Friday Talking Points -- Welcome, FCOTUS Willow Biden!
We have always been a total sucker for "First Pets," we fully admit. Especially First Cats. So we simply must begin this weekly roundup by extending our warmest welcome to newly-announced First Cat Willow Biden. From the New York Times announcement:
After keeping the nation on tenterhooks since even before taking office, the Biden White House announced on Friday that a gray cat named Willow had joined the first family, more than a year after the plucky farm feline from Pennsylvania caught the eye of the first lady, Jill Biden, while she was on the stump for her husband.
"Willow made quite an impression on Dr. Biden in 2020 when she jumped up on the stage and interrupted her remarks during a campaign stop," said Michael LaRosa, the first lady's spokesman. "Seeing their immediate bond, the owner of the farm knew that Willow belonged with Dr. Biden."
Willow is named after the first lady's hometown, Willow Grove, Pa.
Here are some photos of Willow from First Lady Jill, just because. Now we'll all just have to wait and see if White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was right when she predicted last year (when asked when the promised First Cat was going to appear): "We know the cat will break the internet."
Meow!
(Ahem.) With that out of the way, let's move on to the lesser (and less adorable) news of the week, as it were.
President Joe Biden got some fantastic economic news this week, with the release of the yearly gross domestic product growth numbers. The final quarter of 2021 saw a whopping 6.9 percent growth, bringing the yearly figure (after adjusting for inflation, mind you) up to 5.7 percent -- higher than it has been since 1984.
Of course, this proves once again that Republican fear-mongering was wrong all along. Inflation still remains way too high, but as the article points out:
Which is why it's always important to remember that there's an alternate history of the pandemic we avoided, one in which the government didn't act as aggressively as it did. Would we be better off right now if inflation were at 2 percent but tens of millions more Americans were out of work, hundreds of thousands more businesses had gone bankrupt, and state and local governments had made brutal cuts to services?
Obviously not. [We wrote in more depth about the numbers yesterday, if anyone is interested in reading more.]
Biden saw one more good number in the news this week, as Obamacare marketplace health insurance policy signups reached 14.5 million -- two million more than in any previous year.
Also on the healthcare front, although you might not have heard it on the evening news (where the policy across all the networks seems to be: "Only report bad pandemic news!"), the Omicron wave has definitively crested nationwide. Two weeks ago, the average daily cases hit a staggering mark, at over 800,000 new cases per day. Now this has fallen below 600,000 -- still frighteningly high, but better by one-fourth than it was in mid-January. Different states and regions of the country are progressing at various rates (the Northeast is doing the best currently, since they were the first area heavily affected by Omicron), but the spike should happen everywhere within the next week or so. Which is good news indeed, for all of us.
Over in a different branch of the federal government, the big news was the announcement (which got scooped a day early) of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's impending retirement. This will allow President Biden to make his first nomination to the high court and will (thankfully) preserve the already-precarious ideological balance on the court, at 6-3 conservative (which is bad, but is far better than 7-2, you've got to admit...).
President Biden reaffirmed a campaign promise he had made, and said he would be nominating the first-ever Black woman to the Supreme Court. The heads of the right-wing media, predictably, exploded upon hearing this news. The best possible rejoinder to all the idiotic "affirmative action" nonsense from conservatives came from Amy Klobuchar:
Senate Democrats say they are happy to defend Biden's decision and make a larger case for diversity in the courts. Asked about the attacks in an interview Thursday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) quickly noted that Ronald Reagan pledged to nominate a woman to the high court during his 1980 presidential campaign -- a pledge he made good on with the confirmation of Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981.
Excellent point, Senator!
And there's even some good news for Democrats in the third branch of government, as the fears of being swamped in the midterms solely because of aggressive Republican gerrymandering in the redistricting process seem not so fearsome anymore:
Democrats braced for disaster when state legislatures began redrawing congressional maps, fearing that Republican dominance of statehouses would tilt power away from them for the next decade.
But as the redistricting process reaches its final stages, that anxiety is beginning to ease.
For Democrats, the worst case scenario of losing well over a dozen seats in the U.S. House appears unlikely to happen.
Whew! Part of this is because Republicans are more interested in locking in current districts -- many of which are trending more Democratic as the suburbs shift away from the GOP, but also because of some Democratic "aggressive map drawing of their own." For once, Democrats are actually fighting fire with fire, which is a pleasant thing to see.
In other news, while we are waiting for our awards section to comment on this specifically, we had to say the most hilariously idiotic comment of the week from a Republican (in a week where there was some stiff competition indeed, as we'll get to in a moment) came from Representative Jim Banks, who clutched some imaginary pearls after President Biden got caught on a hot microphone calling a Fox reporter a "stupid son of a bitch." Banks tweeted out: "Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??"
The internet responded, mostly by pointing out the hard cold fact that you'd have to have been in a coma for five or six years, or perhaps just be suffering from acute amnesia, to have said something this monumentally tone-deaf after pretty much every single comment Donald Trump has ever made about the media (whom he liked to call the "enemy of the people").
In other "hilarity ensued on the internet" news, the newly-sworn-in Republican governor of Virginia set up a hotline for people to call in any and all complaints about public schoolteachers making any children "uncomfortable" by teaching the actual truth about race relations in this country. This led to plenty of spoofing, such as one comment that reported Albus Dumbledore for his comments on "mudbloods," but our favorite was easily:
I have heard reports that schools in Virginia are teaching ARABIC NUMERALS!!! I fear that we've become so focused on exposing Critical Race Theory in public education that we've forgotten all about creeping Sharia Law. Please address this matter immediately.
And we have to say, we also found hilarious the report that the Supreme Court had taken a pass on hearing an appeal to a case that Kevin McCarthy had lost, which tried to force House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get rid of the "proxy" (absentee) voting she set up for the House of Representatives at the start of the pandemic. Here is why yet another Republican fight against commonsense health measures seemed so funny to us (emphasis added):
Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is the last rank-and-file lawmaker on McCarthy's lawsuit after more than 150 Republicans removed their names -- many have themselves voted by proxy as the pandemic has dragged into another calendar year. Roy told Politico in December that the removal of names didn't impact the constitutional argument he and McCarthy are trying to make, but acknowledged that having plaintiffs who used the proxy voting process could have hurt the party's argument.
To sum up: they started with at least 151 rank-and-file GOP members listed as plaintiffs, and now they're down to one -- because the rest of them came to their senses and realized this was a smart thing to do. But that didn't stop McCarthy from soldiering on, of course!
And finally, while this didn't rise to the level of "most hilariously idiotic" Republican comment of the week, it certainly deserves some sort of special mention:
West Virginia governor Jim Justice on Thursday touted his state's progress on economic development, spoke about the pandemic and compared the temperature of state versus national politics.
West Virginia's doubters, Justice said as he concluded his state of the state address, could kiss his dog, Babydog's, "hiney."
"They never believed in West Virginia, that we could do it," he said.
"They told every bad joke in the world about us," Justice continued. "So following that standpoint, Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, kiss her hiney." He then held Babydog up in the air, showing the room her behind.
Justice was referring to a Dec. 20 tweet from the actress, Midler, who expressed animosity towards Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) after he said he was a "no" on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better legislation.
"He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia," Midler said in the tweet. "Poor, illiterate and strung out."
If that version of the story isn't enough for you, HuffPost has the "money shot" photo, in case anyone's interested.
But enough silliness, let's move on to the awards, shall we?
Well, if we were biased, we'd have to hand the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award to First Cat Willow Biden. But she's not officially a Democrat (a Democat?) and she really hasn't done anything other than look pretty regal for some adorable photos, so we'll have to wait on this one.
We do have an Honorable Mention for the Arizona Democratic Party, for formally censuring one of their own senators, Kyrsten Sinema. Here's the story:
The Arizona Democratic Party's Executive Board held a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss action against the senator, and ultimately the board formally censured Sinema "as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy."
"I want to be clear, the Arizona Democratic Party is a diverse coalition with plenty of room for policy disagreements, however on the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect voting rights, we have been crystal clear," ADP Chair Raquel Terán said in a statement following the decision.
"In the choice between an archaic legislative norm and protecting Arizonans' right to vote, we choose the latter, and we always will," Terán continued, adding that Arizona Republicans are in the midst of trying to "push restrictive legislation" that would make it harder to vote.
Senator Bernie Sanders wasted no time expressing his approval for this action, and we'd like to add our applause as well. Votes should have consequences.
But instead, we are going to award the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award for a seemingly-contradictory reason. Before the Trumpian Era, we might well have decided that this deserved our other weekly award, in fact. But times change, and the bar for what is acceptable has been lowered so far down it has now essentially disappeared.
So we'd like to award this week's MIDOTW to President Joe Biden, for his "hot mic" snark when finishing up a meeting with the White House press. The reporter from Fox, Peter Doocy, shouted out what he probably considered a cute and clever "gotcha" style question, and Biden responded sotto voce. Or so he thought. Here's what happened:
The exchange came as reporters were being ushered away from a brief appearance by Mr. Biden in the East Room. Mr. Doocy called out a question: "Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?"
Mr. Biden's patience was low. And the volume was up.
"It's a great asset," the president said in a sarcastic tone, seemingly to himself. "More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch."
Part of the reason we're awarding Biden the MIDOTW is for how he handled the situation afterwards. We have no idea what was actually said, but it must have been pretty good:
On Monday night, Mr. Doocy said on Fox News that the president called his cellphone about an hour after the incident and, in his words, "cleared the air."
"He said, 'It's nothing personal, pal,'" Mr. Doocy told the host Sean Hannity. "We were talking about just, kind of, moving forward. And I made sure to tell him that I'm always going to try to ask something different than what everybody else is asking, and he said, 'You got to.'"
When Mr. Hannity pressed on whether Mr. Biden had apologized, Mr. Doocy laughed and demurred. "Sean, the world is on the brink of, like, World War III right now with all this stuff going on," he said. "I appreciate that the president took a couple minutes out this evening while he was still at the desk to give me a call and clear the air."
That is extraordinary, from a Fox News reporter, you've got to admit. So that call must have gone really well.
The second reason we think Biden's comment deserves an award is because such comments not only humanize Biden to an extent that nothing else he says does, but in fact because such comments are some of his most memorable -- as Politico helpfully pointed out:
The whole encounter -- including Doocy’s genial refusal to get all huffy about Biden’s flash of huffiness -- was in its own way quite winning. It was also a reminder of how many memorable Biden moments feature casual profanity or bursts of authentic emotion amid the pervasive phoniness of contemporary politics.
There was the famous time when he whispered to President Barack Obama at a White House podium that the passage of health care reform was "a big fucking deal." Or when he told an Iowa voter who pressed him on his ethical and physical fitness for the presidency that, "You're a damn liar, man," before challenging him to a pushup contest. Perhaps Biden's most memorable moment during the fall 2020 presidential debates was when he responded to former President Donald Trump's incessant interruptions by rasping, "Will you shut up, man?"
The article even ends with an amusing suggestion:
Which brings us back to Biden’s penchant for the occasional f-bomb or growling encounter. Let's see if polls show that others enjoyed the Doocy exchange as much as I did. If so, perhaps it's time for Biden to cancel the tired tradition of recognizing American heroes at the State of the Union in favor of a new approach: I'd like to recognize in the audience tonight Al Miller, an inventory manager from Zanesville, Ohio. He's basically a decent guy, but when he's blathering about politics even his friends think he's full of shit. C'mon, give me a break, man, and put a sock in it.
So whether you disapprove of Biden's snarky comment or whether it made you burst out laughing, you've got to admit that it was indeed authentic Biden. And authenticity is one of the most powerful political assets any politician can have.
So for his snide side comment this week (and for his gracious handling of it afterwards), we have to say Joe Biden has indeed earned the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award.
[Congratulate President Joe Biden on his official contact page, to let him know you appreciate his efforts.]
For once, it was one of those weeks when we just weren't all that disappointed in any Democrats anywhere. Even Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema seemed to be ready to vote to confirm whomever Joe Biden nominates to the Supreme Court (which is an enormous relief, of course).
So we are officially putting this week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award back on the shelf until next week, unless anyone's got a nomination of their own to make down in the comments.
Volume 648 (1/28/22)
We're back to more-traditional talking points this week, with half of them encouraging Democrats to toot their own horn and spread some good news, and the other half pointing out the vacuity of the Republican position on just about everything, these days.
Enjoy!
Since Ronald Reagan was in office
Toot your own horn, Democrats! Enough with the doom and gloom! Proclaim the good news!
