Trump could still :hulk up
:trumps
No more orange people in the White House, brehs.
:ohyou
https://twitter.com/JohnHPiette/status/1324751170511032322
NC is very slow for some reason.
No more orange people in the White House, brehs.
:ohyou
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.
Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.
Clinton won without Florida in 1992.
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.
Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.
Clinton won without Florida in 1992.
and we saw how that ended for jfk, ohio gets the last laugh
Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1324758193965309952
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Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.
He's still at it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324730186798161925
He's still at it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324730186798161925
the fact this misspelling is still up implies that his handlers and people who worked tirelessly and fruitlessly to try to make his tweets less embarrassing have all quit or are distancing themselves :lol
8000 votes still in the mail in Georgia which is much more than the current margin. Its insane they cut it off after less than a week.
8000 votes still in the mail in Georgia which is much more than the current margin. Its insane they cut it off after less than a week.
Last day for the up to 8890 unaccounted for military ballots to be received. Be real funny if they could have won it for Trump but can't be included because of the rules Repubs laud.
Sorry soldier boys, gotta protect democracy, better luck next time
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.
Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.
Clinton won without Florida in 1992.
oh god this will never end. They discovered a software glitch in a MI county that gave 6000 votes to Biden.
Now that they've recounted it by hand it has flipped back to red. 47 counties used the same software and it was used in other states as well.
oh god this will never end. They discovered a software glitch in a MI county that gave 6000 votes to Biden.
Now that they've recounted it by hand it has flipped back to red. 47 counties used the same software and it was used in other states as well.
It's not enough to make a difference.
https://www.9and10news.com/2020/11/06/antrim-county-election-results-corrected-after-software-issue-skewed-initial-results/
And the process worked apparently without regard to politics. A Republican city clerk supervised a vote count that wrongly gave victory to a Democrat, after which a Democratic county clerk's staff caught the error and requested a correction from the Republican city clerk, handing the win to a Republican.
Wish someone would end his "Life" before he does anymore damage to the integrity of the election process. This is going to haunt America or years. Most of his supporters won't think his actions now are the clownish outbursts from a loser, they will think this is how it went down.
BREAKING: Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election.
Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873That was before they called it, Fox News probably gave him a heads up they were about to call or his staff told him there was no path left.
fuck this guy
Joe Biden won
CNN is literally crying
Four Seasons Total Landscaping :lolJust watched Rudy make his case. It wasn't very convincing and mostly about the issues discussed earlier, Republican election watchers denied access.
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easilyProbably, but also if his COVID response was better. A lot of countries have this 'rally around the flag' moment for COVID.
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily
if the majority of covid deaths were either elderly (skewing republican) or hoaxers/anti maskers (skewing republican) then trump may have contributed to the deaths of 100-150k of his own voters, and the election could come down to that marginCounties hit hard mostly voted for him so that could indeed have been the case.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873
fuck this guy
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily
Covid probably boosted his numbers. Might've been a bigger D win without.
Half the country or more doesn't care about covid and hates wearing masks and sees lockdowns as tyranny. Trump meant no more lockdowns, no masks. It probably motivated these people even more to come out for him.
Yeah I'm expecting over the next four years to see republican's try and lesson the ability for mail in and early voting in some states.Republicans actually favored mail-in ballots. Down ballot they were really worried about Trump attacking the practice because in some states their base is old and exclusively voted with mail-ins.
Because it's the democrats who are cheating or something.
I definitely don’t understand Lord, but all is for your glory...just saw the above posted on facebook lmao :sabu :crowdlaff
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)donald the dove ;)
It's all a distraction
Joe Biden won(https://i.imgur.com/NIKW3xY.jpg) :lol
CNN is literally crying
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788)
Trump from his golf course in Virginia
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Joe Biden won(https://i.imgur.com/NIKW3xY.jpg) :lol
CNN is literally crying
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788)
Trump from his golf course in Virginia
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In the end Donald Trump is the SEGA Genesis of Presidents.
He only won once by being controversial, different and loud and spawned a rabid fan base that will not stop believing for decades.
Probably the economic success of 2019 or taking out the leader of ISIS.In the end Donald Trump is the SEGA Genesis of Presidents.
He only won once by being controversial, different and loud and spawned a rabid fan base that will not stop believing for decades.
what is the sonic 3 (& knuckles) of his presidency?
Yeah I'm expecting over the next four years to see republican's try and lesson the ability for mail in and early voting in some states.
Because it's the democrats who are cheating or something.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)
It's all a distraction
(https://i.imgur.com/2F8Bmub.jpg)The thing I don't get about the god people (other then thinking somehow that Trump is godly) is that shouldn't you also think Biden is what god would want since he's winning?
in case you didn't think that the trump base is a revelations-apocalypse cult and can be reasoned with like normal humans.
Wouldn't most voting rights need to change though constitutional change?
Nah, he's not going to destroy his golf courses. Overall, I'd be more concerned about enemies taking advantage of this lame duck period.https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)
It's all a distraction
Like 99% of me is not concerned, but 1% of my anxiety still worries that Trump is going to launch nukes at every country in January because he'd rather end the world than admit defeat and not be president.
I really hope the nuclear football people are even more self-aware for these next two months.
"Donald Trump would have won if..."
He wore a mask
Treated COVID like it was something serious
Listened to science
Been understanding towards the Floyd protests
Worked towards providing a living stimulus
In other words he would have won if he wasn't exactly the type of person he showed himself to be for the last 4 years.
So you're both saying that there was literally nothing in his power he could do to win? Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy
I don't even think Trump believes it was rigged tbh
So you're both saying that there was literally nothing in his power he could do to win? Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy
Not at all. I hear all this noise saying "Trump would have won if..." and list these impossible conditions that he never would have done anyway.
brah he was president he can already rub that fact alone in a lot of noses, to include another presidentI don't even think Trump believes it was rigged tbh
But wouldn’t that require him to accept the fact that a majority of people in the country don’t like him?
Four Seasons Total Landscaping :lolJust watched Rudy make his case. It wasn't very convincing and mostly about the issues discussed earlier, Republican election watchers denied access.
Those computer glitches seem more worrying and in some cases proven but 3000 votes here or there isn't going to change the overall outcome and most of it seems to have been corrected by now.
Biden won it much like Trump, with relatively small margins in a number of important states.
It was closer than people expected and Trump ran up his numbers among African Americans, Latino's and other minorities.
In all fairness the conservatives should be happy with their result likely taking Ohio and Florida from the swing state board and holding onto the senate.
Wisconsin and Michigan were always an uphill battle, traditionally 'blue wall' states that Trump took because Clinton didn't appeal to those people.
Trump likely would've won if he started wearing masks in February and kept the COVID response going as he did at the start (closing borders, building military hospitals etc.) and keeping the stimulus going.
If you look at Macron and a bunch of other world leaders it is clear that Trump's working class 'forgotten men and women' appeal had an effect on world politics for generations to come.
He was just always the odd choice to see it through and drifted further and further away from reality in the White House bubble.Its still insane that without covid he would have won easilyProbably, but also if his COVID response was better. A lot of countries have this 'rally around the flag' moment for COVID.
But Trump didn't see it, or rather the people who he put in charge of COVID. I think that's also a reason why he lost. Trump might be popular but Kushner and Pence aren't.
https://twitter.com/BenWessel/status/1324013035355172864
Youth vote was pretty blue. Texas still possible in another election or two, or three...or four.
HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON ETOILEThe got mad on a train subreddit because someone posted a picture of joe biden and he said "pls stop, I subbed here to get away from politics"
Biden’s team marveled at something else: how Trump failed to come up with a comprehensive strategy to attack the virus. This was a moment that needed a gesture like George W. Bush’s megaphone on the rubble in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, advisers mused with Biden, and Trump was whiffing it.
Trump privately complained to allies that Biden was outspending him on television. McDaniel told him it was a problem he was dark in her home state of Michigan. The president didn’t like the recurring stories about how he wasn’t on TV because his campaign was running out of money.
Senior campaign officials, meanwhile, had been getting reports that Guilfoyle had been berating her staff. Appearing together at fundraisers, Guilfoyle and her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., would banter in sexually suggestive ways that made some donors uncomfortable.
During a December donor event at Trump Hotel in Washington, Guilfoyle offered to give a lap dance to whoever raised the most money, according to two people who were present and another person who was familiar with the episode.
And at an event in Jackson Hole, Wyo. earlier this year, Guilfoyle and the younger Trump joked about how she raised money while in hot tubs.
“The St. John’s moment was a low moment for any Republican president,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump adviser. It was intended as “a George W. Bush moment at the Twin Towers,” Lanza added, but “it just didn’t unfold that way.”
“The most fucked moment of the last 30 days was how everyone felt during the first debate. Why did Trump yell at Joe Biden for 90 minutes straight? No one knows. That was one of the worst debate performances you could have in a general election,” a senior Trump adviser said.
https://twitter.com/ManhoodMagic/status/1325148607498969090
But the hotline has turned into a nightmare for some, as staffers, some of whom have contracts that expire in the coming days, have been bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up, sources tell ABC News. Prank calling the Trump campaign's hotline has already become a trend on TikTok, the social media network that was used earlier in the year in an attempt to tank the president's rally in Tulsa by mass-requesting tickets.
according to the fine print on the donations page, 60% of the funds raised will go to paying down the campaign's debt.
we may need your help and support on the ground, you know, waving the flag and yelling the president's name and support."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716
• Senior campaign and GOP officials vented that Trump’s finance team, led by former Fox TV host and Donald Trump Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, underperformed and was an HR nightmare. Trump couldn’t compete with Biden’s small-dollar fundraising machine, and some donors were horrified by what they described as Guilfoyle’s lack of professionalism: She frequently joked about her sex life and, at one fundraiser, offered a lap dance to the donor who gave the most money.
(https://i.imgur.com/ETok6Vs.gif?noredirect)sometimes you find a diamond in the rough ;)
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yeah, this is a great choice
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Just wait until the vaccine comes out and Trumpers keep dying anyway because they refuse to take it. Just because Biden is pres doesn't mean the show is gonna stop
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yeah, this is a great choice
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yeah, this is a great choice
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The adviser asked if he was trying to say that votes cast illegally (something that happens rarely, despite Trump’s claims) should not be counted. “He said, ‘Yeah, yeah. That’s what I mean.’ ” People knew that by “stop the count,” he didn’t mean to literally stop the count, Trump said. “No,” the adviser told him, “people think you mean stop counting. If they stopped counting, you’d lose because you’re behind.” Oh.
Jared Kushner, said he was looking for a James Baker–type figure. Instead, they got Rudy Giuliani, Pam Bondi, Corey Lewandowski, and Dave Bossie. “That’s not a legal team,” one of the president’s friends told me. “It’s all so bizarre.”
“He wants to lose. He’s out of money. He worries about being arrested. He worried about being assassinated,” they said. “It hasn’t been a great experience for him. He likes showing people around the White House, but the actual day-to-day business of being president? It’s been pretty unpleasant for him.”
“He’s afraid. He’s the most insecure, afraid person ever. He’s too afraid to be president. He’s afraid to exercise power. He’s afraid to do the job. It’s why he’s overbearing and crazy — he sabotages himself constantly because he hates himself and wants out. He’s always trying to hurt himself. That guy commits more self-harm than anyone I’ve ever encountered.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.” :trumps;)
Those can not be real quotes :titus
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.”
Those can not be real quotes :titus
https://twitter.com/mulvihill79/status/1325494782840369152They just need to convince Trump that going on TV with Biden will send his ratings through the roof.
:bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1325501973588828162
:lol :dead
Biden needs a beard.
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.Not even white people in Georgia suburbs?
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016.
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.
It was a long con to fuck over the libs.
Lie to the polls, let the guard down, and then trump all the way home.
Thats why we need to set up the firing squads in every public square
More or less unnoticed for decades, the media habit of “calling” elections—presidential or otherwise—is not only a betrayal of the democratic process, it has become a leading factor in a new form of post-modern fascism in which we are apparently living.
Saturday morning at 11:45AM, while President Trump was off playing golf, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the AP, and USA Today, virtually in unison as if operating on some sort of pre-arranged cue, all made the call for Joe Biden with Fox News joining them all of ten minutes later.
It was like Pravda and Izvestia working together for what they assured the Soviet public was their own good.
Moments after that, horns were honking with joy and people dancing in the streets from Los Angeles to New York.
After all, the witch was dead. Which old witch? The orange witch! Ding-dong the wicked witch was dead!
Biden was our 46th president because the media declared it so.
Of course, this was nonsense. The election is still on-going, still undecided, and will be for several weeks of legal challenges, many of them justified.
What occurred at 11:45 was basically a media psy-op (psychological operation), designed to depress and silence the roughly seventy-one million who voted for Trump and rally the seventy-some million, if they indeed exist, who voted for Biden.
The truth is, in a democracy and/or a democratic republic …
No media organization has the right to “call” an election. Period.
It’s a Big Lie squared.
The privilege of determining the results of an election belongs to the voters alone and is governed by the rules of the constitutional system under which we live.
What the AP or Fox say has nothing to do with it!
Media calling elections is akin to their outrageous polls we have witnessed for months that also operated as psy-ops designed to depress the vote and financial contributions to the Republican candidate.
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocryWho is this man? a body double? He hasn't eaten nearly enough McDonalds.
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How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocry
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This is pretty amazing.
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I can't stop laughing at the fact that one of the people Rudy Giuliani put on stage at their lawsuit confrence thing is a convicted sex offender.
I can't stop laughing at the fact that one of the people Rudy Giuliani put on stage at their lawsuit confrence thing is a convicted sex offender.
I'm still laughing at it being at a landscaping business across the street from a porn store.
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1325887004199051265That probably means that the other members of the legal team: Corey Lewandowski, Pam Bondi and Rudy G have it too and thus the FBI New York office, Russian Embassy, OANN, NewsMax, Fox News plus an unspecified number of drug dealers are at a high risk.
Rudy is trying to have 800k ballots looked at in PA for which he has found 55 Republican poll watchers to testify under oath that they were not allowed to observe.
Their case seems to hinge on a claim that the identities and signatures were not properly checked for mail-in ballots but were for in-person votes, thus disenfranchising and disadvantaging in-person voting.
They're going for technical details which considering the volume and size of the operation could very well favor them.
Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.
Rudy is trying to have 800k ballots looked at in PA for which he has found 55 Republican poll watchers to testify under oath that they were not allowed to observe.
Their case seems to hinge on a claim that the identities and signatures were not properly checked for mail-in ballots but were for in-person votes, thus disenfranchising and disadvantaging in-person voting.
They're going for technical details which considering the volume and size of the operation could very well favor them.
Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.
None of them have been "legit". They've all been tossed out. They are 0-10+ so far on their challenges.
None of them have been "legit". They've all been tossed out. They are 0-10+ so far on their challenges.
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1325811083492401152
God's getting ready to smash. :lawd
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocryorange man sad ;)
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https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667 (https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667)
Handy resource:Ha, Drumpf outwitted by our magic dials once again!
https://isthisacoup.com/
I am calling on Canada to invade and bring us freedom poutines
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.Trump was questioned by Mueller.
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?Until the end of your term.
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?Until the end of your term.
The "media can't call the election" thing is just a coping mechanism for the Trumpists in denial.
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
The electoral college votes on Dec 14th and the Senate confirms that vote on Jan 6th. Until then, sleepy creepy pedophile Joe is only the presumptive winner.
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?Until the end of your term.
The "media can't call the election" thing is just a coping mechanism for the Trumpists in denial.
The media had Al Gore as the winner for 54 days after the election. The media projects a winner, they don't call anything.
I think they're trying like hell to go for the faithless elector route.The 6D Chess plan is that Republican legislatures will send their own GOP Electors, so there's contested electors, then the GOP Senate will choose the GOP Electors and re-elect Trump.
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.
They (collective organism of Trumpism) are just feeling out what they can do. Millions of tiny tentacles probing the system for weaknesses, exploiting whatever they find, using them to erode the defenses further, probing for the new weaknesses that exposed, repeat repeat repeat. There's no single goal. When Trump first got into birtherism was he even thinking it would take him all the way to the presidency?
Trump has speculated that the Supreme Court could face another major lawsuit over the November presidential contest. "I think this will end up at the Supreme Court," he said last month. "And I think it's very important that we have nine justices."
https://everylegalvote.com/
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He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.
They (collective organism of Trumpism) are just feeling out what they can do. Millions of tiny tentacles probing the system for weaknesses, exploiting whatever they find, using them to erode the defenses further, probing for the new weaknesses that exposed, repeat repeat repeat. There's no single goal. When Trump first got into birtherism was he even thinking it would take him all the way to the presidency?
https://twitter.com/d9monti/status/1326288282326593540never trust stost! :doge
shosta annihilated
"This is totally unbiased. See, I even let Nevada stay blue"Here's the guy explaining it to Lou:
This is why I always send at least a dozen ballots. They cant catch them all!Wow, Lou is right we caught them red handed fraudin'
The real game is to fuck things up enough that they somehow end up in the Supreme Court with 3 members of the Bush v. Gore Republican legal team (Brett, Amy, John) ruling.
Oh and Clarence who ruled in favor of the GOP back in 2000 and hates Joe Biden. That only leaves one to flip Alito (appointed by Bush) or Gorsuch (appointed by Trump).
And Trump of course told everybody this was the plan loudlyQuoteTrump has speculated that the Supreme Court could face another major lawsuit over the November presidential contest. "I think this will end up at the Supreme Court," he said last month. "And I think it's very important that we have nine justices."
That's probably why people like Graham have said that Trump is allowed and has every right to pursue any legal means to make his case or whatever.
The Reuters/Ipsos national opinion survey, which ran from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday, found that 79% of U.S. adults believe Biden won the White House. Another 13% said the election has not yet been decided, 3% said Trump won and 5% said they do not know.
The results were somewhat split along party lines: about six in 10 Republicans and almost every Democrat said Biden won.
“We're not going to be successful if we're silencing districts like mine,” said Tlaib, who told her colleagues something similar during a contentious call last week. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can't be silent.”THE MEMO: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000
“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” said Tlaib, whose Michigan district is among the poorest in the country. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don't say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”
Only a few days after the presidential race was called, Tlaib and other progressive leaders are making it clear there will be no honeymoon for Joe Biden. They have their own takeaways from the election: Top progressive groups are circulating a postelection memo that criticizes centrists for playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism.”
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“If [voters] can walk past blighted homes and school closures and pollution to vote for Biden-Harris, when they feel like they don't have anything else, they deserve to be heard,” Tlaib said, choking up as she expressed frustration near the end of an interview this week. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.”
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“Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like ‘defund the police’ or ‘socialism’ have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats,” said the memo, which was shared first with POLITICO. “Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes.”
“These attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements,” the memo continued. “The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment.”
But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”
Representative Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a member of the moderate New Democrats coalition who represents a Republican-leaning district, told me that compromise is the only way forward for Democrats. “If you have an idea on how you can best serve the American people, figure out if there’s a pathway through the Senate,” she said. “If there’s not, then you’re not helping anyone.”
...
Other moderates echoed her in interviews with me, arguing that Republicans successfully tied them to leftist “Squad” members such as Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar. “No matter what [moderate lawmakers] did personally, the Democratic Party brand stereotype of the loud folks on Twitter was louder,” Erickson told me, citing conversations she’d had with staffers for swing-state members. “They were caricatured as raising taxes, supporting socialism, the Green New Deal, defunding the police, even if they explicitly opposed those things.” One senior aide to another Democratic freshman in a red district lamented that the party should have had a better answer on police reform during this summer’s protests. “The national narrative around law and order was one I don’t think Democrats fully or capably pushed back on in an effective way,” he said.
Sherrill, who won reelection by double digits last week, told me that she managed to “overcome the national messaging that was so detrimental to so many candidates.” When I asked her what the Democrats’ messaging should be instead, Sherrill said that the party needs to be “laser focused” on making people’s day-to-day lives better. “Of course we care about broad issues of justice,” she said. But Democrats “need to be talking to people about jobs and security right now.”
I gotta get in on this, need that 130k :whoo
So, how exactly are these 5 [or 6] Supreme Court justices going to ensure Trump wins? What laws or precedence are they going to cite to overturn the results?
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1326346945078697984
https://everylegalvote.com/
(https://i.imgur.com/USFSsbd.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/RrLlIza.png)
:americanspoiler (click to show/hide):dobbs[close]
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/11/rashida-tlaib-progressives-election-435877“We're not going to be successful if we're silencing districts like mine,” said Tlaib, who told her colleagues something similar during a contentious call last week. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can't be silent.”THE MEMO: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000
“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” said Tlaib, whose Michigan district is among the poorest in the country. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don't say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”
Only a few days after the presidential race was called, Tlaib and other progressive leaders are making it clear there will be no honeymoon for Joe Biden. They have their own takeaways from the election: Top progressive groups are circulating a postelection memo that criticizes centrists for playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism.”
...
“If [voters] can walk past blighted homes and school closures and pollution to vote for Biden-Harris, when they feel like they don't have anything else, they deserve to be heard,” Tlaib said, choking up as she expressed frustration near the end of an interview this week. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.”
...
“Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like ‘defund the police’ or ‘socialism’ have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats,” said the memo, which was shared first with POLITICO. “Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes.”
“These attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements,” the memo continued. “The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment.”Quote from: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/conor-lamb-aoc-democrats-fighting-socialism/617045/But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”
Representative Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a member of the moderate New Democrats coalition who represents a Republican-leaning district, told me that compromise is the only way forward for Democrats. “If you have an idea on how you can best serve the American people, figure out if there’s a pathway through the Senate,” she said. “If there’s not, then you’re not helping anyone.”
...
Other moderates echoed her in interviews with me, arguing that Republicans successfully tied them to leftist “Squad” members such as Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar. “No matter what [moderate lawmakers] did personally, the Democratic Party brand stereotype of the loud folks on Twitter was louder,” Erickson told me, citing conversations she’d had with staffers for swing-state members. “They were caricatured as raising taxes, supporting socialism, the Green New Deal, defunding the police, even if they explicitly opposed those things.” One senior aide to another Democratic freshman in a red district lamented that the party should have had a better answer on police reform during this summer’s protests. “The national narrative around law and order was one I don’t think Democrats fully or capably pushed back on in an effective way,” he said.
Sherrill, who won reelection by double digits last week, told me that she managed to “overcome the national messaging that was so detrimental to so many candidates.” When I asked her what the Democrats’ messaging should be instead, Sherrill said that the party needs to be “laser focused” on making people’s day-to-day lives better. “Of course we care about broad issues of justice,” she said. But Democrats “need to be talking to people about jobs and security right now.”
Looks like Malek clawed back $75 of his losses from earlier this year.You made Democrats spend over $100 million in South Carolina for nothing!
(https://i.imgur.com/mnTEC4M.png)Fuckin' whatever, as long as the shitheads in DC aren't directly attacking their own citizens.
You should melt that and let it trickle down on your hogtrickle down hoganomics :smug
But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”
“People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”
Imagine being a simp to trump because of past deeds.sumps :heh
how pathetic is it going to be that we have an inauguration without the last living president?Trump will be there. He will keep everyone in suspense, but shows up late.
Only with him, he argued, would you get the zing, the pizazz, the drama that kept you on the edge of your seat. A vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., he told a rally in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 20, would be a vote for “boredom.”
“Look at all those cameras,” he said, gesturing at the press pen. “If you had Sleepy Joe, nobody’s going to be interested in politics anymore.”
So when is Hillary Clinton getting arrested?
So when is Hillary Clinton getting arrested?
she has already been arrested and executed :trumps
how pathetic is it going to be that we have an inauguration without the last living president?I think it's more pathetic that they all attend and everyone does bipartisan healing unity horseshit.
Biden is hardly able to get headlines or news coverage.
Trump did win by a lot just not the Presidency.:huh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjCaWnrstsBig Money
:biden
Trump did win by a lot just not the Presidency.:huh
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonvoight/status/1326323889417322497
This is creepier than the Kevin Spacey Christmas video
Nintex is truly fucking dumb, I can't even be mad at him, he's just unintelligent and easily susceptible to propaganda in the same way that 70 million Americans are
Ties in nicely to
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326858347186966528
Ties in nicely to
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326858347186966528
JUST IN, BREAKING NEWS
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1327015043255443463
??? ??? ???
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888You are not the audience, Trump is. Looking at language and pictures I'd say he was ready to start a (civil) war and Tucker was asked to lighten his mood.
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888
(https://i.imgur.com/onMgpoz.png) :horny
he's rich and making millions being dumb on tv :trumps why have any regrets :lol except for that time he caught some dutch directness and cried :rejoice
Even one of the Koch brothers is feeling the pangs of regret these days
he's rich and making millions being dumb on tv :trumps why have any regrets :lol except for that time he caught some dutch directness and cried :rejoice
Even one of the Koch brothers is feeling the pangs of regret these days
And you believe him? :pacspit
I don't think many Fox Fans *TM* are going to stay with Newsmax or OAN for long unless the big name pundits jump ship, but both of those networks are so low rent and trashy they couldn't even afford like....local conservatives talk radio tier hosts.I don't think they are going away at all. I doubt they will become huge, but I think they are here to stay. I always hate the "the masses are stupid" because I mean who the fuck am I declare I'm smart and tons of people aren't. But it's just that a large group of people just don't live in the same world as me anymore. I can understand people voting and supporting Trump because he aligns with thier views. They are evangelicals or they believe in low taxes and the whole boot straps culture. That's fine, I ideologically don't. But large groups of these people don't stop there. Their love or worship of Trump dosen't stop at simply agreeing with how policy should be done. It's become something far more crazy and news media is also the devil and evil. It's good vs evil for them and these fringe news outlets feed that. Fox News is garbage sure, but they still pretend to be actual news from time to time. These other outlets don't care and these followers don't want them to challenge thier warped reality either. FoxNews did simply by reporting that Biden won some states as if thats crazy in an election....that a candidate won some states. These people think that's wrong, because it's evil and you're an enemy of America if you simply don't see it what way. They think Fox New's sucks because they dared to report that they thought AZ went to Biden. Regardless of the years of being a Trump mouthpiece to these people, this went out the window for these people because of simply calling AZ. That's insane.
(https://i.imgur.com/RItQj5r.jpg) :biden
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672
jfc
All 3 of them look like they all about to fill that seat :rashhttps://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672
jfc
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672
jfc
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672
jfc
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
Maybe absence of proof is proof of absence this time.
Moderate republicans exist but they don't bring in enough views compared to the crazies. And virality is inherent in extremism. Like would anyone have posted that clip here if it was normal people saying sane things?
Posts like this:https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672
jfc
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
Maybe absence of proof is proof of absence this time.
are honestly playing into the media's hands to further drive us apart and reap the profits. I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.
Once you see the strings they're hard to ignore. 👀:tinfoil
It's quite simple really. The way the Republicans see it, the Democrats were 'allowed' to scream Russia Russia Russia and contest the election for 3 years.
So they will do the same thing with voter fraud for the next 4 to get even.
Drive "us" apart? I ain't a part of no "us"
:snob
The way the Republicans see it
I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.
I think they exist but they see their Qanon and MAGA brethren as a means to an end.I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.
I'm obviously being a bit cheeky.
But after 5 years of "Surely some people in the GOP will stand up and rein him in any moment now !", QAnon spreading like wildfire, Trump getting a lot of voting engagement and even more ardent turnout from registered Rs (IIRC) than last time round, you start to wonder if the elusive "sane conservative constituency" really exists. Certainly not as an active one.
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift reduction of U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, warning that it would be a gift to America’s enemies and would undermine progress already made in the region.
“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.
“The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, which fueled the rise of ISIS and a new round of global terrorism. It would be reminiscent of the humiliating American departure from Saigon in 1975.:usacry
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/mcconnell-trump-afghan-troop-reduction-436821QuoteSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift reduction of U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, warning that it would be a gift to America’s enemies and would undermine progress already made in the region.
“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.Quote“The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, which fueled the rise of ISIS and a new round of global terrorism. It would be reminiscent of the humiliating American departure from Saigon in 1975.:usacry
In the China reactions video, Nintex is the guy at 0:44It was eerie, felt like I was getting doxxed irl :whew
"... I was hoping that Trump would win."
Why did you hope Trump would win?
"I felt like if Biden became the president, the US might become a normal country and play its original role in the world again."
[shit eating grin activate]"But there'd be a lot more unusual things or black swan events if Trump stayed in office."
[shit eating grin at full display]"I prefer to have something more interesting happening."
:lol :rofl
edit: also in the China reacts video at 9:27
:whoo :whew :killme fiyaaaaah
“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LegitimateCircularHornshark-max-1mb.gif)
WASHINGTON — President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S. officials said on Monday.
A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency.
"it would be irresponsible to transition to a new administration in the middle of a nuclear holocaust"
"it would be irresponsible to transition to a new administration in the middle of a nuclear holocaust"
I think that's in the constitution
Conan getting fired again. = (
Trump needs to have a rally imo, really let the crazy out :phil
Link? I tried to find Rudy's playlist and got nothing.I watched his YouTube thing once, in between ads of cigars and whiskey it was basically a long form fox news interview
Expecting some Ted Nugent
edit: Rudy got his own podcast though? lol. Wonder if it's funny for an episode before I come crawling away from being overly wank dad'd
Link? I tried to find Rudy's playlist and got nothing.o
Expecting some Ted Nugent
edit: Rudy got his own podcast though? lol. Wonder if it's funny for an episode before I come crawling away from being overly wank dad'd
https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1328835788461793281looks like one of those photoshops where the mouth is replacing the eyes but thats his real face
Evil never dies :foxx
Obama's recent playlist. Or the one created by his marketing team I suppose.
He still not on that black metal train :-\
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-playlist-fleetwood-mac-brooks-dunn-the-beatles-020338547.html
Twitter has said they'll consider banning him after that since he no longer has plot armor, then he'll have to pout on Parler. :rejoice
Obama's recent playlist. Or the one created by his marketing team I suppose.
He still not on that black metal train :-\
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-playlist-fleetwood-mac-brooks-dunn-the-beatles-020338547.html
Twitter has said they'll consider banning him after that since he no longer has plot armor, then he'll have to pout on Parler. :rejoice
I know some crazy people have archived everything he's ever tweeted but I still wonder if it all ought to stay up instead of suddenly going poof
on the off chance he could be held accountable for things said, or so that we never forget
it's also made me think of the stranglehold big tech has on the conversation, like if biden starts looking at section 230, twitter and facebook could be like...alright we won't ban trump, and he'll be able to gain momentum to threaten your reelection, do you really want that? or alternatively you let us do our thing and we'll silence the conservatives wherever we see them
It'll be walls of tweets and TV reports about his greatest achievements.(https://i.imgur.com/VqC9VAf.png)
There have already been written enough books about this presidency that you could fill 10 libraries.
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088 (https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088)
Hopefully all of the guys on stage'll be convicted sex offenders this time.
All of it harkens back to ending days of Saddam's Iraq where you had that Iraqi Defense Minister coming out in front of the press and just talking nonsense for hours.:nothing
also trumpy increasing his black and browns voteThe data is weird af overall but no one is really focused on that yet it seems. :doge
yup, not a single person is interested in changes in voter preferences this election cycleOnly me and filler
The day after the election, nine state lawmakers who had survived the GOP rout met by phone to air grievances, according to Sen. Jazon Pizzo. Among those on the call were Pizzo, who also is considering a run for governor, Annette Taddeo and Rep. Joe Geller — a mix of centrists and liberals.
The group fumed over pollsters who failed to capture what was happening on the ground, complained about the party’s use of out-of-state consultants and questioned whether they hit back hard enough against Republican falsehoods.
“I’m not a f---ing socialist,” Pizzo later said in an interview. “My life is a manifestation of the American dream. I believe in free markets.”
The meeting, which was not previously reported, amplified the fact the politicians can’t answer a simple question: Who is the leader of the Florida Democratic Party?
Progressives say the Election Day drubbing is proof that centrism and party pandering to corporate donors doesn’t work.
“Systematic change is what we need,” said Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat and a leading voice on the left who is considering a run for governor. “We can’t win more seats unless we lead with values and fight back and challenge corporate interests. Money was not a real problem this cycle, and we still lost.”
Centrists, who traditionally have made up the party’s base of power in Florida, say a lurch to the left will decisively doom the party’s chances of taking the governor’s mansion in 2022.
“We are a center-right state,” said Gwen Graham, another potential contender for governor who once represented a conservative congressional seat.
“There are so many wonderful young progressive leaders in this state, and I’m supportive of their passion and commitment,” she said in an interview. “I love their energy, but in the short term we need to elect a Democratic governor and need to be smart about 2022.”
Others on the 2022 short list for governor include Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Reps. Val Demings and Stephanie Murphy.
As the party’s only statewide elected Democrat, Fried has been viewed as the effective head of the party since her win in 2018. This cycle, she made endorsements and gave money to legislative candidates, but she’s also come under withering criticism, including for her weak stands on environmental policy and increasing the minimum wage.
John Morgan, a trial lawyer and party donor who backed a ballot initiative this year to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15, hit Fried for her tepid support of the measure.
“That bullshit doesn't work with me,” Morgan told reporters earlier this month. “To me, Nikki Fried has disqualified herself from any future or statewide office in the Democratic Party and I’m sorry to say that because I really thought she had a bright future.”
The $15 minimum wage initiative, which passed with nearly 61 percent of the vote on Election Day, has emerged as the first postelection issue to feed Democrats’ internal tensions. Some potential 2022 candidates, including Pizzo and Esakamani, criticized Fried and the Florida Democratic Party for failing to strongly advocate for an issue they believe should be a key identifier of the party’s philosophical identity.
Fried said she endorsed the measure and said it wasn’t helpful for the party to “throw grenades.”
Rizzo, the party chair, could take the fall.
As she faces pressure to step down, her supporters blame the party’s failures on factors outside of her control, including Forward Majority’s independent spending.
“The loudest complainers want ‘accountability’ for losses and then donate huge sums to dark money organizations or super PACS specifically designed to work around and outside the party and caucuses,” said Beth Matuga, a party consultant and defender of the Florida Democratic Party apparatus.
The Biden campaign, too, failed the state party and itself. Miami-based Democratic operatives have long sent warning signs that the party begins outreach too late and is insufficiently ingrained in the South Florida Hispanic community.
“If we are waiting until September to do voter contact when the mail ballots are already arriving, we have lost already,” Brown said. “At that point, folks are filling out ballots without hearing from us.”
This year, the lack of embedded community organizing hampered the party’s ability to push back at Republican branding that proved brutally effective, even after Michael Bloomberg dumped $100 million in the state to defeat Trump.
“Given the fact nearly every South Florida Hispanic voter has either directly or indirectly gone through their own experience as a victim of a socialist or communist regime, the potency around the branding of a political party as the second coming of socialism or communism in the United States is very effective,” Miami-based pollster Fernand Amandi said.
Attempts to reach a spokesperson for Biden’s Florida campaign were unsuccessful.
President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, could become the next Trump on a ballot as she is reportedly considering a 2022 Senate run in her home state of North Carolina, according to a New York Times report on Thursday.
Three allies of Lara Trump told the Times that she has been telling associates she could run in two years to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who plans to retire at the end of his term.
The president’s daughter-in-law, a former personal trainer and television producer for Insider Edition, married Eric Trump in 2014.:trumps
Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser who traveled with Lara Trump, called her “very charismatic” with “a natural instinct for politics.”
“In North Carolina, in particular, she’s a household name and people know her,” she told the Times. “She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/526760-lara-trump-mulling-2022-senate-run-in-north-carolina-reportPresident Lara Trump not the one you had on your bingo card :hmmQuotePresident Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, could become the next Trump on a ballot as she is reportedly considering a 2022 Senate run in her home state of North Carolina, according to a New York Times report on Thursday.
Three allies of Lara Trump told the Times that she has been telling associates she could run in two years to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who plans to retire at the end of his term.QuoteThe president’s daughter-in-law, a former personal trainer and television producer for Insider Edition, married Eric Trump in 2014.:trumps
Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser who traveled with Lara Trump, called her “very charismatic” with “a natural instinct for politics.”
“In North Carolina, in particular, she’s a household name and people know her,” she told the Times. “She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.”
A statewide audit of the presidential race in Georgia upholds President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday evening.
The audit tallied by hand all ballots, which were initially counted by machines. President Donald Trump’s campaign is still entitled to request a recount once the election results are certified. The state certification deadline is on Friday.
I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.Then consider me a dismissive, arrogant conservative :phil
I just ditched a game development acquaintance I have known for over 20 years due to his bullheadedness about the current election shenanigans.:horny
He was inviting people to discuss why it is so problematic to have a president want to explore all legal venues for defending his office.
A mutual friend chimed in a good faith answer, stating that the president is allowed to pursue these things, but not allowed to spout lies which undermine the public confidence in the process, Especially when there is no proof, and people with expertise Avenue round leave vetted the results, including the groups that the president had brought in to confirm them.
The bullheaded friend responded that that’s just being oversensitive, and he needed to make sure he hadn’t left his testicles at the door, because it wasn’t manly. Mutual friend answered again in good faith, and was rudely dismissed.
When I called the question petitioner out for inviting commentary, only to respond rudely and with questioning someone’s masculinity, I was told the fuck off if I didn’t like it. I am so fucking angry right now I feel like the top of my head is going to pop off. If this conversation was happening in person, I’d give it even odds that it would end in blows. I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.
I just ditched a game development acquaintance I have known for over 20 years due to his bullheadedness about the current election shenanigans.
He was inviting people to discuss why it is so problematic to have a president want to explore all legal venues for defending his office.
A mutual friend chimed in a good faith answer, stating that the president is allowed to pursue these things, but not allowed to spout lies which undermine the public confidence in the process, Especially when there is no proof, and people with expertise Avenue round leave vetted the results, including the groups that the president had brought in to confirm them.
The bullheaded friend responded that that’s just being oversensitive, and he needed to make sure he hadn’t left his testicles at the door, because it wasn’t manly. Mutual friend answered again in good faith, and was rudely dismissed.
When I called the question petitioner out for inviting commentary, only to respond rudely and with questioning someone’s masculinity, I was told the fuck off if I didn’t like it. I am so fucking angry right now I feel like the top of my head is going to pop off. If this conversation was happening in person, I’d give it even odds that it would end in blows. I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/06/Erin-Brockovich,-R.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd4daa2c4673819e3e2c8e64a126cc17)
:trumps
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/06/Erin-Brockovich,-R.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd4daa2c4673819e3e2c8e64a126cc17)
:trumps
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392)
Trump: donate to keep Biden out of the White House
Biden: chip in to put me into the White House
Oil lobbyists, Facebook executives and Dick Cheney aren't cheap you know.
"Republicans lost in an election where more people voted than ever before, with a turnout in excess of 60% [the highest since the 1960s], is obviously a rebuke of radical liberals, who should stop being so vocal.":iface
I'm beginning to think Rudy Giuliani might not be the legal mastermind that some were led to believe.https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1330346436760903682
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iFsW4_STc
:bernie
Wait, they got rid of the crazy woman?She was never part of the legal team. She was just.. you know, someone on stage standing next to them. A crowd entertainer if you will :trumps
She was the most entertaining part of their legal team... I laughed the entire time she was on stage at the conference.
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1330967257862844416
Haines was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel involved in the hacking of the computers of Senate staffers who were authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture would be disciplined. Haines chose not to discipline them
Haines played a significant role working closely with John Brennan in determining administration policy on "targeted killings" by drones.This is literally the woman drone killer from the memes :doge
We’ve got to be a little patient. One fair decision, one good hearing, and this will turn all around.:dobbs
Welp Trump conceded.FACT CHECK:
It is still early in the Biden transition. There are thousands of jobs to fill. But a similar sense of dread is starting to bubble up from veterans of the Biden campaign, particularly those who were there with the president-elect from the Philadelphia announcement speech to the Wilmington victory speech. The target of their ire? The Obama establishment, which has eclipsed the Clinton name as shorthand for yesterday’s Democratic Party.
“The Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got Biden elected,” said a senior Biden official channeling the feelings of the old guard of the Biden campaign, who requested anonymity for the obvious reason. “None of these people found the courage to help the VP when he was running and now they are elevating their friends over the Biden people. It’s f----- up.”
Internally, Biden officials have been instructed to emphasize to reporters how normal the picks are, how “these are tested leaders.” It’s seen as a success if the Biden staff and Cabinet announcements don’t make much news.
But just below that elite level there is concern bordering on panic — depending on who you talk to — about the perceived lack of outreach to many campaign alumni. “There’s real doubt about whether they will be taken care of,” said the Biden adviser.
“People are pissed,” said the Biden adviser. “I think I’m going to be taken care of but I have not been taken care of yet. I am really interested to find out how you even find out how you got a job in this White House.”:fbm
“People are pissed,” said the Biden adviser. “I think I’m going to be taken care of but I have not been taken care of yet. I am really interested to find out how you even find out how you got a job in this White House.”Did you
The election is over, Nintex, you can stop now
https://twitter.com/ejmaroun/status/1330994425720426497
The election is never over 8)
They had Trump call in live to the hearing in PA :dead
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890)
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyonehttps://twitter.com/MichaelTanuvasa/status/1331005085308968963
a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)
the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
The typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone
a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)
the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
Quote from: Liberty4AllThe typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone
a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)
the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
??
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdgpk/woman-in-ice-gynecology-scandal-faces-deportation-almost-a-death-sentence
There’s like 50 women who came forward who said this happened to them bruh.
The AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnuroBsXIAA4S-_?format=png&name=large)Just how drunk was Rudy when he typed this :lawd
The best lawyers. The best.Quote from: Liberty4AllThe typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone
a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)
the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
??
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdgpk/woman-in-ice-gynecology-scandal-faces-deportation-almost-a-death-sentence
There’s like 50 women who came forward who said this happened to them bruh.
the article you linked doesn't say she actually had a hysterectomy, it says it was "unwanted surgery" which is exactly what I said
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-archive-only-on-ap-immigration-f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097eQuoteThe AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center.
The medical review of pathology reports conducted by ALLGOOD showed “a pattern of overly aggressive care,” including “inappropriate, unconsented transvaginal procedures,” “exaggerated interpretations of imaging results,” and less invasive methods not being pursued.
Attorney Benjamin Osorio, who represents two of the women tallied in the Senate briefing, said in an interview with The Intercept that one of his clients was told a hysterectomy was the only possible option to remove a possibly cancerous cyst. “There are less invasive, less aggressive treatments, but he took out her whole reproductive system,” Osorio explained “That’s not something you can go back from.”
K-pop Twitter is confused:
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1331991596557094912
:pimp
The Bernie Bro's aren't pleased
https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803 (https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803)
didn't trump enter the "burn the gop down" when he ran for president?
#greatestdemallly
I love when the "hope and change" guy lectures me on snappy slogansJust imagine how jaded you would be if Trump took over your computer for 4 years and returned it after deleting all the Windows Updates, trashing most of your important work documents and drag and dropping every image to the desktop after renaming them to poop1.jpg, poop2.jpg etc.
Trump has entered the 'let's burn down the GOP' phase
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616)
Trump called him as he was certifying the results :lol
https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769 (https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769)
(https://i.imgur.com/7ajOScP.jpg) :drool
#boymom sounds like a porn category tbh#boystepmom. :karen
I love when the "hope and change" guy lectures me on snappy slogans
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334405463375417344https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334573725312712704
:camby filler come get her
https://twitter.com/BidenHarrisHats/status/1334586625192497152
:horny
Smith: "Mister Anderson, so you wish to join us. Why don't you wear this red hat. Make a few laughs. Enjoy the show. Join all these forgotten men and women it is inevitable. Or wear the blue hat. The hat of losers. The hat that doesn't fit well. The hat that smells. The choice is yours":titus
Trump legal team now has Kitty Sanchez as their star witness
https://mobile.twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1334315220815278080
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333965375839621120
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334517145288527882
do it pussy
https://twitter.com/BidenHarrisHats/status/1334586625192497152
:horny
section 230 is a big fucking deal:drool
imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
section 230 is a big fucking deal
imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
section 230 is a big fucking deal
imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
:playa :salutesection 230 is a big fucking deal
imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
Wait I can make money because people keep defaming me with egregiously false libel accusations related to "pedo"?
:trumps :playa :trumps :delicious
Nintex, we about to feast
That's how the GDPR works already yet not a peep in protest when that went down because of non-existing privacy concerns.The most 😂 thing about the section 230 is that it would hit his supporters the hardest. Qanon would be the first thing moderated out of existence
230 or something like it is probably necessary for the internet as we know it to exist.
It's not just about 8chan or "The Bore" being held labile, it would potentially be web sites as well as whoever hosts the servers.
So even ignoring that the moderation of stuff like social media would become prohibitively expensive, the people who host the platforms.. the ISPs... everything along the chain could be held liable, theoretically.
It's like holding a store responsible for a shoplifter stealing. And whoever is leasing them the building... and..and
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1334979539609509888I thought you were going to be secretary Yang. Secretary of Technology or Labour or some shit.
I could see repealing section 230 just turn into a section 230 waiver that releases the website and any posters from liability of anything you read on the site that you need to click on to read any content from a site 😂nintex can write a 230 waiver for thebore.com ;)
It would just be this gifI could see repealing section 230 just turn into a section 230 waiver that releases the website and any posters from liability of anything you read on the site that you need to click on to read any content from a site 😂nintex can write a 230 waiver for thebore.com ;)
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.Nope you didn't get it.
Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections. They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.
And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.
Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections. They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.
And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.
you really want to open up the question of whether you are a pedo in a court of law
what about you encouraging another poster to share video of an underage girl :gurl
I feel like we should give etiolate another chance. I wasn't aware what he did to ruin all of his previous chances, but it can't have been that bad.:iface
#freeEtiolate :rejoice
#freeEtiolate :rejoice
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.
Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections. They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.
And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.
They could almost certainly force you into arbitration, effectively shielding themselves from lawsuits from users. The courts recently upheld that for Epic Games on a hacking class action suit.
Section 230 is not about lawsuits from users though.
Section 230 is about criminal liability for illegal content that ends up on your servers or web site.
You can't wave criminal liability away with a "click OK after reading this" dialog.
You also can't wave away liability for all of GDPR or CCPR. I don't know what Epic Games and a class action hacking lawsuit have to do with any of this.
The bulk of Section 230’s impact comes from a single sentence: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626 (https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626)
:lol
That makes sense, I didn’t really consider that.... but how likely is that really?
“I know that somebody is defaming me on Facebook, but I have never once visited Facebook and clicked the disclaimer they make me click to view the site”
Well even if you've visited the site I don't see how a disclaimer would work here without the actual legal protection. The crime is not really directly related to your use of the site, or your data.. it's a crime or civil offense committed by someone else using that site.. (that under current law, as long as sites make a "good faith effort" to respond to complaints, they aren't liable)
Like could YouTube say "By using this site you agree that if anyone posts revenge porn of you on YouTube you can't sue us." ? I don't think so.. and either way, there's no guarantee that anyone who would have such a crime committed against them is a user, so therefore if they had liability chances and "good faith efforts" no longer work, they'd have to change how they do business even if the main worry was a civil lawsuit.. i mean, probably particularly since it's a civil lawsuit since lawyers would probably feast on the chance.
Same with the actual criminal protections too; and while defamation doesn't have a police force behind it, stuff like sex trafficking does. Which is why modifications to internet law caused people like backpage.com and craigslist to react so quickly and shut down their NSFW ads that were obviously prostitution. That was basically a "Section 230 doesn't apply to sex trafficking" scenario and boom they ditched it. Outright removing section 230 would immediately hold anyone who hosts images/video liable for ALLLLL kinds of bad crimes.
There's probably some sensible modifications to Section 230 to be had but an outright removal probably would cause a lot of stirring in tech.
(and either way, I digress, those dialogs you guys see about cookies are not a waver from GDPR/CCPR, they are a requirement of them)
The problem scales with the size of your userbase though. I don't see how being massive is really an advantage considering that, just makes the moderation effort that much more massive and important.Facebook has to employ those moderators anyway at their size for their business model, Section 230 just frees them from having to prepare to go to court with almost every single moderation action. A lot of that moderation can be automated, but legal fees can't be as lawyers are required by law.
GDPR has been expensive (and will continue to be, as it complicates the cost of developing any software that stores PII) but it can be 100% solved with automation and no human intervention. So it's just been expensive to shoehorn solutions at companies and raised the cost of creating software a bit, and of course those who have fucked up have been fined, but it's a very small cost increase compared to a massive moderation effort (which already coincides with massive efforts to automate moderation, that would also need increased investment and it's all far more complex, thus expensive, than the stuff people do for GDPR.)
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn :doge
Senior defense officials on Saturday declined to go on the record yet sharply criticized the use of anonymous sources in reports that the Pentagon was slow-rolling Biden-Harris transition efforts.:american
The Pentagon released an unsigned statement on Saturday to reporters saying that “the accusation by anonymous sources [the Department of Defense] had not been fulfilling its commitment” to transition efforts “is demonstrably false and patently insulting.” Officials did not respond to an email from Task & Purpose asking why a name was not attached to a statement that criticized the use of anonymous sources.
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn :doge
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn :doge
Rudy has the rona
I know what I want for Christmas
:rash :rash :rash
they have some type of filter running that catches stuff before it gets posted. I think I have been reported before, but these recent warnings and ban were instant.just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn :doge
Let's not rush to judgement.
Posting bad porn warrants a ban.
So which was it? Good or bad?
Calling out the BIG GUNS :gun
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1334887896688549889
:droolRudy has the rona
I know what I want for Christmas
:rash :rash :rash
Access to the Splatoon 2 media create sales discord?
I am praying for Rudy Giulianigiuliani the super spreader :gurl
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1336405646825099264
:horny
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is expected to announce his bid for a second term as governor on Wednesday, people close to the campaign told The Hill on Tuesday.The Bagman is Back :jeb
If elected, the 63-year-old Democrat would become the second governor since the Civil War to earn a second term, as Virginia bans back-to-back terms.
The former governor left office with positive ratings and low unemployment. But he will enter the race as three other Democrats seek the nomination: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Del. Jennifer D. Carroll Foy and state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan. While McAuliffe is a white man, all three candidates are Black, and two are women.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1336427393272176647
:oreilly
That's a top 5 promo. Right up there with Macho's 'Cream of the Crop'.
Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden's projected Electoral College victory.
The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Biden won, over their voting processes.
"the states" are not the people
the documents? :doge
https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1337569038222962688
Finally something we can agree on.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337554428556161028
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337629306919538694
Sir, this is an Arby’s.
usa discord ;)https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1337569038222962688
Finally something we can agree on.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337554428556161028
They should call that union something like, The United States: Part Deux.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600)
:trumps
Part of me would love to see Trump run in 2024 and lose to Kamala in a landslide
Whatever you think of the contents, he opened his mandate by obviously burying and obfuscating the conclusions of the Mueller report. Something he already had a bit of history about.But that's not really a Trump administration thing, more like a government thing.
And it was true under Sessions as well but there's been a lot of strife in the DoJ for the whole tenure of Trump. Notably pulling the rug under the opinions and recommendations of their own prosecutors.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129 (https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129)
Pete got hired
I take the biggest poops
Tremendous poops
Have to flush 30 40 times
Trump administration rolls back efficiency standards for showerheads, washers and dryers (https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/530310-trump-administration-rolls-back-efficiency-standards-for)Trump was always laser focused on the issues that matter :usacry
At least you got "something" done before being booted from office in shame, Donny. :snoop :crowdlaff
why would you put pete in the admin?
lol
The ex-officer was arrested Tuesday after allegedly running a man off the road and restraining him with a pistol in an attempt to prove a nonexistent massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County in exchange for more than $250,000, from a group run by conservative activist Steve Hotze.
Aguirre claimed to believe the victim was hiding about 750,000 fraudulent ballots within his truck and home, with Hispanic children being used to sign the ballots because their fingerprints would not appear in any databases, according to prosecutors.
After arriving on the scene, HPD searched through the victim's home and truck and found no evidence of voter fraud. Instead, police found ordinary household items and equipment that the victim used for his job as an air conditioner repairman, according to the affidavit.
Aguirre was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
More seriously why doesn't Twitter MANDATE 2FA on verified/political accounts??The password was maga2020!
Like the giant Bitcoin hack earlier this year wasn't a good enough scare?
Imagine if this Dutch researcher got a little too "direct" and tweeted "I'm nuking China today!"
GODDAMN WHAT A SHITTY REALITY WE'RE IN FUCK
More seriously why doesn't Twitter MANDATE 2FA on verified/political accounts??The password was maga2020!
Like the giant Bitcoin hack earlier this year wasn't a good enough scare?
Imagine if this Dutch researcher got a little too "direct" and tweeted "I'm nuking China today!"
