments have the ability to set restrictions or even ban certain types of weapons.
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Chief Justice Roberts simply went along with the Liberal side so HE would be the one who actually wrote the opinion.. That way, the opinion could be tailored and narrowed to fit the conservative opinion...
CJR's vote was tactical in nature, allowing the conservatives to control the narrative and write the opinion in the way the conservatives wanted it written...
Quite the genius, Chief Justice Roberts is, eh?? :D
I raise my glass to more of these Conservative "victories!"
Waaah! It's just not fair! Cheif Justice Roberts is playing eighth dimension chess, just like Trump!
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Michale wrote:
...being different.. It was new off the wall fun and exciting..
The gay lifestyle is simply more of the same... People wanting to be different.. Wanting to be "speeshal".. Special rights, special protections..
..... Being gay means yer treated like a Diva...
I mean with all those bennys, who WOULDN'T want to dabble in the gay lifestyle???
I'm just sayin....
So... did you,
... er, swallow?
Heh.
But seriously, Michale, do you really believe what you've written here? Really?
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Liz is on record as saying that Joe Biden should NOT pick any cabinet member that was a President Trump supporter... That's discrimination..
Stop right there! That is not discrimination.
From the interwebs:
Discrimination occurs when individuals or groups are treated "in a way which is worse than the way people are usually treated," based on their actual or perceived membership in certain groups or social categories."
Rejecting a Trump true believer applying for a job in the upcoming Biden administration job is no more discriminatory than rejecting George Floyd's application to join the Minneapolis, what with his rap sheet and all.
C'mon, Michale, you're smarter than to present a flimsy argument like this "discrimination" sillyness. Sheesh.
dammit!
... join the Minneapolis Police Department...
MC,
Once again, what are your news sources?
It depends on exactly what issue you are referring to..
CNN, FOX, HuffPoop, NY GRIME, WaPoop, REAL CLEAR, Slate, VOX, etc etc have all been news sources at one time or another....
I raise my glass to more of these Conservative "victories!"
Waaah! It's just not fair! Cheif Justice Roberts is playing eighth dimension chess, just like Trump!
And you Trump/America haters fell for it, hook, line and sinker.. :D
But seriously, Michale, do you really believe what you've written here? Really?
If I didn't, I wouldn't have posted.. You have any facts to refute my comments??
Of course you don't.. :D
I raise my glass to more of these Conservative "victories!"
Have you read the opinion, MC???
It's clearly a Conservative victory, so narrow in it's application it's all but useless to the Trump/America haters...
Don't take my word for it..
Read it yerself.. :D
From the interwebs:
Discrimination occurs when individuals or groups are treated "in a way which is worse than the way people are usually treated," based on their actual or perceived membership in certain groups or social categories."
And how do ya'all treat Trump Supporters???
Even using YOUR OWN definition, the way ya'all treat Trump supporters is discrimination...
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
https://twitter.com/i/status/1272869065929961472
Democrats at play.... :eyeroll:
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Except for one thing...
The players time is not their own.. When they take the field, they are on MY time... I am paying their salaries.. And I don't want to see bullshit America Hate in place of a football game...
First off, it doesn't add a nanosecond to anyone's football experience.
Secondly, why is the exercise of our First Amendment rights offensive to you?
Third, why do only Republicans take anti racism "protest" so personally? Why do kneeling NFL players bother you guys so much? It's not like you guys have anything to feel guilty about, right?
BTW it's not "protest" it's "bringing racism to everyone's attention because it's not like anyone pays much
attention to ordinary black people."
As I said yesterday...
http://sjfm.us/pics/reform.jpg
It's not the PDs and SOs that need reform..
It's the community that is in DESPERATE need of reform...
Mike
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Chief Justice Roberts simply went along with the Liberal side so HE would be the one who actually wrote the opinion..
Roberts did not write the opinion.
That way, the opinion could be tailored and narrowed to fit the conservative opinion...
The opinion wasn't narrowed; it upheld judgments of two lower courts and reversed and remanded another case for further proceedings consistent with the opinion written by Gorsuch... not Roberts.
Had CJR NOT sided with the liberals, then the liberals still would have won, but it would be RBG who would write the opinion and CJR knew THAT opinion would be overly broad and be totally against what Conservatives wanted...
You're either a liar, an uneducated moron... or both. I will allow others to decide, but I think you're both. It isn't "discrimination" to have an opinion that Trump and Trumpanzees like yourself are liars, idiots... or both.
CJR's vote was tactical in nature, allowing the conservatives to control the narrative and write the opinion in the way the conservatives wanted it written...
So to recap: Good thing those conservatives narrowed that whole thing and didn't actually make it illegal to fire someone because they are gay or transgender. Oh, wait!
First off, it doesn't add a nanosecond to anyone's football experience.
That's not your call to make on anyone else's behalf...
But it's easy to prove you wrong.. Have all the football payers holding up PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION and watch you liberals and snowflakes destroy their TVs...
Secondly, why is the exercise of our First Amendment rights offensive to you?
It's not a first amendment issue when you are being paid to do a specific thing..
Look at the afore mentioned TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION signs to see what I mean..
Third, why do only Republicans take anti racism "protest" so personally? Why do kneeling NFL players bother you guys so much? It's not like you guys have anything to feel guilty about, right?
I have already explained it to you once.. As it was explained last year when America Hating assholes started this..
We saw how viewership and TV ratings and attendance plummeted when the America hating racists did their bit..
I simply point out it's going to happen again this year...
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Ooo! Here's a good one:
...and the NFL will die an ignoble death...
ALL because a handful of bitchy whiner America hating assholes how to put their America hate on display...
Yeah, kneeling football players will destroy the NFL. Won't even try to reach you on that one, Pal.
Remind the class how to point out areas in need of improvement (you know, that "...in order to form a more perfect Union" stuff) is " hating America. "
But it's easy to prove you wrong.. Have all the football payers holding up PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION and watch you liberals and snowflakes destroy their TVs...
And don't tell me Trump/America hating morons wouldn't care..
I mean, they are the group that wants to cancel PAW PATROL!!!!
They are totally frak'ed in the heads..
THAT is your Democrat Party... Enjoy...
Remind the class how to point out areas in need of improvement (you know, that "...in order to form a more perfect Union" stuff) is " hating America. "
You still have yet to mention your ideas on Police Reform..
Why can't you do that???
Because there are NO ideas out there.. All your Dumbocrats want to do is abolish the Police...
Yea.. THAT is a winning platform to run on!! :D
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Aaaand... the hits keep coming!
And us fans would rather see the NFL perish than to be exposed to 3 or 4 hours of America hate...
It's THAT simple...
How does your seeing kneeling football players for our 1:55 national anthem cause 3 to 4 hours of America hate?
Why the U.S. Military Still Loves Donald Trump
The military noted these insults and repaid Trump in kind by overwhelmingly voting for him in the 2016 election, where Trump outpolled Clinton among those in uniform by a two-to-one margin.