"Joe Biden and congressional Democrats singlehandedly -- without one Republican vote -- passed an emergency COVID relief bill right after he got into office. And now the results are plain for all to see. In 2021 the American economy grew at a faster pace than it has grown since Ronald Reagan was in office. Not even Bill Clinton's booming economy matches the Biden economy. In the final quarter of the year -- even with the Delta wave and the start of the Omicron wave -- the economy grew by an astounding 6.9 percent. Overall -- and please note, this is after inflation has been subtracted from the mix -- the economy grew at a jaw-dropping 5.7 percent. You know, I remember when Donald Trump promised he'd grow the American economy by six percent per year... but he never even got close to that, for his entire term. It took Joe Biden and the Democrats to get it done."
Unemployment approaching record lows, too
Actually, there are multiple horns for Democrats to toot right now.
"The unemployment rate is now once again under four percent, just as it was before the pandemic hit. This is an enormous achievement, and one that none of the economic gurus predicted when Biden took office. We've still got four-tenths of a percent to go to get back to where things were before COVID hit, but the expectation was at this point we'd still be seeing five or six percent unemployment -- not 3.9. People are working, wages are up, and more and more people are quitting their jobs to take better jobs. That's an extraordinary achievement in one year's time, especially considering where we all were in the pandemic at this time last year."
More affordable health care, too
This one joins the chorus, too.
"You know what else the Democratic-passed COVID relief bill did? It increased the subsidies for people buying health insurance on the Obamacare marketplaces. Out here in California they are running ads informing the public that more than 70 percent of those who get subsidies are now getting their health insurance for less than ten bucks a month. That was made possible by Democrats -- with zero help from Republicans. And it is working beyond anyone's expectations. Signups on the Obamacare marketplaces have already hit 14.5 million this year, which is over two million more than ever before. Democrats are continuing to make health care affordable for millions, while Republicans fight it every step of the way."
Omicron recedes
This isn't so much a Democratic political issue, just one where the mainstream media reporters need a rather large nudge (to stop ignoring).
"The best recent news, however, is that the Omicron wave of COVID has now crested nationwide. New cases per day are down by one-fourth from the peak two weeks ago. Not every state has seen the peak yet, and hospitalizations and deaths are both lagging figures so they may not statistically peak for a little while, but the good news is that the light at the end of this tunnel is now clearly in sight. This wave moved incredibly fast through the population, but it was less lethal than Delta, as more and more Americans got vaccinated and boosted. And the best news of all is that Omicron has now almost entirely eradicated the spread of Delta -- over 99 percent of new cases are Omicron. It has been a long hard two years, but barring any deadlier variants appearing, we could finally be very close to getting fully back to normal."
Another hypocrite heard from
Let's move on to what Republicans have been up to, shall we? He isn't the first, we've already pointed out others previously -- and we fully expect there will be more of these to come before the election season is over.
"Senator Rick Scott this week tried to claim credit for infrastructure projects in Florida that will be funded by a bill he did not vote for. In a photo-op tour of Army Corps of Engineer projects around Lake Okeechobee, Scott said he was 'proud' to help secure 'an unprecedented one billion dollars for Everglades restoration, the largest single amount ever allocated by the federal government.' The only problem with this was, when the bill came up for a vote, Scott was singing a different tune: 'We have to stop this reckless spending and live within our means. This bill is not paid for, and that's wrong.' So, Senator, is it 'reckless spending' or an unprecedented and welcome billion bucks from the federal government for your state? Surely it can't be both... right? I mean, you'd have to be a total flaming hypocrite to try to claim credit for something you voted against!"
They got nothin'...
It really should come as no surprise, though, that Republicans are trying to run on what Democrats have actually accomplished.
"President Joe Biden is right -- what is the Republican Party for? The leader of the Senate Republicans, when asked what his party's agenda would be for the midterms as they try to take back control of the houses of Congress, answered: 'That is a very good question. I'll let you know when we take it back.' In other words, Biden is right. They got nothin', period. Maybe we should call it the 'Seinfeld campaign strategy' -- a political agenda about nothing."
...Except indifference and cruelty, of course.
Maybe it's best they don't tell voters what they're actually for, though.
"Senator Ron Johnson recently admitted what we've been saying all along: Republicans are heartless anti-family skinflints who care absolutely nothing about investing in the future, or parents, or children. Think I'm overstating that? Here's what he had to say, about the Democratic proposal to subsidize child care for parents: 'People decide to have families and become parents; that's something they need to consider when they make that choice. I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children.' That's it in a nutshell, folks. Every Republican candidate for office everywhere should now be asked whether he or she agrees with Senator Scrooge or not. My guess is that most will refuse to answer, because they truly don't want voters to figure out what their party does stand for."
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
Cross-posted at: Democratic Underground
From the Politico article,
perhaps it's time for Biden to cancel the tired tradition of recognizing American heroes at the State of the Union in favor of a new approach: I'd like to recognize in the audience tonight Al Miller, an inventory manager from Zanesville, Ohio. He's basically a decent guy, but when he's blathering about politics even his friends think he's full of shit. C'mon, give me a break, man, and put a sock in it.
Heh. That would be a fun SOTU!
As for the FCOTUS ... sounds like something Biden might say. Ahem.
Which reminds me ... there is something I have to mail ...
Doesn't FCOTUS look kinda familiar?
Strikes me as ambiguous. Could just as easily be first cow, first cricket, first chameleon, first cobra... These presidents all seem to have so little imagination!
Would we be better off right now if inflation were at 2 percent but tens of millions more Americans were out of work, hundreds of thousands more businesses had gone bankrupt, and state and local governments had made brutal cuts to services?
Boom! That's a talking point right there.
...quickly noted that Ronald Reagan pledged to nominate a woman to the high court during his 1980 presidential campaign -- a pledge he made good on with the confirmation of Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981.
And didn't Bush the Elder promise to nominate a black, which he did with Clarence "Oreo" Thomas?
I wonder if Biden will pick a nominee who can garner some Republican votes. I think this will factor prominently in his decision.
Representative Jim Banks, who clutched some imaginary pearls after President Biden got caught on a hot microphone calling a Fox reporter a "stupid son of a bitch." Banks tweeted out: "Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??"
Thing of it is, since Bank's supporters get their reality from right-wing media his hypocrisy won't get any coverage.
I strongly believe that most of what Repugs say is directed at their base in order to support the imaginary reality they've created.
So whether you disapprove of Biden's snarky comment or whether it made you burst out laughing, you've got to admit that it was indeed authentic Biden. And authenticity is one of the most powerful political assets any politician can have.
The fact that this hot mic incident will not hurt Biden (with anyone who doesn't already hate him) is an effect on politics that I predicted would result from Trump.
Part of Trump's appeal is that he doesn't sound like a regular politician. I've been just as aghast as anybody about Trump but making politicians talk plainly is a good thing.
BTW, do you notice how Joe telling some idiot Fox guy off sure does trigger the Repugs?
You know, I remember when Donald Trump promised he'd grow the American economy by six percent per year... but he never even got close to that, for his entire term. It took Joe Biden and the Democrats [one year!] to get it done. With no help from the GOP.
Why, that's another talking point, IMO.
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The way the Repugs all vote in lockstep? Forget about them -- bipartisanship is dead at least until the Repugs lose their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Don't be so sure, Caddy. I think there are a handful of Republicans who could vote for Biden's nominee. He will probably quietly solicit that support.
Come to think of it, is there any reason for Democrats not to use,
Are you better off now than two years ago? Well, Democrats got us here with no help from the Republicans.
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Well I'm not sure, Elizabeth. I don't mind if Joe tries to reach across the aisle but after Obama nominated the relatively middle of the road Merrick Garland and got screwed by #MoscowMitch the Democrats don't owe anybody anything. Harumph.
Criticizing Trump is not Trump Derangement Syndrome because Democrats have always seen Trump for who he is. Rather, Republicans have TDS because they refuse to see what a disaster Trump has been for America.
CW, dunno why tonight but you sure inspired me to try writing a few of my own talking points.
Every time the Republicans hold power they help the rich get richer. Every time Democrats hold power they work for everybody, not just the top 10%. That is, after they clean up the mess left behind by the Republican's Cult of Economic Failure.
Sooomebody...stop me!
THE MASK
Hey, is this mic on?
Just when you thought it was safe to come back to Weigantia™!!!
MMMOWWAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D
Rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated.. :D
Wishes and sacrifices for my demise were utter failures... ?
IIIII'mmmmmm BAAAACK... :D
Surgery went very well, thanx for asking..
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This is in post-op... You see that blue/white thingy sticking out of my neck??
That is this:
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The light blue tubing on the right? That was COMPLETELY in my neck!! Can ya believe that!!??? OUCH!!!
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The x-ray on the left was pre-surgery.. What they did last time was to affix metal plates on my ribs. The plates went from my ribs to my sternum.. The plates were held on with 32 titanium screws affixed to the bones of my ribs and to the cartilage on my sternum.. You can see the plates and the screws in the left x-ray
The problem developed that the cartilage had fragmented and broke apart. The screws were free floating..
I am sure it does not come as a surprise to any of ya'all that I had quite a few screws loose, eh?? :D
So, the plan for this surgery was to go back in, replace the plates and screw them into the bones of the ribs AND the bone of the sternum..
But when my surgeon got in there, he noticed that the ribs had healed quite nicely.. He pushed and prodded my ribs and they were pretty solid.. So, he opted for a LESS IS MORE approach and decided just to leave the one plate on my left side and leave the ribs bare on the right...
So I am officially plate free on the right side!! :D
I still have a few twisty ties holding my sternum together, but other than that, I am good to go..
I should be able to provide facts and fun here in Weigantia™ for at least another 100 years!! :D
OK, it looks like I have a lot of catching up to do...
So, let's reach way back and then bring it up to current events..
Remember in one of the most epic slapdowns of Vick, things got especially rambunctious and the c* word was thrown around a lot by yours truly???
Remember how many of ya'all got hysterical and got on me that it was so inappropriate to throw around that words (it was) and how it is not acceptable to use that word in civilized circles?? (it's not)..
Ya'all remember how the current Weigantian™ administration threw me under the bus SOLELY due to my use of that epithet and how even other Weigantian™ founders questioned the wisdom of calling out JUST my side of the transgression and ignoring the other side of that flame war??
Remember how I said, "Only because it's coming from someone who is not of ya'all's particular PARTY ideology.... If I were politically acceptable to ya'all, my use of the word would not be commented on at all.."
Ya'all remember all of that??
Well, guess what???
"Kyrsten Sinema gave the speech as Joe Biden was on his way up to the Hill. So anyway, it’s the shittiest, grossest, most disrespectful thing she could’ve done. I think she’s a cunt. That’s what I have to say. It was so many layers of asshole-ness, like you know that she played a combative video game before she went down to the Senate floor, and was like, ‘You are a maverick. You are a maverick!’ And bitch, you’re not a maverick, okay. No, you’re trash."
-Alyssa Mastromonaco, Former Aide To President Odumbo
https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-obama-aide-profanity-laced-rant-sen-sinema
And what did we hear from the Weigantian™ peanut gallery??? The Weigantian™ administration??? All the condemnation FROM those people over this Demcorat using such a disgusting and perverse epithet???
What did we hear???
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Nope.. just tons and tons of silence.. Not even SILENCE... From the Weigantian™ Administration who apocalyptically condemned my use of the word while completely ignoring the transgressions of their fellow Demcorat....
HERE is what that administration had to say about THIS Democrat's use of the oh so foul word..
"For once, it was one of those weeks when we just weren't all that disappointed in any Democrats anywhere."
:epic eyeroll:
Proof positive that the ONLY care about the disgusting c* word epithet is when it's used by someone who is NOT politically acceptable...
Ya'all could care less about the C* word in and of itself. When it's used by those of the same political persuasion as ya'all??? It's perfectly acceptable.. :^/
Look at what has transpired this last week.. This scumbag Odumbo aide calles Kyrsten Sinema a c*nt... Another Demcorat says that Sinema should be back handed by all other Democrats.. A Democrat stated that Democrats should actually BEAT on Sinema, ATTACK Sinema with physical violence!!
My old friend, the late CW would have been ALL over that with ROUNDS and ROUNDS of condemnation.. There would have been STRONG MDDOTW awards for such transgressions.. THAT is what the late CW would have done..
This is what the current Weigantian™ administration ensconced in the thralls of PTDS (President Trump Derangement Syndrome)had to say about these disgusting and perverse acts committed by Democrats..