GODDAMN WHAT A SHITTY REALITY WE'RE IN FUCK
I bet the 2FA was short lived after he had to meltdown over the election results and he turned it off.
His new password is probably voterfraud!
I'm afraid to try it tbh :doge
Earlier this year, Mr Gevers also claimed he and other security researchers had logged in to Mr Trump's Twitter account in 2016 using a password - "yourefired" - linked to another of his social-network accounts in a previous data breach.
Closest I got was signing up to Shosta's board as Joe Biden and using campaign@joebiden.com as the email.
And whoever was behind that email decided to click VERIFY and thus Shosta had this expression when he checked the IP and verification of the account :titus
So this ad airing on local TV for a runoff election in Texas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YaHCPGwEk
The lady is for is a salon owner who defied state lockdown laws to open her salon, made a ton of money from GoFundMe, and became a conservative hero. Apparently she's also totally insane.
What the goddamn fuck is wrong with people?
Specifically, Texans.
Mitt Romney lost by 5 million votes in 2012 and sparked a 100-page RNC autopsy report. Donald Trump lost by 7 million and there isn’t a peep.
It hardly matters that Trump couldn’t beat Biden in the Rust Belt. Or that Trump ceded the longtime Republican strongholds of Georgia and Arizona to Democrats and, in defeat, became the first incumbent president since 1992 to fail to win a second term.
Six weeks after the election, Republicans are beginning to chart a multi-state effort to undo mail ballot expansions that disadvantaged the party in November. But that’s a mechanical concern. As it prepares for the midterm elections and 2024, the direction of the party is set.
“As far as I’m concerned, everything’s great,” said Stanley Grot, a district-level Republican Party chair in Michigan, a state Trump won four years ago but lost to Biden in November.
https://twitter.com/tylersunderland/status/1339706414118400001
If Congress doesn't pass COVID relief by Christmas, every vote for the rest of my life will be against whoever is currently (as of today) in office. I am entering full-on burn-it-down mode and I don't care. Enough is enough.
Sorry Markey.
Sorry Warren.
If you can't do this, the system doesn't work. It would be time for an entirely new blood transfusion. Throw everything out and start over.
Throw everything out and start over.We gotta drain the swamp! :american
According to the person familiar with Friday’s meeting, the animated gathering featured yelling and screaming, with the lawyers often accusing each other of failing to sufficiently support the president's efforts. Flynn and Powell both said they needed the Trump administration to do more to support their efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's win. Giuliani and Powell also turned their ire on each other. The source said National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, a successor to Flynn, participated by phone.
If Congress doesn't pass COVID relief by Christmas, every vote for the rest of my life will be against whoever is currently (as of today) in office. I am entering full-on burn-it-down mode and I don't care. Enough is enough.
Sorry Markey.
Sorry Warren.
If you can't do this, the system doesn't work. It would be time for an entirely new blood transfusion. Throw everything out and start over.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) reached an agreement late Saturday night on language to curtail the Federal Reserve's special lending authorities, setting the stage for passage of a coronavirus relief deal and omnibus spending package as early as Sunday.
$600 in exchange for getting 10 years in prison for illegal streaming :win
https://mobile.twitter.com/THR/status/1341106003581030404
Also, for fillerspoiler (click to show/hide)https://mobile.twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1341121311578476544[close]
The provisions in the legislation include:
Felony streaming. Establishes criminal penalties, including prison time, for those who “willfully, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or provide to the public a digital transmission service” that offers unauthorized movies and TV shows. Penalties include fines and sentences of up to three years, or five years if the offense involved one or more titles, and “the person knew or should have 7 known that the work was being prepared for 8 commercial public performance.”
CASE Act. Creates a small claims court for copyright holders to pursue . Participation, however, will be voluntary, and any of the parties can object and pursue cases in federal district court. The cases would be heard by a Copyright Claims Board established through the Copyright Office, and, in general, any damages awards would not exceed $15,000. Parties who pursue more than one claim in a proceeding would not be able to recover more than $30,000. Parties also would in most cases bear their own costs.
Trademark modernization. Third parties would be able to submit evidence during the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s consideration of trademarks. It also would try to curb fraudulent foreign trademark filings.
https://twitter.com/nickmiroff/status/1341354272181501952That's a very unflattering picture and headline.
Fuck them kids
I posted like 2 years ago that the concentration camps weren’t going away, even if Trump loses.
Wonder what their reasoning is for purging followers, unlike when it changed hands last time?
My only guess is some Trump lawsuit being threatened or something.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/423780333687808001
:trumps
The Trump administration sued Walmart Inc. Tuesday, accusing the retail giant of helping to fuel the nation’s opioid crisis by inadequately screening for questionable prescriptions despite repeated warnings from its own pharmacists.
On a conference call to discuss Walmart's strong third-quarter results, McMillon ended his opening remarks by saying, "Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden." He continued: "We look forward to working with the administration and both houses of Congress to move the country forward."Good luck Doug :trumps
https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1341406581901189120collusion!
So, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment.
When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?
The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming impossible to avoid or conceal. The family of the Democrat nominee for president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our greatest adversary. It was a blatant payoff, and most Americans who voted for Mr. Biden never heard of it — or were told before the election it was Russian disinformation. Once they did hear of it, 17% said they would have switched their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center. That’s the entire election. The censorship worked exactly as intended.
Typically, newspapers and media outlets band together when press freedom is threatened by censorship. Where was the sanctimonious “democracy dies in darkness?” Tragically, The Washington Post is now part of the darkness.
But this is just a start. When Twitter censors four of five Rush Limbaugh tweets in one day, I fear for the country.
When these monolithic Internet giants censor the president of the United States, I fear for the country.
When I see elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerburg are able to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in specifically Democratic districts — without any regard to election spending laws or good governance standards — I fear for the country.
When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never irritating China — and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our country.
When I watch story after story about election fraud being spiked — without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity — I know something is sick.
The entire elite liberal media lied about the timeline of the COVID-19 vaccine. They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed. In multiple debates, the moderators outright stated that he was lying about the U.S. having a vaccine before the end of the year (note Vice President Mike Pence received it this week). If Americans had known the pandemic was almost over, that too was likely the difference in the election.:usacry
The unanimously never-Trump debate commission spiked the second debate at a critical time in order to hurt President Trump. If there had been one more debate like the final one, it likely would have been pivotal.
This is just the beginning. But any one of those things alone is enough for Trump supporters to think we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment — which is likely to only get more corrupt and aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.
For more than four years, the entire establishment mobilized against the elected president of the United States as though they were an immune system trying to kill a virus. Now, they are telling us we are undermining democracy.
You have more than 74 million voters who supported President Trump despite everything — and given the election mess, the number could easily be significantly higher. The truth is tens of millions of Americans are deeply alienated and angry.
If Mr. Biden governs from the left — and he will almost certainly be forced to — that number will grow rapidly, and we will win a massive election in 2022.
Given this environment, I have no interest in legitimizing the father of a son who Chinese Communist Party members boast about buying. Nor do I have any interest in pretending that the current result is legitimate or honorable. It is simply the final stroke of a four-year establishment-media power grab. It has been perpetrated by people who have broken the law, cheated the country of information, and smeared those of us who believe in America over China, history over revisionism, and the liberal ideal of free expression over cancel culture.
I write this in genuine sorrow, because I think we are headed toward a serious, bitter struggle in America. This extraordinary, coordinated four-year power grab threatens the fabric of our country and the freedom of every American.
To read, hear and watch commentary by Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, visit Gingrich360.com.
Hopefully Trump's attention whoring actually gets people $2000 instead of just blowing everything up.
lol this is 3rd grade theater
lol this is 3rd grade theater
It's Twitter, of course it is.
It would be great for democracy and political stability if Twitter died tomorrow, but I doubt we will ever be so lucky.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1341892622164647937iacta alea est :buster
:wag
https://twitter.com/WhyTryJustDo/status/1341857560840855552lol this is 3rd grade theater
It's Twitter, of course it is.
It would be great for democracy and political stability if Twitter died tomorrow, but I doubt we will ever be so lucky.
I agree, but all of it is. The $2,000, the $600, the inevitable failure of both of it to pass anytime soon to give relief to struggling people. It's all gamesmanship.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/24/house-stimulus-checks-trump/
Prepare for the wrath of Tasty, foolish reps
The political jostling, with no unclear path forward, shows how Trump’s surprise refusal to sign the bill into law has created a sudden political and economic crisis in Washington.
The efforts to have Trump sign this will be as succesful as the efforts to letting him concede.
A surprise scuffle over pandemic relief
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/21/why-i-will-not-accept-joe-biden-as-president/QuoteSo, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment.
When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?
The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming impossible to avoid or conceal. The family of the Democrat nominee for president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our greatest adversary. It was a blatant payoff, and most Americans who voted for Mr. Biden never heard of it — or were told before the election it was Russian disinformation. Once they did hear of it, 17% said they would have switched their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center. That’s the entire election. The censorship worked exactly as intended.
Typically, newspapers and media outlets band together when press freedom is threatened by censorship. Where was the sanctimonious “democracy dies in darkness?” Tragically, The Washington Post is now part of the darkness.
But this is just a start. When Twitter censors four of five Rush Limbaugh tweets in one day, I fear for the country.
When these monolithic Internet giants censor the president of the United States, I fear for the country.
When I see elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerburg are able to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in specifically Democratic districts — without any regard to election spending laws or good governance standards — I fear for the country.
When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never irritating China — and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our country.
When I watch story after story about election fraud being spiked — without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity — I know something is sick.QuoteThe entire elite liberal media lied about the timeline of the COVID-19 vaccine. They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed. In multiple debates, the moderators outright stated that he was lying about the U.S. having a vaccine before the end of the year (note Vice President Mike Pence received it this week). If Americans had known the pandemic was almost over, that too was likely the difference in the election.:usacry
The unanimously never-Trump debate commission spiked the second debate at a critical time in order to hurt President Trump. If there had been one more debate like the final one, it likely would have been pivotal.
This is just the beginning. But any one of those things alone is enough for Trump supporters to think we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment — which is likely to only get more corrupt and aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.
For more than four years, the entire establishment mobilized against the elected president of the United States as though they were an immune system trying to kill a virus. Now, they are telling us we are undermining democracy.
You have more than 74 million voters who supported President Trump despite everything — and given the election mess, the number could easily be significantly higher. The truth is tens of millions of Americans are deeply alienated and angry.
If Mr. Biden governs from the left — and he will almost certainly be forced to — that number will grow rapidly, and we will win a massive election in 2022.
Given this environment, I have no interest in legitimizing the father of a son who Chinese Communist Party members boast about buying. Nor do I have any interest in pretending that the current result is legitimate or honorable. It is simply the final stroke of a four-year establishment-media power grab. It has been perpetrated by people who have broken the law, cheated the country of information, and smeared those of us who believe in America over China, history over revisionism, and the liberal ideal of free expression over cancel culture.
I write this in genuine sorrow, because I think we are headed toward a serious, bitter struggle in America. This extraordinary, coordinated four-year power grab threatens the fabric of our country and the freedom of every American.
To read, hear and watch commentary by Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, visit Gingrich360.com.
They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed:wut
Anyone know of any good sovereign, democratic island nations?New Zealand comes to mind, for obvious reasons.
That is actually what Trump wanted. A 'clean' $1200 COVID relief bill.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343027900740734976
:drool
Doesn't he realize he probably could have won the election if this is what he proposed back in June instead of his side repeatedly refusing $2000 as being too high?
“I would,” the president responded after being asked in a Fox Business interview if he’d raise his latest stimulus offer. “Go big or go home.”Mitch wanted $0 (or rather a cap of $1 trillion on the bill), Democrats wanted $2000, Trump wanted $1200 as of October.
The White House plan includes another round of $1,200 direct payments among other measures both Republicans and Democrats say is needed to prop up the economy.
Trump said he hasn’t signed onto the $2.2 trillion spending plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing for because he contended it contained numerous measures unrelated to the pandemic. “She wants money for things you could — your pride couldn’t let it happen,” he said.
“We like stimulus, we want stimulus. We think we should have stimulus,” he said, adding that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “has not come home with the bacon.”
He signed it lol.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/congress-stimulus-deal-450380
All that drama was for...?
:mindblown
He said he will insist on reductions in spending in parts of the bill, though Congress does not have to go along.
"I will sign the omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill," Trump said on Sunday night.
The president also said the Senate would soon begin work on ending legal protections for tech companies, examining voter fraud and boosting the check size for direct payments. The current Congress ends in six days.
Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vprlc6Jcm74
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1342238530295234561
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343208665571074050
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343232103098576897
How many times have people been compelled to testify by the government in the last few years and they were like, "Nah."John Bolton's bomb shell revelations will save the nation :salute
This guy is truly a fucking ghoul
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)
:titus
Gallup has polled about the nation’s most admired man for 74 years. In 60 of those years, the incumbent president has topped the list. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Trump have been the only incumbent presidents who did not finish first in past years.
Oh it's literally "do you know this guy."Nah it's admiration
No duh the President is usually the most famous man at the time of their presidency...
Nah it's admiration
People should really question polls more often, they're often deliberately misleading to push an agenda and feel like a soft-science to me. Humans are generally not reliable.It's sort of hilarious that Trump is using this 1000 sample bullshit poll as a way to reclaim his presidency despite his hatred for polls in general
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)
:titus
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)
:titus
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)
:titus
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)
:titus
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)
Obama won 3 out of 4 years of the Trump presidency. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/RZkGAOS.png)Yeah, I don’t see that minimum wage going up anytime soon :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/9vGUe6D.jpg) ;)(https://i.imgur.com/RZkGAOS.png)Yeah, I don’t see that minimum wage going up anytime soon :lol
Is he gonna rape Pepe?(https://i.imgur.com/ABlynNX.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZH4cQrs.jpg)"What happened Pepe why didn't you vote? we were winning so much it was beautiful"
(https://i.imgur.com/PCNB19f.jpg)
Just tell him you are a Cyberwarrior standing back and standing by to help Flynn save the republic(https://i.imgur.com/PCNB19f.jpg)
My boss is pro-Trump, wonder if I could get away with saying that I was going to the rally and taking next week off. :dobbs
"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.:dead
"And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged.' That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096 (https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096)(https://i.imgur.com/tWooMEc.jpg)Quote"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.:dead
Although to be fair, Biden probably voted in the 1877 election
2020 has broken me so badly that I feel the story about trump & the Georgia Secretary of State is political theater to cover their butts when, legally or illegally, the two senate seats are won by republicans.It seems to me that the few sane people left in the White House try to channel Trump's anger and conspiracies by arranging these phone calls for him so he can rant and rave and they can 'circle back', 'compare data', 'look at it' without actually doing anything.
https://twitter.com/SamBraslow/status/1345935219170312193
It’s called being a man Nintex.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1345885052350164992
eat shit CIA
:piss :whew :piss2
I'm probably just fully gaslit here but kind of surprised blowback from this call is gaining so much traction. That is, Trump has been openly abusing power and crimeing for 4 years now in pretty much this exact same manner. Even the GOP seem caught on their back foot when a day ago they would've gladly voted to overturn the election for this same shit head. I don't see how this call suddenly reframes that?Probably has to do with the Georgia run offs. I just read that both parties combined spend ~$800 million on it making it the the most expensive run off election.
I guess everyone is overly impressed by a secret tape recording even when you can find him saying/posting worse shit on the regular? And I don't think it's just the evidentiary value of the tapes that had people hyped.
This will be known as the YMCA Coup
QuoteThis will be known as the YMCA Coup
Sounds about right, this whole affair has been the gayest shit in history
The heterosexual frontman for the Village People wants you to know the iconic song "YMCA" is not about illicit gay sex, warning he’s going to sue anyone who suggests otherwise. Victor Willis, better known as the sexy cop with one heck of a nightstick, laid down the law about the meaning of the lyrics he wrote, and he’s claiming it had nothing to do with hot guys hooking up at the local Young Men’s Christian Association.
“I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex,” Willis warned via Facebook, later adding “Get your mind out of the gutter, please!”
Willis posted he “wrote 100% of the lyrics to Y.M.C.A.” and declared “I ought to know what my song is about.” In 2017 the singer and songwriter told News.com the song was actually about his youth and the time spent hanging with friends in his urban neighborhood.
“I’m not going to have my lawyers sue the president,” Willis stated. “But he should at least do the ‘YMCA’ dance while he’s at it.
Georgia is not looking good
At least Georgia is looking good
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536
Georgia is not looking goodAt least Georgia is looking goodhttps://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536
lol
(https://i.imgur.com/ly9KHqS.jpg);)
(https://i.imgur.com/ly9KHqS.jpg);)
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536
now with the dems in charge we should be getting universal healthcare and extra phat stimmy's. can't wait! :D
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale wenthttps://twitter.com/AOC/status/1346855427376611328
https://twitter.com/washingtonian/status/1346898575654068224
:riot
Your new leaderhttps://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErEsMSaXMAUkVur?format=jpg)
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573
https://twitter.com/blaccmass/status/1346914627767201797https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573
(https://i.imgur.com/2eny1zB.png)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE0ztSXAAAdwyU?format=jpg&name=medium)
The secretary of state
these people have destroyed their lives on an unprecedented level
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute:fbm
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414 (https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414)https://twitter.com/politeandnice/status/1346921449118982151
This guy
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE34s-XYAIQ285?format=jpg)
Secretary of Transportation
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE2X8fVoAEyDnX?format=jpg)
CIA director
the best thing is the utter stupidity
these people saw the blm protests and said "IF'N THEY KIN RIOT SO KIN WE!! GIT R DONE"
not realizing that sieging the actual nation's capitol buildings is a little different from burning down an autozone in bumfuck nowhere
these are federal crimes
these people have destroyed their lives on an unprecedented level
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale wenthttps://twitter.com/VeritasSola/status/1346887833613697026
My heart hurts.
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale wenthttps://twitter.com/VeritasSola/status/1346887833613697026
;)
This is so shameful and is only going to get worse in four years.That all depends on how the powers that be respond.
Go to prison for 10 years to own the libs :salute
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346928882595885058
:titus
Go to prison for 10 years to own the libs :salute
Can't help but feel that trump statement is the equivalent of a "caution: contents may be hot" liability waiver for any potential future civil liability indictments
There needs to be an investigation and charges for the capitol police. they really fucked up here.
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :saluteIf your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :saluteIf your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264RIP the grift, 2016-2021
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :saluteIf your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929
https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1346945406450720769 (https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1346945406450720769)Why would your adversaries need to go to all that effort when you are doing it yourself?
:mueller
https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676https://twitter.com/marklutchman/status/1346923949670756354
https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849
:ufup
This is just viral marketing for Coming 2 America. That brother got the Soul Glo! goin' on.https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676 (https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676)https://twitter.com/marklutchman/status/1346923949670756354
https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849 (https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849)
:ufup
:doge
JUST BAN HIS FUCKING ACCOUNT
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1346941481907593216https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264RIP the grift, 2016-2021
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
Retired CIA case officer.
stream yourself committing crimes, brehs.https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1346941481907593216https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264RIP the grift, 2016-2021
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
:smug
After all this I think Trump's going to resign after the electoral college vote has passed.ban the mods and kill them :trumps
The only way out of this on a short notice is a pardon and the only one who can give it to him before Biden gets in is Pence.
Plus it's the only way he can leave the White House without "losing" and having to attend any official transfer of power proceedings.
Twitter has suspended him for 12 hours
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178 (https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178)
After all this I think Trump's going to resign after the electoral college vote has passed.ban the mods and kill them :trumps
The only way out of this on a short notice is a pardon and the only one who can give it to him before Biden gets in is Pence.
Plus it's the only way he can leave the White House without "losing" and having to attend any official transfer of power proceedings.
Twitter has suspended him for 12 hours
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178 (https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178)
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1346968581741928451
:whew
Where can I bet on Trump killing himself before the 20th?
Most be decent odds right
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1346930500192129025sir, sir, excuse me. sir?
https://twitter.com/pttrn_ntgrty/status/1346962839060140033gonna bet this ginger dude is a bellevue techbro
day of the pillow :jgames
Final season of America lit, brehsthis is the season 1 cliffhanger of heroes.
news discussing that the session is about to resume with the plans to proceed as normal in certifying joe biden, with more resolve than ever to get the job done
all I can think is there is nothing more american than a group of people getting together in the face of protest to say fuck you I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker, uhhh
Is there, like, a super right wing Rage Against the Machine? other than Screwdriver, of course. Like, they would have a song against saying Happy Holidays and having to partake in Black History Month. Stuff like that.
Twitter waiting until the perfect 11th hour superhero entrance moment to swing their dick on Trump :whew :obama :jeb
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496 (https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496)
:jeb
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496 (https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496)
:jeb
WAKE UP BEN CARSON
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1346996775194910726
https://twitter.com/deep_dab/status/1346696228323659776
https://twitter.com/ToliverZilla/status/1346954157450698754
https://twitter.com/_sextapes_/status/1346983851160203264
:lol
https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1346833050311815168
:rofl
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753)
Republicans dropping their objections one by one. :biden
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1347005117199904768
:kermit
What are the top two trump tweets that were removed? Nintex help me out
https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873 (https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873)Why the fuck does the first lady have a chief of staff? The Office of US President really is just an elected King by another name. Why bother fighting a war of independence if you're just going to replace it with the same thing?
It beginsspoiler (click to show/hide)ends?[close]
all I can think is there is nothing more american than a group of people getting together in the face of protest to say fuck you I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker, uhhhThe most American thing that's happened here is a big fucking crybaby decided that he didn't really lose the game so he was going to try to take his bat and ball and go home.
What are the top two trump tweets that were removed? Nintex help me out
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErGOkFFXIAcm_cD?format=jpg&name=large)
WaPo going for the goddamn throat, holy shit :whew
Nintex and filler are shitposters, stop quoting them about this.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1346991238793236482I guess they miss the Newsmax/OANN crowd and this is their attempt to win them back.
"it's not your fault, it's theirs" :dobbs
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?
Is this the plot of the next Metal Gear?
:thinking
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?
“We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night,” Mulvaney said. “We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation.
“The folks who spent time away from our families, put our careers on the line to go work for Donald Trump, and we did have those successes to look back at, but now it will always be, ‘Oh yeah, you work for the guy who tried to overtake the government,’” Mulvaney said.These clowns literally sold their souls for a tax cut :titus
“That legacy is gone as of yesterday and that’s extraordinarily disappointing to those of us who work for him,” he added.
Wait, is Rudy really going through emails received after having ignited a mob to break into the capital building? That has to be a crime of some sort.Who knows, we do know the Q Shaman actor/provocateur was seen at other protests and has ties to Rudy
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html)Quote“We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night,” Mulvaney said. “We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation.Quote“The folks who spent time away from our families, put our careers on the line to go work for Donald Trump, and we did have those successes to look back at, but now it will always be, ‘Oh yeah, you work for the guy who tried to overtake the government,’” Mulvaney said.These clowns literally sold their souls for a tax cut :titus
“That legacy is gone as of yesterday and that’s extraordinarily disappointing to those of us who work for him,” he added.Wait, is Rudy really going through emails received after having ignited a mob to break into the capital building? That has to be a crime of some sort.Who knows, we do know the Q Shaman actor/provocateur was seen at other protests and has ties to Rudy
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resigned as special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland.:doge
Four dead.
Four dead.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1347230019572166661
how did such a great set of tiddies belong to such an awful and annoying person :snoop
Half (50%) of voters agree, saying they think it would be appropriate for Donald Trump to be removed from office immediately because of what happened today. Another 42% believe that such an action would be inappropriate. Republicans (85%) are especially likely to say they believe this would be inappropriate.
this is all so fucking stupid :roflhttps://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970
big tech backs the big guy :biden
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970
big tech backs the big guy :biden
:larry
I understand, I get it
but
kind of a fucked up precedent?
it's easy to imagine what could be a false claim tomorrow
"your video falsely claimed hong kong is a territory independent from china, therefore you have received a strike"
every time someone tries to draw a line in policy and say "well ok obviously we have to prevent THIS from being disseminated, but JUST THIS, just this once," and then it just gets easier to do it again next time
this is all so fucking stupid :roflhttps://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
What the hell does "medical emergency" mean? How'd these 3 fuckers die? One was a heart attack the other two it's weird there's no info.
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970
big tech backs the big guy :biden
:larry
I understand, I get it
but
kind of a fucked up precedent?
it's easy to imagine what could be a false claim tomorrow
"your video falsely claimed hong kong is a territory independent from china, therefore you have received a strike"
every time someone tries to draw a line in policy and say "well ok obviously we have to prevent THIS from being disseminated, but JUST THIS, just this once," and then it just gets easier to do it again next time
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech
if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike? they didn't technically make a false claim
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech
if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike? they didn't technically make a false claim
But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.
Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech
if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike? they didn't technically make a false claim
But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.
Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.
right, so, now we're banning videos that don't outright break the rules but have subtle implications and baggage
so now we start banning any videos that show the ok hand sign in them too...
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
what do you think the Gates Vaccine is designed to do but make us submit to the AI's? :brain
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech
if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike? they didn't technically make a false claim
But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.
Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.
right, so, now we're banning videos that don't outright break the rules but have subtle implications and baggage
so now we start banning any videos that show the ok hand sign in them too...
I already know the answer is no but has anyone found literally anyone who was there trying to be an inciting agentUh, there were at least 535 inciting agents present.
Well, what you suggests to do given that there is people that genuinely are trying to provoke with okay signs? The YouTube Ai doesn’t care either way.
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?No. Not even close.
Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
Well, what you suggests to do given that there is people that genuinely are trying to provoke with okay signs? The YouTube Ai doesn’t care either way.
I suggest that in spite of detesting some (most?) of what gets posted on bitchute I'm glad an alternative exists
this is all so fucking stupid :roflhttps://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
That is the worst Christmas tree I've seen in years, possibly decades. :yikes
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
As someone who makes the AI, I think this is a good idea as well.
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?No. Not even close.
Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?No. Not even close.
Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
Woodrow Wilson.It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?No. Not even close.
Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
benji has deets on benjamin harrison
They report this breathlessly like it's different and new.Quote from: twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1347304849914929158reports GOP sources close to White House say Trump “unstable, ranting and raving” and “bent on destruction in his final days.”
Woodrow Wilson.It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?No. Not even close.
Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
benji has deets on benjamin harrison
They report this breathlessly like it's different and new.Quote from: twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1347304849914929158reports GOP sources close to White House say Trump “unstable, ranting and raving” and “bent on destruction in his final days.”
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island
You are thinking you are going to get a competent made Demigod. :lol
lmao the preggo belly :roflthis is all so fucking stupid :roflhttps://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.
To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island
You are thinking you are going to get a competent made Demigod. :lol
unemployable, but not unelectable ;)this could also describe the big guy :biden
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347322698444242945AOC on Ted Cruz's campaign list :leon
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347324595112730624
ted cruz resign bitch!!
the despicable terrorists who attacked the Capitol yesterdaywith friends like these... :trumps
Is this the moment Donald Trump became president?Proud to be listening to my President :american
kimmel's fake overlaugh :-X
Kimmel? That's Colbert, idiot.
A US Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, three sources confirm to CNN
:likeQuoteA US Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, three sources confirm to CNN
Part of me thinks you wouldn't need to say "three sources confirm" if you were 100% sure it was true.
U.S. Capitol Police say reports of officer death not accurate
Lol click that reuters link again man.
Updated 6 minutes ago
Is this the moment Donald Trump became president?
Someone I was close friends with since high school, over 20 years, but I dropped when corona first broke due to him going super deep into Qanon territory (he was always into the conspiracy theories, but I always thought more in a "but, maybe..." kinda way, not an "I actually believe this and live my life by this".... I learned through a mutual FB friend that him, his wife, and 2 young children (3 and an infant) went to the rally and posted on FB. About how he believes it was a rigged election but doesn't condone violence ("bu, bu, BLM") and how he said the Capitol break in was instigated by BLM/Antifa. :P
So glad I dropped him.
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1347369974860554244
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https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1347357939049373696
He really is just the all-time biggest piece of shit :lol
I think the tone of extremist iconography has shifted in the past 30 years. In the past, it was more blatant and used as intimidation. Now it seems to be more subtle and used more to communicate to other like-minded individuals instead.
Why wave a nazi flag, when a trump hat or an iron cross tattoo on your neck has the same effect?
2024 is going to be a fucking disaster y'all.
Joe Biden's geriatric centrist ass isn't going to do any of that without a ton of pressure being applied and even then it's gonna be crumbs and not true meaningful sweeping reform.
https://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/status/1347269869008420864
Straight out of Nintex's fan fiction :D
And usually shows dem tiddies toohttps://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/status/1347269869008420864
Straight out of Nintex's fan fiction :D
Lucy Lawless still all around :mouf
The Bore will take him in.no cream no deal
He shit posted all the way to the White House.Our boi went out with a bang :tocry
The greatest shit poster of all fucking time.
Fuck outta here, no.
Our boi went out with a bang :tocry
The greatest shit poster of all fucking time.
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288
You know this is killing him more than losing the election or anything else--including COVID-19, The Senate Races, impeachment, etc.I'm thinking that every piece of Presidential Power will be tested like this over the next 12 days.
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.
2nd decent day in the last 4 years. Fuck Trump. Fuck his enablers. Fuck the people who popped up on this board to crow about him post election. Our country still sucks but that piece of shit and his posse who have been enabled for the last 4 years at least get one day of eating shit before they get back to their steady diet of racism and hate.
reddit getting in on feeding frenzy https://www.reddit.com/r/donaldtrump
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.
Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288 (https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288)
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.
Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
This is just performative bullshit from Twitter because they see the writing on the wall that they are going to be the ones taking a huge chunk of the blame for this (and rightfully so).
This remains the best take on Twitter's implicit consent to Trump and his followers:Quotehttps://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288 (https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288)
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.
For some reason, I don't see any central or south American country taking in a disgraced US president fleeing after attempting a coup
Honestly Section 230 is probably done for sure now. :shaq2
But the repercussions of that are going to be even worse for Republicans so it's hard to care :trumps
https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617 (https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617)
Night of the wrong tweets
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.
Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.
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Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.
Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYj8fXjXQAIi6Gx?format=png&name=large)
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445)https://twitter.com/19Phranchize/status/1347941717249548289
:wut
Nintex you seem decent in any other interaction I have seen on this board but your fawning over these people betrays a pretty gross personality trait.
Nintex is great.
https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1347722799746584577
The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.:titus
“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said. “We have a lot of accomplishments of this administration that should be highlighted so that we can leave a good final impression.”
The president is “ballistic,” (a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account,) citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347968971090366464(https://i.imgur.com/k6Z3G4y.jpg)
I tuned in to that livestream, literally the first thing I hear is the woman on stage saying "if anyone finds an envelope with 5 passwords in it, could you please hand it in so we can get it to the proper person".
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1347922394497884167Lol I don't think I've ever read anything on Forbes.com that came across as truthful.
:badass
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him :dead
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him :dead
No, see, Twitter is the only platform for presenting speech. If they ban you, that's basically making it so no one will ever see or hear you ever again. Not unlike Communist Russia.
Jack should just admit twitter was a mistake and shut down the whole platform and go live in a hut in the Amazon or whatever weird things he does
Supposedly there were special forces secretly mixed in with the riot goons (as to why they were "let in"), and have confiscated Nancy Pelosi's laptop. She's freaking out and pushing the impeachment HARD. :rofl
I see EGS hasn't banned him tho
maybe
So I guess for you guys the point at which free speech ends is when a politician mobilizes their fanatical worshipers in an attempt to mount a political coup to stay in power. And you dare call yourselves progressives.
what a cunt
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347928868859097088
So I guess for you guys the point at which free speech ends is when a politician mobilizes their fanatical worshipers in an attempt to mount a political coup to stay in power. And you dare call yourselves progressives.
Canada has hate speech laws and conservatives howl all the time about how it's a slippery slope and how they will be misused. I can think of one time in my life where it might be questionable. making Nazis shut up is a pretty effective anti-nazi method. The fact the left traditionally needed to fight for free speech really only goes to the fact that limited speech was weaponized against the left and it had to be overcome, not that free speech is inherently a good thing in all situations.
maybe
You know your senate majority is tight as hell, right?
It's not the guns or the speech laws that matter, if it's going to happen, the political landscape has changed drastically to the point that concern about the laws is pointless.
Like if it ever got to that point, they could just as easy call them a terrorist group with existing laws.
making Nazis shut up is a pretty effective anti-nazi method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ORZ_iwO3w
Toomey on Sunday joined his Senate colleague Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling for Trump to resign.
"I think at this point with just a few days left [in Trump's term], it's the best path forward, the best way to get this person in the rearview mirror for us," Toomey told CNN's State of the Union. "That could happen immediately. I'm not optimistic it will, but I do think that would be the best way forward."
It's not a cycle.
Fuck these people.
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.
It's not a cycle.
Fuck these people.
Tio Bernie would’ve fixed everything :bernie
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.
so what's your reaction to them?
to call for violence? if getting people out of their echo chambers isn't viable then I guess you have to silence them another way?
So its either a constant that Americans just have to accept as part of their country (valid, the country was founded on racial genocide). Or, its something that can be cured or at least addressed. Many people who work with getting people out of the KKK and have been doing so successfully, claim dialogue is the way forward. Getting people out of their echo chambers.I don’t see why any of these goals, which many recognize as important, require a source of hyperspeed conspiracy dialogue running concurrently, unless you’re saying we’re focusing too much on stifling said source rather than focusing on the process of removing money from politics.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes (https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes)
Its a really effective way of doing it.
But, it'll never happen because its a country that runs on making the rich richer and the poor poorer. And the theatre of politics is a really good diversion.
Anyways, I have like maybe another good 20 years left of my life, so the fight just seems fruitless. But here's a really good reddit post I read some time back and bookmarked.QuoteI think there's a misconception when a lot of people ask this question. There's no shadowy cabal manipulating the entire world for their collective benefit.
There are a lot of individual people who happen to benefit from largescale changes in public opinion, and some of those individuals are deliberately misleading people to that end, but they're rarely doing it in any sort of concerted effort with anyone else.
The exceptions are largely think-tank PACs that are designed to do it and advertising companies, which are also designed to do it. News media tends to do it, but with little cooperation with anyone else.
And at the end of the day, all of the people doing this deliberately have one thing in common: they're rich. It's not necessarily done as a distraction though; it's more often done just because there's a product to be sold and money to be made. There are very few "evil geniuses" out there who are trying to destroy the world and keep people unaware the whole time. This is partially because anyone with a real amount of power, influence, and intelligence will tell you that the public's attention span is low enough that there's no need to distract them. They'll do it themselves.
The way you stop them is to engage in local and national politics, keep a level head, use primary citation sources, and demand changes that prevent or discourage the above behavior. Namely:
Get money out of politics. Elections should be publicly-funded with VERY strict laws surrounding the kinds of advertisements you can do and the sources of those advertisements;
Change the voting system from First Past the Post to Ranked Choice/Instant Runoff, or other voting options that allow for multiple viable parties to exist;
Strict ethics/accountability watchdogs with the power to actually punish public figures that abuse their power; and
Strict regulations surrounding news media and media that purports to be news such that their material must be very distinctly divided between news and entertainment, and that the news must be entirely fact-based or evidence-based using non-partisan fact checkers as watchdogs with (again) strict punishments for deviations.
Basically, we need to empower independent groups to police and punish people for lying and abusing authority. And those punishments have to have real teeth.
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.
so what's your reaction to them?
to call for violence? if getting people out of their echo chambers isn't viable then I guess you have to silence them another way?
:yeshrug I've seen it in real life with my own family members. Any push back on their worldview, any proof given to them that something they're saying or believe is false, they just double down and use that as proof of the conspiracy and YOU'RE the one being lied to and you just don't see it, you lib. You will not and can not convince people whose identity and world view is primarily based around white grievance to get out of that train of thought. The percentage of people you're going to get out of this sphere of influence might as well be 0. They legit live in different realities.
James was a right-wing insurrectionist this whole time? :pika
Just marginalize their viewpoints and their ability to impact politics by tarring anyone who supports them as enablers. :yeshrug
You dont have to jail people en masse to eradicate a way of thinking. People that were against, say, interracial marriage, were not jailed, but their opinions became untenable enough that it stopped being something they can change through policy. Marginalization works. It works against groups that don't deserve, and those that do.
He continued, "The people wearing the logo in this context are kidding themselves, just like the police officers who wore it over the summer. What they actually want is to wear an apparently scary symbol on a T-shirt, throw their weight around a bit, then go home to the wife and kids and resume their everyday life. They've thought no harder about the Punisher symbol than the halfwits I saw [on Wednesday], the ones waving the Stars & Stripes while invading the Capitol building."
Yeah I’m not sure what you can really say to a group of people who’ve deluded themselves that Donald trump, someone who has never stepped foot in a church by choice in his life, aside from weddings or funerals, is a true man of god :trumps
I’m not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life,” he said. “He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”
Trump, Obama noted, is not exactly an exemplar of traditional American manhood. “I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code … the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the ’30s and ’40s and before that. There’s a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn’t complain, that he isn’t a bully—in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies. And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.”
I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.
http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
Now he's holding a swordThat's not just any sword. That's his sword from Conan the Barbarian.
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful
you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
Jesus why the fucking music
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful
you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
You should also blame Republicans for that one.
Save all the free speech shit for when the government is cracking down on people because it doesn't apply to companies of any kind silencing voices or types of rhetoric. Being deplatformed by big tech companies isn't a free speech issue, nor is various companies saying they won't do business with Republicans who pushed the election fraud stories, or companies saying we won't work with you if you hire Trump press secretaries. They're suffering from the consequences of what their governmental free speech rights allowed them to put out into the world.
That still isn't a free speech issue, which is specifically related to the government's ability to silence citizens.
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind...
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence...
https://mobile.twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234wait you had to show you license to get 'verified'? and 'terk er jerbs' nutjobs still signed up for this? beginning to think these guys just like being owned. :brain
I think some of y'all are addicted to gay dog porn or something with how hard this freedom of speech discussion is going.no laws against barking FIRE in a crowded cum dungeon :drool
Save all the free speech shit for when the government is cracking down on people because it doesn't apply to companies of any kind silencing voices or types of rhetoric. Being deplatformed by big tech companies isn't a free speech issue, nor is various companies saying they won't do business with Republicans who pushed the election fraud stories, or companies saying we won't work with you if you hire Trump press secretaries. They're suffering from the consequences of what their governmental free speech rights allowed them to put out into the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cA2l0n5gPE
:(
I think some of y'all are addicted to gay dog porn or something with how hard this freedom of speech discussion is going.no laws against barking FIRE in a crowded cum dungeon :drool
also some rando on my facebook posted this and told everyone to follow suit:
(https://i.imgur.com/g2qywnt.jpg)
hang your phone's ass out to own the libs
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful
you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
What are you alarmed about exactly?
https://mobile.twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234
This is just utter BS BTW.
Scroll down a bit and people link to what is actually going on. Someone created a tool to archive Parler; meaning it's just web scraping the public content.
edit: It's possible the archiving found some accidentally public data.. but that seems unlikely, and the Reddit post is almost certainly just a bunch of BS.. the archive site is just a hobby thing for some programmers who list their names publicly, what's described in the reddit post would be highly illegal, so would be unlikely to be something people would be advertising with their real names
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful
you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
What are you alarmed about exactly?
that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better
you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful
you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
What are you alarmed about exactly?
that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
And yet it's certainly the left that gets the hardest crackdowns and push back on their usage of free speech throughout the history of this country. Conservatives talk a big game about free speech but never do shit to actually defend it and in fact abuse it and use it as a pretense to deny minorities, well, just about anything.
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348615076534738945army chix in general are slightly crazy (especially Os) but psyops ppl definitely cannot be doing this shit and expect to do their job correctly. they're deep in TS/SCI material.
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348616372423712771
:lol
And yet it's certainly the left that gets the hardest crackdowns and push back on their usage of free speech throughout the history of this country. Conservatives talk a big game about free speech but never do shit to actually defend it and in fact abuse it and use it as a pretense to deny minorities, well, just about anything.
User: Uncle sticking up for racist uncles
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist. No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist. No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people. What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine. Look at gay rights. The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance. They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears. This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history. And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist. No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people. What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine. Look at gay rights. The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance. They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears. This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history. And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348615076534738945
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348616372423712771
:lol
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist. No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.
...but there are literally documented examples of exactly this happening?
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist. No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people. What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine. Look at gay rights. The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance. They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears. This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history. And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.
it's pretty well known that an expanded worldview often leads to greater empathy, the kind that comes from traveling to other states or countries, getting to know people you might not have otherwise, or simply from life experience, going through some hard times and maybe receiving help from somewhere or someone you didn't expect that changes your outlook
so, no, people can and do change with life experience
like seriously have you never seen anyone commenting stuff like "I used to be a racist little shit before I wised up" "man I used to be edgy for the sake of edgy until I learned to be better" "I really lament the state of the rest of my family, glad I learned to grow up and wish they could too"
How is a racist supposed to change their opinion if every single person they hear speaking about racism is a racist? Or someone born into a religious family before the 20th century? Or born in China today? Free speech is much more valuable to the objectionable than to the objector.
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity. Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.
I did not argue that people don't change with life experience or that people can't change. In fact, that was actually my very argument - that they can change their views after having a different life experience which often comes from the normalization of whatever they were against, and not because they were reasoned into changing their mind.
Anytime I hear psyops I thinkI always think of the one guy we had here who kept going on about psyops. loved that guy :lawd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=22Tj_l4PcPs
Why not just support censorship of hate speech while also keeping it in mind that it's not good that huge corporations have this much power to dictate the conversation online? Do yall really not see how this stuff could set a dangerous precedent? :doge :chinacry :ussrcry
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity. Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.
I trust Twitter and Google way more than the US government. I'm all for stronger government regulation of social/regular media in terms of discourse and fack checking but the issue is half the US government is the problem. Ted Cruz and Fox News are the problem. Currently, I think it's easier to force Twitter, through money and social pressure, to be a good regulating body than it is for the government to be one. In any other western country, you'd be right though. And you can talk about dangerous precedent but this is a dangerous time now and action needs to be taken. If Twitter is the one to step up, well that's just how crap the situation is. Honestly, the leeway social media companies get to act like this is going to run out is a few months so I'm happy for them to push left while they can.
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity. Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.
Right, but if you're being that reductionist about anti-social mentalities and behaviours anyway, you can extend that to what is the point in providing education in prison, because recidivism is never going to be 100% solvable as there will always be career criminals who enjoy that life, or what is the point of having drug rehabilitation centres because addiction is never going to be 100% solvable because there will always be unrepentant junkies.
Sure, its much cheaper and easier to just sack off portions of society that display aberrant behaviours, but that's pretty much the right wing approach to fixing society and helping those who can still be helped.
Fuck 'em if they can't bootstrap their own rehabilitation.
I trust Twitter and Google way more than the US government. I'm all for stronger government regulation of social/regular media in terms of discourse and fack checking but the issue is half the US government is the problem. Ted Cruz and Fox News are the problem. Currently, I think it's easier to force Twitter, through money and social pressure, to be a good regulating body than it is for the government to be one. In any other western country, you'd be right though. And you can talk about dangerous precedent but this is a dangerous time now and action needs to be taken. If Twitter is the one to step up, well that's just how crap the situation is. Honestly, the leeway social media companies get to act like this is going to run out is a few months so I'm happy for them to push left while they can.
Man, what a weird twist of American exceptionalism.
Is too bad the we, the World, tend to follow suit regardless of your unique situations. Especially given most tech giants are US companies.
https://www.state.gov/biographies/donald-j-trump/
:'(
:trumps
The internet war has begun.oh, north idaho? surprised they don't office KKK discounts.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1348676046728605700
Save us from this tyranny Comcast and Time Warner.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889 (https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889)
:dead
Any attempt to use some kind of a checklist to determine if all of this should be taken seriously as either a coup or some stable definition of fascism runs the risk of obscuring the incoherence, dynamism, and fundamental danger of these movements. It was “inchoate fascism, fascism in its experimental, speculative phase,” the writer Richard Seymour observed last week. This sense of process—that fascism is a living thing and not some page copied out of a history book—is useful. A lot is happening at once, and not always intentionally.
...
An off-duty police officer from Pennsylvania, who identified himself only as Jeff, told The New York Times that he went to the Capitol last week without a clear sense of what would happen or what he would do when he got there. He intended to be adaptable. “There’s a lot of people here willing to take orders,” he said. “If the orders are given, the people will rise up.”
Did he un-ginger himself?
edit: Oh that's the attorney derp
The Qanon orbit seems to be made entirely of failed screenwriters, movie producers (sup, Steve Bannon!), reality TV stars, and of course failsons.i was trying to think of chud movie ppl and the only one i could think of was james wood and sure enough
Only approved followers can see @RealJamesWoods’s Tweets. To request access, click Follow. Learn morewhat a pussy ass bitch :heh
The Qanon orbit seems to be made entirely of failed screenwriters, movie producers (sup, Steve Bannon!), reality TV stars, and of course failsons.
Asked by reporters on Tuesday about whether he held any "personal responsibility" over the tragedy that beset the Capitol last week, Trump replied, "If you read my speech, and many people have done it and I've seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it's been analyzed and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate."
"Everybody to a 'T' thought it was totally appropriate," Trump said.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1348979515796688896:kermit
:klob
I like to think that Sheldon was so sad about his boy losing he died of sadnessit's like poetry :biden
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1348854246662426625
"Second term" :huh
Some of the media have noted how the officials giving the press conference were quite low down the ladder considering the implications of this case.
No AG or FBI Director present.
I kind of feel like the next turn will be having trials with lawyers willing to say "Your ancestors will turn over in their grave, and I'm sure every last Anglo-Saxon one of you has the courage to free these men" and juries willing to do just that.
cause he doesn't give a shit and thought trump was useful, now he has decided to wash his rotting hands off trump guessing he has nothing left to gain from him
mitch seems like one of the savviest politicians in the states, shame he is committed to human misery
In 1956, his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended duPont Manual High School. He was an introverted kid who admitted to his mother that he didn’t even have one friend, but he admired the student council president who “had the envy of everyone”. He ran for student government multiple times, including student council president, which initially didn’t succeed. However, during his junior year run, he adopted a strategy of advertising to lowerclassmen and unpopular kids, who greatly outnumbered the popular kids, as well as to flatter the popular kids for good measure. This time, he won. He was now student council president. He described the taste of the respect that comes with holding elected office by saying, “I was hooked.”
A choice section of an interview with reporter Alec MacGillis, author of a 2014 biography of Mitch McConnell:
Jeff Stein:
If we're trying to be as generous as possible to the McConnell worldview, what's the story McConnell's friends and family would tell in his defense about the narrative of his life? I haven’t really found anything that isn't boilerplate. What is the story they tell you about how he sees his project?
Alec MacGillis:
I spoke to a lot of his friends and close associates for the book, and they had a very hard time answering that question. That was the big last question I would ask them all. And they would be completely flummoxed by it to a really stunning degree — they couldn't come up with an answer to it.
And it really feels harsh to say and hard to confront directly, but it really feels that to him, far more than other politicians, it really has been about simply the rise itself. Winning the next cycle. Staying in power as long as you can. Rising in the leadership ranks to the point where you are the leader of the body.
Jeff Stein:
And these are genuine close friends? People who like him and think he's fun to hang out with?
Alec MacGillis:
If you really press them to define some ideology or political belief of his, they'll fall back on very generic talk about how he loves the country and wants the best for it, and how he believes in “freedom" and “democracy." But it's so generic as to be almost meaningless.
You have to see how he himself portrays his accomplishments and portrays his own career. There's this shrine for him at the University of Louisville, and it's an extraordinary thing. It's the Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao [McConnell’s wife] archive. And it's pretty difficult to access.
But in the antechambers of these archives there's this huge exhibit area, a shrine to McConnell and to Chao. And it has all of these exhibits about his life in politics and his career. And virtually all of the exhibits — all the things he chooses to present to the people who come there — are about his races. The high school races. His race in Louisville. His Senate race. His reelection. It's just one race after another. And that's all it is. There's almost nothing in those rooms about what he's actually accomplished in all of those decades in office.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/us-military-biden-trump-capitol-riot-jcs-b1786319.htmlThe number of ads on this website :holeup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXjGocf-Es
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175838521106436
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175845928243200
:biden
I appreciated this video being posted.https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175838521106436
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175845928243200
:biden
Uh, what the hell. 20. I was reminded of this scene from In The Loop:
https://youtu.be/MLIP0ZtoiO4
Just before Pence headed to the Capitol to certify Joe Biden’s victory, the president called the V.P.’s residence in a last-ditch effort to get him to stop the Electoral College count. In that conversation, according to two people briefed on it, Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360 (https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360)
Nixon destroyed :usacry
Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
(https://i.imgur.com/ZqHKMT3.gif)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/mike-pence-donald-trump-attackQuoteJust before Pence headed to the Capitol to certify Joe Biden’s victory, the president called the V.P.’s residence in a last-ditch effort to get him to stop the Electoral College count. In that conversation, according to two people briefed on it, Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
:lol :lol Can’t believe that didn’t work.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587)
:crazy
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587)
:crazy
https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1349500703593689092
:confused
(https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/afp_kf5ar.jpg?w=978)
You mean repeating random facts spouted by random twitter accounts isn't a good idea?
You mean repeating random facts spouted by random twitter accounts isn't a good idea?
Nintex is an American hero.
it'll be difficult for corporate America to keep him 'cancelled' if he hires some half decent lawyers.
omg Trump was actually paying for Rudys services as a lawyer?If by Trump you mean a Kushner shell company that defaulted on a government loan and donated money to the Trump campaign through a Russian intermediary then yes, maybe.
:neogaf
omg Trump was actually paying for Rudys services as a lawyer?If by Trump you mean a Kushner shell company that defaulted on a government loan and donated money to the Trump campaign through a Russian intermediary then yes, maybe.
:neogaf
https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265 (https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265)
Landies and gentlemen we got him :dobbs
Relevant: https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were-created-this-year/Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Invest in BTC and $TSLA
He married second wife Dallas Yocum in June 2013 and filed for divorce in mid-July 2013 after she left him.
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...
I mean....
What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?
He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.
Also this is literal conspiracy right?
Joint Chiefs
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...
I mean....
What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?
He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.
Also this is literal conspiracy right?
Joint Chiefs and other military commanders have made it really clear that if Trump did try something like that they'd just ignore him.
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...not happening
I mean....
What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?
He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.
Also this is literal conspiracy right?
https://twitter.com/srchilaquilles/status/1349954035416121344imagine when she gets preggers :mouf
:shaq
nudemacs would def betray us for a promotion and medal from commander trumpy ;)i mean i will clearly debase myself for money, isn't that why we all end up in the armed forces? :trumps
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808 (https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808)
Do before and after pictures, I want to see what the Crack House looked like :lol
https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747 (https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747)
Let's give him a chance, maybe he's a better shit poster than we think.
Pretty tech savvy to us an em dash :leon
At a certain point you just gotta throw the mattresses out and get new ones.
About a dozen aides and relatives huddled around Trump as he dictated an improvised speech. Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously typing the president's stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Aides rushed to print out screenshots of cable news graphics showing Trump's illusory early leads in the key Midwest states. By 2 a.m., Trump wanted to know why he couldn't just say he had won and be done with it.
Great read
https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html (https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html)QuoteAbout a dozen aides and relatives huddled around Trump as he dictated an improvised speech. Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously typing the president's stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Aides rushed to print out screenshots of cable news graphics showing Trump's illusory early leads in the key Midwest states. By 2 a.m., Trump wanted to know why he couldn't just say he had won and be done with it.
The Trump White House is literally VEEP :doge
Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously
He might not be getting paid cash, but just think about all that exposure.
White House staff quickly learned about Trump’s disregard for documents as they witnessed him tearing them up and discarding them. “My director came up to me and said, ‘You have to tape these together,’” said Solomon Lartey, a former White House records analyst.
Eventually, Giuliani would realize that he and his crew were alone in the conference room. He'd walk down the hall and knock on the glass outside Stepien's office, where about eight aides had squeezed onto a pair of couches. "You guys, where did you go?" Giuliani would say. "This is serious!"
In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"
"We're not lying," Clark shot back. "You're a fucking asshole, Rudy."
This was the Giuliani show now. The barbarians were in the Oval. The rest of the Republican Party was just along for the ride.
rudy G had all the clout :titusRudy G is the MVP.
https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html (https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html)These articles are a great read. Even if only 50% of the information is correct, it's still fucking hilariously amateur/crazy hour.QuoteEventually, Giuliani would realize that he and his crew were alone in the conference room. He'd walk down the hall and knock on the glass outside Stepien's office, where about eight aides had squeezed onto a pair of couches. "You guys, where did you go?" Giuliani would say. "This is serious!"QuoteIn conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"Quote"We're not lying," Clark shot back. "You're a fucking asshole, Rudy."QuoteThis was the Giuliani show now. The barbarians were in the Oval. The rest of the Republican Party was just along for the ride.