In fact, the military’s support for Trump wasn’t surprising, and most especially to those in the military’s most senior ranks. “The military is a conservative organization, and that’s especially true among enlisted personnel,” retired Col. Kevin Benson, the former director of the Army’s prestigious School of Advanced Military Studies, told me during a lengthy telephone interview in the wake of the election. “So it stands to reason that Trump would appeal to them. In many ways, I think, he speaks their language.” Nor is it a shock, as Benson now concludes, that Trump retains the popularity that he enjoyed nearly four years ago. “He’s done some controversial things, for sure,” Benson told me recently. “But, and in spite of that, he’s still viewed as pro-military by those in uniform. He’s aware of that view, and he cultivates it.”
While Trump’s support among servicemen and women has slipped since his election, according to a December poll conducted by the Military Times, which featured the news with an eye-popping headline: Troops’ Opinion of Trump Heads Down. Still, he is more popular now than when Barack Obama was when he left office. And while these numbers are dated and may be revised in light of the urban turmoil spurred by the George Floyd incident in Minneapolis, there is no reason to believe that they’ve changed significantly over the last six months. In fact, Trump’s numbers among the military have remained remarkably consistent during his four-year presidency, despite the recent slippage. The military consistently and historically has supported Trump in greater numbers than those of the general population, where Trump’s popularity has taken a nosedive. Which is to note that Trump not only retains his core support among conservative and Republican service members?—who outnumber self-described liberals and Democrats, among those in uniform, by a wide margin?—it appears that the voting public is far more upset with the way that Trump treats the military than the military itself. “I suppose that it’s a sign of just how conservative we are as an institution,” a senior military officer noted. “In my view, Trump’s presidency hasn’t been particularly good for the military but that’s a minority view. Apparently, when Obama reduces the military to rubble it’s an outrage but when Trump does it it’s perfectly OK.”
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-us-military-still-loves-donald-trump-161786
Just one of the many reasons President Trump is going to coast to re-election... :D
MC
Let me know when you have those police reforms lined up... :D
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The realization that Conservatives actually WON because they are the ones who are writing the Majority Opinion???
Score one for the good guys...
:D
"You betcha!" The Loud and Proud Liberal was heard to cackle in the background
How the end of lockdown will hurt Joe Biden amid the campaign trail
Joe Biden might be the luckiest person in politics. Despite endless gaffes and awkward encounters, he became the Democratic nominee following several candidates dropping out and the implosion of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Biden had another major boost with the coronavirus lockdown. Stuck at home, some of his worst qualities, including degraded language skills, a tendency to pick fights with his supporters, and his dubious track record, became hidden from the public. However, with restrictions being lifted across many states, his weakness will be laid bare.
Before the lockdowns, his campaign was flailing. Biden seemed to make it a point to stick his foot in his mouth at every available opportunity. Do you remember when he called a voter a “damn liar” in Iowa? Or when he oddly asserted that 150 million people have died from gun violence over the last 13 years? While these incidents might seem like forever ago with all that is going on in the country, they shaped the poor public perception of Biden before the coronavirus took the spotlight away from him.
With the lockdowns ending, Biden will lose his advantage of staying out of the spotlight. He will have to transition from interviews with friendly hosts, conducted from his home in Delaware where aides could carefully control optics, to the unpredictable style of town halls. Without any handlers able to manage every moment, his loose tongue or instigative attitude toward voters threaten to define the remainder of his campaign.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/502677-how-the-end-of-lockdown-will-hurt-joe-biden-amid-the-campaign-trail
Americans are going to be exposed to Joe McSniffyHair Biden in all his gaffe-prone glory....
Personally, I think it's cruel to force a dementia sufferer to endure a rigorous campaign... But Democrats have to run SOMEONE and McSniffy is all they have...
Have to wonder if he'll vaporlock, like Hillary did.. Have to be tossed into a dark van like a sack o potatoes..
Biden still had blunders over the last few months that would have made headline news during normal times but were quickly forgotten amid the pandemic reports. Honorable mentions include when he asserted black Trump supporters are not really black, stated just 85,000 jobs were lost due to the coronavirus but millions had died, and appeared to fall asleep during a virtual town hall with Hillary Clinton. Such faux pas will become more frequent as Biden is forced into public and will do greater political damage with a news cycle more focused on the election.
The shifting news cycle will also place his track record under increased scrutiny, most notably his pivotal role writing the disastrous 1994 crime bill. His tough on crime overhaul may be considered common sense to moderates, but the protests reveal what a political liability it is among Democrats today. The bill raised police funding and was so strict that Biden said it did it all except “hang people for jaywalking.”
While the lockdowns allowed Biden to hide his all greatest flaws, they also prevented Donald Trump from using his greatest strengths. The president is at his best in front of energized crowds at his massive rallies. Due to the coronavirus, he has not utilized his most potent tool just yet. However, the reinvigoration of the Trump campaign through its heavily attended events will serve as a reminder of the reasons why he won four years ago. His first rally since the start of the pandemic will be next weekend.
Simply CANNOT wait until President Trump comes to JAX.. I am gonna angle to get a selfie with President Trump... That would make my day!! :D
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A Comic Interlude...
Amaul and Juan are twins...
Their mother only keeps one photo in her purse..
Because if you've seen Juan, you have seen Amaul...
Ba da diiinnggg
:D
See, Michale, doesn't that feel better, making people smile instead of frown? Request permission to appropriate and misuse (the most truly sincere form of flattery, a-yup)
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Once again, what are your news sources?
It depends on exactly what issue you are referring to..
CNN, FOX, HuffPoop, NY GRIME, WaPoop, REAL CLEAR, Slate, VOX, etc etc have all been news sources at one time or another....
Vox? Slate? No OAN, no Breitbart and no Daily Sto -- whoops, not going there...
So where do you get the stuff you copy and paste here in Weigantia?
See, Michale, doesn't that feel better, making people smile instead of frown? Request permission to appropriate and misuse (the most truly sincere form of flattery, a-yup)
I could ask you the same, what with all your attacks on President Trump and President Trump supporters, eh? :D
Vox? Slate? No OAN, no Breitbart and no Daily Sto -- whoops, not going there...
OAN??? Naw, hardly ever read brietbart if ever...
Most of my links come from RealClearPolitics, the ONLY news site that is acceptable here in Weigantia...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Here is a VOX link for ya..
Democrats are grappling with calls to “defund the police”
Reps. Jim Clyburn and Ilhan Omar have very different views on what the polarizing slogan means.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) explicitly rejected the “defund the police” slogan that has emerged among progressive activists fighting against police brutality and racism in recent weeks, saying on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that “nobody is going to defund the police.”
Later on the same program, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) embraced the term. She suggested defunding efforts are often misunderstood, and argued that they do not mean “that the community is not going to be kept safe.”
The disconnect between the two prominent Democrats symbolizes how “defund the police” is emerging as a wedge issue between the activist left flank of the party and its more moderate leadership. The nature of the debate also brings to the fore advocates’ and critics’ struggle to communicate precisely what the phrase “defund the police” means as they go about adopting or rejecting it.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Clyburn firmly opposed embracing the concept amid Democrats’ push for criminal justice reform legislation.
