Friday Talking Points -- Republicans In Disarray!
Did what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 constitute "legitimate political discourse" or not? That was the question that has divided the Republican Party all week, and may serve to be the one memorable phrase that sums up the difference between those in the GOP who have completely surrendered all their morals and thought processes and attachment to reality to Donald Trump -- and those who have not. Because that's what it all boils down to, really.
Was January 6th a bunch of harmless tourists wandering through the Capitol in search of legitimate political discourse with their elected officials, or was it a violent insurrection perpetrated by a terrorist mob chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" who were intent on stopping the constitutional transfer of power between presidencies? The answer's pretty obvious, one would think, but apparently not -- not over in Republicanland, at least.
The raging debate over January 6th, what to call it, whether to condemn it, and whether it should be investigated as the worst crime against the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812 was all succinctly summed up by the "legitimate political discourse" phrase, since it was deployed in a censure against two Republican House members who actually had the temerity to make good on their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." A violent attack on the Capitol while Congress was attempting to certify the winner of a presidential election would certainly seem to qualify as something to be defended against, since the insurrectionist mob was so obviously comprised of domestic enemies of the Constitution.
Most Republicans, however, either don't believe this or are not willing to publicly state it anymore. They used to be a lot more willing to admit the truth, in the days immediately following the attack, but then their Dear Leader expressed his displeasure -- so by now most of them are quite willing to go along with his growing obsession over the 2020 election. Donald Trump has always had only one real litmus test and it's been pretty easy to understand all along: you are either with him wholeheartedly, or you are the scum of the Earth. There is no room for nuance, as with most Trumpian things. Because he still wields such enormous power with the Republican base, the politicians feel they have to support his increasingly-unhinged claims and let him rant and rave all he wants.
But the censure of Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger brought it all out into the open, because all of a sudden the media had a very succinct way to ask Republicans whether they had surrendered their ability to perceive reality to Donald Trump, or whether they would admit what every American saw with his or her own eyes that day. "Do you believe the mob who stormed the Capitol was engaged in 'legitimate political discourse' or not?" That's a pretty easy way to ask the core question. We certainly hope the pundits won't soon forget this poignant question, and will repeatedly ask it of each and every GOP politician they interview, from now on.
Of course, there are a handful who do not subscribe to this rewriting of history. HuffPost helpfully listed them all (to date):
Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan grieved on Twitter: "It's a sad day for my party -- and the country -- when you're punished just for expressing your beliefs, standing on principle, and refusing to tell blatant lies."
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said in a statement that Jan. 6 "was not 'legitimate political discourse' and I'll say it again: It was shameful mob violence to disrupt a constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress to affirm the peaceful transfer of power."
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was confounded by the censure. "The RNC is censuring Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger because they are trying to find out what happened on January 6th -- HUH?"
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) pounced on his party early and hard.
"Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol," he tweeted Friday. "Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost."
"More important than who wins an election is that we have elections -- and that we have democracies," Romney said in an interview. "As authoritarian regimes around the world continue to gain ground, the United States cannot falter on principles of truth in our elections," he tweeted.
And, so far, that's about it from the Republican side of the aisle.
Romney was later quoted saying: "Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us." Well, these days that's actually debatable, Mitt.
Since then, there have been a few others. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was the most plain-spoken of these: "We saw it happen. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That's what it was."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy initially (and literally) fled from a reporter asking him the question this week, but later grudgingly admitted the truth -- well, with a jaw-dropping lie that is itself completely divorced from reality. When asked whether he agreed that the events of January 6th was (as McConnell had said) "a violent insurrection," McCarthy answered: "No one would disagree with that." He might want to check with Donald Trump -- as well as a large part of his party's base -- before being so dismissive of that particular idea.
Liz Cheney had the best response to McCarthy's answer: "It won't surprise anybody that the truth is not Leader McCarthy's strong suit. Leader McCarthy has been among those leading the effort to prevent any investigation of the attack and try to embrace former President Trump and whitewash what happened."
Michael Gerson, who used to be head speechwriter for George W. Bush, had probably the best-worded response (to what he called "the ritual censure of the sane") to the censure's fuller statement which condemned: "[the] persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."
This seemed to imply that the violent shock troops of an anti-constitutional coup attempt carried a truer version of democratic ideals than the legislators investigating them. Support for seditious acts is now a normal and accepted element of Republican identity.
But then, being a professional speechwriter, you'd expect this level of erudition from Gerson. At the other end of the scale, the award for the weaselliest words of the week go to Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, who commented on the dispute over whether the Republican National Committee should have issued the censure or not: "I think it was an interesting approach to have a novel approach to have a national Republican committee take a position like that. So, this -- not a support or oppose -- this is just an observation that I thought that was novel and unique." MSNBC's Chris Hayes, upon hearing this, remarked: "Honestly, that is an all-time, great, cowardly politician quote. I have seen more than a few in my day, and that is up there." We have to say we agree.
The phrase "legitimate political discourse" will be remembered for a long time to come. In fact (ironically enough) it has now entered the American political lexicon, meaning henceforth the phrase itself will be... well... the subject of much legitimate political discourse. The censure and the origin of the phrase might not be remembered so well, but the phrase is destined to live on.
The real question is whether the split in the Republican Party will grow even wider and perhaps a little more balanced, if more Republican politicians start to realize this monomania about a fictional past (Trump's election obsession) is not going to help them win back suburban voters in general elections. For now, it's pretty lopsided towards the "whatever Trump says is reality, now and forever, unless of course he changes his mind later" side of the abyss.
Trump himself was rather boxed in this week, after multiple questions arose over his handling of presidential records. We already knew he had the habit of tearing up documents when he was finished with them, then throwing the pieces on the floor or (if his aides were lucky) in the trashcan. This is either evidence of behavior worthy of a toddler or of a mob boss worried about evidence, take your choice. But what we didn't know is that he would occasionally eat the shreds of paper or flush them down the toilet, repeatedly clogging up the White House "throne" Trump used. Maybe they should install that in the Trump Presidential Library, since it was also where he pretty obviously composed some of his most memorable tweets (in fact, we cannot think of a more poignant symbol of his entire time in office than displaying a presidential toilet to the public). But the big news was that when Trump finally slunk out of the White House for the last time (hopefully, at any rate), he absconded with at least 15 boxes of documents he wasn't legally entitled to take. Including (reportedly) not only the "love letters" Kim Jong Un sent him but also the map at the heart of Sharpiegate. Oh, and a bunch of papers marked "Top Secret," as well as other classified documents, too. At this point, the National Archives has referred the matter to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution of crimes. So that's how Trump's week went.
Here's a sentiment we can agree with, to sum it all up: "People who have nothing to hide don't... destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law." Those words were spoken by Donald Trump himself, on the campaign trail in 2016. Of course, he was talking about Hillary Clinton's emails at the time -- which makes it all the more curious how little Republicans seem to care these days about destroying evidence on such a widespread scale. Most of them, at any rate. Michael Steele (who used to chair the same Republican National Committee that just censured Cheney and Kinzinger) was one who rather amusingly did make this connection, while talking with MSNBC's Joy Reid:
During a discussion on Trump's removal of presidential records from the White House and his reported putting of sensitive papers into his mouth or down the toilet, Steele shoved a piece of paper into his own mouth and jokingly told Reid: "Yummy, yummy, pass the salt please."
. . .
It was just the latest example of Trump's flippant disregard for security, said Steele, who called out Trump and his allies who continue to criticize 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a private email account for government business when she was secretary of state.
"As for Hillary Clinton and her emails, I don't want to hear another word, not a damn word, from anybody, talking about Hillary Clinton and national security and her server," said Steele. "After this son of a you-know-who is sitting up there eating documents, please!"
Now there's a Republican who hasn't lost all touch with reality!
Speaking of reality, let's quickly whip through everything else that's been going on this week before we push on to the awards.
The monthly inflation number was released and it was even worse than expected -- the worst annual inflation in 40 years, in fact. That's not good news for Biden, although there is still time for him to recover from this before the midterms if it does finally start to ebb.
The growing border blockade up north is threatening to impact both the American and Canadian economies, and it could soon sprout a copycat trucker convoy here at home. Some are even wondering if the Super Bowl will see the start of a nationwide convoy of disgruntled truckers, so that'll be interesting to see on Sunday.
Ukraine is still under serious threat of Russian invasion, but perhaps Vladimir Putin is waiting until at least after the Olympics are over to make his move. Stay tuned....
Democratic governors, reacting to the rapid change in the pandemic situation, are announcing the end of mask mandates in blue states. It's worth noting that such mask mandates have not existed in most red states for a very long while now -- a detail the mainstream media is refusing to point out in all their breathless "reporting" on the issue.
In a story that really should have gotten a lot more attention, a company that contracts with the I.R.S. (and multiple other federal agencies) has decided to end the practice of requiring a "selfie video" to authenticate people signing up for government information (like the status of your taxes) through the use of facial-recognition technology. This is a horrendously bad idea, so it's welcome news indeed that at the first hint of bad publicity some saner heads decided it was not the way to go.
And, rather bizarrely, the White House had to nip their own fledgling scandal in the bud this week by affirmatively vowing not to use taxpayer money to buy crack pipes -- a charge baselessly made by a right-wing media outlet that was immediately picked up to stoke fake outrage among Republicans. An official statement was issued forswearing the use of taxpayer money to buy crack pipes, which headed the entire problem off at the pass.
We have two Honorable Mention awards to hand out before we get to the main event this week. The first one goes to groups of "suburban moms" who are increasingly banding together to have their voices heard in all the skirmishing over school boards and curriculum and book-banning and all the rest of the nonsense coming from the other side of the aisle. As the Washington Post explains:
Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue -- a national network of like-minded, mostly Democratic suburban women -- believes the only way to fight back is to present a calm face to counter the angry groups that have dominated and disrupted board meetings and in some cases threatened officials. Her network of more than 300,000 women recently broadened its focus to fight the rising number of book bans across the country, launching a case tracker on Jan. 31, and is running training sessions to help women testify and manage highly charged government meetings.
"We believe it's time to get off defense," Paris said. "Why should we be the ones explaining ourselves? This is not why we moved to the suburbs. We moved to the suburbs for high-quality schools."
More power to them!
The second Honorable Mention goes to a Democratic candidate for Senate from Louisiana. Gary Chambers was first noted in these pages for a political ad where he sits and calmly smokes some marijuana while his own voiceover explains why he is strongly for legalization. His new ad is just as powerful and takes on voting rights and how Black voters are facing increasing hurdles to having their voices heard. While he is explaining all of this, Chambers pins to a clothesline, soaks with gasoline, and then burns a Confederate battle flag.
We truly wish Chambers success, because he is obviously a messaging genius, and the Democrats would really benefit from someone with these skills sitting in the United States Senate.
But this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award goes to Senator Jon Ossoff and Representative Abigail Spanberger, for taking the lead on the effort to ban individual stock ownership and trading by sitting members of Congress. Ossoff won his Senate seat in Georgia at least in part by hammering Senator David Perdue for his 2,500 stock trades while he was in Congress. It was an effective issue, and Ossoff and other Democrats are now following through with proposed legislation to ban the practice entirely. Abigail Spanberger has already been fighting this fight in the last session of the House, and together they are trying to form a bipartisan group with enough votes to move the measure through both houses of Congress.
Chuck Schumer appears to be on board with this effort, and this week Nancy Pelosi rather reluctantly came around as well (we wrote about her reluctance earlier in the week). This is an idea whose time has come, and the rank and file are driving it.
It really is a pretty obvious conflict of interest for sitting legislators to be able to trade stocks on whatever information they come across in the performance of their duties. Insider trading on such information is theoretically supposed to be illegal, but this rule is rarely enforced at all. The only real way to fix the obvious ethical problem is to just ban the practice entirely -- by requiring that any member of Congress and their spouses turn over their stock portfolios to a blind trust before being sworn in.
Senator Ossoff and Representative Spanberger are at the forefront of the push to do so, and they may even manage to successfully pass such a law, because even some Republicans have become either disgusted with the practice or they have just realized how politically potent it would be to ban it. For the time being, though, Ossoff and Spanberger are our winners of this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week. Let's really drain the swamp of Washington a little, what do you say?
[Congratulate Senator Jon Ossoff on his Senate contact page, and Representative Abigail Spanberger on her House contact page, to let them know you appreciate their efforts.]
Because we dinged three Democrats last week for the same transgression, we have to at least give a (Dis-)Honorable Mention award to Stacy Abrams, for posing for a photo in front of a class of masked children. Abrams was bare-faced in the photo.
But unlike California politicians Gavin Newsom, London Breed, and Eric Garcetti, Abrams at least had the intelligence to make a full and unconditional apology, rather than trying to weasel out with a non-apology apology:
Abrams said she followed protocols initially, walking up to the podium with her mask on. The Georgia Democrat, who was at Decatur Elementary School to promote reading and Black History Month, said she then explained to the students why she was removing her face covering to read -- pointing out that she was socially distanced from the kids and that she was also reading for two other classrooms tuned in virtually.
But her next move, joining the children for a photo without her mask, was a mistake, Abrams said on CNN.
"In the excitement after I finished, because it was so much fun working with those kids, I took a picture. And that was a mistake," Abrams said. "Protocols matter, and protecting our kids is the most important thing. And anything perceived as undermining that is a mistake, and I apologize."
Which is why she's only getting a (Dis-)Honorable Mention, because she clearly atoned immediately rather than try to explain it all away somehow.
But this week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week was President Joe Biden, for not making good on his pledge to protect the executive branch workforce from bullying.
When Biden entered office, he made what sounded like an iron-clad promise to everyone working for him: "If you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot. On the spot -- no if, ands or buts." But when this unequivocal pledge was put to the test, Biden failed to deliver.
We wrote about this missed opportunity earlier in the week, so we're just going to copy and paste the key excerpts in:
The story starts with Politico, who was researching an article exposing Dr. Eric Lander, Biden's cabinet-level chief science advisor, as being a bad boss. Plenty of evidence of this exists, apparently, as he would routinely berate and belittle people working for him -- women, in particular. Although Lander is seen as somewhat of a technological wunderkind in the medical research area, that doesn't always equate to being a good boss. Or even one that doesn't break workplace rules, for that matter.
After it was revealed that there had been an internal investigation into Lander that did indeed find evidence of Lander mistreating underlings, the White House's initial response was beyond weak. It recommended that Lander do some touchy-feely events with his staff (brown-bag lunches'll fix everything!) and that the whole department (but not Lander himself) undergo workplace sensitivity training.
. . .
But no matter how much interest is paid to this event, it still represents a rather large missed political opportunity. Lander should not have been allowed to resign. He should have been fired. Publicly. Biden himself should have announced this, and rededicated himself to that iron-clad pledge, in a clear message of support for the entire executive branch workforce: "When I said you will be fired, I meant what I said, and when I said 'No ifs, ands, or buts' I meant that too. Anyone disrespecting fellow employees in this manner will be fired, period." A simple statement like that would have reinforced Biden as a straight-talking guy and a man whose word is his bond.
Instead, Lander was allowed to slink off into the night with a resignation. Biden is apparently going to remain aloof from the entire mess. This sends entirely the wrong signal, both to executive branch staff ("he didn't really mean it") and the country at large ("Biden can't be trusted to keep his word"). Instead of chalking up a clear political advantage, Biden instead suffered a clear political black eye. And that is why Eric Lander should have been personally fired by President Biden.
After thinking about it for a few more days, we still feel exactly the same. Biden missed a golden opportunity to stand up strong for the people who work for him. He didn't. He allowed what appears to be a friend of his to gracefully resign. That is not what he promised he'd do. That is not "I promise you I will fire you on the spot. On the spot -- no if, ands or buts." Not by a long shot.
Which is why President Biden is this week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week.
[Contact President Joe Biden on his official contact page, to let him know what you think of his actions.]
Volume 650 (2/11/22)
[Editor's Note: Have we really done 650 of these? Wow.]