Police say they acted out of an abundance of caution after witnesses reported smoke rising nearby. The fire was several blocks away.Rudy lit his cigar :pimp or they're burning all the documents
The special, hosted by Tom Hanks, is set to air live on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC from 8:30 to 10 p.m. EST on January 20. It will feature performances from Jon Bon Jovi, who campaigned with Biden in Pennsylvania, Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons.At least we won't have to sit through the YMCA or a Vanilla Ice impersonator but I wager there won't be a Linkin Park remix :fbm
meh it's not SIPR or TS/SCI, dumb crime to commit for little gain. tho i do wonder if they use chip based access cards in congress, cuz her screen should have been locked when she evacuated.
Trump is taking out his revenge on everyone so he's gonna pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, O.J. and a bunch of other people and keep Assange hanging to fuck with the 'low class' Q's who devalued his brand.
You people seriously named a monument the National Garden of American Heroes? Is it any wonder the rest of the world thinks you're all fucking flag waving idiots?Trump did :trumps
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609 (https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609)I know you're not supposed to stick your dick in crazy, but :drake
:shaq
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609
:shaq
I read the other day that OnlyFans is saturated :trumpshttps://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609
:shaq
I thought (former?) GAF/Bore member Cloudwalking ran off to Switzerland.
What is she doing selling American secrets to the Russians? :'(
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609
:shaq
I thought (former?) GAF/Bore member Cloudwalking ran off to Switzerland.
What is she doing selling American secrets to the Russians? :'(
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1351612926264811527lmao is that dr oz? why are we asking him about deficits. the newsmax bench must be running light now.
:ohyeah
Biden is really bringing this country back to normal!
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721)
Promises made
Promises kept
:biden
Huh? That's what he said while campaigning. Why is that news?Because it says BREAKING
Also pour one out for all the comedians, Trump impersonators and news networks who will find themselves without content(TM) within a week or so
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-event-gop-biden-inauguration-b1789644.htmlwelcome to the resistance Pence and GOP leaders! :klob
Pence and GOP leaders to skip Trump’s farewell event
The more I hear about it, the less I fear that American democracy is at risk.Trump just wanted an exciting season finale without having to start a war and now everyone is mad at him for organizing a LARP :fbm
rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, both convicted in Florida on weapons charges.
Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican who served three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges, and former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, who was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors.
Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser who pleaded guilty last fall in a scheme to lobby the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the looting of a Malaysian wealth fund, and Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce.:trumps
This thread title tho :kobeyucklet them enjoy this moment in cringe this is a time of healing :rejoice
Bernie would have performed amazing grace on his ownTrump would've had the YMCA pumping in the background as he placed one hand on the bible and the other on Mike Pence crotch :trumps
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345 (https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345)
:biden
were there any limp wristed protests today?
there was all that talk of inauguration day plans earlier
:idont
https://twitter.com/JessReports/status/1351948727259336704
:shaking
Most dependable man on earth
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAlanJohnson/status/1351917785895452673
It's a good jacket!
It's a good jacket!
Trump: It's a good jacket. I know that jacket very well. Some might even say best jacket. I didn't say it they did. *points in general direction to give the impression that people agree*
Copium stocks about to go through the roof.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1351965595760259076
Following the announcement of the band’s reunion for the inauguration parade, many on social media wondered whether or not they’d update the song’s original bridge—which mentions both political issues (the FDA, big banks, cloning) and the headline-making pop stars of the late ’90s (Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson). They ended up cutting the bridge entirely. “For the inauguration and only four minutes to play, I couldn’t get to the rap part anyway,” Alexander explained to Rolling Stone.:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352029158671527944Fact check: Captain America attended the inauguration
“the sight of the Clintons and the Bushes and the Obamas — The Avengers, the Marvel superheroes back up there together all in one place.”
That woman lives in an alternate reality completely. She says she now sees no American flags and Biden was flying some weird new flag. Neither of these things happened.
Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
Watched Lady Gaga's rendering of the national anthem.
Read the inaugural poem.
It is wonderful to feel hope again.
It's such an alien feeling lately.
Edit: full poem text here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
Watched Lady Gaga's rendering of the national anthem.
Read the inaugural poem.
It is wonderful to feel hope again.
It's such an alien feeling lately.
Edit: full poem text here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
:cac
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654
the whole thread is :doge
on that note, I occasionally get Epoch Times ads even though I don't watch any of that shit or shit-adjacent content. I know what they are, and historically in ads they were pretty 'vague' about their political bent, just talking about being 'independent and honest' blah blah. Fast forward to this last weekend however:Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
She'll be watching Jordan B Peterson lectures in no time 8)
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654
the whole thread is :doge
Same energy as this thread’s title :kermit
This thread title tho :kobeyucklet them enjoy this moment in cringe this is a time of healing :rejoice
Inauguration day is the day where my interest in US politics went from following it for some cheap laughs to zero again.It was interesting to see just how much faster a government of bureaucrats and experts works compared to a clown show governing by Tweet.
Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
I had livestream recs from at least CBC, NBC, PBS and a few others. This might be more a question about your mom than youtube.
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654
the whole thread is :doge
This is the future the liberals wanted :trumpshttps://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654
the whole thread is :doge
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1352062929424818176
Yeah... isn't this meant to highlight victims of police violence? Who turned it into the equivalent of "yas queen"
I can’t believe Joe is betraying antifa after they stole the election and invaded the capital for him.
Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
I had livestream recs from at least CBC, NBC, PBS and a few others. This might be more a question about your mom than youtube.
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017 (https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017)
:tocry
I am so ready for four years of senior moments.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElElephantes/status/1352338002752638976
Holy shit YouTube is trash.
Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.
Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.
Ok, i find an nbc stream.
5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial
Wtf
She'll be watching Jordan B Peterson lectures in no time 8)
(https://i.imgur.com/9d6H1MI.png)(https://i.imgur.com/lNDNF1g.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Eoe4nxM.png)
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This is some classic Fox News right here:I give it a week before there's a COVID death tracker and national debt ticker on their screen. :lol
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1352436221885231104
:rofl
If Trump got smoked by Iran would America go to war over it :thinking"Thank you madam speaker. I stand before you with a heavy heart.
They absolutely will. They're going to be even more petty against Biden than they were with Obama.To sum it up
https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1352678865408294915
If Trump got smoked by Iran would America go to war over it :thinking
Get fucked, Texas. Stuff your entire state straight up your oversized, entitled, lying, bitch ass, whiny, self victimizing ass.This is why CNN is airing this. They know this shit captivates their audience and grinds their gears.
http://twitter.com/tavernwench/status/1352934711836991489
While it's only 2021, a major question facing Democrats this year and next will be what to do about the presidential nominating calendar and whether Iowa, in particular, should retain its prized place at the front of the calendar in 2024.:iowacry
Iowa's decades-long lock on the nominating process has been under threat since last year's disastrous caucus, when results were delayed for days due in part to a faulty smartphone app that was supposed to make things easier for precinct captains when they reported results. Ultimately, the Associated Press never declared a winner in the contest due to problems with the vote count, which was administered by the Iowa Democratic Party.
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President Biden's newly-installed pick to lead the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison of South Carolina, will get a chance to shake up the calendar by appointing members to the party's rules and bylaws committee. Unlike past presidents, Biden didn't win in Iowa (he came in fourth, after former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) and owes no political debt to the complex caucus process.
"I think on its merits that the Iowa caucus falls short of the values that we espouse as Democrats," Julian Castro said.
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Castro, who dropped out of the race before the Iowa caucuses, made the argument during the campaign that 2020 should be the last year Iowa goes first and that a primary election run by the state makes much more sense than a caucus run by the party.
"You have one person, one vote instead of an archaic formula to figure out who wins the whole thing," Castro said.
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"President Biden is going to have a say in this too" Middleton, who is close friends with Harrison. "Who better than Joe Biden to provide his assessment having run for president a few times and not winning Iowa?"
By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS:trumps
Donald Trump is reportedly moving forward with his plans to create a 'Patriot Party' to put pressure on Republicans who oppose him and attempt to head off conviction in his second Senate impeachment trial.
Trump has told people that the third-party threat gives him leverage to prevent Republican senators from voting to convict him during the Senate trial next month, people in his orbit told the Washington Post.
Since President Joe Biden took office, Trump has been ensconced at Mar-a-Lago, remaining publicly cryptic about his plans except to tell a reporter on Friday: 'We'll do something, but not just yet.'
But behind closed doors, Trump is already drafting an enemies list of Republicans who opposed his baseless claims of election fraud, instructing aids to prepare primary challenges against them, sources told the Post.
The list is said to include the House's number three Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who broke party ranks and voted to impeach Trump over his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Rep. Tom Rice, a South Carolina Republican, is on the list for the same reason.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is also reportedly on the list after provoking Trump's fury for refusing to back his challenge to the state's election results, which were certified for Biden.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who has signaled that she is open to voting to convict Trump, is also said to be a Patriot Party primary target. Kemp and Murkowski are both up for re-election in 2022.
Trump advisers say they plan to recruit opposing primary candidates and commission polling as soon as next week in districts of targeted lawmakers.
To fund his splinter party, Trump has more than $70 million in campaign cash on hand, the sources said.
Though the Trump campaign was essentially tapped out on Election Day, the campaign and several allied groups raised $207 million between November 3 and November 23, fundraising on his push to challenged the election results.
The number is certainly higher by now, but hard numbers won't be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission until January 31.
:confused
how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Remind me who send an election team to save the drunk crooks and corrupt who bankrupted and looted Russia and pushed Yeltsin to pick Putin before he drank himself to death.https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qncjf2CVVR1yefkvd.mp4
(https://deborahnormansoprano.com/images/obrazovanie/kogda-umer-elcin-v-kakom-godu-umer-elcin-i-gde-pohoronen_5.jpg)
Also, who helped young Putin to be accepted by the international community despite war crimes and human rights violations in the first year?
(https://phototass2.cdnvideo.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20170603/1170062.jpg)
An unknown KGB colonel elevated to head of the FSB and appointed Prime Minister who was expected to last a year in the revolving door of Russian politics but instead became President for 20 years.
The ladies can investigate but I don't think they'll like what they're going to find. Start with why Putin's man in Ukraine was saved from electoral defeat by Paul Manafort who was given the nickname: "CIA Paul" by his own staff.
:confusedTrump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.
how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
:confusedTrump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.
how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
The Patriot Party could run on whatever polls well like medical for all, no war, gun ownership and blame any election defeat on voter fraud and the two party system. Meanwhile they lock up a few states like Florida and Texas that make election victories for the GOP nigh impossible and the map more difficult for Democrats too. All Trump would need is to win a few local races and enough Republicans and (right wing) pundits selling out for a piece of the pie.
:confusedSure, but Trump may be pathologically incapable and intellectually insufficient to see that. He may actually think he's won.
how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
:confusedTrump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.
how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
The Patriot Party could run on whatever polls well like medical for all, no war, gun ownership and blame any election defeat on voter fraud and the two party system. Meanwhile they lock up a few states like Florida and Texas that make election victories for the GOP nigh impossible and the map more difficult for Democrats too. All Trump would need is to win a few local races and enough Republicans and (right wing) pundits selling out for a piece of the pie.
Yes Nintex, this Trump guy really seems to be riding a wave of success right now
She’s going to win, isn’t she :(
(https://i.imgur.com/4w4sGJX.jpg)A SECOND PLANE HAS HIT THE MORBIDLY OBESE NAZI FUCKTARD
Lol, Trump ain't stopping until he's torn the whole democracy a new arsehole and starts fisting it into oblivion.
Lol, Trump ain't stopping until he's torn the whole democracy a new arsehole and starts fisting it into oblivion.
Once you taste the grift you can never let it go.
Yes Nintex, this Trump guy really seems to be riding a wave of success right nowhttps://twitter.com/politico/status/1354225170655961094 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1354225170655961094)
Ok trumps gone, see y’all in 4 yearsspoiler (click to show/hide):snob[close]
Ok trumps gone, see y’all in 4 yearsspoiler (click to show/hide):snob[close]
srsly biden gets elected and it starts taking an entire week for this thread to get enough posts to advance a page
:biden
LOS ANGELES – In light of numerous reports revealing her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) announced today he will introduce a resolution to expel Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) from the U.S. House of Representatives.
“As if it weren’t enough to amplify conspiracy theories that the September 11 attacks were an inside job and the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged, a string of recent media reports has now confirmed that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had previously supported social media posts calling for political violence against the Speaker of the House, members of Congress, and former President Barack Obama,” said Congressman Gomez. “Such advocacy for extremism and sedition not only demands her immediate expulsion from Congress, but it also merits strong and clear condemnation from all of her Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, and it is with their safety in mind, as well as the security of institutions and public servants across our country, that I call on my House colleagues to support my resolution to immediately remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from this legislative body.”
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said this week he is considering a 2022 gubernatorial run, setting up a potential challenge against incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
"It's something I'm going to think about," O'Rourke told Buzz Adams on Texas radio station KLAQ on Monday.
God the GOP is so bizarre right now... why are they propping up a 1 term President whose incredibly unpopular and never won the popular vote?
Oh also he's a lying chaotic piece of shit about to be embroiled in a ton of legal trouble who will turn on you at the tip of a hat, based on the smallest of grievances?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/l7sbh9/brian_williams_with_exclusive_video_from/They should've just ran some filler pornhub material.
:dead
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"
I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge
My uncle brought up how 2020 was saved because of Trumps $600 unemployment checks, since his work was closed for 2 months(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/CQkR2X2wLr97muBiUhj8Ew--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtoPTY2Ng--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Donald_Trumps_4_most_memorable-d1b1877482261c9fcd250487834dd9a5) (https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3.87qyDpbNpuYYGhFH2Ffw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Donald_Trumps_4_most_memorable-9f4f95afebfbd4b94c862a6b9e40981d)
:existential :existential :existential
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"
I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge
My Struncle complains about people getting free shit all the time, but then was real mad about there not being bigger bail outs and stimmies the second time around, then went back to THEY'RE STEALING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY shit. These people have no ideology except they don't want others to get anything they think they should get more or first.
I was going to say, to me my uncle occupies two opposing political extremes: both "fuck you, got mine" and "I know what will solve society's ills if they would only listen and follow my orders exactly."
Sometimes one comes out, sometimes the other.
Its like trying to decide pizza or tacos. Sometimes you want one, sometimes you want another.I bet you stole this quote directly from George W. Bush. :thinking
And there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.
I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.
“When you see privilege, you know it,” I’d told them weeks before. Yet, when they saw Sen. Bernie Sanders manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves. Sweet, yes, the gloves, knit by an educator. So “Bernie.”
Not so sweet? The blindness I see, of so many (Bernie included), to the privileges Bernie represents. I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie. Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don’t.
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, ex-Oakland Unified School District principal and current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher.
:wut
someone change their name to struncle kracker :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-high-school-students-get-a-lesson-in-subtle-15909700.phpQuoteAnd there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.
I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.
“When you see privilege, you know it,” I’d told them weeks before. Yet, when they saw Sen. Bernie Sanders manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves. Sweet, yes, the gloves, knit by an educator. So “Bernie.”
Not so sweet? The blindness I see, of so many (Bernie included), to the privileges Bernie represents. I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie. Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don’t.
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, ex-Oakland Unified School District principal and current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher.
(https://i.imgur.com/enZqCc7.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ddbUzAX.jpg)This is either a Q believer or a Clinton 2016 alumni.
It is hard to tell the difference these days :doge
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"
I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge
My Struncle complains about people getting free shit all the time, but then was real mad about there not being bigger bail outs and stimmies the second time around, then went back to THEY'RE STEALING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY shit. These people have no ideology except they don't want others to get anything they think they should get more or first.
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776 (https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776)
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544)
SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE SPACE TROOPS :maf
I didn’t realize Newsmax was already controlled opposition.those pillows are shit :pacspit
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1356719881564086272
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested the focus could be shifted to Vice President Kamala Harris at Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial if it is drawn out, telling Democratic lawmakers: "Be careful what you wish for."
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"If you're going to pursue this, and you wanna start calling witnesses, and you want to drag this thing out, it would be fair to have Kamala Harris' tape play where she bailed people out of jail," he said.
"What more could you do to incite future violence, than to pay the bail of the people who broke up the shops and beat up the cops.
"How's that not inciting future violence? Be careful what you wish for my Democratic colleagues, be careful what you wish for."
It is unclear what Graham is specifically referring to when he mentions letting the "tape play."
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776 (https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776)
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544)
SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE SPACE TROOPS :maf
Liberals now magically think that Space Force is a valid branch of the military and not a farce because Uncle Joe is backing it :biden
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1357099263067586560
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1357099263067586560
Will wait for drop on how much cruz paid to have that signed.
https://mobile.twitter.com/donnydonny/status/1357016305266737156
:crazy
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-1566393Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested the focus could be shifted to Vice President Kamala Harris at Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial if it is drawn out, telling Democratic lawmakers: "Be careful what you wish for."
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"If you're going to pursue this, and you wanna start calling witnesses, and you want to drag this thing out, it would be fair to have Kamala Harris' tape play where she bailed people out of jail," he said.
"What more could you do to incite future violence, than to pay the bail of the people who broke up the shops and beat up the cops.
"How's that not inciting future violence? Be careful what you wish for my Democratic colleagues, be careful what you wish for."
It is unclear what Graham is specifically referring to when he mentions letting the "tape play."
Inspector Kobel joined the department in June 1992 and most recently oversaw the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity Division. He will keep his pension.
He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.
"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.
https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1357419810272006144
my prayers have been answered :rejoice
my prayers have been answered :rejoice
This series of articles is fucking crazy :doge
But Powell, fixing on Trump, continued to elaborate on a fantastical election narrative involving Venezuela, Iran, China and others. She named a county in Georgia where she claimed she could prove that Dominion had illegally flipped the vote.
Herschmann interrupted to point out that Trump had actually won the Georgia county in question: "So your theory is that Dominion intentionally flipped the votes so we could win that county?"
"You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters."
Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the fuck do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down.
At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. "You're a quitter," he said. "You've been interfering with everything. You've been cutting us off."
"Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot?" Herschmann snapped back.
"Yeah, you're Patrick Cipollone," Byrne said.
"Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!"
https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1357419810272006144
my prayers have been answered :rejoice
I just finished reading the bonus episode and holy fuck!!!QuoteHe put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.
"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html)
This series of articles is fucking crazy :doge
I am happy that President Biden and Vice President Harris are in office, and things are moving forward. That said, vestiges of 2020 keep creeping in and making this feel like an ARG.
filler content:
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1357739765211099138
:kermit
warren is an anti-semite :jeanluc
Fox News recently hired former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow with the intention of giving him a daily program. The former longtime CNBC host immediately becomes a candidate to replace Dobbs on Fox Business Network.:gladbron
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :deadI still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true :neogaf
Welcome to my world :neois there a rival liberal pillow guy? :deadI still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true :neogaf
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :deadI still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true :neogaf
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1357830852546207748
:'( :'( :'(
warren is an anti-semite :jeanluc
Why the U.S. Needs the Romney Family Plan
America needs more babies. Public policy alone cannot deliver them, but it can help.
Family policy, the way that America supports (or doesn’t) parenthood and child rearing, has always presented the best opportunity for serious bipartisanship in Joe Biden’s presidency. It’s an issue with real overlap between the left and right: Feminists and social conservatives, left-wing antipoverty activists and right-wing pro-natalists all agree that it’s too hard to raise kids in America today. And it’s an issue where the relevant interest group, the American family, isn’t a partisan force or a pre-mobilized constituency — which is usually a weakness for its interests, but in a polarized moment might actually make legislation easier.
This week Mitt Romney put that theory to the test: His office rolled out a big proposal to reform the current hodgepodge of programs that help parents, the mix of tax credits and welfare benefits, by rolling them into a single family benefit that would provide $350 a month for kids 5 and under, and $250 a month for kids up to 17, up to a certain income level and benefit cap. (The cap effectively discriminates against large families, which means Romney can’t be accused of Latter-day Saint self-dealing.)
In keeping with the opportunity described above, the Romney plan offers something to left and right alike. It would significantly reduce child poverty, a core left-wing ambition. At the same time it reduces the current system’s penalties for marriage and its tacit bias against stay-at-home parents, both social-conservative goals, and raises the current subsidy for middle-class families, usually a Republican-leaning constituency. Finally, it’s both deficit neutral and softly pro-life, with a benefit that starts while the child is still in utero.
So with all this winning, who could be against it?
Trust the plan.
https://youtu.be/Dx5ZiQyEMKQ
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
QuoteEpstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
:hitler
I'm not sure what's more fucked up about how the media handles the Epstein story. The repeated claims that he killed himself under no suspicious circumstances or omitting exactly what type of sex trafficking charges this disgraced billionaire was accused of.
It is possible, though unlikely, that Mr. Manafort may still face federal charges. Last month, Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor from the special counsel’s office, argued that the wording of Mr. Trump’s pardons had been “oddly” drafted.
Rather than relieving those who had been pardoned from all potential liability for their actions, Mr. Weissmann argued, the language only narrowly covered their convictions.
In Mr. Manafort’s case, that might leave the door open to new charges, including on crimes that Mr. Manafort admitted he was guilty of as part of a plea deal. Those include 10 counts of financial crimes, as well as other offenses.
Thomas Shannon, acting Secretary of State, told us: "The president looked at the prime minister and said 'I don't believe this. Vladimir Putin is the only man in the world who can destroy the United States and I didn't take his call.'"
"He [Trump] came straight up to me, grabbed my hand and said 'Great interview on Fox News.' He said, 'I said to the people around me, I don't know who the hell that guy is but he's doing a great job.' And that was my first lesson as a diplomat: that if you want to get through to President Trump, do an interview on Fox News."
"My initial thought was just 'How can I end this?' I literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself backwards with a loud blood curdling scream into the media."
The first episode of Trump Takes on the World airs on BBC Two on 10 February
“That wasn’t Trump’s people. That’s been a hoax from day one. That was all prearranged,” Shirkey, a Clarklake Republican, said of the riot. “It was arranged by somebody who was funding it. … It was all staged.”
...
Shirkey insinuated that even Sen. Mitch McConnell “was part of” a staged insurrection.
“I think they wanted to have a mess,” Shirkey said. “They would have had to recruit this other group of people.”
Following our story, Shirkey issued an apology for his comments in the video.
“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”
“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?
Garrison doesn't need to do anything, he only needs to create his art :myniccaWho is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?
I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.
And still they will acquit himI'm not sure. These people are shameless so maybe they will just throw Trump under the bus to save themselves or they might think that if Trump gets convicted and banned from office they could be next.
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?
I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.
Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.a zoom call with over a hundred boomers :dead
The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.
More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.
Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.:trumps
I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.
The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.
And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.
Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.
You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.
(before internet)1973 B.I.
Boomers are just the best.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/QuoteThrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.:trumps
I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.
The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.
And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.
Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.
You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.
the dark ages :stahp(before internet)1973 B.I.
Boomers are just the best.
Good Christian values
Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186
Ivey's profile picture on his Facebook page shows him standing stark naked by a waterfall. He has now set up a gladiator bootcamp called The Ludus:dead
In response to DailyMail.com's request for comment, Taylor Greene said it was another attempt to smear my name because I’m the biggest threat to the Democrats’ Socialist agenda'
Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.is that a fucking zangief cosplay
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186
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On Instagram, Ivey calls himself The Tantric Warrior, describing himself as 'Living a warrior lifestyle while finding tantric love'. He also participates in reenactments of medieval battles and teaches sword fighting. Above, he is seen dressed as Zangief' a character from video game Street Fighter II
After the last season finale, America's next season seems like it's gonna be just as fuckin nutsQuote(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/11/19/39133574-9246917-On_Instagram_Ivey_calls_himself_The_Tantric_Warrior_describing_h-a-4_1613072939650.jpg)
On Instagram, Ivey calls himself The Tantric Warrior, describing himself as 'Living a warrior lifestyle while finding tantric love'. He also participates in reenactments of medieval battles and teaches sword fighting. Above, he is seen dressed as Zangief' a character from video game Street Fighter II
Time for the libs to storm the senate :rash
If my last name was Epstein I'd have changed it by now, it's been well and truly sulliedspoiler (click to show/hide)and i wouldn't get any filler likes :tocry[close]
Was it all a grift? Always has been.https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1359120470709313538
https://twitter.com/americanidol/status/1361187986197663747
:titus
Was it all a grift? Always has been.
This was taped in November, before the worst of the stuff came out on social media. It's still awful and exploitative either way, considering Claudia is only 16.
The Lincoln Project’s fundraising page has been shut down, following a wave of scandals which continue to engulf the organization.
The donation page on the Lincoln Project website has listed as inactive since Saturday after a number of its founders resigned amid reports of sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds.
On Saturday, co-founder Steve Schmidt resigned from the board, while Jennifer Horn split with the group last month after a contract dispute, causing a public spat with other members.https://twitter.com/Isikoff/status/1361372256555925504
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402)
Mr Trump's wild ride never ends
Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn’t right. His candidate’s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.
The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose voter fraud. After a 20-minute talk with the group’s president, their first-ever conversation, Eshelman was sold.
“I’m in for 2,” he told the president of True the Vote, according to court documents and interviews with Eshelman and others.
“$200,000?” one of his advisers on the call asked.
“$2 million,” Eshelman responded.
Over the next 12 days, Eshelman came to regret his donation and to doubt conspiracy theories of rampant illegal voting, according to court records and interviews.
Now, he wants his money back.
True the Vote was one of several conservative “election integrity” groups that sought to press the case in court. Though its lawsuits drew less attention than those brought by the Trump campaign, True the Vote nonetheless sought to raise more than $7 million for its investigation of the 2020 election.:trumps
Documents that have surfaced in Eshelman’s litigation, along with interviews, show how True the Vote’s private assurances that it was on the cusp of revealing illegal election schemes repeatedly fizzled as the group’s focus shifted from one allegation to the next. The nonprofit sought to coordinate its efforts with a coalition of Trump’s allies, including Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the documents show.
Eshelman has alleged in two lawsuits — one in federal court has been withdrawn and the other is ongoing in a Texas state court — that True the Vote did not spend his $2 million gift and a subsequent $500,000 donation as it said it would. Eshelman also alleges that True the Vote directed much of his money to people or businesses connected to the group’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht.
GOP seriously needs to just die.someone told me we need a stronk gop :karen
GOP seriously needs to just die.
The USA’s version of “the Left” is considered centrist by the rest of the civilized world.The Chinese version of the left is considered far right by the civilised world.
Yes, I’m not counting China.
https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353 (https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353)
GOP seriously needs to just die.Trump has been trying to kill them but Nancy won't let him :fbm
Solid ratio on this :lol
https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1361139933105303552
Solid ratio on this :lol
https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1361139933105303552
If Buttigieg wants return the United States to global leadership in transportation, he should find and promote mechanisms that will allow and pay for the construction of new highways that will relieve traffic congestion, improve safety, and generate new economic growth. He actually suggested one such mechanism during his presidential campaign: mileage-based user fees. The last thing we need is more deficit spending building obsolete infrastructure that few people will ever use.
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:lol :lol :lol
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:lol :lol :lol
I've kinda moved past the "But Europe is more liberal, so we should be too! Harumph! I'm mad because our liberal party is actually centrist! :maf"
I mean, yes, it would be nice.
But it's also useful to engage with reality. Ramping up the rhetoric against GOP voters will not cause the country to become more liberal. Not sure anything *can* convince them that liberals aren't the literal devil, but what I do know is this:
(bear with me)
Have you ever wondered "what is the big deal with coming out of the closet"? Why does this need to be a "movement"? Why make such a big deal in public about this stuff? Why even admit the truth at all? In a lot of cases, it'd be easier to just avoid certain people, or lie.
Coming out is important because it shows people with anti-LGBT beliefs that LGBT people are all around us even if you don't know it, they're not actively and deliberately conspiring to plan the downfall of society, and pretty much all of them just want to be treated like normal people and allowed to live their lives. They are your siblings, or your parents, or your children, or your friends.
That's always spoken to me. Not sure how applicable this idea can be to the political situation I'm talking about, but what I do know is that bubbles are bad. I didn't really "get" or agree with Sasha Baren Cohen staying with the Q guys for Borat 2, but I've somewhat come around on it. Self-selecting your social circle seems to lead to mild prejudices, which can become larger ones the longer you stay in it.
As a coder in years past, on the front-end team we would sometimes bitch about "the back end guys." It was superfluous work stuff and it never prevented us from having a beer together, but I look back at that situation and wonder sometimes. A couple missed deadlines because of a bad API implementation and things might not have been so rosy.
I wish I had some kind of hippy dippy solution to this but I really don't lol. I'm just kinda tired of liberals whining at the state of the country compared to "enlightened Yurop" and thinking the GOP's voter base problem will just go away or solve itself. It won't. And being smug about it is what got us into this position, IMO.
It's a tough problem. I was hoping the GOP would become more secular over time and that would lead to some advancements, but just blindly hoping doesn't do shit lol.
The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political "leaders" like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.
In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting President in history, almost 75,000,000. Every incumbent House Republican won for the first time in decades, and we flipped 15 seats, almost costing Nancy Pelosi her job. Republicans won majorities in at least 59 of the 98 partisan legislative chambers, and the Democrats failed to flip a single legislative chamber from red to blue. And in "Mitch’s Senate," over the last two election cycles, I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone—and then came the Georgia disaster, where we should have won both U.S. Senate seats, but McConnell matched the Democrat offer of $2,000 stimulus checks with $600. How does that work? It became the Democrats’ principal advertisement, and a big winner for them it was. McConnell then put himself, one of the most unpopular politicians in the United States, into the advertisements. Many Republicans in Georgia voted Democrat, or just didn’t vote, because of their anguish at their inept Governor, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the Republican Party, for not doing its job on Election Integrity during the 2020 Presidential race.
It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.
My only regret is that McConnell "begged" for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from one point down to 20 points up, and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, his numbers are lower than ever before, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in so doing, seriously hurting our Country.
Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his family’s substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat.
Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.
Prior to the pandemic, we produced the greatest economy and jobs numbers in the history of our Country, and likewise, our economic recovery after Covid was the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Vets, became energy independent, built the wall and stopped the massive inflow of illegals into our Country, and so much more. And now, illegals are pouring in, pipelines are being stopped, taxes will be going up, and we will no longer be energy independent.
This is a big moment for our country, and we cannot let it pass by using third rate "leaders" to dictate our future!
Abbott on Fox News blaming the green New deal for his power problems.
Meanwhile I'm cackling at all the pepe who moved to Texas for freedom.
Freedom from power
Freedom from water
Freedom from heat
:tauntaun
You want a preview of a seceded Texas, here you go.Coincidentally, Texas's electric grid is almost entirely internal:
Rush Limbaugh died. :ohyeah :sickohttps://twitter.com/RhetoricPJ/status/1362089913823461376
Rush Limbaugh died. :ohyeah :sicko
Trump finally found a phone and called into fox to remember rush by talking about how the election was stolen from him and if that had happened to a democrat there would be riots in the street.Well they literally asked him about his conversations with Rush after the election so he sort of calmly answered their question instead of screaming fake news :trumps
:confused
https://mobile.twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1362101808697643009
"Again, look, it's a no-brainer, right?" Kelly asked. "You're going to run for president in 2024, right?"THROUGH THE ROOF
"Well, we have tremendous support. I won't say yet, but we have tremendous support. And I'm looking at poll numbers and they're through the roof," said Trump.
Trump said his poll numbers have improved following his latest impeachment.
"I'm the only guy who gets impeached and my numbers go up," Trump joked.
Trump left the possibility of a presidential run at "you'll see what happens."
"It’s too early to say, but I see a lot of great polls out there. That's for sure," said Trump.
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https://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/1362272883775582209
:dobbs
:ohyeahThey just wanted to replace Lou's Trump boner with some good old Reaganism :lol
I was afraid fox business was going to force him to make sure the show was about business.
Wearing the same jeans and shoes, but his overnight bag appears to hold at least 10 days worth of clothes.Ted Cruz is a real MVP he doesn't leave the country without his gaming PC in case the bois need him for a raid
Odd.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1362433079885848580
:dunno
And despite all this he’s probably going to win the senate seat in 2024 again ::)
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Is there a worse storyteller than Rudy?
https://mobile.twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1362512103660265475
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When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.
“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”
That's some stupid as shit. Same dumb shit Obeezy got "roasted" for on policies.
Immigration details: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969083367/biden-tells-ice-to-chill-new-rules-limit-who-immigration-agents-target-for-arres
Regarding Porter: Why should a household of two making 100K get the same credit as a household of three making 100k?
Minimum wage:QuoteWhen Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.
“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898
Does nintenx have an alt account or something?
Fact check...and good on the Romans for teaching that fucking commie bastard a lesson that faith, hope and charity have no place in the real world.
Jesus was impeached and cancelled 2021 years ago.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713)
The boys are in trouble again :trumps
twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363221133143769090
EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL
Take, for example, when the FDA sought to ban the use of the term “almond milk,” arguing that milk alternatives like oat, soy, and coconut were not dairy, and therefore should not be able to call themselves “milk.”
As Trump FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at the time, “An almond doesn’t lactate, I will confess.”
Naturally, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, America’s Dairyland, introduced a bill in early 2017 that would ban the use of the term “milk” in nondairy products.
“If a consumer is confused about the source of a product labeled ‘almond milk,’ then he has bigger problems than being confused about which milk to buy,” said Justin Pearson, a senior attorney at the free market-based Institute for Justice. At the time, Pearson was also defending a dairy farmer against a Florida rule requiring she inject her all-natural skim milk with extra Vitamin D before she could call it “skim milk.”
But similar naming battles are headed to America based on the growth of the previously oxymoronic “plant-based meats” with which restaurants have been using to make vegetarian-friendly “impossible burgers.” Earlier this year, the European Union shot down an attempt to ban companies from using terms that compared meatless products to their carnivore-friendly counterparts, such as “veggie burgers.” A vegan-friendly hot dog, presumably, would likely be called something like a “tofu tube.”
27-year-old Lincoln, Nebraska man Ander Christensen appeared before his City Council last September with a heartfelt plea for the city’s leaders to ban the term “boneless wings” from use in restaurants.
“Boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders, which are already boneless,” Christensen pleaded to the council. “I don’t go to order boneless tacos. I don’t go and order boneless club sandwiches,” he said. “It’s just what’s expected.”
“tofu tube.”
tasty tofu :-\
By double digits, 46%-27%, those surveyed say they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. The rest are undecided.
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," Brandon Keidl, 27, a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee, says in an interview after being polled. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
Half of those polled say the GOP should become "more loyal to Trump," even at the cost of losing support among establishment Republicans.
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They express stronger loyalty to Trump the person (54%) than they did to the Republican Party that twice nominated him for the White House (34%).
A new USA Today/Suffolk Poll discovered that only 34% of Trump voters named Fox News as their "most trusted source of news." This is a massive 24% drop from the poll in October 2016, when 58% of former President Donald Trump supporters declared Fox News as their most trusted news source.
Trump voters are jumping the Fox News ship and embracing relative newcomers Newsmax and One American News Network. The poll of 1,000 Trump voters taken by phone between Feb. 15-19 found that 17% of Trump voters see Newsmax as their most trusted source of news, and 9% trust OANN.
Asked to describe what happened during the assault on the Capitol, 58% of Trump voters call it "mostly an antifa-inspired attack that only involved a few Trump supporters." That's more than double the 28% who call it "a rally of Trump supporters, some of whom attacked the Capitol." Four percent call it "an attempted coup inspired by President Trump."
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095)
I'm glad that after a month in office they've taken up time from his busy schedule to explain to Joe Biden what the Corona virus is :idont
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363965719319371777
:tauntaun
Or maybe she was referring to the fact that, as a host of a show which is about talking to people about current events, she couldn't find out when she was scheduled to get her turn, not that she should be first in line. But you know, it's Twitter, so shit takes are the norm and her dad was on the wrong side of politics so she's fair game for taking things out of context and running with your own narrative.https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701
Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.
Not even gonna google what Frazzledrip is.
A video that was found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who was jailed in 2017 for sexting with a minor, began circulating on the “dark web.” The video was found in a folder on the laptop’s hard drive called “life insurance” and was named “frazzledrip.”I rate this as unconfirmed.
... the video ... shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, Weiner’s former wife and longtime Clinton aide, raping and mutilating a young girl. Specifically, the video is supposed to show Clinton filleting the young girl’s face, and then taking turns with Abedin to wear the girl’s face as a mask in order to purposefully terrify the child so that her blood would be flooded with adrenochrome. The girl then bleeds out before Clinton and Abedin drink the blood during a Satanic ritual sacrifice.
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363965719319371777https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363920080766201861
:tauntaun
First off, fuck you. Second off, if she pays any attention she would know at her age she's months away in line. Something like a quarter of the states still haven't dropped the age to 65 yet. All the medical experts have been on TV saying by April or May everyone who wants to get one will be able to get one. It's not even March yet. You fucking dick.You're such a wanker.
https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701
Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.
Not even gonna google what Frazzledrip is.
Or maybe she was referring to the fact that, as a host of a show which is about talking to people about current events, she couldn't find out when she was scheduled to get her turn, not that she should be first in line. But you know, it's Twitter, so shit takes are the norm and her dad was on the wrong side of politics so she's fair game for taking things out of context and running with your own narrative.https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701
Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.
McCain, 36, reacted to Dr. Anthony Fauci's State of the Union interview on CNN, where he said it's "possible" that Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022 even if we return to "a significant degree of normality" by the end of the year.
"The fact that I, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View, don't know when or how I will be able to get a vaccine because the rollout for my age range and my health is so nebulous, I have no idea when and how I get it. I want to get it," the talk show host said. "If you call me at three o'clock in the morning, I will go any place at any time to get it.
She continued, "I want to be responsible and obviously wait my turn but this rollout has been a disaster."
"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.
The View co-host referenced Israel's "get a shot, take a shot" campaign. The slogan is in reference to how some bars are offering free shots to citizens after they get the first shot of their vaccine, per The Times of Israel. All Israeli residents over 16 years old have been eligible to get the vaccine since Feb. 3, according to the outlet.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193)
Orange manbadback
But you are quoting her literally saying that she wants to wait for her turn?I know, right?
Stro, you're such a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow :lol
"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.
https://twitter.com/old_rexevrythng/status/1364137695321100288https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193)
Orange manbadback
Attacking Biden on immigration?!?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1364082628094267392
:confused
Attacking Biden on immigration?!?"Sleepy Joe is a horrible person, he's just horrible. He's not letting these poor people into our country but he allows drugs to pour in so my poor silly boy makes a fool of himself on the social media.
she's being a twat:She's saying they need to give people some clarity. Be more specific than some time in the next few months...maybe.Quote"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.
She can literally just watch the covid updates that happen daily and find out that the plan is to have 600 million doses available by July.
We are *checks calendar* 33 days into the Biden admin, give it a second thicness.
Also, I'm pretty sure she has connections to get a shot (if she hasn't gotten it already) and is being performative.
there's no way that fat bitch ain't got the jab yet anyway :lolAgreed. Which is exactly why people trying to quote her out of context are even more fucking stupid. Why would she want to jump the queue when she's already jumped the fucking thing?
Thomas Webster was once assigned to work perimeter security at City Hall and at Gracie Mansion, which is the mayor's official residence.I wonder which mayor of New York that was :thinking
The Senate Homeland Security Committee is postponing a confirmation hearing scheduled Wednesday for Neera Tanden, Axios has learned, a potential death knell for President Biden's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget."cancel culture"
Could Neera Tanden lead to the Democrats using the nuclear option to get her confirmed :dead
and then still not getting the votes
Yogi Berra
:girlaff
Yogi Berra
:girlaff
tbf I forgive a Dutch guy for not knowing a famous old baseball player... I mean, how many Americans know who Ruud van Nistelrooij is?
Biden kills again!
https://mobile.twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585
Biden kills again!
I generally don't get angry at stuff I read on the internet cuz lul who caresBiden kills again!
https://mobile.twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585
It will surprise you, I'm sure, to know that this guy's been charged with just three misdemeanors, with a combined maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $1500 fine.
Sleepy Joe vs Sleepy Ben in 2024 is too good for this universe."Mr. Biden some Americans are wondering when will the troops come home?"
Quote“tofu tube.”
:mouf
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The Biden administration's task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow separated families the option of being reunified either in the U.S. or their county of origin, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday.
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech.":american
In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."
"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."
Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."
"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."
But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."
Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."
"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."
Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."
"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.
Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."
"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-calls-on-nadler-to-hold-house-judiciary-hearing-on-dangerous-trend-of-cancel-cultureThe top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech.":american
In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."
"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."
Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."
"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."
But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."
Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."
"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."
Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."
"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.
Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."
"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-calls-on-nadler-to-hold-house-judiciary-hearing-on-dangerous-trend-of-cancel-cultureThe top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech.":american
In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."
"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."
Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."
"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."
But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."
Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."
"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."
Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."
"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.
Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."
"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
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nintex alt???
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1366895908202418178
feel the bern you stupid ass biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!! :bernie
U.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee’s cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views and was shared on social media by President Donald Trump and his eldest son.
“We raised close to $2 million,” the Republican congressional hopeful said of the three-minute spot, which showed her marching in a red dress and high heels past abandoned buildings in Baltimore, asserting that Democrats do not care about Black lives.
But later that night, Klacik’s staff told her it would be best to stop disclosing how much money the ad had raised for her campaign against Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) — because she wouldn’t be keeping much of it, Klacik recounted in an interview.
The company that produced the video, Arsenal Media Group, would take a cut. And a firm hired to promote the video, Olympic Media, would keep up to 70 percent of the money it generated, some of which was not disclosed in Klacik’s initial campaign finance filings.
Klacik, a self-described college dropout who launched a nonprofit organization to help disadvantaged women before running for office, said she did not personally approve or know about the contract with Olympic Media until that conversation.
“When I saw it, I almost passed out,” she said.
Her campaign is an example of how some consulting firms are profiting handsomely from Republican candidates who have robust appeal in today’s politically charged environment — even when they are running in deep-blue districts where it is virtually impossible for them to win. The more viral the candidate goes, the more money the companies make — a model possible only through the online outrage machine of hyperpartisan politics.
By the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.
Johnson was challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a national target of conservative scorn. Like Klacik, he urged Black voters to abandon the Democratic Party, saying it had served them poorly. Like Klacik, he lost by a wide margin — nearly 40 percentage points.
He raised about $12 million from donors across the country. After Olympic’s share and other fundraising costs were deducted, just $5 million remained, Lazzaro estimated.
Klacik certainly got something for the millions she paid her vendors: a national political platform.
Within days of the Baltimore ad’s release, she landed a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. By October, she’d taken in more than $6 million — mostly from small-dollar donors across the country.
She spent more than $50,000 on private jets. She joined Donald Trump Jr. at a rally in Arizona, and the president himself in Atlanta to announce a plan to increase capital in Black communities. She traveled her district on a customized bus and spent thousands of dollars on a campaign event at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington.
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/klacik-gop-campaign-donations/2021/03/02/76300fde-7077-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.htmlU.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee’s cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views and was shared on social media by President Donald Trump and his eldest son.
“We raised close to $2 million,” the Republican congressional hopeful said of the three-minute spot, which showed her marching in a red dress and high heels past abandoned buildings in Baltimore, asserting that Democrats do not care about Black lives.
But later that night, Klacik’s staff told her it would be best to stop disclosing how much money the ad had raised for her campaign against Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) — because she wouldn’t be keeping much of it, Klacik recounted in an interview.
The company that produced the video, Arsenal Media Group, would take a cut. And a firm hired to promote the video, Olympic Media, would keep up to 70 percent of the money it generated, some of which was not disclosed in Klacik’s initial campaign finance filings.
Klacik, a self-described college dropout who launched a nonprofit organization to help disadvantaged women before running for office, said she did not personally approve or know about the contract with Olympic Media until that conversation.
“When I saw it, I almost passed out,” she said.
Her campaign is an example of how some consulting firms are profiting handsomely from Republican candidates who have robust appeal in today’s politically charged environment — even when they are running in deep-blue districts where it is virtually impossible for them to win. The more viral the candidate goes, the more money the companies make — a model possible only through the online outrage machine of hyperpartisan politics.QuoteBy the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.QuoteJohnson was challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a national target of conservative scorn. Like Klacik, he urged Black voters to abandon the Democratic Party, saying it had served them poorly. Like Klacik, he lost by a wide margin — nearly 40 percentage points.
He raised about $12 million from donors across the country. After Olympic’s share and other fundraising costs were deducted, just $5 million remained, Lazzaro estimated.QuoteKlacik certainly got something for the millions she paid her vendors: a national political platform.
Within days of the Baltimore ad’s release, she landed a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. By October, she’d taken in more than $6 million — mostly from small-dollar donors across the country.
She spent more than $50,000 on private jets. She joined Donald Trump Jr. at a rally in Arizona, and the president himself in Atlanta to announce a plan to increase capital in Black communities. She traveled her district on a customized bus and spent thousands of dollars on a campaign event at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington.
It’s called “consequences.”
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
It’s called “consequences.”
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Before I'd even seen who posted this while scrolling up on mobile I thought, 'the tone of that reply sounds like chronovore' :P
Last June, 60% in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll described Floyd's death as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Uncertainty has grown about how to characterize the incident, caught on video, when Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck and ignored his protests that he couldn't breathe. Last year, 4% said they didn't know how to describe it; that number has climbed to 17%.
Nearly two-thirds of Black Americans, 64%, view Floyd's death as murder; fewer than one-third of white people, 28%, feel that way. White Americans are more likely to describe it instead as the police officer's "negligence," 33% compared with 16% of Black respondents.
That said, Americans who have heard at least something about Chauvin's trial say 4 to 1, or 60%-15%, that they hope Chauvin is convicted. That included 54% of white Americans and 76% of Black Americans.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367907295364005898
Sinema began her political career in the Arizona Green Party and rose to prominence for her progressive advocacy, supporting causes such as LGBT rights and opposing the war on terror.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367907295364005898https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436 (https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436)
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436 (https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436)
:neogaf
From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 69.6 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means that although Americans are working more productively than ever, the fruits of their labors have primarily accrued to those at the top and to corporate profits, especially in recent years.
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.
Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.
Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.
Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.
Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.
Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.
Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.
Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.
Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
It's the truth. Minimum wage was an incentive for employers to hire people and an opportunity for job seekers to receive entry-level jobs in which they can learn and grow. Minimum wage was not created to be something an individual or family could live upon.
Don't carp because we've chosen to redefine the term rather than address its problems.
Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweated labor which had developed in the wake of industrialization.[19] Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying them what were considered nonliving wages that did not allow workers to afford the necessaries of life.[20] Besides substandard wages, sweating was also associated with long work hours and unsanitary and unsafe work conditions.[21] From the 1890s to the 1920s, during the Progressive Era, a time of social activists and political reform across the United States, progressive reformers, women's organizations, religious figures, academics, and politicians all played an important role in getting state minimum wage laws passed throughout the United States.[22]
The first successful attempts at using minimum wage laws to ameliorate the problem of nonliving wages occurred in the Australian state of Victoria in 1896.[23][24] Factory inspector reports and newspaper reporting on the conditions of sweated labor in Melbourne, Victoria led in 1895 to the formation of the National Anti-Sweating League which pushed the government aggressively to deal legislatively with the problem of substandard wages.[25] The government, following the recommendation of the Victorian Chief Secretary Alexander Peacock, established wage boards which were tasked with establishing minimum wages in the labor trades which suffered from unlivable wages. During the same time period, campaigns against sweated labor were occurring in the United States and England.[26]
In the United States, the earliest minimum wage laws were state laws focused on women and children.[27] These laws were struck down by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937.[27] The first federal minimum wage law, which exempted large parts of the workforce, was enacted in 1938 and set rates that had become obsolete during World War II.[27]
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.Yep, the issue is that the minimum wage has barely moved with inflation though.
Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.
Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
I agree Nintex, thats why I buy lottery tickets. Great wealth is within my graspThe James Fund had an insane ROI for what it was :rejoice
I agree Nintex, thats why I buy lottery tickets. Great wealth is within my graspThe James Fund had an insane ROI for what it was :rejoice
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000The contrast between this hypernormal boring shit and the Trump extravaganza is just :yeshrug
:lol :lol
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000He could literally soil himself on stage and still be better at the job than Trump.
:lol :lol
No doubt, being bad at 'any' job is basically the only thing Trump was ever any good at. :lolhttps://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000He could literally soil himself on stage and still be better at the job than Trump.
:lol :lol
Checks are on the way
:preach :preach :preach
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwKBUilWgAAwdMQ?format=png)Looks like someone had a word to him about this, "Office of the Former President" business
You forgot to ask people to donate :doge
(https://external-preview.redd.it/mdVl0703LbLKlaimYauaPKfCuJ4G3FnjwypF8rcNXcY.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e60521f70cf269a2c13f4dd69c5303f145eb534)Yeah, but that was the CoronaVirus, not this COVID thing.
A year ago
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You forgot to ask people to donate :doge
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You forgot to ask people to donate :doge
We could stop Trump from launching the nukes and destroying the world with a well placed Fox News ad or Tucker Carlson segment.
But how do we reach Biden :existential
We could stop Trump from launching the nukes and destroying the world with a well placed Fox News ad or Tucker Carlson segment.
But how do we reach Biden :existential
Last month that fight went to a new level when Democratic congressman Salud Carbajal and Republican Brian Fitzpatrick introduced The Kangaroo Protection Act to the US Congress. Should it become law, it would outright ban the importation of kangaroo products into the US.:cac
The move builds off a campaign called “kangaroos are not shoes” run by a coalition of animal rights groups looking to pressure brands such as Nike into abandoning the use of kangaroo leather in their products. The website compares the commercial harvest of kangaroos to the slaughter of seals in Canada and calls for similar protections to those given to the American eagle, asking: “Why kill the beloved Australia icon?”
Donovan’s answer is blunt: that’s white people thinking. To make the point he first served up a dish on Australia Day in 2006 made from native ingredients that included kangaroo and emu – both the animals that appear on the Australian coat of arms.
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"The commercial kangaroo industry offers a path for self-determination for Aboriginal people. And now another group of non-Indigenous are talking about taking it away entirely,” he says.
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While that certification system is something he wants to work towards, Mallard says a blanket ban like that currently being proposed in the US would kill off the opportunity to build a culturally-appropriate industry on country before it can develop.
“Who’s creating the rules here?” Mallard says. “If you had fair representation of First Nations people from northern America, and they heard our story, there wouldn’t be a ban. There would be understanding.
“Why should others have rights over our native animal? Over us? They’ve taken our land, they’ve locked us out of political decision making and the corporate power base.
number of days without dementia 0 :trumps
http://twitter.com/smc429/status/1371255935306321922
In 2018, the WEP once again endorsed Cuomo, this time against Cynthia Nixon. Zimet was again apologetic. But what could she do? “Yes, Cynthia is a woman, and yes she represents a lot of our values, but we have a governor who literally created the party,” she pleaded to the Times.
The WEP was doing double duty on the ballot, aimed not just at voters sympathetic to women’s equality, but also as a hedge against a party with an almost identical acronym: the Working Families Party. In 2014, the WFP flirted with endorsing Teachout but won a set of promises from Cuomo and ended up endorsing him. He quickly broke all the promises, and the WFP endorsed Nixon in 2018, touching off a civil war that has led to the rapid fracturing of Cuomo’s political architecture.
That year, Cuomo and his running mate Kathy Hochul embarked on a tour of the state aboard the “Women’s Equality Express,” a pink-and-blue striped campaign bus.
Joe Biden exists that's about the extend of it.
Guam Congressman Michael San Nicolas, accompanied by dozens of Guam Guard personnel, delivered Chamorro cookies to the office of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who sparked controversy when she lumped Guam with foreign countries undeserving of U.S. aid.https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1371544791994019844
In her comments during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Orlando, Florida, Greene said: “We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America. Not for, what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever.”
This got the ire of Guam residents, including the governor’s office, which offered to send Greene a copy of “Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam.”
San Nicolas was more diplomatic, pointing out that Greene was a new member of Congress and promising to send the congresswoman a bag of Chamorro Chip cookies as part of his outreach to introduce Guam to new members of the House.
On Monday, San Nicolas lived up to his promise and delivered a basket of Chamorro cookies to Greene’s office accompanied by a delegation from the Guam Guard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/obama-stimulus-democrats.htmlWasn't it Larry Summers who engineered the Obama recovery policies along with Geithner and Bernanke?
heh
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346)It's all a British plot to restore the monarchy to the United States. Step One - install Prince as first Lady
Trump vs Markle :dead
The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials.