“I would simply say, as I have always said, nobody is going to defund the police,” he said. “We can restructure the police forces, restructure, reimagine policing. That is what we are going to do. The fact of the matter is, the police have a role to play. What we have got to do is make sure that their role is one that meets the times, one that responds to these communities that they operate in.”
Clyburn went on to say that growing up he didn’t fear the police, but that “all of a sudden now I do fear police.”
“The fact of the matter is this is a structure that has been developed that we’ve got to deconstruct. So I wouldn’t say defund. Deconstruct our policing,” he said.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/14/21290877/democrats-defund-police-omar-clyburn
I have a well-rounded repertoire of links that move up and down and Left and Right of the Political Spectrum...
All of which goes to prove and/or support the point I am trying to make..
For example, JM explicitly stated that calls by Democrats to defund the police aren't really serious..
And by the various Left Wing links, I have proven that it IS serious..
And it's SERIOUSLY going to hamper and drag on Democrats in November..
Much like that Kente Scarf pandering Democrat Leadership tried... That was so resoundingly slapped down by black Americans..
Shoulda been a MDDOTW award there, but what do I know, eh?? :D
Most of Mike's links come from Fox News.
Mike lies.
Just as an aside, I used to hang out on Huff Po quite a bit. But they fired seemingly everybody over 30 (I miss you Jason Linkins) and I don't recognize the place anymore.
Mike
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But it's easy to prove you wrong.. Have all the football payers holding up PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION and watch you liberals and snowflakes destroy their TVs...
Only in the tiny minds of Trumpanzee morons is holding up words on signs exactly like a silent protest.
It's not a first amendment issue when you are being paid to do a specific thing..
That's why journalists are prevented from receiving salaries. *laughs* You're an idiot.
Look at the afore mentioned TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION signs to see what I mean..
Because holding up a political ad for a specific candidate is the EXACT same thing as a person kneeling in silence... when you're an idiot.
I have already explained it to you once.. As it was explained last year when America Hating assholes started this..
The asshole Trump hijacked the silent protest of football players and made it all about Trump -- when it never was about Trump and still isn't about Trump -- and so now the morons like Mike insist that the silent protest is about Trump because they're Trump's useful idiots and definitely swallow.
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And you Trump/America haters fell for it, hook, line and sinker.. :D
Hook, line, sinker and half tha fishing pole! Yea, verily.
But 'tis you and ordinary Trump/GOP Americans who've done the the swallowing (and because of it voting against your own pocketbooks!)
And MY pocketbook, too! So cut it out.
Yep, we're back to that swallowing theme again, BigBoi!
And MY pocketbook, too! So cut it out.
So, yer voting for President Trump this year, eh?? :D
Good call... :D
One of our dearly departed here, Neil had to concede that the President Trump economy is awesome for his investments...
And that economy that the Democrats tried to destroy with their Russia Collusion Delusion and their Faux Impeachment Coup is rip-roaring back into place.. :D
Woot...
Most of Mike's links come from Fox News.
Mike lies.
As usual, Victoria doesn't have a clue what she's talking about..
You can see for yourself a compilation of my links...
vox.com
realclearpolitics.com
endoftheamericandream.com
foxnews.com
politico.com
nytimes.com
Victoria is as wrong now as she was when she tried to claim that Minneapolis doesn't allow the knee the neck restraint move. I prove that at the time of the George Floyd arrest, MPD certainly did allow the restraint move..
You really can't put yer faith into ANYTHING Victoria claims.... She never has any facts to back up her hysterical rantings.
As I just proved beyond any doubt... :D
It always amazes me that Victoria always makes such bullshit claims that are so easily refuted as the bullshit lies they are..
My links..
MPD's policy on the knee to the neck restraint..
Bullshit claims that are easily proven absolute BULLSHIT.. :D
But anyways.. Moving on...
Media bungle Atlanta police shooting and claim victim was 'unarmed'
The shooting death this weekend of Rayshard Brooks is tragic. It also does not appear to be a cut-and-dried case of wanton police brutality, despite what you may have heard from news reports.
“The family of Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed black man who was shot twice in the back by a white Atlanta police officer on Friday after he fell asleep in his car, have called for murder charges and a radical overhaul of the city’s police department,” the Guardian reported Monday.
Earlier, on Sunday, MSNBC ran a segment that claimed Brooks was “an unarmed African American man.”
This does not quite appear to be the whole story.
On Friday, Atlanta police officers responded to complaints that Brooks had fallen asleep in his car in a Wendy’s parking lot. What began as a sobriety test reportedly spun out of control, turning into a violent altercation between the officers and Brooks, who supposedly had been drinking. In the ensuing struggle, Brooks allegedly took an officer’s Taser. The Atlanta man then broke free from the tussle and began to flee on foot. As he made his getaway, Brooks appeared to fire the stolen Taser at one of the police officers, who responded by using deadly force. Brooks was shot and killed. The Fulton County medical examiner ruled Sunday that the man's death was a homicide.
Witness videos uploaded to social media shortly after the incident appear to show Brooks stealing and firing the Taser at the officers. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also said in a statement made available at around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday that Brooks had attempted to use the stun gun on the officers. Footage made publicly available that same day appears to back up this version of events.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/media-bungle-rayshard-brooks-shooting-claim-he-was-unarmed
^^^^ NON- FOX NEW link. :D
Yea, the Leftist media really bungled the Rayhorn Brooks shooting..
Reminds me of the time that NBC altered George Zimmerman's audio to make it sound like Z was a racist...
Why can't the Leftist Media simply report the FACTS???
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I wish you were more discriminating, Michale. :)
I am... I don't like terrorists.. I don't like it when the NFL and Infinity Ward honor Terrorists and terrorist groups...
I am very discriminating... :D
Boy, "I am very discriminating" is a self goal if I ever saw one.
Ahem.
Please explain why, when football players kneel to protest racism (without, objectively, adding a bleeping nanosecond to our anthem, Mr. Alternative Facts) that becomes in your mind "... the NFL and Infinity Ward honor[ing] Terrorists and terrorist groups... ?"
Yes, please help me make that leap.
P. S. And whotthehell is Infinity Ward?
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Gurl... that's priceless!
Me getting help from Raven when I post to chrisweigant.com
http://sjfm.us/pics/raven-5.jpg
:D
Please explain why, when football players kneel to protest racism
Because they ain't protesting racism.. They are protesting cops..
Racism is not a part of police work..
Unless you have FACTS that show otherwise, asshole football players are protesting this country..
P. S. And whotthehell is Infinity Ward?
They run the MODERN WARFARE Game Servers...
"We need to tear down the crack houses before we tear down the monuments."
-Black Pastor
Of course, the Democrat Party WANTS the crack houses to remain standing..
Makes it easier to continue their policy of enslaving black Americans..