For once, it was one of those weeks when we just weren't all that disappointed in any Democrats anywhere.
A blind eye.. Total acceptance.. APPROVAL... ASSENT....
Thereby proving my tagline once again..
Hypocrisy.. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature.
But hay... It's no biggie.. Life goes on and were all adults, right?? Who cares if there is blatant hypocrisy coming in waves and waves from the Left Wingery...
Same ol same ol.. Nothing to see here.. Let's move on...
Got lots to talk about..
Russ, yer up next.. :D
http://chrisweigant.com/2022/01/25/gop-sees-education-as-major-culture-war-issue-for-2022/#comment-184005
Seeing how that is not the Democrats’ “actual policy platform”, there is nothing to explain. (Hint: When you repeatedly use all caps and bold to say something over and over in your posts — it’s bullshat!)
So yer gonna be like JM and claim Democrats really don't want to DEFUND the police, even though it's the VERY cause of why they did so poorly in 2020..
Why would you claim such obvious BS when you KNOW that I can post link after link after link that PROVES with facts after facts after facts that even today, The Democrat Party in the form of the Progressive Far Left **STILL** want to DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE.. There is the NY Grime article that comes out and says, YES, WHEN WE SAY 'DEFUND THE POLICE' WE MEAN *DEFUND* THE POLICE... So yer spewing BS when you claim that it doesn't mean what I am saying it means.
Oh sure, you have some Lefty mayors who are seeing how badly the Democrat Party has frak'ed up on their DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE policy and those mayors are trying half-heartedly to give lip service to actually funding police..
But if you do free word association and say DEFUND THE POLICE, the first thing that comes to mind is DEMOCRAT PARTY...
I can prove it.. Show me all your comments in support of police in the last few weeks of BLM and AntiFa attacks and ambushes on LEOs in the last couple weeks.. Show me ANY comments from ANY Weigantians™ in support of LEOs...
You can't because none exist.. Since I have been back and long LONG before that.. You can't show me a SINGLE comment in support of LEOs because Democrats don't support LEOs...
But I can show you TONS and TONS of Weigantia™ comments in support of BLM.. An organization that has declared war on LEOs...
Face reality, Russ.. You are whole-heartedly devoted to a Party that hates cops.. There is no sugar-coating it.. THIS is the reality and the facts...
Seeing how Pelosi only serves on the executive board for the USCP and has no actual say in the day to day operations, not sure why someone would be gullible enough to believe this.
Yes, Pelosi sits on the board.. Her and Schumer DO have the power to call up the National Guard to provide back up for the USCP.. They can even do so of their own volition..
In this case, they didn't even have to call up the board of their own volition.. President Trump did that "dirty" deed himself.. All Pelosi and Schumer had to do was agree to it. But they didn't.. They actively DISALLOWED the National Guard from showing up and providing MUCH NEEDED back up.
Why would Pelosi NOT want the National Guard as backup?? Because she WANTED cops to get hurt..
She WANTED to throw cops under the bus..
Pelosi got 3 or 4 USCP Trump/America hating cops to throw their fellow LEOs under the bus.. There are ALWAYS cops in EVERY department who puts politics over their brother/sister officers.. There are a few cops in EVERY department who, like you, bleeds Democrat blue and not Police blue..
But the vast majority of USCP cops know the facts and were prevented from testifying.. The vast majority of USCP cops know that Democrats set up the cops.. The vast majority of cops know that Democrats... that YOU, don't really care about cops unless they can be used to YOUR political advantage..
How do we know this to be true?? Because NO DEMOCRATS, including you yourself and all Weigantians™ have said ANYTHING (comparatively speaking) about TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa violent riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country were TENS OF THOUSANDS of cops have been injured..
Tell me something, Russ.. If you TRULY care about cops, why haven't you been defending them against 22 years (collectively) of Democrats and BLM violent riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? Where is your support for ANY of those TENS OF THOUSANDS of cops that have been injured??
It's non existent... You HAVE no support for them.. You ONLY have support for the Democrat Party, who has a Party platform that is blatantly DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE.. The facts that PROVE this are as blatant, obvious and plentiful as they are conclusive..
I understand you don't like to admit the fact that you are a Democrat first and a Cop Groupie and an American a very very VERY distant 2nd/3rd.. But it's a fact none-the-less...
I'll address your PTDS (President Trump Derangement Syndrome) in the next comment..
And the real deal breaker for anyone who supports democracy should be your party’s
First of all, *I* don't have a Party.. My -NO PARTY- status is WELL documented.. No Political Affiliation... I don't believe in Partys.. I believe in people. But if I WERE to be part of a Party, it would NOT be the ANTI-COP Party.. It would NOT be the RACIST Party.. It would NOT be the DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE Party... I can promise you that..
abandonment of all of its political values and philosophies in favor of their complete devotion and worship of one person.
You mean "abandonment of all of its political values and philosophies in favor of their complete devotion and worship of ONE person" like you and your Democrats did with Barack Hussein Odumbo???
Do you want me to post all the WORSHIP OF ODUMBO Youtube videos, Russ??
There aren't any WORSHIP OF PRESIDENT TRUMP Youtube videos..
But there are TONS of ACTUAL PHYSICAL WORSHIP OF ODUMBO youtube videos..
This is documented fact..
I mean, if you want to talk about a Party that abandoned "all of its political values and philosophies in favor of their complete devotion and worship of one person" just take a look in the mirror and see you and your Democrat Party..
Howz that mirror werkin' out for ya, Russ??
Yes, there are some Righties that are blind in their devotion of President Trump, just like the entirety of the Democrat Party was blind in their devotion to Odumbo.. But I am not one of them..
I disagree with President Trump on many things..
But I also acknowledge the facts.. That President Trump is 10x the leader that Biden is..
That, despite being hounded and persecuted incessantly 24/7 for 6 years that continues to this day, President Trump did some amazingly good things for this country..
President Trump has been THE best US President since Saint Ronald Reagan.. Considering how beleaguered and persecuted President Trump was constantly, maybe even since Abraham Lincoln...
I'll have more to say about this and the Democrat Party's war on cops later..
But I wanted to move on to the SCOTUS, as it's ANOTHER subject that is rife with blatant racism and hypocrisy...
So, Breyer finally caved to all the Democrat torture and pressure and finally agreed to retire..
It's funny.. Biden states that he will NOT look at any other SCOTUS candidate but a black woman..
Hmmmmm Think about that, people.. NO QUALIFICATIONS looked at.. NO EXPERIENCE or EXPERTISE mentioned.
ALL that is necessary for Biden's SCOTUS pick is that she is a woman and black..
Now, I am thumbing thru the dictionary here and I see that basing a choice SOLELY on a person's gender is SEXISM...
Another part of the dictionary says that basing a choice SOLELY based on a person's race is RACISM...
Thereby once again, proving BEYOND ALL DOUBT.. That the Democrat Party is STILL the sexist Party.. STILL the Racist Party..
If the black woman selected has ANY sense of decency and self-respect..??? She will refuse the nomination..
Because THAT woman will know for an absolute FACT that she wasn't chosen for her skills, her experience and her expertise..
She was chosen SOLELY on the basis of her race and her gender....
Fellow Weigantians™, I give you your vehemently SEXIST and RACIST PARTY... The Democrat Party.. :eyeroll:
The facts that prove this are established and conclusive...
And, what's astonishing is that NONE of ya'all have a problem with it...
Mind-boggling...
CRS...
If he's able to find one, I expect a black female transsexual Muslim political liberal married to a gay male transsexual.
Legal qualifications wont even enter the discussion.
EXACTLY.. All that matters is the social justice angle..
Anyone who is actually qualified need not bother applying..
As I said afore. If the person who is selected has even an IOTA of dignity, integrity and self-respect, they will refuse the nomination..
I mean, honestly?? Who wants to be a token chosen SOLELY for their gender and their race...
Biden's nominee will ALWAYS have an *asterisk by their name..
*Affirmative Action Hire
That is, even if Biden can get a nominee thru the Senate..
Which is NOT guaranteed. As I will espouse on in my next comment..
Michale,
Hmmmmm Think about that, people.. NO QUALIFICATIONS looked at.. NO EXPERIENCE or EXPERTISE mentioned.
You must still be suffering from the after-impacts of some very bad drugs. But, it made me laugh, so ... there's that.
In other words, what YOU are saying is that a Black woman cannot be qualified or have experience or expertise.
Stick around the confirmation hearing, my friend, it'll be a blast. :-)
Michale[26],
A PRiSM song comes to mind, again, with just one word change ...
Projection, projection, I'm being fooled by projection! Projection, projection, You thought you could pull something over me! Heh.
Deception
See ya Sunday night!
In a 50-50 Split Over Breyer Replacement, Is VP Vote Legit?
It is a simple question, but one with potentially profound consequences. And Jen Psaki, who was already being extremely cautious behind the White House lectern on Wednesday, was not ready to give an answer.
Is it the understanding of this administration that the vice president can cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court? That’s what a reporter asked Psaki shortly after news broke that Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire, setting up a likely pitched battle over his successor’s confirmation.
“I would have to check on the specifics,” President Biden’s press secretary replied.
Across town on Capitol Hill, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are already researching the theory that the Founding Fathers never intended a vice president to cast a tie-breaking vote of this sort. “It seems plausible,” a senior GOP aide told RealClearPolitics. “That is definitely something that people will be focusing on to drill down to the roots.”
A 2020 Boston Globe op-ed written by Tribe, a distinguished professor at Harvard Law School and the liberal legal scholar whom the Biden White House has consulted before on tricky constitutional considerations.
“While the vice president has the power to cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a bill, the Constitution does not give him the power to break ties when it comes to the Senate’s ‘Advice and Consent’ role in approving presidential appointments to the Supreme Court,” Tribe wrote as the upper chamber was preparing to take up the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
“A thumb on part of the scale in the legislative process is hugely different from single-handedly tipping the entire scale when it comes to confirming justices,” Tribe concluded, making a distinction between the authority to break a logjam over legislation vs. a vote to potentially remake a co-equal branch of government.
Republicans are currently searching for any weapon to push back on whomever Biden nominates to the high court. Some influential commentators might flip their positions on the issue, but not Tribe. He told RealClearPolitics on Wednesday that he doubts he will change his mind just because the political winds have shifted.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/27/in_a_50-50_split_over_breyer_replacement_is_vp_vote_legit.html
It's clear that Biden is going to nominate a Social Justice Warrior..
An Affirmative Action hire that will guarantee that the GOP will stand together and oppose..
So, here is how this is likely going to play out..
The GOP will be able to force a delay on the SCOTUS nomination until after the mid-terms..
After the GOP takes the Senate (likely with a 54-46 advantage) then the GOP will be in a better position to force Biden to chose a very moderate Democrat Justice..
Hell, the GOP MIGHT be able to keep the seat open until President Trump returns to the Oval Office..
Wouldn't THAT be a hoot!! :D
Keep the SCOTUS at 6-2 Conservative until President Trump is back in office and then make it a 7-2 Conservative SCOTUS!!
How frakin' awesome would THAT be, eh?? :D
Liz!!! :D Great ta see ya....
I am glad yer a morning person like me.. :D
In other words, what YOU are saying is that a Black woman cannot be qualified or have experience or expertise.
Of course not..
But when one considers the odds and stats and percentages...
It's simply next to IMPOSSIBLE that a black woman is the BEST qualified...
By establishing the criteria of black woman FIRST and education, experience, expertise 2nd, Biden has already handicapped the process and the nominee. It will ALWAYS be in the back of the nominee's mind and the back of every American's mind..
I'm/She's just an Affirmative Action hire..
Further, doesn't it make sense that the BEST qualified should be put on the bench irregardless of gender or race????
Isn't THAT the goal in a TRULY EQUAL society that Democrats CLAIM they want???
Rather than the BEST qualified by Political Agenda standards??
As I said... Any black woman judge with even a SMIDGEN of integrity and self-respect would refuse the nomination...
Stick around the confirmation hearing, my friend, it'll be a blast. :-)
Oh, you just HAVE to know that I will be live-blogging the confirmation hearings..
You just HAVE to know that's going to happen, right!?? :D
"{cad.. cad...} My old friend, {cad}... Do you know the Klingon proverb that says revenge is a dish best served cold..."
-Khan, STAR TREK II
@cad
...quickly noted that Ronald Reagan pledged to nominate a woman to the high court during his 1980 presidential campaign -- a pledge he made good on with the confirmation of Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981.
And didn't Bush the Elder promise to nominate a black, which he did with Clarence "Oreo" Thomas?