The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial "gag order" and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic.
Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for "ride-alongs" with agents along the southern land border; local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval; and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said.
Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children; they have been denied. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.
The Trump-supporting Border Patrol labor union is reportedly teaming up with Republicans to launch a PR offensive on Biden’s government. At the same time, officers have chosen to continue to treat migrants at the border like Trump is still president
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“This is a planned, coordinated attempt to sabotage the Biden administration,” said Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent-turned-immigrant rights activist who works with the Southern Border Communities Coalition.
Budd added that the fact that unaccompanied minors are being kept at Border Patrol stations for extended periods of time appears to be “an internal crisis” of the agency’s own creation: “It does not take that long to process children.”
Budd recounted a time when she approached a border station in 2019 and spoke to agents who were aware that she had been part of the agency but were not aware of her current immigration activism: “I asked them why it was taking them so long to process — it didn’t take that long [even] when I had to hand-write everything back in the day — and they would say, ‘We’re trying to teach them a lesson’. So they were intentionally keeping people in there for over two weeks at a time in these conditions to punish them. That is the only reason why they were doing that.”
Budd continued on to say that the same people who responsible for harsh treatment of migrants during the Trump era are still in charge: “They do this on purpose. And none of that has changed in the management has not changed at all. But the same people who separated families and created the last crisis are doing it again.”
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But Budd, the former Border Patrol agent, said even the best attempts at house-cleaning at Customs and Border Protection by newly minted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be insufficient as long as the Border Patrol’s union continues to exercise an effective veto over policy by “spreading propaganda” with the help of Republican officials.
When asked what Biden and his administration can do to prevent the agency from continuing to operate as if the president doesn’t make policy, her answer was simple. “He has to decertify the union,” she said.
President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday that his message to migrants is "Don't come over.":usacry
Amid a surge of migrants and unaccompanied minors on the U.S. southern border, Stephanopoulos asked the president, "Do you have to say quite clearly, 'Don't come'?"
"Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don't come over," Biden said during the wide-ranging interview in Darby, Pennsylvania.
"Don't leave your town or city or community," he added.
CNN has been hemorrhaging viewers since former President Trump left office, losing roughly half of its audience in key measurables since January following a brief post-Election Day spike.:usacry
CNN averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers from Nov. 4, the day following the presidential election, through Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. But viewers fled the network once President Biden took office, and CNN has averaged only 1.6 million primetime viewers from Jan. 21 through March 15.
CNN’s viewership during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET dropped 36% since Biden took office after it spiked following Election Day. CNN’s primetime viewership decline was even sharper among the key demographic of adults age 25-to-54, plummeting 47% during the same period.
CNN averaged 1.7 million viewers from Nov. 4 through Jan. 20, but it dropped to 1.1 million since Biden took office for a 34% fall. During the same period, CNN shed 44% of its total day viewers among the key demo, dropping from an average of 483,000 to only 272,000.
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438)
You mean this isn't exciting for viewers? :huh
In order to bail out mainstream news, they should make the primary season 3.6 years long.
There is good Biden content, they just don’t air it on tv.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKBT3I-RzQ
“I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.”
"I wish you good health, without irony or jokes"
did i just sign into neogaf with all the biden shit posting?
wow
did i just sign into neogaf with all the biden shit posting?
Tasty can laugh at Biden if he wants to.
Nintex, filler, and Piss Benoit can't.
Tasty can laugh at Biden if he wants to.
Nintex, filler, and Piss Benoit can't.
shut the fuck up nintexI always knew you were an alt :ohhh
An angry Fauci dithered when Senator Paul presented logical evidence that the masks were being used as ‘theater,’ not science. To Paul, the masks are comedy—a joke. To Fauci, they are about protecting us from tragedy. To me, the real tragedy is forcing us into medical tyranny. The pandemic has been staged.
Dr. Fauci is Bill Gates’ point man on the pandemic. Even though the virus has never been isolated or verified, and even though the PCR tests are not dependable, vaccines were rushed out and heavily promoted by politicians (including Trump) and the mass media.
Senator Paul may not like the masks, but he’s all for getting people vaccinated. On FoxNews he claimed the vaccines were ‘very, very safe.’ This includes the mRNA vaccine, which isn’t even a vaccine but rather ‘gene therapy.’ It hacks into the software of life. Gates loves the idea of people getting turned into bio computers who require his constant software updates. Apparently Paul prefers to ignore a plethora of stories that include people dropping dead shortly after getting jabbed. He also alluded that once people are vaccinated, they will again have ‘twinkles in their eyes’ as they get to enjoy their favorite restaurant. This hints at the ominous—we can’t get our freedom back until we get vaccinated.
Bill Gates’ COVID-19 theater production contains far more tragedy than comedy. Senator Paul is correct to laugh at Fauci’s double masks, but it’s tragic that he has ultimately sided with Bill Gates.
;)shut the fuck up nintexI always knew you were an alt :ohhh
But the scene may not be all that it appears to be. Immigrant rights advocates and others claim that the footage was staged, potentially with the cooperation of the Border Patrol. CNN was warned that the clip appeared to be a fabrication before it aired, but the network decided to run it anyway. A similar clip that appears to show the same or a similar trafficking incident from another angle was shared across right-wing media and even linked to on the social media accounts of members of Congress. This clip went viral among immigration opponents, and is helping to fuel the story of an out-of-control border. The video—legitimized on mainstream media—easily fit into that narrative. Now a series of charges and counter-charges have demonstrated the radioactive politics of immigration.
The scene appears to be just a preview of what’s to come. Yesterday’s Sunday shows centered on the border, fueling a crisis narrative as the administration continued to double down on its “border is closed” messaging.
In the CNN footage, the smuggler leading the boat wears fatigues and a black ski mask. Smugglers typically attempt to blend in with the migrants, to avoid more severe punishment should they be caught. Smugglers also don’t normally provide face masks and life vests, nor ferry six boatloads of people across in broad daylight. Migrants also don’t typically line up single file along the shore to cross.
To Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, the smuggler’s face mask rang alarm bells. “That told me [the smuggler] knew he would be filmed and he didn’t want to be set up,” she said.
The National Butterfly Center, a conservation organization that became involved in migration issues when the Trump administration attempted to build the border wall across its reservation, posted on Facebook and Twitter about the videos. Wright told the Prospect that she alerted CNN to the possibility that the trafficking incident may have been staged prior to the footage being aired live. “Then, we saw CNN air the same staged event, shot from the river—not the riverbank—with claims that Ed Lavandera just ‘stumbled upon’ it ‘within 10 minutes,’” the group posted on Facebook.
The Butterfly Center alleged that Tim Wilkins, “a failed, local GOP candidate running on an anti-immigration platform … arranged for CNN to be there at the appointed time and place.”
CNN has not yet responded to a request for comment. But in tweets, its head of communications Matt Dornic maintains that the two videos were not shot on the same day. In another tweet, Dornic wrote, “CNN did not participate in any type of coordinated effort to shoot a staged scene of migrants crossing the river nor have we found any credible evidence that suggests our team was unknowingly part of a set-up by Border Patrol or anyone else.”
Budd says that the Tripwires & Triggers footage often gets picked up by larger media outlets. In a March 18 Medium post titled “How Border Patrol Manipulates Media,” Budd wrote, “Republicans [are] making photo ops by visiting the border and espousing lies and by right-wing white nationalists setting up fake scenarios of smuggling for the press to capture.”
Jones’s footage from the shore was also shared by Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Twitter. Neither congressman has yet responded to a request for comment. “We have to understand and address the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that lead migrants to the U.S.,” Cuellar wrote in the tweet. Cuellar also showed the video at a local roundtable event, and would not respond to local reporters’ questions about the origins of the video.
Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”:brain
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According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”:brain
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According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”:brain
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According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”:brain
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According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
Sadly it's gonna be hard to prove malice under American defamation standards unless she told a friend "all of this is to overturn the legitimate election result".
He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.
"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.
Oddly enough, no one posted the Sidney news on Neogaf.
Curious.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374492329097060359
:jared
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952)
:wut
Well it's an improvement from blaming Russia I guess.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374492329097060359
:jared
He's on TV right now, answering questions.
That is literally the plot of Kingdom Hearts :doge
https://twitter.com/jimswiftdc/status/1375077737539452928
:info
https://twitter.com/jimswiftdc/status/1375077737539452928
:info
A Republican former professional wrestler is district hopping in the hopes of winning a U.S. House seat — and is totally changing his personality in the hopes of making his congressional dreams a reality.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83s6xqRTqVk
Dan Rodimer won the GOP nomination in Nevada's 3rd District in November in 2020. He went on to lose to Democratic Rep. Susie Lee by a 3-point margin in the suburban Las Vegas-based seat.
A little more than four months later, he's back, this time running in a special election in a Dallas-based seat more than 1,200 miles away — and he's almost unrecognizable from his previously failed bid.
In his Nevada race, Rodimer ran ads painting himself as a clean-cut, family man — wearing a collared shirt and seated on a couch with his wife and five children.
In the ad, he was defending himself from reports that he had been accused of assault three times between 2010 and 2013. According to a report from the Associated Press in October 2019, Rodimer was accused of punching men "at or outside of nightclubs."
Now, Rodimer is back and running in a special election in Texas' 6th District — a Dallas-based House seat left vacant after Rep. Ron Wright died following a COVID-19 diagnosis.
And Rodimer looks like a totally different person, donning a cowboy hat and positioning himself as a rodeo bull rider with a Texas accent.
Suck senile cock like your ree account depends on it fellas :biden :kermit
I read this post in joe biden stutter voice :bidenSuck senile cock like your ree account depends on it fellas :biden :kermit
Laughing of people suffering stuttering is fucking low.
I'm currently in talks with the bore administration to remove my likes for filler posts because I wish to not be associated with that ick.Likes are permanent no refunds :hmph
I'm currently in talks with the bore administration to remove my likes for filler posts because I wish to not be associated with that ick.Likes are permanent no refunds :hmph
lesson learnt, no gaysFACT CHECK:
lesson learnt, no gaysFACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1376633423813611521
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtimeI dunno, it seems like being governor or senator somewhere in the deep red states does the trick.
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime
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let the hoe-down begin!
https://www.axios.com/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-investigation-2755fd4f-f72e-4283-b8ac-9233c952b914.htmlQuoteRep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.
are we the baddies jif
https://www.axios.com/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-investigation-2755fd4f-f72e-4283-b8ac-9233c952b914.htmlQuoteRep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.
are we the baddies jif
Oh, my God, that's disgusting! A man in his 30s meeting a 17 year old girl? Where? Where did he meet her?
https://twitter.com/adrianachavira/status/1377393183676538884
:cac
Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN
Behind the scenes, Gaetz gained a reputation in Congress over his relationships with women and bragging about his sexual escapades to his colleagues, multiple sources told CNN.
Gaetz allegedly showed off to other lawmakers photos and videos of nude women he said he had slept with, the sources told CNN, including while on the House floor. The sources, including two people directly shown the material, said Gaetz displayed the images of women on his phone and talked about having sex with them. One of the videos showed a naked woman with a hula hoop, according to one source.
"It was a point of pride," one of the sources said of Gaetz.
Reports: Gaetz Caught On Surveillance Vid With Alleged Sex Trafficker Sifting Through IDs
CNN reported overnight that an employee at the tax collector’s office once saw Greenberg and Gaetz on an internal surveillance video, looking through driver licenses on a weekend evening.
The Daily Beast and The Orlando Sentinel, meanwhile, reported that surveillance camera footage showed Greenberg and another man in the Lake Mary branch of the tax collector’s office at night.
An employee at that office reportedly arrived on Monday morning to find driver licenses scattered on the desk, instead of in a disposal basket. She told her boss, who asked Greenberg what had happened in a text message. The text, which the Daily Beast said was dated April 16, 2018, was shared with federal investigators last January, the outlets reported.
“Did you happen to visit the Lake Mary Office on the weekend?” the message read, according to the Daily Beast.
“Yes I was showing congressman Gaetz what our operation looked like,” Greenberg reportedly replied. “Did I leave something on?”
On September 4, 2017, Greenberg allegedly illegally obtained the name, photograph and driver identification number of the “Minor Victim” discussed in the indictments — a girl between 14 and 17 years old who Greenberg is accused of causing to engage in a commercial sex act sometime between May and November 2017.
This is where new reporting, again, makes things worse for Gaetz: The New York Times reported Thursday that Greenberg met women through websites such as Seeking Arrangement — a destination for so-called Sugar Daddy/Baby relationships — and then introduced them to Gaetz for sex.
The Times also reported that the 17-year-old girl federal investigators are trying to determine whether Gaetz had sex with is the same girl that is discussed in the sex trafficking count against Greenberg.
In other words: Greenberg is accused of illegally accessing the government information of a 17-year-old girl in 2017, and also of sex trafficking her. And new reporting indicates that authorities are aware of a 2018 text message in which Greenberg acknowledges bringing Gaetz by a branch of the tax collector’s office at night, where an employee later found a mess of IDs scattered on a desk.
He was also a guest on :info ‘s show before doing a takesies backsies and denouncing him :biden
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.
Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
As the midterm campaign’s first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.:money
The New York Democrat sent the contributions to her colleagues to help keep the House majority ahead of a tough cycle without directly contributing to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with which she’s publicly clashed. But Ocasio-Cortez's largesse — and an oversight at the campaign headquarters — has instead raised awkward questions among her colleagues as some swing-district Democrats fret over whether to return her money before the GOP can turn it into an attack ad.
Some members whose campaigns got unexpected Ocasio-Cortez cash are seeking answers directly from DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) and his top staffers. DCCC aides gave lawmakers’ wire transfer information to Ocasio-Cortez's aides without the approval of more senior officials, according to multiple people familiar with the contributions.
Even if imperiled House Democrats refund her contribution now, Ocasio-Cortez’s name is almost certain to show up on their Federal Election Commission reports when they’re due this month — creating a liability for members of her party who have to win reelection in districts where her political brand is poisoned thanks to years of unrelenting Republican attacks.
While some are grateful for the infusion of cash, at least three Democrats have so far either declined the initial transfer or said they would return the money: Reps. Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, according to multiple sources.
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.
Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.
Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.
Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.
Gender dysphoria was declassified as a disorder - and correspondingly being automatically covered by things like health insurance, or having diagnostic criteria - as a result of activists fighting in favour of self certification and equating it to an attempt at relitigating homosexuality as a psychological disorder, and labelling those who consider it a primarily medical condition with a known treatment "truscum".
I would suggest the underlying issue here is semantic; someone with severe gender dysphoria should not be denied treatment, but they are also not in the same position as a 40 year old man with a wife and kids who just 'realised' they're actually trans now and want to opt into being a member of a protected class based on self identification as such, and having no symptoms (or even desire) for any treatment or alteration.
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.
If they want to still do it when they become of age, who gives a shit, have fun. You can't do it to kids on the whim of adults though. The "actual underlying issue" is a fundamental disagreement as to whether or not it helps the children to do any of this to them when they're still young.
For the record further, social transitioning is not made illegal by the bill, only medical barbarism.
legislation being made that arbitrarily makes them wait to become what they already arehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj_48e3-hKA
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic :social2
While I suspect Arkansas is just trying to fuck with people, permanent life and body altering surgery before adulthood is probably not a good idea.
There are cases where trans people who had surgery as adults went back to living as their original gender. If the choice is that difficult for adults, then children should probably wait.
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic :social2
I think this is real but cant actually tell
“For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them. Now they are going big time with the WOKE CANCEL CULTURE and our sacred elections,” Trump said in a statement on Saturday released by Save America PAC.
He then called for Republicans to "fight back" alleging that "we have more people than they do,"and urged conservatives to boycott specific companies including Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines and Citigroup.
“It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back— we have more people than they do— by far! Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS and Merck. Don’t go back to their products until they relent. We can play a better game than them,” he said.
He then repeated unproven claims that the 2020 election had been ‘rigged’ against him.
"They rigged and stole our 2020 Presidential Election, which we won by a landslide, and then, on top of that, boycott and scare companies into submission. Never submit, never give up! The Radical Left will destroy our Country if we let them. We will not become a Socialist Nation. Happy Easter!" the former president wrote.
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic :social2
How did you get ahead of the news?
Who do you know and when did you know it
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done
In this case, almost by definition they can't give informed consent.
Many of the potential effects are impossible to understand as a kid. If you get early puberty blocking drugs, there is no way you can truly understand the risk of reduced or eliminated sexual function 15 years later. For a natal boy, the drugs can prevent genital growth, which is doubly dangerous because it means there isn't enough tissue for the most effective surgeries if that ended up being the plan, and also means reduced or eliminated sexual function if you decide against surgery. And indeed, many trans adults don't want surgery on their functional genitals at all; it shouldn't be assumed they will.
Similarly, it is hard to argue that kids can truly understand the implications of sterilization when that is part of a procedure.
There is also very little research on how the drugs affect the brain.
Although the effects of the hormones are permanent, the claim is always that puberty blockers are reversible. This is the biggest thing that makes me skeptical, because it is clearly a lie. There isn't enough research to come anywhere near saying it is reversible as it is used in these circumstances (the research is on younger children given blockers, not on how it affects people through their teens physically and mentally). Moreover, once you start with puberty blockers, you are virtually guaranteed to continue to the permanent hormones, so the "reversible" claim is disingenuous. On the contrary, it could easily be argued that the puberty blockers put you into a suspended state where you never obtain the ability to give informed consent, because you never learn what you would be risking.
Given that the blatant lie about "reversibility" is present everywhere I look on this subject, it makes it seem likely that kids are also lied to when they are considering starting the procedure.
That said, the argument on the other side is that the benefits (such as potentially preventing suicide, and the effect on adult appearance) are so overwhelming that they outweigh informed consent and all the risks, and that can't be dismissed. It is an impossible dilemma especially with the lack of research.
At the end of the day it comes down to whether a person views the surgery as necessary or not, and if 2% regret it that still leaves 98% who don't.
And comes down to a decision between the people affected and their doctors and not people on the internet talking about mutilations or anti-LGBTQ politicians using the issue as a faultline. It's one of those things that if you just let the issue be the community will figure out the answer themselves and in a decade or two people will forget this was ever a thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088
Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair
“If Google’s unprecedented approach to transformation were to become the law, a producer who makes an unauthorized feature film of the hit TV series Game of Thrones (HBO 2011) could claim that the use was new, innovative, and socially valuable, and therefore a transformative fair use—a preposterous legal position.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088
Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088
Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair
Jesus Christ, it only took a fucking decade to get to the final decision that interoperability is not theft
It's one of those things that if you just let the issue be the community will figure out the answer themselves and in a decade or two people will forget this was ever a thing.Nah, that's about when the lawsuits will all be hitting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/12/12/trump-reportedly-drinks-12-cans-of-diet-coke-each-day-is-that-healthy/
How many hours until Trump is photographed breaking his own boycott
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Well about that boycottlmao they set up an 'oval office' so he can still be 'President'.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1379175308256022534
Well about that boycott(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyP9aMDWUAc0EfO?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://mobile.twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1379175308256022534
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088
Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair
Jesus Christ, it only took a fucking decade to get to the final decision that interoperability is not theft
I'm convinced Oracle actually bribed someone/the judge at the Circuit Court of Appeals. This was settled by a jury until that ruling reversed everything.
Oddly the Supreme Court seems to take the stance that similar fair use/software copyright cases should be decided by a judge "as a matter of law, not fact," meaning juries shouldn't be the deciders in such cases. :thinking (I believe, if I understand what I'm reading so far.)
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.
You know who uses most of that infrastructure? Poors, minorities and demoncrats!
Better to just let everyone pull their own bootstraps, that way only thewhiteshard-workers will prosper! True meritocracy.
obvious /s
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.
It's more that the GOP is opposed to anything the Dirty Dems support. Trump easily could have passed an infrastructure package with 100% GOP support but he never actually did any work to put one together or gave a shit about it anyway so nothing got done.
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican.
Giuliani, 35, who has never held public office, told The New York Times that he was “strongly considering” the idea and looking to make a decision by the end of the month.
He was more emphatic in an interview with the Washington Examiner, saying he planned to run, and “I believe I can win the race.”
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is helping Caitlyn Jenner as she very seriously explores running for Governor in California, Fox News has learned.
A source familiar told Fox News that Parscale is helping Jenner. The source said the two have been friends since 2017.
The source told Fox News Parscale is helping to connect Jenner to "the best talent in the country" as she considers mounting a gubernatorial campaign.
"She is very, very, very serious," the source said about Jenner’s potential campaign.
It’s a shocking total, one that dwarfs the nearly $728,000 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) pulled in during the first three months of 2019An ungodly sum for a freshman congressman in a 75% R district.
Everybody's running for governor!Quote from: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/andrew-giuliani-son-of-rudy-says-hes-considering-run-for-new-york-governor/2987302/Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican.
Giuliani, 35, who has never held public office, told The New York Times that he was “strongly considering” the idea and looking to make a decision by the end of the month.
He was more emphatic in an interview with the Washington Examiner, saying he planned to run, and “I believe I can win the race.”Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ex-campaign-manager-brad-parscale-helping-caitlyn-jenner-explore-run-for-california-governorFormer Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is helping Caitlyn Jenner as she very seriously explores running for Governor in California, Fox News has learned.
A source familiar told Fox News that Parscale is helping Jenner. The source said the two have been friends since 2017.
The source told Fox News Parscale is helping to connect Jenner to "the best talent in the country" as she considers mounting a gubernatorial campaign.
"She is very, very, very serious," the source said about Jenner’s potential campaign.
you know why?
Guys search Squirtle on TwitterI'm getting pictures of my favorite Pokemon :heart
"Should Trump buy Yahoo to prevent Answers from being shut down?" user asks.
"I think George Floyd died from HEALTH ISSUES?"
Four times in recent weeks, members of the White House press corps have relayed questions to press secretary Jen Psaki from someone claiming to be a fellow reporter who was not able to be there in the room due to Covid protocols.
That colleague, who goes by the name Kacey Montagu, doesn’t exist — at least not as an actual reporter.
Since late last year, Montagu has taken on the identity of a White House correspondent extraordinaire with a fictional outlet to boot: White House News, shortened in emails to WHN.
Montagu started two real-life Twitter handles, which are followed by some top White House officials and journalists. Montagu has filed Freedom of Information Act requests and obtained Psaki’s personal financial disclosure form, along with the disclosure of at least one other official, the president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.
In communications with confidants, Montagu has posed as a member of White House Correspondents Association, claiming to be a reporter for The Daily Mail, the British tabloid known for its gossipy coverage of celebrities and political figures. Montagu also communicates regularly with top White House reporters and has had several exchanges with White House officials.
But Montagu never joined WHCA and The Daily Mail. There is no Kacey Montagu, except as a digital impersonation of a White House correspondent.
“I love journalism, and I think the Press Corps is doing a pretty bad job at the moment, so I decided I would ensure some transparency and ask some questions me and some friends wanted the answer to,” Montagu said, when reached by email and asked why they were posing as a White House reporter.
Acquaintances online suspect much of the biographical information to be untrue. They believe Montagu’s White House moonlighting began as something to boast about in the online global gaming platform called ROBLOX, where users jokingly call themselves “Legos.” Within that platform is a role-playing group called nUSA, where people from across the world engage in a mock U.S. government exercise. At one point, Montagu had adopted the role of Secretary of State but resigned from that job after — as they recalled — ”the [nUSA] President went to war with some U.K. and I thought it was a pretty bad idea!”
Montagu’s play-acting as a White House reporter goes back at least to December, when he or she set up @WHschedule on Twitter. They repeatedly referenced the “schedule” account in emails as a primary duty. In March, they began sending tweets from @WHpoolreport. The accounts are rudimentary repostings of two sources of information reporters regularly consume: the president, first lady, vice president, and second gentleman’s daily schedules and the so-called pool reports, which are real time dispatches from a small group of journalists tasked with following around those principles during the course of the day and reporting back to the rest of the press corps on their movements and utterances.https://twitter.com/SecMontagu/status/1380683244983701507
“I created them as some fun but also to ensure that people know what is going on — they should be able to know what POTUS and V.P. is doing and I think the account following shows people are interested in that,” Montagu told POLITICO.
The accounts got attention from insiders, who quickly came to rely on their speed and efficiency. @WHSchedule had a following of more than 1,300, including several White House correspondents (some working at POLITICO). The new @WHPoolReport account amassed more than 600 in a few weeks' time, including some who work in the administration like Michael LaRosa, press secretary for Jill Biden and Symone Sanders, a senior advisor and chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048)
ok
I'm aware of the internet situation. I just think that the messaging is very weird.
"High speed internet is infrastructure"
Yes it is, what is your point?
You are the President with the most votes of any President in history get shit done. :idont
.... They're trying to pass an infrastructure bill you nonce.
.... They're trying to pass an infrastructure bill you nonce.
Won't the ISP monopoly still fuck you guys over even if infrastructure gets better?
(Looking into the bill it seems like it's also fighting for state owned ISPs. All I can say is, good luck getting that bill passed...)
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big if true
The context of the actual quote and what was "quoted" have pretty significantly different meanings and connotations, you fuck
Looks like riots are back on the menu boysSigns COVID is over
Looks like riots are back on the menu boysSigns COVID is over
- School shootings ✓
- Police killing ✓
- Riots after police killing ✓
- Sabre rattling with China/Russia ✓
Yeah man a sleazy house rep from the Florida Panhandle is really the last vanguard against the lame stream media and socialists
I think big tech censoring Trump had a much bigger influence but CNN might've increased turn-out. TV ratings have absolutely crashed post Trump's first term in office, that's for sure.
Anyhow, I just got a news alert that NATO is pulling back all troops from Afghanistan and the country has to maintain it's own security and peace.
The waron terrorfor the poppy fields is over boys.
Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday announced a six-figure ad buy for a spot that targets CNN, as he fights to save his political career amid sexual trafficking allegations.https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1382444386450030598
The new 30-second ad will be featured in the Florida Republican’s congressional district and nationally on select cable networks, according to a statement from Gaetz’s congressional campaign. The ad marks the beginning of Gaetz’s counteroffensive, as he “fights back against a multiweek fake news cycle against him,” it said.
“Now we see what’s really behind all of this: Democratic Party and media-driven smears aimed at taking out a Congressman of the United States,” a spokesperson for the Friends of Matt Gaetz said in the statement.
or used the republican's child abuse ring, both parties have one :trumps :bidenWhat you mean is both child abuse rings have a political party
according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.”:trumps
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But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.
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There were reasons to doubt the story from the start.
Quote from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intel-walks-back-claim-russians-put-bounties-on-american-troopsaccording to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.”:trumps
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But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.
...
There were reasons to doubt the story from the start.
I think you can be assured Trump dismissed it as a hoax not because he knew or believed it to be a hoax, but happened to be seemingly right about an out of hand support for Putin.
Joe Biden may be the president in name, but with the White House directly contradicting his proclamations twice in as many days and his notable absence from greeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, one has to ask: Who is actually running the country?:usacry
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All the while, Vice President Kamala Harris, the person Biden claimed to have put in charge of the border crisis, is everywhere but on the border. While Biden is in hiding, Harris has been gallivanting across the country, even greeting Suga in his place.
Biden may be the president, but clearly, the buck does not stop with him. So, who is actually running the country in his stead?
Free country my ass.
https://mobile.twitter.com/costcope/status/1384219093692141568
:fbm
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood said on Monday that he sometimes works up to 20 hours a day as part of his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Wood, a prominent Georgia lawyer who maintains that former President Donald Trump won the November election, was speaking at the Anderson County Republican Party Convention in South Carolina.
He is running for chair of the South Carolina Republican Party but Trump endorsed his opponent, current chairman Drew McKissick, in March.
"Since November the 3rd, 2020, I've spent sometimes 20 hours a day fighting to reverse the election that was stolen from Donald Trump," Wood said. "And I'm not going to quit until the truth comes out and Donald Trump is recognized as president of the United States."
The small crowd clapped and cheered Wood's comments and some rose to their feet.
Wood used his speech to offer some criticism of McKissick and suggested there could be issues with the way the state party was conducting the chair election, scheduled to take place in May.
McKissick told Newsweek in a statement on Tuesday: "Lin Wood is a carpetbagging RINO who's been in South Carolina for two months. Any suggestion or accusation of cheating or not being a true Republican is just a strategy out of the slick trial lawyer's handbook—a trial lawyer who donated to Obama twice and supported candidates endorsed by Planned Parenthood. Trump endorsed my re-election campaign and that speaks for itself."
McKissick told AP on April 7 that Trump had spoken to him over the phone and said the former president "was like, 'Who's this attorney guy who is running against you? Does he even live in South Carolina?'":usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/whos-the-president-because-its-apparently-not-joe-biden(https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-28-2015/x0BpVy.gif)
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083 (https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083)She seriously said that? Thanked the dude for dying?
:cac
Free country my ass.https://mobile.twitter.com/sergiombneves/status/1384247232799526914
:fbm
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy. Lot to unpack in that one tweet.
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.
Gender dysphoria was declassified as a disorder - and correspondingly being automatically covered by things like health insurance, or having diagnostic criteria - as a result of activists fighting in favour of self certification and equating it to an attempt at relitigating homosexuality as a psychological disorder, and labelling those who consider it a primarily medical condition with a known treatment "truscum".
I would suggest the underlying issue here is semantic; someone with severe gender dysphoria should not be denied treatment, but they are also not in the same position as a 40 year old man with a wife and kids who just 'realised' they're actually trans now and want to opt into being a member of a protected class based on self identification as such, and having no symptoms (or even desire) for any treatment or alteration.
If they want to still do it when they become of age, who gives a shit, have fun. You can't do it to kids on the whim of adults though. The "actual underlying issue" is a fundamental disagreement as to whether or not it helps the children to do any of this to them when they're still young.
For the record further, social transitioning is not made illegal by the bill, only medical barbarism.
DC might become a state :leon
Puerto Rico next :gladbron
DC might become a state :leon
Puerto Rico next :gladbron
why would manchin willingly give up control of the senate :mueller
Puerto Rico statehood is a trap, they’re just going to elect republicans.
:curious
I don't care about size, we let freaking Rhode Island be its own state despite being a small ass area.Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has the 2nd highest population density in the country. Only New Jersey is more dense.
It's still the right thing to do. [Puerto Rico]What if they don't want to be a State? 2020 was the first time they ever indicated they've wanted to become a State, traditionally the population has refused the burdens of Statehood to stay a unique Commonwealth. I think that Congress should deliberately ask them, but if they reject it again, Congress should not force them into it.
All the territories the U.S. controls should become states or independent nations.They should probably not be forced to become States or independent nations if they do not wish it. Certain territories would collapse if forced into statehood of either type, they subsist entirely on federal funds. Making them independent nations and sending them federal aid is not a solution considering how those funds are traditionally sent. We'd be overnight occupying even more countries.
He also freely admitted he did not vote for either incumbent Republican President Donald Trump — of whom he has been only obliquely critical, and never by name — or Democrat Joe Biden in the November election.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QBwUuiehwBQ/T4IExllkxQI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Rrxy4fkHypc/s1600/george-bush-gif.gif)
Instead, Bush wrote in Condoleezza Rice, who served as his secretary of state from 2005 to 2009.
He told her he did, too.
"She knows it," says Bush, 74, adding wryly: "But she told me she would refuse to accept the office."
The new Republican proposal is about a quarter of the size of President Joe Biden's more than $2 trillion proposal — and also smaller than former President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan from three years ago. It’s also significantly narrower than either of those other plans, focused primarily on transportation infrastructure along with items like broadband and water projects.
The GOP plan is still vague on one of the most important questions: how to pay for the spending. It leans on unspecified user fees; "financing tools" and enticing the private sector to open its pocketbook; and unused money from prior Covid relief bills.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the lead Senate Republican working on the counteroffer, emphasized Thursday that it's important that the package "not be so large as to fail to launch, which means sticking to actual infrastructure. That's why our framework works. It serves as a realistic, thoughtful approach that addresses the core areas of infrastructure that we all agree upon."
Former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner on Friday officially announced her bid for governor of California.
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Jenner said in a statement that "Sacramento needs an honest leader with a clear vision" and that "for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people."
The statement decries California's taxes as "too high" and criticizes an "over-restrictive lockdown" response to the COVID pandemic including on in-person schooling.
"This is Gavin Newsom’s California, where he orders us to stay home but goes out to dinner with his lobbyist friends."
A campaign adviser tells Axios that Jenner has greater name ID than Newsom and can command the kind of earned media that "will go to every possible demographic you could think of."
"She's running as someone that's socially liberal and fiscally conservative."Hope this recall has a million candidates again :hyper
The former president, who started sending press releases via email to get around his social media bans, also claimed his new way of communicating was "better.":trumps
"I'm really getting a big word out because we're doing releases," Trump said, according to Newsweek. "And every time I do a release it's all over the place. It's better than Twitter, much more elegant than Twitter. And Twitter now is very boring, a lot of people are leaving Twitter."
"When I started with Twitter years ago it was like a failed thing, concept, media platform," Trump continued. "And it became exciting. And I think I had a lot to do with it, to be honest with you."
"I'm really getting a big word out because we're doing releases,"
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Can we get a Kamala laughing emoji?
The US stock market has seen better returns in Joe Biden's first 100 days than under any president in the past 75 years
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-performance-president-biden-100-days-best-75-years-2021-4-1030346645?utm_source=reddit.com
:miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto
What's he think other beers are made off?
Federal investigators executed search warrants Wednesday morning at the Manhattan home and office of Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s attorney, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.(https://i.imgur.com/IRxAOUg.png)
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Investigators executed warrants at Giuliani’s home on Madison Avenue and his office on Park Avenue and seized electronic devices, a person familiar with the investigation told the AP.
MattG43TZ: "And this one had SKILL people"
RudyG: "Wow... just wow Matt"
BIG T: "FANTASTIC RACK MATT SEND MORE"
MrFlynn: "Echelon 5 5 4 3 threat 0 6 9 line 4 5"
TriggerHappyDon: "yeah dad what about the coup"
RudyG: "Shut up or we're going get prosecuted for this"
BIG T: "RUDY IS RIGHT MARK SAID DO IT ON A SECURE LINE NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE FUCK YOUR TALKKING ABOUT MICHAEL SO YOUR NOT INVITED"
Kimber69lee: "I'm doing lines now daddy <3"
RogerX: "Don't worry Mr. President they owe me a favor Robert will keep the gate open if we wire 50k to his account"
BIG T: "OK BUT I'M NOT WALKING ROGER ALSO DON REMOVE FLYNN FROM THE GROUP HE IS A NUTJOB"
RudyG: "Good idea you should stay out of this so you have possible deniability and so should I"
BIG T: "THAT IS GREAT LEGAL ADVICE RUDY IS THIS LINE SECURE"
RogerX: "Do you actually get paid Rudy?"
BIG T: "SHUT UP ROGER SERIOUSLY I WILL UNPARDON YOU"
BIG T: "50K?!!?? JUST BLACKMAIL HIS WIFE"
Also during the call, Manchin spoke about a bill that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the union. This bill passed through the House earlier in April, although Manchin said he believes a constitutional amendment will need to be made for the process to actually succeed, citing the 23rd Amendment.I think Congress can actually just vote on stripping the Mall's electoral votes, it doesn't need to be an amendment.
"It gave D.C. residents the right to vote in presidential elections, but it complicates D.C.'s pathway to statehood, because Congress had three options to choose from back in 1961," Manchin said. "They could either have D.C. statehood, they could have retrocession to Maryland ... or they could have granted electoral votes to D.C. ...
"Congress selected, at that time, option three. ... Bobby Kennedy said in 1963 that Congress and the states embodied this choice in the form of a constitutional amendment. Hence, it is arguable that the choice can now be reconsidered only by means of another constitutional amendment. He said that we are a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and it seems to me that's who should be answering this question. Let the American people decide."
The Florida bill would prohibit social media companies from knowingly “deplatforming” political candidates, meaning a service could not “permanently delete or ban” a candidate.:derp
...
The state's elections commission would be empowered to fine a social media company $250,000 a day for statewide candidates and $25,000 a day for other candidates if a company's actions are found to violate the law
"Covid Biden says schools 'should probably all be open' in the fall."
mandark would totally fuck shostas corpse :trumpsOnly if shonda wears his dog suit tho :doggy
what did jeb do? :thinking
what did jeb do? :thinking
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552
Warmonger Liz Cheney, who has virtually no support left in the Great State of Wyoming, continues to unknowingly and foolishly say that there was no Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election when in fact, the evidence, including no Legislative approvals as demanded by the U.S. Constitution, shows the exact opposite. Had Mike Pence referred the information on six states (only need two) back to State Legislatures, and had gutless and clueless MINORITY Leader Mitch McConnell (he blew two seats in Georgia that should have never been lost) fought to expose all of the corruption that was presented at the time, with more found since, we would have had a far different Presidential result, and our Country would not be turning into a socialist nightmare! Never give up!
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552
Biden looks like a ventriloquist
:biden
Whatever happened to penceHe failed to refuse to certify and overturn the results of the election (because he literally can't) so he's not cool anymore. The folks who invaded on Jan 6th were out to hang him and Pelosi. :doge Apparently he's quietly trying to do some of the groundwork involved in running in '24 himself. Good luck with that, you have no charisma and your party openly despises you. :lol
Whatever happened to penceCast back to the shadow realm after the ultimate anime betrayal
He evaded capture a few months ago and there have been no updates since :doge
https://realrawnews.com/2021/03/pence-eludes-capture-military-in-hot-pursuit/
jesus christ that website
and all of its researchers
I know it's by fringe for fringe, but it just amazes me how that play goes on in their heads.
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jesus christ that website
and all of its researchers
I know it's by fringe for fringe, but it just amazes me how that play goes on in their heads.QuoteDisclaimer:
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I'm pretty sure it's just a joke website.
Try and find a more cursed political song than this.spoiler (click to show/hide)You can’t.[close]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI
RealRawNews is The Onion if everyone who followed The Onion thought everything it posted was secretly true.everything posted on the onion IS secretly true :info
Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail”.
Secret Service leaders, the book says, “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent”.
Leonnig also reports that it was not clear if Donald Trump knew what Secret Service personnel were saying about his daughter and daughter-in-law.
But she says the president did repeatedly seek to remove Secret Service staff he deemed to be overweight or too short for the job.
“I want these fat guys off my detail,” Trump is reported to have said, possibly confusing office-based personnel with active agents. “How are they going to protect me and my family if they can’t run down the street?”
In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”.
Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018. Leonnig reports that the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.
Aren't alot of Secret Service agents BBC bulls that infiltrate all administrations?;)
https://twitter.com/DingusJMcGee/status/1392203455431778306RealRawNews is The Onion if everyone who followed The Onion thought everything it posted was secretly true.everything posted on the onion IS secretly true :info
So now even our Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, is a junky. This is emblematic of what is happening to our Country. The whole world is laughing at us as we go to hell on our Borders, our fake Presidential Election, and everywhere else!
- Donald J. Trump
-Gas shortagesThe Obama alumni are basically doing the same thing they did for the previous 8 years they were running 'the show' making the case for a Trump presidency and doing it better than Donald J. Trump ever could.
-Collapsing stock market
-Rampant inflation
-War in the middle east
-Switch Pro no where to be found
Biden what have you done
:shaq2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YROsnx9qU
I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis. First there was the Biden Border Crisis (that he refuses to call a Crisis), then the Biden Economic Crisis, then the Biden Israel Crisis, and now the Biden Gas Crisis. Joe Biden has had the worst start of any president in United States history, and someday, they will compare future disasters to the Biden Administration—but no, Jimmy was better!
Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.
“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her hands in the air in an exasperated motion.
Greene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals.
“She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”
We need the Greene new deal instead am I right :corona_rodneyQuote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.htmlOcasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.
“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her hands in the air in an exasperated motion.QuoteGreene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals.
“She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”
The Biden Crypto Crunch
The Biden Comedy Decay
The Biden Paper Cut
The Biden Stepped on LEGO
-Gas shortagesThe Obama alumni are basically doing the same thing they did for the previous 8 years they were running 'the show' making the case for a Trump presidency and doing it better than Donald J. Trump ever could.
-Collapsing stock market
-Rampant inflation
-War in the middle east
-Switch Pro no where to be found
Biden what have you done
:shaq2
trump playing 9d chess with the deep state, where have I heard that before :thinking
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woke_disney2021-1024x762.jpg)Gotta admit, the pronoun train is pretty fucking funny
:clap
A contentious nomination process kept Neera Tanden out of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, but she still landed in the White House.:biden
The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday.
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier joined The Steve Gruber show to discuss his new book, "Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military," which alleges that Marxist ideologies are becoming widespread within the armed forces. He expounded on those concerns in the podcast.
"Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be," Lohmeier said. "That wasn't just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature."
When pressed on what exactly he meant, Lohmeier decried the New York Times 1619 Project, a historical look at how slavery formed America's institutions, as "anti-American."
"It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base -- that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land," Lohmeier said. "If you want to disagree with that, then you start (being) labeled all manner of things including racist."
Matthew McConaughey has publicly said a run for Texas governor in 2022 is a “true consideration.”
But the Academy Award-winning actor’s interest goes a step further than musings in interviews. McConaughey has been quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles, including a deep-pocketed moderate Republican and energy CEO, to take their temperature on the race and to talk about seriously throwing his hat in the ring, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations.
Round 3 baby!!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/donie/status/1390777133799251971
The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will announce Tuesday that he’s officially running for the Republican primary in 2022 — and is confident he can not only knock out veteran GOP competition but then go on to take out scandal-ridden Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“I’m a politician out of the womb. It’s in my DNA,” Giuliani, 35, told The Post, referring to his childhood as the son of a larger than life Big Apple mayor.
“Giuliani vs. Cuomo. Holy smokes. Its Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. We can sell tickets at Madison Square Garden,”
https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566 (https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566)
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848 (https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848)
:rejoice
(https://i.imgur.com/4c54Qep.png)
Someone color in the red and blue states
John McEntee, one of Donald Trump's most-favored aides, handed retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor a piece of paper with a few notes scribbled on it. He explained: "This is what the president wants you to do.":trumps
1. Get us out of Afghanistan.
2. Get us out of Iraq and Syria.
3. Complete the withdrawal from Germany.
4. Get us out of Africa.
It was Nov. 9, 2020 — days after Trump lost his re-election bid, 10 weeks before the end of his presidency and just moments after Macgregor was offered a post as senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
As head of the powerful Presidential Personnel Office, McEntee had Trump's ear. Even so, Macgregor was astonished. He told McEntee he doubted they could do all of these things before Jan. 20.
"Then do as much as you can," McEntee replied.
In Macgregor's opinion, Miller probably couldn't act on his own authority to execute a total withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan because he was serving in an acting capacity. If this was for real, Macgregor told McEntee, then it was going to need an order from the president.
The one-page memo was delivered by courier to Christopher Miller's office two days later, on the afternoon of Nov. 11. The order arrived seemingly out of nowhere, and its instructions, signed by Trump, were stunning: All U.S. military forces were to be withdrawn from Somalia by Dec. 31, 2020. All U.S. forces were to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by Jan. 15, 2021.
What the fuck is this? Miller wondered.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid disputes that Trump raised any strongman talk of retaliation during his conversation with Baradar, telling Axios that the president "did not exert pressure nor issue any threats and warnings." He characterizes the phone call as "cordial and normal.":kermit
Why hasn't he had any rallies in 9 months?
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1395852719383056396
she's running :american
We need to concentrate them into special camps for their own goodI can totally see Yang propose this with different wording.
For all of these reasons, my friend Victor J. Friedman, an academic activist who has worked extensively in Jewish-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab dialogues in Israel, emailed me from Israel to say::american
“Maybe this is another ‘Kissinger moment.’ Like the 1973 war, this situation is a wake-up call for Israel. Despite the spin, people know that there was no real victory here. More than ever there is a feeling that something has to change. Hamas, like the Egyptians, in 1973 surprised Israel and did real damage. Bibi wanted to do enough damage to humiliate Hamas as much as possible, without going in on the ground. But Biden stopped us before we could totally humiliate Hamas.”
So, Victor added, “There is a potential opening here for some creative diplomacy, just like after the 1973 war.”
I think he is right, but with one huge caveat. Kissinger’s negotiating partners were all strong national leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad — and they were resolving an interstate conflict between sovereign nations.
Indeed, what Kissinger began in 1973 and Jimmy Carter completed at Camp David was only possible because all these leaders actually agreed to ignore the core problem — the intra-state problem, the problem of two people wanting a state on the same land. In other words, the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
What Bibi Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas and the various leaders of Hamas all have in common is that they have never, ever, ever been willing to risk their political careers or lives to forge the kind of hard compromise needed for a peace breakthrough in their war over the same piece of land.
So I am dubious, to say the least, about the prospects for peace. What I am not dubious about, though, is this: the pain on all the actors in this drama — from more accurate rockets to more global boycotts to more homes destroyed that no foreigners want to pay to rebuild to unemployment to more inflammatory social networks to more anti-Semitism — is only going to intensify.
So, my message to Biden would be this: You may be interested in China, but the Middle East is still interested in you. You deftly helped to engineer the cease-fire from the sidelines. Do you want to, do you dare to, dive into the middle of this new Kissingerian moment?
Even the Bushes are cucked by Trump now :titus
You'd think that leaning into the Dubya white wash would be the better move :doge
Read the conspiracy thread famreads it with the other account ;)
Anti-government provocateur Ammon Bundy filed papers to run for governor in Idaho next year, even though he's not currently registered to vote or legally allowed to set foot on Capitol grounds.
Secretary of State candidacy records show Bundy listing his address as a post-office box in Emmett, with a local contractor, Aaron Welling, acting as treasurer.
He would be seeking the 2022 GOP nomination for the state's top post, currently held by Republican Brad Little. The governor had been unsuccessfully targeted for recall by anti-government activists unhappy with shutdowns he ordered in response to the pandemic.
Bundy told NBC News on Monday he's not yet formally announced a gubernatorial run, but wants to begin building an organization for a potential candidacy.
"The people of Idaho are very freedom-minded," Bundy said. "I had never desired (to run for office), but I knew as early as 2017 that I would run for governor of Idaho."
Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. To me it was obvious from the beginning but I was badly criticized, as usual. Now they are all saying “He was right.” Thank you!
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828 (https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828)
:maduro
There way too many right wing events going on right now.
Will people still show up to totes not klan rallies in 2021 :doge
He may be facing allegations of sex trafficking of a minor, but Rep. Matt Gaetz still has his eye on a 2024 presidential bid — as long as former President Donald Trump does not decide to run.
“I support Donald Trump for president. I’ve directly encouraged him to run and he gives me every indication he will,” the Florida Republican texted The Post Wednesday. “If Trump doesn’t run, I’m sure I could defeat whatever remains of Joe Biden by 2024.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made frequent use of charter flights and laid out highly specific demands to staffers regarding his air travel and hotel accommodations while running for president, according to an excerpt from new book detailing Democratic presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.:bernie
Sanders’ habits on the campaign trail were detailed in "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by author Edward-Isaac Dovere. In the book, Dovere wrote that private air travel was a "revelation" to Sanders, who had flown commercially before his upstart presidential run in 2016 catapulted him to the national stage.
"Charter flights were a revelation to him. He would always be a little embarrassed pulling into the private terminals, but boy, did he get a kick out of not worrying about being late for a flight that couldn’t take off without him," Dovere wrote regarding Sanders. "By the beginning of 2017, his staff had put together a document laying out his minimum requirements for the kind of aircraft he’d require if asked to go on trips beyond his regular route back and forth between Vermont and Washington. Couldn’t be too cramped. Couldn’t get too bumpy."
...
The book detailed one incident in which Sanders allegedly shamed a hotel worker who couldn’t get his room to his preferred temperature.
"Hotel rooms had to be away from elevators and from ice machines, so that quiet was guaranteed," Dovere wrote. "He didn’t like getting upgrades and would often switch with an aide if he got the nicer room— ‘If there’s a bomb in there, it’s yours tonight,’ he’d joke— but he liked suites, and he liked bathtubs, and he insisted on a king-size bed, which had to have a down comforter or another blanket in the closet. He preferred that the extra blanket be dark blue, and made of cotton.
"The temperature in the room had to be kept at 60, even if that required having a staffer sit in the room with an open window in the winter to make sure it cooled enough or calling management in to override the system," he continued. "There was no bending the rules: once on a stop in California, annoyed that his aides couldn’t get the temperature below 65, he had them call the woman from the front desk up to change the thermostat while he sat on the bed, watching. She couldn’t get it to work, and nervously humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said, annoyed. ‘You don’t want me to sleep tonight?’
The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.
Will people still show up to totes not klan rallies in 2021 :doge
"The temperature in the room…required having a staffer sit in the room with … an open window…to make sure it cooled enough …There was no bending the rules…call the woman from the front desk up to change…sat on the bed, watching. She …humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said…" want me to sleep tonight?’
That reads like someone spent a lot of time finding innocuous stories from a long campaign and twisting then into a "bad man" narrative.Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-private-flight-habit-hotel-demands-campaign-trail-bookSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made frequent use of charter flights and laid out highly specific demands to staffers regarding his air travel and hotel accommodations while running for president, according to an excerpt from new book detailing Democratic presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.:bernie
Sanders’ habits on the campaign trail were detailed in "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by author Edward-Isaac Dovere. In the book, Dovere wrote that private air travel was a "revelation" to Sanders, who had flown commercially before his upstart presidential run in 2016 catapulted him to the national stage.
"Charter flights were a revelation to him. He would always be a little embarrassed pulling into the private terminals, but boy, did he get a kick out of not worrying about being late for a flight that couldn’t take off without him," Dovere wrote regarding Sanders. "By the beginning of 2017, his staff had put together a document laying out his minimum requirements for the kind of aircraft he’d require if asked to go on trips beyond his regular route back and forth between Vermont and Washington. Couldn’t be too cramped. Couldn’t get too bumpy."
...
The book detailed one incident in which Sanders allegedly shamed a hotel worker who couldn’t get his room to his preferred temperature.
"Hotel rooms had to be away from elevators and from ice machines, so that quiet was guaranteed," Dovere wrote. "He didn’t like getting upgrades and would often switch with an aide if he got the nicer room— ‘If there’s a bomb in there, it’s yours tonight,’ he’d joke— but he liked suites, and he liked bathtubs, and he insisted on a king-size bed, which had to have a down comforter or another blanket in the closet. He preferred that the extra blanket be dark blue, and made of cotton.
"The temperature in the room had to be kept at 60, even if that required having a staffer sit in the room with an open window in the winter to make sure it cooled enough or calling management in to override the system," he continued. "There was no bending the rules: once on a stop in California, annoyed that his aides couldn’t get the temperature below 65, he had them call the woman from the front desk up to change the thermostat while he sat on the bed, watching. She couldn’t get it to work, and nervously humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said, annoyed. ‘You don’t want me to sleep tonight?’
The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.
The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.sleeps with a fan what a maniac
So Joe Biden is now the arbiter of truth.god emperor bide :biden
Good to know. :like
:usacry
With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, tomorrow people start driving in the biggest automobile days of the year.
I’m sorry to say the gasoline prices that you will be confronted with are far higher than they were just a short number of months ago where we had gasoline under $2 a gallon.
Remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Trump did as President.
Soon Russia and the Middle East will be making a fortune on oil, and you will be saying how good it was to have me as your President.
Wasn’t it great to be energy independent, but we are energy independent no more.
Shame, shame, shame.
Other than that, have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051)
Trump has toldpeopleMaggie he expects to be reinstated in August because reasons.
Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.
“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.
His presidency may be young, but industry insiders have told me in recent weeks that the market for anti-Biden books is ice cold. Authors have little interest in writing them, editors have little interest in publishing them, and—though the hypothesis has yet to be tested—it’s widely assumed that readers would have little interest in buying them. In many ways, the dynamic represents a microcosm of the current political moment: Facing a new president whose relative dullness is his superpower, the American right has gone hunting for richer targets to elevate.
To some in the publishing industry, the apparent lack of appetite is bewildering. “In the past, it’s been like taking candy from a baby to write a book about the Democratic president,” one frustrated conservative editor told me, requesting anonymity to speak candidly about internal business practices. Now? “Nobody is trying.”
Jonah Goldberg, a former National Review columnist who has written several popular conservative books, told me it was never hard to make Hillary Clinton seem “sinister” to readers of a certain stripe. “Hillary was a kind of Zelig figure of the post-’60s left. Some of the associations were tenuous, but you could play the political equivalent of the Kevin Bacon game with her without needing more than one or two degrees of separation. Black Panthers! Communist law firms! Sidney Blumenthal! Saul Alinsky!” Biden, an aging white guy who spent decades in the Senate, is by contrast “somewhat boringly conventional.”