#WalkAway
Please explain why, when football players kneel to protest racism
Institutionalized racism is dead in this country.. It died the day we voted a black American as POTUS...
Outside of Affirmative Action, give me ANY ***FACTS*** that prove institutionalized racism..
You can't because none exists...
Institutionalized Racism is the boogeyman that the Democrat Party uses to continue to enslave black Americans...
The Democrat Party is still the Party of slave owners.. The plantation has just been changed.. Now it's the welfare office and the crack houses that are the new plantations..
And the Democrat Party wants to make sure those continue to run smoothly...
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But it's easy to prove you wrong.. Have all the football payers holding up PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR RE-ELECTION and watch you liberals and snowflakes destroy their TVs...
That is your "proof?"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
– Inigo Montoya
The Princess Bride
MC,
But hay.. Since you appear to be so into NASCAR.... :D
A NASCAR driver raced in a 'Back the Blue' car in support of police
(CNN)Days after NASCAR's only full-time black driver raced in a Black Lives Matter-themed car, a competitor drove with a symbol of Blue Lives Matter on its hood.
At Sunday's NASCAR Xfinity race in Homestead, Florida, driver Kyle Weatherman debuted a newly designed car emblazoned with the hashtag "Back the Blue" in support of police and first responders.
The hood of Weatherman's Camaro bore the Thin Blue Line flag, an emblem of the Blue Lives Matter organization, a national group of police and their supporters originally formed to counter the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Thin Blue Line flag resembles an American flag but in black and white, with one blue stripe in the middle. The blue line is meant to symbolize law enforcement. The space above the blue line represents societal order, and the space below the line is meant to be crime and chaos. The "thin blue line" of law enforcement separates the two, according to Thin Blue Line USA, which makes pro-police clothing and gifts that support police nonprofits.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/us/nascar-thin-blue-line-car-trnd/index.html
Again... ^^^^^ Note the NON-FOXNEWS link... :D
I just love proving Democrat's lies... It's fun... :D
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You totally ducked this question:
Third, why do only Republicans take anti racism "protest" so personally? Why do kneeling NFL players bother you guys so much? It's not like you guys have anything to feel guilty about, right?
Please unduck yourself.
That is your "proof?"
How would you feel about it if football players held up Pro President Trump signs and RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP signs..??
Are you saying you wouldn't mind at all??
Be honest... :D
I am tired of answering all your questions and you don't answer shit..
Give me your "police reform" ideas... Let me know how you would feel about Pro President Trump signs in football..
Got no scrot??? 'fraid to go on the record?? :D
I get it.. Ya'all have a history of being totally and completely wrong about everything to do with President Trump...
Who can blame ya when yer skeered to go on the record.. :D
That is your "proof?"
It's a lot more "proof" than you have shown ever...
But I understand.. You don't have the facts to back up your claims.. I get it..
I won't make you admit it.. :D
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You still have yet to mention your ideas on Police Reform..
Why can't you do that???
Um, because it takes serious study and reflection to realistically address such a complicated problem? You know, as opposed to regurgitating alternative facts from Fox News...
whose only purpose is to get you to vote against your own wallet.
Mike
You can see for yourself a compilation of my links...
Indeed, they are archived. Anybody with an elementary school education and a memory that lasts longer than a few hours already knows your "go to" website is Fox News. Not rocket science.
Victoria is as wrong now as she was when she tried to claim that Minneapolis doesn't allow the knee the neck restraint move.
I never said that, of course.
I said they allowed it in certain circumstances and gave my opinion multiple times thereafter that part of this incident didn't fit the circumstances in which it was allowed. Russ apparently misunderstood what I wrote, and you're just an inveterate lying liar who lies all the time on this forum. But thanks for volunteering to highlight your own ignorance and inability to read; it's always a bonus when stupid people point out their repeated inability to comprehend written English.
I prove that at the time of the George Floyd arrest, MPD certainly did allow the restraint move..
I never said they didn't. You just have a well-documented reading comprehension problem... and you lie all the time.
You really can't put yer faith into ANYTHING Victoria claims.... She never has any facts to back up her hysterical rantings.
You are entitled to your opinion, but it's still just the opinion of a poor fat bald uneducated and penniless lying useful idiot... who dances on cue. *laughs*
Aaaand... [80] and [82] demonstrate a GOP "go to" move, namely, deflect the question by trying to change the subject.
Typical.
Mike
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It always amazes me that Victoria always makes such bullshit claims that are so easily refuted as the bullshit lies they are..
It always amazes me how you repeatedly volunteer your inability to read simple words. As for the lying, it's what you do here repeatedly and without end.
Hey! Knock it off with the all bold (like in [82] and [83])! It's annoying and it truly detracts from your point.
Um, because it takes serious study and reflection to realistically address such a complicated problem? You know, as opposed to regurgitating alternative facts from Fox News.
In other words, you got nothing.. Why not just man up and admit it??
Aaaand... [80] and [82] demonstrate a GOP "go to" move, namely, deflect the question by trying to change the subject.
Typical.
And typical of Democrats that they have a plan but they refuse to share it...
So, I'll just assume yer talking out yer ass and have no idea about police SOP and reform...
As you say...
Typical...
Hey! Knock it off with the all bold (like in [82] and [83])! It's annoying and it truly detracts from your point.
Would you like some cheese to go with that whine???
I have been posting in that style for over 15 years now..
If ya don't like it, you know what you can do... :D
And just because it's a classic.. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwG6g5boyF4
And another.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmljreTAgYI
MtnCaddy
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I agree with you that the constant plagiarism and copyright violations are beyond getting old.
Perhaps if we all joined in the practice instead of just the troll doing it, it would soon become obvious how intolerable it was.
This is an excellent idea! Let's make it happen.
Donald Trump is defunding the police
He’s proposed cuts in budget after budget, and is holding up needed fiscal aid.
President Trump has repeatedly proposed cuts in federal funding for police, criticized landmark legislation that boosted financial support for police departments, and is currently involved in blocking legislation that would greatly reduce pressure on local governments to cut police funding.
In layman’s terms, he’s been trying to defund the police.
Of course activists and intellectuals who have rallied behind the slogan “defund the police” have something bigger and grander in mind than random budget cuts. Ayobami Laniyonu, the University of Toronto sociologist, explains to my colleague Sean Illing that he wants “reinvestment of that money in otherwise underserved and marginalized communities. Let’s get rid of the practice of managing homelessness, inequality, poverty, the consequences of decades of racial segregation, and the consequences of decades of disinvestment in public health with armed members of law enforcement.”
But as leading Democrats from former Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. James Clyburn on down have largely refused the call, Republicans have nonetheless pressed forward with a message of opposition to defunding police departments.
What Republicans haven’t done is actually change their policy positions. They continue to be in favor of forcing state and local governments to enact massive rounds of austerity in response to the coronavirus pandemic. And even though polling shows the idea of cutting police funding to be unpopular, realistically, states and cities facing huge budget holes are going to need to ask police departments to share in some of the pain.