OK, we have to begin today with an apology, because the first of these is, admittedly, far too long to be accurately called a talking point. But it wasn't quite long enough to pre-empt all the rest of them, so we're just going to have a run-on talking point at the start; our apologies....
It is a historical bit of oratory that seems more than relevant today. To give credit where it is due, David Von Drehle of the Washington Post dug this out of the annals of Senate history. In his piece, he notes what happened after this speech was delivered -- the senator giving the speech was forced off a key committee and smeared mercilessly by members of her own party.
The senator in question was Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, who was only the seventh woman senator ever and the first one to win elections for both a House seat (where she started, after the death of her husband left the seat empty) and a Senate seat. The senator she confronted (without ever mentioning him by name) was Joe McCarthy, at the height of McCarthyism. While boarding the underground subway tram that moves congressfolk around the tunnels of the Capitol complex, Chase encountered McCarthy and delivered a stinging rebuke to everything he was doing. It is a completely partisan speech (she denounces the "ineffective Democratic administration" in multiple ways), but one delivered in the hopes of rescuing her own Republican Party from the dark alleyway McCarthy had led it down.
And it resonates today, since after she delivered this blistering broadside to McCarthy she was hounded off a key Senate committee and smeared and badmouthed by McCarthy's allies in the Senate. You know -- just like what Liz Cheney is going through. Which is why we felt it was important enough to provide such an extended excerpt.
A Republican Declaration of Conscience
The entire speech is a challenge to the Republican Party to think long and hard about the path it was being led down. Republicans at the time (as now) were the minority party in the Senate and had lost the White House. The speech was delivered on June 1st, 1950.
Surely these are sufficient reasons to make it clear to the American people that it is time for a change and that a Republican victory is necessary to the security of this country. Surely it is clear that this nation will continue to suffer as long as it is governed by the present ineffective Democratic Administration.
Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.
I doubt if the Republican Party could -- simply because I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.
I don't want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one-party system.
She ends her speech with an enumerated "Declaration of Conscience" for her fellow Republicans. Here are the two items (out of five) that still strongly resonate today:
- Certain elements of the Republican Party have materially added to this confusion in the hopes of riding the Republican party to victory through the selfish political exploitation of fear, bigotry, ignorance, and intolerance. There are enough mistakes of the Democrats for Republicans to criticize constructively without resorting to political smears.
- It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedom. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques -- techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.
More legitimate political discourse
Maybe we should start just using the initials "L.P.D."? Seems like this phrase is going to be around for a while....
"Just when you thought the Republican Party couldn't stoop any lower or be any more obvious in its sanctioning of political violence, we have a shameful ad this week from a candidate for Senate from Arizona. In it, the candidate -- and I'm going to refuse to say his name so he doesn't get more publicity out of this -- is portrayed as a Wild West sheriff who shoots at actors portraying President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. You remember Mark Kelly -- he's the husband of Gabby Giffords. Giffords was -- after another Republican published a map showing her district in a rifle's crosshairs -- the victim of an attempted political assassination when she was shot in the head by a supporter of Republicans. You heard that right -- the husband of a woman shot in the head was portrayed in a political ad getting shot at by a despicable man running against him for his Senate seat. Hasn't the Republican Party already hit rock bottom? Sadly, I guess not...."
Another state heard from in the L.P.D. department
Just for good measure, this also happened this week.
"The only Black woman in the West Virginia state legislature got a surprise in her email during Black History Month. It came in the form of a despicable ad showing an image of a person dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia -- and if that weren't enough, he was giving a Hitler salute. An anti-abortion group seemed to think this was fair game. To send to a Black woman. I guess it's just more of that 'legitimate political discourse' the Republicans are now for, huh?"
Election fraud in Florida!
Actually, that should be more election fraud in Florida, since a few months ago we learned that the only fraudulent votes the state had found from the 2020 election all came from Republicans trying to vote twice.
"A prosecutor in Florida is now investigating widespread reports from elderly voters in Miami who had their voter registrations switched from Democratic to Republican without their knowledge or consent -- perhaps as many as 5,000 of them. In other words, massive election fraud. By Republicans (of course). Many don't speak English. They were apparently tricked by people wearing Florida Republican Party hats -- a systematic effort to wipe voters off the rolls of the Democratic Party just before a primary election happens. Why is it that for all the loud weeping and wailing from Republicans about supposed widespread election fraud that the only examples that ever happen are ones where the Republicans are the ones committing the fraud?"
Where is Merrick Garland?
A question on many minds, these days.
"This coming Monday is Valentine's Day, but it is also an important political date as well. Because it will be exactly five years since the first alleged obstruction of justice was committed by Donald Trump. Trump asked F.B.I. head James Comey to drop the criminal investigation of Michael Flynn -- which is pretty clearly obstruction of justice, as Robert Mueller itemized in his report on the subject. Of course no attorney general under Trump was ever going to prosecute him for these possible crimes, but Merrick Garland has been in that job for over a year now and he has nothing holding him back. But this Monday, the statute of limitations runs out on the first of these, and the others will soon follow. Legally, they'll all turn into pumpkins, in other words. So where is Attorney General Merrick Garland? These allegations are about as public as you can get -- there simply is no privacy left to protect. If the Justice Department has found insufficient evidence to prosecute any of these possible crimes, then Garland owes it to the public to explain this. But he shouldn't just quietly allow the clock to run out on all the transgressions contained within the Mueller Report."
Let me count the ways...
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of course....
"How did Donald Trump try to overturn an American election? Luckily for us, the Washington Post counted up the ways. It was a multipronged effort, and please remember that while they all failed, it would only have taken one to succeed for America to have the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Trump tried to steal an American presidential election with:"
- Post-election litigation
- Pressure to prevent certification
- Efforts to create alternate slates of electors
- The chase for possible fraud or machine manipulation
- Attempt to weaponize the Justice Department
- Pressure on the vice president
- The effort to harness public pressure -- ending in violence
- Attempts to deploy the national security establishment
"How did Donald Trump try to steal a presidential election? Let me count the ways...."
No soup for you!
Just when you think the race for "Stupidest Republican Alive" had been settled, there's yet another new entry.
"Republican House Member Marjorie 'Three-Names' Taylor Greene once again put on display her stunning ignorance -- even on a subject seemingly near and dear to her heart (since she brings up comparisons with Nazis at the drop of a hat). During an interview, she tried to smear the speaker of the House with the worst possible metaphor, but wound up just proving her own stupidity, by clearly denouncing 'Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police.' No, really -- you just can't make this stuff up. Sounds exactly like what Seinfeld's 'Soup Nazi' would dish up, right? Of course, the internet had a field day mocking her, with the most scathing putdown coming from fellow House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted: 'At least she leads by example. She clearly banned all books from her house years ago'. Nice one, A.O.C., nice one...."
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
Cross-posted at: Democratic Underground
You can't fight Gazpacho tactics with salad. Pie is the only rational solution.
Indeed.
Not only should every Republican officeholder and every Republican candidate be asked whether January 6th was "legitimate political discourse," if they answer yes, they should also be asked to describe what kind of conduct would cross the line into illegitimate political discourse. If they answer no, they should be asked what they think of those Republicans who are trying to paint January 6th as "legitimate political discourse." In short, this useful phrase should not just be used to throw Republicans off balance, it should be used to box them in from all sides.
A couple of regular comments and then an unhappy one.
Josh Marshall at TPM disagrees with your last talking point.
He wrote that "[a]fter an exhaustive search, we've found the stupidest person on the planet."
Rep Thomas Massie (R-Ky)
"Over 70% of Americans who died with Covid, died on Medicare, and some people want #MedicareForAll?"
Someone commented that the best framing (FTP?) of Jan 6 might be that it was the single most violent event against Law Enforcement Personnel in American History (or, at least, since the 1863 Draft Riots in NYC (injury stats are lacking, of course)).
I've gotta say, it's a good narrative. It takes some umph away from "defund the police" attack narratives, if nothing else.
Now, my unhappy.
I vehemently disagree with your framing of MDDOTW.
The LOLPE fired someone hours before they would be able to retire with a full pension (McCabe was an a-hole, but still). He fired someone who was traveling on US business and was peed off that the fov't funded his return trip.
President Biden has consistently allowed people to resign. Even the people who burrowed in after being appointed by the former guy. Those he got rid of (some are still there, unfortunately) were offered a short window to resign rather than be fired.
One President said [screw] CA and their wildfires. They didn't vote for me.
One President said that KY needed assistance after tornadoes, even if their junior senator voted against assistance for Sandy, Harvey, and other nasties.
If providing Lander with a small window where he could resign before being fired is the price we have to pay for having a real human being in the Oval Office, then that's a price I pay. Willingly!!!
Oh, and I still object to the idea that catching someone screwing up once with regards to Covid protocols is important.
If you do your best and occasionally screw up, then how you handle it is the only thing that matters.
Abrams screwed up and handled it like a mensch. She didn't claim to hold her breath (I didn't inhale...). She took it like a leader.
Please cut the "but they're not 100% perfect" nonsense out. We're human. Any other take only plays to the right-wing narrative.
Russ,
90% of Canadian Truckers are already vaccinated. It’s funny how all of the support for this bit of political theater is coming from the US. It makes a great distraction from all of the headlines of Trump’s criminal actions being uncovered almost daily!
First off, there are no President Trump criminal actions.
What you can't seem to get thru your head is President Trump is COMPLETELY... UNEQUIVOCALLY... 1000% ***INNOCENT*** of ALL accusations against him..
THIS IS FACT...
Deal with it..
Secondly, since Canadian Truckers are 90% vaccinated, why is Adolph Trudeau pushing them???
Awwww, you cannot fault the actual facts stated in the article, so you simply attack where the article came from instead — why not just state, ”I WAS WRONG!”???
There are no "actual facts" that are relevant to the point.
Go ahead.. Point them out to me..
I'll refer back to what I said above..
What you can't seem to get thru your head is President Trump is COMPLETELY... UNEQUIVOCALLY... 1000% ***INNOCENT*** of ALL accusations against him..
THIS IS FACT...
And you just CAN'T STAND that fact, eh?? :D
You just can't give up on yer Russia Collusion delusion..
I get it.. Your Trump/America hate is so deep, you just can't let it go..
Ya'all seem to be off on this hysterical bigoted "Legitimate Political Discourse" binge.
Sooo... Let me ask you..
Was TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? HUNDREDS killed, including at least 8 cops.. Hundreds of thousands injured... Billions of dollars in damages...
Was all that "legitimate political discourse"???
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Ya'all's silence answers that question PERFECTLY....
Hypocrisy.. Not a Democrat program bug. It's a feature.
And since HYPOCRISY is *ALWAYS* the theme with Democrats..
Ya'all whine and cry about President Trump allegedly destroying documents.. A "crime" he is COMPLETELY innocent of..
Yet, ya'all were COMPLETELY approving and onboard with Hillary Clinton destroying over 60,000 government documents when she was SecState...
Once again..
Hypocrisy.. Not a Democrat program bug. It's a feature.
@andygaus
Not only should every Republican officeholder and every Republican candidate be asked whether January 6th was "legitimate political discourse,"
OK, Andy... I'll be your huckleberry...
Was TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? HUNDREDS killed, including at least 8 cops.. Hundreds of thousands injured... Billions of dollars in damages...
Was all that "legitimate political discourse"???
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The fact that you won't answer says VOLUMES, son... :eyeroll:
Hypocrisy.. Not a AndyGaus program bug. It's a feature.
@Speak2
Someone commented that the best framing (FTP?) of Jan 6 might be that it was the single most violent event against Law Enforcement Personnel in American History (or, at least, since the 1863 Draft Riots in NYC (injury stats are lacking, of course)).
I've gotta say, it's a good narrative. It takes some umph away from "defund the police" attack narratives, if nothing else.
It's also complete and utter bullshit.. But you never let FACTS get in the way of good bullshit, eh? :eyeroll:
You are saying that a couple cops being injured is "the single most violent event against Law Enforcement Personnel in American History"...
Tell me, son..
What is 5 cops being ambushed, gunned down and assassinated at a Democrat BLM riot???
Can you possibly comprehend the complete and utter STUPIDITY of your claim???
Can you?? :eyeroll:
I've gotta say, it's a good narrative.
Yea... You WOULD say that..
It takes some umph away from "defund the police" attack narratives, if nothing else.
The fact that you actually BELIEVE that crock o crap is.... just sad...
CW
Was January 6th a bunch of harmless tourists wandering through the Capitol in search of legitimate political discourse with their elected officials, or was it a violent insurrection perpetrated by a terrorist mob chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" who were intent on stopping the constitutional transfer of power between presidencies?
Duh. Tourists. It was all Nancy Pelosi's fault. She called the tourists to Washington, DC, made a whole bunch of them dress in paramilitary gear and bring various assorted deadly weapons, including firearms. When they got to DC, Nancy forced them to go to a rally at the Ellipse that she'd spent weeks planning (in her spare time) and where she'd coerced Donald Trump to tell the tourists to "march down to the Capitol" and "fight like hell"... but not before she had tied Trump to the Resolute desk that same morning and demanded on pain of death that he phone Mike Pence to (again) put pressure on the then-Vice President to "overturn the election." You see, Nancy had rented multiple rooms at the Willard Hotel and cajoled Giuliani, Kerik, Eastman, Bannon, Epshteyn, et alia, to gather there in order to await Trump's (actually Nancy's) phone calls. You know this is all factual because Nancy insisted that the tourists in paramilitary gear and carrying lethal weapons roam the halls of Congress calling her name and threatening her life in order to disguise her masterminding of the entire conspiracy.
The answer's pretty obvious, one would think, but apparently not -- not over in Republicanland, at least.
I know, right. It was Pelosi. She's still behind the scenes calling all the shots. She flies down to Florida and forces Donald Trump to compose press releases wherein he admits to his role in the conspiracy. She's also cajoled Peter Navarro and Boris Epshteyn to go on national television and admit to their roles too... but not before she wrote a book (in her supernumerary spare time) wherein she forced Peter Navarro to claim authorship and wherein he admits to the conspiracy they referred to as the "Green Bay Sweep." Green Bay Sweep? Isn't it obvious? Nancy referred to the conspiracy as the "Green Bay Sweep" because she was too tired to think of another name for it, so she just called it the same thing as her other diabolical plan wherein the San Francisco 49ers would travel to Wisconsin and sweep the floor with the Packers on a future date. The snowflakes were Nancy's doing; Nancy controls everything.
Abrams screwed up and handled it like a mensch. She didn't claim to hold her breath (I didn't inhale...). She took it like a leader.
Once again.. Totally factually not accurate..
Abrams FIRST tried to weasel her way out of it by claiming that she only took the mask off for that one photograph..
It was only after DOZENS of photos of her were released to counter that bullshit claim.... THAT's when she issued her insincere mea culpa...
The *ONLY* reason she is sorry is because she got caught..
Abrams is the epitome of a Democrat..
Hypocrisy to the core...
Elitist to the core...
RULES ARE FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME to the core...
And THAT is why Democrats are going to be nuclear uber-shellacked in November...
Canadian trucker protesters remain blocking bridge to US after midnight deadline
Windsor, Ontario Mayor said he's 'disappointed' but hopeful regarding 'illegal occupation' of bridge
Windsor, Ontario, Mayor Drew Dilkens said in a statement Friday he was "disappointed" an injunction had to be sought to get protesters' "illegal occupation" of the Ambassador Bridge to move, according to FOX 2 of Detroit.
"I remain hopeful for a peaceful and negotiated resolution to the current blockade," he said. "Local, regional and national law enforcement will collaborate and coordinate how best to respond to this legal ruling and seek to re-open the Ambassador Bridge. No operational details will be disclosed, to ensure the safety and security of all involved."
He added, that the "ongoing occupation is endangering the economic health of our region, Province and Country."
He said, however, he understood many of the protesters feel "left behind" and that there was a lot of "healing to do emerging from this public health nightmare. Personally, I’m hopeful that this healing can begin tonight."