WOW, cad... Still with the blatant racist slurs, eh?? Funny how no one here condemns those racist slurs. Mind-boggling...
Anyways, cad... As usual, you are WRONG..
When Saint Reagan made the statement, what he said is that he WANTED to nominate the first woman to the SCOTUS..
Further, Biden stated that he (Biden) will ONLY consider a black woman..
The majority of Reagan considerations were male.. Reagan never ONLY considered women for the SCOTUS seat... Basically Reagan did what is currently done with University admissions. Used gender as one of many considerations. You Democrats don't have a problem with that.. So why have a problem with Saint Reagan's use of the process??
Biden's statement to ONLY consider a black female, to use race and gender ONLY as a consideration is blatantly racist and blatantly sexist..
Even fellow Democrats state this..
It's not surprising.. It's what we have come to expect from the blatant Racist Party.. The blatant Sexist Party... The always hypocritical Democrat Party...
Finally catching up to the present.. :D
From yesterday's commentary..
Great Economic News (That Democrats Should Be Shouting To The Skies)
Just like with all things Democrat Party, the reality is far different..
Yes, Democrats can cherry pick a few facts here and a couple facts there and a piddly fact or two from over yonder..
Demcorats can cherry pick a fact or two and try to paint a VERY rosy picture..
But the REALITY is far far different than the picture Democrats are trying to paint.. And the American people will RECOGNIZE exactly what Democrats are trying to do..
Change all the factual and reality based gloom and doom into a BS rosy picture of sunshine, lollipops and unicorn farts..
Americans are a LOT smarter than Democrats want to believe.. And BLACK Americans are TONS smarter than Democrat believe..
The patriotic Americans will see right thru this Democrat line of BS and recognize it for what it is.. Total kaa-kaa.. Just the Demcorat Party once again trying to blow smoke up the ass of patriotic Americans..
Democrats tried this before...
Remember THE SUMMER OF RECOVERY?? That fell flat on it's face because the FACTS... the REALITY... proved that there really wasn't any recovery..
So it is today.. The FACTS... The REALITY prove that any economic bragging by the Democrat Party is simply nothing but hot air.. Nothing but vaporware... Nothing but smoke and mirrors..
@cad,
Are you better off now than two years ago?
BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA
Are you TRYING to lose the election for Democrats????
Of course, Americans aren't better off than they were 2 years ago.. Gas is almost twice as much.. Store shelves are empty.. When there IS product, it costs twice as much...
If you ask that question to Americans, the vast majority of Americans are going to yell, " HELL NO!!!"
Well, Democrats got us here with no help from the Republicans
Yes, this is exactly factually accurate..
Democrats scroo'ed over this country immensely without ANY help from Republicans..
cad, you need to come to grips with reality, son..
Your Democrats have royally scroo'ed over this country and they are going to pay for that intentional scroo'ing over with being relegated to Minority Party status and locked out of the White House for at least a decade.. :D
I'd like a do-over on 28 ...
Michale[26],
A PRiSM song comes to mind, again, with just one word change ...
Projection, projection, I'm NOT being fooled by projection! Projection, projection, You thought you could pull something over me! Heh.
Deception
See ya Sunday Night!
It's gonna be the Neil and Joni show!!!
Gotta run ... to work! :)
It's actually ironic...
Biden is going to nominate an Affirmative Action Justice JUST at the time that the SCOTUS is going to toss Affirmative Action on the trash heap of history where it belongs..
The best fiction writer on the planet could NOT DREAM UP such an ironic plot twist, eh?? :D
Gotta run ... to work! :)
Awwwwwww..... NOW what am I gonna do!!??? :D
I need a mind as equally razor sharp as mine.. Since Liz is gone...
JL??? You available??
Barring that, a chew toy would be nice...
cad?? Bashi??? vick???
Com'on people!! I got all this energy!!! :D
Modern pharmaceuticals... A wonderful thing.. :D
OK No one wants to accept the challenge..
Let's go about documenting the Demcorat Party's war on cops..
One only has to look at the current headlines to see that the Demcorat Party has declared WAR on cops.
Six law enforcement officers shot across US in less than 48 hours as violent crime surges
Two police officers were shot in St. Louis, a sheriff's deputy was shot in Milwaukee; and, three more police officers were shot in Houston
Police and law enforcement officers continue to be the victims of a violent trend, as six officers were the victims of gun violence over just the past two days, prompting a somber post from a Michigan sheriff.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-law-enforcement-officers-shot-in-major-us-cities-in-less-than-48-hours-as-violent-crime-keeps-surging
THIS ^^^^^ is EXACTLY what happens when Democrats adopt DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE policies..
People lose their respect for LEOs and scumbag criminals lose their fear of police..
"The Democrats hate on Police so why shouldn't I!!!??? Let's go kill some cops!!!"
-Scumbag Democrat/Criminals
The responsibility for ALL these cops being shot and killed can be laid DIRECTLY at the feet of the Democrat Party...
NYPD patrol car tires slashed as crowds gather for vigil honoring fallen Officers Jason Rivera, Wilbert Mora
Police tires slashed near vigil at NYPD’s 32 Precinct station house, Fox News has learned
The tires of a half-dozen police vehicles, including those belonging to the NYPD, were slashed on Wednesday during a vigil honoring the fallen New York City officers who died after they were shot by a domestic violence suspect earlier this month, Fox News has learned.
The tires on four New York Police Department patrol cars, an auxiliary van and a police vehicle from Darien, Connecticut, were slashed sometime shortly around 6:30 p.m. local time Wednesday in Harlem, near a vigil at the NYPD’s 32 Precinct station house, Fox News confirmed Thursday morning.
At the time, crowds had gathered at the station house around that time to honor Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, who were assigned to the precinct.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nypd-tires-slashed-vigil-officers-jason-rivera-wilbert-mora
Frakin' Democrats!!!
Americans are honoring fallen heroes and Democrats are vandalizing mourners' vehicles!!
Could Demcorats possibly be ANY lower in the scumbag sewers!??
Remind me again how the Democrat Party is NOT the Party of DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE???
Denver police hamstrung because of anti-police policies, union official says
Several Denver locals said the city needed a greater "police presence"
DENVER – Denver law enforcement have faced major challenges handling the city's increasing crime because of anti-police policies, among other factors, a local police union official told Fox News.
From 2020 to 2021, Denver property crimes increased nearly 27% and violent crime climbed 6%, according to The Denver Post. Denver Police Department Protection Association Vice President Tyson Worrell blamed political leaders' anti-police rhetoric and legislation and the district attorney's prosecution policies.
"There is a more aggressive behavior towards officers," Worrell told Fox News. "Lawmakers have taken a different approach on law enforcement, which has empowered people acting outside the law to engage officers in a different manner."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-police-hamstrung-because-of-anti-police-policies-union-official-says
So, remind me again how the Democrat Party is not the Cop-Hate Party??
NOT the Party of DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE
I seem to have forgotten what with all the FACTS that prove just the opposite...
:eyeroll:
More facts to support the fact that the Democrat Party has declared a war on cops
Kentucky state trooper shot; suspect apprehended, authorities say
A Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officer was credited with getting the wounded trooper to a hospital
A suspect in Friday's shooting of a Kentucky state trooper has been apprehended, according to authorities.
The arrest was made around 10 p.m. by the Kentucky State Police and the Lexington Police Department.
The state trooper had been shot multiple times around 4:15 p.m. in Cynthiana, about an hour northeast of Lexington, authorities said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-state-trooper-shot-police-say
These attacks and ambushes on LEOs is a DIRECT result of the Democrat Party policy of of DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE...
Now let's turn our attention to the Democrat Party's militant wing, BLM..
BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship
No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found.
BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner.
"Like a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction," CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron said of BLM.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship
With BLM, it was NEVER about positive social change..
Their NINE YEARS of BS and rampage has all been about 2 things and 2 things only...
Killing cops and making money...
And Weigantians™ support BLM's activities fully and unequivocally..
#sad
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed two activists to serve as the group's senior directors following her resignation in May amid scrutiny over her personal finances. But both quietly announced in September that they never took the jobs due to disagreements with BLM. They told the Washington Examiner they don't know who now leads the nation's most influential social justice organization.
Paul Kamenar, counsel for conservative watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center, said a full audit and investigation into Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, is warranted.
"This is grossly irregular and improper for a nonprofit with $60 million in its coffers," Kamenar said.
BLM previously came under fire from local black activists after the New York Post reported in April that Cullors, then its executive director, had spent $3.2 million on real estate across the United States. The reports followed BLM's disclosure in February 2021 that it closed out 2020 with $60 million in its bank accounts.
BLM denied allegations that Cullors spent BLM funds on her personal properties. However, BLM and other activist organizations under Cullors's control offered contracts to an art company led by the father of her only child, the Daily Caller reported.
Cullors announced in May she was stepping down and that activists Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele would lead the organization as senior executives. But Themba and Bandele revealed in September that they never actually took the job because of disagreements with BLM's "acting Leadership Council."
BLM has been a cop-killing con from the start..
Who could have POSSIBLY predicted this!??
Oh.. Wait... :eyeroll:
But BLM reported to the IRS in August 2020 that it expected to incur precisely $12,706,366 in "Professional Fees" expenditures during the same calendar year, a figure $4.3 million higher than the top-line annual spending figure it later reported to the public in February.
Kamenar said his watchdog group believes there should be a "full audit" of BLM to clear up the spending discrepancy.
"Bottom line: Lot of questionable financial activity, organizational structure, location of the books, etc. that call for a full investigation," Kamenar said.
Data that should be contained within BLM's Form 990 tax return for 2020, which was due to the IRS in November, would help clear up the organization's $4.3 million spending discrepancy.
On Tuesday, a Washington Examiner reporter attempted to request BLM's 2020 Form 990 in person at the charity's office in Los Angeles, which the group disclosed as the location its books are stored in previous filings submitted to the IRS, only to be told by a security guard that there has never been a BLM office at the location.
An unidentified BLM spokesperson informed the Washington Examiner on Thursday that the group does not currently maintain a "permanent office" and offered to mail a copy of its 990 within two weeks.
The Democrat Party is completely complicit and utterly responsible for this huge and blatant BLM con...
OK I'll give ya'all a chance to catch up... :D
Liz,
I wonder if Biden will pick a nominee who can garner some Republican votes. I think this will factor prominently in his decision.
This is unlikely to happen and let me tell you why..
Any black woman that the GOP would find even REMOTELY acceptable would have to have at least a modicum of self respect and integrity.
And any black woman who has even a modicum of self respect and integrity would not accept the nomination..
So, the nominee Biden will pick will be a full-fledged unapologetic Social Justice Warrior cut from the cloth of a Cori Bush or an Ayanna Pressley or an Ilhan Omar...
Basically a nominee that it's no guarantee will attract even 50 DEMOCRAT votes, let alone any GOP votes..
In other words, any nominee that would even POSSIBLY attract a GOP vote or two would not even accept the nomination..
NO ONE with any self-respect or integrity wants to be a token Affirmative Action hire...
Ironically enough, the ONE black woman that HAS no self-respect or integrity and would accept the nomination AND probably be acceptable to all 50 Democrats is Headboard Harris..
But the GOP would GLEE-FULLY band together to oppose her nomination and she would not be allowed to cast the deciding vote..
Even IF a VP could cast the deciding vote on a SCOTUS nomination... Which is unlikely..
So, once again, Democrats have painted themselves into a corner..
They are the dog that finally caught the car..
And now they are confused as to what to do with it..
DH,
It would be comical to watch commenters trade bullshit talking points with Michale if it didn't have such serious consequences.
Which points of mine are "bullshit"?? I would be happy to prove you wrong... If you would just point them out..
:D
@m,
Glad you're better. Now about this whole "less is more" concept....
Heh.
What you call "the Big Lie" is simply the reality of the here and now..
Your idea has merit but will require a WHOLE LOT of reality bending before we get to that point.
But the problems we face are more immediate.. Many of those problems will be resolved once the GOP gets Congress back..
More problems will be resolved once President Trump is back in the Oval Office..
In essence, once Democrats are removed from the equation, things will get tons better for this country...
No need for redundancy? Ya don't say!
Glad you're better.
Thank you.. :D
Now about this whole "less is more" concept....
Heh.
hehehehehehe
"Now I'm not one for blasphemy, but that last one made me laugh."
-Morgan Woodward, BRUCE ALMIGHTY
:D
That applies to my ribs only.. :D
In Weigantia™, more is less.. :D
I am posting as fast as I can!!! :D
Ya don't say!