This dispute about budgeting — where Democrats are fighting against austerity and Republicans are fighting for it — is different from the theoretical argument police abolitionists want to have about the future of law enforcement. But it’s a real one playing out this summer in Congress with real consequences for the lives of hundreds of millions of people. And in this debate, it’s Trump who wants to defund the police.
Trump’s budgets have routinely proposed police cuts
In early February of this year, the Trump administration proposed a 58 percent cut in the federal government’s COPS Hiring Program, a federal program that supports police department staffing. That’s not a one-off; his administration’s budget proposals have routinely called for huge cuts to this program, which was inaugurated in the 1990s as part of Bill Clinton’s pledge to hire 100,000 new police officers (Congress keeps declining to do this).
Police staffing levels have stagnated and fallen since the heyday of this program in part as a result of the general trend toward state and local budget cuts in the wake of the Great Recession and huge GOP electoral wins in the 2010 midterms.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/16/21286669/donald-trump-is-defunding-the-police
The impeached Fat Orange Bastard is already defunding the police...
Trump has never actually talked about this proposed further reduction in police spending, as far as I can tell, and it’s sharply at odds with both his rhetoric about the police and police unions’ enthusiastic embrace of him. But that disjuncture is part of a more general distinction between the memetic politics of police and the real world of budgeting, where GOP tax and spending policies squeeze law enforcement along with every other form of front-line public service provision.
Democrats are trying to save police departments from cuts
The fact that Joe Biden refuses to embrace the idea of “defunding the police” has attracted a fair amount of attention in recent days. Instead, he’s proposed spending “an additional $300 million to reinvigorate community policing in our country,” arguing in USA Today that “every single police department should have the money they need to institute real reforms like adopting a national use of force standard, buying body cameras, and recruiting more diverse police officers.”
But the larger and more significant budgetary context is that the HEROES Act passed by House Democrats and stalled by Senate Republicans appropriates $900 billion to state and local governments.
With that kind of fiscal support, cities that don’t want to defund their police departments wouldn’t have to. And cities that do want to experiment with shifting funding out of law enforcement and into mental health, drug treatment, and youth services will have the opportunity to do that.
Republicans, meanwhile, have characterized this idea as a “blue state bailout” and say Congress should instead consider changes to bankruptcy law that might allow states to shed their pension obligations in bankruptcy.
Given the strain that the Covid-19 crisis has placed on state and local budgets, a lack of federal aid makes cuts to policing essentially inevitable. These would not be cuts on the divest/reinvest model favored by anti-police activists but just old-fashioned budget cuts where there is less money for everything. And while it’s true that shedding pension obligations could relieve some pressure on current-day spending, many of those pension benefits go to police officers — who typically retire early and collect generous defined benefit pensions.
American cities are facing broad arbitrary austerity
Advocates of defunding or even “abolishing” the police are not generally talking about broad-brush cuts to budgets that just happen to include cuts to police budgets. Instead, the most common model is a dual movement to divest from law enforcement and security functions in order to invest in other social services.
Under the circumstances, state and local governments are going to be divesting from everything and investing in nothing simply because there isn’t enough money to go around. Education will almost certainly pay the highest price, since it accounts for about a third of state and local spending, but the 4 percent going to police is unlikely to be spared either.
This kind of willy-nilly budget cutting isn’t what thoughtful police defunders have in mind when they talk about reimagining the criminal justice system. But when pollsters find that two-thirds of the public opposes defunding the police, that probably is what the electorate fears. Many people might prefer something else in lieu of the traditional police presence in our cities. But few simply want the police to vanish.
Absent the kind of federal aid that Republicans are currently blocking, that’s what’s going to happen. America is going to have fewer police, and fewer teachers and mental health workers, and fewer summer job programs and community centers, and just generally less of everything. That’s unlikely to be a happy ending for anyone.
Because Trump is a dotard with the IQ of a piece of shit.
BBBWWWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Imitation is the MOST SINCEREST form of flattery!!
Thank you, Victoria... Your flattery is most hilarious.. :D
Thank you for proving to ALL of Weigantia that I PWN you and totally control how you comment.. :D
There could be no better confirmation.. :D
Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any'
President Trump on Monday downplayed concerns of a rising number of coronavirus cases in states across the country, indicating that the increase was due to more testing.
"If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” Trump said during a White House event highlighting administration actions to help senior citizens.
Trump has frequently made inconsistent comments on testing. At times he has sought to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic by saying the U.S. has tested more people than any other country, and as a result, the number of confirmed cases is higher.
Other times, Trump has complained that the positivity rates and case counts are too high, because the country has been testing so many people.
Trump's dual views on testing were on full display in a message tweeted Monday morning.
"Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword - Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!" Trump tweeted.
Vice President Pence made similar comments on Monday, suggesting the White House has already shifted focus from addressing the health impacts of the virus to holding campaign rallies and reopening states as quickly as possible.
The Trump administration has signaled it has no interest in the nation having a new series of lockdowns given the economic damage shutting down the country has already had.
Administration health officials like White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci have played considerably less of a public role since the White House ended daily coronavirus briefings in April.
The pandemic has hit the United States during an election year, and Trump's poll numbers have fallen in the midst of the crisis.
Yet even as health experts are warning about surges in states such as Texas, Florida, Arizona, Alabama, Oklahoma and Arkansas, Pence said the country has been making “steady progress” toward putting the coronavirus “farther and farther in the past.”
Pence said the spike was likely due to a “dramatic increase in testing.”
Overnight Health Care: FDA withdraws emergency use authorization for...
Texas hits new high for coronavirus cases, hospitalizations
The number of coronavirus cases has surged in 20 states over the past week, according to data analyzed by The New York Times. Those numbers can be misleading, as some states are also increasing the number of people tested.
However, some states have seen the number of daily tests decline even as the seven-day average of new cases increases. In other states, the rate of new cases is increasing faster than the increase in the average number of tests.
The percentage of positive test results out of total tests has also been on the rise, meaning states do not have the virus under control despite reopening businesses.
Idiot Moron President explains it like this ^^^^. "Iddn't kinda obvious that if there was no testing nobody would be sick." Duh!
Tune in tomorrow when Dipshit Dumbass outlaws pregnancy testing in order stop abortion. If there weren't no pregnancy tests, there'd be no abortions and no babies! Problem solved!
How Our Anti-American Education System Made Riots Inevitable
Rioting social justice warriors are remaking the world as they see fit, consistent with what they’ve been taught from K-12 to the highest echelons of learning.
The past fire-lit weeks in America’s cities have made clear that the protests, and the riots that attend them, have little to do with the condemnable alleged murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis.
Even in the non-violent demonstrations, protesters can be seen burning the American flag, an act that just 30 years ago engendered such outrage it spurred Congress to pass an unconstitutional law, but doesn’t even warrant coverage today. In broad daylight, protesters have defaced and toppled statues dedicated to any and all figures of America’s history.