Despite the injunction and a midnight deadline set by an Ottawa state of emergency declaration, the protesters haven't left.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-trucker-protesters-bridge
Awwwww poor widdle Left Winger doesn't like to be inconvenienced by a protest..
WAAAAAA WAAAAAAAA
Face the facts, sunshine.. Yer gonna have to go all Gestapo (the normal state of Left Wing tactics) to get rid of these freedom-loving protesters...
THAT's going to play real well, eh???
Bill Maher on Canada's 'Freedom Convoy': They're 'not wrong' to be 'p---ed off' at elites
The HBO star blasts Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, comparing his attacks of the unvaccinated to 'Hitler'
"Real Time" host Bill Maher kicked off his panel discussion Friday night on the ongoing Canadian Freedom Convoy protest that has garnered international attention.
"What's happening this week, it looks like, is people are understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate," Maher said. "It's becoming a big thing. It's happening all over the world now. They're thinking it might happen here in Washington on Super Bowl Sunday."
"People are understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate."
— Bill Maher
ONTARIO, CANADA LEADER DOUG FORD DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER TRUCKER PROTESTS
"Woke, Inc." author Vivek Ramaswamy agreed, telling Maher it's about the "uprising of everyday citizens" against "the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world."
"These are the unelected class leaders that ultimately, I think, are using the bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday – not only Americans but Canadians and Western Europeans too – and that's why we're seeing a fusion of both the left and the right here saying that, ‘Actually we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table,’" Ramaswamy said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-canadian-truckers-freedom-convoy
Once again, Maher says his piece and, once again, he is dead on ballz accurate..
Adolph Trudeau is going to be the loser in this whole affair..
And, it's gonna be REAL exciting if American Truckers start their own Freedom Convoy at the Super Bowl tomorrow... :D
Maher asked himself "why truckers" specifically were organizing such a protest and went on to answer his own question by pointing out they were the ones making the deliveries to the people working from home during the pandemic.
"You didn't use that word ‘elitist’ in your whole speech, but, like, that's the word I think is on people's tongues and minds," Maher told Ramaswamy. "There is this idea, and it's not wrong, that some people are staying home in their Lululemons and other people can afford to, like, wait out and get a free vacation and money from the government, and other people can't. And they're p---ed off- the people who can't."
Yep.. yep... yep...
You can only push people so far and then they are going to respond..
So far, I am LOVING the Canadian Truckers response... :D
TRUDEAU SOUNDS LIKE HITLER
The HBO star then took aim at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he initially thought was a "cool guy," for his vicious attacks toward the unvaccinated throughout the pandemic and his smearing of the trucker protesters.
"He was talking about people who are not vaccinated. He said, ‘They don’t believe in science. They're often misogynistic, often racist,'" Maher said, quoting Trudeau.
"No, they're not," Maher reacted. "He said, ‘But they take up space. And with that we have to make a choice in terms of a leader as a country. Do we tolerate these people?’
"'Tolerate these people'? Now you do sound like Hitler," Maher said.
"And recently, he talked about them holding unacceptable views… I mean, c'mon!" Maher exclaimed. "I think that's what get under people's skin."
Maher went on to cite a New York Times report about the $800 billion in COVID relief that was spent and how "72% of it "ended up in the households with income in the top 20%."
"I think this is what the truckers are mad at … all that money went up to the people who are in the top 20%?" Maher asked.
Exactly...
Democrats in the US... Left Wingers in Canada...
They are all part and parcel to the same corrupt and useless ideology...
An ideology that BELONGS in Minority Party status...
‘The system is so corrupt’
"This is what people are angry at because the system is so corrupt. The system is so corrupt, and it's not just corporate elites, it's the corporate elites who are corrupting the system because of the money that corporation, their undue influence on a very, very corrupt government. This corruption is so baked into the cake and, of course, people are angry, people are enraged and they are legitimately enraged," former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said.
"The Small Business Administration tried to keep it secret. They said because of privacy, they didn't want to let out the numbers. And the judge said, ‘Oh no, the people need to know this’ and made those numbers public. So what's happening is the people are getting receipts for what we have been feeling for so long. This kind of economic injustice, this type of structural rigging so that whenever there's a problem, take care of the people who already have, and then the rest of the people who don't have -- well, good luck. We'll drop a few crumbs to you. It's been going on for decades, people have felt it, they acted on it, and now we are getting the receipts," Williamson added.
You people really need to come to grips with reality..
The Republican Party is not in disarray.. The GOP stands a REALLY good chance of a huge takeover of Congress in November..
It's ya'all's beloved Democrat Party that is on the skids and going to be decimated and all but destroyed come November..
And I, for one, am going to have a BALL between now and November pointing it out.. :D
Speaking of high tide drowning the Democrat Party.. :D
The Turning Tide on School Mask Mandates
In the beginning of the pandemic, we asked so much of our children. We asked them to stay away from friends, family and loved ones. We told them to be afraid of a quiet contagion when we knew so little about it. We kept them home and isolated out of fear. The resulting learning loss has stunted their development, as has the depression and mental health issues that affect so many. Now, two years into the pandemic, our understanding of COVID-19 has changed, and it is well past time to reevaluate how we have asked our children to respond.
The shift started as people across the country, including medical professionals, realized that demanding children wear masks in school has had significant downsides. In the last two weeks alone, legacy media organizations have published op-eds or stories reconsidering the value of mask mandates in schools. Just days ago, former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC that it is time to consider dumping school mask mandates altogether.
https://www.newsweek.com/turning-tide-school-mask-mandates-opinion-1677682
Once again, Democrats attacked the group that Americans have a VISCERAL reaction to protect..
America's children..
I mean... How utterly DISPICABLE is it that Democrats would use CHILDREN in their political agenda for control???
It's not surprising, since Democrats indoctrinated children with their racist CRT crap...
Hell, Democrats are responsible for the deaths of TENS OF MILLIONS of children thru abortion...
Democrats have always hated kids..
This is simply one more manifestation of that fact..
With the midterm elections less than a year away, Democrats are reading the room and changing their tune on mandatory school mask mandates. Just recently, Democratic governors in New Jersey, Delaware, Oregon and Connecticut announced they would end their states' school mask mandates. Even Randi Weingarten, head of American Federation of Teachers, signaled her willingness for masks to come off in schools. She admitted on MSNBC "no one wants masks in schools." After years of threatening, suspending and holding back children from the classroom, Democrats and teachers' unions are admitting that it is not science, but the politics that has changed.
yep... yep... EXACTLY...
COVID has never been about the pandemic..
COVID has *ALWAYS* been about a political agenda..
It's factually accurate to say that COVID is the FIRST political pandemic...
Republicans were ahead of the curve on school mask mandates. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin promised during his campaign that he would give parents the right to decide whether their children should wear masks in schools. He delivered on that promise with an executive order allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates for their children. Youngkin's decision was controversial, but only because critics are not used to politicians keeping their promises. But the tide is turning. This week, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, 10 Democrats voted with Republicans in the Virginia Senate to affirm Youngkin's op-out of masks for kids in schools.
The Democrat response to COVID has *never* been about science...
For Democrats it's ALWAYS been about politics.. NEVER science...
Under President Trump, Democrats pushed COVID as a means to bring down President Trump..
Democrats used COVID to cheat in the 2020 election..
And, when finally back in power, Democrats used COVID as a means of control over the people..
And people are getting sick and tired of Democrats and their COVID political agenda...
We see that happening in Canada.. In Europe.. And here at home in the US...
And NOW the facts are coming out that ALL of the COVID restriction were for NOTHING... They were ALL useless and did NOTHING to stop the spread of COVID..
Democrats simply are NOT going to be able to come back from this...
Parents often feel silenced by unaccountable bureaucracy, especially when it comes to the education of their children. When they made their voices heard on the controversial topic of critical race theory, the Department of Justice responded with an order to investigate their exercise of free speech.
One of the great tragedies of the pandemic was the lengthy shutdown of classrooms. Our children suffered. They were isolated and fell behind. Studies have revealed rising anxiety, depression and suicide attempts among children. We have all watched a tragic decline in the mental health of our children so steep that the American Academy of Pediatrics has declared it a national emergency.
ALL of the Democrat Party's missteps.. ALL of their anti-science COVID protocols...
ALL of the Democrat Party's mistakes are coming home to roost..
Grab the popcorn and prepare for the demise of the Democrat Party as a viable political Party...
Retired Marine lieutenant general says critical race theory ‘undermines our military’s unity’
A former Joint Staff director of operations believes current Pentagon officials are not adequately prepared for a military conflict, in part due to cultural factors such as critical race theory.
Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold, in an op-ed for Task & Purpose this week, accused “our most senior politicians and military leaders” of having “a form of dementia when it comes to warfare” and said the subsequent result “is a dangerous and potentially catastrophic malady.”
Newbold, who retired in October 2002 over his opposition to the United States’s invasion of Iraq , argued that the military’s “two main purposes” are to “deter our enemies,” and “if that fails, to defeat them in combat,” and he also alleged that the military “cannot be a mirror image of the society it serves.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/defense-national-security/retired-marine-lieutenant-general-says-critical-race-theory-undermines-our-militarys-unity
Since I am the only Weigantian™ who has worn this country's military uniform (actually worn 2.. US Air Force and US Army during Desert Storm) the above holds special meaning for me..
I had posed the question a few days ago regarding the US Military's primary mission...
It's not surprising I got no answer, but that is an answer itself..
Anyone who claims that the US Military must mirror the society it's duty bound to protect is full of kaa-kaa and proves beyond ANY doubt, that they are completely and 1000% ignorant of the US Military and it's actions and reasons for existence...
Many of my critics claim that my point of view has changed drastically over the past 14 years. They claim I’ve become a conservative political partisan and only criticize the Left. I have not changed. I’m not a political partisan. My morals and values have not changed. Journalism and American culture have changed drastically over the past 14 years. Anti-white bigotry has become popular in American culture.
I constantly criticize the Left because the Left has rejected Christianity and embraced racism. I was born in 1967, a year before the assassination of Dr. King. I see myself as a descendant of Dr. King’s dream. Dr. King was a Christian who fought racism. I do not know Dr. King’s political affiliation.
I believe Dr. King would be appalled by the racism that is being sanctioned by the Left. From critical race theory in schools to the New York Times 1619 Project to “Everything’s Gonna Be All White,” the Left and its global corporate partners are aggressively pushing racism. It’s not just anti-white racism. It’s anti-black racism, too.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/whitlock-showtimes-racist-documentary-joe-bidens-crack-pipe-giveaway-and-visas-olympic-commercial-point-to-chinas-harmful-influence-on-american-culture
Democrats have become the racists that Dr King tried to warn us about...
The actions of Joe Biden and the Democrat Party spit on the grave and the wisdom of Dr Martin Luther King...
Well, what about January 6, white Trump supporters, and the insurrection?
White Trump supporters are primarily angry at white leftists for demonizing them as the worst people on the planet and ignoring their legitimate concerns. The theory that Trump voters are motivated by anti-black racism is a hypothesis white liberals popularized to blind black people to the bigotry of the Left.
I’m sure there is some portion of Trump’s base that is motivated by bigotry. But those aren’t the people financing Visa commercials analogizing blackness to cancer and being crippled. Those aren’t the people arguing that black people cannot achieve in this country without the charity of white people. Those aren’t the people setting aside $30 million for crack pipes to pass out to black people.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services concocted the crack pipe giveaway as part of a racial equity initiative.
All around us, there is definitive FACTS that prove that the Democrat Party is doing to black Americans what the American government did to native Americans 200 years ago...
I mean, honestly....
"Let's give free crack cocaine pipes to black Americans!!"
On WHAT PLANET is that not a morally repugnant totally insane and blatantly racist idea!!???
And you people DEFEND your Democrat Party???
SERIOUSLY!!????
Black Crack Matters!
The Left is rolling back the racial progress Dr. King’s generation won. Leftists have turned American society into a mash-up of the iconic racial sketch comedy shows “In Living Color” and “The Chappelle Show.”
Yesterday, rapper Jim Jones posted a video complaining that a Gucci store in California failed to provide him sparkling water and champagne while he shopped in its VIP section. He accused the store of racism and ridiculed the black employee who tried to assist him.
^^^^^ This is the state of today's Democrat Party...
How *ANYONE* can vote Democrat in the here and now is simply incomprehensible...
Awww right.. I'll give ya'all a few to catch up.. :D
Don't say I never do anything for ya... :D
We got a lot more to cover, so stay tuned.. :D
@Speak2
One President said [screw] CA and their wildfires. They didn't vote for me.
One President said that KY needed assistance after tornadoes, even if their junior senator voted against assistance for Sandy, Harvey, and other nasties.
What *IS* it with you and your complete and utter inability to post ANYTHING remotely factual???
Is that something you do regularly?? Post spectacular bullshit???
‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters stay on bridge all night; police crackdown never happens
‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters stay on bridge all night; police crackdown never happens
Truckers protesting vaccine mandates in Canada remained defiant overnight Friday in the face of a court order and an emergency declaration telling them to leave the Ambassador Bride connecting Ontario to Michigan.
Around 100 protesters remained early Saturday after law enforcement failed to take action, according to CBC News.
"Do you think I care? Do you think I care about a fine?" one protester said. "I'm going to pay a fine? No. You think I care about their mandates? No. This needs to end."
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens said Friday the government wants to see the protesters leave voluntarily but steps will be taken to have them removed if they refuse.
Video by local journalists in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning appeared to be mostly empty of protesters, although it only showed portions of the entrance to the bridge.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-trucker-protesters-bridge
It's really enlightening to compare and contrast the Left Wing reaction to TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? HUNDREDS killed, including at least 8 cops.. Hundreds of thousands injured... Billions of dollars in damages...
Compared to the Left Wing reaction to a protest where there is ZERO (comparatively speaking) violence... NO deaths.. NO injuries.. NO buildings attacked..
At WORST, these protests are simply an inconvenience to the daily lives of the residents..
I mean, look at the facts..
HUNDREDS killed.. TENS OF THOUSANDS injured.. BILLIONS of dollars in damages...
Left Wingers are PERFECTLY OK with THOSE kinds of protests..
ZERO killed.. ZERO injured.. A couple hundred bucks in damages, if that... The ONLY bad side to this protests are traffic jams...
Left Wingers are apocalyptic.. Hysterical about the "occupation"... The "insurrection"...
Are ya'all totally BLIND to the blatant hypocrisy???
Conservatives: On SCOTUS, You Owe the Left One
Political elites are gearing up for another Supreme Court contest. Most of us would like less fanfare than the last three contests. That’s why conservatives should give the Left some leeway on this nominee.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/02/11/conservatives_on_scotus_you_owe_the_left_one_816216.html
Bull-FRAKIN'-shit!!!
First and foremost... Biden's SCOTUS nominee is based on racism.. That right there dictates NO LEEWAY be given..
The process is tainted.. Therefore the nominee is tainted.. No two ways about it.....
Gazpacho is the perfect compliment to nuts.
Gazpacho is NOTHING compared to all the Democrat frak-ups and Democrat BS and Democrat racism and Democrat incompetence..
I guess when yer Party is the epitome of an ongoing dumpster fire, the only recourse is to latch onto ANYTHING from the Right no matter how inane or ridiculous or irrelevant it is in the grand scheme of things..
That is a perfect example of smearing gazpacho on a shit sandwich!
"I know, right!?"
-Felix, WRECK IT RALPH
Today the Court is 6-3 conservative, or 5.5–4.5 if you think Chief Justice John Roberts is squishy. The Court became more conservative through some rule changes that look arbitrary or partisan, at least to the Left. The Merrick Garland incident convinced many on the Left that conservatives break the rules to win. It helps explain why Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination almost led to violence. The SCOTUS nomination process is a polarized, partisan disgrace.
Except that the GOP didn't break the rules to win..
The GOP gamed the rules to win... There is a HUGE difference...
And, in the here and now, the Left isn't breaking the rules either.. Well, not in the context we are discussing anyways...