Heh... :D
So, JL..
I am sure you don't oppose it to the extent that I do..
But you have to feel SOME kind of ambivalence to Biden stating categorically that he won't consider ANYONE but a black female for the SCOTUS nomination..
How does one equivocate the blatantly racist and sexist overtones???
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
-Chief Justice John Roberts
Democrats simply refuse to recognize this one factually accurate fact..
Making choices based on race IS racism..
Pure and simple...
Democrats CONSTANTLY make choices based on race..
Ergo, the ONLY logical, rational and factual conclusion...
The Democrat Party is the Racist Party...
The more interesting twist came after news broke of the impending retirement: President Joe Biden affirmed that he intends to fulfill his 2020 campaign promise to nominate a black woman—not a black man, not a Hispanic woman, but specifically a black woman—to replace the retiring Jewish male justice.
There is only one way to describe crass identity politics operationalized at this high a political level: Evil.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/will-we-ever-eradicate-the-cancer-of-identity-politics-opinion/ar-AATeK6s
There is simply NO getting around the facts..
Biden, with the full support and affirmation from the Democrat Party has just embarked on a path that is fully, completely, unequivocally, factually and undeniably.... RACIST...
NO other interpretation is possible...
Biden's affirmation of his campaign-season promise to nominate such a specific population subgroup is a dagger to the telos—the overarching orientation of true color-blind equality and justice—of the United States. Even holding aside the lunacy, from a sheer sample size perspective, of announcing at the outset of a Supreme Court justice search that one intends to limit that search to roughly 2 percent of the national lawyer pool, the higher-level message Democrats telegraph by doubling down on such an identity politics obsession is extraordinarily pernicious.
EXACTLY...
Right off the bad, Biden and the Democrats have narrow'ed the resource of a QUALITY SCOTUS to just TWO PERCENT of the availability pool....
What kind of utter MORON would limit such an important search to just TWO PERCENT!!??
TWO PERCENT!!??
What kind of moron?? Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Joe Biden and the Democrat Party... :eyeroll:
How can a justice who knows she was selected purely on the basis of race and gender reasonably be expected to adjudicate cases during her Court tenure that implicate issues of race and gender?
Once again.. EXACTLY...
How is an Affirmative Action hire token going to have ANY credibility to pass judgment on ANY issue to do with race or gender brought before her???
Answer?? She will have none.. By all that's right and just, she would have to recuse herself from ANY consideration of ANY case involving gender or race..
Furthermore, consider the impact Biden's announcement surely has on young lawyers all across the nation who do not fit into the narrow sliver of the intersectional pie that he has now proclaimed will comprise his entire prospective talent pool. Hold aside white men; that ship seems to have sailed. What kind of message does this send to young liberal lawyers who are black men? Or how about the message it sends to young liberal lawyers who are Hispanic women? And why stop at the intersectional sliver of black and female? Why not preemptively announce that his next two hypothetical Court picks will be a Muslim and a homosexual, respectively? (Jews and Mormons, two religious minorities who nonetheless sit low on the Left's intersectional hierarchy pyramid, of course need not apply.)
For a Party that *CLAIMS* to be all about inclusiveness and tolerance, Biden and the Democrats just made what is the most EXCLUSIVE and INTOLERANT decision possible..
Limiting the selection to just TWO PERCENT of the availability pool is the VERY definition of EXCLUSIVE and INTOLERANT...
The juxtaposition of the Court's color-blind certiorari grant on Monday and Biden's color (and sex)-centric announcement on Wednesday is nothing if not ironic. Perhaps Republicans might be galvanized to make opposition to identity politics a key part of their 2022 midterm election platform. And regardless of who replaces Justice Breyer, the Court next term will hopefully take us closer to a society that is race-blind—and not besotted by cancerous identity politics—by gutting affirmative action in America.
A-frakin'-men to THAT!!!!!
So, I am just starting to get in to Season 4 of Star Trek Discovery..
And this Social Justice Non Binary bullshit is just as bad as it's ever been..
I mean, take this luser Adira character who is so full of herself..
She says her "pronouns" are they/them, yet she refers to herself as "I"...
I mean, how utterly moronic is that!?? Star Trek was all about consistency and that is about as inconsistent as it gets..
Why is it that moronic Left Wingers ALWAYS take a good thing and turn it to shit??
ST:Discovery in the later seasons is one big emotional Social Justice fest that has NO BEARING on what made Star Trek great..
As entertainment it's abysmal... As Star Trek, it's LAUGHABLE...
I don't think I can include an image in the replies, but this is for you CW; you will enjoy it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216299508
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I second this, CW.
Is anyone else questioning why Putin waited until now to finally move on the rest of the Ukraine? He took Crimea back when Obama was in office with little resistance. Russia needed possession of Crimea to get it’s oil to tanker ships in the Baltic Sea without having to pay the Ukrainian’s gas tax. Russia ‘s entire economy is oil based; so being forced to pay another country a gas tax to get their oil to refineries cut deeply into their profits. If they wanted to take Ukraine by force, why wait so long to do so?
Consider that back in 2016 — when the Republican Party actually had a Party Platform that claimed to hold specific principled values instead of simply swearing fealty to anything Trump says they value — the only change that Trump’s people wanted to the GOP’s platform was to say that the Republicans would no longer support arming Ukrainian forces to help them stave off a Russian invasion. This new Pro-Russian position to the Republican Platform stunned everyone.
We know now that Trump was never going to be held to the principles outlined in the GOP’s platform… they were never going to be even a blip on his radar when it came to his decision making process. That is what makes Trump’s lone change to the GOP platform all the more curious! If you were never concerned with what the platform says, then why did you make this one change that told the world that you were giving Russia permission to take what it wanted without fear of reprisal? And if this message meant so much to Trump, why did Russia not act while Trump was President?
Consider that back in 2016 — when the Republican Party actually had a Party Platform that claimed to hold specific principled values instead of simply swearing fealty to anything Trump says they value — the only change that Trump’s people wanted to the GOP’s platform was to say that the Republicans would no longer support arming Ukrainian forces to help them stave off a Russian invasion. This new Pro-Russian position to the Republican Platform stunned everyone.
Yer entire claim is BS...
It was President Trump who set up the offensive weaponry to Ukraine when all Odumbo would send is blankets and medical supplies...
This is documented fact...
And if this message meant so much to Trump, why did Russia not act while Trump was President?
Simple.. Because as Anti-War as President Trump is, he would NEVER have let Putin roll over the Ukraine...
Putin KNOWS that Biden is weak and moronic..
Biden PROVED that in Afghanistan.. Beyond ANY doubt, Biden PROVED he simply cannot lead... Biden PROVED that he will override military common sense and supplant HIS judgement for the judgment of military leadership...
Therefore, Putin KNOWS that he can roll over Ukraine and Biden will do in Ukraine what Biden did in Afghanistan..
Totally frak things up..
THAT is why Putin is going now..
Because Putin knows that he can beat Biden six ways from Sunday and Biden won't know what hit him..
Mrs. Betty Bowers America's Best Christian(TM) discusses competition between non-profits.(4:06)
I can prove it.. Show me all your comments in support of police in the last few weeks of BLM and AntiFa attacks and ambushes on LEOs in the last couple weeks.. .
There have been no comments because those deaths had nothing to do with BLM or your favorite bogeyman, AntiFa. Politicizing the in the line of duty deaths of fallen police officers with such dishonesty is pathetic even for you.
Yes, Pelosi sits on the board.. Her and Schumer DO have the power to call up the National Guard to provide back up for the USCP.. They can even do so of their own volition..
In this case, they didn't even have to call up the board of their own volition.. President Trump did that "dirty" deed himself.. All Pelosi and Schumer had to do was agree to it. But they didn't.. They actively DISALLOWED the National Guard from showing up and providing MUCH NEEDED back up.
WOW! You managed to get everything wrong in these statements! And good job changing the goalposts after I shut down your original lie about the USCP. Only the President can call up the National Guard in DC. He’s the only one with the authority to do so… but he ignored all calls begging him to do so on January 6th. To have done so would have only hurt his attempted insurrection… and he’d worked too hard and planned to long to stop those committing the violence in his name!
Also, Schumer wasn’t the Senate Majority Leader on January 6th… Mitch McConnell was in charge. So even if you weren’t already wrong about everything, you’d still be wrong.
Why would Pelosi NOT want the National Guard as backup?? Because she WANTED cops to get hurt..
Since only Trump could have authorized their deployment…but didn’t… I guess he WANTED cops to get hurt..
There have been no comments
Exactly.. There have been NO COMMENTS of support for LEOs attacked and killed from you or Weigantians™ because you people don't support cops...
Politicizing the in the line of duty deaths of fallen police officers with such dishonesty is pathetic even for you.
YOU want to talk about politicizing??!!??? YOU!!!?????
Your Democrats and their DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE ***MADE*** it all about politics...
Only the President can call up the National Guard in DC. He’s the only one with the authority to do so…
Not factually accurate..
It's actually the SecDef who has that authority. But, in her role as House Speaker, Pelosi has the authority to request the National Guard and the SecDef is duty bound to honor that request..
So, yes.. Pelosi can call up the National Guard..
Why didn't she??
Since only Trump could have authorized their deployment…but didn’t… I guess he WANTED cops to get hurt..
Actually, the SecDef DID authorize the call up..
Pelosi refused..
Plus you ignore the HUNDREDS of USCP cops who have reported that it was Pelosi who didn't provide the National Guard for backup..
Why would they say that if it were not factually accurate??
You need to come to grips with reality, Russ..
6 Jan was nothing but a violent riot... Like the 22 years (collectively) of BLM and AntiFa riots that YOU ignore....
The ONLY reason you are up in arms about 6 Jan is because it's a nice shiny new club with which you can beat President Trump over the head with..
You don't REALLY care about cops.. Your Party is the DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE Party..
Weigantians™ don't care about the cops that Democrats get killed..
As evidenced by the FACT that not a single Weigantian™ has offered support for ANY LEOs that have been attacked and killed by BLM in the last 13 years...
The facts are clear, Russ..
And it's clear you have no facts..
And, in the WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS department..
DC Comics' 'woke' Superman reboot fails to fly with readers: report
"Superman: Son of Kal-El" #1 sold only 68,800 copies since it debuted in July, according to a report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/dc-comics-woke-superman-reboot-fail-readers
What IS it about Democrats that they destroy everything they touch??
First Star Trek... Now Superman..
They are like a ONE PARTY Wrecking Ball that simply demolishes everything that is good and decent in this world...
Russ,
Funny how you never had anything to say about this, Russ..
Updated and Reposted: RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Comparison
The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 23 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot.
Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases, and prosecutors and judges alike have weighed Capitol riot defendants’ political views in adjudicating their cases.
Dozens of accused Capitol rioters have been held in pretrial detention for months, where they have allegedly been mistreated.
In the summer 2020 riots, the vast majority of charges were dismissed, as they were in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Prosecutors have dropped a single Capitol riot case.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/09/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html
And that just compared ONE SUMMER (3 months) of Democrat riots to 6 Jan...
We've had, collectively, TWENTY TWO YEARS of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots..
And you want to sit there and ignore ALL these facts that PROVE that, when it comes to violent riots and attacks on government buildings, it's your Democrat Party and their militant wings, BLM and AntiFa that are the real threats to this country..
Politicizing the in the line of duty deaths of fallen police officers with such dishonesty is pathetic even for you.
"This is something we SHOULD politicize!"
-Barack Odumbo
So, it's perfectly acceptable for you Democrats to politicize tragedies if it serves your Anti America agenda, eh???
But when we have an issue that is caused *BY* Democrats and their DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE political agenda.... ALL of the sudden you speak out against politicization, eh???
:epic eyeroll:
Hypocrisy.. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature.
How Biden can correct the course in his second year
Amid a stalled legislative agenda and sagging approval ratings, President Joe Biden held a formal news conference last week for only the second time in his presidency.
Voters have turned on Biden because they feel he has disregarded the mandate he was elected to fulfill. Americans are clearly frustrated with Biden’s unsuccessful — albeit unwavering — efforts to advance a progressive agenda that is both beyond his political means and not designed to address the public’s immediate needs and anxieties.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/590910-how-biden-can-correct-the-course-in-his-second-year
America is a Right Center Right country...
Americans don't want a progressive country.. They don't WANT a socialist country..
That is where Biden and the Democrats are trying to pull this country to..
And it simply is not going to work..