Lest anyone think the mob’s Year Zero behavior stopped with the slaveholding Confederacy, in Boston a monument to the 54th Massachusetts, an all-black Union regiment during the Civil War, was among those vandalized. Matthias Baldwin, an early abolitionist, got the same treatment in Philadelphia, as did the lesser-known Rotary Club founder Paul Harris, whose plaque in Washington D.C. was marked simply with an ignorance-acknowledging “probably a racist.” The monument to the author of the Emancipation Proclamation on the National Mall was likely spared only because of the protection of the National Guard.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/16/how-our-anti-american-education-system-made-riots-inevitable/
It's exactly as I said... The Democrat Party is STILL trying to be the Party of slave owners...
It's just now the 'plantation' is crack houses and the welfare office...
Once again, a shout out to Victoria who confirms to everyone how much she is PWN'ED by your's truly..
:D
I was gonna call it a night, but this kind of fealty and subservience by Victoria simply MUST be shared and enjoyed for all.. :D
"He eats breakfast 300 yards away from 4000 Cubans that are trained to kill him. And nobody's going to tell him how to run his unit least of all the Harvard mouth in his faggoty white uniform. I need to shake him, put him on the defensive and lead him right where he's dying to go."
Daniel Kaffee, A FEW GOOD MEN
A GENIUS strategy.... :D
hehehehehehehehehehehehe Gods I'm good!!! :D
Mike
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Imitation is the MOST SINCEREST form of flattery!!
Wrong again, troll; I'm actually flooding the zone. You need "flooding the zone" explained to you? Flooding the zone isn't flattery at all. It's a demonstration to highlight what's off the rails.
Thank you for proving to ALL of Weigantia that I PWN you and totally control how you comment.. :D
Oh, really? I think you're just confused about what "flooding the zone" is actually designed to do.
There could be no better confirmation.. :D
Thank you again for volunteering to highlight your own misguided ignorance. Weigantia can always count on you to prove you have zero understanding whatsoever of simple concepts. This ain't flattery, moron. It is designed to make a point exactly the opposite of what you're claiming... because you're stupid.
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And it's SERIOUSLY going to hamper and drag on Democrats in November..
Much like that Kente Scarf pandering Democrat Leadership tried...
Naw, in all the excitement of the moment between now and November, these will be long forgotten everywhere except for the feverswamps.
"Disbanding" law enforcement is silly and won't get within light years of becoming Democratic policy. I agree that the Kente cloth thing was purdy silly (and not very becoming, I might add)
Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area cops tied to right-wing Boogaloo group, prosecutors allege
An Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz County sheriff’s sergeant will be charged, along with a Millbrae man, in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer last month in downtown Oakland, federal officials said Tuesday.
Steven Carrillo, who was charged last week in the killing of Damon Gutzwiller, the sheriff’s sergeant, was aided by 30-year-old Robert Justus, of Millbrae, in the killing of 53-year-old federal security officer David Patrick Underwood, officials said. Justus drove a white van and acted as the getaway driver in the May 29 Oakland shooting, officials said.
Officials said Carrillo harbored a hatred of law enforcement and had ties to a right-wing Boogaloo group that believes a second American Civil War is coming soon.
Underwood, a 53-year-old Pinole resident, was guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland amid protests nearby over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The white van was captured on a surveillance video, officials said, which revealed that the gunman had slid open the van’s side door to fire the weapon.
Carrillo, 32, was charged last week with Gutzwiller’s murder and numerous other felonies. His arraignment has been postponed until next month.
An Air Force sergeant and leader in an elite military security force, Carrillo was armed with homemade bombs, an AR-15 rifle and other weapons and had a desire to harm police when he launched a deadly attack on unsuspecting officers, the Santa Cruz County sheriff said Monday.
Officials said Tuesday that Carrillo and Justus were not part of the protests and were taking advantage of them to carry out their attacks.
Brian Levin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, said Carrillo on social media including Facebook posts had become increasingly disturbing.
Levin said he said he shared memes about the so-called “Boogaloo” movement, a right-wing extremist group that anticipates civil war. Levin said the far-right groups are now more of a threat to government and law enforcement.
“Our research shows 27 far-right extremist connected homicides,” Levin said i. 2019. The FBI arrested three associates of the Boogaloo movement in Nevada, recently and they were charged with inciting violence with Molotov cocktails at protests.
Levin said Boogaloo followers range from ultra libertarians to white supremacists but they all share a belief in a second Civil War coming.
“They are Second Amendment insurrectionist,” Levin said. “The boogaloo boys believe in arm insurrection and include attacks on the police.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Jack Bennett said that Carrillo used a private made firearm - a so-called ghost gun built using an unmarked receiver to kill the federal officer. Bennett would not say whether Carrillo made that gun or someone else.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-16/suspects-charged-killing-santa-cruz-cop-and-oakland-federal-officer
Turns out the cop killers are scumbag right-wingers
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And MY pocketbook, too! So cut it out.
So, yer voting for President Trump this year, eh?? :D
Good call... :D
Um, how did you get ", yer voting for President Trump this year, eh??" out of everything I've said about Cheeto -- er, Trump, like, forever?
Trump praises scientists for developing AIDS vaccine that doesn’t exist
President Donald Trump falsely suggested that scientists have developed a vaccine for AIDS, the late stage of HIV infection in which the virus badly damages the immune system.
“They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine,” Trump said during a press conference on police reform, referring to scientists.
It’s possible Trump was referring to daily antiretroviral drugs, which have proved very effective in controlling HIV.
President Trump comments on coronavirus vaccine progress
President Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely suggested that scientists have developed a vaccine for AIDS, the late stage of HIV infection in which the virus badly damages the immune system.
“They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine,” Trump said during a press conference on police reform, referring to scientists. “As you know, there’s various things, and now various companies are involved.”
Trump later appeared to backtrack those comments, saying, “AIDS was a death sentence, and now people live a life with a pill. It’s an incredible thing.”
The White House did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment on Trump’s statement.
It’s possible Trump was referring to daily antiretroviral drugs, which have proved very effective in controlling HIV, a disease that was considered a death sentence nearly 40 years ago. Left unchecked, the virus progresses into AIDS, an advanced form of the disease.
People at risk of HIV can also now take prevention medication, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP. PrEP can reduce the risk of infection by at least 74% in people who take the drug consistently, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Roughly 1.1 million people in the U.S. are currently living with HIV, and nearly 40,000 Americans become infected with the virus each year, according to government data.
Last year, Trump’s pledged to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, a goal that public health advocates have cheered and sought for years.
The comment came as the U.S. also works to develop a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus, which has infected more than 2.1 million Americans and killed at least 116,341, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump administration officials said the coronavirus vaccine will be provided free of charge to Americans who can’t afford it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/trump-praises-scientists-for-developing-aids-vaccine-that-doesnt-exist.html
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Moron Stupid Dotard Trump claims there is an AIDS vaccine. What an idiot. Not even fair to idiots. Maybe he's just a liar and not an idiot. Maybe he's both.
MC,
Naw, in all the excitement of the moment between now and November, these will be long forgotten everywhere except for the feverswamps.
Then, you should have NO PROBLEM making a wager... Right???