If Democrats want to use a completely racist/sexist criteria to select their nominee, they are perfectly within their rights to, barring any ruling from the SCOTUS vis a vis the constitutionality (or, in this case LACK thereof) of that decision...
But there can simply be NO DENYING that, by using a racist process, the nominee will be irrevocably tainted by the selection being nothing but an affirmative action hire.. A token... Nothing more...
The Supreme Court will have enormous power for the foreseeable future. We want a Court that the public generally sees as legitimate. A Court that gets too lopsided produces resentment and alienation, as it already has on the Left — and as it did on the Right for decades earlier. I do not argue that the Court should balance all ideological perspectives. Some ideologies are closer to the truth than others. But we want a reasonably balanced Court to ensure that policymaking represents most Americans’ values.
"Elections have consequences"
-Barack Odumbo
It's funny that we didn't hear this "THE COURT MUST BE BALANCED" mantra when the SCOTUS was majority Left Wing..
"Gee!! I wonder why that is!!?"
-Kevin Spacey, THE NEGOTIATOR
Frankly, I get it. I know that Republicans would not let President Obama replace Antonin Scalia. The stakes were too high. And due to polarization, confirming a compromise candidate also wasn’t in the cards. Compromise is no longer in the Republican Party’s DNA. But the event drove a wedge between different sides of our political elite.
Yea... And compromise is in the Democrat DNA, right?? :eyeroll:
We should support ideological diversity and vigorous and thoughtful debate. Let’s get the best justice confirmed. Liberals need bolstering. We need to lower the temperature from Donald Trump’s picks. Going for the kill is bad practice in a democracy because iron sharpens iron. We want to avoid disorder, chaos, and bitterness. We should want to keep the country together.
So, conservatives, let’s give the Democrats a break and confirm their nominee, with minimal rancor and modest strategizing.
Yea, right.. After the brutal and hysterical attacks on President Trump's nominees???
Frak you and the horse you rode in on..
It was Democrats who set the precedent about confirming SCOTUS nominees when a Party is in the minority..
Why the hell would this moron expect that the GOP should just roll over???
It's my fervent hope (albeit probably not going to happen) that the GOP can keep this seat open until 2025 when President Trump returns to the White House..
Having said all of that, let me say this..
I have absolutely NO DOUBT that Biden will select the TOP MOST, the BEST and the MOST QUALIFIED candidate..
BUT... he is ONLY selecting the candidates from TWO PERCENT of the availability..
As such, it is virtual statistical impossibility that the nominee selected is NOT the best qualified candidate out of the whole pool...
This is FACT....
Democrats Are Making Virginia-Style Anti-Parent Mistakes In Wisconsin
A Wisconsin lawmaker doesn’t think parents should ‘have a say’ in the classroom. It’s like she doesn’t know what happened in Virginia.
You would think that after Democrats’ whooping in the Virginia gubernatorial race over education issues, their party would stop antagonizing fed-up parents with the same messages, but no. Rep. Lee Snodgrass, a Democrat state lawmaker in Wisconsin, channeled some real Terry McAuliffe energy in a now-deleted tweet attacking parents.
“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget,” Snodgrass tweeted on Thursday morning.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/11/democrats-are-making-virginia-style-anti-parent-mistakes-in-wisconsin/
What IS it with Democrats that they keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again???
I have no problem with this trucker nonsense filtering down to the US, most of the oleaginous cash to fund it originated in the US, from the danker crevices of the right-wing goosestepping GQP Nazi-subsect.
Gone almost unnoticed was the Ontario gov't. headed by Doug-the-plug Ford, a pack of notoriously bent politicians, quietly announced today a relaxing of Provincial mask and passports. *Note, I've made no mention of Trudeau, as he has no reign over Provincial public health other than cut the check to maintain it, which he's done.
The American right might want to tune themselves up, the chaos perception in Ontario is a 75-25 problem for the Conservatives that hold sway over the health and welfare of Ontarians, the 25 is just the wedge you get when you pay the bills and eat the deficits incurred.
Too much for the average disinterested US observer to understand wholly, a great many Canadians misunderstand the Federal role in the day-to-day political milieu... We are way more led by our provinces than our feds. The province deals with schools, healthcare, and most of the infrastructure like road maintenance and policing. The feds here subsidize the provinces with equalization payments based on provincial spending and incur all nation debt both federal and provincial.
Why am I not surprised Trump was destroying documents and creating top-secret confetti and flushable memos.
Just hyper-typical of the GQP to ignore Trump's corruptions while quietly humming and hawing Clinton's past transgressions.
The hypocrisy is so blatant to no end, Republicans have long since abandoned any moral center (not bestowed upon them by religious belief that forgives all transgression, for a price).
They chose pinguid association with Trump over their dignity long ago.
LL&P
Why am I not surprised Trump was destroying documents and creating top-secret confetti and flushable memos.
He wasn't...
Just hyper-typical of the GQP to ignore Trump's corruptions while quietly humming and hawing Clinton's past transgressions.
Just as it's hyper-typical of Dims to ignore Hillary's corruptions while hysterical whining and crying hysterically about President Trump's acts...
ALL of which President Trump is completely, unequivocally and 1000% innocent of..
They chose pinguid association with Trump over their dignity long ago.
Just as Dims have chosen failing and flailing and complete and utter incompetence over their dignity long ago..
What's yer point???
"Do you believe the mob who stormed the Capitol was engaged in 'legitimate political discourse' or not?"
"Do you believe the mob who stormed the Capitol was engaged in 'legitimate political discourse' or not?"
Do you believe TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? HUNDREDS killed, including at least 8 cops.. Hundreds of thousands injured... Billions of dollars in damages...
Do you believe that is legitimate political discourse??
Yes or no???
Do you believe that is legitimate political discourse??
Yes or no???
Apparently, from the FACTS, ya'all DO believe that TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country is legitimate political discourse..
Because, by ya'all's silence, ya'all gave assent and advocated and condoned 22 years of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots...
CW
When Biden entered office, he made what sounded like an iron-clad promise to everyone working for him: "If you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot. On the spot -- no if, ands or buts." But when this unequivocal pledge was put to the test, Biden failed to deliver.
I respectfully regret to inform you that you couldn't be more wrong about this. I attribute your lack of knowledge regarding this issue to most likely never having been an employee of the United States, let alone one employed at a higher level. Had you been, you would know that the guy was fired by Biden because that is how it's generally done by decent people employed by the United States. It occurs something like this:
Does that conversation actually contain more words? Of course... but that's the general gist of how it happens. The man was fired by Biden. As anyone who works or has worked for the United States can attest, you must jump through a lot of hoops to obtain clearances to serve your country in almost any capacity from one end of the spectrum to the other, often for less pay than you could earn in the private sector doing comparable work, and that's generally why termination is done that way. Otherwise, why would the best and brightest maneuver through multiple sets of obstacles and make the monetary and familial sacrifices in order to serve? Rhetorical question.
So, to recap: The man was terminated by Biden and allowed to leave with a shred of dignity because he jumped through hoops to try to serve his country, even though he failed. Biden is a decent man.
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As for the entire incident, I propose a bit of introspection to make my point. Might we know someone who said he would "Red Card" a commenter if he continued to post in a certain monomaniacal fashion? And when that commenter has continued unabated to post in said fashion, what action has been taken? Would we classify that as a "failure to deliver"? You decide.
Additionally, review the events of July 30, 2020, wherein a commenter was requested:
Would we call allowing that spamming to flourish a "failure to deliver"? You decide.
As for me, I currently fall on the side of believing you're attempting to be a decent man about it... even when others are quite obviously ignoring your demands written and delivered in no uncertain terms and in simple English.
nypoet22
1
You can't fight Gazpacho tactics with salad. Pie is the only rational solution.
Specially if it's chocolate. :)
Speak2
Great posts.
Now, my unhappy.
Oh, noes... a sad?
I vehemently disagree with your framing of MDDOTW.
Me too, Speak2, although not quite to the level of "vehemently."
The LOLPE fired someone hours before they would be able to retire with a full pension (McCabe was an a-hole, but still). He fired someone who was traveling on US business and was peed off that the gov't funded his return trip.
"Peed off"? So peeved that he wet his Depends? Heh.
President Biden has consistently allowed people to resign. Even the people who burrowed in after being appointed by the former guy.
That is a fact.
Those he got rid of (some are still there, unfortunately) were offered a short window to resign rather than be fired.
We're looking at you, Louis DeJoy... whose days are numbered.
One President said [screw] CA and their wildfires. They didn't vote for me.
Didn't rake the forests either. Those are federally owned lands, you say? Oh, so the feds didn't have the forests raked? Well, that's very different then... nevermind. ;)
If providing Lander with a small window where he could resign before being fired is the price we have to pay for having a real human being in the Oval Office, then that's a price I pay. Willingly!!!
That's how it's done. :)
Remember how ya'all LOVED "anonymous" sources in the President Trump administration??
Anonymous Democratic senator calls White House strategy on Build Back Better 'idiotic'
Democrats voice frustration in Los Angeles Times story
Democratic lawmakers and party officials are beginning to cast blame on one another for the failure of the Build Back Better legislation championed by the left wing and pushed by President Biden's administration.
In a Los Angeles Times story, Democrats voiced frustration and confusion at the rhetoric used by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House, particularly chief of staff Ron Klain.
One anonymous senator questioned whether it was Schumer and the administration that ultimately killed the spending bill.
"So Manchin walked away [from Build Back Better] because the White House was putting too much of a spotlight on him — and your response to that is to lean in further on voting rights so that he, once again, is seen as the problem?" an unnamed Democratic senator told the Los Angeles Times.
The anonymous lawmaker went on to call the strategy "idiotic."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anonymous-democratic-senator-white-house-strategy-idiotic
There are so many good words that sum up the Biden Administration specifically and the Democrat Party as a whole..
"Idiotic" is a good one... :D
Vick,
Re: #52
Don's been decent about things of late..
Why you still beating that old deceased equine
I have a great idea..
Let DH post as DH wishes to post..
If you don't like his posts.. Don't read them..
What could be easier than that??
Jeeeze... Give it a rest... :eyeroll:
"At consequential moments in history, they present a choice: Do you want to be on the side of Dr. [Martin Luther] King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?" Biden asked.
The president's comparison of his political opponents to segregationists did not go over well with the public.
So, apparently, Joe Biden's idea of civility and not browbeating political opponents only extends to people who are of the same opinion.. :eyeroll:
DeSantis says parents should have the right to sue school districts that 'flouted law' by mandating masks
The governor says allowing parents to sue would 'strike a good balance'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced opposition to legislation that would strip funds that implemented mask mandates and instead suggested that parents should have the right to sue over the harm that masking caused their children.
"Rather than take money that may penalize a teacher or student because of the actions of some union-controlled school board members, my view would be — let’s not do that," DeSantis said in a Friday news conference, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "But what you could do is say, any parent whose kid was illegally forced masked this year in Florida, in any of those districts, they should have the right to sue if their kids have any negative effects of it."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-desantis-says-parents-should-have-right-sue-school-districts-flouted-law-mandating-masks
Now THAT's a damn good idea!!! I LOVE this idea!!! :D
DeSantis added that students who have speech problems, emotional problems, or physical problems as a result of masking should be able to sue school districts that "flouted the law."
"If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial," DeSantis said. "It would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program."
Yea!!!!
Do it!!!!
DeSantis was referring to a proposal in the Florida House’s 2022-23 budget proposal named "Putting Parents First" that could take $200 million from school districts that imposed strict mask mandates.
Florida State Rep. Randy Fine, who chairs the PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee, says that the money would be redistributed to districts that followed the state’s masking rules as a "reward."
What a damn good idea!!!! :D
James T Canuck
47
I have no problem with this trucker nonsense filtering down to the US, most of the oleaginous cash to fund it originated in the US, from the danker crevices of the right-wing goosestepping GQP Nazi-subsect.
Yes, sir, astroturfing; you are totally correct.
Why am I not surprised Trump was destroying documents and creating top-secret confetti and flushable memos.
Because it has been observed and reported by multiple eyewitnesses long before now?
Just hyper-typical of the GQP to ignore Trump's corruptions while quietly humming and hawing Clinton's past transgressions.
Hypocritical too. Mueller's team had questioned White House aides about whether Trump tore up documents, and they replied "yes." What gave it away? The documents didn't rip themselves up, and they were definitely delivered to the Mueller team after having been taped back together. Not rocket science.
But wasn't it accommodating of Trump to actually return the multiple boxes containing top secret documents being stored at his residence in Florida... even if it did take almost 8 months and him being threatened with the National Archives going to DOJ and Congress? There are records in Trump's possession that still have not been turned over to the National Archives... so stay tuned.
MtnCaddy
49
"Do you believe the mob who stormed the Capitol was engaged in 'legitimate political discourse' or not?"
Not.
So, to recap: Absolutely not.
Michale
56
Don's been decent about things of late..
I see you missed my point about Joe Biden.
Why you still beating that old deceased equine
You... heh... YOU presuming to lecture anyone about beating something to death!? *points and laughs*
Also, you seemed to have missed the entire point of the post wherein CW's obvious chosen course of action was being compared with Biden's.
I have a great idea..
Let DH post as DH wishes to post..
The man in charge makes the decisions regarding how he will handle those who ignore his rules set forth by him in no uncertain terms. Would we call an attempt to be a decent man in the face of those breaking your own stated rules having "failed to deliver"? That was the entire point.
I have a better idea.
If you don't like his posts.. Don't read them..
I have a better idea... divest yourself of the nonsensical notion that you know what I'm reading, and presuming to tell me or anyone else what to do on another man's blog is a fool's errand... so it suits you perfectly. We follow his rules, no one else's.
What could be easier than that??
You taking a course in remedial reading and learning to comprehend simple written English in order to stop missing the forest for the trees. That would be a lot easier.
Jeeeze... Give it a rest... :eyeroll:
Keep rolling your eyes; maybe you'll find a brain back there. :)
Where is Merrick Garland? At the DOJ doing his job!
I realize that the January 6 committee just keeps uncovering and releasing more and more damning evidence of Trump’s involvement in his failed insurrection attempt; and that makes people anxious for action. But please recognize that all of this new and breaking evidence that we hear about on the news every day is not new to those conducting the investigation. They’ve known about all of this for quite some time. They also know all about the breaking stories that we will learn about over the next 3 - 4 months!
Our government’s institutions, in their own arrogance and gullibility, were completely blindsided by Trump’s influence over our country. Trump’s level of extreme narcissism combined with his deranged psychopathic tendencies totally overwhelmed those that thought that everyone has a conscience. The GOP had already chosen to be the party where Truth had no value and in which everyone knew what was being said was untrue — but Donald Trump actually BELIEVED HIS LIES! And worse, he is gifted at getting otherwise reasonable people to drink his Kool-aid.
Garland’s prosecution of the most dangerous and powerful criminal in our country’s history is a massive undertaking that will require time to complete. Garland can have a court seal an indictment on time sensitive charges which will stop any time restraints. .The defense attorneys will be made up of some of the best attorneys alive working with, probably, the biggest bank accounts from which to defend the accused. Rushing into this battle would be foolish; being fully prepared will be the key to bringing them down.
Thanks, Kick [54].
While he's not the only one, I was thinking about DeJoy when I wrote that as well. His latest is to work to ignore the Prez on vehicle types. Sheesh!
And Durham finds a smoking gun!!! :D
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
Clinton campaign paid to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia: Durham
'Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP's DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers
VINDICATION!!!!
Thy name is President Donald Trump!!!
:D
Can things get *ANY* worse for the Democrat Party!??
Probably!!!
First on Fox: Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.
BUSTED!!!!! Totally and COMPLETELY BUSTED!!!! :D
Oh boy, today is going to be a fun day!!! :D
Durham’s filing said Sussman’s "billing records reflect" that he "repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations."
So, the Clinton Campaign PAID for the hack of then Candidate Trump's campaign headquarters and later the White House to plant evidence....