And there’s another problem, Goldberg told me: “Most of the good ammo against Biden—which I’ve deployed in the past—isn’t as effective after four years of Trump. He says crazy things! He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! He has a ridiculous ego and lies about his brilliance and expertise! All of this is true. But all of that has been normalized by Trump.”
“The right-wing marketplace has been radicalized,” said Goldberg, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump-era GOP. “Not just by QAnon-type stuff, but by years of anti-Clinton-and-Obama fare.”
For now, the most successful conservative authors are training their fire on more abstract targets, such as “wokeness” and “cancel culture.” A quick review of recent best sellers suggests that ignoring Biden can work just fine. According to BookScan, which tracks most hardcover sales, Andy Ngo’s book on antifa, Unmasked, has sold more than 77,000 copies (an unqualified success in political nonfiction), as has Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies, which bills itself as a “manual for Christian dissidents.” The talk-radio host Mark Levin’s forthcoming American Marxism—which will tackle, among other subjects, “the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal,” per its publisher—is expected to be a massive hit when it’s released in July.
Shapiro attributes this trend to a broader shift that he’s noticed in his audience. While conservatives may not care about Biden, he told me, they are petrified of the larger progressive forces they see at work in American politics. “What people are afraid of right now are not powerful public figures. What people are afraid of are their bosses, their neighbors, that they’re going to get mobbed on Twitter and get socially ostracized.” Shapiro is betting that’s where the focus will stay: His own book coming out this summer will cover what he describes as “the leftist takeover of every major institution.”
Meanwhile, some in the conservative publishing world are determined to find a new bogeyman to fill the vacuum left by Biden. One possibility is Anthony Fauci, whose advocacy for COVID-19 restrictions has drawn ire from wide swaths of the right. (Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History became a surprise hit when it was released in March, selling more than 68,000 copies.) But as the pandemic winds down in America, Fauci’s staying power as an antagonist is in doubt. Another option is Biden’s son Hunter, whose personal life and controversial business dealings have been widely covered on Fox News. He is the subject of a forthcoming book, Laptop From Hell, slated for this September.
One conservative editor told me that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York might be the most logical choice, given the right’s fear of socialism, but cited a unique challenge in making the congresswoman appear sufficiently menacing: “It’s hard to find a bad picture of her to put on the cover.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-page-shuts-down-for-good.htmlQuoteFormer President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.
“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.
“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.
George P has been all in on Trump for a while now. He's got a lot of ambition and apparently little loyalty to the family.
having to shut down a wordpress from lack of interest
:snoop
https://mobile.twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1400201160817000448
:delicious
having to shut down a wordpress from lack of interest
:snoop
...Trump... die-hard fans... read.
Defenders of Big Tech routinely argue that these companies have a right to do whatever they want because they are not government entities. That is false.:notlikethis
Big Tech companies are engaging in censorship, plain and simple. The fact that they are in the private sector does not change the definition of the word. What it does mean is that Congress cannot impede their freedom to publish. The Constitution reserves that power and others to the states or the people under the 10th Amendment. Florida is exercising that authority.
In fact, the states have an active responsibility to protect their residents’ free-speech rights. Freedom of speech is not a one-way affair in which government is prohibited from interfering with speech but individuals and corporations may muzzle their neighbors. On the contrary, the proper role of government is not only to avoid restricting speech itself but also to protect the rights of the people to speak and be heard. That is exactly what Florida’s law is intended to do.
Nobody is checking the fact checkers, and it is time that changed. It’s time for government to regulate the fact checking industry.:stahp
This may seem antithetical to traditional conservative values of small government, but the ubiquitous and monopolistic nature of social media, the power it has to frame how we see the world, is an existential challenge. We cannot be slaves to orthodoxy if that means Americans are subject not only to lies, but also the censorship of the truth.
The First Amendment rightly renders government powerless to regulate news outlets’ publishing content from their own in house fact checkers -- they are protected by freedom of the press. But third party independent fact checkers are another story entirely.
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456 (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456)
Run for Congress in Florida
Become speaker
Impeach Biden
:dead
You don't need to be a member of the House to be elected Speaker though. :rollsafe
The Biden Justice Department is forging ahead with a controversial legal effort started under former President Donald Trump to intervene on Trump's behalf in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a writer who says Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
E. Jean Carroll leveled the accusations against Trump in her memoir published in 2019. Trump denied the allegations and accused Carroll of lying to sell books.
Carroll sued the then-president for defamation, but the suit has been caught up in litigation since the Trump-era Justice Department attempted to step in on Trump's behalf and make the government the defendant instead of the now-former president.
In its filing late Monday, the Justice Department — now under the Biden administration — sought to continue its defense of Trump while distancing itself from his alleged actions.
Instead, Boynton said, it boils down to a few legal questions, including whether a president is an "employee of the government" and whether Trump's denials were made within the scope of his office.:trumps
The department said the answer to both questions is yes, and therefore under federal law it said the government should be able to replace Trump as defendant in the case.
If the department were to succeed in its efforts, legal experts said the move would effectively end the case because the federal government can't be sued for defamation.
Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.annihilated
Gaetz contacted Newsmax early this year, a source at the outlet said. That was around the time that news broke Gaetz was the subject of a federal investigation into possible sex trafficking of a minor.
Copmala in her element doing a speech that could've been written by Stephen Miller.
Terry McAuliffe’s comeback bid aced its first test Tuesday, as the former Virginia governor cruised to victory in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
McAuliffe had been the wire-to-wire favorite in the Democratic gubernatorial primary since entering the race last December, significantly outraising his four other opponents and staking out a sizable lead in public polling throughout the race. His victory sets up a matchup with Glenn Youngkin, a former Carlyle Group chief executive who won the Republican nomination in a party convention about a month ago.
The November election will be the first major election during President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House — and a measure of how damaging now-former President Donald Trump was to the state Republican Party here, which had been ransacked during Trump’s four years in office.
McAuliffe’s blowout victory capped off a disappointing primary for some progressives in the state, who were eager to nominate a Black woman from the field. Both former state Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy and state Sen. Jennifer McClellan were unable to break out from the rest of the pack, which also included current Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Del. Lee Carter.
Some Democrats in the state fretted about apparent low turnout in the primary — “there’s more cicadas than there are voters,” one aide on a gubernatorial campaign quipped
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday disputed the science behind virus research because she does not believe in evolution.
Greene made the remarks while speaking to Steve Bannon on Real America's Voice, where she argued that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be criminally charged over the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Georgia Republican said that she opposed so-called "gain of function" research on viruses.
"That's a bioweapon," she charged. "So we need to be very clear about what was the intent of COVID-19 and these viruses that they experiment with like some sort of Dr. Frankenstein experiment."
"I don't buy it because I don't believe in evolution," the congresswoman said. "I don't believe in that type of so-called science. I don't believe in evolution. I believe in God."
Greene added: "These viruses were not making people sick until they created them and made them into weaponized viruses to be able to attach to our cells and make us sick. This has caused so many people to die all over the world."
U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.
The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year and did not focus on individual incidents of police use of force, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent" with initial plans.
The review ultimately found park police had been planning to clear the area for days to install anti-scale fencing and that the decisions on the ground were not changed because of the president or White House's plans.
Regarding claims of violent tactics used against protestors, the report said only that "individual uses of force" by Park Police officers "are the subject of separate inquiries or ongoing lawsuits.":biden
Greenblatt told ABC News that even though his office did not speak to Barr, the White House, or Secret Service for this review, it would have done so if the evidence indicated there was pressure from any of those sources that had an impact on Park Police decisions.
"We would have pursued evidence had it gone elsewhere. But we found that the U.S. Park Police officials on the ground, they owned the decision and the corroborating evidence supported that," he said on ABC News Live.
https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409
https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409
The brain rot is painful to see, honestly.
I'm not even someone who is a big global warming guy but...is it surprising that premier US military minds are worried about it? Think about the chaos and angst stirred by migration right now - waves of people fleeing military conflict or terrorism in their home countries. Now imagine that turned up to 11 because people are fleeing climate related disasters. Crops failing, drought, flooding. What does the Middle East look like in 10-20 years? What does Europe do in a similar timeline, facing mass migration and the right wing lurch that tends to cause? Hell look at South American migration. What's the long term impact of Brazil's government fucking up the Amazon.
Imagine the US military response that will be "required" by much of this. Given how pedestrian Chinese weapons systems are compared to the US, I don't see this being some far fetched opinion.
That being said, giving a speech to active duty military and telling them global warming is the biggest threat seems pretty laughable but hey....Biden being Biden has gotten him this far and it's working so uh...maybe internet hand wringling do not matter, as the kids say.
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1403437920275533830Turmp is going to be even more braindead in '24 than he was his entire time in office, they can run him if they want but even with all the voter suppression shit they're shoving through he probably won't win. :yeshrug
Omar “equated between the victim and the executioner,” Basem Naim of Hamas’ International Relations Office complained in a statement that took issue with her Monday post on Twitter.:hamascry
“it is unacceptable to make such an unfair comparison, which contradicts with basic norms of justice and international law,” Naim continued
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/hamas-unloads-on-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-terror-group-to-the-u-s/QuoteOmar “equated between the victim and the executioner,” Basem Naim of Hamas’ International Relations Office complained in a statement that took issue with her Monday post on Twitter.:hamascry
“it is unacceptable to make such an unfair comparison, which contradicts with basic norms of justice and international law,” Naim continued
The humanitarian states of America are back baby!
:biden
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1404564419229724676
promoting social-fascism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy) :yuck
Nikki Fried, Florida's agriculture commissioner, a rising star among state Democrats who hopes to defeat Governor Ron DeSantis next year if she wins the primary, sounds like a tried and true progressive on her English-language website.:teehee
She touts being an advocate for criminal justice reform, taking on the NRA, and fighting to protect the environment.
But as of Friday, all of that was missing from her Spanish-language website.
According to a Newsweek archive of the website, the original Spanish-language page was only 95 words, and the only policy point it mentioned was Fried's support for legalizing marijuana, while the updated page is 202 words and closely mirrors the English-language site on Fried protecting the environment, being a criminal justice reform advocate, and how she "expelled the NRA out of weapons license permitting."
"Our website copy, now updated, was in the process of being properly and professionally translated," Max Flugrath, communications director for Fried's campaign told Newsweek.
Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2jDTrlWwAAuUkF.jpg:large)
Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.
“The defendant, a prominent attorney and media personality with a large public following, betrayed his client and sought to enrich himself by weaponizing his public profile in an attempt to extort a publicly-traded company out of tens of millions of dollars. This was an egregious abuse of trust, and it warrants real and serious punishment,” prosecutors wrote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-deserves-very-substantial-prison-time-prosecutors-n1271106https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1405515679558680578QuoteProsecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2jDTrlWwAAuUkF.jpg:large)
Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.
“The defendant, a prominent attorney and media personality with a large public following, betrayed his client and sought to enrich himself by weaponizing his public profile in an attempt to extort a publicly-traded company out of tens of millions of dollars. This was an egregious abuse of trust, and it warrants real and serious punishment,” prosecutors wrote.
Sidney Powell ultimately showing she lacks strength in her convictions.
NYC votes tomorrow... :-\
https://twitter.com/rose_n_adams/status/1406975761920237575
Its today?You can probably still run in the general election.
Ah shit, I was going to run, I guess its too late
Cheboygan — The board of commissioners in a northern Michigan county that supported Donald Trump voted to pursue an audit of its election Tuesday, pointing to the ongoing tension among Republicans about the former president's loss.
Nearly eight months after Election Day, the GOP-controlled Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 to send a letter to Jonathan Brater, the state elections director, requesting a recount of its ballots and a review of whether an "unauthorized computer" manipulated the tallies.
The 25,000-person county is at the top of the Lower Peninsula, and 64% of its voters supported Trump, the Republican incumbent, in November. Only 34% backed Democrat Joe Biden. But for months, Cheboygan County officials have been discussing the idea of examining the election results amid a nationwide push among some in the GOP to question the outcome and to investigate unsubstantiated theories of voter fraud.
Beth Bridgman of Cheboygan has been the most vocal Cheboygan County residents pushing for a so-called "forensic audit" of the 2020 results. In an interview, she voiced opposition to the county commissioners' letter, saying she was hoping for a more expansive review of the software and equipment used in the election.
"There’s nobody looking at whether or not the machines are being hacked in real-time," Bridgman said.
Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness. There is never just one—they compete and constantly change. The most durable narratives are not the ones that stand up best to fact-checking. They’re the ones that address our deepest needs and desires. Americans know by now that democracy depends on a baseline of shared reality—when facts become fungible, we’re lost. But just as no one can live a happy and productive life in nonstop self-criticism, nations require more than facts—they need stories that convey a moral identity. The long gaze in the mirror has to end in self-respect or it will swallow us up.
Tracing the evolution of these narratives can tell you something about a nation’s possibilities for change. Through much of the 20th century, the two political parties had clear identities and told distinct stories. The Republicans spoke for those who wanted to get ahead, and the Democrats spoke for those who wanted a fair shake. Republicans emphasized individual enterprise, and Democrats emphasized social solidarity, eventually including Black people and abandoning the party’s commitment to Jim Crow. But, unlike today, the two parties were arguing over the same recognizable country. This arrangement held until the late ’60s—still within living memory.
The two parties reflected a society that was less free than today, less tolerant, and far less diverse, with fewer choices, but with more economic equality, more shared prosperity, and more political cooperation. Liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats played important roles in their respective parties. Americans then were more uniform than we are in what they ate (tuna noodle casserole) and what they watched (Bullitt). Even their bodies looked more alike. They were more restrained than we are, more repressed—though restraint and repression were coming undone by 1968.
Since then, the two parties have just about traded places. By the turn of the millennium, the Democrats were becoming the home of affluent professionals, while the Republicans were starting to sound like populist insurgents. We have to understand this exchange in order to grasp how we got to where we are.
The 1970s ended postwar, bipartisan, middle-class America, and with it the two relatively stable narratives of getting ahead and the fair shake. In their place, four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America’s moral identity. They have roots in history, but they are shaped by new ways of thinking and living. They reflect schisms on both sides of the divide that has made us two countries, extending and deepening the lines of fracture. Over the past four decades, the four narratives have taken turns exercising influence. They overlap, morph into one another, attract and repel one another. None can be understood apart from the others, because all four emerge from the same whole.
Thought this was a great article from The Atlantic, describing 4 different competing views of America: Free America (libertarians, small government, Reagan conservatives), Smart America (college educated Democrats in the professional sector - still think the system can be reformed for the better, probably me and a good chunk of the Bore would fall under this), Real America (middle american white working class, religious), Just America (socially far to the left to the point of cancel culture, i.e. your average Resetera person at its most extreme... tends to be millennials and zoomers who are highly educated but locked out of opportunity due to the excesses of late stage capitalism)
Thought this was a great article from The Atlantic, describing 4 different competing views of America: Free America (libertarians, small government, Reagan conservatives), Smart America (college educated Democrats in the professional sector - still think the system can be reformed for the better, probably me and a good chunk of the Bore would fall under this), Real America (middle american white working class, religious), Just America (socially far to the left to the point of cancel culture, i.e. your average Resetera person at its most extreme... tends to be millennials and zoomers who are highly educated but locked out of opportunity due to the excesses of late stage capitalism)
Bullshit.
Where does the "nuke us from orbit, we are the virus" party come in? I think thats most of us
The bill also offers no assurances that the survey’s answers will be anonymous, and there is no clarity on who can use the data and for what purpose.
What is specified is that the state university system’s Board of Governors and the State Board of Education will be required to select or create an “objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid survey,” presumably through the boards’ public procurement or rule-making process.
In addition to the survey, the measure DeSantis signed into law will bar university and college officials from limiting speech that “may be uncomfortable, disagreeable or offensive,” and will allow students to record lectures without consent for educational purposes or to support a civil or criminal case against a higher education institution.
When debating the bill on the Senate floor, Rodrigues said students should be able to “shed a light” on wrongdoing in a classroom. Professors, however, would have civil cause of action against any student — whether they are an adult or a minor — if they publish the recording for any other purpose.
DeSantis did not go into all the details of the bill, but lauded it in broad terms, saying it will allow “robust First Amendment speech on our college and university campuses.”
“I think that having intellectual diversity is something that is very, very important,” DeSantis said.
The measure, which goes into effect July 1, does not specify what will be done with the survey results. But DeSantis and Sen. Ray Rodrigues, the sponsor of the bill, suggested on Tuesday that budget cuts could be looming if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students.(https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNjc5MTE4OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1Njc0NTQwMn0.KmmIeAFMOogg7W-V0yi64OOQh-VJ028cWSQlvlIlspo/image.jpg?width=1200&height=846)
“That’s not worth tax dollars and that’s not something that we’re going to be supporting moving forward,” DeSantis said at a press conference at a middle school in Fort Myers.
It’s the purrrfect apartment.
The Post got an exclusive look inside Curtis Sliwa’s tiny Upper West Side studio apartment Wednesday — after the newly minted GOP mayoral nominee revealed that he and his wife share the space with 15 rescue cats.
The 320-square-foot studio on West 87th Street and Central Park West is a veritable kitty heaven with furnishings more fit for felines than their human roommates.
There’s three windows that face the street that are perfectly set up for bird watching, or an afternoon snooze in the sunshine, that have been retrofitted with chicken wire so the cats can enjoy a makeshift outdoor space while basking on the sills.
Three towering cat condos cover the apartment’s main wall and in the kitchen, two private cat hotels are perched atop the cabinets that provide a birds eye view of the action below.
Biden also plans to discuss how $350 billion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package can be used by cities to hire law enforcement officers, pay overtime, prosecute gun traffickers and invest in technology to make law enforcement more efficient.:biden
https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145 (https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145)
STAND UP PRIVATE :salute
That's a whole different ball game
They blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are "rotting in jail." And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even "bringing up the word 'vaccine,'" specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.:snore
But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump's post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as "traitors."
"I'm 100% with the dude, but literally switched from his speech 3 mins ago. Im [sic] done with his speeches," wrote QAnon user Jacob.
"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote another QAnon user. "I support Trump but this is getting ridiculous."
"Love President Trump. But, if I'm being honest, it's a lot of the 'same old-same old,' we've all heard a thousand times before," wrote Annmarie Calabro.
For the sake of preserving free speech and a free economy, it’s time Big Tech faces the music. House Republicans are ready to lead.:camby
This week I will join Ranking Members Jim Jordan and Cathy Rodgers to roll out a framework to stop Big Tech based on three principles:
Accountability: Our framework would rein in Big Tech and end their abusive practices, including by changing the law so that Americans can challenge Big Tech directly for their infringement of public speech rights. This effort starts by taking away the liability shield Big Tech has hidden behind for far too long. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would be changed to limit liability protections for moderation of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment and would preclude Big Tech from discriminating against Americans based on their political affiliation. We would also require regular reauthorization of Section 230 so Congress may update regulations of the constantly-evolving internet landscape.
Transparency: Our framework would empower Americans by ending Big Tech’s ability to hide behind vague terms of service that have not constrained their conduct in any meaningful way. We will do so by mandating that any Big Tech content moderation decisions or censorship must be listed, with specificity, on a publicly available website. In addition, by requiring Big Tech to implement and maintain a reasonable user-friendly appeals process, our plan will empower conservatives and others whose speech rights have been infringed to challenge Big Tech’s attacks.
Strengthening Anti-Trust Review: Our framework also recognizes that the status quo and bureaucratic delays are not acceptable when it comes to bringing long-overdue antitrust scrutiny to Big Tech. We will provide an expedited court process with direct appeal to the Supreme Court and empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up. We will also reform the administrative state and remove impediments that delay taking action on Big Tech power.
To this point, House Democrats have advanced a plan that not only ignores addressing conservative censorship, it makes it worse. And their plan empowers a federal bureaucracy with no accountability.
I have more faith in elected state leaders than in the unelected federal bureaucracy, which is as ideologically homogeneous as Big Tech. In other words, I think our former colleague Jeff Landry will more effectively prosecute anti-competitive behavior than Lina Khan.
This framework is our jumping off point and more will need to be done. We will work with our members, committees, and newly formed task forces to turn this framework into legislation, and we will fight for floor consideration. Conservatives and our ideas have been targeted by Big Tech for too long. We must step up because make no mistake, the Democrats continue to demonstrate no interest in addressing fairness when it comes to conservative viewpoints. And they’ll continue to use Big Tech to do so.
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-supporters-express-boredom-same-old-trump-speech-this-getting-ridiculous-1604489Well you've been to McDonalds a thousand times before also and that hasn't stopped you Annmarie, now chant Build the Wall to save America :boloQuoteThey blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are "rotting in jail." And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even "bringing up the word 'vaccine,'" specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.:snore
But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump's post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as "traitors."
"I'm 100% with the dude, but literally switched from his speech 3 mins ago. Im [sic] done with his speeches," wrote QAnon user Jacob.
"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote another QAnon user. "I support Trump but this is getting ridiculous."
"Love President Trump. But, if I'm being honest, it's a lot of the 'same old-same old,' we've all heard a thousand times before," wrote Annmarie Calabro.
"A prohibition on interstate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the federal government's piecemeal approach," he wrote.
His views came as the court declined to hear the appeal of a Colorado medical marijuana dispensary that was denied federal tax breaks that other businesses are allowed.
Thomas said the Supreme Court's ruling in 2005 upholding federal laws making marijuana possession illegal may now be out of date.
"Federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning," he said. "The federal government's current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana.”
The federal government's "willingness to look the other way on marijuana is more episodic that coherent," Thomas said.:mynicca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0-HOCbRMDQ
:trumps
Defund the FBI:phil do it
Republicans need to abandon their longtime, reflexive loyalty to the FBI.
J.D. Vance, the bestselling author and a Republican Senate hopeful, said on Monday that he regretted his since-deleted Twitter posts that criticized Donald Trump, amid accusations of flip-flopping as he vies for a seat in Ohio.this guy
Vance, the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” launched his campaign last week. He has come under fire for deleting tweets from 2016 that were unearthed by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski — including one in which he said he was voting for Evan McMullin, and another calling Trump “reprehensible” because of his views toward “Immigrants, Muslims, etc.”
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“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” Vance said. “And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.”
Vance added that he himself had been criticized for standing up for the former president’s voters and agenda, saying, “I think that’s the most important thing, is not what you said five years ago, but whether you’re willing to stand up and take the heat and take the hits for actually defending the interests of the American people.”
Former President Donald Trump's weekly lunches with his vice president Mike Pence at the White House followed a familiar routine, according to a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff.:hesright
"The lunches were specifically meant to be an opportunity for Pence to tell the president exactly how hard he was working for him," Wolff writes in excerpt of the book "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" published by The Times of London. "He usually got ten minutes to do this before Trump snapped on the television and launched into his current list of grievances."
Trump wondered how Pence "could be such a 'stiff' and a 'square,'' the book says, "and likewise, as though a corollary, he regarded Pence as someone not tough, as someone who, he increasingly pointed out, could be 'rolled'."
https://mobile.twitter.com/SIGSYS/status/1412278516515852288
:whoo
“We’re asking [Republicans] to vote for us in an election system they don’t believe in anymore,” lamented one Arizona-based GOP strategist.this one weird trick
Trump comics are back!https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/don_trump_quixote-1024x722.jpg)spoiler (click to show/hide)Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.[close]
:neogaf
Trump comics are back!https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/don_trump_quixote-1024x722.jpg)spoiler (click to show/hide)Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.[close]
:neogaf
Yet many Democrats, including some current senior administration officials, are concerned she could not defeat whomever the Republican Party puts up — even if it were Donald Trump.:trumps
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537
:badass
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537
:badass
How the fuck did we elect the world's biggest Karen to our senate?
The same way y'all elected Ted Cruzhttps://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537
:badass
How the fuck did we elect the world's biggest Karen to our senate?
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810
You got owned.
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/trump_windmill-1024x737.jpg)spoiler (click to show/hide)Apparently nobody read my post about Trump charging a windmill. They said I didn’t understand the Don Quixote metaphor. In my post I explained I did indeed understand it, but as an artist I’m free to take liberties with any metaphor I like.[close]
A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" to large swaths of America.
These Democrats warn that by jamming politically correct terms or new norms down the throats of voters, they risk exacerbating the cultural wars — and inadvertently helping Trumpian candidates.
Top Democrats confide that they're very aware of the danger. Already, we've seen a widespread pullback in the "defund the police" rhetoric.
Moderate and swing-district lawmakers and aides tell Axios' Margaret Talev and Alayna Treene that the party could suffer massive losses in next year's midterms if Democrats run like Sen. Elizabeth Warren is president.
One former Senate aide said it's "bye-bye majority" if Democrats run on "extreme wokeness."
Former Carlyle Group co-CEO Glenn Youngkin may have earned Donald Trump’s endorsement in the Virginia governor’s race, but now he’s the one trying to tie the former president to his opponent.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFOFc-zTi4
After former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe ran an ad highlighting Trump’s endorsement of Youngkin, the Republican’s campaign responded with its own ad highlighting McAuliffe’s past ties to Trump.
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1414404737240272898
:badass
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1414404737240272898https://twitter.com/pitbull/status/1414642768912130071 (https://twitter.com/pitbull/status/1414642768912130071)
:badass
Here’s what the governor said when he signed the blatantly un-American bill into law: “Just think about it, you’re driving home from work and, all of a sudden, you have people out there shutting down a highway, and we worked hard to make sure that didn’t happen in Florida.”
But it did happen in Florida, Gov. DeSantis. Demonstrators shut down State Road 826 in both directions Tuesday in solidarity with their counterparts in Cuba. Police obliged and redirected traffic. Mercifully, no one roared through the crowd in a vehicle.
Everything was as it should be in a country that has a high tolerance for free expression. But, unfortunately, for the governor, the reporter’s question trapped him in the hypocrisy of his law, likely to be arbitrarily enforced.
Honestly, we would have been more impressed if he had just responded: “Nah, the Miami-Dade demonstrators seeking human rights in Cuba have nothing to fear from my anti-riot law. We created it to subdue Black folks seeking human rights in the United States.”
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843 (https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843)He's right though...he doesn't really give a shit about Afghan women, but he's right.
George seizes the moment :salute
He's right though...he doesn't really give a shit about Afghan women, but he's right.
https://twitter.com/tragicplonker/status/1415081458943811584
King Ted :lawd
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951)
The voter ID discussion is ludicrous anyway.This is America buddy, you show up you get a ballot is how it should work. No tests, no qualifications, no forms, nothing except simple registration. People voting as other people is such a small problem (and generally is done via absentee anyway) it's irrelevant, and it doesn't change election outcomes anyway.
The Democrats should just introduce voter ID like the rest of the world has done except for I dunno, Somalia?
The right are so stupid I almost think Im the stupid one for not running and grifting them.how much does gateway pundit pay? I could write those dumb articles no prob, or being a conservative media contributor as an ex socialist minority who saw the light :horny
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Speaking calmly from a prepared text, he described being caught up in the euphoria as he walked down Washington’s most famous avenue
Imagine thinking punishing treason creates a partisan divide.
Now she is investing heavily in her online store, selling T-shirts, sweatshirts and other merchandise with her name, "AOC" initials or slogans including "Tax the Rich" and "Fight for our Future," efforts aimed at both fundraising and building the second-term lawmaker's profile nationally.
Her campaign paid political merchandise firm Financial Innovations, which operates her online store and supplies merchandise, more than $1.4 million in the first six months of 2021, according to campaign disclosures to the Federal Election Commission late last week.
That is more than many lawmakers spent on their entire re-election efforts during the period, and nearly double her payments made over the prior two years to Financial Innovations, a Cranston, Rhode Island firm that specializes in political merchandise for Democrats.
Kiley Bolton, 22, a college student in Leander, Texas, said she gets both compliments and eye rolls when she wears her "Tax The Rich" sweatshirt she bought from Ocasio-Cortez's campaign.
"I like what it stands for and I like AOC," Bolton said.
Merchandise sales count as campaign contributions but it's not clear how much T-shirts and hoodies are bringing to Ocasio-Cortez' coffers. Campaign disclosures rarely specify whether a donation involved merchandise.
Frawley said the Ocasio-Cortez campaign could be making a 50% profit or more on much of its sales.
Buyers also typically give campaigns their best contact information, which is useful for future fundraising and for recruiting volunteers.https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/
"That's a huge value to political campaigns," Duncan said.
In an emailed statement, Ocasio-Cortez' campaign said the its online store is focused on "uplifting independent artists of color whose work tells a story of community and imagines a more equitable world for all."
Trump also trashed Deborah Birx and said she was far too restrictive.
“She was a lot of work, a real diva with the scarves and shit,” he said.
It’s true. ‘Hear ye, hear ye . . .’—was much more elegant in those days. It was, ‘Hear ye, hear ye, the great state of Georgia is unable to accurately count its votes.’ Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Are you sure?’ They said, ‘Yes, we are sure.’ ‘Then we will take the votes from the great state of Georgia.’ He took them for him and the president.”
Trump continued, “So I said, ‘Mike, you can be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.’
Didn’t turn out that way in terms of the vote, but I won Arizona.
“Nikki Haley wants to come here so badly,” he said. “She did a little nasty couple of statements...She has been killed by the party. When they speak badly about me, the party is not happy about it. It’s pretty amazing. There’s not been anything like this.”
No, I’m a big believer in science. If I wasn’t, you wouldn’t have a vaccine. It depends. Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation.”
“We’re really going to put it to the doctors. You should watch,” Ingraham told Trump.
“You look great, sir,” Crenshaw said. “What’s your secret?”
“I enjoyed it actually,” Trump said, a twinkle in his eye. “For some sick reason I enjoyed it.”
How many days before he starts talking about vanity fair being fake news?
Barrack's grandparents were Lebanese Christians who immigrated in 1900 to the United States from Zahlé, Lebanon.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236She is just so stunningly, overwhelmingly ignorant. It’s not even a matter of being disingenuous, she’s just stupid. HIPAA regulations don’t prevent anyone from asking you anything, it prevents them from having access to your records.
Democratic senators are introducing a new bill Thursday that would strip away Facebook and other social media platforms’ Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation.
The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) Thursday, would create a carveout in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act opening social media platforms like Facebook up to lawsuits for hosting some dangerous health misinformation. The bill directs the Health and Human Services secretary to issue guidelines on what should be classified as “health misinformation.”
“For far too long, online platforms have not done enough to protect the health of Americans. These are some of the biggest, richest companies in the world and they must do more to prevent the spread of deadly vaccine misinformation,” Klobuchar said in a statement Thursday.:karen
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295)https://twitter.com/MandelaFace/status/1418286009423335431
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oh shi
If a newspaper allowed a bunch of crazy conspiracy theories and dangerous health misinformation to be printed in its letters to the editor section, then people would be rightly outraged. Why is Facebook any different?This is exactly the point, it's not any different. Both are protected speech and the state is not empowered to restrict it. It's part of the First Amendment protections. Section 230 repeals is an attempt to end run around the First Amendment by lawsuit. (But probably not against Facebook!)
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1418329640318472192
https://twitter.com/kellymakena/status/1418271156151390208
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22588903/covid19-misinformation-section-230-facebook-joe-biden-white-houseQuoteDemocratic senators are introducing a new bill Thursday that would strip away Facebook and other social media platforms’ Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation.
The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) Thursday, would create a carveout in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act opening social media platforms like Facebook up to lawsuits for hosting some dangerous health misinformation. The bill directs the Health and Human Services secretary to issue guidelines on what should be classified as “health misinformation.”
I warned ya'll, Section 230 would be targeted first because of these idiots. The state wants nothing more than to monopolize the entire social media sector and as much of the internet as possible under its permanent control in a few large corporations.Quote“For far too long, online platforms have not done enough to protect the health of Americans. These are some of the biggest, richest companies in the world and they must do more to prevent the spread of deadly vaccine misinformation,” Klobuchar said in a statement Thursday.:karen
Problem is they don't want to shoot them into the sun, they want to cement them as sanitized and controlled institutions.Yep, FB would be an utility like gas and water
Those sort of laws only affect your friendly neighbourhood mom & pop message boards.
Facebook, Google and all have been wanting the same thing for years.
You don't access the internet, you access the internet through their platform and their curated content and they're pretty close to achieving that goal.
The Wuhan lab leak and Huntey's laptop have already shown how dangerous it is if social-media becomes the arbiter of truth.
But there already was a precedent for this with the Arab Spring protests and the likes.
Silicon Valley soyboy's deciding what type of government Egypt should have and in the power vacuum accidentally sliding the Muslim brotherhood into power.
We're rapidly moving towards a restricted society like the Chinese have because it fascinates the bureaucrats and makes things 'easier', except in our case it'll be the likes of Zuckerberg and Schwab behind the controls of the state machinery.
:karen we need a strong Republican party
The Republican Party
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953)
Cry more lib, Trump is still president
J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the “childless left” whom he said have “no physical commitment to the future of this country” in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy.
Senate candidate, former Marine, and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance specifically named Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (three of whom are failed presidential candidates), citing them as the childless future leaders of the Democrat Party. “Why is this just a normal fact of … life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?”
“The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds,” Vance noted. “Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.” He continued, asking, “Doesn’t this mean that nonparents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions?” He answered with a simple “yes” after saying “the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects” would criticize him.
“We should worry that in America, family formation, our birth rates, a ton of indicators of family health have collapsed,” the candidate said, highlighting the severity of America’s ongoing fertility crisis and calling it a “civilizational crisis.”
Vance spoke fondly of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pro-natal policies, explaining that “they offer loans to newly married couples that are forgiven at some point later if those couples have actually stayed together and had kids.”
“Why can’t we do that here?” Vance asked. “Why can’t we actually promote family formation?”
Co-host Pete Hegseth pointed out that fellow co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy would get nine votes because she has nine children.
"I don't know about that solution, that seems not feasible," Campos-Duffy said. "But I will say that I agree with the premise of it, that it is absolutely true that people like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], Pete Buttigieg -- you can name the left-wing politicians, people who think that we should legalize marijuana because they don't have kids and they don't really have a stake in what that looks like."
"I agree with him 100% that they don't have a stake in the game," she continued.
"And if you're Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- our favorite comrade -- and you've said the world is going to end in 12 years, what do you care?" he added. "It's this idea of absolute pessimism that the world's going to end and as a result, we're the problem and don't have kids."
Campos ... heroes included Jack Kemp,:american
Unconditional surrender
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126 (https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126)
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888 (https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888)
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390 (https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390)
https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353 (https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353)
:trumps
Trump Jr., who appears to have the best connection with the party’s base, and perhaps the best prospects for a 2024 White House run if his father opts out, led the group with DeSantis coming in a close second, followed by House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (24%), Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., (17%), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., (8%), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (2%), and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., a vehement Trump Critic that voted to impeach him, at the bottom with a -43% rating.
Is it just me or is Don Jr just especially ugly lookingHe looks presidential :trumps
They keep saying the quiet part out loud, this time a NYTimes reporter:
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Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?FACT CHECK: The state and the government are not the same thing. :ufup
Voters in North Texas delivered an upset Tuesday, picking GOP state Rep. Jake Ellzey to fill a vacant House seat over a candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump.:trumps
Ellzey beat fellow Republican Susan Wright, the widow of former Rep. Ron Wright, 53 percent to 47 percent, when the Associated Press called the low-turnout, Republican-vs.-Republican runoff. Though Ellzey was better funded, Wright leaned heavily on her backing from the former president, who often plays kingmaker in Republican primaries.
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?FACT CHECK: The state and the government are not the same thing. :ufup
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/jake-ellzey-texas-special-election-501153FACT CHECK:QuoteVoters in North Texas delivered an upset Tuesday, picking GOP state Rep. Jake Ellzey to fill a vacant House seat over a candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump.:trumps
Ellzey beat fellow Republican Susan Wright, the widow of former Rep. Ron Wright, 53 percent to 47 percent, when the Associated Press called the low-turnout, Republican-vs.-Republican runoff. Though Ellzey was better funded, Wright leaned heavily on her backing from the former president, who often plays kingmaker in Republican primaries.
Donald Trump's advisers are angry at David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, for persuading the former president to endorse a losing candidate in the special election for Texas' 6th District.
Trump himself disputed the result had dented his power. In a phone call with Axios on Wednesday, the former president conceded McIntosh had pushed him to support Wright but blamed Democrats — not the Club for Growth — for Ellzey's victory.
He also said he actually "won" because Wright had bested Ellzey in the initial primary and the runoff came down to two Republicans he liked.
"This is the only race we've ... this is not a loss, again, I don't want to claim it is a loss, this was a win. …The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win."
"The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win.":trumps
https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1420422062431215621
she sounds like a Tea Party Enemy of the State
Vote!
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Because the media oversamples their own networks
https://twitter.com/DanielsCongress/status/1420474138762911745
:american these ads :dead
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https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421669559854043138https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1421668812659830786
Two women are accusing senior members of the College Republican national leadership of asking them to fabricate sexual assault allegations against a male member to sink his candidacy for a leadership position with the organization.
One night during the convention, before Britt had secured her victory against Smith, one of the women says Rajadurai invited her to his hotel room. Earlier in the night, she had an argument with Rajadurai during a reception party, which she says left her ‘profusely sobbing’. When the pair met in Rajadurai’s hotel room, the woman says Rajadurai apologized before stepping away to answer a phone call from Thornton on the other side of the room. During the call, the woman claims she heard Rajadurai ask Thornton, ‘Should I have [her name] or [the other woman’s name] do it?’ After the phone call ended, the woman says Rajadurai asked her if she would accuse Smith of sexual assault and visit Smith in his hotel room later that night.
Screenshots of a text conversation between Rajadurai and the woman on May 15, 2021, show Rajadurai admitting that he and Thornton had tried to ‘me too’ Smith. Rajadurai goes on to apologize to the woman for asking her to participate.QuoteBR: The part that got out. That we tried to me too clay kinda sucksLater in the text conversation, Rajadurai apologizes to the woman, saying ‘If I did I’m sorry.’ Rajadurai claims he didn’t remember asking her to accuse Smith of sexual assault, but says ‘I could see myself having done that’.
W: well its not wrong
BR: That was a private convo between me and Chandler and it ultimately went no where
W: that was one of the most painful and hurtful things you’ve ever done to me…just as an FYI. like I think about that almost every day
BR: We were angry but we never tried do anything with it. I’m so sorry you heard it. I regret it every day
W: your best case scenario was that it actually happened. I never felt more worthless in my life
BR: No I was a piece of shit for it. To this day I regret it. I can’t imagine how it made you feel
The woman said that one of the reasons she did not come forward earlier was because Rajadurai had openly bragged about his ability to ‘ruin people’s lives’.
A second woman told The Spectator that Rajadurai asked her to accuse Smith of sexual assault at the same convention. She claims he made this offer on behalf of Smith’s opponent, Courtney Britt, and her backer Chandler Thornton.we have fun though
While leaving the bathroom outside the convention floor, the second woman says she ran into Rajadurai in the hotel hallway. She says Rajadurai first pitched the proposal to her as a ‘joke’ with a group of people present.
The woman says Rajadurai told her to invite Smith to party with her that night so she could get him inebriated. Supposedly, the plan was for the woman to accuse him of sexual assault the following day.
‘If I did I’m sorry.’ Rajadurai claims he didn’t remember asking her to accuse Smith of sexual assault, but says ‘I could see myself having done that’
State prosecutors shed new light Tuesday on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's involvement in managing the response to the sexual harassment scandal surrounding his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Chris Cuomo was in the governor's inner circle as they developed talking points and strategies in late February as accusations threatened the three-term governor, according to emails and text messages made public by investigators for New York Attorney General Letitia James.
It also appeared that Chris Cuomo played a role in writing the overall response Gov. Cuomo issued on Feb. 28 as the sexual harassment allegations reached an apex.
In an email at 3:20 p.m. ET on Feb. 28, Vlasto replied to an email from Chris Cuomo that included language that would largely make up a statement issued later by the governor.
"Questions have been raised about some of my personal interactions with people in my office," the statement attributed to Chris Cuomo's email said. "I spend most of my life at work and colleagues are often also personal friends. I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm."
The email continued that "sometimes I am playful and make jokes," adding: "You have seen me do it at briefings hundreds of times. My only desire is to add some levity and banter to what is very serious business."
Later that day, Andrew Cuomo posted a statement addressing the allegations on the governor's official website.
The statement, time-stamped 5:45 p.m. ET, mirrored, nearly word for word, the email attributed to Chris Cuomo.
A CNN spokeswoman declined to comment on James' report Tuesday and repeated earlier network statements saying Chris Cuomo did not affect coverage of his brother.:hitler
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday said her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney (R), is “deeply troubled” about the state of the Republican Party.:usacry
“My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is, deeply troubled about where the country is,” Cheney said during an event hosted by the Aspen Institute.
“When the subject of an article is a hostile, inarticulate shit-heel, versus when they are an effective politician.“
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907 (https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907)Accountable public servants :nope
These people are so bad at this :doge
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756)this is beyond the rubicon :titus
:biden
Former President Barack Obama was forced this week to aggressively trim the guestlist for his 60th birthday bash in light of surging cases of the Delta coronavirus variant. And The New York Times has a glimpse into who got tossed from the original list of 475 people initially invited to party at Obama’s $12 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion. Jay-Z and Beyonce are, naturally, still slated to come. But Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian Larry David, the king of awkward encounters, was awkwardly uninvited. Talk show hosts David Letterman and Conan O’Brien were also dumped, as were most of Obama’s old administration aides, including high-profile advisor David Axelrod.:whew
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at President Biden Friday after the commander-in-chief snarked “Governor who?” when asked about the Republican’s mask and vaccine policies a day earlier.
“I guess I’m not surprised that Biden doesn’t remember me. I guess the question is ‘What else has he forgotten?'” DeSantis said at an event at Chipola College in Marianna, in the Florida Panhandle.
“Biden’s forgotten about the crisis at our southern border, I can tell you that,” the governor continued. “Biden has forgotten about the inflation that’s biting the budgets of families all throughout our country. Biden has forgotten about the demonstrators who are fighting for freedom down in Cuba. Biden’s even forgotten about the constitution itself, as we saw with what he did with this moratorium.
...
“This is a guy who ran for president saying he was gonna ‘shut down the virus’. And what has he done?” DeSantis asked during remarks in Panama City. “He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border”
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“So why don’t you do your job? Why don’t you get this border secure, and until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you,” the governor concluded.
“When the subject of an article is a hostile, inarticulate shit-heel, versus when they are an effective politician.“
When has Biden been hostile?
Are.....are they buying politicians with bitcoin?I guess it beats buying them with hookers and blow
Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have refunded nearly $13 million to donors in the first half of the year, after deploying fundraising tactics in the 2020 election that duped donors into giving more money than they intended or believed they were, The New York Times reported.This is >10% of their donations. An average campaign has around 1-2% of these.
What's more, the Times reported Saturday that more than $135 million has been refunded to donors by Trump's reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts in the 2020 cycle through June 2021.
A Times investigation earlier this year found that Trump's political operation last year automatically enrolled their online donors into recurring donations every week until Election Day.
Donors would have to manually uncheck a box on digital donation forms if they wished to opt out of the weekly donation, the Times reported. A second pre-selected box withdrew another donation. The Trump campaign made the disclaimer "increasingly opaque" by including it amongst bold and capitalized text, according to the newspaper.
The tactic led to demands for refunds from supporters and a slew of credit card fraud complaints, the Times reported.
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872
uh
would this affect like every MMO too
an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people
blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight :doge
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872
uh
would this affect like every MMO too
an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people
blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight :doge
What does this mean for the James fund
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780)
Another victory lap for Joe
Ms. Kaplan, a prominent progressive lawyer, was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who had accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, a report said.
The fallout from a damaging report that found Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women widened on Monday when Roberta A. Kaplan, a nationally prominent lawyer with ties to the governor, resigned from Time’s Up, the organization founded by Hollywood women to fight sexual abuse and promote gender equality.
Ms. Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time’s Up and the co-founder of its legal defense fund, was one of several prominent figures whom the report found to be involved in an effort to discredit one of Mr. Cuomo’s alleged victims, and she has continuing legal ties to a former Cuomo aide accused of leading that effort.
“Unfortunately, recent events have made it clear that even our apparent allies in the fight to advance women can turn out to be abusers,” Ms. Kaplan wrote in a letter submitting her resignation from the group. “We have felt the raw, personal and profound pain of that betrayal.”
It was part of a broader effort in which Mr. Cuomo and his aides sought counsel from former administration officials including Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest L.G.B.T.Q. political lobbying organization in the country; Tina Tchen, the chief executive of Time’s Up; and the governor’s brother, Chris Cuomo, an anchor on CNN.
All of those figures have come under criticism for their connections to Mr. Cuomo.
The involvement of Mr. David, who previously served as counsel to the governor, has led to calls for his resignation from the Human Rights Campaign. The organization said in a statement on Monday that it had hired a law firm to investigate whether Mr. David’s work on the op-ed aligned with its mission of “fighting for equality and justice for all.”
Mr. David, who has called on Mr. Cuomo to resign, said in a statement that he had no knowledge of “any incidents of misconduct” involving the 11 women in the attorney general’s report.
Last week Gateway Pundit reported that Q himself…errr “CodeMonkeyZ” Ron Watkins…posted a video and a few screenshots to his Telegram that had been provided by a “whistleblower.” The posts were supposed to demonstrate that Dominion Voting Systems machines could in fact be connected to the internet, which is a necessary but not sufficient element in support of their bat guano theory of election fraud.
The grainy, shaky video presented a conversation between an election official and a Dominion employee, in which the election official asks a series of leading questions in order to demonstrate how, with the help of someone on the inside, the machine could hypothetically be tampered with over the internet using the BIOS motherboard settings.
When the official shared this “bombshell” video with CodeMonkey Watkins they included in it an image of their election system’s BIOS password, which is, of course, a massive breach of voting system security.
And in doing so they stepped on a pretty large rake – because the password in the video was unique, which allowed the Colorado Secretary of State’s office to identify which county the leak came from and during which meeting it was recorded.
Oops.
The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office is under investigation by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office for a breach in security over its election system.:usacry
Secretary of State Jena Griswold released an order at 10:15 a.m. today calling on Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to supply surveillance videos and documents showing how the breach occurred, and how security information ended up on a social media post.
If Peters can't show proper chain of custody for that security information, which involves certain passwords that are eyes-only for state and county election workers who have passed background checks, all of the county's election systems could be immediately decertified, meaning the county would be on the hook for an expensive refit of all of its machines.
The Secretary of State's investigation into the matter could lead to criminal charges
Peters was not exactly a surprising suspect. She had previously gained notoriety through a series of social media posts during the January 6th insurrection that attested to how easy it might be for a criminal to tamper with election equipment. This latest leak appears to have been an attempt to verify her premise.
Her posts shamed Republican Senators like Pat Toomey who were not going along with President Trump’s effort to overturn the result of the November election with the fervor that she had hoped. Among her since-deleted tweets,
“Their intent is not to ‘overturn’ the election. This was not an election. This was planned fraud on a grand scale. If you refuse to acknowledge that you WILL NOT be re-elected. We need others in your place that uphold the Constitution and preserve our Republic.”
“Shame on you! As one that administers elections in my county, you apparently have no idea how it is possible to 1) tabulate more than once ballots favoring a candidate 2) change algorithm in a voting machine (see Eric Coomer from Dominion’s Facebook ranks) UR Dirty or ignorant.”
“You would be wise to learn the Constitution that you swore to uphold and to protect us from enemies ‘foreign and domestic.’”
“Also, the vaccines are troubling in the mechanics in the RNA. I don’t want anyone messing with my RNA, my DNA or anything else – MY BODY, my right!”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that Democrats should not vote for any of the 46 candidates vying to replace him in the upcoming recall election.
Recall ballots contain two parts: an up-or-down vote on whether to retain Newsom and an open-ended question of who should replace him. Newsom said he was focused on prevailing on the first part and discouraged his base from taking sides on the second.
“We’re just focusing on ‘no’ on the recall, leaving the rest blank,” Newsom said.
Newsom’s admonition highlights the strategic gamble his campaign took in dissuading other prominent Democrats from running. Some Democratic officials and campaign operatives believed it was in Newsom’s interest to have a fallback Democrat on the ballot in case Newsom is ousted. But Newsom’s team emphasized party unity and warned that another Democratic candidate could help the recall succeed by fracturing the liberal electorate.
As a result, recall ballots will list several prominent Republican candidates but no Democrats with political experience. If Democratic voters leave that second question blank, they could effectively be ceding the question of Newsom’s successor to Republican voters and other recall supporters.
That creates the possibility that a Republican becomes governor with a small plurality of the vote. Conservative talk show host Larry Elder has leapfrogged into the lead among Republicans but has topped out around 20 percent.
While registered Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans in California, polls show conservatives are far more motivated to vote in the recall. Newsom’s fate will hinge on turning out enough of his voters to counteract surging Republican enthusiasm. The governor on Monday called his team’s get-out-the-vote efforts “unprecedented,” saying the campaign had sent more than 15 million texts while spending millions to buoy turnout.Good news for Caitlyn Jenner?
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed the governorship in 2003 without an outright majority, securing 48.6 percent of the vote after voters elected to recall then-Gov. Gray Davis. Then-Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante decided to run as a replacement Democrat in that election and managed just a third of the vote, an outcome that informed some Democrats’ thinking this time around.
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872
uh
would this affect like every MMO too
an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people
blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight :doge
What does this mean for the James fund
A bipartisan amendment to redefine who would be subject to new cryptocurrency regulation requirements under the Senate infrastructure bill was blocked Monday after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) tried to attach his untreated proposal to boost military spending by $50 billion.
And you thought having the MyPillow guy and Kid Rock at the White House was bad
https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540 (https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540)
"Siri what is infrastructure?"https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872
uh
would this affect like every MMO too
an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people
blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight :doge
What does this mean for the James fund
they blocked the bill by poisoning it with a massive military funding increase :neogaf
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/567046-cryptocurrency-amendment-blocked-in-senateQuoteA bipartisan amendment to redefine who would be subject to new cryptocurrency regulation requirements under the Senate infrastructure bill was blocked Monday after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) tried to attach his untreated proposal to boost military spending by $50 billion.
And you thought having the MyPillow guy and Kid Rock at the White House was bad
https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540 (https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540)
Is it a hate crime if I say that flamboyant people like that make me want to set myself on fire?
Is it a hate crime if I say that flamboyant people like that make me want to set myself on fire?
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.a classical bitalian? only goes gay for guidos :delicious
CUOMO RESIGN BITCH
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.a classical bitalian? only plays goes both ways for guidos
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.
the best combo would be to buy hookers and blow with bitcoin and forget about the politicians :brainAre.....are they buying politicians with bitcoin?I guess it beats buying them with hookers and blow
is this "cope":
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1425131245449646080
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425147549527195653
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152701122367489
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152063755931661
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1425132119697862657
Hunter Biden claims Russian drug dealers stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room in 2018. Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter with a naked hooker in 2019, explaining how he believed his laptop was stolen
The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers, each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Biden
every Taliban fighter gets his own Ford, Toyota, Humvee or MRAP.
Hunter: 'No no no, because my dad [inaudible] running for president. He is, he is, he is. I talk about it all the time. If they do, he also knows I make like a gazillion dollars.'
Hooker: 'They'd try to blackmail you?'
Hunter: 'Yeah in some way yeah.'
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1251879820503535617
:teehee
The poll released Wednesday by Morning Consult/Politico found that 14 percent of Biden voters surveyed said it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that Trump would make an inexplicable return to the White House as soon as this year. Twenty-six percent of Trump voters agreed that the former president would likely return to office before Biden's term is over.https://www.newsweek.com/14-percent-biden-voters-say-trump-will-reinstated-president-this-year-poll-1618985 (https://www.newsweek.com/14-percent-biden-voters-say-trump-will-reinstated-president-this-year-poll-1618985)
Biden lied people died
hehe
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1427022834644267009
So now that 'murica has been out of Afghanistan for a while, they must be getting really impatient to start another war. Any guesses on where they will wage war next?To fight a war you need to give your troops something to fight for.
I just hope it's not going to be a war on climat change, because that's a war we need to actually win. :doge
the Pentagon flunkies all had a masterclass in Rumsfeld bullshithttps://twitter.com/axios/status/1427624313365180419 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1427624313365180419)
the 'Quad' (United States, Japan, Australia and India) vs. China
Obama was said to be a victorious hero even though there’s no proof Bin Laden had anything to do with the 9-11 attack.:cenk
The next war will likely be in Taiwan, the 'Quad' (United States, Japan, Australia and India) vs. China.
A New Orleans grandfather says the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took his life savings based on flimsy accusations of drug trafficking and without ever charging him with a crime. Now he's fighting to get it back.