:D
"Disbanding" law enforcement is silly and won't get within light years of becoming Democratic policy.
And yet, the facts clearly show that it IS becoming Democrat Party platform.. You denying it is simply you burying your head in the sand..
But hay.. At least you agree with me that it is TOTALLY unworkable and not viable...
I agree that the Kente cloth thing was purdy silly (and not very becoming, I might add)
Once again...
COMMON GROUND.. We both agree that Democrats were retards for trying such a pandering stunt...
And they will pay for that in Nov...
We're practically on the same page on EVERYTHING MC..
Now you just need to post what you think police reforms would look like and I can use my 25+ years in the field to show you why it won't work.. :D
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...because they're Trump's useful idiots and definitely swallow.
Oooo, Kick, how do you really feel?
(he shivers)
Victoria more and more posting how *I* post...
She is so pwned... :D
Oooo, Kick, how do you really feel?
Victoria feels exactly what I tell her to feel.. :D
Ya'all really can't understand what an opportune moment this is for Victoria to go all MICHALE in Weigantia.... :D
It's actually so hilarious... :D
It's like LewDan all over again... :D
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MtnCaddy
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I agree with you that the constant plagiarism and copyright violations are beyond getting old.
Perhaps if we all joined in the practice instead of just the troll doing it, it would soon become obvious how intolerable it was.
This is an excellent idea! Let's make it happen.
Naw, let's not go to that darker Troll headspace. As memory serves, Trolls write either "provocatively" or "annoying" statements. That's why I'm trying to get Michale to tell me whether he's trying to persuade me or just to annoy me. Annoying doesn't persuade, foole!
And remember, "Don't feed the Trolls" is a time proven cure. Ya get to watch as they get frantic and ever more abusive, trying to get a response from the rest of us. Also remember, somebody's gotta be the Adult in the room.
U.S. Justice Dept. Employees to Testify About Political Meddling, House Panel Says
Two Justice Department employees will testify to Congress next week about political influence on law enforcement activity, including one who worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, the Democratic-controlled panel said on Tuesday.
House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the two career employees, John Elias and Aaron Zelinsky, are both "prepared to describe the unprecedented politicization of the Department under President Trump and Attorney General William Barr."
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Zelinsky was one of four prosecutors who abruptly withdrew from handling the prosecution of Trump's longtime friend, Roger Stone, after Barr intervened earlier this year to scale back the department's sentencing recommendation.
Zelinsky returned to his regular position as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Maryland after withdrawing from the case, but has never publicly spoken about his decision.
Elias serves as the acting chief of staff to Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general of the department's antitrust division.
Nadler said he intends to call Elias and Zelinsky to testify at a hearing on June 24, along with former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer.
"Again and again, Attorney General Barr has demonstrated that he will cater to President Trump’s private political interests, at the expense of the American people and the rule of law. He has abruptly reversed course on prosecutions against the President’s allies and friends. He has pursued pretextual investigations against the President’s perceived political enemies," Nadler said in a statement.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/16/us/politics/16reuters-usa-congress-justice.html
Oh, no! What if the self-described Law and Order President is nothing but a lying money laundering criminal obstructing justice in order to break the law?
Naw, let's not go to that darker Troll headspace. As memory serves, Trolls write either "provocatively" or "annoying" statements. That's why I'm trying to get Michale to tell me whether he's trying to persuade me or just to annoy me. Annoying doesn't persuade, foole!
And I am trying to get you to answer a simple question..
What are your ideas for police reform..
Or you could just man up and admit that your ignorant of what Police do and you have no clue..
And remember, "Don't feed the Trolls" is a time proven cure. Ya get to watch as they get frantic and ever more abusive, trying to get a response from the rest of us. Also remember, somebody's gotta be the Adult in the room.
Yea.. Victoria is infamous for having her skin gotten under.. She can't help herself..
I PWN her...
I know it.. SHE knows it..
Now, YOU know it too... :D
"You can't win!!! I have God on my side!!!"
-Leland Gant, NEEDFUL THINGS
"God" of course, being FACTS... :D
BOOK
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.
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Dance, little puppet, DANCE!!!! :D
The PuppetMaster
:D
"Everyone wants to be like Mike"
-Don Chaedle, VOLCANO
:D
And it's factually accurate... :D
Also remember, somebody's gotta be the Adult in the room.
Actually, we have 3 adults in the room.. Myself, Liz and JL.... :D
MC,
Google bans two websites from its ad platform over protest articles
The two sites, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, will no longer be able to generate revenue from any advertisements served by Google Ads.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176
As I said.. GOOGLE leans Left..
It is undeniable.... :D
Actually, we have 3 adults in the room.. Myself, Liz and JL.... :D
And, of course, the HeadMaster..
" I know. I know. But it's his ship now, his command; he's in charge, he's the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, number one..."
-Rex Kramer, AIRPLANE
:D
U.S. Files Breach-of-Contract Suit Against Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton
Suit claims Bolton will compromise national security by publishing book it says contains classified information
The U.S. on Tuesday filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against former national security adviser John Bolton, seeking to delay the publication of his book, which the suit alleges contains classified information that could compromise national security.
The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. attorney in Washington, accused Mr. Bolton of breaching the contract he signed as a condition of his employment and to access classified information. The lawsuit marked the latest effort by the Trump administration to block the publication of the book, which is expected to be harshly critical of President Trump.
Mr. Bolton’s lawyer and spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Monday, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Bolton of including classified information in the manuscript, adding that he considers any conversation he has with another official “highly classified.”
Presidents have claimed the authority to classify national security information and direct subordinates to do the same, but no president has claimed the total authority to prevent former employees from speaking about non-national security matters—and typically the First Amendment would protect such speech, experts say.
Mr. Trump for months has criticized his former national security adviser for penning a book about his tenure at the White House, complaining that he “gave him a break” by giving him the job, which doesn’t require Senate confirmation. Administration officials were taken aback by how quickly Mr. Bolton had written a book, and some commented he must have been writing it while he was still in the White House, one official said.
Mr. Bolton’s spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-files-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ex-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-11592342334
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Not a lawsuit Trump can win. Somebody give Moron Idiot Dumbass Trump a copy of the Constitution and take away his hamberders until he is forced to read the First Amendment.
Trump got something to hide?
You bet your ass he's got something to hide.
I am sure Bolton's literary agent is thrilled about the publicity. Idiots!
Mr. Trump dismissed Mr. Bolton in September after a series of disputes over foreign policy. Mr. Bolton, the president’s third national security adviser, had served in the job for 18 months.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion column last week, Mr. Bolton’s attorney Charles Cooper detailed his client’s interactions with the White House over the manuscript. Mr. Cooper said that after sending the manuscript to the National Security Council on Dec. 30, Mr. Bolton and an NSC official went over the 500-page manuscript four times, “often line by line.”
On April 27, according to Mr. Cooper, the NSC advised Mr. Bolton its edits were complete, but didn’t send a letter saying the book had been cleared. On June 8, John Eisenberg, deputy counsel for national security, said in a letter that Mr. Bolton’s manuscript contained classified information and that publishing it would violate his nondisclosure agreements.