Democrats are going down!!!! :D
Durham's filing states that in July 2016, the tech executive worked with Sussman, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm 1 on behalf of the Clinton campaign, numerous cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to "assemble the purported data and white papers."
"In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data," the filing states. "Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract."
"Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish 'an inference' and 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia," Durham states. "In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain 'VIPs,' referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton campaign.
WOW.... Democrats are going to jail!!!!
WOOT!!!!! And JUST IN TIME for the mid terms too!!! :D
Durham also writes that during Sussman's trial, the government will establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (DNS) internet traffic pertaining to "(i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP)."
Durham states that the internet company that Tech Executive-1 worked for "had come to access and maintain dedicated servers" for the Executive Office of the President as "part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP."
Oh wow.. It just keeps getting worse and worse for Democrats!!!
President Trump is the Hero/Victim and Democrats are the scumbag villains!!!!
In Sussman's meeting with the second U.S. government agency, Durham says he "provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol (IP) addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider," and claimed that the lookups "demonstrated Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations."
"The Special Counsel's Office has identified no support for these allegations," Durham wrote, adding that the "lookups were far from rare in the United States."
ALL of the Democrat BS and crimes are coming home to roost!!!
Oh what a great day it is to be an American!!! :D
Durham added that data collected by Tech Executive-1 also found that lookups began as early as 2014, during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office, which he said, is "another fact which the allegations omitted."
"In his meeting with Agency-2 employees, the defendant also made a substantially similar false statement as he made to the FBI General Counsel," Durham wrote. "In particular, the defendant asserted that he was not representing a particular client in conveying the above allegations."
"In truth and in fact, the defendant was representing Tech Executive-1--a fact the defendant subsequently acknowledged under oath in December 2017 testimony before Congress, without identifying the client by name," Durham wrote.
Well, we know SUSSMAN is going to jail..
THAT much is fact...
The only question remains is will he implicate others for a reduced jail sentence.. :D
This is gonna be big!!!! :D
President Trump reacted to the filing on Saturday evening, saying Durham’s filing "provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution," Trump said. "In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."
Trump added: "In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this."
Sic 'em, President Trump!!!! :D
Tear them limb from limb!!! :D
Former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee under then-Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Kash Patel, said the filing "definitively shows that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia."
"Per Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later President of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax," Patel told Fox News, adding that the lawyers worked to "infiltrate" Trump Tower and White House servers.
Democrat heads are going to roll... :D
I guess this means that Hillary won't be running for POTUS in 2024... :D
That's really a shame... I would have liked to have seen President Trump wipe the floor with Hillary... AGAIN... :D
The anti-Trump dossier, authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign through Elia's law firm, Perkins Coie.
Patel added that Sussman relayed the "false narrative" to U.S. government agencies "in the hopes of having them launch investigations of President Trump."
Sussmann's indictment is the second prosecution to come out of Durham's probe.
So.... Russ... Let's talk about yer Russia Collusion delusion some more, eh?? :D
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA
Russ,
You don't want to talk about your Russia Collusion Delusion?? Oh, I can see why... :D
OK...
Let's talk about your 6 Jan Insurrection Delusion...
I realize that the January 6 committee just keeps uncovering and releasing more and more damning evidence of Trump’s involvement in his failed insurrection attempt;
Of course, that's not happening whatsoever...
President Trump's ONLY "involvement" with 6 Jan was he told protesters to remain peaceful..
THAT is the extent of President Trump's involvement..
Garland is a hack who bullies concerned parents and invokes the Patriot Act to attack parents as domestic terrorists..
Russ, you need to face reality, son...
Your 6 Jan delusion is nothing but another Russia Collusion delusion..
And we KNOW how yer Russia Collusion delusion will end..
@vick,
MtnCaddy
49
"Do you believe the mob who stormed the Capitol was engaged in 'legitimate political discourse' or not?"
Not.
So, to recap: Absolutely not.
Apparently, you believe that TWENTY TWO YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? HUNDREDS killed, including at least 8 cops.. Hundreds of thousands injured... Billions of dollars in damages...
You obviously believe all of that is "legitimate political discourse"...
Which basically proves yer blatant bigoted hypocrisy...
I recall a couple commentaries of the last week and many comments expressing the opinion that inflation will get better and Democrats will do well in the mid-terms..
Well, allow me to dash those hopes as nothing but wishful thinking.. :D
Or as they say in meteorological circles.. Wishcasting.. :D
Worse to come from worst US inflation in 40 years
This leaves the Fed in a pickle: Interest rate hikes won’t do much except reduce demand, producing stagflation
https://asiatimes.com/2022/02/worse-to-come-from-worst-us-inflation-in-40-years/
As badly as the Biden Administration has scroo'ed things up???
They are not doing scroo'ing things up yet.. :D
It's going to get a LOT worse and Biden's "transitory" inflation is going to go on a LOT longer before it starts to get better..
Matter o' fact, it's likely not to get better until COMPETENT governance enters the picture when the GOP takes the House and Senate in November.. :D
US stocks took a nasty turn downward after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a higher-than-expected 7.5% jump in consumer prices over the last 12 months, the worst inflation in forty years. The month’s gain of 0.6% for the Consumer Price Index also translates into an annual rate of 7.5%.
Most worrying about the inflation report was the dog that didn’t bark, namely shelter inflation. Although the shelter component of the Consumer Price Index did rise in January, it showed an annualized rate of just 3.7%, much lower than the nearly 20% price gains for home prices and 13% hikes in residential rents during the past year.
WOW... Biden and the Democrats have REALLY scroo'ed up this country BIG TIME, eh??
Who could have POSSIBLY predicted this, eh!?? :D
Oh.... Wait....
Democrats ALWAYS screw up EVERYTHING they touch...
It's the Democrat Party way...
And now with Democrats going to jail over their Russia Collusion delusion??
It's going to be a wild ride until November!! :D
Ooooo Ruuuusssss??? :D
Mueller’s investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 election, though the question of whether Trump obstructed justice was left open in the final report.
NO RUSSIA COLLUSION...
It was ALL a delusion.. Set up by Hillary's campaign...
These are the documented FACTS...
"I can do this all day..."
-Captain America
And, in the BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA file...
Texas will go blue, Dems will unionize ‘hell’ out of it: AOC
AOC says Texas turning blue is inevitable during campaign stop
Trump carried the state in 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-says-texas-turning-blue-is-inevitable
You people have been claiming that Texas will go Blue for YEARS!!
And, not only have ya'all been WRONG over and over and over again...
The FACT is that hispanic Americans are leaving the Democrat Party by the millions!!!
Which means that Texas is getting RED'er and RED'er!!
Texas won't go blue... EVER!! :D
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told a Texas crowd Saturday that it is inevitable that Texas will turn blue as she endorsed two candidates for Congress prior to the primary next month.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has had mixed results when endorsing candidates, was in San Antonio to support the campaigns of Jessica Cisneros and Greg Casar. MySanAntonio.com reported that Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd that the two have her backing because they back Medicare for all, unions and reproductive freedom.
"Here’s what’s exciting about Jessica’s race and Greg’s race…is that if we flip Texas, we flip the country. She continued, "Texas turning blue is inevitable. The only question is when. We are going to fight for a living wage, we are going to make sure we unionize the hell out of this state…and we’re going to make sure that not one dime is made exploitatively across any worker, especially the undocumented."
AOC is a moron... Pure and simple..
She is nothing but an ignorant narcissistic bartender who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground..
Why anti-racism should be resisted
Parents are fighting the return of segregation
https://unherd.com/2022/02/how-to-resist-anti-racism/
You see, here's the deal..
Democrats' "anti racism" is to real anti racism what the Democratic Republic of North Korea is to real democracy.. Or republic...
It's propaganda, pure and simple..
As Democrats have amply PROVEN beyond any doubt, they are ALL about racism...
One only has to see their blatantly racist (not to mention sexist) process of selecting a SCOTUS replacement for Justice Breyer...
Ya really got to feel for Breyer..
Not only was he bullied, threatened and extorted into retiring before he wanted to..
NOW he has to live with the ignominy that his replacement is nothing but an Affirmative Action higher..
Nothing but a token Justice so that Democrats can regale themselves with how awesomely woke they are...
:eyeroll:
“Young boys and girls must grow up with world perspectives”. On 22nd April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr, speaking at a meeting of the Massachusetts legislature, lamented the “tragedy” of school segregation. With the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the US had finally dismantled the Jim Crow laws — which King had joked about burying a decade earlier. The nation had come to King’s conclusion: “Segregation debilitates the segregator as well as the segregated”.
Almost six decades later, from Massachusetts to Colorado, Jim Crow is being resurrected in public schools — this time through euphemisms such as “affinity circles”, “affinity dialogue groups” and “community building groups”. Centennial Elementary School in Denver, for instance, advertised a “Families of Color Playground Night” earlier this winter, on a marquee board outside the school. Last week, the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, hosted a “meet and talk” with actress Karyn Parsons from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” — exclusively for its “Students of Color affinity group”. “If you are a student of color or multiracial, please join us!” the invitation from a seventh grade teacher read.
Democrats today are spitting on the grave of Dr Martin Luther King... Democrats today are completely trashing Dr King's legacy and wisdom..
Anyone want to dispute this factual claim???
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Of course not.. Because the facts are indisputable...
https://unherd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Centennial-Elementary-School-Families-of-Color-sign-e1644592372808-600x402.jpeg
BLATANT racism and segregation...
Courtesy of today's Democrat Party.. :eyeroll:
Anyone care to dispute these FACTS??
No?? Of course not..
@vick
As for the entire incident, I propose a bit of introspection to make my point. Might we know someone who said he would "Red Card" a commenter if he continued to post in a certain monomaniacal fashion? And when that commenter has continued unabated to post in said fashion, what action has been taken? Would we classify that as a "failure to deliver"? You decide.
Ahhh yes.. Insult the Weigantian™ administration.. THAT's the ticket?? :^/
I have pointed out time and time again how ya'all can get rid of me or get me to lessen the number of my comments....
But none of ya'all are willing to make the effort.. Ya'all just impotently whine and cry and stamp yer feet and beg for help...
It's #sad and #pathetic....
Take me on if you think you can..
Otherwise, just quit whining and crying pathetically...
But, let's get back to the Democrat Party's version of "anti-racism"...
The beauty of Martin Luther King Jr’s America was that everyone’s humanity, worth and potential was appreciated, not undermined. Fighting racism used to mean rejecting the notion of a hierarchy of human value. But today the morally twisted teachings of “anti-racism” preach that a new hierarchy of human value, with whiteness at the bottom, is acceptable — and even evolved and “progressive”. Education activists seem intent on pushing the race-shaming, bigotry and segregation of “anti-racism”.
This is today's Democrat Party..
How on earth can ANYONE be a willing part of this blatantly racist Party??
The second “affinity” group meeting at Wellesley revealed the dangers of this new segregation. It took place on 18 March 2021, two days after a gunman killed eight people in three Atlanta spas, most of them Asian women. That day, Curry hosted a “Healing Space for Asian and Asian American students (grade 6-12), faculty/staff, and others in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community who wish to process recent events”.
A Wellesley Middle School teacher asked Curry if white students could participate. Her question answered, the teacher wrote to her students:
“This is a safe space for our Asian/Asian-American and Students of Color, *not* for students who identify only as White. If you identify as White, and need help to process recent events, please know I’m here for you as well as your guidance counselors. If you need to know more about why this is not for White students, please ask me!”
So, ONLY a specific racial group is permitted to attend this function..
I axe ya'all.... HOW is this not blatantly racist???
Answer: {{cchhhiirrrpppp}} {{ccchhhiirrrpppp}}
Yep, that's what I figgered... :^/
But in WPS, the backlash could not be quashed. On 19 October 2021, Parents Defending Education filed a lawsuit against the school district on behalf of Parents A, B, C, D and E and their children, alleging violation of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as the First Amendment for its “Bias or Discrimination” hotline, “weaponized by certain students to punish classmates who express unpopular views”.
This resulted in a partial victory. On 9 November 2021, Superintendent Lussier rescinded the original “Responding to Incidents of Bias of Discrimination”. But the school district wouldn’t back down on the “affinity groups”, segregated by race.
This week, however, in a significant victory for justice, lawyers for Parents Defending Education filed a settlement with the school district, which agreed to end its practice of race segregation. On Tuesday night, at a virtual meeting of the school board, Lussier read these four remarkable statements:
Under existing School Committee policies regarding Nondiscrimination and Student Organizations, membership in and attendance at all student clubs, listening sessions and affinity spaces is open to all.
The Constitution and federal laws prohibit schools from excluding students from affinity-based group sessions or any other school-sponsored activities on the basis of their race.
No students will be excluded from affinity-based group sessions or any school-sponsored activities on the basis of race.
When any affinity-based group session is held, all grade-eligible students are welcome to attend — regardless of their race — and notice of the event will be publicized so that all students are aware of the event.
Any announcement of an “affinity-based” group will also include this disclaimer: “This event is open to all students regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation”.
It's really a shame that, in the here and now, people have to go to COURT to prevent Democrat Party policies from instituting blatant racism in education...
This is how far back the Democrat Party is pushing our society..
This is how BAD Democrat Party policies are de-volving American society...
This proves beyond ANY doubt that the Democrat Party is STILL the Racist Party...
It’s strange to think that in 2022, a declaration that disallows racial segregation is a victory not against “white supremacy” but against the bigotry of “anti-racism”. Like most people, I am appalled by actual racism — but I am also appalled by the efforts of doctrinaire progressives to impose their divisive worldview on children. As the case of WPS illustrates, a new Jim Crow is being promoted, often by stealth, by a small cadre of illiberal activists — woke school boards, “diversity” officers and compliant teachers. They often steamroll a community with their bad ideas, which they try to conceal with enthusiasm: “If you need to know more about why this is not for White students, please ask me!”
Their doctrine is abundantly clear. Whites — and only whites — are the oppressors and must acknowledge their “privilege”, and admit their shame. Blacks and “people of color”, meanwhile, are portrayed as perpetual victims, people unable hold their own against white people, hence the need for “affinity spaces”.
Could anything be more racist? This philosophy is blatantly cultish, peddling the idea of original sin, but without the forgiveness. No wonder clear-thinking parents of all races rebel against such transparent nonsense. Teaching children that there is a hierarchy of human value is as illiberal — and regressive — today as it was when King called it a “tragedy”.
And we end where we began...
Today's Democrat Party spits on the grave and on the wisdom of Dr Martin Luther King...
How can ANYONE support the blatantly racist policies of the Democrat Party???
Of course, the BEST thing about the Super Bowl are the ads!! :D
https://youtu.be/uinu8vldWaM
Seems to me that Vick was trying to draw a parallel to Biden's failure to deliver and CW's failure to deliver.
Except that there was never any promise by the Weigantian™ administration nor is there any level of spam'ing going on here..
You see, here's the deal..
I post comments about facts and my opinions based on those facts..
People here are always complaining that I don't have any facts.. So I post MORE facts to prove the PREVIOUS facts...
And people STILL dispute those facts..
So, the solution is simple...
Acknowledge the facts.. If that happens, I don't have to spend 100 comments pointing out the facts..
Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy...
Vick, of course, only wants to concentrate on the original course of action and doesn't want to acknowledge any corrections by CW.
Yep.. Just like a Democrat.. Refuses to acknowledge the progress that has been made...
You are right, at least from my perspective, that I do not want to put in the effort to take you on.
Most people don't.. :D
It's because I post the facts and substantiation for the facts and it overwhelms ANY possible rebuttal..
That's my super power.. :D
I do on occasion try to have a discussion with you.
Yes, you do.. And they are very enjoyable because, aside from minor digs here or there, they are adult, mature and don't de-volve into flame wars.. :D
And on occasion you do sometimes acknowledge things (comment 38).
Yep.. It's called "back and forth"... I'll be the first to admit when I am wrong.. WHEN the facts demand it..
Unfortunately, as with many commenters here, the discussions often become battles of propaganda rather than discussions.