Kermit Warren, a former longshoreman, says he and his son had gotten laid off from their jobs last year during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and he was trying to turn a side-business as a scrapper into a full-time venture. To that end, he and his son traveled to Ohio with roughly $28,000 to purchase a tow truck.
However, Warren claims the tow truck was too large for his needs, so he and his son bought a one-way ticket back home. In the airport, three DEA agents stopped the two men and questioned them about the bag of cash they were carrying.
The complaint against Warren's money filed in federal court says Warren and his son gave suspicious and incomplete answers about their travel itinerary and plans to buy the truck. Based on that, the agents seized his money. The complaint alleges that a drug dog later alerted on the cash, and that the DEA had previously received a tip of drug trafficking activity at his son's residence. Warren denies any involvement in drug activity.
The government is now seeking to keep Warren's money forever
Although there is nothing illegal about flying domestically with large amounts of undeclared cash, federal and local law enforcement have a habit of seizing currency from travelers under civil asset forfeiture laws.
The Institute for Justice is currently litigating a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of people whose cash was seized by the DEA at airports. One of the lead plaintiffs in that case, Stacy Jones, had $43,167 in cash seized by the DEA as she was trying to fly home to Tampa, Florida, from Wilmington, North Carolina. Jones says the cash was from the sale of a used car, as well as money she and her husband intended to take to a casino.
One of the other named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Terrence Rolin, a 79-year-old retired railroad engineer, had his life savings of $82,373 seized by the DEA after his daughter tried to take it on a flight out of Pittsburgh with the intent of depositing it in a bank.
In 2016, a USA Today investigation found the DEA seized more than $209 million from at least 5,200 travelers in 15 major airports over the previous decade.:american
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688
https://reason.com/2021/08/17/dea-seizes-life-savings-of-new-orleans-grandfather-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/That's pretty fucked upQuoteA New Orleans grandfather says the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took his life savings based on flimsy accusations of drug trafficking and without ever charging him with a crime. Now he's fighting to get it back.
Kermit Warren, a former longshoreman, says he and his son had gotten laid off from their jobs last year during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and he was trying to turn a side-business as a scrapper into a full-time venture. To that end, he and his son traveled to Ohio with roughly $28,000 to purchase a tow truck.
However, Warren claims the tow truck was too large for his needs, so he and his son bought a one-way ticket back home. In the airport, three DEA agents stopped the two men and questioned them about the bag of cash they were carrying.
The complaint against Warren's money filed in federal court says Warren and his son gave suspicious and incomplete answers about their travel itinerary and plans to buy the truck. Based on that, the agents seized his money. The complaint alleges that a drug dog later alerted on the cash, and that the DEA had previously received a tip of drug trafficking activity at his son's residence. Warren denies any involvement in drug activity.
The government is now seeking to keep Warren's money foreverQuoteAlthough there is nothing illegal about flying domestically with large amounts of undeclared cash, federal and local law enforcement have a habit of seizing currency from travelers under civil asset forfeiture laws.QuoteThe Institute for Justice is currently litigating a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of people whose cash was seized by the DEA at airports. One of the lead plaintiffs in that case, Stacy Jones, had $43,167 in cash seized by the DEA as she was trying to fly home to Tampa, Florida, from Wilmington, North Carolina. Jones says the cash was from the sale of a used car, as well as money she and her husband intended to take to a casino.
One of the other named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Terrence Rolin, a 79-year-old retired railroad engineer, had his life savings of $82,373 seized by the DEA after his daughter tried to take it on a flight out of Pittsburgh with the intent of depositing it in a bank.QuoteIn 2016, a USA Today investigation found the DEA seized more than $209 million from at least 5,200 travelers in 15 major airports over the previous decade.:american
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688
To be fair, that sounds like it would make a great tycoon game.
is this gonna actually end up with them pulling the "Joe has to step down for health reasons" card like the mad lads said would happen :titus
I suppose the one saving grace he has ATM is no one believes he's actually calling the shots
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.Yeah, but you could have got your people out before leaving though...
Yeah, mistakes were made. We’re going to be examining what went wrong for a long time. It was a volatile and difficult situation to navigate, which is why I think it is so pointless and disingenuous to point fingers at Biden and shout “senile!“Agreed. Blaming this situation on the president being senile is completely disingenuous and pointless. Everyone needs to call it what it is: incompetence.
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.
You know all those humvees the Taliban is driving around?
Should have stocked the gas tanks with bombs. Then after the fall of Kabul, trigger them and you gottem
Bin Laden warned in 2010 letter that Biden would ‘lead US into crisis’https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/bin-laden-warned-in-2010-letter-that-biden-would-lead-us-into-crisis/ (https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/bin-laden-warned-in-2010-letter-that-biden-would-lead-us-into-crisis/)
In the letter dated May 2010, the al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind wrote he had no assassination plots against Biden because he deemed him “totally unprepared” to lead the United States.
BIDEN: *walks away*
REPORTER: “What about ISIS and the threat that Americans face now?”
Nintex, don't be a sap.
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1429257743165177858
the 5G has activated :noooo
"We are going to be the leaders in evacuating"
She literally said it, these fucking clowns :lol
https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698 (https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698)
"gee, let me go to dangerous area of the world with war going on" :) "oh no, I am in dangerous area with war going on!" :'(Just wanted to get a couple of Afghan carpets on the cheap. :stahp
:neogaf
Don't worry the Dems got this, they'll just call the black guy a racist :wut
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
QuoteALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654)
:pacspit
If that's the best that the anti-Biden camp can do, i'm going to assume that they couldn't find any actual argument with what he said at the press conference.
Didn't you hear what Taliban Joe said?
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1430284949165428740 (https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1430284949165428740)
ISIS-K is on the loose!!!!
Better keep the women safely inside.
The only silver lining in the August 31st retreat is that the entire clusterfuck ends and Joe Biden can't fuck it up more with demented decisions.
I thought newt passed way?
Y'all need to stop getting twitter news.
why does he have a girls name? :hitler
Wait what. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5%26Watch%3A%20Taliban%20fighters%20pose%20in%20abandoned%20US%20aircraft%262021-08-31T15%3A44%3A21.107Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:3da91a97-cdcf-42d2-8dd8-a43a19fd9801&pinned_post_asset_id=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5&pinned_post_type=share)
I sure hope they did a little bit to "disable the abandoned equipment" than just slashing tires and smashing windshields :dead
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432702615419342848
:)https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432702615419342848
:piss :doge :piss2
Miss me yet? :berniehttps://twitter.com/AlexandraChalup/status/1433471696426704899
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1432866784432979969https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1433864709397262341
:notlikethis
“When I saw him, he looked healthier and in better physical condition than I had seen him in a long time,” an advisor told Insider.
“He was eating all those M&M’s on [Air Force One] all the time,” another Trump pal said. “He’s a big man with a big frame, and he’s lost a lot of weight. I can’t tell you how much, but it’s a lot. You can see it in his suits.”
“The president is feeling great, Mar-a-Lago guests frequently comment about how good he’s looking over these last couple of months, and he feels great as well,” another associate told Insider.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279
:klob
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1434547036641275913
Of course she cross fits
Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war. He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over, ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this Country.
If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago. What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today denying responsibility for letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C. suburbs. The charges were made known when a member of the public noted that, historically, Norton has valued the principle of consent of the governed, most notably in the fight for statehood for the District. More recently, Norton has also been known to oppose unnecessary fences.:american
“Local news has reported that the zebras were let loose on Saturday or Sunday of last weekend, a period of time during which I was enjoying quiet time at home with family,” Norton said. “My alibi is solid, but given my career of fighting for statehood for the District, which includes years of explaining the importance of having consent of the governed, and given my recent opposition to fences, I can understand why the charge was made. I hope the owners find the zebras and that all involved live long, full lives.”
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1434547036641275913
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
:klob
Quite the dayhttps://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436897225871962113
Crossfit really is a culthttps://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279 (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
:klob
https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041 (https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041)
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822 (https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822)
:titus
Crossfit really is a culthttps://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279 (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
:klob
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IMPEACH
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IMPEACH
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788
:)
idk what all the fuss about her is, she's a 6/10 at best, unlike my 2d waifu who’s an 11/10 :expert
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788She really is a fuckhead.
:)
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788She really is a fuckhead.
:)
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843
:hesright
https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/1437868931520286720
:titus
the ex-president picked up the phone and rang up several close associates and TV-prone political allies. According to two people familiar with the matter, the twice-impeached former president was sounding testy and had a simple request:
He wanted his prominent supporters to go on television and in public this week to declare that Gen. Mark Milley should be “arrested” for “treason.”
They followed his orders as various MAGA-faithful pundits and Trumpy candidates—including Ohio U.S Senate candidate Josh Mandel, Trump-aligned TPUSA frontman Charlie Kirk, and several former Trump officials—dutifully echoed the “treason” charge on social media.
And by Tuesday evening, the twice-impeached former U.S. president was on a Newsmax show co-hosted by his former White House using the T-word.
That dress is pretty #latestagecapitalism thoughhttps://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843
:hesright
Shutup Ben, you wet ass P-word.
How utterly predictable that Politico would run the zillionth hit piece on a prominent woman, especially one candid in her critiques of Politico's hysterical, clickbait style of coverage. The notion that I am polarizing in a newsroom (as opposed to any of the dozens of other opinion writers) is a "take" only Politico could come up with — by of course running around to ask the question in the first place. I trust the Post's superb news side folks spend zero time thinking about me (as is entirely appropriate). My only surprise is that Sam [Stein, POLITICO’s White House editor], a very good journalist, would become enmeshed in such an obviously misogynistic publication. Surely there are finer publications that would have him.SLAY QUEEN
And btw, what a low class move to do this on Yom Kippur at the last moment.
On Thursday, we reached back out with our reporting. Rubin responded in an email with the subject line “OFF THE RECORD.” Since we never agreed to conduct such an off-the-record conversation, we are publishing it below in full:
The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.
The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes.
...
While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid.
Over the years Cultural Brokerage Agency has also faced multiple legal challenges as a result of habitual nonpayment of worker benefits.
In October 2019 the state Worker’s Compensation Board slapped the company with a $17,000 fine for not carrying worker’s-comp insurance between March 2017 and February 2018. The company currently owes $62,722 and no payments have been received to date
...
Though AOC proudly labeled James a “working class” designer as they waltzed down the Met Gala red carpet, her lifestyle has been anything but. As the pandemic raged across America, igniting a deep recession, James scooped up a $1.6 million residence in Los Angeles in September 2020.
The Tudor-style home with cathedral ceilings, a master-bedroom fireplace and backyard hot tub sits on 7,095 square feet in the posh Hollywood Hills, according to RedFin.
True to form, the property is already listed as “delinquent” by the Los Angeles County assessor’s office, which told The Post James owed $2,504 in property taxes.
...
Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a career out of demanding better worker wages and benefits, and taxing the rich to pay for her budget-busting federal programs, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The annual Met Gala routinely attracts the eyes of those with an interest in creativity, celebrity and high fashion. However, this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended her first Met Gala, provoking a true statement. Bright red script saying “TAX THE RICH” stood out across the back of her white gown, generating conversation on both sides of the political spectrum.:american
Now, as many PR practitioners know, utilizing a very public platform to deliver a message doesn’t happen overnight. Teams of communicators plan and strategize messaging and delivery. In this case BerlinRosen worked with the designer, Brother Vellies’ creative director Aurora James, as well as with Ocasio-Cortez’s PR team.
Janna Pea, EVP, BerlinRosen, worked with James, a Black woman designer who founded the 15 Percent Pledge, during the social justice reckoning during the summer of 2020. The 15 Percent Pledge encourages retailers and corporations, in the fashion and beauty space, to sign an agreement dedicating 15 percent of their buying power to Black-owned businesses. Notable signees include Gap and Sephora.
“My role and our role as the communications support was about helping to uplift and amplify their message and this moment," Pea said. "It is inspiring how this vision came together and our firm was proud to be a part of that process."
Pea noted the importance of preparation and providing a context for reporters to include when delivering the messaging. This included prepping materials that highlighted talking points for the congresswoman and James, as well as offering select reporters nuggets of info without giving everything away.
“The whole point was to make it a surprise, and teeing up the right reporters, so they had the context behind the look,” Pea said. “Because it's one thing to see the dress and say, 'Oh, my goodness, why would you do this?' But to have the context as to WHY they did it—and make sure the press understood, that was our role."
The dress certainly caused a stir, trending on social media. It remains a topic of articles and conversation several days later. Some pundits found the message ironic at a lavish event, while others applauded the bravado of the statement amidst the Met Gala grandeur.
...
Pea said the message is doing exactly what it was meant to do, attract attention.
“I'm not sure anybody could have fully prepared for what the outcome truly was,” Pea said. "The goal was for people to see it and be inspired. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is a young woman of color in powerful position to deliver a powerful message on the carpet—a message that got folks to say, 'Oh, wait, what does that mean? And why does she feel like she needs to put that on a dress?' The wealth gap continues to grow and the collaboration between Aurora and the congresswoman addressed that. I’m glad conversations are continuing to be had around this topic."
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024)
Crooked Hillary Clinton
No one cares now, but Trump was right this whole thing was bullshit
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1439276950946713610Also there:
Also there:
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439314612638429185]
Literal cult.
If only their leader told them to grab some coolaid.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.He wants to create a Texas Military and attack Mexico with it. :dead :dead :dead :dead
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024)
Crooked Hillary Clinton
No one cares now, but Trump was right this whole thing was bullshit
she used to be hot with the pale tail and dark hair, a damn :trumpsshame
He wants to create a Texas Military and attack Mexico with it. :dead :dead :dead :deadhttps://twitter.com/DonHuffines/status/1440006495907766281
Also there:https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1440021257043464193
“There is a complete lack of direction,” said one admin official.“Everything is deferred to the White House NSC, which can't see past low polls on immigration and are terrified their own shadow may be a pull factor. Career and political staff are equally concerned.”
Quote from: Jennifer RubinHow utterly predictable that Politico would run the zillionth hit piece on a prominent woman, especially one candid in her critiques of Politico's hysterical, clickbait style of coverage. The notion that I am polarizing in a newsroom (as opposed to any of the dozens of other opinion writers) is a "take" only Politico could come up with — by of course running around to ask the question in the first place. I trust the Post's superb news side folks spend zero time thinking about me (as is entirely appropriate). My only surprise is that Sam [Stein, POLITICO’s White House editor], a very good journalist, would become enmeshed in such an obviously misogynistic publication. Surely there are finer publications that would have him.SLAY QUEEN
And btw, what a low class move to do this on Yom Kippur at the last moment.
It has been over a week since White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has retweeted one of his most favorite journalists, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.pls retweet :fbm
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In fact, the last time Klain retweeted Rubin was on Sept. 13, which was three days before Politico published its findings. This marks a running total of ten days without visible Klain-Rubin activity.
The Sept. 13 tweet promoted a column Rubin had written supporting the Biden administration's crackdown on businesses in order to boost vaccinations. The previous retweet took place on Sept. 10.
During the retweet drought, Rubin defended Biden's foreign policy following the awkward spat that took place with France, trashed GOP lawmakers amid the Capitol Hill debate overspending, and slammed the Supreme Court on not quashing Texas' abortion law.
According to Politico, Klain had "retweeted or @ mentioned Rubin more than three dozen times since mid-May" and that her columns were promoted by the White House press team, the VP's office, the State Department and the DNC.
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.:usacry
The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.
The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.
Surely this NATO refugee camp for young men with blue balls would be different than all the others.QuoteWe can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/fort-bliss-female-service-member-assaulted-by-group-of-afghan-refugees
Christ.
Operation Allies Welcome:dead
They already charged 2 Afghan men at a different refugee camp in Wisconsin with raping a child there.
There's some wild shit circulating about what's going in these places from the soldiers working there, real bad stuff.
military doesn't like sharing their sexual assault victims with outsiders :rkellyQuoteWe can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/fort-bliss-female-service-member-assaulted-by-group-of-afghan-refugees
Christ.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.:usacry
The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.
The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
IMhttps://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1441465613684252672PEACH
PHANTOM VOTERS :pika(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.:usacry
The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.
The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.:usacry
The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.
The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
"And then military instinations(?) and their installations and they have a lot of things surrounding it and we had this big beatiful airbaseDid you or Trump have a stroke halfway through this?
that costs billions of dollars to built and we were gone we didn't even turn out the lights and one day we were gone and you know who is looking at
it now and who is all over it CZYNNAAAAA. We were never leaving that we had a perfect plan they were listening to us Abdul Abdul you can't shoot our soldiers"[/size]
When Gizmodo asked Garrison whether he’d been vaccinated against covid-19, he repeated many of the same conspiracy theories that appear in his cartoons.
“We will never take their foul spike protein-producing jabs, which are neither safe nor effective. They’re not real vaccines. They’re gene therapy,” Garrison wrote in an email to Gizmodo.
“15,000 have died as a result of the Covid vaccines and hundreds of thousands others have had serious side effects. The mainstream media will not mention a word of this—not one peep. Instead we get the ’safe and effective’ malarky over and over as well as government pushers urging us to take the free poison. Don’t do it. The Pfizer CEO certainly won’t. Bill Gates and his family won’t, either,” Garrison claimed.
Garrison says he’d never visit a hospital to treat his covid-19. (Last week, NBC News reported that anti-vaccine Facebook groups have been influencing members to not seek hospital treatment for covid-19 and even instructed them to pull their sick family members out of ICU.)
“I would never go to a hospital with Covid. Robert David Steele did it a few weeks ago and they killed him. The hospitals get extra money for Covid death reports, which is necessary to keep fear ramped up,” Garrison claimed in an email to Gizmodo.
The man Garrison is referring to, Robert David Steele, was a conspiracy theorist who frequently appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones. The 69-year-old Steele believed some incredibly bizarre things, including that NASA had imprisoned children on Mars to work as slaves. Steele, who claimed to be a former CIA officer, reportedly died of covid-19 in August.
Pls default USA. Pls pls pls.
why didn't they just get a pmc to take over and let everyone get paid? :moneyThat was Flynn's idea. They were going to privatize the war and pay Erik Price to fight it (or rather have the Afghans pay for it)
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441884093176705029
:american she's the best
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin just cooked the planet. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I mean that literally. Unless Manchin changes his negotiating position dramatically in the near future, he will be remembered as the man who, when the moment of decision came, chose to condemn virtually every living creature on Earth to a hellish future of suffering, hardship, and death.the hysteria :dead :dead :dead :dead
even The Nation’s justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, insisted, “There is absolutely no upside to protesting people while they’re in the bathroom.”
Then there’s Sinema’s take: In a statement, she described the incident as “not a legitimate protest.”
“It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings...and filming students in a restroom,” Sinema said.
Given these reactions, one would think that an angry activist kicked open the bathroom door while Sinema was taking a massive dump. Instead, they just sort of stood around in a public space, politely but firmly demanding that Sinema to do the job they elected her to do. Even President Biden was seemingly unimpressed by all the whining, telling reporters during a Monday press conference that “It happens to everybody... it’s part of the process.”
He’s right. And for all the pearl-clutching, few are providing a more effective and safe alternative to what these activists did. They told Sinema, to her face—and through a door—that she was failing them and why. There was no violence, no rude language, nothing. Just a few constituents following their representative into a large bathroom to air their grievances. What should they have done instead? Call her office and direct their ire through a receptionist like surely countless Americans do each day? Write her a letter she won’t read? Vote her into office again and hope that, this time, she’ll deign them important enough to listen to?
But maybe it’s easier to act like a public bathroom is a sacred place than criticize the fact that Sinema decided to hide from her voters like a coward.
If you actually read the UN report on the climate it is far less alarmist than they make it out to be.Cruz is a flapping wizardsleeve cuntflap. Jesus. The President who was MOST IN BED WITH RUSSIA EVER insult Cruz' wife, and he treated it like some kind of NTR foreplay. Fuck that little fat badger.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976)
:dead
CNN should start cleaning up their own act first.
And by act, I mean not having news anchors protect their siblings in power :doge
fucking fuck
Laxalt has already said he’d support legal challenges to the midterm results, more than a year out from the election.
“With me at the top of the ticket, we’re going to be able to get everybody at the table and come up with a full plan, do our best to try to secure this election, get as many observers as we can, and file lawsuits early, if there are lawsuits we can file to try to tighten up the election,”
Laxalt filed unsuccessful challenges to 2020 election results in Nevada and maintains that Democrat-sponsored changes to balloting, such as universal mail-in voting, have undermined faith in elections.:american
On Friday, Laxalt acknowledged that Joe Biden was president of the United States but declined, when pressed by a reporter, to say whether he thought Biden was legitimately elected.
“I know you want to make this entire election about this. We have major issues going on in our country right now,” he said before turning to address another question.
this is more serious/meta than this thread usually goes and I know nobody caresOnly because a prominent poster has made it their life mission to drown out any discussion by spamming borderline random stuff they found under "latest" on Twitter.
(https://c.tenor.com/D47I8y_einUAAAAd/george-lucas-i-may-have-gone-too-far.gif)this is more serious/meta than this thread usually goes and I know nobody caresOnly because a prominent poster has made it their life mission to drown out any discussion by spamming borderline random stuff they found under "latest" on Twitter.
Now "some" claim this is to drive out anything except the MAGA Agenda, but those people also fled like cowards. I won't say they're all cowards, but at least one definitely is.
https://mobile.twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1445057824200003599https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1446559842265665557
:biden
Power concedes nothing without demand. But the demands of Democratic voters are reasonable: Just pass Biden’s agenda, already! As the powerful continue to cocoon themselves within a vault of donor boodle and ordinary citizens get shut out of the participatory process, we should naturally expect an antagonistic and more confrontational public to emerge. And while many argue that the people should have the right to be rude, this is clearly not an ideal or preferable way to practice politics. Anyone who doesn’t want that future should stop asserting the ludicrous notion that affluent political elites have some inalienable right to civility, and start insisting that they earn it.
APOCALYPSE SOON: Let’s Call Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema What They Are: Extremists
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To hear Sinema, Manchin, and Gottheimer tell it, they’re a voice for sober rationality in a party careening toward the extreme left, bravely standing up for the forgotten majorities who want to keep corporate taxes low and spending under control. But what does it mean to be a moderate in the era of the climate crisis?
If anything, the reconciliation bill is dangerously modest. It does nothing to directly limit America’s prolific fossil fuel production and exports.
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In a world already irreversibly altered by rising temperatures, there’s no moderate way forward. Back in 2014—when there were tens of billions fewer tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—climate scientist Kevin Anderson argued that the planet faced “an unavoidably radical future. We either continue with rising emissions and reap the radical repercussions of severe climate change, or we acknowledge that we have a choice and pursue radical emission reductions.” Progressives want the latter, or at least the closest thing to it Congress is likely to produce in the next few months. Sinema, Manchin, Gottheimer, and their ilk are doing everything they can to make the former path a reality. No one should call them moderates, or even centrists. They’re extremists. If they have their way, they’re going to get a lot of people killed.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446568451246600192They actually hired actors for thisspoiler (click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446569268724879370[close]
Monterey resident Trevor Bernardino, 13, told KSBW he was stunned when he learned he would be traveling to Washington, DC to take part in the video.
'Then after that, like a week later my agent called me and was like 'Hey Trevor you booked it,' he told the network.
Trevor was one of five teens who participated in the video for the YouTube original series. He was joined by Derrick Brooks II, another child actor, Emily Kim, likewise a child actor, Zhoriel Tapo, a child actor and aspiring journalist who has interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Sydney Schmooke.
The video was shot at the Naval Observatory, Harris' residence, from August 11 to August 13. During that time the Taliban were making rapid advances across Afghanistan and were closing in on Kabul during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal. -Daily Mail
"So for humanitarian reasons we are not going to play that'll video, but it's online," said Carlson. "If you dare, look it up, watch it. Watch it again, watch your own soul die as you do. It's the fakest thing that's ever been caught on video but in fact it's even faker than it looks."
They actually hired actors for thisBetter part:QuoteMonterey resident Trevor Bernardino, 13, told KSBW he was stunned when he learned he would be traveling to Washington, DC to take part in the video.
'Then after that, like a week later my agent called me and was like 'Hey Trevor you booked it,' he told the network.
Trevor was one of five teens who participated in the video for the YouTube original series. He was joined by Derrick Brooks II, another child actor, Emily Kim, likewise a child actor, Zhoriel Tapo, a child actor and aspiring journalist who has interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Sydney Schmooke.
Biden should have made the vaccine a rectal suppositoryYou mean it wasn't?
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million, and vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate the “hackers” and anyone who aided the publication in its “attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”:american
The Post-Dispatch says it discovered the vulnerability in a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials, and that more than 100,000 SSNs were available. The Missouri state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) reportedly removed the affected pages from its website Tuesday after being notified of the problem by the publication (before the story on the flaw was published).
The newspaper said it found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved. In other words, the information was available to anyone with a web browser who happened to also examine the site’s public code using Developer Tools or simply right-clicking on the page and viewing the source code.
The Post-Dispatch reported that it wasn’t immediately clear how long the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information had been vulnerable on the DESE website, nor was it known if anyone had exploited the flaw.
But in a press conference Thursday morning, Gov. Parson said he would seek to prosecute and investigate the reporter and the region’s largest newspaper for “unlawfully” accessing teacher data.
“This administration is standing up against any and all perpetrators who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians,” Parson said. “It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information. We are coordinating state resources to respond and utilize all legal methods available. My administration has notified the Cole County prosecutor of this matter, the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensics Unit will also be conducting an investigation of all of those involved. This incident alone may cost Missouri taxpayers as much as $50 million.”
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“The state is committed to bringing to justice anyone who hacked our systems or anyone who aided them to do so,” Parson continued. “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. This individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.”
Parson said the person who reported the weakness was “acting against a state agency to compromise teachers’ personal information in an attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”
“We will not let this crime against Missouri teachers go unpunished, and refuse to let them be a pawn in the news outlet’s political vendetta,” Parson said. “Not only are we going to hold this individual accountable, but we will also be holding accountable all those who aided this individual and the media corporation that employs them.”
twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448019963504119817https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448726524123881479
twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448040032841961474
“It was a dying party, I’ll be honest. Now we have a very lively party,”
https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129 (https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129)
I know "cult" gets thrown around an awful lot in regards to Trumpland shit, but(https://i.imgur.com/rce59Oz.png)
Remember only polling experts and career politicians can question election results and argue with the media about their calls.I was unrepentant in making fun of Democrats and their media lackeys for the stolen election/Russia talk, but there is a huge difference here between whining about the election result and Trump's refusal to ever accept a legitimate election result: First, Trump himself claimed that 2016 had been rigged and stolen from him despite having won. Second, Trump spent an entire year talking up the idea that 2020 was going to be stolen from him and telling his voters not to vote by mail-in. Third, Hillary conceded right after the election and never challenged any of it in court, Trump filed nearly 70 frivolous lawsuits and continues demanding fraudulent "audits" including in states he won. Fourth, Trump attempted to have others violate the law to switch the election results in his favor. Fifth, in the wake of all that he encouraged supporters to literally storm the Capitol as if this could change the results.
After they questioned Trump's 2016 victory to this day (a new documentary about the pee pee tape just dropped) why did they think he would just accept the outcome?
He started talking about rigged elections and rigged contests in general even before 2016. But that leaves the question, why is everyone surprised or shocked even and so easily caught up in the rigged elections hysteria, both his supporters and opponents.Remember only polling experts and career politicians can question election results and argue with the media about their calls.I was unrepentant in making fun of Democrats and their media lackeys for the stolen election/Russia talk, but there is a huge difference here between whining about the election result and Trump's refusal to ever accept a legitimate election result: First, Trump himself claimed that 2016 had been rigged and stolen from him despite having won. Second, Trump spent an entire year talking up the idea that 2020 was going to be stolen from him and telling his voters not to vote by mail-in. Third, Hillary conceded right after the election and never challenged any of it in court, Trump filed nearly 70 frivolous lawsuits and continues demanding fraudulent "audits" including in states he won. Fourth, Trump attempted to have others violate the law to switch the election results in his favor. Fifth, in the wake of all that he encouraged supporters to literally storm the Capitol as if this could change the results.
After they questioned Trump's 2016 victory to this day (a new documentary about the pee pee tape just dropped) why did they think he would just accept the outcome?
He started talking about rigged elections and rigged contests in general even before 2016. But that leaves the question, why is everyone surprised or shocked even and so easily caught up in the rigged elections hysteria, both his supporters and opponents.Maybe the powerful people who continue to push that rhetoric to the point of insisting their supporters don't vote in the next two elections.
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) announced new legislation today to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields websites and online platforms from being held liable for third-party content.fuuuuucccccccckkkkkkk ooofffffooofffffffff
The legislation, titled the Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, would amend Section 230 to remove absolute immunity in certain instances. Specifically, the bill would lift the Section 230 liability shield when an online platform knowingly or recklessly uses an algorithm or other technology to recommend content that materially contributes to physical or severe emotional injury. The bill will be introduced in the House tomorrow.
Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act:neo
don't vote, DO donate:
(https://i.imgur.com/j6EJ57g.png)
uses an algorithm or other technology to recommend content that materially contributes to physical or severe emotional injury
What a waste of a perfectly good CRT TV.
What a waste of a perfectly good CRT TV.
nice rack tho
It is unclear whether in this scenario Manchin would end up caucusing with the Democrats, which would allow them to continue to control the Senate, or side with the Republicans and place the Senate in GOP hands. In either event, he would hold great sway over this half of Congress.
Hawley's bill would direct the Department of Commerce to consult with the Department of Defense in producing an annual report that identifies "finished and intermediate" manufactured goods that are critical for the national security of the United States, or the protection of the industrial base of the United States.:camby
The bill would also require that those goods identified by the Commerce and Defense departments be subject to the local content requirement of over 50% – meaning that more than 50% of the value of the good must be produced in the United States in order to be sold commercially in the country.
How Joe Manchin and Republicans Could Destroy the World:noooo
The West Virginia senator's opposition to a key climate program and Republican opposition to everything is an existential threat to everyone.
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The other option is that the U.S.’s weak position could allow for another nation to lead. Both Robinson and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (who is Robinson’s deputy at The Elders) repeatedly called on China to come to the table with the U.S.—or on its own. Casten also sees a similar dynamic that could play out, with China having a potential opening to swoop in and set the climate agenda that will define the 21st century.
“The question is really going to be what country is going to lead the international conversation about climate?” he said. “To be in that leadership position, you basically have to have two things. You have to have the economic clout to muscle your way into that role, which we do. And you have to have the proven track record that you are committed to doing at least as much internally as you are demanding the rest of the world does, which we do not. If we don’t get there, what we’re basically doing is opening the door to the Chinese century.”
BIMming It
Times up, time to leave!
10/20/21 11:44am
“We. Are. Fucked.”
Yup, which is why I think I’m finally starting to relax. I’ll still push for positive change, and strive to see us actually live up to the challenge, but I have very little hope that it will happen. The problem is too intimidating to even accept for a lot of people, meaning it’s near impossible to grass-roots our way to change... and the people at the top are already banking on the idea that they can fleece the masses and use those immense resources they gather to live in relative luxury while the world burns around them.
Meanwhile, everyone who isn’t in the top .5% is going to have to murder each other for their next meal or glass of clean water by 2050... which means we won’t even have the luxury of a peaceful end, we’re going to keep destroy ourselves until the job is complete. Human civilization is looking more and more like our first and worst mistake as a species.
So, I’m not going to fear it anymore... I’m ready to accept it, and I pray that I’m dead before things get really bad.
Sassy After Death
BIMming It
10/20/21 12:49pm
Hey that’s my attitude as well! I hope I die in the early parts though.
Chairman Kaga
Brian Kahn
10/20/21 10:12am
You know, if democrats had a bigger majority then two jerks holding the power to destroy the entire agenda wouldn’t be a thing.
Unfortunately gerrymandering, intimidation, lying, and the simple fact that most people in a position of power are now just in a race to consolidate that power, wealth, and security so when the inevitable collapse finally happens, they might stand a better chance of bring some sort of warlord or ruler of the broken society below.
Apocalypse fiction? At this point I don’t think so.
CMAllenToo
Brian Kahn
10/20/21 11:04am
At this point it’s not sarcastic to say the greatest threat to humanity is rabid conservatism — like a WV senator refusing to let go of coal. And while America’s brand of conservatism is...more batshit crazy that most of the rest of the world, it’s certainly not on its own either.
Change is not optional, which means Conservatism is NOT AN OPTION. We CANNOT continue to do things as we have always done. Humanity has two choices: change or die. Conservatism is CHOOSING to die. And if that’s your choice, do the rest of humanity a favor and get it over with RIGHT NOW. Yes, I said it. I’m not going to coddle or sugarcoat for Conservatives. If you want to die, just go die. Today. The rest of humanity doesn’t want or need you here, and will be far better off with you and your obstructionist bullshit out of the way. Otherwise, get with the program, fall in line, and accept the changes we all have to make.
On October 14, 2021, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, posted a message on Twitter falsely claiming that Christmas presents never arrived late during the administration of former President Donald Trump.
This is false. The Christmas presents did arrive late during Trump’s presidency.
Late Christmas presents were not unique to the Trump presidency. There are frequently shipping delays during the holiday season as mail carriers deal with an influx of purchases, as well as severe winter weather. In December 2020, the last Christmas with Trump as president, the COVID-19 pandemic further complicated shipping efforts and led to massive delays.
Jordan’s tweet was one of several messages in recent weeks that hyperbolically claimed that President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were, in effect, canceling Christmas. The official House Republicans Twitter account, for example, posted the following message on Twitter::biden
Biden is not trying to steal Christmas.
The claim that Biden is “canceling” or “stealing” Christmas is part of an ongoing (and largely imaginary) “War on Christmas” (see our previous coverage of the “War on Christmas”).
The Trump Media & Technology Group also announced plans to launch a subscription-based video service called TMTG+ that will feature "non-woke" programming. The new endeavor will be led by reality television producer Scott St. John who has worked on shows like “Deal or No Deal" and “America’s Got Talent."
TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.
QuoteTRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.
It's a big tent and everyone is invited :rejoice
The number one problem in the US is the housing market. It is literally driving up the cost of living universally and outpacing wages and has been forever (dramatically raising wages is the dumb answer to solve this). People should not be paying $850k for a partially renovated 2b in fucking Torrance, California.
1) There is not a shortage of housing, there is a consolidation of ownership.
2) Make house renting/duplex renting illegal.
3) Make flipping illegal.
4) Make it illegal for private equity to buy homes.
5) Give first-time homeowners a 3-month headstart on all housing offers. Give them dramatically lower interest rates.
Even if modified versions of the above. Curb this out-of-control bullshit. Watch the supply raise. Watch the prices come down.
The number one problem in the US is the housing market. It is literally driving up the cost of living universally and outpacing wages and has been forever (dramatically raising wages is the dumb answer to solve this). People should not be paying $850k for a partially renovated 2b in fucking Torrance, California.
1) There is not a shortage of housing, there is a consolidation of ownership.
2) Make house renting/duplex renting illegal.
3) Make flipping illegal.
4) Make it illegal for private equity to buy homes.
5) Give first-time homeowners a 3-month headstart on all housing offers. Give them dramatically lower interest rates.
Even if modified versions of the above. Curb this out-of-control bullshit. Watch the supply raise. Watch the prices come down.
A statement from TMTG, which is chaired by President Trump, says the merger between TMTG and DWAC could reach a valuation of $1.7 billion.
Although TMTG is not yet publicly traded, DWAC surged on the Nasdaq after news of the merger broke.
DWAC rose 85 percent within the first hour of trading, Investor Place reported. By Thursday morning the stock skyrocketed from just over $10 per share to a peak of more than $19 per share.
Nintex you're good with computers how serious was this hackinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IBPeRa7U8E
mobile.twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448697768311132160
https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125 (https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125)
wtf did Fraudci do :tocry
https://twitter.com/ReutersFacts/status/1451806964476825600independently confirmed by another fact checker:
:whew
https://twitter.com/ReutersFacts/status/1451806964476825600independently confirmed by another fact checker:
:whew
https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1451650063789350916
nothing to see here carry on
edit: oh crap
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Not even being a dickhead here, but running polls about two men who will be in their late 70's/early 80's in three years time seems quite presumptive :dogeI think Trump will manage to be Trump at least until the next election.
what the fuck is going on anymore :lol
Right now, he's just old, confused and tired. Maybe he'll do an LBJ, announce he will finish his term but is not running for re-election as to 'clean' his slate for matters at hand.This is not what LBJ did. LBJ barely beat Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary (49%-42%), this led Robert Kennedy to enter the race. After a few more primaries it was clear that LBJ wasn't going to win before the convention and he dropped out. Yes, he framed this as a noble action to focus on Vietnam but he was facing a revolt from more than half his party. Humphrey barely won the nomination himself and this was after Kennedy was killed.
As long as filler posts itanything can be cannon in the fillervers :pimp
https://youtu.be/Yvd3aEsThbc
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1453724741441757188
You can't yell 'fire' in a movie theater
if the Supreme Court were to invalidate either the EPA’s authority or the vaccine mandate under this doctrine, it might unravel nearly every major law Congress has passed since World War II. Nearly every one of these laws involves delegating authority to U.S. agencies.
Sleepy Joe :shh
https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496)
Sleepy Joe :shh
https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496)
There were also reports of a distinct odor coming from Mr Biden.
Guide to a Free Press in 2021:
:nope Anything Tucker Carlson does.
:ohyeah Repeatedly telling your audience that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are personally threatening the literal existence of the entire planet.
:nope | Agreeing with Benjipwns |
:ohyeah | Taking several minutes to look up proper markdown for tables to better present the meme. |
:ohyeah Agreeing with Benjipwns :ohyeah Taking several minutes to look up proper markdown for tables to better present the meme.
:ohyeah | Fixed |
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines.She gets $174,000 as a member of the House.
The House Ethics Committee publicly disclosed on Monday that Greene had been fined at least seven times this year, most recently in late September.
But the committee's public disclosures, which come after lawmakers have had 30 days to file an appeal if they wish, appear to be just a fraction of all of Greene's mask violations to date.
According to a letter from House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker dated Oct. 28, Greene has been documented not wearing a mask in the House chamber at least 20 times since May. Greene was fined $500 in May for her first offense, with $2,500 penalties imposed for subsequent offenses.
"You have been observed not wearing a mask on July 29, August 2, September 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, and October 1, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, and 27, and have been asked by a member of my staff to wear a mask while in the Hall of the House of Representatives on each occasion unless recognized to speak by the chair," Walker wrote in the letter, which Greene's office shared with The Hill.
isn't yelling fire in a crowded theater actually protected speech like anything else, but when you get in trouble of it you're charged with something not explicitly related to the first amendment
similar to how your freedom to say "fuck you officer" can result in disturbing the peace or obstruction of justice or any number of things unrelated to the literal words you said
???
Ninety-three years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what is perhaps the most well-known -- yet misquoted and misused -- phrase in Supreme Court history: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Without fail, whenever a free speech controversy hits, someone will cite this phrase as proof of limits on the First Amendment. And whatever that controversy may be, "the law"--as some have curiously called it--can be interpreted to suggest that we should err on the side of censorship. Holmes' quote has become a crutch for every censor in America, yet the quote is wildly misunderstood.
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476 (https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476)
welp
I can’t believe people called Trump anti-semitic.:hesright
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1455209380480233477
I can't do 4 years of listening to Ciattarelli's obnoxious curmudgeon tone. Such a sourpuss cunt.
Imagine the result if the GOP actually had charasmatic and popular candidates and not some guy named Glenn.
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney
https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769 (https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769)
What a king
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:dead
Democrats just need to abandon the culture wars and leave that to the NGO's and activisits.https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769 (https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769)
What a king
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This basically feels like the future of everywhere in America.
non-college white people running for GOP winning because the country is polarized and enough people just hate the left/democrats/progressives to vote them all out.
At this point I think I've given up all hope of things getting better for the left and fully expect a bankrupt country falling apart led by dictators for the rest of my life. Pretty much just have to save up money and hunker down and survive the fallout for another 40 years or so until I'm dead.
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys young kin :rodney:banplz
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney
;) but his posts still burnGlen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney
Is he the guy who used to post on here
power move by his sleepiness :playaThe old man still gets it, dunking on journo's is worth at least a million votes.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDY2VLSXEAAYpyB?format=jpg&name=small)
Imagine the commentary when Trump actually picks Candace as his running mate. :lolPicks her? He'll have to grovel to her with her unstoppable platform of stopping car warranty calls and arresting Bill Gates:
In the early afternoon of Jan. 7, only hours after addressing the “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House that fed into the assault on the Capitol, John C. Eastman began working on the first draft of history: He rewrote his own Wikipedia page.:lol
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Eastman was able to move quickly because he already had a Wikipedia account and was familiar with its ways; over the years he had edited his own article, a violation of the rules that was noticed but incompletely acted upon. This time, however, Eastman’s editing drew immediate attention. In barely two hours, all of his changes were made to disappear — “reverted,” in the parlance of Wikipedia — and he was asked to make his case on the Talk page assigned to the article, where editors can debate proposals for improving an entry.
...
On Jan. 9, Eastman indeed returned to Wikipedia with his list of proposed fixes and the sources for those claims. Experienced editors evaluated his suggestions. They approved some uncontroversial requests — a better photo of him was uploaded, too — but when he suggested rewriting the description of his meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the lead-up to the certification vote in Congress, an editor using the name SundayClose rendered a verdict, “Not Done,” trusting an account in the New York Times over Eastman’s own testimony. “Seriously?,” Eastman replied. “The youtube source I cited was the actual speech in which I specifically stated what was being asked of the Vice President. How is the actual statement not a more reliable source than an anonymous source cited by the NY Times?” SundayClose answered, exasperated: “Yes seriously. This is Wikipedia, not your personal soapbox,” adding, for good measure, “Just because you say it in a speech doesn’t make it true.”
In a telephone interview, Eastman recalled the experience as a deep disappointment, which he saw as reflecting a systemic problem with Wikipedia. Instead of allowing him to correct a biased account, he said, “I had to ask permission from some unknown twentysomething.”
Infrastructure bills has passed
THANK YOU BRANDON
Thanks to 13 Republicans because the proggers were against.I notice that neither of you thanked the real heroes:
Is infrastructure week finally over?
Another highlight from the conference:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8KR4SkE4ZQ
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1455120663639953408
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told "Axios on HBO" he'll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims "the left" is telling men: "You're part of the problem. ... Your masculinity is inherently problematic."
As an ambitious Republican frequently mentioned as a possible future candidate for president or vice president, Hawley, 41, is using American masculinity to appeal to suburban parents, and to working men won over by Donald Trump.
"As conservatives, we've got to call men back to responsibility," Hawley said. "We've got to say that spending your time not working ... spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online ... is not good for you, your family or this country."
Asked during the "Axios on HBO" interview to paint a picture of his ideal man, Hawley said:
"Well, a man is a father. A man is a husband. A man is somebody who takes responsibility."
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1457493879003963398https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1458105886182887424
But none of those ignite the id of the conservative movement, which is, of course, owning the libs. None of those arguments make liberals cry, which gives the GOP its joie de vivre. “Let’s go Brandon” undoubtedly annoys liberals. One tweet by Tristan Snell said the chant is the MAGA equivalent of “Sieg Heil.” To this I say: Calm the hell down; that’s an insult to Nazis. And furthermore, Biden doesn’t have the gall to steamroll these would-be Nazis like Joseph Stalin’s army did in Berlin.First sentence is true. Last sentence is :what
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Ironic that two of the least masculine men I've ever seen are presenting that segmentThe GOP is playing 4D chess in their pursuit to appoint Joe Rogan President of Texas.
Karl: "They were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"He apparently seems to have only talked to two constitutional scholars about this, John Eastman and someone who told him no.
Trump: "Because it's common sense, Jon. It's common sense that you're supposed to protect. How can you — if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? — how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that? And I'm telling you: 50/50, it's right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them. Anybody I spoke to — almost all of them at least pretty much agree, and some very much agree with me — because he's passing on a vote that he knows is fraudulent. How can you pass a vote that you know is fraudulent? Now, when I spoke to him, I really talked about all of the fraudulent things that happened during the election. I didn't talk about the main point, which is the legislatures did not approve — five states. The legislatures did not approve all of those changes that made the difference between a very easy win for me in the states, or a loss that was very close, because the losses were all very close."
"They were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"
"Because it's common sense, Jon."
The Post-ABC poll finds that, if elections were held today, 46 percent of adults overall would back the Republican candidate for Congress and 43 percent would support the Democratic candidate. Among registered voters, the GOP advantage goes to 51 percent vs. 41 percent for Democrats, a historically strong result for Republicans on this measure.
Republicans hold their largest lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 40 years.
Ben and Jerry's new flavor is straw man.This is what happens when you let millennials run social media channels. Hot takes and low intelligence analysis of issues that have nothing to do with fucking ice cream.
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Ben and Jerry's new flavor is straw man.This is what happens when you let millennials run social media channels. Hot takes and low intelligence analysis of issues that have nothing to do with fucking ice cream.
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Social media metrics might tell you how many "likes" and "Yas Queens" a tweet got, but they don't measure the deep damage that's done to a brand name from advocating for the dismantling of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493):lol :lol
Signal not noise! Remember Patriots
“Liz Cheney stopped recognizing what Wyomingites care about a long time ago. When she launched her war against President Trump, she completely broke with where we are as a state,” Hageman added to the newspaper.:trumps
enjoy some of the pomp and circumstance that comes with traveling abroad. But her absence from Washington at a time when the administration was pushing through its biggest policy achievement to date became part of that story
the only solution for the White House is to defend her and give her something positive to work on — not a collection of complex issues that are intractable or fraught politically.
‘We nip this in the bud. We’re done,’” the strategist said. “And I have a feeling that probably once every three or four months there’s going to be a story like this.”
Political analyst @MSNBC. Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor @TIME & CEO of Nat'l Constitution Ctr.
The group’s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of anti-Blackness, Islamaphobia and anti-Semitism at each other. Impeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization’s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism.
The conflict has gotten so messy that the Democratic National Committee is considering disaffiliating with the national collegiate organization altogether and creating a partnership with the state groups underneath the national umbrella, according to a Democrat familiar with the discussions.
The controversy began in September when Tasneem Ahmad Al-Michael, a Muslim and former vice president of the CDA abruptly ended his presidential campaign after a 2014 tweet in which he used a racial slur resurfaced, CDA members involved in the election said. He said the subsequent attacks on him and his campaign team prompted him to pull out of the race. “What I said as a 15 year old prior to being in politics was ignorant, inappropriate, and flat out wrong,” Al-Michael said in a text message to POLITICO. “It doesn’t define me, my character, or invalidate the work that I continue to do.”
New president and vice presidential candidates subsequently emerged, including Mesbah, who was serving as the CDA’s director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA).
The day before the election, the CDA’s Jewish Caucus began sharing a screenshot of a 2016 tweet Mesbah wrote while watching a debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
A 13-year-old at the time, Mesbah wrote, "I blame this debate on the yahood," an Arabic word which is sometimes used as a slur against Jewish people. She also tagged another user with a history of anti-Semitic tweets.
On Nov. 12, Mesbah’s successor as IDEA director, Jeremy Ward, released a report calling for Mesbah to resign as vice president “due to the harm caused to two different communities.”
Ward had initially announced the independent investigation into Mesbah’s conduct in September. Circulated internally on Nov. 10, it concluded that Mesbah’s past tweet was anti-Semitic and that her claims of Islamaphobia were unfounded.
It also included a new accusation that Mesbah exhibited “a pattern of discrimination against members of the black community, specifically black women.” Ward wrote that the report did not disclose any specific instances of “anti-blackness” behavior so as to ensure that those who had complained would not face retribution or harassment.
they're not being hanged for treason? :pacspit
Jacob Chansley, 34, from Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty in September to one felony count of obstruction for his role in trying to block the counting of the 2020 Electoral College votes. He faced a maximum of 20 years in prison on the charge, but federal prosecutors sought a sentence of 51 months, the longest requested sentence in a January 6 investigation to date.
translation: biden is out of action while he gets fricked up the anus :shaqThey are replacing the batteries of the control probe
Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together .Trump's going to release a picture book with commentary, you can't make this shit up
The huge book, printed in America, is a coffee table style collection of photographs that the former president selected himself. He even wrote the captions, offering praise and scorn where he felt it was needed.
The former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.
The former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.
QuoteThe former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.
Need some Nintex fanfic on this ASAP
DC twitter is so weird, dude's mad because a rumor he believed doesn't turn out to be true and he blames who the rumor was about?
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808)
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:trumps
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r0xc51/no_one_saw_this_coming/Poor kid from Illinois who just got out of court: nice fitted suit
To no one’s surprise…
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1463342729547554816 (https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1463342729547554816)https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r0xc51/no_one_saw_this_coming/Poor kid from Illinois who just got out of court: nice fitted suit
To no one’s surprise…
Former President who claims to be a billionaire: yet another suit that doesn't fit
President Biden will start turning asylum seekers back to Mexico as soon as next week under a reinstated Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program — but will offer them the option to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Axios has learned.:camby
Under court orders, the president will officially undo a key immigration promise, which will force asylum-seekers to wait months in Mexico ahead of their immigration court hearings in the U.S. — as long as Mexico accepts them.
A federal judge has ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last year challenging the 2020 election results to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system.
“As officers of the Court, these attorneys have a higher duty and calling that requires meaningful investigation before prematurely repeating in court pleadings unverified and uninvestigated defamatory rumors that strike at the heart of our democratic system and were used by others to foment a violent insurrection that threatened our system of government,” Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter wrote.
“They are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct,” he wrote.
The two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, filed the case in December 2020 as a class action on behalf of 160 million American voters, alleging there was a complicated plot to steal the election from President Donald Trump and give the victory to Joe Biden.
The two argued that a scheme was engineered by the voting machine vendor Dominion Voting Systems; the tech company Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.
Their case was dismissed in April. In August, Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by filing it in the first place, arguing that the duo had run afoul of legal rules that prohibit clogging the courts with frivolous motions and lodging information in court that is not true. At the time, he called their suit “the stuff of which violent insurrections are made,” alleging they made little effort to determine the truth of their conspiratorial claims before filing them in court. He ordered them to pay the legal fees of all of the many entities they had sued.
In a statement, Fielder called the order “unfathomable” and noted that the court’s sanctions and its dismissal of his original case are under appeal.
“We are not going to stop fighting for the rights of the people to vote in free and fair Presidential elections. This is the cross to die on,” he wrote.
What’s more, Neureiter wrote, the hefty fees were appropriate given “the severity of the violation” and because the lawyers had solicited donations from the “arguably innocent and gullible public” to fund their suit. He said he weighed whether the penalties could chill future legitimate lawsuits but concluded that “the repetition of defamatory and potentially dangerous unverified allegations is the kind of ‘advocacy’ that needs to be chilled.”
In assessing the amount of the sanction, I also take into account the fact that Plaintiffs' counsel made a public appeal for financial contributions from arguably innocent and gullible members of the public in order to supposedly hire experts to support this case. . . . In reality, as disclosed at the hearing on sanctions, Plaintiffs' counsel hired no experts, either before or after filing the Complaints, and did not speak to any of the alleged experts that were being used in other cases around the country. Given the apparent lack of standing to bring this case—and its likely failure given the existing Supreme Court precedent on the issue of standing—as well as the failure to hire or speak to any expert witnesses to support the underlying factual assertions in the Complaints, this financial appeal to the public for financial contributions was arguably deceptive.
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767 (https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767)
With Kamala and Joe tanking they are trying to make Pete happen again. :doge
Trump runs for presidentTrump "runs" for President
Trump wins republican nomination
Biden nominates Trump to supreme court
Trump takes the offer and his VP, the pillow guy, loses 20-80
Biden expands supreme court by 4 new members, puts in age limit of 65
Checkmate conservs
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1465420966201335816Reeeeesetera in political form
"Let me tell you something about AOC. I've watched her walk down the halls of Congress, and I see these old men shiver in fear. They shiver in fear whenever they see her," Trump said, per the book extract quoted by the Daily Mail.
"You want to know why? Because AOC has a base, just like me."
Quote"Let me tell you something about AOC. I've watched her walk down the halls of Congress, and I see these old men shiver in fear. They shiver in fear whenever they see her," Trump said, per the book extract quoted by the Daily Mail.
"You want to know why? Because AOC has a base, just like me."
:trumps
:hesright
There’s also her willingness to speak truth to power… (wait for it) in clear, well considered logical arguments.You mean like her explanation for her Present vote on the Iron Dome?
There’s also her willingness to speak truth to power… (wait for it) in clear, well considered logical arguments.You mean like her explanation for her Present vote on the Iron Dome?