Though Biden is adopting our previous advice by breaking the Build Back Better agenda into separate components, the president can and should do more to find common ground with Republicans on key agenda items such as immigration — as he did with the bipartisan infrastructure bill — rather than doubling-down on divisive partisan rhetoric.
Absent such a course correction, Biden’s ratings could continue to drop, and Democrats are more likely to be brought down by Republicans in 2022.
The GOP doesn't need to compromise with Biden and the Democrats.. The GOP has the entirety of the patriotic American people behind them..
It's Biden and the Democrats that need to compromise with the GOP..
Well, I am sitting here in St Augustine, FL and it's 26 degrees outside..
Where is that global warming that Democrats are always hysterical about?? :D
Liberals across America are sighing with relief about Justice Breyer’s retirement
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/liberals-relief-justice-breyer-retirement
That sigh of relief may be premature.. :D
As I have mentioned, it's unlikely that ANY black woman who has an ounce of integrity or self-respect and, therefore, would be acceptable to the GOP, would want to accept an Affirmative Action token nomination..
The most likely scenario here is that the process will drag out past the mid-terms when the GOP will take control of the Senate and make passing a nominee to the SCOTUS bench all but impossible..
A distinct possibility is that McConnell will be able to keep the seat open until President Trump returns to the Oval Office..
But here is an interesting conundrum..
I believe Breyer has stated that he will retire upon his replacement being named..
Now, does that mean, once the nominee's name is submitted???
Or does that mean, once the nominee is actually passed by the Senate??
This is an important distinction..
If Breyer retires after the nominee is named but before being approved by the SENATE, the SCOTUS will stand at 6-2 Conservative..
And if the nomination process drags on for years, then the SCOTUS will be even more firmly entrenched, at 6-2, in the Conservative mold during the process..
Which brings up an even MORE interesting question..
If the process drags on till 2025 when President Trump returns to the Oval Office, can Breyer rescind his retirement to prevent a 7-2 Conservative SCOTUS from becoming a reality???
This is going to be some really awesome drama!!! :D
It's actually funny, when ya think about it..
Even without all the drama, the absolute BEST that Democrats can hope for is the status quo... :D
What IS it about Democrats that they are firmly the Party of low expectations.. :D
Now HERE is a Cancel Culture I can get behind!!!
NYC actress fired after rant over Jason Rivera funeral: Streets closed 'for one fucking cop'
Thousands of NYPD officers and mourners lined Manhattan streets Friday to mourn fallen Officer Jason Rivera, 22, who was killed Jan. 21
A New York City-based actress was fired this weekend after backlash over her viral TikTok complaint that the city didn’t need to be shut down for "one fucking cop" whose funeral was held Friday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, according to a report.
New York City police Officer Jason Rivera was killed Jan. 21 by a suspect while responding to a domestic dispute in Harlem. A second police officer died days later.
On Friday, thousands lined Manhattan’s streets to mourn the 22-year-old Rivera, but actress Jacqueline Guzman likely wasn’t one of them, the New York Post reported.
The actress posted a TikTok rant about street closures prompted by the funeral.
"We do not need to shut down most of Lower Manhattan because one cop died for probably doing his job incorrectly," she said. "They kill people who are under 22 every single day for no good reason and we don’t shut down the city for them."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-actress-jacqueline-guzman-fired-jason-rivera-funeral-rant-streets-one-cop
What IS it about cop-hating Democrats that they are simply disgusting human beings???
When ya actually think about it, this ^^^^^ really isn't even "Cancel Culture"...
This is simply the decent responsible common sense thing to do...
The year left-wing ideas came home to roost
Progressive policies are tearing apart our cities, as crime rates spike and public safety suffers
2022 is proving to be the year in which progressives’ genius ideas come home to roost. Instituting far-left policies in cities across America has resulted in disastrous outcomes. All this raises the question: which Democrats will stay loyal to the far-left “transformational” agenda and which will jump ship?
Most liberal politicians have enjoyed this country’s tidal wave of wokeness up until now. Posting Instagram infographics and hash-tagging activism on Twitter plays well with younger voters.
Real news has become almost indistinguishable from the Babylon Bee’s satire. In a single day, you can read about snowplow equity, M&Ms becoming more inclusive and students identifying as cats. Say what you will about the perpetually offended, they certainly are entertaining.
As dumb as the “Defund the Police!” slogan sounded back in May 2020, try promoting it now when the murder rate in this country is nearing a 25-year high.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-year-left-wing-ideas-came-home-to-roost/
Today's America is what ya'all's Democrat Party has created..
Are ya'all happy with the result?? :eyeroll:
In February 2021, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced $120 million in cuts to her city’s police and sheriff’s department. Ten months later, she stood in front of a podium and declared that she was requesting more money from the city board of supervisors for the police. “And it comes to an end when are we more aggressive with law enforcement and less tolerant of all the bulls–t that has destroyed our city,” she said. While she did not admit that her own irresponsible policies had enabled said “bulls—t” to surge, her sudden about-face was admission enough.
The painful results of the Squad’s dreams coming true are hard for some politicians to ignore and rationalize. The senseless killings and organized robberies are bound to separate the men from the boys in the progressive movement.
But when it comes to talking the talk and walking the walk, there are a few stalwarts. The district attorneys in San Francisco and Manhattan are perfect examples.
In NYC, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “Day 1” memo decriminalized a range of crimes from trespassing to marijuana possession to prostitution. Charges were also reduced for a number of crimes, while sentences of life without parole were banned except in “exceptional circumstances.”
These soft-on-crime policies were at the forefront of Dominique Luzuriaga’s mind as she delivered a eulogy for her husband, NYPD officer Jason Rivera, on Friday.
As I have pointed out and no one here has been able to refute with any facts of their own..
The blood of all LEOs shot and killed in the last couple years are on the hands of all Democrat voters..
@78,
Global warming is just that, global. That's why it's not called air warming. Of the 4 parts of Earth's surface that hold heat, the atmosphere holds by far the least, and is therefore most subject to random fluctuation. Whether a lefty commenting on a warm day or a righty commenting on a cold day, it's just as irrelevant to our ongoing destruction of our own habitat. I'm sure I'm guilty as anyone of tossing that irrationality around in polite conversation, but it has no place in any serious political discussion.
JL
Not
Grr page loading error. Not related are president trump's incomprehensible refusal to send help when Congress was under attack, and some dumb actor deciding to piss on a hero's funeral.
, but it has no place in any serious political discussion.
Well, at least you concede that Global Warming is a POLITICAL discussion and not a science discussion.. :D
That's a good start.. :D
Not related
Of course not.. I am simply throwing out possible topics of discussion to put lie to the claim that I am not here for any "back and forth".. :D
are president trump's incomprehensible refusal to send help when Congress was under attack,
President Trump wanted to activate the National Guard.. Pelosi said NO...
President Trump did a LOT more than Democrats when they did not respond to, collectively, 22 years of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country..
and some dumb actor deciding to piss on a hero's funeral.
Just an example of Cancel Culture that isn't really cancel culture, but rather simple human decency and common sense.. :D
So.... Who do you like for the Super Bowl???
I wanted Green Bay and/or Tampa Bay so I am already S.O.L.
Michale,
Joshua is right, as always.
And, political discussions and science discussion are hardly mutually exclusive, as any discussion on the dawning climate apocalypse will demonstrate. In fact, they go hand in hand when discussing any global issue.
Don't forget the music later tonight - bring all your favourites, everyone!
And, political discussions and science discussion are hardly mutually exclusive,
Only by Democrats...
Science should be guided by SCIENCE and not by politics.. Democrats continue to fail in that...
It's a well-documented fact that most, if not all, of Democrat "science" actually started out as Democrat activism...
as any discussion on the dawning climate apocalypse will demonstrate.
There is no climate apocalypse... Dawning or otherwise...
There is simply climate... There has been for BILLIONS of years on this planet..
And now Democrats believe that they can CONTROL climate???
Com'on.. That's simply human arrogance talking...
Confirmation bias: The fighting has already begun, and Biden hasn't even named a nominee
Confirmations often are a reflection of our political divisions and even our rage. Even with that history, the confirmation fight over replacing Justice Stephen Breyer sets a new and ominous record: The controversy began before Breyer announced his resignation, before anyone was nominated by President Biden. We seem to have reached the ultimate political stage of development, of no longer even needing a nominee for our confirmation fights.
The controversy over this nomination actually began roughly two years before the vacancy was announced. In March 2019, Biden said during a Democratic primary debate that he would only consider black females for the next Supreme Court vacancy. It was a promise elicited by Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) during a break in the debate; Clyburn then gave Biden his critical endorsement before the key South Carolina primary. The judge Clyburn supports is now on Biden’s short list.
The pledge not to consider people based on their race and gender raised immediate concerns. This week, with Justice Breyer standing beside him, President Biden affirmed that he would exclude anyone who is not black or female. He would, in other words, not even consider Breyer himself, or even the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, because they are the wrong race or gender.
In making his pledge, Biden created a glaring contradiction for the court. He is using a threshold exclusion based on race and gender that the court has repeatedly declared either unconstitutional or unlawful for schools and businesses to use in their own admissions or hirings. There is a difference between a preferential and an exclusionary rule in selection. That contradiction will be magnified this term after the court accepted two cases that may further curtail — or even bar — the use of racial preferences in college admissions. Indeed, the new justice will hear arguments on the discriminatory use of such criteria after being initially selected not in a preferential rule, but an actual exclusionary rule based on race and gender.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/591925-confirmation-bias-the-fighting-has-already-begun-and-biden-hasnt-even-named?rl=1
Biden has created a blatant racist and sexist litmus test for this SCOTUS nominee..
How ironic would it be if the SCOTUS ruled that such a blatantly racist/sexist act is unconstitutional and cannot be done...
Get that?? The SCOTUS rules that Biden's nomination process is blatantly unconstitutional...
Oh that's just DRIPPING with irony..
And there is simply NO WAY any of ya'all could sugarcoat the blatant racism and blatant sexism...
In response to that observation, a host of commentators insisted that Presidents Reagan, Trump and George H.W. Bush made the same pledge. That is false. While seeking to appoint women and African Americans, none of the three excluded other races or genders from consideration, and they had diverse short lists. Notably, however, no commentators actually denied that Biden was using a test for admission to the court that the High Court itself would not allow for universities or businesses. Even if not unlawful, there is a legitimate question of whether a threshold test considered unconstitutional for schools should be used for the court that is tasked with barring such tests.
No one has denied Biden's blatant racist and sexist action because no one CAN deny that Biden's action is blatantly racist and blatantly sexist..
Turley merely points out the facts that I put forth above..
Using racist/sexist criteria to select a SCOTUS Justice who upholds the US Constitution is blatantly unconstitutional..
Biden once again hoists himself on his own Picard...
Well, it's been a boring day..
Binge watching ST: Enterprise from S01E01...
Reading The Eugenics Wars Series...
Playing Warzone.. :^/
It's going to be a very boring couple weeks..
Thank the gods there is Weigantia™ to entertain me... :D
More than 3/4ths of the American people want Biden to consider 100% of the Justice nominee pool...
Biden intends to only consider TWO PERCENT of the nominee pool...
Thereby proving once again.. Biden and the Democrats are completely out of touch with the vast majority of Americans..
Thank the gods there is Weigantia™ to entertain me... :D
Ah, you've got that ass-backwards, my friend. Hehehehehe.
Michale,
Science should be guided by SCIENCE and not by politics..
This is complicated stuff, eh?
I will try one more time.
Mitigating the impacts of climate change requires both a scientific AND political discussion.
I'm sorry but, I can't make it any simpler than that.
Hope to hear your favourite tunes much later tonight ...
I think she’s a cunt.
She was merely stating that she believes Sinema is a cunt. She doesn’t claim to know this for a fact, but she thinks that the evidence makes it very likely that Sinema is a cunt.
When Kick had destroyed all of your bullshat arguments after wiping the floor with your hyperbolic lies that you couldn’t keep straight; you were cornered with no way out…so you chose personal attacks rather than just admitting defeat — a move that tells the world that you lost and it was ugly how bad you lost!
Pelosi got 3 or 4 USCP Trump/America hating cops to throw their fellow LEOs under the bus.. There are ALWAYS cops in EVERY department who puts politics over their brother/sister officers.. There are a few cops in EVERY department who, like you, bleeds Democrat blue and not Police blue..