Word.....
Vick is right that CW gets to make the final decisions, but we all have been given the right by CW to post our opinions on the articles, comments and what is and is not proper behavior.
Once again.. Agreed..
The problem for most people here is that they believe that posting FACTS that prove how utterly hate-filled and racist the Democrat Party is, is deemed unacceptable behavior...
How about a bit more discussion and exchange of opinions from all commenters instead of the more usual smearing gazpacho on a shit sandwich?
Could not POSSIBLY agree with you more here, DH...
And THIS is the part I don't understand.. I have asked SF Bear to explain it but, to date, he has refused to..
How does MY posting the facts preclude ANYONE ELSE from posting THEIR facts??
I mean, it's NOT possible..
And, since no one else posts their facts, the *ONLY* logical and rational conclusion is that they have no facts to post...
"Simple logic..."
-Admiral James T Kirk
heheheheheheheheehhehe :D
Hope to see everyone tonight after the big game when we get back on track with our CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party!
Late tonight, after the Super Bowl, you can play your favourite hot romance tracks. I know you all have a favourite 'get it on' tune and I, for one, can't wait to hear them all.
What's YOUR top makin' love song? Play it later tonight! Or, we could start now, you know, if you just can't wait. :)
@don,
you have no idea what i would say. geez man, if it weren't for poor taste you'd have none at all.
JL
@liz,
lovemaking is its own music.
JL
A ‘peek’ inside the White House as bad news piles up for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
Inflation is soaring and so is murder, swarms of migrants are illegally crossing the border and with Russia ready to invade Ukraine, the best President Biden can do is tell Americans there to run for their lives. Even our Olympic athletes are in a medal funk.
The bad news piles up by the day, prompting a growing chorus to conclude Biden is the worst president ever. Rest easy, Jimmy Carter!
https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/a-peek-inside-the-white-house-as-bas-news-piles-up-for-joe-biden/
And people here STILL believe that Democrats are OK in the coming mid-terms.. :D
Self-delusion is a wonderful thing.. :D For the deluded.. :D
Joshua,
I hope that means you're gonna be here later tonight ... I don't really wish to be alone this evening ....
So, welcome everyone to the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party!
Tonight, we play our favourite love songs ...
I'll go first.
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
Sweet Child 'O Mine
Here is a special treat for everyone!
Sheriff - When I'm With You
congrats to the rams, condolences to the bengals. hi liz, i just got my moderna booster so i'm not long for the waking world. great choices though. been watching cobra kai so my thoughts are kinda going here:
Peter Cetera - Glory of Love (The Karate Kid II)
The Rolling Stones' phenomenal exhibition Unzipped is still on here in Kitchener, downtown at theMuseum so here is a Stones concert from London in 2012.
Take it easy, Joshua, after that booster shot ... mine nearly killed me!
PRiSM - Take me Away ... off of the 1978 See Forever Eyes album.
Very nice, Joshua ,,,
Up Where We Belong
President Trump's ONLY "involvement" with 6 Jan was he told protesters to remain peaceful..
Trump hosted a massive rally called “STOP THE STEAL!” on January 6th that promoted the lie that Trump would have won the 2020 election if not for the voter fraud that occurred in multiple states.
Of course Trump has failed to produce any evidence demonstrating that any voter fraud occurred that benefitted Biden on Election Day despite Pillow Boy promising us at least 5 times that we would be shown all of the evidence on different dates…and for once they kept their word! We were shown ALL of the evidence they had to prove that Trump won the 2020 election — NOTHING!!! They have absolutely ZERO pieces of
Russ, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
As for what Trump did on January 6:
On 6 January, thousands of Trump supporters gathered at a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the result of last November's presidential election.
They listened as Mr Trump spoke to them on the National Mall, near the White House in Washington DC.
In a 70-minute address, Mr Trump exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The attack began moments after he took the applause.
So what did he say? Here are five key quotes, followed by some legal analysis from Professor Garrett Epps of the University of Baltimore.
’We won this election, and we won it by a landslide'
This was three minutes into his speech. It was a false assertion that Democrats used as the starting point for the incitement charge - not just because he said it on this day but for weeks before.
This quote appears in the article of impeachment, the charge that was backed by the House of Representatives, lower chamber of Congress.
In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, DC. There, he reiterated false claims that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide".
’We will stop the steal'
Here Trump was echoing the slogan of the movement to fight Mr Biden's election victory, which was started a day after the result was declared.
It soon gathered pace on social media and led to rallies across the US. The largest one yet was the one Mr Trump addressed on 6 January.
’We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen'
This was Mr Trump saying in the clearest terms yet that he will never accept Mr Biden's win. Referring to himself and his supporters collectively, Mr Trump said there would be no concession.
He went on: "You don't concede when there's theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore."
At one point, Mr Trump said the Biden presidency had to be challenged.
"You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can't let that happen."
'If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore'
This is the longest quote from Mr Trump's speech that appears in the article of impeachment. It could also be the one that his lawyers will find hardest to defend in the trial.
He also wilfully made statements that, in context, encouraged - and foreseeably resulted in - lawless action at the Capitol, such as: "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore".
However, Mr Trump's lawyers have argued his use of the word "fight" was figurative, which has long been accepted in public discourse.
‘Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'
This was the part of Mr Trump's speech that his defenders have seized on to show that he never incited the crowd.
He said: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
The language was very different from other sections, which borrowed more from combat or war.
Indeed, Mr Trump's lawyers have suggested they will highlight his use of the word "peacefully" in the trial.
'We are going to the Capitol'
The president used "we" but he didn't join them as his supporters took the short walk from the rally to Congress.
He said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them."
Analysis by Professor Epps: What is incitement under the law?
Incitement is not a crime under the First Amendment unless it meets certain criteria.
First of all, it has to be intended to cause violence (and you infer that intent from the circumstances). It also has to be likely to cause violence.
If I go downtown and I say to two drunks standing in front of a bank, "let's rob this bank right now", I haven't really incited anybody, because it's not very likely they'll rob the bank.
If I say let's meet here tomorrow and rip things up, I'm not inciting because - in the words of the Supreme Court - where there is time for better counsels to prevail, the remedy for speech is more speech.
The speech has to be likely to cause - and this is very important - imminent violent action.
If this was a court of law, does Trump cross the line?
It's quite rare that somebody can be convicted of incitement. In applying that to the president's speech at the rally, it's an agonisingly close case.
It's pretty goddamn imminent because he's telling people to march to the Capitol and I will march with you. There wouldn't be any time for better counsels to prevail because you're just going to leave the Ellipse and walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
He said we have to fight and show strength, but he also said we're very peacefully and patriotically going to ask, so he's covering himself. In the end, I think it's a jury question.
I'm not sure he's entitled to a dismissal of charges as a matter of law. There's some discussion that government leaders have more leeway, but I don't know how that would play out.
He clearly knew there were people in that crowd who were ready to and intended to be violent, and he certainly did nothing to discourage that. He not only did nothing to discourage it, he strongly hinted it should happen.
Reporting by Sam Cabral
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437
You know what, Russ ... I'm not going to let your intrusion bother me because I am feeling so good tonight that nothing and no one can bring me down.
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
I wish that I was Jessies girl, how can I be a woman like that!? Heh.
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Liz
Russ, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Michale obviously was misinformed about what Trump said and did on January 6 because he thinks all that Trump said was for them to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.. I am sharing with him what was actually said so that he won’t look so foolish in the future. From now on, he won’t be able to claim ignorance if he makes the same claims…he’ll be acknowledging his own dishonesty!
That’s all for now! Enjoy your Sunday night!
You "Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Next time, share it somewhere else!
Adios, Russ!
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Thank-you For Loving Me - Bon Jovi
Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
Liz,
I apologize that Sunday night happens to be one of the only nights that I know I’ll have time to commit to posting on here. I promise I did not do it to ruin your night! CW seems not to mind his site being used for other purposes, so I will leave you to your party!
Barbra Streisand - Somewhere
The Beatles - In My Life
April Wine - Love Has Remembered Me
Russ, I pardon you ... :)
April Wine -Tonight is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love
Hey, Kick - very nice!
What's your fave Queen love song?
Gowan - All the Lovers in the World
Styx - Babe
Guess Who - Sour Suite and more!
More Guess Who - These Eyes
Colin James - Keep On Lovin' Me, Baby
Colin James - Five Long Years
Triumph - Lay It On The Line
PRiSM - You're My Reason
Elizabeth Miller
132
What's your fave Queen love song?
Favourite? Hard to choose just one... but favourite has to be:
Somebody To Love
That's the one I was going to play but I wanted to wait for you!
Elizabeth Miller
139
I got busy catching up listening to all the other tunes. Very nice.
PRiSM - You're My Reason
This will get stuck in my head again. I did not forget those harmonies and chord changes, you know!?
Am G C F C Am C G E Am G F Am G F Am G F E C G Am D G E Am G F Am G F Am G F E F G Am A# E C Cm C Cm C Am Dm Am D G E Am G F Am G F Am G F Am G F E Am G F Am G F E C
Elizabeth Miller
141
That's the one I was going to play but I wanted to wait for you!
That is the one; you definitely nailed it. I am remembering a Sunday in late July 2020 where we played both these songs before... and a wet 007. Remember that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdhhZGhVZ8
Russ,
Trump hosted a massive rally called “STOP THE STEAL!” on January 6th that promoted the lie that Trump would have won the 2020 election if not for the voter fraud that occurred in multiple states.
So???
That does not equal insurrection...
We were shown ALL of the evidence they had to prove that Trump won the 2020 election — NOTHING!!! They have absolutely ZERO pieces of
Not factually accurate..
There is a MASSIVE amount of FACTS that PROVE before-election fraud.. All of it is WELL DOCUMENTED...
There was plenty of after-election fraud as well.. ALL well documented..
But even if NONE of that was factually accurate... SO???
None of that is relevant to your claim of insurrection..
As to all your spewage of #114...
NONE of it proves President Trump was part of the "insurrection"...
So, as usual, you have no facts...
Michale obviously was misinformed about what Trump said and did on January 6 because he thinks all that Trump said was for them to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.. I am sharing with him what was actually said so that he won’t look so foolish in the future. From now on, he won’t be able to claim ignorance if he makes the same claims…he’ll be acknowledging his own dishonesty!
NONE of what President Trump said proves anything with regards to the insurrection..
But let me ask you..
Where was all this fired up passion when cops were being assaulting by the THOUSANDS and KILLED during 22 YEARS (collectively) of Democrat BLM and AntiFa riots??
I mean, com'on.. You claim to be a cop groupie and you claim to support cops, but you have never posting ANYTHING even remotely comparatively, condemning Democrat riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country that lasted, collectively, for TWENTY TWO YEARS...
Why is that, Russ?? Why haven't you condemned Democrats and their support of BLM and AntiFa when cops are being beaten and killed by DEMOCRATS??
Where is your passionate condemnation of THAT, eh?
There is none.. Which PROVES beyond ANY doubt that you don't really care about cops, you don't really care about violent protests at all..
You just want a shiny new club to beat President Trump over the head with..
That's all this is..
Russ,
I did manage to pick out one tidbit from yer frak'ed spewage that was relevant..
He said we have to fight and show strength, but he also said we're very peacefully and patriotically
Your own quotation totally sinks your case... :D
President Trump didn't say anything that Democrats have not been saying to BLM and AntiFa for the past 22 years (collectively)....
So, if President Trump is responsible for 6 Jan, then the Democrat Party is responsible for ALL of the riots committed by AntiFa since Aug of 2007 and ALL of the riots and cop killings committed by BLM since 2013...
There you have it...
Do you want to accept responsibility on behalf of your Democrat Party all the deaths and injuries and damage for all of the actions of BLM and AntiFa for the last 22 years (collectively)???
Do you??
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Yea... Figgers... :^/
With Biden's agenda hanging by a thread, Democrats question their leaders' strategy
In hindsight, many Democrats say they believe the White House and Schumer should have steered a more moderate course if they wanted to pass anything — a fact that should have been clear to them as early as July. That's when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Schumer signed an agreement that Manchin would only support $1.5 trillion in spending, less than half of the $3.5-trillion package working its way through Congress. Schumer appeared to disclose Manchin's objections to no one, according to lawmakers and administration officials.
https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-agenda-hanging-thread-democrats-100037318.html
As usual, it's progressives that frak up everything for everybody..
Ya'all Democrats could have had a quarter of a loaf.. Or even a third of a loaf..
But ya'all got greedy and now Democrats have NOTHING..
Nothing but an apocalyptic nuclear uber-shellacking to look forward to in November...
I keep telling ya'all and telling ya'all... Americans do NOT want a Venezuela style government here in the US...
Americans have SEEN where that road leads... And it's not a place we want to be...
Democratic lawmakers and some administration officials say that the White House and Schumer did not learn the right lesson from the Build Back Better debacle. Schumer and Klain coordinated an abrupt shift to voting rights, sending the president to Atlanta for a rousing speech ahead of a Senate vote on legislation that could only pass if all 50 Democrats agreed to change the filibuster rule that essentially requires 60 votes to pass legislation.
It had no chance of passing because Manchin and Sinema were explicitly opposed to the rule change. The two moderates voted against changing the rules. Once again, Manchin found himself cast as progressives' bogeyman, as did Sinema, with activists and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threatening to support primary challenges against them.
"So Manchin walked away [from Build Back Better] because the White House was putting too much of a spotlight on him — and your response to that is to lean in further on voting rights so that he, once again, is seen as the problem?" said one Democratic senator who called the strategy "idiotic."
That describes the totality of Democrat Party governance...
"IDIOTIC"
So... Let's talk about "legitimate political discourse"...
And let's see what the ONLY OFFICIAL Weigantian™ that is unbiased and objective has to say about it...
‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ Is Latest Media Hoax
Donald Trump famously called the Fake News Media the “enemy of the people,” but they should more appropriately be called “the enemy of the truth” – especially with regard to how Trump and his supporters are treated.
It is hard to know whether the news anchors and reporters who shape the mainstream narrative are corrupt, stupid or just plain lazy, but they seem to be incapable of doing their basic job of informing the public of the facts.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/02/14/legitimate_political_discourse_is_latest_media_hoax_147183.html
Corrupt, stupid or just plain lazy...
Yea.. That about sums up the Left Wing media... :^/
‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ Is Latest Media Hoax
COMMENTARY
.By Frank MieleFebruary 14, 2022
‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ Is Latest Media HoaxScott Applewhite, File)
Donald Trump famously called the Fake News Media the “enemy of the people,” but they should more appropriately be called “the enemy of the truth” – especially with regard to how Trump and his supporters are treated.
It is hard to know whether the news anchors and reporters who shape the mainstream narrative are corrupt, stupid or just plain lazy, but they seem to be incapable of doing their basic job of informing the public of the facts.
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This all became self-evident during the Russia Collusion Hoax, when the New York Times and the Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for collaborating with anonymous fabulists who wanted to disrupt the Trump presidency. More recently, we’ve endured the Big Lie Hoax. Every time you’ve heard a reporter say that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020, you know that you are dealing with a person who lacks the one essential trait of a good journalist – curiosity. Open your eyes!
There ya go, Russ...
Anytime someone says "there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020" you know you are dealing with someone who is ignorant or bigoted or partisan or (most likely) all three...
Awwww frak...
Preview is my friend... Preview is my friend... Preview is my friend..
Reposted for clarity...
This all became self-evident during the Russia Collusion Hoax, when the New York Times and the Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for collaborating with anonymous fabulists who wanted to disrupt the Trump presidency. More recently, we’ve endured the Big Lie Hoax. Every time you’ve heard a reporter say that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020, you know that you are dealing with a person who lacks the one essential trait of a good journalist – curiosity. Open your eyes!
There ya go, Russ...
Anytime someone says "there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020" you know you are dealing with someone who is ignorant or bigoted or partisan or (most likely) all three...