I'm unclear on why the USA supports Israel so blindly.$$$ and votes
:hesrightI'm unclear on why the USA supports Israel so blindly.israel is the great satan
shameless :lol :lol :lol(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFpMblXXoA8J1oL?format=jpg)
https://twitter.com/dccc/status/1466494036630544394
shameless :lol :lol :lolhttps://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1466560742648340481
Conservative Twitter is freaking out about this (among a few other Biden clips today) but I actually love this version of Joe Biden (who so far continues to be the best President of my adult life, SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS), he's done this since at least the 80's (since that's as far back as I've investigated him) where he just makes up completely implausible stories while rambling, he did it all the time during his 2008 presidential campaign and it was great:http://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1466531004324225029
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1466491905299075072
It's different from Trump's lying because I totally believe that Joe Biden believes in these stories while he's telling them whereas Trump just says shit.
shameless :lol :lol :lolhttps://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1466560742648340481
It's different from Trump's lying because I totally believe that Joe Biden believes in these stories while he's telling them whereas Trump just says shit."I ran up the Hill in Cuba at a place called Normandy, bullets were whizzing everywhere but I was going to kick Mao and his gang in the nutsack. Next to me a young private is shot. His name was Mike I remember it well. A large black fella who was every bit as good a soldier as the japs we fought the week before in Okinawa. I took the rifle he dropped and looked through the scope. I couldn't believe what I saw, Cornpop manning a German machine gun"
If it's Kamala v Trump I wouldn't know who to support :existentialhttps://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1467152388473638914
You'd be surprised just how many politicians are exactly like this. Don't read briefs, don't understand their their portfolios, blame everyone else for their inability to do their job.If it's Kamala v Trump I wouldn't know who to support :existentialhttps://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1467152388473638914
The campaign of Imani Oakley, a 31-year-old progressive activist running for Congress in Newark, thought it was in negotiations to organize a fundraiser with like-minded Linda Goldstein — the “chief rabbi” of Gaza — but instead were chatting up a Big Apple lawyer running a parody Twitter account.https://twitter.com/ImaniOakleyNJ10/status/1466803269259378698
On the bizarre parody account, Rabbi Linda Goldstein warns Hamas fighters to practice social distancing in terror tunnels; posts photos of herself posing with a menorah made of Qassam rockets; and bills herself as the “Jewish issues advisor” to Hamas boss Ismail Haniyeh.
“Excited to announce #Hamas has given me permission to build the first and only #Jewish #Ghetto in #Gaza #Palestine!,” Goldstein announces in a June tweet. “By default, wherever a #Jew lives they’re #Colonizing. Ghettos ensure Jews don’t displace #Palestinians.”
None of Goldstein’s anti-Israel public messages appeared to pose any red flags for Maita Lockhart, Oakley’s campaign manager, who responded enthusiastically when the faux-rabbi reached out in November with an offer to organize a fundraiser in Gaza.
“I would be grateful if you could provide dates/times for this week or next to connect and discuss further,” Lockhart said in a Nov 23 introductory email.
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The parody account is the creation of a pro-Israel attorney named Michael, who declined to reveal his last name because he fears retribution. Michael told The Post he created the account to mock far-left, anti-people who believe in the development and protection of a Jewish nation Jews.
“I am making fun of the five percent of Jews that hate Israel,” he said. “I created this personality that shows how reductive and absurd these people are.”
Lockhart again followed up with the “rabbi” after the holiday.
“We are so pleased that you would like to host a virtual fundraiser,” she said. “I would be grateful if you could provide dates/times for us to speak further this week or next so that we can solidify next steps.”
“The collapse of Biden has led to a surge for President Trump on all fronts both in the GOP primary and in a potential general election,” said pollster Mark Penn.
https://twitter.com/ImaniOakleyNJ10/status/1466803271729877005
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520
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https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?
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https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?
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She gave up her ideals to help Bill.https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?
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you'd assume anyone with the last name clinton would be avoiding publicity while the maxwell trial is ongoing, but i suppose plebs like me and you cannot account for or understand the hubris of the elites :trumpsThe trial is a cover-up they're literally banning accounts that tweet about it.
Slides from Trump White House PowerPoint presentation:
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"Constitutional Remedy" is their phrase for having the House elect the President.
edit: lmao, here's the entire crazy thing if you want to look at it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210716135230if_/https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/voter-fraud.pdf
Sources who have spent time with Trump at Mar-a-Lago say it's impossible to carry out an extended conversation with him that isn't interrupted by his fixations on the 2020 election.
He's intensely focused on demands that Republicans "get smart" and pursue efforts to "audit" and overturn that result.
"We try to get him onto other topics, but you always get dragged back," a Trump adviser said.
:salute
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1470552655747588109The entirety of the GOP hated Trump prior to his election. Then they all lined up to kiss the ring, once Trump won. They would have celebrated and fallen right into line again, had the insurrection proven "successful." Fuck each and every one of them.
:awesome
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112)Well, a demagogue is much better than a demogorgon or whatever the fuck Hilary is these days.
When the world is dead the last light to go out will be a computer screen with a post from Benji.
This is me stomping all over Nintex's grave because that ^^^ was the last Nintex post in this thread ever because he's BANNED get fucked you fucking fascoid shit for brains :brock
Nintex died for this... :larryThis is me stomping all over Nintex's grave because that ^^^ was the last Nintex post in this thread ever because he's BANNED get fucked you fucking fascoid shit for brains :brock
Yay I'm so happy they shitcanned Filler and Nintex. Now we can have a much higher standard of calm, non-emotive, reasoned discourse in the same vein as above.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1471493741810622473
Conservative lawmakers, anticipating the GOP retaking one or both congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections, are already calling for and strategizing around a fiscal clash in 2023, insisting on using the threat of federal default to place new curbs on government spending and reduce the $28 trillion national debt….
GOP hard-liners — including members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group loyal to former president Donald Trump that has a history of pushing party leaders into high-stakes confrontations with Democrats — are vowing to provoke a reckoning over federal spending using every tactic at their disposal.
“You have to use the tools you have to force change in this town,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.). “That’s not going to go away until people get their head out of their [hindquarters] and actually focus on spending money that we have and not printing money. . . . Then we can end brinkmanship. If you’re going to keep spending money like drunken sailors, we’re going to keep fighting.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1468501922512621570Their account is private.
:brain
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1471493741810622473Grifters gonna grift.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472208856742780928
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Looking forward to voting Republican in 22 and 24 especially if they shy away from Trumpism.They won't. The Republican Party has degraded into nothing but a cult centered around winning Trump's approval. All else falls by the wayside in service of this goal. Liz Cheney voted 90% with the Trump Administration's legislative agenda but she has been cast aside (potentially literally in a primary) as a traitor for someone who voted only 70% with the agenda but who voted against impeachment. It's the same across the board for the other Trump sycophants like Jim Jordan, etc.. They voted against him more far often (less than 85% of the time) than others they call traitors to the cause but voted with him on the one thing he cared about.
And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. A socially moderate, reasonable conservative can win New York. Especially when Democrats suck. (And everything about Kathy Hochul indicates that she sucks.) That was George Pataki (and before him Nelson Rockefeller) for three terms! Rudy and Bloomberg did the same in NYC proper. There's similarly politically strong Republican Governors in deep blue Massachusetts and Maryland right now. But a Trumper can't do this. And right now, Republicans seem to accept only Trumpers.
The problem with the NY Democrats is they embody all the stereotypes of regulatory excess that people have of the party nationwide. Their regulations tend to be arcane and questionable (it's like that one desert town in Nier), most in place to suck any penny it can out of a business - it was perfectly fine last summer to have massive, unmasked protests... but god forbid a restaurant stay open past 10! A small business runs out of hand sanitizer on a job site? Major fines!
That being said, considering I have a moderate heart condition, I personally prefer to err on the side of caution instead of a free-for-all like Florida or Texas. And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.
And as for mask/vaxx mandates, a majority of NYers tend to support them. Due to have some big $$ federal contracts, my job made the vaxx and masks when not at desks mandatory at the beginning of Dec - we're one of the largest private/non healthcare/non education employers on (definitely much more conservative) Long Island, and back in Oct when the email about the mandate went out, something like 96% were already vaccinated. And even the healthcare facilities haven't had to let go nearly the amount of people they were expecting to not comply with the vaxx mandate... Northwell Health, the island's largest healthcare system, which has 60k employees, only let 1400 go for failing to comply.
https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html (https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html)
The problem is that I think that whatever good Republicans can achieve by simply being opposition to Democrats will be undermined by Trumpism. The only person in the GOP with any kind of status who didn't knuckle under to Trump was Mitt Romney. Ted Cruz could have stood up for movement conservatives and the Evangelicals that made up his primary base and tried to frame an internal constraint on Trump, but instead he immediately kissed the ring. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell fell all over themselves to get Trump "wins" that went against years of conservative principles. Even in the case of judges, which was the most successful part of the four years of Trump, many of those appointed were simply shitbags with no experience rather than principled conservative judges or originalists or whatever else you'd expect. And this was all despite the fact that Trump didn't really care about any of the specifics in any of this. When they were trying to "repeal and replace" Obamacare some actual conservative opposition to the bill popped up and Trump told them he didn't care about "the little shit, only the big picture" and just wanted something, anything passed that would let him claim he repealed Obamacare and instituted a great superior Trumpcare. (And even at this, they failed.)
The reform plan the party was coalescing around after the 2012 results is dead except for the bad parts. Free trade? Out. Immigration reform? Instead we got zero tolerance, illegal bans, malicious prosecution and pursuit of "the wall" on the wrong border. Budget and debt controls? Gone, he surpassed even Bush on this front and Bush at least had the excuse of the wars he started. A truce on the culture wars? Instead the social moderate Trump did everything possible to amplify them and appointed plenty of fervent nutsos on this. (Although some of this has backfired, Goursch writing gender identity into anti-discrimination laws for example, ACB so far refusing to go along with Alito's social conservatism. Even if Dobbs is a "win" by upholding Mississippi's law, I don't think they're going to touch Roe/Casey. I could be wrong though!) Foreign policy? All over the place, some was actually good, most of it bad and counterproductive to stated goals, never ended the drone wars. Withdrawing from the Iran deal, setting up Afghanistan to fail, etc. Respect for the institutions and constitution? lol, to use just a single example, I'll point out that he targeted ACB as a traitor (to where she gets more death threats from Trumpists than Democrats still) just months after appointing her simply because she agreed with the law and precedent that the Supreme Court had no authority to intervene and overturn an election result in multiple states because Texas wanted it to.
I still don't think Trump is the worst President in history (I'm partial to Nixon) and as noted above I do think he did a few good things even if by accident but he was a unique aberration in terms of his political force. Nobody else can pick up his mantle and run with it. Nobody else can keep his unique base. The GOP is harming everything by continuing to be completely subservient to the man. Ryan and McConnell fucked up when they decided that was the "message" of 2016 but after 2020 and Jan 6th, the party had ample chance to challenge him and they mostly haven't.
It's early, but it's also funny, at the moment the only person it looks like can stand up to Trump is DeSantis. But he might actually be worse than another four years of Trump. Ideally, Trump stays out of 2024, doesn't endorse but also does turn on DeSantis and those two spend it fighting, opening a path for somebody more reasonable like Nikki Haley or Kristi Noem or Tim Scott, or god forbid, even Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. That seems like the only likely prospect for the Republicans to come back from Trump at this point. I mean, other than him just keeling over sometime soon. But I imagine he'll be one of those types that just refuses to die despite so many reasons why he should. Like Strom Thurmond did.
Anti-Trump efforts that defect blindly to the Democrats (Lincoln Project, Jennifer Rubin) are useless. There needs to be strong anti-Trumpism within the Republican Party. But there isn't. Maybe something can center around Glenn Youngkin, if only to provide an outpost of opposition. But I thought the same about Ted Cruz and Rand Paul after 2016. Both became loyalists instead. (Rand was especially disappointing personally, and it's why I can't take him seriously on anything anymore.) Ryan and McConnell became loyalists. Kevin McCarthy ran to the front of the parade practically. Even Sarah Palin was more skeptical of Trump than these idiots.
The problem as it I see it is within what you note, the Republicans will gain simply because they're not Democrats. But that won't cast Trump out of control, if anything it may strengthen his hold. We'll have primaries where Trumpists win because he backs him, and then they go on to win general elections simply because they aren't Democrats. Trump will claim credit and victory and most of the party will continue to worship him despite the fact that it's not sustainable when he does leave the scene after 2024.
edit:And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. A socially moderate, reasonable conservative can win New York. Especially when Democrats suck. (And everything about Kathy Hochul indicates that she sucks.) That was George Pataki (and before him Nelson Rockefeller) for three terms! Rudy and Bloomberg did the same in NYC proper. There's similarly politically strong Republican Governors in deep blue Massachusetts and Maryland right now. But a Trumper can't do this. And right now, Republicans seem to accept only Trumpers.
Nobody else can pick up his mantle and run with it. Nobody else can keep his unique base. The GOP is harming everything by continuing to be completely subservient to the man.Is this post about the caustic effect of his personal qualities or about the broader reactionary forces he capitalized on? A lot of your post focuses on quislings in the GOP but I don't know if I agree that Trump, the man, is here to stay. He's genuinely deplatformed (does/will Fox even book him?). If he runs again then everyone has to cover him but there's a good chance he doesn't and the party relegates him to honored speaker status. Overall I agree there's no going back, just disagreeing on the certainty of Trump's personal involvement in all this.
Benji if the Democratic party has awful policy, awful results, awful regressive ideas mixed in a cocktail of authoritarian wokism then the only real option for any voter are the Republicans.You think the negatives of the Republican platform are less bad than COVID overreaction?
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1473005054445731848
Anytime you think the world can't get dumber...
Benji if the Democratic party has awful policy, awful results, awful regressive ideas mixed in a cocktail of authoritarian wokism then the only real option for any voter are the Republicans.You think the negatives of the Republican platform are less bad than COVID overreaction?
Is this post about the caustic effect of his personal qualities or about the broader reactionary forces he capitalized on? A lot of your post focuses on quislings in the GOP but I don't know if I agree that Trump, the man, is here to stay. He's genuinely deplatformed (does/will Fox even book him?). If he runs again then everyone has to cover him but there's a good chance he doesn't and the party relegates him to honored speaker status. Overall I agree there's no going back, just disagreeing on the certainty of Trump's personal involvement in all this.While I think Trump's personal influence is not going to last much past 2024 he is not as deplatformed as you think. He has a fairly strong network that ensures his stupid press releases get all over Twitter anyway for example. He makes lots of personal calls to people in power (this has always been how he's operated) and while Fox is mildly touchy about him specifically, OANN/Newsmax is not and both have been growing extensively because of this. Donald Trump Jr. has no problem getting on Fox and part of it is that Trump himself is still pissed at Fox for calling Arizona and the Presidency for Biden. He thought their news wing was as devoted to him as the opinion wing is.
In other words, the further and longer into Trump they go, the more they're hollowing out the party. [...] Maybe I'm wrong, but the party just doesn't seem as strong now as it was then. (Not that the Democrats seem very strong either, they are at least not yet a cult.)This is the part I think I'm disagreeing with, and why I was focusing on Trump's personal involvement in the party. Is it hollowing the party, or just another transformation? Not that rampant brain disease and a reptilian instinct to own the libs are enviable but how are the Republicans weaker in a practical sense? A lot of the craziness that happened because Trump just doesn't apply once he's not in the picture anymore. Does the party fall apart after that because the only thing holding it together was a fat orange tv star with the personality of a toddler? No way. Maybe the old values are dessicated but we're clearly living in an age of reaction that values macho foreign policy, backing the blue, hugging the flag as hard as you can, and kicking people off welfare. Actually those do sound like the old values :hitler
Open back up asylums but make them more humane.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1474452335980019716
Same dudes, same spots.... Yeah, they're still homeless. Of course they're in the same spots.
I highly doubt AOC *has* to or even uses the subway on regular basis.She didn't use the subway in the Bronx? I doubt that.
If you agree that they need shelter then why is it so appalling that they'd end up on the train, away from the weather?
Aside, I thought NYC was very good about providing shelter, which is why the proportion of housing insecure in NY that rough sleep is extremely small compared to other places. People fall through the cracks though.
"Shelters are often drug-infested, dirty and hostile environments." You people are truly amazing.
If the shelters are unsafe, dirty, and hostile - that's the fault of the elected official. Not the retiree being attacked for apparently asking that people be murdered for lacking a home. More than that - you realize people who make shelters "drug-infested, dirty and hostile" might also impose that behavior in this public space, yes?
None of you seem up in arms about cops enforcing mask rules, but you're ok with this?
"Shelter case workers are extremely underpaid." Indeed, and yet CEOs & lobbyists like Jim Coughlin from Westhab probably make millions. Not my fault. Not my choice. I have no control over this, even with my vote for candidates I hope will work harder against corruption and misuse of funds. The city gives out contracts to these people. It's their problem.
You're giving incompetent, corrupt governance, and the thing people really have a problem with - dudes camping out and doing far worse on subways - a pass.
Nobody gives a shit about the homeless riding the subways, or even dozing off.
"There are often underlying co-occurring substance use or mental health disorders and little to no family support." Yes, and so they can work that out on riders, got it.
It is not riders' fault there's lack of safe shelter.
Stop making excuses. That's all you're doing. That's all people who are entrusted with billions of dollars to deal with this and whose constituents who deserve a feces/assault-free subway ride are doing. It's criminal. I'm sick and tired of people who take my money moralizing and gaslighting me with bullshit. They get away with it because people like you uncritically swallow the tropes you've posted and have been raised to expect nothing of elected officials who campaign on "idealistic" half-truths and sloganeered bullshit, nor to consider the working/middle class people who have no other way to get around as "privileged". And AOC likes it that way, because she doesn't have to do dickshit but tweet.
This is not an acceptable solution and all the babbling about unsafe shelter and the reasons I'm supposed to pity someone shooting up and telling me to get out of his house while I'm trapped underground doesn't really change that.
Hahahahaha I so wish I voted for Trump. Months of screeching how there's no federal plan for COVID. How Trump isn't providing leadership. And this?!
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1475539059032395780
I should have voted for Trump. Oh my GOD. :fbm I'm buying a MAGA hat from Amazon right this second. I'm tired.
“My message to the governors is simple: if you need something, say something,” he said. “We’re going to have your back any way we can.”
The administration plans to distribute the tests free to Americans, support more vaccination and testing sites, and deploy 1,000 military medical professionals to augment hospital staff nationwide.
TALLAHASSEE — Many prominent Florida Democrats sought a reckoning after their losses in 2020. They wanted a change within the party structure and a rejuvenated party to take on Republicans in 2022.
There were changes at the Florida Democratic Party, as Manny Diaz was elected chairman in January after Terrie Rizzo resigned, but by some measures, their prospects for 2022 have only worsened.
“It’s going to be rough,” said Matt Isbell, a Tallahassee-based Democratic consultant. “It’s going to be pretty bad.”
“The proof is in the pudding,” Niagara County GOP Chairman Rich Andres responded when asked about the success of his party’s efforts in the 2021 local elections.
That “pudding” got a bit sweeter for Republicans with this week’s court ruling over disputed ballots resulting in Chris Voccio being elected legislator in the Sixth District. Of the 15 legislative districts in Niagara County, 12 were won by Republicans, 3 by Democrats.
An analysis of balloting for the 2021 elections here indicates heavy turnout in Republican areas, coupled with low interest in Democratic districts, led to the strong showings by Republicans, who continue to dominate the Niagara County Legislature.
Republican state lawmakers are showing no signs of slowing down the "tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation" that ramped up across the country in 2021, according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice on Tuesday that warns such attacks are set to continue or even escalate in the New Year.
I was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing
Oh my God yesss
I was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.
so what's even the point of that thing? this might be the most distinguished mentally-challenged argument FOR the passports i've ever seen :lol :lol :lol
It is dumb when you know places aren't really checking them with any scrutiny, I agree. My point was it isn't some oppressive, major inconvenience at all. You literally just have to flash a card or your phone for less than 2 seconds. Himu gonna Himu, though.
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing
Oh my God yesss
she doesn't sound like the kind of person who would go right wing, though, she apparently cares about fixing the homeless problem, being charitable and kind etc. and that doesn't seem to be the republican platform
seems like someone who would go leftist rather than liberalI was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.
so what's even the point of that thing? this might be the most distinguished mentally-challenged argument FOR the passports i've ever seen :lol :lol :lol
It is dumb when you know places aren't really checking them with any scrutiny, I agree. My point was it isn't some oppressive, major inconvenience at all. You literally just have to flash a card or your phone for less than 2 seconds. Himu gonna Himu, though.
"it's easy to ignore" is the worst possible argument for anything like this, that's how things get worse and worse without you recognizing it like the frog in the boiling pot
I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers"
"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
HAHAHAHA
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1475507614821892099
The president may be concerned that federal initiatives to contain the virus can’t be effective without states’ help. The comments could also be an attempt to put added pressure on governors to take a greater role in trying to control the disease.
The omicron variant poses a multifaceted threat to Biden, who campaigned on the federal government’s ability to curb the pandemic. The president on Monday reiterated some of the promises he made last week, including the federal government’s purchase of 500 million rapid coronavirus tests.
“My message to the governors is simple: if you need something, say something,” he said. “We’re going to have your back any way we can.”
The administration plans to distribute the tests free to Americans, support more vaccination and testing sites, and deploy 1,000 military medical professionals to augment hospital staff nationwide.
On Monday, Biden, citing the Stafford Act, directed federal funding via FEMA to assist in the deployment of Covid testing.
"It is the policy of my Administration to combat and respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government to protect and support our families, schools, and businesses, and to assist State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to do the same," Biden writes. "This policy includes the use of emergency and disaster assistance available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to get COVID-19 testing to the places that need it most."
The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services "on a fully reimbursable basis, to provide testing sites, launched and operated by HHS in close coordination with State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments," using FEMA funding.
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing
Oh my God yesss
she doesn't sound like the kind of person who would go right wing, though, she apparently cares about fixing the homeless problem, being charitable and kind etc. and that doesn't seem to be the republican platform
seems like someone who would go leftist rather than liberal
it's a complicated problem that shouldn't be boiled down to memes, but I can't help but picture an unarmed holistic wellness counselor forced to approach these guys and say "sirs? you need to move on, you're scaring the other riders, come with me," being told to fuck off or even getting attacked, and then needing actual police support anyway (who are slow to respond because to them the wellness counselors represent an attack on their livelihood)
I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers":snoop
"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.
Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.
Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.
vaccine less than a year old
I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers":snoop
"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compellingThen why add a holocaust comparison on top? For some added heft? :beli
say that everyone should do it because it's important for public health and for managing the virus over the long term, I have absolutely nothing against that,
but then you will also need to demonstrate that it does indeed succeed at those functionsDo driver's licences stop people from driving without one? No. Let's do away with them then.
However, I take issue with mandating and forcing others to get them. Morally it is wrong. Whatever happened to my body my choice?
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.
Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.
The reality of living with the effects of progressive policy and whistling away, sucking the teet of their golden promise is night and day and more people are waking up thankfully to their dystopian failure. Masha'Allah.
You get it. The problem is progressivism and liberalism. End their rule. White liberals and progressives and leftists are the most racist people I've met in my life and they have a lifestyle that will only lead you to the fire. You too have found the hole behind the veil: progressivism is shit. Kill it. Stab it in the belly and shoot it in the head NOW before it becomes too late.
the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compellingThen why add a holocaust comparison on top? For some added heft? :beli
say that everyone should do it because it's important for public health and for managing the virus over the long term, I have absolutely nothing against that,
I did not say that it needs to succeed at those functions 100% of the time, a vague improvement is better than nothing, which is why even if few vaccine card "enforcers" (tellers, clerks etc.) even glance at it and people are getting away with fake ones, if it does convince some percentage of the population to just get vaxed, that's probably goodbut then you will also need to demonstrate that it does indeed succeed at those functionsDo driver's licences stop people from driving without one? No. Let's do away with them then.
you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage:doge
I did not say that it needs to succeed at those functions 100% of the time, a vague improvement is better than nothing, which is why even if few vaccine card "enforcers" (tellers, clerks etc.) even glance at it and people are getting away with fake ones, if it does convince some percentage of the population to just get vaxed, that's probably goodThen what's the problem? Back to the slippery slope?
you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage:doge
You need to understand tact and tastelessness.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/cFgb5p5e1My3K/giphy.gif)you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage:doge
You need to understand tact and tastelessness.
I also said "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers" which conjures up the menacing spectre of the hit 2013 game Papers, Please
imagine thinking "full vaccinated" is a thing.
and yelping at the left for being too sciency.
Fauci said earlier this month that it "it's going to be a matter of when, not if” the definition of being “fully vaccinated” changes, but he noted that the change likely was not going to happen right away.fucking science man, always being non committal. You'd think you'd be more open to something like that.
QuoteFauci said earlier this month that it "it's going to be a matter of when, not if” the definition of being “fully vaccinated” changes, but he noted that the change likely was not going to happen right away.fucking science man, always being non committal. You'd think you'd be more open to something like that.
Notice that throughout this discussion not one liberal or leftist has offered one single solution. Just feelings, guilt, and pointed fingers truly solidifying the weakness of their positions. All they know is comply. They refuse to engage in ideas or discussions. They can only villify and make twisted comparisons. Weak. Ineffectual. Crap.
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?
Fucking clown.
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?
Fucking clown.
I believe in evolution and I believe in vaccines. I do not however believe in endless government creep. Whose the clown? Someone like you that swallows everything they regurgitate even to the point of making boosters mandatory? Seems so. Keep pointing and calling me names. You look utterly pathetic and I'm laughing at your squalid rhetoric.
I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?
Fucking clown.
I believe in evolution and I believe in vaccines. I do not however believe in endless government creep. Whose the clown? Someone like you that swallows everything they regurgitate even to the point of making boosters mandatory? Seems so. Keep pointing and calling me names. You look utterly pathetic and I'm laughing at your squalid rhetoric.
Government creep. Learn something about vaccine mandates in the US and how they have managed and prevented disasters and collapses.
I'll go ahead and swallow all these peer reviewed research and regurgitate this data that proves mandates and boosters minimize people dying on the fucking streets. ( you mentioned something about homeless right?)Quote from: himuI think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.
"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.
And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."
I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.
"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.
And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."
I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.
thats disrespectful rumbler
dont appropriate the fallen.
gross
thats disrespectful rumbler
dont appropriate the fallen.
gross
The fallen deserve no respect.
thats disrespectful rumbler
dont appropriate the fallen.
gross
The fallen deserve no respect.
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.
"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.
And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."
I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.
It was quicker to just look up a news article on google. The tweet is basically buried in a quagmire of people showing their disgust, but not actually looking into what happened.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708 (https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708)
When asked about the incident caught on video, an NYPD spokesperson provided Newsweek with information about the protest at the Applebees location, where several individuals entered the location without masks and refused to show their COVID-19 vaccine cards on December 15.
"Upon arrival, officers were informed by the manager that individuals entered, refused to prove vaccination status in compliance with NYS Mandate and requested for the individuals to be removed from the location," the NYPD spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that four individuals were arrested following the protest and were charged with criminal trespass. The individuals seen in the video of the mother and child were not arrested.
Newsweek followed up with the NYPD to confirm that the incident on video occurred on the same date as the December 15 protest but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Why bring your 6 year old to that shit though and it's not like the guy running the restaurant asked for these rules.
again, comparing civil rights to fucking medical vaccination.
fuking crazy pills i seem to be taking are grade AAA fauci approved.
the vaccine doesn't even stop the spread.
Quotethe vaccine doesn't even stop the spread.
You fucking idiot. The vaccine stops the virus from getting to the point of spreading.
It's the purpose of A vaccine.
Virus mutate and spread when it's allowed to spread. If you minimize the volume of the spread your can help to eradicate the virus because it can't spread further.
I'm going insane trying to explain this on simpler terms.
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.
You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.
Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.
Arrested for not showing vaccination proof in an Applebee's.
Arrested for not showing vaccination proof in an Applebee's.
That's not what they got arrested for. They were asked by the owner to leave, which is seemingly one of the rights right-wing people love to fight for. Then they got arrested for not complying with the request to leave.
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.
You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.
Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.
Deprived of vaccines? No, the problem is a mandate that limits every day life which forces a vaccine against a persons personal choice. It is sinister. If you don't get that nothing will get through to you, racist enabler.
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.
You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.
Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.
Deprived of vaccines? No, the problem is a mandate that limits every day life which forces a vaccine against a persons personal choice. It is sinister. If you don't get that nothing will get through to you, racist enabler.
Idiots like you spreading stupid shit about vaccines is sinister. While being tripple V'ed yourself.
They were arrested because they were asked to leave for refusing to comply to a vaccine mandate request. Good on them!
Please, in concrete terms, tell me a vaccine mandate or vaccine pass to eat in a restaurant is good.
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.
Who cares. Learn to live with it. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated if you need to. Most of America already is. Who gives a fuck. Move on. We are going to sit here and be scared till it goes away? Life moves the fuck on virus or no virus. I am not stopping shit especially after nearly two years of this. I've done all I've could. I've done everything right. I no longer care.
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.
Who cares. Learn to live with it. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated if you need to. Most of America already is. Who gives a fuck. Move on. We are going to sit here and be scared till it goes away? Life moves the fuck on virus or no virus. I am not stopping shit especially after nearly two years of this. I've done all I've could. I've done everything right. I no longer care.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kurtbardella/status/1475911897019002887
I've heard this before ::)
Newsflash. People hate Democrats so much Trump gained 70m voters last election.
I've heard this before ::)
Newsflash. People hate Democrats so much Trump gained 70m voters last election.
wouldn't you say to some extent the problem with democrats is embracing the fringe extreme? people screaming about going more left, leftist rather than merely liberal, driving away the normies? remember the clashes within the party itself at times when it was pelosi vs. "the squad" arguing about whether to rein it in or go further woke
if some of that is what turned you away from the democrat party, couldn't something similar happen to republicans
https://youtu.be/kWDCWOLEM9M
:lol
Let's go Brandon!
https://youtu.be/kWDCWOLEM9M
:lol
Let's go Brandon!
White people are so cringe.
Just grade-school tier humor. And not even, like, 8th grade, but 3rd grade.
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.
Just grade-school tier humor. And not even, like, 8th grade, but 3rd grade.
:yeshrug
I'm sure wearing a pink hat and screaming FUCK TRUMP for four years is just as mature. Remember the images of Trump in a diaper? The blow up baby balloon in UK? It's almost as it political humor always devolves into elementary school tier joshing. You're not that special and liberals aren't as clever as they think. Same shit, different team. Let's go Brandon!
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.
Literally none of those are true, it just makes you look like some boomer on facebook
https://twitter.com/l3onx/status/1475758427213336579
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.
Let's Go Brandon is way better. For one it's clean, which makes it impossible to censor in an age where anything non-left is censored. Two, it makes liberals annoyed which is the ultimate icing. Three, the circumstances that made it arise is Simpsons esque and absolutely hilarious. Four, you can't tell me what to do. :yeshrug
Let's go Brandon.
Agreed. When faced with the philosophical and moralistic failures of liberalism, outside of deciding to not participate altogether, one is finally faced with only two real choices: leftism or conservatism. Unfortunately due to my experiences with the left I am not sold on leftism as they appear more interested in credo and identity politics and oppression Olympics over results. I'm far more convinced by conservatism. Leftism in comparison is in many ways laughable.This is a false choice. There are more options than "leftism" and "conservatism" out there. Also there is no need to adhere completely to any single option as described by another.
Agreed. When faced with the philosophical and moralistic failures of liberalism, outside of deciding to not participate altogether, one is finally faced with only two real choices: leftism or conservatism. Unfortunately due to my experiences with the left I am not sold on leftism as they appear more interested in credo and identity politics and oppression Olympics over results. I'm far more convinced by conservatism. Leftism in comparison is in many ways laughable.This is a false choice. There are more options than "leftism" and "conservatism" out there. Also there is no need to adhere completely to any single option as described by another.
Don't define yourself solely by what you are against, it's also important to know what it is that you are for.
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.
Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.
Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
In any case, the Republicans are probably not a viable party in New York if they cling to MAGA (or conservatism even in a Reaganite form) and are especially not in New York City outside of Staten Island. The mandates are not going to turn people into single-issue voters even if you have personally become one over them.
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.
Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
In any case, the Republicans are probably not a viable party in New York if they cling to MAGA (or conservatism even in a Reaganite form) and are especially not in New York City outside of Staten Island. The mandates are not going to turn people into single-issue voters even if you have personally become one over them.
Republicans run things in Staten Island, many parts of southern Brooklyn (especially Coney Island). Then there's entire areas like Suffolk County (Long Island). This map doesn't even include east of a specific point where it gets far more blood red.
(https://i.imgur.com/yVPFdBS.png)
As for the state itself,
Being Republican in NY state is extremely viable. The Democratic stranglehold is only fairly recent and Republicans are mounting an offense. There were many upsets this past election due to lower Dem turnout and Republicans are slated to gain even more momentum.
The idea that because NY is a blue state that means there's no avenues for Republicans is false, and a myth. You fell for it hook, line, and sinker. We are literally neighbors with NJ, the same state that almost marginally flipped from blue to red in 2021 just last month. You think I'm the only one flipping? :lol
Niagara Falls report.
https://news.yahoo.com/top-10-big-republican-turnout-224600442.html
NY Times reports: "N.Y. Democrats Assess Losses to Republicans: ‘This Was a Shellacking’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/republican-election-results-new-york.html
2016 state map.
(https://i.imgur.com/1PPhbQj.jpg)
Being Republican in NY nets you many opportunities. The great thing about NY is that Democrats have power and they can't go too far because much of the state votes Republican. The Republicans act as a check. But now with all these mandates the Democratic Party has gone beyond the threshold and they need to be punished thoroughly.
The idea that NY is like California and a Democratic bastion is a media myth. Thanks for falling for it? Long Island and Queens is a great place to get a house to be honest and where I plan on setting up roots.
This is what my conservative Republican state is getting up to these days:
https://twitter.com/zittrain/status/1476231700644569091
Every day I'm thankful to not be in school anymore. :goty
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Good on Oklahoma. I wish the law weren't too strict as it can be abused. Just keep it to certain topics.
https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpuwzSvIxHM
That said, good on Oklahoma for protecting our nations children and away from adult-based agendas and overt mental illness. Good job, Oklahoma GOP.
No moral compass, just 100% with whoever makes you feel good at the moment.
You know what really pisses of libruls? Nazis.
This what you should get next.
(http://alloallo-hire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/swastika_armband.jpg)
Lots of camaraderie, too. You'll love it!
A year ago you were blue no matter who, a year before that you were all about being a gun owning GOP diehard, I'm sure by the next election cycle you'll be cycled back to "wow Republicans actually suck, vote DEM!!!!!!!!" and pretend like none of these posts were ever made
As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).
When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.
I can't even say taco or distinguished mentally-challenged on this website.
QuoteAs Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).
When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/03/04/5-ways-liberals-try-to-control-you-n1803689
Thank Fuck someone speaking sense after months of mandates and hyperdrive liberalism and ineffectual policy masquerading as safety protocol. Get fucked. Conservatism is the only answer.
abortion-on-demandhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/texas-abortion-heartbeat-ban/index.html
gay marriagehttps://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/states-across-u-s-still-cling-outdated-gay-marriage-bans-n1137936
condom distribution in public schoolshttps://theworld.org/stories/2012-03-07/abstinence-only-education-bill-passes-utah-senate
screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”https://bookriot.com/texas-book-ban-list/
Of course, The Hunger Games isn’t listed, and neither is Battle Royale. After all, stories about kids killing each other doesn’t cause students “discomfort,” but a book that mentions a character’s gay uncle is apparently scarring.
It's gotta be tough having to see rainbow flag and a sign on how to correctly wear a mask every day.
Everywhere I go is some agenda.
Treating every single part of life as a fucking ad.
The MAGA hat.
(https://i.imgur.com/L29gw4l.jpg)
Went back to my apartment wearing my hat.
From AnnCoulter.comQuoteAs Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).
When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.
The left are the greater evil. The only options are to go further left, into leftism, which isn't an option because they support this type of thought, speech, and action policing. The only option is conservatism because they're the only people in society fighting it.Still a false choice.
The left are the greater evil. The only options are to go further left, into leftism, which isn't an option because they support this type of thought, speech, and action policing. The only option is conservatism because they're the only people in society fighting it.Still a false choice.
There are Marxists who are opposed to social studies warriors and COVID hysteria. Nothing precludes them from voting Republican for a cycle, especially in a local race, if they determine these are the dominant issues of the moment and a Republican candidate has the best take on them.
It is nonsense for libertarians to "might as well go MAGA" considering they oppose most of the MAGA agenda like its founding principle of complete opposition to free trade and freedom of movement. Its increasing hostility to liberal principles like the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press, etc. are also troublesome to where they weigh heavily against, not for, "might as well go MAGA."
Also do you have libertarian literature I can read?
Also do you have libertarian literature I can read?
(https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/405/814405722.0.x.jpg)
Do I see a himu/Benji libertarian love in blossoming on the battlefield?
The bore was not ready for this level of power!
We need Nintex back to balance out the streams, stat!
Okay, hypocritical commie.
Okay, hypocritical commie.
She dining outside with her boyfriend, sitting about six feet away from each other and not near anyone else, so I dunno why so many right wingers are freaking out.
Same difference as Cruz bailing on Texas during crisis. I see no difference. Two rich fucks that virtue signal and talk about this, that but when push comes to shove Cruz is flying to the Bahamas like an elitist shithead during Texas snowstorms and AOC is in Miami during the Age of Omicron and NYC is getting ravaged with cases. Even if Omicron is weak as shit it's still a local emergency. I waited an hour in the cold for a COVID test only for them to close while I was in it as she dines in luxury because she's a rat bitch. Same shit, different team.What are Ted Cruz and AOC, a Senator and a Congresswoman respectively, supposed to be doing about ongoing local emergencies? Especially when their bodies are not in session?
Same difference as Cruz bailing on Texas during crisis. I see no difference. Two rich fucks that virtue signal and talk about this, that but when push comes to shove Cruz is flying to the Bahamas like an elitist shithead during Texas snowstorms and AOC is in Miami during the Age of Omicron and NYC is getting ravaged with cases. Even if Omicron is weak as shit it's still a local emergency. I waited an hour in the cold for a COVID test only for them to close while I was in it as she dines in luxury because she's a rat bitch. Same shit, different team.What are Ted Cruz and AOC, a Senator and a Congresswoman respectively, supposed to be doing about ongoing local emergencies? Especially when their bodies are not in session?
Benji, query:
One of my biggest niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and invisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
Governor Jared Polis (D) of Colorado is the most libertarian governor in the country
That's right, the Democrat Jared Polis is the most libertarian. Not Greg Abbott, not Ron Desantis. Search Abbott and Desantis on this sub, the headlines are always about expanding government, taking away freedom. Now search Jared Polis, he's always on this sub for something libertarian he did wether it's related to drugs, criminal justice or pandemic restrictions. He's also a frequent poster of r/neoliberal because he's a capitalist, he donated to the primary challenger of Ilhan Omar. He supported shontel Brown over democratic socialist Nina Turner in the primary. He is always supporting the capitalist Democrats over the socialist Democrats. When he was in Congress he was the only Democrat member of the Liberty Caucus, the libertarian caucus founded by Justin Amash.
The fact there are a ton of people in this comment section saying that Lincoln overstepped his bounds because the south would've outlawed slavery at some point "peacefully"(what a joke), or that it was infringing on the constitution basically confirms OPs title for this discussion thread.
Basically the epitome of 'don't tread on me, but tread on them all you like that's ok with me.'
In my experience a strong majority of people who identify as libertarian don't give a flying fuck about protecting the liberties of others and of stopping persecution of oppressed groups. For a big group its nothing more than 'don't touch my paycheck, don't touch my guns, don't touch my property' and they'll happily sign up for oppression of others if they get their demands me.
Freedom for me, not freedom for thee.
It is truly unfortunate that for too many libertarians, that in the face of bondage, the adage is often “do nothing, it will eventually work itself out, freedom.”
I believe libertarians inability to use pragmatism in the face of mass societal strife shows an inability to actually help solve or improve issues, resulting in a passive acceptance. It is hard to convince someone to be a libertarian once you dig past the weed and gay marriage talking points and see the responses to issues like slavery or pandemics. People want to know how their individual lives can improve under certain systems, not know if they were unlucky enough to be born into bondage their fate would be left up to if their master decides to be peaceful.
I hate people who become libertarian because they don’t want taxes. That has nothing to do with libertarianism. Low taxes is a side effect of libertarian policy over time, not a policy itself.
Libertarians still can accept taxes because we still want government that works for us. Libertarians can also acknowledge the few times the other side got it right with a social program and there’s lots of evidence to support its working.
Government isn’t one size fits all. I just want to start from a libertarian perspective. That way the burden of proof is on the aggressor. In this case I think Lincoln more than proved he was justified.
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html
Identity politics :lol
Liberals and progressives :lol
Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!
Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!
:dead Reset Era in real life :dead
You know what really pisses of libruls? Nazis.
This what you should get next:
(http://alloallo-hire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/swastika_armband.jpg)
Lots of camaraderie, too.
With this, your new friends will love you even more!
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html
Identity politics :lol
Liberals and progressives :lol
Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!
Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!
:dead Reset Era in real life :dead
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html
Identity politics :lol
Liberals and progressives :lol
Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!
Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!
:dead Reset Era in real life :dead
It's about the treatments, not the vaccine. Those are in scarce supplies and I think eligibility is treated on demand from a patient/their consulting MD. I don't think a general hesitancy from some demographics is really relevant. Actually it might be a way to counterbalance hesitancy (alongside a studied, established trend of worst health outcomes for minorities in the US) to at least make sure they get access to post treatments in priority.
Those exact same guidelines exist in other states and that controversy about anti white racism is weeks old at that point. I guess you can take exception to that though it really reads more like a weighted variable in whatever formula they use to triage demands.
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html
Identity politics :lol
Liberals and progressives :lol
Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!
Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!
:dead Reset Era in real life :dead
Okay, I read the memo and I'm with you on this one: this is absurd. A risk factor defined simply on the basis of race is complete lunacy. A multivariate risk score to prioritize individuals by risk on multiple characteristics is what you'd think they'd do to apportion a finite amount of resources. It seems wrong to make white people meet a higher threshhold req simply on the basis of their race. Unless there are biological differences between the races that affect how they respond to this virus, I don't see how this is even constitutional. I'm open to having my mind changed, but...yeah.
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.
Notice how they're almost all black.
I will say on the matter of ads all featuring black people/minorities: that is the majority of media/ads now
and I'm not complaining about it like "omg bring back the nuclear hetero white family to my advertising," I'm just saying, that's how things are now, and it's not surprising that these ads would follow the same trend
Liberals are making me do a MAGA because ads
I will say on the matter of ads all featuring black people/minorities: that is the majority of media/ads now
and I'm not complaining about it like "omg bring back the nuclear hetero white family to my advertising," I'm just saying, that's how things are now, and it's not surprising that these ads would follow the same trend
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.
Notice how they're almost all black.
You left one out from that "why I got vaccinated" series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVemLtyud4
And then this one has people of different races in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZw5_U3KLE
It's almost as if NYC is a giant melting pot, with a lot of minorities, and they're putting out videos featuring people of different races and ethnic groups. I see they put out videos in multiple languages, too. Perhaps there is a larger focus on minorities here because they have data showing that some groups are less vaccinated than others? I dunno.
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.
What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.
What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.
Fair enough and well met.
I'm currently on my phone now and can't explain this in-depth in a comfortable manner without access to a keyboard. However, in short, to me, I'm defining liberalism as a capitalistic, economic, and socio phenomenon interpretation of "more". More regulation, more laws, more red tape, more government, more social programs, more spending, more taxes.
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.
What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.
Fair enough and well met.
I'm currently on my phone now and can't explain this in-depth in a comfortable manner without access to a keyboard. However, in short, to me, I'm defining liberalism as a capitalistic, economic, and socio phenomenon interpretation of "more". More regulation, more laws, more red tape, more government, more social programs, more spending, more taxes.
I'm watching american history x right now.
This is like almost the verbatim scene of connor filming his sister and spouting off about "hillary rodham clinton".
This joke character is on point.
Benji, query:Libertarians are not anarchists. That said, many are minarchists. Police, courts, military and minimal taxes. But this isn't a requirement. Hayek argued for a strong safety net. Milton Friedman was one of the earliest advocates of UBI. (And convinced the decidedly non-libertarian Nixon.) Ancaps are allies of libertarians for many reasons and they hold a strong position within the movement but they aren't even a plurality. Mises was more of an ancap. Nozick and Hess were all over the place. Some libertarians consider a VAT to be more libertarian than income taxes, arguably the opposite of the US status quo.
One of my biggest niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and envisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
I am not endorsing libertarianism. I am libertarian as much as I am liberal. I am simply endorsing not-MAGA. Along with the idea that there are more than three choices and that you don't have to align yourself lockstep with any single one. (I also think that equating MAGA and conservatism is a misstep.)Benji, query:Libertarians are not anarchists. That said, many are minarchists. Police, courts, military and minimal taxes. But this isn't a requirement. Hayek argued for a strong safety net. Milton Friedman was one of the earliest advocates of UBI. (And convinced the decidedly non-libertarian Nixon.) Ancaps are allies of libertarians for many reasons and they hold a strong position within the movement but they aren't even a plurality. Mises was more of an ancap. Nozick and Hess were all over the place. Some libertarians consider a VAT to be more libertarian than income taxes, arguably the opposite of the US status quo.
One of my biggest niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and envisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
Libertarianism doesn't have a limiting principle, not even the NAP. American libertarians make lots of Constitution-based arguments because of its position within American political culture and because it provides an actual limiting principle. I'd argue that at least a plurality of libertarians (and libertarian-leaners, especially those who stay Republicans) don't like immigration. Yet for the first hundred years of the country there were no immigration laws at all. Nonetheless, many libertarians believe that the non-criminal violation of immigration law constitutes an "invasion" and justifies the creation of a military police state. Other libertarians (and especially ancaps) view the path as the eventual erasure of borders and thus support a streamlining of immigration law on the way to its eventual elimination and consider this both more libertarian and more constitutional. Many libertarians (though not the ancaps) believe in some form of what Tyler Cowen calls state capacity libertarianism on the basis that a strong state protects capitalism (https://mason.gmu.edu/~mkoyama2/About_files/StateCapacitySurvey.pdf). But a strong state doesn't necessitate a large or highly active state either.
The joke about libertarians is the same as the one about economists, Jews, communists, etc. Put ten of them in a room and you'll get eleven opinions on what libertarianism is. Of course, all things being equal, a libertarian will usually argue for smaller government and less taxes than the status quo, whatever it is.
Most estimates are that libertarians and libertarian-leaners are about 5% of the American populace. A large chunk doesn't vote almost ever, another large chunk votes Republican, many are swing voters, many vote locally but don't care about the Presidency or Congress. Sometimes in a good year (2016 presidential race, 2013 Virginia governors race, etc.) a plurality will vote for the Libertarian Party itself based on the candidate. Sometimes Democrats even get libertarian support, see your Polis posts above but also people like Ron Wyden and the much mocked but sometimes not wrong liberaltarian (https://www.cato.org/commentary/liberaltarians) which got revived as anti-Trump opposition (https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/17/14287694/liberaltarianism-liberalism-libertarianism-resist-trump-markets-growth) after dormancy during the Obama presidency. There's also the left libertarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism) which is still not a libertarian socialist. (I think the former makes a much stronger case than the latter though it is more popular within self-described anarchists (and Yurop) than American libertarians.)
Again, I'm not suggesting you (or anyone) should be a libertarian for the views you've recently expressed, that's why I mentioned the Marxists against social studies warriors (Freddie de Boer is pretty prominent) and COVID hysteria (too many to mention) among the other choices. Not that there's anything wrong with being a libertarian inherently. More what I was expressing was that there's no need to throw yourself into the MAGA package (or any single package) over a single issue, opposition to Democrats and "liberal policies" or even a desire to vote Republican in the next local race. Instead it's fine to do all these things while being mostly libertarian, Marxist, liberal, neo-fascist, whatever.
I know you're a dick and that's enough for me.
Great Sage, here's more example of liberal oversight, lack of choice, and forcing their lifestyle on others.
https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stoves
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/brooklynites-could-see-property-tax-hike-under-proposed-city-reforms/ar-AASjD9l?ocid=BingNewsSearch
https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stovesStory oddly doesn't mention how the same climate activists and Democrats (like AOC) in New York spent much of the prior year demanding Indian Point nuclear plant be shut down immediately and replaced with natural gas. To help fight climate change of course.
https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stovesStory oddly doesn't mention how the same climate activists and Democrats (like AOC) in New York spent much of the prior year demanding Indian Point nuclear plant be shut down immediately and replaced with natural gas. To help fight climate change of course.
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)
YES!!!!!Residents being able to vote in a local (and probably any) election is a good thing. Unless you think they should instead be rebated all the local taxes that they pay. (Something that should also be allowed for people who don't want to vote it would seem.)
FIGHT FOR US AGAINST INSANITY, ADAMS.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/mayor-eric-adams-voices-concerns-about-nycs-non-citizen-voting-bill/?utm_source=reddit.com
Adams, who had previously supported the legislation passed by a large majority of the City Council early last month.
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Adams’ transportation commissioner and major backer, former Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) was the primary sponsor of the bill.
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)They’re green card holders, not illegal immigrants
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)They’re green card holders, not illegal immigrants
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?
I have no idea who or what you're talking about.
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?
I have no idea who or what you're talking about.
ok
#freenintexLast page you were rooting for the Himji libertopian team up. Flip flopped : stahp
#freefiller
#saveusfromhimu
Benji: I'm fine with voting in local elections. The problem is the 30 day clause with Adams hopes to kill.What's the fear? That thousands upon thousands of people will uproot their lives to become residents in NYC for a month for the purposes of voting then immediately leave?
#freenintexLast page you were rooting for the Himji libertopian team up. Flip flopped : stahp
#freefiller
#saveusfromhimu
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.
Notice how they're almost all black.
You left one out from that "why I got vaccinated" series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVemLtyud4
And then this one has people of different races in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZw5_U3KLE
It's almost as if NYC is a giant melting pot, with a lot of minorities, and they're putting out videos featuring people of different races and ethnic groups. I see they put out videos in multiple languages, too. Perhaps there is a larger focus on minorities here because they have data showing that some groups are less vaccinated than others? I dunno.
Have you read a damn thing I said? Of course they have data some groups are less vaccinated. You would do well to make less arguments and try to understand. You don't take my points made as a whole.
You, like Rumbler, think this is just about ads because you're both fools.
Benji: I'm fine with voting in local elections. The problem is the 30 day clause with Adams hopes to kill.What's the fear? That thousands upon thousands of people will uproot their lives to become residents in NYC for a month for the purposes of voting then immediately leave?
free tuition paid for the government would sol....
capitalism
It's just weird to me someone can live here for 30 days and vote but I have to stay here for a year to obtain residency and qualify for in state tuition costs.Why do you think these two things are connected?
It's just weird to me someone can live here for 30 days and vote but I have to stay here for a year to obtain residency and qualify for in state tuition costs.Why do you think these two things are connected?
you literally said you don't care after I explained it. Look back in the last page.
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)
Save for a few states. Any resident who pays local taxes and physically resides in a state is a resident in the state. And has rights to vote in local elections.
Residency for state tuition in colleges is a speed stop to get students to pay higher fees. Universities and colleges have no qualms about letting illegal immigrants studying at 3x rates of in state.
There is no illegal immigration between state because that falls under federal jurisdiction of sovereign nations. And guess what, states are not sovereign nations.
State laws.
Why should it not be 30 days?
Is someone squatting for 30 days to just vote in local elections about zoning changes?
It's 30 days because that's the average of people to get a place month to month, and decide they're hanging around.
And since you brought it up again, your rant was straight out of the xenophobic rant from American History X, from an ignorant tool being used.
do you know what crocodile tears are?
Look, I know you've had a revelation on life, but that's usually followed with "damn I should keep my mind open" , but all you've done is spout stupid shit that are blindly ignorant.
QuoteLike the left that always shames?
I'm sorry you got hoodwinked.
They aren't. But seems pretty unfair to me! Why don't you make a case in its favor?I thought I did on the prior page. Letting residents vote promotes taxation with representation.
I haven't heard a single argument against mandates for mask or vaccines that haven't been diluted into "because me".
A private business absolutely has the right to fire anyone for not following their procedures on a contractual basis. However, when it's the government telling companies they must comply to forcing their employees to take a medical procedure they don't want to is when I have a problem on moralistic grounds.