How, exactly, did the brave officers who survived their being physically beaten by Trump’s traitorous goons “throw their fellow LEO’s under the bus” by testifying to what they endured on January 6th? Testifying — after being physically assaulted, drug through the crowd and beaten with bats and metal rods, having their taser taken from them and then being tazed multiple times in the neck, believing that they were never going to see their children again — about what they survived at the hands of those attempting to overthrow our government in Trump’s name… that is the officer's “playing politics”?!?! These were officers who voted for Trump, and he sat back watching them getting attacked by his followers and Trump did nothing to help them…cheering for the rioters instead.
When Trump finally put out a video addressing the failed insurrection attempt, he did not tell the police that they were loved…his love was for those that harmed the officers!
Trump did not ever try to hide the fact that he was going to do all that he could to stop the electors from doing their constitutional duties after he lost the 2020 election by millions. He couldn’t even do that right!
Well, that was pretty disappointing, Russ ...
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Sorry, Elizabeth, but there's too much troll pollution down here for me to wanna participate in Sunday Night Dance party.
Sucks for all of us to require endless scrolling but, hey, you got what you wanted, eh?
Liz,
Ah, you've got that ass-backwards, my friend. Hehehehehe.
Well, then we have a mutually beneficial relationship, eh? :D
Mitigating the impacts of climate change requires both a scientific AND political discussion.
And therein lies the problem, Liz
Humans have NO CONTROL over climate change.. This is fact..
So ANY discussion, science based or politics based, in violation of that simple fact is a nothing but a waste of time.
NOW... If you want to discuss mitigating the impacts of Mother Nature, THEN we can have a discussion... If you want to talk about Storm Reaction and mitigating wind damage and plan for evacuations and such, those are all worthy discussions...
It's like discussing mitigating the impact of the planet's orbit..
There is NOTHING we can do about the planet's orbit, so talking about making changes to change the planet's orbit is fruitless, useless and simply a waste of time..
There simply is NO POLITICAL SOLUTION to climate change because there is no scientific solution to prevent climate change..
They climate WILL change.. The climate has ALWAYS changed.. The climate will continue to change until humans are populating the stars or go the way of the dodo..
There is NOTHING we can do about it..
All we CAN do is evolve, go with the flow and learn to survive it..
It's really that simple...
Russ,
She was merely stating that she believes Sinema is a c**t. She doesn’t claim to know this for a fact, but she thinks that the evidence makes it very likely that Sinema is a c**t.
As usual, you completely miss the point.. It sails right over your head...
The problem that you people claimed ya'all had was with the USE OF THE WORD... But, as I pointed out at the time, ya'all only had a problem with the PERSON using the word.. Namely someone who is of a different political persuasion than ya'all..
And, your response proves my point then is factually accurate..
You PROVE you don't have as problem with the use of the word, because you are throwing it around so glibly right now..
Your only problem is when people who are not politically acceptable use the word..
Thank you for proving me factually accurate once again....
When Kick had destroyed all of your bullshat arguments after wiping the floor with your hyperbolic lies that you couldn’t keep straight; you were cornered with no way out…so you chose personal attacks rather than just admitting defeat — a move that tells the world that you lost and it was ugly how bad you lost!
Not factually accurate..
First off, Vick never proved anything beyond her own stoopidity and ignorance.. Something that occurs constantly as evidenced by the fact that I have chased her away again..
:D
Secondly, my use of the word was a personal attack on her and her alone.. Finally, it only came about AFTER Vick had dragged my family into the flame war and attacked them grossly and perversely...
These are the facts of that past incident...
Thank you once again for proving my point and my facts for me.. :D
You've always been a mensch, Russ.. :D
@cad,
Sorry, Elizabeth, but there's too much troll pollution down here for me to wanna participate in Sunday Night Dance party.
Sucks for all of us to require endless scrolling but, hey, you got what you wanted, eh?
WOW..
Just, WOW, cad... Do you realize how much POWER you have given me?? :D
Do you realize how much I PWN you that you can't even enjoy a Sunday Night Dance Party because you are so consumed by my presence here???
If you REALLY ignored me, like you constantly... I mean CONSTANTLY claim you do, then you would act as if I wasn't even here...
So, if you were TRULY ignoring me, you would do all the things that you do when I am not around.. You would drunk post comment after comment after comment... You would pay in the music night.. THAT is what would be happening if you were truly ignoring me..
But you acknowledge and kow-tow to my presence every time you are here.. Your daily comment count is way WAY down... You never have ANY facts to support ANY position because you never stake a position any more..
ALL of your comments simply acknowledge my presence.. That's all you do anymore...
"Awwww crap... Michale's here.. I hate him and I am leaving..."
That's the extent of your commenting here in Weigantia™.. :D
If you had the modicum of intelligence and brain matter that the gods gave a garden slug, you would realize that you already have the power to get rid of me...
Yer simply to skeered to try it.. :D
That's why yer a kept er.. man like creature.. :D I've got you in my pocket.. :D
"You can’t run. Not from me. I’m inside that angsty little noggin of yours."
-Alastair, SUPERNATURAL
I would like to go back to the point I made last night right before I punched out for the night..
Poll: Most Americans want Biden to consider 'all nominees' in Supreme Court pick
A majority of Democrats oppose Biden declaring the nominee will be a Black woman
More than three-quarters (76%) of Americans want President Joe Biden to consider all potential nominees to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, according to a recent ABC News-Ipsos poll.
The poll comes after Biden said Thursday that he will announce his nominee before the end of February, and that the candidate will be a Black woman. Among Democrats, 54% supported considering all nominees regardless of race and gender. Just 23% of those polled wanted Biden to restrict his list of nominees to Black women.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-huge-majority-americans-biden-consider-all-nominees-supreme-court-pick
Get that???
From the Democrat Party's OWN Propaganda Wing...
OVER 3/4ths of Americans want Biden to select from the FULL poll of qualified jurists, NOT just 2% of the available pool...
Even a MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS wants Biden's nominee to be free of racist or sexist considerations..
Once again, Biden is proving he is simply not on the same page as the vast majority of Americans..
Why Joe Biden Is Bleeding Black Support
Joe Biden’s poll numbers aren’t what they used to be. Since last June, approval of the president has fallen by more than ten points, while disapproval has risen by roughly the same amount.
Although Biden has lost ground with most every demographic group, he’s suffered especially steep losses with African American voters. In polling from NBC News, Biden’s approval rating among Black voters has fallen from 83 percent last April to 64 percent today. Quinnipiac University’s surveys show a similar trend, with Biden’s Black support dropping from 78 percent to 57 percent over the course of his first year in office.
Much of that erosion has come in just the last few months. A Pew Research survey released this week finds that Biden has bled seven percentage points of support among Black adults since September. Over that same period, the president lost just four points of support from whites, and virtually none from Asian or Hispanic voters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-joe-biden-is-bleeding-black-support/ar-AATfvo5
Black Americans are coming to realize what a bum steer they have with the Democrat Party...
They are realizing that the Democrat Party is still the racist Party..
Black Americans are beginning to realize that the physical slavery plantation has been replaced with the socio-economic slavery plantation..
And the plunge in support is the result of black Americans' realizations..
I would really... REALLY... like to hear from anyone in Weigantia™ who can justify Biden's blatant racism/sexism in selecting a SCOTUS nominee..
This is a VERY important selection to be made.. A LIFE TIME appointment to the US Supreme Court??
This is something way WAY too important to have governed by blatant political pandering and limiting the choice to just TWO PERCENT of the available selection pool.. And to base this limitation SOLELY on race/gender??
I would REALLY like to see if anyone here can make a rational case to justify this...
It will be completely understandable if this challenge is met with silence...
I mean, it's plainly obvious that this sort of racist/sexist pandering is COMPLETELY and UNEQUIVOCALLY unjustifiable..
So, it won't be surprising if no one here can justify it..
But, hay.. I figured I would give it a shot.. :D
Biden's presidency reset a dud already
The truth is, Joe Biden is running out of ideas and also running out of gas
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Poor Joe Biden. Nothing seems to move the needle. His approval ratings are still stuck in the mud and neither the president nor his team seems able to turn around the Titanic.
It’s not for lack of trying, or creativity. The First Cat announcement trended on Twitter and got a nice plug from NBC News. Unfortunately for Team Biden, the headlines over Dr. Jill’s latest pet (Willow, if you’re interested) faded quickly.
Biden even tried retracing a popular gambit from the campaign trail, making an unscheduled visit to an ice cream store recently; he was no doubt disappointed that sampling frozen treats in mid-winter failed to excite the press corps.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-presidency-reset-dud-already-liz-peek
Ya really have to feel sorry for Biden..
It's why I stopped calling him Basement Biden.. It just seemed so unfair to kick a man while he's down and continues to fall..
It's like all of the Democrats' hate, bigotry and anti-America policies and agendas are coming home to roost all at once..
The real question has become... How low can Biden and the Democrats sink???
Of more consequence, the announcement that Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer would soon retire set the president up to make history by appointing a Black woman to the court. The New York Times and other reliable sources furiously debunked speculation that the White House had purposefully leaked the news to generate a positive news cycle, almost guaranteeing that such a behind-the-scenes effort took place.
Though the Sunday shows dutifully focused on the upcoming court nomination, the reality is that a new liberal replacing an existing liberal vote on the bench is not riveting. Also, the president pretty much gave away his "aha!" moment by promising to nominate a Black woman last year when competing for the African American vote days before the South Carolina primary.
The list of candidates is short; there will be dutiful speculation about which female jurist the president will elevate, but it will not quell anxieties over more pressing issues, like rents spiking 20% or more in some markets and gasoline prices rising by almost half.
The hits just keep on coming.. It's very telling that the Democrats are trying to generate so much excitement, extolling excitedly about a SCOTUS Nomination... The Democrats are so desperate they are trying to energize their base about something that, in the best case scenario, will simply continue the status quo...
Even THAT attempt is being over-shadowed by the condemnation EVEN FROM DEMOCRATS about making the nominee nothing but an Affirmative Action token hire...
Over three quarters of the American people are condemning Biden for his blatantly racist/sexist plan to ONLY consider a black woman for the nomination.. Such a plan is blatant pandering and will only allow Biden to consider 2% of qualified jurists...
Yea, nothing says Getting The Best SCOTUS Possible like limiting to just 2% of the pool.. :eyeroll:
How can Democrats be so utterly incompetent???
Please explain how when you believe Kick destroyed Michale's arguments so Michale chose personal attacks rather than admitting defeat it is different then when I destroy the arguments and lies of other commenters here and the response is personal attacks instead of admitting defeat.
Yes, Russ... Do tell.. :D
It seems apparent that determining the destruction of arguments as well as behavior of the commenter is based more on whether or not you are on the side of the commenter than the arguments or behavior of the commenter.
DING!! DING!!! DING!!!! WE HAVE A WEINER!!!! TELL 'IM WHAT HE'S WON, JOHNNY!!!!!
:D
Caddy,
That's a pretty poor excuse not to have a little fun.
Anyway, I'll try again this week ... last night I was too tired and, more importantly, uninspired.
After the SuperBowl, of course.
Please explain how when you believe Kick destroyed Michale's arguments so Michale chose personal attacks rather than admitting defeat it is different then when I destroy the arguments and lies of other commenters here and the response is personal attacks instead of admitting defeat.
One is done in the heat of argument, the other only happens in your mind...
If you guys can't get along, I'm going to remove the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party from this blog!
And, you will ALL be the poorer for it. So, there.
I'm kidding! :)
Liz,
There is always a two week break between the conference championships and the super bowl...
Well, that's just great.
Actually, that is great! We can start things a little earlier then, right?
Well, isn't THIS just the damndest thing!!! :D
Worley Elementary School was an elementary school in Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland on Earth.
In 2151, several fourth grade students from Worley Elementary asked the crew of Enterprise NX-01 several questions regarding space travel.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Worley_Elementary_School
I'm famous!!! Even in the 22nd century!!! :D
After the SuperBowl, of course.
Superbowl is 13 Feb 2022... :D
You're a little late.
Newsom, California Dem leaders defy state's own universal mask mandate at Rams-49ers game
Newsom came under fire in 2020 when he was spotted maskless at a swanky French restaurant
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic California leaders were spotted maskless at the 49ers-Rams game despite the state’s universal indoor mask mandate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-breed-garcetti-rams-49ers-game-maskless-california-mandate
Democrats....
The DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO Party... :eyeroll:
Hypocrisy.. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature.
And, in the OH SNAP category.. :D
Gabbard says Biden picked ‘disaster’ Harris due to same 'identity politics' behind Supreme Court search
Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard Monday criticized President Biden for promising to choose a Supreme Court nominee who is a Black woman, saying such a move is harmful "identity politics."