Last week we witnessed one of the most shameful episodes in the history of journalism, as there was a tidal wave of fake reporting about what the Republican National Committee did when it chastised two GOP members of Congress in an exceedingly rare formal act of censure.
According to the New York Times, by passing the censure resolution, “The Republican Party … officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it ‘legitimate political discourse.’” That was shortened in the online headline to “G.O.P. declares Jan. 6 attack “Legitimate Political Discourse.”
Yep.. This Democrat/Weigantian™ adherence to a complete and utter lie is exactly that...
Shameful.... Also ignorant and complete and utter bullshit..
But that's what passes for "legitimate political discourse" with Democrats and the Democrat Party..
Ignorance... Bullshit...
Ironically enough, despite all that's been done, I don't blame the Weigantia™ administration.. They are simply believing what these Democrat Water Carriers are telling them..
There is no critical analysis.. There is no fact finding.. There is simply complete and total faith and trust in what the Democrat Propaganda Machine is saying..
But that's why I am here.. To show the ACTUAL FACTS....
Aren't ya'all SOOOOO glad ya'all have me here?? :D
In fact, that isn’t what the resolution said at all. No such declaration exists. That is propaganda, plain and simple, and to watch the nation’s most famous newspaper engage in it is terrifying. But it wasn’t just one paper lying; this Democratic Party talking point was repeated nearly verbatim by dozens of anchors and guests on CNN and MSNBC, plus hundreds of reports in newspapers and journals and on the Internet, all repeating the same utter falsehood – that the RNC had made excuses for the Jan. 6 riot and labeled it “legitimate political discourse.”
How do I know it is fake news? Easy. As a journalist with 40 years’ experience, I took the obvious step of reading the resolution for myself. Nowhere does it connect “political discourse” with the Jan. 6 violence. What the Republican National Committee actually did in the resolution was to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger because of their role on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Select Committee.
And there you have it..
I took the obvious step of reading the resolution for myself. Nowhere does it connect “political discourse” with the Jan. 6 violence.
I too read the facts...
And there is simply NO CONNECTION between the GOP censure of Liz Cheney and 6 Jan....
NONE... ZERO.... ZILCH.... NADA....
Ya'all have been hoodwinked.. LIED to...
And ya'all WILLINGLY believe the lie because ya'all are in the thralls of PTDS... President Trump Derangement Syndrome..
But, as usual, I bring you the FACTS that prove the lies are lies... :D
Again, aren't ya'all SOOO GLAD you have me here to give you the facts??? :D
“Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” the resolution declared, “and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation [with the Republican Party] to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes.”
There ya have it, people.
NO MENTION of 6 Jan whatsoever...
Ya'all have been LIED to....
Pure and simple...
The resolution does not specifically define who is being persecuted by the Jan. 6 committee for engaging in “legitimate political discourse,” but you can bet no one on the Republican National Committee thought it was a reference to rioters smashing windows, assaulting police or desecrating the U.S. Capitol. The RNC later explained that the resolution was a reference to Americans being chased down with subpoenas and threatened with jail time because they had supported President Trump’s attempt to prove election fraud. But the media pundits stuck with their initial claim that the RNC had defended political violence. If reporters were doing their real job instead of carrying water for the Democratic Party, they could have looked up “discourse” in the dictionary and discovered that it refers to “written or spoken communication or debate.” There’s no way to apply that word to the Jan. 6 riot unless you are intentionally misleading the public, but that’s just what countless journalists did.
Ya'all's claims with regards to legitimate political discourse = 6 Jan in the eyes of the GOP is a lie.. Pure and simple.. Nothing but unadulterated fact-less bullshit..
And the more you claim the lie is fact the more idiotic and brain-less ya'all look...
It's like claiming that there is no evidence to support fraud in the 2020 election..
Anyone who says those 2 things is either displaying their complete and utter ignorance of the facts or is intentionally lying to serve an anti-America political agenda...
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
To put it plainly, what was missing last week in almost all of the media reports was one brave reporter who stared back at Jake Tapper or Martha Raddatz or Joe Scarborough and said, “You know that’s not what the RNC resolution said. They never claimed that the violence on January 6 was legitimate political discourse, so let’s set the record straight.”
Anyone read Tom Clancy's EXECUTIVE ORDERS??
There was one brave reporter in that novel that pushed back against the bullshit narrative..
Wish there was such a reporter in the here and now who would push back against this bullshit narrative being perpetrated by the Democrat Party...
But there was one hopeful note. When Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” tried to get Sen. Marco Rubio, to condemn the RNC and its resolution, he dug in his heels and pushed back hard:
“Anybody who committed crimes on January 6 should be prosecuted,” he said, “and they are being prosecuted. But the January 6 commission is not the place for this; that’s what prosecutors are supposed to do. This commission is a partisan scam. The purpose of that commission is to try to embarrass and smear and harass as many Republicans as they can get their hands on.”
Bravo, Sen. Rubio. Too bad no supposedly unbiased journalists could figure out the same thing. And if you wonder why most Republicans repeat the Fake News narrative instead of speaking the truth, consider what happened to Rubio when he engaged in actual “legitimate political discourse” without fear or shame.
Bravo indeed, Senator Rubio....
A Flordia Senator.. A patriotic American...
Compare Senator Rubio's words to the mealy mouthed words of Democrats who let Democrat BLM and AntiFa rioters and cop killers get off scot free...
Because Senator Rubio's comments flew in the face of the “official” narrative, the senator was branded by the mainstream media as a Trump sycophant (something which his record doesn’t support).
Vanity Fair declared that “Marco Rubio’s mouth refuses to form the words ‘Trump was wrong.’”
Newsweek wrote an entire 400-word story dedicated to a 20-word tweet from Kinzinger to make the point that Rubio was the true embarrassment to Republicans.
Worst of all was the report in Rolling Stone magazine, which couldn’t even bring itself to call Rubio a senator. In its headline the magazine demoted him to simply some guy from Florida who was apparently a hypocrite and a scoundrel: “Florida man who called Trump a ‘con artist’ now smears Jan. 6 committee as a ‘scam.’”
If you want a marker for how low journalism has sunk in the past four decades, that’s probably it. Even the magazine that published Hunter S. Thompson’s acid-tongued pyrotechnic critiques of American political debauchery was now just one more outpost of boot-licking conventional wisdom.
It makes this former hippie (and former editor!) want to cry.
It's a sad sad state of journalism in America today...
It's no wonder that the approval rating of American Media is so low that media pundits look upon President Trump's high approval rating with envy....
Where has my favorite chew-toy cad gotten himself to???
I miss his daily claims of how he is "ignoring" me.. :D
Oh I am sure he'll pop up... He always does...
Liz,
Glad to see your Sunday Night Music Fest was a success last night..
Other than the forced politics sad episode, it looked like it was a fun time.. I'm glad.. I was afraid I had soured you on it..
But, as annoying as Russ is with his fact-less diatribes, he does bring up an interesting point..
In any case, glad to see you have fun again.. I realize that all the facts about your Democrats is depressing for you, but hay...
Do you want to be happy wallowing in ignorance??
Or do you want to know the facts and the reality??
This "legitimate political discourse" bullshit is a perfect example..
Aren't you glad you now know the FACTS behind the BS???
Going thru life ignorant of reality is no real life at all..
Wouldn't you agree???
Canada’s Trucker Blockades Are a Warning
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-s-trucker-protests-could-spread/ar-AATKiom
Leave it to the Right Wing to PROVE you can have effective protests and civil disobedience WITHOUT all the rioting and looting and cop killings.....
Rioting and looting and cop killings... The hallmarks of Democrat Party "peaceful" protests.. :^/
Hay Russ...
The deadly consequences of Defund the Police
How a woke slogan caused mayhem in America’s working-class communities.
Remember ‘Defund the Police’? It was the slogan du jour of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was being hollered on every street during the protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin. In those riotous days in the summer of 2020, everyone seemed to be waving a placard or wearing a t-shirt demanding defunding. The entire in-crowd posted those three words on their social-media accounts. Even here in the UK, where cops aren’t armed and where the police-funding model is very different to America’s, the right-on lined up behind the vague, strange call for police forces to be starved of funds. A headline in the impeccably middle-class Guardian declared: ‘The answer to police violence is not “reform”. It’s defunding.’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/12/the-deadly-consequences-of-defund-the-police/
Still want to go with your BS claim that Democrat policy is NOT DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE???
Cuz the facts prove what a bullshit claim that is...
The idea of ‘Defund the Police’ has been around for a couple of decades. But it exploded into public view following the killing of Floyd in May 2020.
Let's be clear.. George Floyd was a scumbag.. Society today is better off without George Floyd and Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin in it.. This is fact..
This canonization of the Floyds in this country is a BIG part of what's wrong with the Democrat Party.. It proves beyond ANY doubt that the Democrat Party is Pro-Criminal and Anti-Victim...
So, now that THAT fact is established, we can turn our attention to the consequences of the Democrat Party's DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE policies..
It’s a simple-sounding proposition: you take public money away from police departments that are too often heavy-handed and racially prejudiced and plough it instead into fairer non-policing forms of ‘public safety’, like mental healthcare, youth services, improvements to housing, and so on. And hey presto, there’ll be fewer trigger-happy cops on the streets and more happy citizens no longer tussling with mental problems and crappy living conditions. The reality, of course, as could have been predicted by anyone who doesn’t live in a gated community and get all their news from the New York Times, has been rather different.
Honestly, what did you people think would happen??
What did ya'all HONESTLY believe would be the consequences of the Democrat Party's DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE policies??
Did ya'all HONESTLY believe that the crooks, scumbags and assorted low lifes would think to themselves, "Yunno... I should change my ways and forgo a life of crime and hurting/killing people..."
Did ya'all HONESTLY believe THAT would happen??
ANYONE with more than 2 brain cells to rub together would realize that once crooks and scumbags and assorted low-lifes lose respect and fear of LEOs, then it would be open season on LEOs...
How ANYONE who claims to support cops can be a part of the Democrat Party is simply beyond all possible reason or logic..
For EVERY patriotic American out there, that is a deal breaker..
You hate on cops??? You encourage cop killings and cop ambushes and cop attacks??? You support no bail and no consequences for violent crime?? You don't get my vote.. You don't get the vote of ANY sane rational patriotic American..
It's THAT simple... It's so simple even dullards like Russ and cad and vick should realize it...
‘This US city was working to cut its police budget in half – then violent crime started to rise’, said a headline in the Guardian in March 2021, less than a year after that very same bastion of liberal correct-think was telling its readers that defunding cops is the ‘answer’ America is looking for. The March 2021 piece was about Oakland in California, where local officials took the post-Floyd anger of 2020 to heart and made plans to cut police spending by a whopping 50 per cent – around $150million a year. Then the killings started. And other forms of crime. In 2020 there were 107 murders in Oakland, compared with 75 in 2019. The spike in violence led five black members of Oakland’s taskforce on public safety to write a letter warning officials that ‘even more lives will be lost if police are removed without an alternative response being put in place’.
There have been similar rises in violence in other American cities that have planned or actually made cuts to police budgets. Throughout America, homicides rose by 30 per cent in 2020. And they continued rising in 2021. ‘Cities across the US are breaking all-time homicide records this year’, reported CNN in December. CNN reports that more than two-thirds of America’s most populated cities experienced more homicides in 2021 than they did even in 2020. Last year some American cities broke their all-time homicide records. Philadelphia suffered 513 homicides, smashing its previous annual high of 503 in 1990. Indianapolis had 230 homicides, breaking its previous record of 215 – which was in 2020. Things have gotten so bad that even the New York Times has been moved to ask: ‘Why are so many Americans killing one another?’
What IS it about Democrat governance that produces shit-holes???
Speaking of New York, crime is surging in NYC, too. Already this year things look bad. An extraordinary 72 of the city’s 77 police precincts have experienced more crime in the first few weeks of 2022 than they did in the same period in 2021. And that’s saying something, given how strange and fraught 2021 was. So far this year there has been a 35 per cent rise in robberies, a 35 per cent rise in rapes and a 30 per cent rise in shooting incidents in NYC compared with the same period in 2021 (killings, however, are down, by 13 per cent). ‘No neighbourhood is safe’, says one Brooklyn cop. Is it a coincidence that this is happening in a city where right-on officials responded to the political tumult of 2020 by agreeing to cut police funding by a whopping $1 billion? Many NYC residents are pretty certain it isn’t. Marisol Sanchez, whose son was shot to death in the Bronx in August last year, slammed the Defund the Police movement, saying that poor communities like hers ‘just don’t see [cops] no more’.
Ironically enough, the Democrat Party's DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE hurt black Americans the most...
Get that?? Democrat policies hurt the VERY people Democrats claim they want to help...
In numerous cities, there seems to be a pretty clear relationship of causation, or at least of inflammation, between ‘defund’ policies and blow-ups in violent crime. So in Austin, Texas, officials cut $20million from the police budget. This led to the dissolution of some law-enforcement units. ‘In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests this summer [2020], we made a significant cut to policing dollars’, boasted once council member. What happened in 2021? Austin experienced its highest number of homicides in 20 years. Aggravated assault rose, too. ‘Austin police chief says city doesn’t have enough officers’, said a news headline in December. There were cuts to police funding in the city of Los Angeles, too: $89million was taken away from the LAPD and rerouted to other services. With depressing predictability, there were 397 murders in LA in 2021, the most it has experienced in 15 years.
It's PLAINLY obvious to anyone who is a patriotic American and who has more than 2 brain cells to rub together that it was Democrats and their anti-cop policies that DIRECTLY led to a huge explosion of violent crime including the assassinations of dozens of LEOs...
Polls over the past year have shown that many working-class Americans are deeply uncomfortable with the idea of defunding the police. Some surveys show that black Americans oppose Defund more than white Americans do. In Minneapolis, for example, where George Floyd was killed, three quarters of black respondents to a poll about policing said the city should not reduce its police force. Black respondents were ‘considerably more opposed [to Defund the Police]’ than white respondents were. In a similar survey in Detroit, a majority of white respondents said ‘police reform’ was the major issue facing their city, whereas a majority of black respondents said ‘public safety’ was their main concern. For them, police reform was the lowest priority. As Slate says, this seemingly incongruous racial disparity can be seen in various parts of the US, where ‘many white people are open to police reform, and many black people are wary of curtailing law enforcement’. A Pew Research survey found that growing numbers of black Americans now want police funding to be increased. Strikingly, black and Hispanic Democrats are more likely than white Democrats to want more spending on cops. Thirty-two per cent of white Democrats want increased police funding, compared with 38 per cent of black Democrats and 39 per cent of Hispanic Democrats.
The facts are clear...
Americans are NOT on the side of the Democrat Party and their DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE policies..
Especially black Americans, the people that Democrats *claim* they are trying to help..
But, as with most everything else Democrats do, they are not part of the solution.. Democrats ARE the problem..
The facts prove this conclusively..
So, given the warnings from political representatives – who were in many cases representatives of the very communities that white liberals claim they want to protect from cops – and given all the survey findings showing that the American people ‘want more spending on police in their area’, how on earth did the Defund the Police idea take off? How did it make its way even into sections of the Democratic Party and into council chambers and high-up political decision-making? How did it come to be swooned over by every supposedly respectable observer from the Guardian to the NYT to, of course, the Twitterati and Instagram influencers?
It’s because the new elites, these noisy purveyors of ‘woke’ thinking who have come to dominate the political and media classes, are now phenomenally removed from ordinary people and from the needs and interests of working communities. To such an extent that they couldn’t even see that there might be a problem with withdrawing police from poor, isolated, atomised communities in which crime and anti-social behaviour are significant problems. The story of Defund, the spectacular collapse of this toxic woke slogan, the hardship this eccentric ideology has caused in many communities, is really a story of the unbridgeable chasm that now separates the decadent new establishment from the reasoned public that wants to enjoy a safe, good, fruitful life.
The evolution of the Democrat Party's DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE is a story of political elitists ignoring the reality of American society and pushing their anti-America policies and ideological-based agenda...