“This is a transparent attempt to use national security as a pretext to censor Mr. Bolton, in violation of his constitutional rights to speak on matters of the utmost public import,” Mr. Cooper wrote. “This attempt will not succeed.” Mr. Cooper said the book would be published on June 23.
According to the book’s publisher, “The Room Where It Happens” will be a harshly critical account of the administration during Mr. Bolton’s tenure serving the president. He will paint the White House as chaotic and the president as inconsistent and interested largely in securing his own re-election.
Among the allegations expected to be included in the book is one that goes to the center of the House impeachment charges against the president: that Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton in August that he wanted to keep aid to Ukraine frozen until the country aided investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Mr. Trump has denied the allegation. He was impeached by the Democratic-led House in December on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming from his dealings with Ukraine. In February, the Republican-led Senate voted to acquit him.
OK Ni Ni ya'all...
Thanx for a fun-filled day... :D
See ya'all in the AM....
BBBWWWWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
So hilarious.. :D
Honestly, puh-leeeze stop the all caps.
Thank you.
Mike
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Nope. Exactly the opposite. Still haven't figured out the concept of "flood the zone"? Thank you for volunteering your ignorance yet again.
"Everyone wants to be like Mike"
Fat, bald, penniless, sick fat lying wanna-be cop who's lied repeatedly about his credentials?
You go with that theory!
*laughs* *shakes head*
dammit
... the all bolds.
How would you feel about it if football players held up Pro President Trump signs and RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP signs..??
Are you saying you wouldn't mind at all??
I’d wonder how much money that they were getting paid to hold the signs... but one thing that I am certain of...
I wouldn’t completely lose my mind over it like Trumpkins would if football players held up Pro Biden signs! That would probably cause your heads to explode. Hell, you have become just a big of a baby as Trump is... claiming Trump is the victim in a protest that literally has nothing to do with him.
Admit it... you had your lower ribs removed so you could get your head further up your own ass to be just like Trump!
MtnCaddy
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dammit
You watch your filthy mouth, pal. <---- just kidding
... the all bolds.
You don't like the all "bolds," constant plagiarism and copyright violations? Then you'll have to complain to the author. Me? I'm just joining in. If one person is entitled to trample all over the forum rules, then I don't see why the rest of us should abide by them.
So this is my peaceful protest, and I totally agree with you. Do something to make it all stop.
Thank you for your support. :)
Russ
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Heh.
Kick [149-150]
It is Trump’s response to things like this that really reminds us that there has never been a President as narcissistic as Trump! It will be one of the only “Lists” that Trump will rank higher than any of the other presidents (“Most Hated”, “Most Corrupt”, and “Died in Prison” are a few of the other lists that come to mind).
You are correct that Trump is only helping Bolton sell more books by doing this. I think most people are going to pass on buying it because of Bolton’s refusal to testify before the Impeachment hearings in the House. Trump is stupid enough that he might order the GOP to buy all of the copies of Bolton’s book — thinking that they can prevent people from reading it....not sure how they can buy up all of the digital copies, but I am sure they will just tell Trump that they took care of it.
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...Victoria is infamous for having her skin gotten under.. She can't help herself..
I PWN her...
I know it.. SHE knows it..
Now, YOU know it too... :D
Yeah, she got herself a little hot under the collar, but isn't that the point?
Oh, and what does "PWN" mean? Is that some kinda teenage gamer slang?
Yea.. Victoria is infamous for having her skin gotten under.. She can't help herself..
*laughs* *shakes head*
I think Mike has confused me with the lying forum troll who leaves on a regular basis and constantly whines like an effing toddler about all manner of things:
* That time JL and I correctly identified Donald Trump as exhibiting fascist behaviors not unlike those of "He Who Must Not Be Named"... and Mike whines he is too good for us and leaves.
* That time Mike invented some of the most ridiculous right-wing bullshit I have ever heard that he then decided everyone here agreed with... during the Brett "Bought and Paid For" Kavanaugh confirmation... based on Mike's ridiculous and oft repeated bullshit that "silence gives assent"... and Mike whines he is too good for us and leaves.
I could go on but you get the idea. Mike is the resident board wussy... archived for all posterity. :)
... so Juan and Amaul walk into this bar...
Yeah, I know.
There's the ducking the question maneuver, the Whataboutism retort, the putting words in other's mouths, the blind conviction that the most extreme of voices represents all Democrats. How do you say it? So. Much. Whining.
I mean Winning.
Anyways you are aptly nicknamed, Kick
MtnCaddy
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Yeah, she got herself a little hot under the collar, but isn't that the point?
No, I most certainly did not get myself even a tiny bit "hot under the collar." If that's what you think, then you're wrong.
What I did was simply started a peaceful protest wherein everyone begins posting in the same manner as the board troll who feels he is entitled to break the forum rules. The object of the exercise is to peacefully protest the fact that if we all break the copyright and plagiarism laws of the United States of America (and not coincidentally some of the same rules of this forum) in the same manner as "Michale" the Whore Whorley, it would be instantly identifiable as the intolerable practice it is.
My peaceful protest is obviously aimed to cause complaints and for people to take action. So join me in my peaceful protest or complain about me, and I thank you kindly for your support in my protest. :)
Okay, my bad on the "under your skin." And while I may not emulate you I do agree with and support your endeavor.
Make it so!
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Your effort has not gone unnoticed, kind sir, and I thank you for joining me in my peaceful protest.
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Post entire articles of copyrighted articles and then bold the entire thing. This is our peaceful protest, and thank you for your support. :)
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I didn't forget about you, I was peacefully protesting the board troll.
It is Trump’s response to things like this that really reminds us that there has never been a President as narcissistic as Trump!
He ranks right up there, but Trump too shall pass.
It will be one of the only “Lists” that Trump will rank higher than any of the other presidents (“Most Hated”, “Most Corrupt”, and “Died in Prison” are a few of the other lists that come to mind).
I know, right!? The "Law and Order" Candidate who has had the most convictions/pleas of guilty/prison sentences handed down than any other in the modern era. More coming too.
You are correct that Trump is only helping Bolton sell more books by doing this.
And he can't win in court because of the First Amendement. Whether or not you agree with John Bolton's political ideology, Bolton most certainly is aware of what is and is not classified information. For the Department of Justice to sue Bolton over his book is just indicative of more of Barr and Trump's handiwork and tells you everything you need to know.
I think most people are going to pass on buying it because of Bolton’s refusal to testify before the Impeachment hearings in the House. Trump is stupid enough that he might order the GOP to buy all of the copies of Bolton’s book — thinking that they can prevent people from reading it....
Heh. His campaign bought a butt load of Trump Jr's book with donor money and then sold it back to the same donors.
not sure how they can buy up all of the digital copies, but I am sure they will just tell Trump that they took care of it.
Heh.
I answered our long-running post from a few days back. Tag... you're it. :)