"Biden chose Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex—not qualification. She's been a disaster," Gabbard said early Monday morning. "Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same?criteria.?Identity politics is destroying our country."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-supreme-court-biden-kamala-harris
ZZiiiiinggg... :D
Cotton threatens to block DOJ nominees over refusal to defend US Marshals in 2020 Portland Antifa riots
Department of Justice said defending Marshals sued over defense of federal courthouse 'would not be in the interest of the United States'
"These courageous officers were attacked by left-wing street militants with weapons such as mortar fire, ball bearings, and blinding lasers," Cotton, R-Ark., said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland. "A refusal to represent these Deputy Marshals would violate the Department’s long-standing practice – not to mention its moral duty – to defend law-enforcement officers when they’re sued for actions in the line of duty."
The Portland federal courthouse was subject to months of attacks by activists protesting police brutality in 2020. It was one of the hottest flashpoints in the debate over law and order ahead of the presidential election.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tom-cotton-biden-doj-nominees-marshals
Yea.... "AntiFa doesn't exist".. :eyeroll:
Michale[122 + a plethora of other similar comments previously posted on this blog],
Can I get a promise from you that you will watch - in it's entirety - the nomination hearing for the next person nominated to be a Supreme Court justice?
I won't discuss any of this (with you) until I get that promise from you and/or I watch the entire nomination hearing myself.
It would also be extremely advisable on your part to refrain from commenting on the supposed nominee until after the nominee is announced, at a minimum and, ideally, until after you have watched the nomination hearing in full.
That last bit was necessary only because your comments thus far on the subject of Biden's as yet unannounced nominee have been - how shall I put this in a nice way - less than valuable contributions to this blog.
Liz,
I have every intention of watching the hearings.. By doctor's orders, I am out of work until 17 Feb..
Barring any complications, I will be at work soon thereafter..
If the hearings go past 17 Feb I will watch the hearings as much as my work schedule will allow...
You have my promise on that...
It would also be extremely advisable on your part to refrain from commenting on the supposed nominee until after the nominee is announced, at a minimum and, ideally, until after you have watched the nomination hearing in full.
The nominee process is fatally flawed.. By choosing this process, Biden has inevitably tainted the nominee selected by the flawed process..
It is a statistical impossibility that, by limiting himself to simply 2% of the available pool, Biden can select the best nominee possible..
Biden will be extremely lucky to get even a good nominee...
The percentages are completely against it..
If the nomination process is tainted, the nominee is tainted..
Garbage In, Garbage Out..
There is simply no logical, rational, ethical, moral or legal justification that permits using a race/gender based nomination process...
No... Justification... Period...
That last bit was necessary only because your comments thus far on the subject of Biden's as yet unannounced nominee have been - how shall I put this in a nice way - less than valuable contributions to this blog.
We each measure value differently..
My comments have been dead on ballz accurate in every way possible..
I mean, beyond pure racist pandering and sexist virtue signaling, there is simply no reason to employ a race/gender based nomination process...
Is there???
Michale,
My comments have been dead on ballz accurate in every way possible..
Not true. Indeed, further from the truth you could not possible be in making such a statement.
While many of your comments contain at least a grain of truth or some factual basis - which is why some of us here still wish to engage with you - your comments here are too often based upon ridiculous premises that have no basis in reality, let alone fact or accuracy.
As for watching the hearing, I work full-time, too. C-span will carry the hearing live, gavel to gavel, so you can binge watch or watch a little at a time, whichever and whenever it is most convenient for you.
I will let you know when I have watched the entire hearing and then, hopefully, we can have an intelligent discussion.
Michale[126],
I hope you are not trying to set up the situation where you can say that the nomination process is flawed and therefore you will not watch the hearing or engage in an intelligent discussion about it.
If that is what you intend to do, then I would find that to be a completely bogus claim and an attempt to avoid engaging in an intelligent discussion about the nomination hearing.
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I don't get it, Elizabeth, why are you wasting everyone's time feeding the trolls?
You've been around here a lot longer than I so why the hell haven't you figured this out?
Think about it??
What "good" could come from a selection based on race???
Did the Democrat Party say 150 years ago, "Yunno.. There might be some GOOD to come from forcing black people into slavery and have them pick our cotton..."
Well, they probably DID say that, but was it factually accurate??
Fast forward to today..
What "good" could possibly come from a race based nomination process??
I hope you are not trying to set up the situation where you can say that the nomination process is flawed and therefore you will not watch the hearing or engage in an intelligent discussion about it.
The nomination process IS flawed if it's a race/gender based process...
I fully intend to watch the hearing regardless...
But we don't have to wait for the hearings to have an intelligent discussion regarding the flawed nomination process.. We can do that right now..
Let's just cut to the chase and flat out ask the question..
In the society that Dr Martin Luther King envisioned, the society that Dr King fought and died for....
Is a race based nomination process a proper, ethical, moral and LEGAL process??
NO... It is not..
Change my mind...
Caddy,
Your time is your own. Which you are free to waste here or elsewhere. It's all up to you.
@cad,
I don't get it, Elizabeth, why are you wasting everyone's time feeding the trolls?
You've been around here a lot longer than I so why the hell haven't you figured this out?
Why don't you shut the frak up with your whining and your "ignoring"???
Look, we get it.. You can't compete... You can't keep up with real actual discussions..
We allow you to play your little "ignore" games and allow you to whine and cry...
Sure, we make fun of you about it.. We laugh at you and poke at you.. :D
I am here.. I am going to comment.. My comments will illicit other intelligent comments from other commenters...
This is the fact of Weigantia™... Deal with it...
But for christ's sake.. Quit WHINING about it.. :eyeroll:
Michale,
It is a statistical impossibility that, by limiting himself to simply 2% of the available pool, Biden can select the best nominee possible..
2% of the available pool of what?
2% of the available pool of what?
The qualified SCOTUS Justice pool..
By ONLY considering a black woman, Biden is limiting himself to just 2% of the qualified SOCTUS Justice pool..
Now, pray tell.. Explain to me the logic of that..
The qualified SCOTUS Justice pool..
The what!? Never heard of that before.
So, you just pulled that two percent figure out of your head?
In other words, citation, please!
First to some sad business...
A sad yet fond farewell to Dr Johnny Fever...
"BOOGER!!"
RIP Howard Hesseman
Liz,
My cite...
Biden's affirmation of his campaign-season promise to nominate such a specific population subgroup is a dagger to the telos—the overarching orientation of true color-blind equality and justice—of the United States. Even holding aside the lunacy, from a sheer sample size perspective, of announcing at the outset of a Supreme Court justice search that one intends to limit that search to roughly 2 percent of the national lawyer pool, the higher-level message Democrats telegraph by doubling down on such an identity politics obsession is extraordinarily pernicious.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/will-we-ever-eradicate-the-cancer-of-identity-politics-opinion/ar-AATeK6s
Emphasis mine...
I'll give you the night to find any facts that refute this citation...
We can revisit the discussion in the morning..
See ya.. :D
Listen (98)-
Please explain how when you believe Kick destroyed Michale's arguments so Michale chose personal attacks rather than admitting defeat it is different then when I destroy the arguments and lies of other commenters here and the response is personal attacks instead of admitting defeat.
That’s simple. Only in your mind are your arguments successful and reasonable! You are fighting the wrong fight. You believe that only accepting campaign donations of a limited size can somehow guarantee quality candidates and anyone accepting larger donations are guaranteed to be corrupt. Yet you still cannot prevent any candidate who agrees to only accept small dollar campaign donations from having PAC’s accepting millions on their behalf, can you? Yours is a cosmetic solution at most… and it doesn’t even do that well.
President Trump wanted to activate the National Guard.. Pelosi said NO...
Pelosi called the DOD asking why the National Guard wasn’t providing assistance and was told that Trump had not been in contact with the DOD. So what prevented then-President Trump from activating the National Guard? Surely not Pelosi, who has absolutely no power to authorize the military. Geez, I never realized how much you truly fear “the Power of Pelosi”! According to you, it sounds like Trump allowed Pelosi to emasculate him as President by letting her overrule his authority!
New column up!
Where were Republicans with their anger at Trump for only considering female candidates to fill the seat that RBG’s passing had opened? Was Ronald Reagan wrong to pick Sandra Day O’Conner to serve as a Supreme Court Justice? Republicans only cared that Trump’s picks were anti-abortion, pro-corporation’s/ anti-workers’ rights judges. They weren’t chosen because they were the “best candidates”…heck, they had to lie about Kavanaugh passing an investigation by the FBI on the allegations of sexual assault before he was approved by the Senate. But let’s be honest…we all knew that they were gonna be white.
So it is clear that you did not have a problem with a Republican wanting to nominate a woman nor is having the best qualified people being put on the bench. So your protests stem from the fact that you just cannot handle the thought of someone Black being a judge.
We've had, collectively, TWENTY TWO YEARS of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots..
We’ve had , collectively, TWENTY SEVEN YEARS of Republican backed Right-Wing Militia acts of terrorism in this country! From the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 to the failed insurrection attempt at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republican domestic terrorists have been responsible for 173 Americans’ deaths.
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My arguments are only successful and reasonable in my mind?
Yes.
That's 100% pure projection.
No, that's almost the entirety of your arguments.
Decades of legislation that primarily benefits the big money interests with a few crumbs for ordinary citizens put in to treat the symptoms rather than the cause of problems is evidence that big money corrupts our political process.
That's a lot of legislation. One would think with all that source material you could come up with examples of specific legislation benefiting big money and the crumbs for ordinary citizens. If you can't prove your assertion or at least come up with a good argument backed up by evidence you merely have a conspiracy theory, and those are a dime a dozen these days...
Yes we can prevent politicians from agreeing to accept only contributions from small donors while having PACs that raise millions on their behalf- we don't vote for them.
But for that to work you have to come up with candidates. Something you have been unable to do closing in on a decade. You got some lip service from Nader and have you converted that to anything? Why would you think CW writing about you would be any different considering Nader has a much higher profile?
Then there is the Sinema problem. They ride your movement in to office, then rake in the cash...
Yes we can prevent politicians from agreeing to accept only contributions from small donors while having PACs that raise millions on their behalf- we don't vote for them.
No, no you cannot! Because of Citizen’s United and other campaign finance laws, PAC’s can take unlimited amounts of money and they never have to make public who gave it. You do know that a PAC can support a candidate without the candidate’s approval, right? How are you going to know if a PAC received a single donation of $3 million from a corporation or if they received 3 million donations totaling $1 each? Oh yeah, you won’t be able to do so. That’s why I said your solution was merely cosmetic. Donations directly to political campaigns are not where the corruption resides. You focus on the hangnail while the cancer consumes.
Don Harris
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And it is the reason to start One Demand- not a reason to put it off to sometime in the future.
You seem blissfully unaware that your bullshit was already started years ago.
It is foolish to think that repeating the same behavior of voting for big money candidates that has not worked for decades and put us where we are now is somehow magically going to yield positive results in 2022, 2024, 2026 or any time in the foreseeable future as it has NEVER worked.
Is it not equally foolish that "repeating the same behavior" on this blog over and over wherein you prattle on and on about your asinine bullshit isn't "somehow magically going to yield positive results in 2022, 2024, 2026 or any time in the foreseeable future as it has NEVER worked"? Your constant blathering on this blog has produced nothing, and I would wager vast sums of money that it NEVER will.
So the MOST immediate approach to achieving solutions to our immediate problems is starting One Demand now...
I reiterate that you seem happily incognizant that your so-called "solution" started years and years ago. Same failed shit that has NEVER worked, different day. :)
ListenWhenYouHear
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Exactly, Russ. You are going to confuse the rube with the facts. Donald Trump could admit he took active measures to overturn the election, and the rubes living in their own fantasies over on Earth 2 will still deny it.
ListenWhenYouHear
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When Kick had destroyed all of your bullshat arguments after wiping the floor with your hyperbolic lies that you couldn’t keep straight; you were cornered with no way out…so you chose personal attacks rather than just admitting defeat — a move that tells the world that you lost and it was ugly how bad you lost!
Russ is correct, of course, and what better way to tell the entire world how butthurt you were and still are by the constant whining like a sniveling toddler and bringing it up over and over again ad nauseam? Rhetorical question. White male grievance coupled with obvious ignorance is a terrible affliction; the catalyst that creates a poor dumb rube who is obviously too stupid to know how ignorant he sounds and demonstrably not intelligent enough to cease and desist in just making shit up.