It's really THAT simple... And anyone who says otherwise is simply pushing that same anti-America anti-LEO and ideologically-based agenda...
It is not surprising that elites who see racism everywhere, who have convinced themselves that crime is a natural byproduct of poverty rather than something people also choose to do, who believe that less well-off people cannot be held entirely responsible for their actions, and who have adopted a paternalistic attitude towards black and ethnic-minority communities in particular, are turning against traditional ideas of policing and order.
When yer a hammer, everything looks like a nail..
When yer a racist, you see racism everywhere and in everything..
That's the Democrat Party in a nutshell..
And it is not surprising that their hyper-relativistic, pseudo-radical policies have caused so much harm. Working-class victims of crime, ethnic-minority communities struggling with rising violence – this is the debris of the woke derangement, the collateral damage of a cultural elite’s fashionable abandonment of the belief that it is good and important to tackle crime. Wokeness isn’t only annoying – it’s dangerous.
The simple fact is the Democrat Party has caused great harm to America and Americans...
This is a fact that is indisputable.. As evidenced by no one here disputing the facts... :D
And, in the DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO JAIL segment..
Former DNI Ratcliffe told Durham intelligence supports ‘multiple’ indictments in probe: sources
Hillary Clinton purportedly approved "a plan to distract the public from her email scandal," sources told Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-ratcliffe-durham-intelligence-indictments-fbi-trump-russia-probe
Hay Russ... You sure got quiet recently about yer Russia Collusion delusion..
"Gee!! I wonder why that is!!"
-Kevin Spacey, THE NEGOTIATOR
:D
EXCLUSIVE: Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe met with Special Counsel John Durham on more than one occasion and told him there was evidence in intelligence to support the indictments of "multiple people" in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, sources told Fox News.
Fox News first reported on Durham's latest filing, which alleged that lawyers from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016 had paid to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to federal government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia.
BUSTED!!!!!
Democrats will see the inside of jail cells LONG BEFORE President Trump is indicted for anything.. :D
Meanwhile, Ratcliffe had also declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported "proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
"We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED]," Brennan’s declassified notes, which were first obtained by Fox News in October 2020, read. "CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
Not only was Hillary directing the Russia Collusion delusion, we now know that Odumbo was up to his big ears in it...
Democrats be goin' to JAIL!!!! :D
At this point, Durham has indicted three people as part of his investigation: Igor Danchenko on Nov. 4, 2021, Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, and Michael Sussmann in September 2021.
Ratcliffe told Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" on Nov. 8, 2021, that he was expecting "many indictments" out of Durham’s special counsel investigation.
Danchenko was charged with making a false statement and is accused of lying to the FBI about the source of information that he provided to Christopher Steele for the anti-Trump dossier. Kevin Clinesmith was also charged with making a false statement. Clinesmith had been referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.
Specifically, the inspector general accused Clinesmith, though not by name, of altering an email about Page to say that he was "not a source" for another government agency. Page has said he was a source for the CIA. The DOJ relied on that assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Trump campaign aide Carter Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
And, unlike the indictments against President Trump's staff, THESE ^^^ crimes are NOT process crimes..
THOSE crimes are actual crimes that were committed in the execution of the Russia Collusion delusion...
The indictment against Sussmann says he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, that he was not doing work "for any client" when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented "purported data and 'white papers' that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel" between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.
Fox News, this weekend, first reported on Durham's filing on Feb. 11. In a section titled "Factual Background," Durham reveals that Sussmann "had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign."
Durham’s filing said Sussmann’s "billing records reflect" that he "repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations."
You see???
*NOT* a process crime... Unlike the BS "crimes" that President Trump officials were indicted over, THOSE ^^^ crimes are real and actionable crimes..
Meanwhile, Durham's latest filing states that in July 2016, the tech executive worked with Sussmann, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm 1 on behalf of the Clinton campaign, numerous cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to "assemble the purported data and white papers."
"In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data," the filing states. "Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract."
"Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish 'an inference' and 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia," Durham states. "In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain 'VIPs,' referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton campaign."
Durham also writes that during Sussmann's trial, the government will establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (DNS) internet traffic pertaining to "(i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP)."
It's really amazing to me that supposedly intelligent people would have bought into this completely obvious bullshit narrative..
On the other hand, when one is consumed by hate, as people suffering from PTDS are, people will latch onto ANY crazy idea no matter how implausible and impossible it is...
In Sussmann's meeting with the second U.S. government agency, Durham says he "provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol (IP) addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider," and claimed that the lookups "demonstrated Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations."
"The Special Counsel's Office has identified no support for these allegations," Durham wrote, adding that the "lookups were far from rare in the United States."
That's the epitaph written on the headstone on the grave of the Russia Collusion delusion... Nay, the headstone on the grave of EVERY bogus and ridiculous accusation against President Trump..
"The Special Counsel's Office has identified no support for these allegations,"
President Trump is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY innocent of ALL accusations made against him..
OH SNAP!! That's GOTTA hurt, eh?? :D
@m,
i'm disappointed in your lack of comment on pie. just a hip-pie and a grou-pie, but no fruit or meat whatsoever. that said, i have sorely missed your sense of humor during your post-election sabbatical.
JL
i'm disappointed in your lack of comment on pie. just a hip-pie and a grou-pie, but no fruit or meat whatsoever. that said, i have sorely missed your sense of humor during your post-election sabbatical.
My tastes these days venture into the ahem.. ADULT areas of pie, so I thought it best to keep such pie-ty comments regarding pie to myself.. :D
Having said that, I have just been introduced to the wonders of a FIRE STICK and caught a show recently UNCENSORED BLOOPERS FROM TV 1950s thru 1980s.. There was a black/white interview with Anita Bryant where she was hit in the face with a pie thrown by a group of gay guys..
"Of course, it would be a fruit pie" she responded... :D
Bigotry aside, I thought that was pretty hilarious.. Not so much WHAT she said but her total poise in delivering such a rejoinder.. :D
But pie aside, I am too excited about the Smoking Gun that's been revealed regarding the Russia Collusion delusion to be distracted by pie..
In my defense however, I DID jump on your pie bandwagon previously.. :D
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/02/10/bidens-economic-achilles-heel/#comment-184885
:D
Michale
I did manage to pick out one tidbit from yer frak'ed spewage that was relevant..
He said we have to fight and show strength, but he also said we're very peacefully and patriotically
Your own quotation totally sinks your case... :D
1. It’s funny that what you refer to as ”frak’ed spewage” were quotes taken directly from the transcript of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally speech!
2. Your own quotation totally sinks your case... :D. You had stated that Trump had only said one thing to those that committed the failed insurrection: “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”. I never claimed that Trump did not say this quote on January 6; he did. So it is still unclear how being honest about what Trump said that day SUNK MY CASE?!?
I made it very clear in my post [114] that my reason for posting was to correct your ignorant and/or dishonest statement that Trump only said this one thing that day. In my response to Liz [118], I make clear my entire reason for posting.
Here is why this threw you so badly: your arguments are based on hyperbolic bullshat that requires you to speak dishonestly about otherwise truthful things. Including Trump’s statement did NOT hurt my argument in ANY way… it only made it stronger because it is the TRUTH! It is so telling that you believe my including the quote was slip up on my part — because that is what you do with all your posts (Except when you are too lazy to read past the headline and then we point out how the article says the opposite of what you thought it did).
So go ahead and admit that you were wrong and that I was right…that my argument was the TRUTH. You always claim that you have no problem admitting when you are proven wrong…so have it! Chirp
'60 Minutes,' CNN, MSNBC, downplayed, criticized Durham probe of Russia investigation
CNN's Don Lemon considered Durham probe 'conspiracy theory' in 2019
https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-cnn-msnbc-durham-russia
And yet, today the Smoking Gun is revealed.. :D
Why is it that ALL of the Democrats' claims of "conspiracy theories" always turn out to be factually accurate when the facts come out?? :D
Russ?? Whaaaa??? You don't want to talk about your Russia Collusion delusion?? :D
Oh.. OK...
1. It’s funny that what you refer to as ”frak’ed spewage” were quotes taken directly from the transcript of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally speech!
No.. It's your pet moron's interpretation of President Trump's speech that is the "frak'ed spewage"... :D
See how that works???
You had stated that Trump had only said one thing to those that committed the failed insurrection:
What?? What are you talking about???
Speak english, man!!
I made it very clear in my post [114] that my reason for posting was to correct your ignorant and/or dishonest statement that Trump only said this one thing that day..
And, as usual, you utterly failed..
So go ahead and admit that you were wrong and that I was right…that my argument was the TRUTH. You always claim that you have no problem admitting when you are proven wrong…so have it! Chirp
Oh, that's easy.. I can admit that..
Your argument was "truth".. YOUR "truth"..
But your argument is completely and utterly FACT-LESS... As in devoid of ANY supporting or relevant facts whatsoever..
Just like your Russia Collusion delusion is your "truth"... And is ALSO completely and utterly FACT-LESS... As in devoid of ANY supporting or relevant facts whatsoever...
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
True or false: CNN is literally having meetings this morning to strategize how to NOT cover the biggest story today.
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Oooohhhh Ruuuuussssssss???? :D
Jim Jordan sounds off on Durham probe bombshell: 'They spied on a sitting president'
Durham's report claims Clinton campaign paid to "infiltrate" Trump administration servers
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jim-jordan-durham-probe-clinton-spied-trump
I did not think it possible but Democrats are in even MORE trouble now than they were just 24 hours ago... :D
How far down the abyss can the Democrat Party sink??? :D
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan weighed in on the latest news from the Durham investigation and called on Republicans to conduct a full investigation if they retake control of the House in November. On "America's Newsroom" Monday, Jordan said the report that Hillary Clinton paid to infiltrate the Trump administration's servers is "as wrong as it gets"
REP. JIM JORDAN: They were creating the very news they were then tweeting about and trying to get the media to write about. This is, frankly, it's no different. It's the template that the left uses, that the Democrats use. It's the same thing that happened four months ago when we found out the Department of Education went out and solicited the letter from the National School Board Association so they could do what they wanted to do, namely spy on parents.
How many ways can the Democrat Party completely and utterly FAIL??
I am betting we're about to find out... :D
[162] Michale
It’s a simple-sounding proposition: you take public money away from police departments that are too often heavy-handed and racially prejudiced and plough it instead into fairer non-policing forms of ‘public safety’, like mental healthcare, youth services, improvements to housing, and so on. And hey presto, there’ll be fewer trigger-happy cops on the streets and more happy citizens no longer tussling with mental problems and crappy living conditions. The reality, of course, as could have been predicted by anyone who doesn’t live in a gated community and get all their news from the New York Times, has been rather different.
Congratulations! You finally defined what is meant when people say “defund the police” somewhat correctly. DEFUND does not mean to take money out of Public Safety’s budgets; it is about transferring some of the money typically budgeted to police to other public safety or health services agencies and allowing them to take the calls that the police are not always fully trained to handle.
So it should be extremely strange that immediately after you show that you do actually understand what it means that you changed your argument to define it simply as slashing of the police’s budgets — but your posts are rarely based on honest debate so it surprises no one.
You claim that DEFUND has been a total failure, but you have yet to provide us even one example of a city that managed to properly DEFUND it’s Public Safety departments. Areas that simply slashed their policing thinking that was going to have positive results were run by reactive idiots that will hopefully be voted out of their political seats of power as a result!
So ALL of your arguments are based on lies from then on. No need to debate any point you are making as it is based on dishonest premises.
Congratulations! You finally defined what is meant when people say “defund the police” somewhat correctly. DEFUND does not mean to take money out of Public Safety’s budgets; it is about transferring some of the money typically budgeted to police to other public safety or health services agencies and allowing them to take the calls that the police are not always fully trained to handle.
Defund the police means taking money from police and giving it to social workers..
How is that NOT defunding the police???
You claim that DEFUND has been a total failure,
No.. The FACTS *PROVE* that defunding the police has been a total failure..
What??? You need MORE facts???
You claim that DEFUND has been a total failure, but you have yet to provide us even one example of a city that managed to properly DEFUND it’s Public Safety departments.
There IS no way to "properly defund" police because defunding police is NOT proper..
So ALL of your arguments are based on lies from then on. No need to debate any point you are making as it is based on dishonest premises.
Yes, that's your claim..
As usual, you have NO FACTS to support your claim.
So, to recap..
You claim that Defunding police isn't really defunding the police..
Then, in this comment you concede that defunding police IS really defunding police..
But you refuse to concede that the HUGE explosion in violent crime is directly tied to Democrats and their DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE policies..
I guess you need MORE facts because you refuse to accept reality..
Sorry folks...
Six More Weeks of FACTS that prove the Democrat Party is the DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE Party...
Russ,
So, you STILL don't want to talk about your Russia Collusion delusion??
"Gee!! I wonder why that is!!!"
-Kevin Spacey, THE NEGOTIATOR
:D
RIP Ivan Reitman, director of original Ghostbusters and sequel..
And now from the NY GRIME...
Mr. President, It’s Time for a Little Humility
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opinion/biden-state-of-the-union.html
One has to wonder...
Does Biden even KNOW what humility is???
But, Mr. President, proceed with caution. Talk about the things you and Congress have done to help meet the challenges Americans are facing, for sure. Lay out your goals for the future, absolutely. Offer realistic hope for better days ahead. We desperately need it. But recognize that we are still in the grips of a national trauma. Polls show that the vast majority of Americans believe we are on the wrong track, and people will have little patience for lavish claims of progress that defy their lived experiences.
Exactly.. Biden needs to learn his lessons from crowing about the SUMMER OF RECOVERY while Americans were still suffering immensely..
The Gazpacho came for the old people and I said nothing because I was not old. The Gazpacho came for the ladies and I said nothing because I was not a lady. Then the Gazpacho came for me and I was like, "Hey, I didn't order the soup I ordered the salad."
"...finished off with a bottle of Côte du Rhone '59."
(thinking)
"And bring a plate of shit for my fly."
B. Kliban
***
White House refuses to answer question on Durham probe revelations
Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign allegedly paid a technology company to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower and later the White House
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-refuses-answer-question-durham-probe-revelations
Run and hide!!! You pathetic anti-America scumbags!!!
RUN AND HIDE!!!!!
"Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump," Duruham's office said in the filing, referring to the White House's Executive Office of the President.
The filing came as part of the probe's prosecution of Michael Sussman, an attorney who worked on behalf of Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Reacting to the revelations Saturday, Trump said the filings provide "indisputable evidence" for "a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate."
CRAWL FOR THE DARK!!! You scum-sucking pieces of sewer floatsam!!!
You disgusting and perverse Democrats are going to JAIL!!!!!
Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.
Democrats GOING TO JAIL!!!!! :D
Check back in the morning to get all the FACTS regarding the Democrat Party's Russia Collusion Delusion!! :D
I don't remember the right wingnuts getting this excited about Fox news and the prevaricated propaganda they push like heroin to their gullible rubes since the "Nunes Memo" nothingburger. I have a crazy idea; try reading the actual filing. Then educate yourself about what a DNS server is and is not. That filing doesn't remotely say what Fox is claiming, but don't let facts get in the way of your hysterical fantasies.
You would think that as many times as Fox has led the rubes down the "any day now" trail that the clueless morons would finally "clue in" to the fact that they're being strung out on lies, but NOPE... ignorance must truly be bliss for these idiots, and Dumbass Donald is calling for the execution of people while the rubes eat it up like the Trump cult zombies they are. The QAnon-level crazy has officially gone right-wing mainstream... the "Storm" is imminent.
Also: Fox News has spent years telling their useful idiots with terminal "Cannot Connect Dots" Syndrome that there was absolutely zero evidence of any "collusion." Now they're telling the same gullible morons that there was actually shit-tons of it... except the (up until now nonexistent) evidence of was all planted by Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Dumbass Donald calls for the execution of Democrats while the Trumpian cult zombies are hysterically still frothing at the mouth at the idea of killing anyone who is a perceived enemy of their Orange Worship. How sick is that? #HangMikePence