In what way do I benefit for fighting for people whom I disagree with?
I think being LGBT is a sin but I still think they have the right to be married and transition and live their lives. No one told me to feel this way at all, it is pure instinct.
I think being LGBT is a sin
the siners
Self hatred doesn't opt you out of being a bigot.
I'll just throw out that many of the childhood vaccine series that we all took as kids have 3-4 shots. 4 shots is not unusual or crazy in any way.
It's likely, IMO, that we will have annual COVID boosters with different strains, for at least 5-10 years, and maybe longer, similar to the flu vaccine.
A mask isn't a medical procedure and the fact they became politicized to begin with was completely uncouth.
3. Do the policies have anything to do with results or is it about control?
4. When do mandates end and what would be considered a bridge too far considering this is being sold under the guise of public health?
https://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1477997674892861444?t=Lq0gaGxTHcHYVcohejTJqg&s=19Yeah, swagger is what everyone needs right now. :ryker
A mask isn't a medical procedure and the fact they became politicized to begin with was completely uncouth.3. Do the policies have anything to do with results or is it about control?
4. When do mandates end and what would be considered a bridge too far considering this is being sold under the guise of public health?
I think it is worth considering these two statements together as to the reasons behind the mandate.
The fact that one political party has tacitly and not-so-fucking-tacitly pushed anti-vaxxing / no-masks as a legitimate political viewpoint, instead of leaving it as what it is, fringe black helicopter / new world order / sovereign citizen conspiracy idiocy means that there are significantly more idiots buying into this than there should be. (And thanks from the rest of the world for exporting this horseshit too, btw.)
So I would suggest to you that turning this into a mandate rather than relying on the 'honour system' is a response to that.
And that it's not about control - it's about business owners and employees having to deal with these chucklefucks on a daily basis, people who are inherently completely unreasonable in their manners and behaviour.
This isn't about local mom and pop diners letting regulars in on the downlow sans masks getting raided by the cops for a city fine shakedown.
It's about organised groups of obnoxious, self righteous, and in many cases violent 'protesters' shitting up peoples businesses, and the businesses being left to handle it on their own with no real authority to deal with things, which is where you see the stories of minimum wage staff being assaulted, spat on, and abused.
Making it a legally enforced mandate means some of that pressure is off of the businesses and employees that also want some semblance of normal; they can now call the cops on these dickheads.
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FWIW I think there is a really fine line between jumping into legal remedies for expediency and accidentally over reaching with bigger implications, and there is discussion to be had there, and I also don't think vax-checks / passports are actually as preventative as things like track and trace or tests at entry would be.
“Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory.
Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.
Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects.
No vaccination will be given without consent.
Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.”
Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop.
QuoteSay whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop.
vaccines aren't medical procedures and vaccines have been mandated by the big G for centuries.
Anti-vaxxers can get fully and unapologetically fucked. There is no "both sides" in this. Fuck the willfully ignorant fucks who continue to get people killed in the name of "muh freedoms".
I'm super cool with dehumanizing dangerous morons. Their "opinions" are worth less than hot dogshit on a sidewalk.
I'm super cool with dehumanizing dangerous morons. Their "opinions" are worth less than hot dogshit on a sidewalk.
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.
So, they're not avoiding the vaccine because they believe in conspiracies, they're just avoiding it because of "reasons".Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.
Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.
Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
And most unvaccinated black people I know do believe all these conspiracies around the vaccine. Some wear masks, some don't. Some don't even want to get tested. There's no one popular viewpoint amongst unvaccinated black people, even just in NYC.Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.
Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.
Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
And most unvaccinated black people I know do believe all these conspiracies around the vaccine. Some wear masks, some don't. Some don't even want to get tested. There's no one popular viewpoint amongst unvaccinated black people, even just in NYC.Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?
It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.
Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.
Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
NY state's numbers are because of the new omicron variant. NY state's hospitals are still okay so far because vaccinated people are fighting off COVID without needing to go to the hospital. Early in the pandemic before there was a vaccine there wasn't the case. I'm sure you know this since you moved here during that time.
But this isn't just a business related situation. The government is mandating that all citizens get vaccinated. Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop. I find it to be equivocally the wrong solution. Where's the line? What else can the government mandate me to do if they don't want me to have control over my body? If the vaccine worked to the point where it outright prevents Covid, I could see it. But it doesn't! It just gives your immune system a boost on the off chance you get it so you can hopefully fight it better so comparisons to things like Measles vaccination mandates don't work tit for tat either.It's probably worth noting that no level of the government has yet mandated vaccination. OSHA's requirement does not mandate vaccination, may not be constitutional and doesn't apply to everyone anyway. Local public health measures restricting access are not requirements to get vaccinated and I'm not sure they can get much tighter before the courts interfere, they already have on meaningless things like religious services for example. That said, Jacobson has been the law of the land for over a century. Vaccine mandates may be ineffective public policy, but they aren't new and aren't stretching the bounds of established police powers.
Essentially the state is requiring the populace to have our bodies altered on a maybe. A what if.
Requiring vaccination for access to public accommodations is not mandating anyone get vaccinated. I may dislike the idea of disallowing unvaccinated people access to certain public accommodations by government fiat but being unvaccinated is not a recognized protected class even if people are born that way and others want to dehumanize them.
I can't tell you why the news media does anything at this point.
All in all pretty interesting with some notable negatives. Still appears to be worth looking into.
Requiring vaccination for access to public accommodations is not mandating anyone get vaccinated. I may dislike the idea of disallowing unvaccinated people access to certain public accommodations by government fiat but being unvaccinated is not a recognized protected class even if people are born that way and others want to dehumanize them.
I can't tell you why the news media does anything at this point.
Fair enough but these things are often so essential to basic human life it feels like a mandate I'm terms of policy and language, especially after nearly two years of this. So yeah, I don't like it even if it's not a true mandate. And if it's not a real mandate it feels like it's grooming the populace for a mandate in the future. I don't like it one bit.
All in all pretty interesting with some notable negatives. Still appears to be worth looking into.
it's weird to me to view this like shopping, holding up different fruits and looking for blemishes and choosing one to fully commit to, only to throw it out and choose a new one a few weeks later
I don't understand why anyone would willingly adopt any label for themselves because you're inviting so much baggage and immediate dismissal from others who have preconceptions about it
same reason nobody says "I am a gamer"
just embrace whatever ideologies sit best with you, if someone asks you what you are, you describe to them your positions and if they want to box you in and say "sounds like you're a libertarian," that's their decision, not yours
A Communist like Shosta is a devout Democrat.I didn't pull the lever for Newsom during the recall :ufup
A Communist like Shosta is a devout Democrat.I didn't pull the lever for Newsom during the recall :ufup
College Republicans are the best:Real q, do you ever get essays like this? :lol
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https://twitter.com/PeterMoskos/status/1478456322483961857
No, unfortunately. It would be pretty great if someone replied to a question asking how something operated by attacking the legitimacy of the institution though.College Republicans are the best:Real q, do you ever get essays like this? :lol
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https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1478758105999679490
I am not generally the type to rail against AOC, but I saw this particular tweet
first of all the tweet she's replying to is horrible and dumb, but the correct response to that is not further idiocy
to claim that there are no "low skill jobs" is to imply that every single job takes the exact same amount of skill to perform? because otherwise if some jobs require more skill than others, the ones that take less can be easily considered the lower skilled jobs by comparison
to have a "low skill job" is not an indictment of you as a person, nor does it entitle anyone to abuse you, devalue you, or disrespect the work you do...it's just a truthful classification of some forms of employment
if you want, you could call it a "high availability/low demand job," because it's all based on supply and demand...people trained for highly skilled professions like doctors are in shorter supply so that's a "low availability/high demand job" by comparison
and the jobs that are "high availability" -- Wal-Mart greeter -- are like that because the skill requirement is such that anybody in the world can do it
don't gaslight me :doge
It's exactly this and meant to be a reframing of the discussion of what 'low-skill' implies. Economic terms are often used to obfuscate ethical and political positions. If you live in a world where one's economic worth is their worth as a person, then a "low skill job" is an indictment of you as a person, and results in people abusing and taking advantage of you. More importantly, it devalues your economic worth and is not just a reflection of it. As we have seen with the recent 'labour' shortage, people are not as replaceable as people using the term 'low-skill' want to imply. It wasn't long ago where people got away with using the term 'unskilled', again referencing it as just a fundamental economic truth. The fact that these terms exist in economics does not mean that when people use these terms they are actually talking about economics.
Pointing out that there are skills needed for waitressing or that valuable lessons were learned while doing it, is a way to get people to reevaluate the skills needed to do such jobs and to combat the idea that high availability means low-skill and thus low value.
That tweet is doing what it intends to do, which is to raise the value of 'low skill' works and question how the term gets used, and more importantly, it will hit its intended audience. Being divisive is not a loss. Nor is the fact that some people are allergic to rhetoric, and hence might dislike what she said only because of how she said it.
There is nothing patriotic about hating your government, or pretending you can hate your government but love your country.
If you treat law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line for your safety every day like some kind of enemy army, to be suspected, derided, and--if they should be able to enforce the law against you--to be shot, you are wrongACAB
I think the January 6 insurrectionists deserve prison but are we going to do "on this day ____ years ago" every year now?
I think the January 6 insurrectionists deserve prison but are we going to do "on this day ____ years ago" every year now?
when you think about it and trace back the roots of the rhetoric, gamergate was directly responsible for Jan 6
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She can compare it to whatever she wants, voters won't really care when it comes time for elections, they are going to look at how their own personal livelihoods have been affected.
I doubt they are going to say "Well, inflation sucks, gas prices suck, house prices suck, food prices suck, but..I don't want another Jan 6th to happen, so I'm voting against that"
Btw, I'm not trying to downplay Jan 6th, it was inexcusable, but I don't think it'll affect people's votes as much no matter how much they try to use it as a fear tactic.
The Democrats will have to get some better ammo if they only have Trump, and Jan 6 to fall back on come election time.
Virginia showed shouting Trump name is useless, but they don't seem interested in changing that.
Outside of Reddit and Democratic politicians, I don't think a single person that I know of gives a shit about January 6. The fact that the Democrats make it a big deal while the rest of the American people struggle with gas and food prices, makes me think it'll hurt them long term because they think this is more important than what it really is (compared to other current issues)
Two things true:
1. What happened at the Capitol was wrong, all involved in trespassing and/or coordinating attacks should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
2. Democrats want to use this against Republicans for political gain, and its very transparent and obvious. They're not even really hiding this, as I believe Schumer said he was going to try to use the anniversary of the event to push the Democrats changes to federal voting laws.
Also, comparing to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor is silly, obviously.
That feels like cheapening national tragedies to score political points.
Democrats seem to have a tendency to overplay their hand, even when it's a winning one. Rather than let Trump sink himself (which he promptly did), they got down into the muck with him and impeached him left and right and seemed petty and partisan in the process (alliteration!). Instead of condemning the minority of these folks for trying to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, they're trying to overstate their impact and number of supporters for political purposes. The only people this will resonate with already vote for Democrats.
Especially during the Trump era, Democrats had a golden opportunity to be the adults in the room and broaden their appeal. I was there for the taking. Instead, (according to them) everything Trump and the Republicans did was a threat to democracy which was therefore always on the verge of collapsing. Schumer first demanded that we preserve the filibuster (when he was in the minority) in order to save democracy but when Dems took the majority, we now have to kill/alter the filibuster in order to do what? You guessed it: Save democracy. I'm starting to see a trend here.
On social issues, they tailored their message in order to appeal to a very narrow group (the progressive left), which further alienated people who may have been enticed to the party with a more moderate message. Once Biden got into office, the party swung even further left both economically and socially. Rather than appealing to more voters, they seem to be hell-bent on catering to a very vocal minority within their party, which is a terrible way to win an election. The messaging just doesn't appeal to large parts of the country.
FWIW: I realize Biden won in 2020, but I'd argue (based on the House votes) that was a very specific circumstance. I think President Biden received a lot of anti-Trump votes in 2020 (as opposed to Pro-Biden votes).
Lmao pussy shit unless you're actually immunocompromised, have a child aged 0-5, or are elderly, or live with someone in those three groups.
QuoteLmao pussy shit unless you're actually immunocompromised, have a child aged 0-5, or are elderly, or live with someone in those three groups.
:snoop
Different people will make different decisions, and that’s OK. Severely immunocompromised people — like those who have received organ transplants or are actively receiving cancer treatment — have reason to be extra cautious. For otherwise healthy older people, on the other hand, the latest data may be encouraging enough to affect their behavior.
Consider this: Before Omicron, a typical vaccinated 75-year-old who contracted Covid had a roughly similar risk of death — around 1 in 200 — as a typical 75-year-old who contracted the flu. (Here are the details behind that calculation, which is based on an academic study.)
Omicron has changed the calculation. Because it is milder than earlier versions of the virus, Covid now appears to present less threat to most vaccinated elderly people than the annual flu does.
The flu, of course, does present risk for the elderly. And the sheer size of the Omicron surge may argue for caution over the next few weeks. But the combination of vaccines and Omicron’s apparent mildness means that, for an individual, Covid increasingly resembles the kind of health risk that people accept every day.
You're supposed to avoid people when the flu is going around too, dipshit
https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-pearl-habor-911-comparison-jan-6-speech-2022-1?utm_source=reddit.com
Lmao 1/6 was fucked up but at the end of the day it's a what if. No one died besides Babbitt iirc.
WASHINGTON — As a pro-Trump protest turned into a violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, four people in the crowd died.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber.
Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack, collapsing on the sidewalk west of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rosanne Boyland appeared to have been crushed in a stampede of fellow rioters as they surged against the police.
Benjamin Philips, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke.
Mr. Greeson and Mr. Philips died of natural causes, the Washington medical examiner said in April. He added that Ms. Boyland’s death was caused by an accidental overdose.
In the days and weeks after the riot, five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6 died.
Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.
Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack.
Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.
The Capitol Police had previously said that Officer Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.” The Washington medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes: multiple strokes that occurred hours after Officer Sicknick’s confrontation with the mob. The medical examiner added, however, that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”
A bipartisan Senate report, released in June, found that the seven deaths were connected to the Capitol attack. But the report was issued a month before two Metropolitan Police officers — Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag — died by suicide in July.
The police agencies have not classified the four total suicides as “line of duty” deaths that would provide the victims’ families with enhanced benefits. Washington law excludes suicide deaths from the line-of-duty designation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384965/amp/AOC-reveals-COVID-partying-maskless-Miami.htmlBig Oof
:yikes
As a non-American, I can confirm that the United States was, in fact, a laughing stock just one year ago, and two years ago, and three years ago, and four years ago, and five years ago."I will never endorse this jerk again."(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIv4a37XEAIvrmm?format=jpg&name=900x900)[close]
“I say to my friends on the Republican side, you may own the field right now but you won’t own it forever.” And he concluded, “I pray to God when the Democrats take back control, we don’t make the same kind of naked power grab that you are doing.”
-Senator Joe Biden, May 23, 2005
Democrats are the OGs of setting new standards while playing hardball, and then having a surprised Pikachu face when Republicans throw those standards right back at them.
2006: "We're gonna delay every one of Bush's judicial nominations. That’ll teach him.” 2014: "NOOOOOOOO you can't delay Obama's judicial nominations! Republicans are racist! The "O" in GOP stands for obstructionist!"
2013: "Time to remove the judicial filibuster, boys. It's the only way to get our nominees through." 2020: "NOOOOO what do you mean Republicans have voted in a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court through bare minimum party line majorities! This is an abuse of power! The Court is invalid and corrupted!
2018: "Impeach Trump because of obstruction of Congress, something every President has done for the last 50 years but we choose now to act on it." 2022: "NOOOOOOO why is Ted Cruz saying the GOP will impeach Biden????? This is political brinksmanship!"
YOU ARE HERE ——> 2022: “Guys I have a brilliant idea. Let’s get rid of the filibuster entirely for just one day, pass the voting rights act, then put it back in place.” 2024: “NOOOOOO what do you mean Republicans temporarily removed the filibuster to pass the National Abortion Ban Act, which passed 50-50 in the Senate with Vice President DeSantis breaking the tie? This is a gross violation of democracy and human rights! Republicans out here playing legislative games again! The minority party wasn’t even consulted!”
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why is this a thing
https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1480977129932218375
:american "It may be time for a change candidate." :american
https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1480977129932218375
:american "It may be time for a change candidate." :american
The Republican National Committee (RNC) alerted the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Thursday that it plans to require GOP presidential nominees not to attend debates run by the commission going forward.https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1481670184339492870
"The RNC will initiate the process of amending the Rules of the Republican Party at our upcoming Winter Meeting to prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates," wrote Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the letter, which was obtained by The Hill.
McDaniel said GOP voters "have lost trust" in the commission and noted that the RNC has proposed a number of reforms to the debate process.
"Unfortunately, neither the tone nor substance of your latest response inspires confidence that the CPD will meaningfully address the serious issues which the RNC has raised," she said.
If the RNC moves to change its rules, the pullout would mark one of the greatest changes in the history of U.S. presidential debates, which the CPD has hosted for more than 30 years.
Fuck Hillary, we have a new queen.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI_rWZIXwAIbsZf?format=jpg&name=small)
Over the course of many years and many think pieces, the case against the filibuster has been laid out. Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases. Onto the pile, however fruitlessly, let us add another: The filibuster is a plot against Vice President Kamala Harris—to take away her constitutional right to vote.
Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution makes it plain: Harris, as chair of the Senate, is given the responsibility to vote “when the Senate is equally divided.” In all the furor over the filibuster blocking voting rights legislation, keep in mind it is blocking Harris from this constitutional right, as well. The supermajority rule that ran counter to the Founders’ desires, now upheld by the filibuster’s status quo, is not just aiding in the disenfranchisement of voters by blocking meaningful voting rights legislation from passage—it’s also disenfranchising the woman sent to Washington to resolve the disputes of a divided Senate.
It would be fitting if Harris, given the chance to gavel the filibuster out of existence to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, reclaimed her rights at the same time. She can put that to the Senate on January 17 when any rules changes are being considered—by starting with a declaration that the filibuster is not just unfair or undemocratic but unconstitutional, as well.
Harris, as chair, could reach the same conclusions. Rather than just hope a Senate majority uses the “nuclear option” to rid us of the filibuster, she could press the button. For the reasons above, she could declare the supermajority for cloture to be in conflict with Article I.:dead :dead :dead :dead
She may fail in the attempt. A majority can overturn a ruling of the chair. It is not so easy even for some Democrats in the Senate to give up the filibuster. There are many, many other bills that the senators take up other than voting rights legislation. So individual senators are caught in a dilemma worthy of a class in game theory—though glad to remove it for A, they do not want to remove it for B, or maybe C, or maybe D, or maybe an unknown X that will arrive later in their six-year terms. So the filibuster remains in place forever—except now for the budget and for nominations to judgeships and political positions. In these two cases, the budget and nominations, there is no choice but to get rid of the filibuster or there would be institutional collapse of the courts and of the executive branch.
However, with the John Lewis Act and Freedom to Vote Act, we are speaking about the institutional collapse of democracy itself. Protecting the integrity of federal elections from state interference is necessary to the integrity of the federal government—it is an obligation that is set forth in the original Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4. It is the only clause, the only text, that says Congress can override any state regulation of a federal election. Ever since 1787, Article I, Section 4 has been in there, the original nuclear option, to protect the national government from institutional collapse. It is an outrage to use the filibuster to block even the power of the national government to save itself. Surely that must have at least the same priority as enacting a budget by majority rule.
Let the vice president show some muscle in defense of her country. Let the debate start on January 17 with a ruling from the chair that Rule 22 is in conflict with her own right to cast a vote when the Senate is evenly divided. Then let her dare the Senate to overrule her. To reclaim the right to vote in the blocked legislation, she should begin with reclaiming her own right to vote, as well.
By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote. Who says the vice president has nothing to do?
https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1481592213452857346QuoteOver the course of many years and many think pieces, the case against the filibuster has been laid out. Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases. Onto the pile, however fruitlessly, let us add another: The filibuster is a plot against Vice President Kamala Harris—to take away her constitutional right to vote.
Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution makes it plain: Harris, as chair of the Senate, is given the responsibility to vote “when the Senate is equally divided.” In all the furor over the filibuster blocking voting rights legislation, keep in mind it is blocking Harris from this constitutional right, as well. The supermajority rule that ran counter to the Founders’ desires, now upheld by the filibuster’s status quo, is not just aiding in the disenfranchisement of voters by blocking meaningful voting rights legislation from passage—it’s also disenfranchising the woman sent to Washington to resolve the disputes of a divided Senate.
It would be fitting if Harris, given the chance to gavel the filibuster out of existence to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, reclaimed her rights at the same time. She can put that to the Senate on January 17 when any rules changes are being considered—by starting with a declaration that the filibuster is not just unfair or undemocratic but unconstitutional, as well.QuoteHarris, as chair, could reach the same conclusions. Rather than just hope a Senate majority uses the “nuclear option” to rid us of the filibuster, she could press the button. For the reasons above, she could declare the supermajority for cloture to be in conflict with Article I.:dead :dead :dead :dead
She may fail in the attempt. A majority can overturn a ruling of the chair. It is not so easy even for some Democrats in the Senate to give up the filibuster. There are many, many other bills that the senators take up other than voting rights legislation. So individual senators are caught in a dilemma worthy of a class in game theory—though glad to remove it for A, they do not want to remove it for B, or maybe C, or maybe D, or maybe an unknown X that will arrive later in their six-year terms. So the filibuster remains in place forever—except now for the budget and for nominations to judgeships and political positions. In these two cases, the budget and nominations, there is no choice but to get rid of the filibuster or there would be institutional collapse of the courts and of the executive branch.
However, with the John Lewis Act and Freedom to Vote Act, we are speaking about the institutional collapse of democracy itself. Protecting the integrity of federal elections from state interference is necessary to the integrity of the federal government—it is an obligation that is set forth in the original Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4. It is the only clause, the only text, that says Congress can override any state regulation of a federal election. Ever since 1787, Article I, Section 4 has been in there, the original nuclear option, to protect the national government from institutional collapse. It is an outrage to use the filibuster to block even the power of the national government to save itself. Surely that must have at least the same priority as enacting a budget by majority rule.
Let the vice president show some muscle in defense of her country. Let the debate start on January 17 with a ruling from the chair that Rule 22 is in conflict with her own right to cast a vote when the Senate is evenly divided. Then let her dare the Senate to overrule her. To reclaim the right to vote in the blocked legislation, she should begin with reclaiming her own right to vote, as well.
By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote. Who says the vice president has nothing to do?
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1481743466891812864
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/supreme-court-blocks-president-bidens-vaccine-mandate-large-82255529
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HUAHUAHUAHUA
Supreme Court defending liberty! :bow I know people that can continue to get work now.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices agreed with that argument, saying that the workplace safety rule for large employers was too broad to fall under the authority of the Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration to regulate workplace safety.
"Covid-19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather," the court's majority wrote.
"That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases."
Thankfully I'm warm and vaccinated and don't have to deal with the winter of death!
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.
she will never win, enemies on all sides ideologicallyWhich is exactly why the dumbshit Dems will nominate her once the dementia takes Biden out
The first chapter, ("The Themes of Agitation"), presents samples of an agitator's diatribe, which might be mistaken as "simply ... the raving of a maniac".[10] Generally agitators rely on core motifs, labeled as "Discontent", "The Opponent", "The Movement" and "The Leader".[11]
"Social Malaise", the second chapter, examines how social malaise or discontent can be manipulated by converting perceived problems into grievances. The response to economic grievances is to say that "too much help is being extended to foreign nations”, that not only are "foreigners taking our money, they also threaten our jobs".[12] Political grievances are addressed by the call to action against international "commitments by the United States government [that] jeopardize political liberties."[12] Media outlets are the source of cultural grievances, and labeled "the enemies of the nation",[13] while other enemies are depicted as morally lax, "a crowd of Marxists, refugees, [and] left-wing internationalists."[12]
The outer world is painted as hostile and filled with enemies in the third chapter ("A Hostile World"). The agitator positions himself as "a bone fide advocate of social change", but in doing so intentionally ”crystallizes and hardens these feelings” of hostility.[14] The remedy is his supposed superior knowledge, which he offers as a shield. He convinces his audience that it needs his guidance because they are victims, cheated by a "comprehensive and carefully planned political conspiracy".[15] He offers himself "a champion of democracy and Christianity", and as the only person who will solve grievances.[16]
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Having provided his own definition for the causes of the social malaise, "as a would be leader of a popular movement" he sets goals for improvement in Chapter VII ("A Home for the Homeless"); however his solutions are found to be empty promises. His political or economic goals are motivated by little more than a desire "go one better than the government, his most dangerous competitor."[20]
Followers are provided neither with hope nor positive ideas for change; agitation is historically distinguished by a complete lack of positive change. Chapter VIII ("The Follower") explains that adherents are made to believe the enemy will only be vanquished through means of a movement and by following the leader's dictates. External forces said to threaten American society are emphasized. The size of the movement is quantified, with claims that it consists "75% of the American people".[21] In Chapter IX ("The Leader") he positions himself as someone with special skills, whose interests support theirs, someone who is "one of the plain folk ... yet far above them."[22] Unlike Hitler or Mussolini, who broke with society and abandoned democratic, Chapter X ("Self-Portrait of the Agitator") shows how the American agitator "dares not repudiate established morality and democratic values".[22] Yet the themes, as exposed in the book, do "not prevent him from conveying the principal social tenets of totalitarianism."[22]
In the closing chapter ("What the Listener Heard"), the authors discuss the listener's reactions. They view them as generally drawn to the idea of success, while against "bureaucrats, Jews, congressmen, plutocrats, communists ... He grumbles against the foreigners who come to this country and get good jobs."[23] Löwenthal and Guterman emphasize that American agitators have historically failed to gain traction and are usually marginalized. They warn, however, that under certain circumstances, such as loss of security for the middle class, America should contemplate the "possibility in which a situation will arise in which large numbers of people would be susceptible to his psychological manipulation".[24]
But the agitator also went beyond distraction and dissimulation. Reformers, Lowenthal and Guterman argued, framed complaints in rational terms and offered a plan of concerted action that would solve the underlying problems. Write to the management of the bus company, they might advise; raise the issue at the next meeting of the city council. Agitators, by contrast, encouraged followers to indulge in unreflective, spontaneous behavior: vilify immigrants; rail against crowded cities; claim that the routes were determined by “special interests.” As rituals of emotional catharsis, these outbursts may well have provided momentary relief, but at a high cost: the problem remained. Whatever energy that could have sustained a project of real reform had been uselessly dissipated. “Under the guise of a protest against the oppressive situation,” Lowenthal and Guterman explained, “the agitator binds his audience to it.” Instead of being dismantled, the conditions that needed to be changed were only reinforced. According to Prophets and in keeping with Horkheimer’s program of critical theory, then, the agitator’s platform was not only normatively objectionable but also inherently irrational. Demanding that foreigners speak English might make some passengers feel better, but it would not make the bus less crowded.:hmm
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Content analysis showed that this humiliation was a key component of the agitator’s material, but the method could not explain why such an apparently counterintuitive technique worked. Turning to psychoanalysis, Lowenthal and Guterman argued that, even as he labeled them “eternal dupes,” the agitator validated his followers’ self-identification as society’s misunderstood and forgotten. Through this constant refrain, the agitator transformed humiliation into a badge of masochistic honor and perceived alienation into a source of identity. What is more, by reinforcing what his audience already—if unreflectively—believed about themselves, the agitator seemed to offer a kind of cynical honesty: they may be suckers, but at least they know it.
What about those who oppose the agitator? For him and his followers, there are no opponents—only enemies. Lowenthal and Guterman explore this conceit through careful study of the agitator’s ability to create a spiraling series of representations. From specific accusations against suspected communists the agitator turned to vague but emphatic claims that violent revolution was imminent; that communism was the “‘RED THREAD’” tying together journalism, global politics, international business, European courts, and the Catholic Church; and, finally, that communism was nothing but a “‘front’” for still-more-nefarious cabals. The agitator’s accusations became so nonspecific that they merged, enabling him to sermonize against the demonic “Communist Banker” who threatened all freedom-loving Americans. This composite was suited to the agitator’s purpose: by depicting enemies as at once strong and weak, cunning and unintelligent, disguised and identifiable, eternal and doomed, pulling the strings and yet never in power, this image convinced the agitator’s adherents that all who opposed them deserved punishment—and, moreover, that these enemies had it coming.
Over and over again—at rallies, on the radio, and in print—the agitator’s audience took this message in. To some observers, the agitator seemed to cast a spell over his audience, to manipulate them with mass hypnosis. Lowenthal, Guterman, and their Frankfurt School colleagues understood the process differently: their analysis showed that the repetition of images and slogans wore down the listeners’ psychological defenses. Beginning with his first offer of temporary emotional relief from social malaise, the agitator encouraged his listeners to set aside autonomous, logical, evidence-based thought; he invited his followers into the realm of hostility, paranoia, and irrationality. Having undermined rational faculties from within, the agitator proceeded to impose an alternate reality of his own making, a world split by the existential distinction between friend and enemy, survival and death, strength and weakness. Whenever the agitator spoke, his followers heard the same message: “The world is an arena of a grim struggle for survival. You might as well get your share of the gravy.”
In exchange for loyalty and submission, the agitator’s adherents were promised protection, guidance, and, especially, revenge. Soon, he continually assured his followers, government institutions and state power would be turned on the movement’s enemies: foreigners, immigrants, refugees, dissidents, and, especially, Jews. But this promise was only superficially political. At its core, the pledge addressed the malaise of the audience. The agitator never promised his followers direct access to power. Instead, they were to remain perpetual “watchdogs of order,” thrown the bone of witnessing the humiliation, degradation, and persecution of those outside the movement. Although there would be no real change—no resolution the problems behind social malaise—this violence would be “great fun.”
https://twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/1482047697699938313
This seems rather excessive.
Would sharing this about the original way the flag was saluted be "unpatriotic commentary"?
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https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1482017236076445702
fight fight :punchMarch 20th, 2020(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JbCXIAgnZBJ?format=png&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JcPXIAQVPwB?format=png&name=900x900)[close]
imagine championing dropping vaccine requirements.
jfc
What next? My social security card to prove I'm a citizen?Well that would be dumb, because permanent residents have social security numbers even if they're not citizens.
Clinton got hacked again.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1482035323853066245
https://youtu.be/0MzctOaJZS0
:rejoice Tulsi
So held Judge C. Darnell Jones II yesterday in Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia (E.D. Pa.). He concluded plaintiffs lacked standing to change such a government declaration:(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2G2GdnWYAARlhP?format=jpg&name=small)QuoteJust because a plaintiff disagrees with the Government's actions, however, does not equate to discriminatory treatment…. Plaintiffs fail to identify any discriminatory impact they have personally experienced from Executive Order 2-21…. Plaintiffs fail to explain, and this Court fails to see, how they have been personally impacted and harmed through the renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' day.He went on to say that in any event government speech of this sort doesn't violate Equal Protection Clause rights:QuoteBecause Executive Order 2-21 constitutes government speech, Plaintiffs, even if they had standing, could not bring a successful Equal Protection violation. The Third Circuit has held that, "[t]he Equal Protection Clause does not apply to government speech." Fields v. Speaker of Pa. H.R. (3d Cir. 2019). This is because "private citizens have no personal interest in government speech on which to base an equal protection claim."And he added:QuoteHere, Plaintiffs have failed to state any discriminatory impact they have personally experienced from the renaming of Columbus Day. As previously explained at length, Plaintiffs cannot claim that they have been prevented from celebrating either Christopher Columbus or Italian American heritage with the renaming of the holiday, and Plaintiffs can still, personally, refer to the holiday as Columbus Day. Though Plaintiffs allege that Defendants' renaming of Columbus Day wipes away recognition of Italian Americans in favor of Indigenous People, they fail to state any discriminatory impact that supports such a conclusion. Put simply, Plaintiffs do not provide this Court with any details as to how their lives have changed because of the renaming of the holiday. Without such proof, any Equal Protection allegation is futile.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-subway-riders-only-have-perception-of-fear/?utm_source=reddit.comSuch a weird event and the exact same thing happened in Brussels on the same day.
LOL
A woman was just pushed to her death in front of a train by a homeless man with a rap sheet longer than his arm in and out of hospitals and you want us to feel safe around these nutters?
LMFAOWell, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
LMFAOWell, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.
So why the fuck are you a Republican? This is the god your kind worship and the idiot that is going to be the next Republican presidential candidate.LMFAOWell, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.
I'm laughing at him. He's not my hero.
So why the fuck are you a Republican? This is the god your kind worship and the idiot that is going to be the next Republican presidential candidate.LMFAOWell, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.
I'm laughing at him. He's not my hero.
Fundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)QuoteFundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1482853533028216835 (https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1482853533028216835)
They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.
By all means vote for the sequel 8)https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)QuoteFundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps
What's the other option? Go to the Democrats? :lol There's only two viable mainstream options as a politician: red or blue. It's how the country works. Virginia governor distanced himself from Trump and won.
By all means vote for the sequel 8)https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)QuoteFundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps
What's the other option? Go to the Democrats? :lol There's only two viable mainstream options as a politician: red or blue. It's how the country works. Virginia governor distanced himself from Trump and won.
You're so dumb.
Wishing you voted for someone after admitting you didn't vote.
In early 2021, Democratic strength reached levels not seen in nearly a decade. By the third quarter, those Democratic gains evaporated as Biden's job approval declined. The political winds continued to become more favorable to Republicans in the fourth quarter, giving the GOP an advantage over Democrats larger than any they had achieved in more than 25 years
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day
You're in a US politics thread injecting your ideas on what I should do and how I should feel in my own country. Fuck off.
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day
You're in a US politics thread injecting your ideas on what I should do and how I should feel in my own country. Fuck off.spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2018/07/screen_shot_2018-07-18_at_11.26.17_am.png)[close]
Wait, himu has a maga hat? :dead
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https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1482787370994913281
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https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1482787370994913281
https://twitter.com/MenAreWomenNow/status/1482829043116433410
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If California is ever going to achieve true equity, the state must require parents to give away their children.
Today’s Californians often hold up equity — the idea of a just society completely free from bias — as our greatest value. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he makes decisions through “an equity lens.” Institutions from dance ensembles to tech companies have publicly pledged themselves to equity, along with diversity and inclusion.
But their promises of newly equitable systems are no match for the power of parents.
Fathers and mothers with greater wealth, education or other resources are more likely to transfer these advantages to their children, compounding privilege over generations. As a result, children of less advantaged parents face an uphill struggle, social mobility has stalled and democracy has been corrupted. More Californians are giving up on the dream; a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll found declining belief in the notion that you can get ahead through hard work.
My solution is simple, and while we wait for the legislation to pass, we can act now: The rich should give their children to the poor, and the poor should give their children to the rich. Homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors.
Now, I recognize that some naysayers, hopelessly attached to their privilege, will dismiss such a policy as ghastly, even totalitarian. But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today’s most common political obsessions.
Perhaps such coercion sounds dystopian. But just imagine the solidarity that universal orphanhood would create. Wouldn’t children, raised in one system, find it easier to collaborate on climate change and other global problems?
Now, I don’t expect universal support for universal orphanhood. A few contrarians, lost in the empty chasm between American extremes, might object to this rational proposal on emotional grounds. They might argue that pursuing your own conception of family is fundamental to freedom. Or that our differences and biases, for all the damage they can do, also give human life much of its meaning.
They also may suggest that people don’t really want to start or finish at the same point in life. They may even say that what we really desire is what the title orphan of the musical “Annie” insisted upon: “I didn’t want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special.”
But you shouldn’t pay those critics any mind. Because they just can’t see how our relentless pursuit of equity might birth a brave new world.
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482505700769206278
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482506460810690562
why do so many journalists (and ones with law degrees like this dude) tweet things like this :awesome
sorry about your art Himu:
https://twitter.com/LeighWolf/status/1482410875759775748
How is the NH Libertarian Party "my party"? I've never voted for or supported the national Libertarian Party let alone the NH one.benji lore :tocry
https://twitter.com/EvanDonovan/status/1483431595470110726
:american Thank you Florida :american
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Tuesday that she has raised $21.6 million since launching her gubernatorial campaign in mid-August, a hefty haul establishing her as the front-runner in the race’s Democratic primary.
Hochul’s campaign said it is going forward with $21.3 million in the bank and touted its five-month haul as “record-setting.” The campaign also drew donations from every one of New York’s 62 counties.
The fundraising haul underscores Hochul’s edge in the primary, which pits her against New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Rep. Thomas Suozzi, who represents a district in Long Island. Already, her campaign prowess is believed to have helped nudge state Attorney General Letitia James (D) out of the race and kept New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on the sidelines.
Williams and Suozzi have not yet publicly disclosed their fundraising, but an adviser for Suozzi told The New York Times that he had taken in more than $3 million since launching his campaign in November and transferred another $2 million from his congressional campaign account.
ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the Democratic primary for governor of New York has grown to over 30 points beyond her nearest challenger now that state Attorney General Letitia James has dropped out of the race, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
New York’s first female governor captured the support of 46 percent of Democratic voters when asked in a Siena College survey who they would vote for if the primary election – scheduled for June 2022 – was held today.
That places her 34 points ahead of second place challenger, former Mayor Bill de Blasio – who hasn’t even officially announced his candidacy. He netted 12 percent in response to the same question.
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams received 11 percent, followed by Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi, trailing with six percent.
Meanwhile, Hochul’s biggest support demographic comes from upstate, with 65 percent of primary voters backing her campaign.
Not one challenger – de Blasio, Williams or Suozzi – broke double digits in upstate.
The governor’s favorability among all voters stands at 45 percent compared to 29 percent of voters who have an unfavorable opinion of her and 25 percent who said they either don’t know or have no opinion.
It’s even higher among Democrats – 60 percent view her favorably, compared to 19 percent who said they have an unfavorable opinion of her.
Republican Candidates
Rob Astorino, Westchester County executive (2010–2017) and gubernatorial nominee in 2014[81][82]
Mike Carpinelli, Lewis County sheriff[83][84]
Derrick Gibson, contractor and podcast host[78][84]
Andrew Giuliani, Former special assistant to the President and Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison during the Trump administration, Newsmax TV contributor, and son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani[85][76]
Lee Zeldin, U.S. representative for NY-01 (2015–present)[86][87]
Over my dead body.You better go upstate. :lol
But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
Over my dead body.You better go upstate. :lol
But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
Please keep track of how many people you manage to sway.
Ok so keep track of how many people you manage to sway from dem to republican in this city
Republicans should sway the Chinese like how Republicans managed to capture Cuban Americans after the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Cuban Americans in Florida flipped from to R and helped Bush win the Presidency.Cuban Americans have always been more Republican, they prefer it because it's more anti-Communist in rhetoric. They didn't switch parties because of Eilan, they've been trending more D this century. Florida was mostly a GOP state at the Presidential level since Eisenhower, yet Obama won it both times in part because Cuban Americans voted for him.
Republicans should sway the Chinese like how Republicans managed to capture Cuban Americans after the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Cuban Americans in Florida flipped from to R and helped Bush win the Presidency.Cuban Americans have always been more Republican, they prefer it because it's more anti-Communist in rhetoric. They didn't switch parties because of Eilan, they've been trending more D this century. Florida was mostly a GOP state at the Presidential level since Eisenhower, yet Obama won it both times in part because Cuban Americans voted for him.
Himu, I know you can't help but label everything and everyone, but don't assume that I care for either party and relax with the insults.
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
:lucas :sheik :point :ohyouOver my dead body.You better go upstate. :lol
But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.:lucas :sheik :point :ohyouOver my dead body.You better go upstate. :lol
But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
I can't/won't dispute the polling in that piece that Cuban Americans may have bounced back to the Republicans after shifting towards Clinton in 1996 (and then as the piece notes they still favored Dole) because of Eilan, I'm just saying that Cuban Americans were always pretty Republican before that. The second wave of Cuban immigration from the island is what shifted them to being even competitive in the first place, before that they were far far more Republican. (Although much smaller in number.) Florida was also a pretty Republican state for President outside of the Cuban Americans, Reagan got like 70% of the vote for example.
This century, Cuban Americans liked W. and Obama and apparently Trump too. But then so did lots of Americans. I wouldn't chalk their difference from the rest of the Latinx being due to lingering effects of Eilan but due to being more middle class, something they've pretty much been since the 1950's even if the accusations that they're all the old rich from the island are demonstrably not true.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.
The Senate Education Committee approved the bill that takes aim at critical race theory — though it doesn’t mention it explicitly — on party lines, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.
Democrats argued the bill isn’t needed, would lead to frivolous lawsuits and said it would amount to censorship in schools. They asked, without success, for real-life examples of teachers or businesses telling students or employees that they are racist because of their race.
“This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race. This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who is Black. “At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened or are you going to say we must talk about history?”
The bill reads in part, “An individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”:american
The bill is called “Individual Freedom.” Republican Sen. Manny Diaz, its sponsor, said it is not about ignoring the “dark” parts of American history, but rather ensuring that people are not blamed for sins of the past.
“No individual is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by the virtue of his or her race or sex,” Garcia said. “No race is inherently superior to another race.”
Jones said DeSantis is playing to his conservative base by pushing the legislation, but wouldn’t go so far as to say DeSantis himself is racist.
“The governor will continue to go across the country with his racist rhetoric on critical race theory ... It’s a problem that doesn’t exist,” Jones said. “I think the governor’s policies that he continues to push are racist.”
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
Here you go Himu:Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voterThe Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
Republicans should sway the ChineseI don't think the Republican line on China is achieving this.
Republicans should sway the ChineseI don't think the Republican line on China is achieving this.
Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?
Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.
Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?
LOL. I've visited there three times, including New York twice. My partner has family in Chicago and San Francisco. I've also extensively visited Central America and Europe and Asia. How many places your ignorant arse been, huh?Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.
You really are that fucking dumb, huh?
How long until you drop this heel turn and go along some other manic detour?
Diaspora don't generally hate their home country, and they probably don't like it when a nontrivial amount of politicians in their new country Other them by complaining about them invading the universities, make up stories about biological warfare, and start beating a war drum because their country can suddenly make good cell phones.
You seem to think with a identitarian glitz as if identity rules the world. Identity is nice, but you know what's nicer? Opportunity. Who gives a fuck if Republicans are wah wah about China if they have policies that benefit Chinese-Americans. What solutions do you have to help Chinese-Americans? Oh. That's right. Only their identity matters to you as is the typical progressive guideline.No, I'm just saying that the Chinese people I know are proud of their culture and heritage, generally have good opinions about China, and didn't really like the wave of random racist attacks on asian people in SF and NYC, or the China virus shit.
Hmmm, racism versus empty sayings. Only two options. If the Democrats aren't doing shit, what are the only options? Ohhhhhh, it's the fucking Republicans. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Basic warfare.I mean... yeah? Why would you vote for the racists if at worst the Dems just "aren't doing anything"? How is that rational at all
We'll see I guess... but the polling doesn't support what you're saying. It's like when they say black people will start voting R... I mean maybe but you've got the fucking neonazi shit as the first obstacleWhat are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1483143852106170368
:teehee
Well, at least I've been out of my own country multiple times. How about you?Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?
LOL. I've visited there three times, including New York twice. My partner has family in Chicago and San Francisco. I've also extensively visited Central America and Europe and Asia. How many places your ignorant arse been, huh?Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.
You really are that fucking dumb, huh?
How long until you drop this heel turn and go along some other manic detour?
Oh wow. You've visited. Whoopee doo. And this gives you expertise to speak on my country as if I give a fuck. Just like you don't give a fuck when I call your country a bunch of authoritarians.
We'll see I guess... but the polling doesn't support what you're saying. It's like when they say black people will start voting R... I mean maybe but you've got the fucking neonazi shit as the first obstacleWhat are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?they don't have to vote, I'd understand it if they need a little more sumpin to get them to pull a lever. I didn't try to save newsom in the recall for instance. I'm just saying it's insane to flip to the other side because you're tired of your party jerking you around. It feels insane to me
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?they don't have to vote, I'd understand it if they need a little more sumpin to get them to pull a lever. I didn't try to save newsom in the recall for instance. I'm just saying it's insane to flip to the other side because you're tired of your party jerking you around. It feels insane to me
Polling doesn't reflect what I'm saying?I don't have anything about New York but here's a couple of months ago in Virginia
Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.we're just a couple of chucklefucks on a forum, I don't have to have a whole political platform posted in plain sight for everyone. and I'm not sure you ever asked me this. And furthermore I need to cook dinner and I've already wasted a bunch of time on this so I don't feel like writing out a whole thing about it, nor do I appreciate you basically calling me a limp dick on something that's been a pet issue of mine for years.
Liberalism.
Doesn't.
Work.
A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail?
Ah so it's VOTE!!! VOTE RIGHTS!!! until they want to vote for the opposite party.actually I support voting rights for everyone except you specifically
Shosta there's only one way out of this and you know it: abolish the two party system.I've said this in the past
You act like people vote Democrat agreeing with every single thingno I don't, where have I said this? Do you even know who I am?
Yet the most racist people I've met in my life white libtards.ok candace
Our President spoke at a Klansman's funeral.joe biden is probably racist but you are being extraordinarily dense
A better future is possible.Please don't post left-wing Democratic propaganda in this thread. Thank you.
Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1483637209991303168
Liberalism.
Doesn't.
Work.
A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail? The scrunch of a lifted nose?
Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1483637209991303168
Liberalism.
Doesn't.
Work.
A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail? The scrunch of a lifted nose?
:teehee
Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.well that escalated
Quote from: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/01/15/utah-leaders-have/Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.well that escalated
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1483171765626892292
Here you go Himu:Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voterThe Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
In short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.
Doesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.
Here you go Himu:Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voterThe Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-five-deadly-sins-of-the-leftQuoteIn short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.
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Working class gang stand upQuoteDoesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.
It's almost like the left are the negative Nancy's of politics. All finger wag, no optimism. They don't even have an American dream to sell. Oh there's optimism right. But only if you do what we say and think the way we think. They act like coercive bullies. All bark, all doom, all tears. Weakness distilled, like the hardest vodka made of their own transparent tears, drunk off the fat of their own Hope and Change.
US politics is like shin megami tensei where you have the law route and the chaos route but if you actually want to end up with what's best for humanity you have to do some specific quests like make sure you deliver 5 vials of baphomet essence to the scientists, gaslight both of your best friends into thinking you support each of their contradictory positions, and promise the teen girl you've been seeing in your dreams that her death will not be in vain
US politics is like shin megami tensei where you have the law route and the chaos route but if you actually want to end up with what's best for humanity you have to do some specific quests like make sure you deliver 5 vials of baphomet essence to the scientists, gaslight both of your best friends into thinking you support each of their contradictory positions, and promise the teen girl you've been seeing in your dreams that her death will not be in vain
As a seventh-generation freedom loving American and a descendant of U.S. slaves, the new code of political conduct should be, if we don't eat, then nobody eats, and may those who take from our plate choke on what they've stolen.
Here you go Himu:Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voterThe Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-five-deadly-sins-of-the-leftQuoteIn short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.
:)
Working class gang stand upQuoteDoesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.
It's almost like the left are the negative Nancy's of politics. All finger wag, no optimism. They don't even have an American dream to sell. Oh there's optimism right. But only if you do what we say and think the way we think. They act like coercive bullies. All bark, all doom, all tears. Weakness distilled, like the hardest vodka made of their own transparent tears, drunk off the fat of their own Hope and Change.
That's an interesting article, I definitely agree with some of his points - identity politics being a giant red herring for the left and an alienating factor for the struggling working class, in particular. But climate change issues and techno-pessimism are things I just cannot seem to shake off. Especially as more and more companies consolidate and innovation slows. I do enjoy my dystopian sci-fi and tech-pessimistic media, and being in a tech related industry can quickly deduce potential negatives/ease of exploitation from new tech being put to market (hell, 2 of the companies I worked for popped up in The Bore's #latestagecapitalism thread).
To me, the biggest issue with the left is their terrible messaging, and how Republicans take advantage of the most extreme left positions to scare the centrists (who may possibly be open to some sort of reform) and stifle any sort of positive change. I still have to keep in mind that places like RE and tankie-themed FB meme pages are a niche of a niche, mainly consisting of zoomers with lots of ambition and pipe dreams but limited real world experience...
"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against former President Donald Trump and refused to block the National Archives from sharing documents from his time in the White House with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The high court's decision came as a one-paragraph order and was unsigned. Justice Clarence Thomas, nominated by former President Ronald Reagan, was the lone justice signaling that he would have granted Trump's request, which is based on the argument that the records are protected by executive privilege. President Joe Biden has supported their release.
They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midtermsThe President's party has lost in the House and Senate in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018.
https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1484163150484316168
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1484140125223374852
Also funny how this group is inflicting its agenda in politics beyond abortion rights. Reminds me of...NRA. Hmmm.https://twitter.com/rorycooper/status/1483816051917869058
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)spoiler (click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/08MamaKitti08/status/1484187212455546886
https://twitter.com/TruthJusticeUS1/status/1484147346485227520
https://twitter.com/KiranKat4/status/1484158795744002054
https://twitter.com/Traceyszostek4/status/1484184602772180992
https://twitter.com/uplight2k/status/1484185005085626373[close]
Himu, I love you buddy - but what does the Republican party offer you besides a slight respite from the particularly annoying grievance politics from the Democratic party? There's a lot to criticize with the left, especially their handling of sensitive issues regarding race and identity... But what do the Republicans do for you? Is it largely their stance on vax freedom?
this thread has been completely consumed by himu becoming fully invested in lib-owning culture :mjcry
the two possibilities are
1) as the lorax prophesied, life returns to this barren wasteland and people who used this forum who dared not tread into nintex-space slowly come back
2) only benji posts tweets until he realizes nobody else is commenting and he peaces out
I suppose the next election will be the proving ground
Thanks Himu, I want to write a detailed response, but non-shitposting is rare for me on TheBore and I have a few things I need to take care of. Will write soon. I appreciate you delineating your thoughts.
https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1478469016960262147https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1484246576725962753
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-stirs-up-illegitimate-election-fracasThis is fake news, Biden was clear:Quote"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.
For the past twenty one years the Democratic party has labeled Republican wins as "illegitimate". They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms and this is how they steel their already primordial scared base with the news early: by preparing an election fraud tale. They'll argue the wave against them and their do nothing politics will be erroneous and false.
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1483931218810970112
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-stirs-up-illegitimate-election-fracasThis is fake news:Quote"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.
For the past twenty one years the Democratic party has labeled Republican wins as "illegitimate". They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms and this is how they steel their already primordial scared base with the news early: by preparing an election fraud tale. They'll argue the wave against them and their do nothing politics will be erroneous and false.
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1483931218810970112
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1484166810077483009
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1484241290564972546
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/
this thread has been completely consumed by himu becoming fully invested in lib-owning culture :mjcrynonsense
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:This is also fake news:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:This is also fake news:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1484223895297089539
I don't doubt that this is still potentially an issue, but this is from a speech from 10 years ago, at the time citing data from 16 years agohttps://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-absentee-id-law-has-outsized-impact-on-black-and-metro-voters/ZFAZVG46EZEL5MUICUQI6SHQ44/
We asked voters which of three voting reform ideas should be “the top priority” for Congress to pass: reforming Congress’ role in counting Electoral College votes, expanding voting access in federal elections or expanding oversight of states’ changes to voting practices. “None of the above” (32%) beat out all of them.
It's no big deal to disenfranchise tax payers if they don't have a driving license, but I will LOSE MY SHIT AT THE SUGGESTION OF CHECKING MY VACCINATION STATUS TO EAT AT APPLEBEES
But thanks for the fish, foreigner.fact check, the vast majority of seafood in the US is imported from Asian sources.
You spent a lot of time in the past talking about how the Democratic party takes black voters for granted. Well over half of black voters think voter suppression laws are a problem. Should the Democratic party be listening to them or not?
We don't need to be dismissing or attacking other Bore members simply for being foreigners, they may make reasonable points worth responding to anyway. (The Tories in the UK are trying to require photo ID as well, although they are at least providing for it to be free.)
Except for the Canadians who are simply inhuman scum of the lowest order.
They know it won't pass. In what way does this help black Americans? We can already vote.7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.
I appreciate the respect. You are the first and only person on this forum to ask me one simple question: "why"? The rest merely judge, laugh, and finger point proving my thesis against liberals and particularly liberalism's deficiencies.
I don't doubt that this is still potentially an issue, but this is from a speech from 10 years ago, at the time citing data from 16 years agohttps://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-absentee-id-law-has-outsized-impact-on-black-and-metro-voters/ZFAZVG46EZEL5MUICUQI6SHQ44/
Based on the number of registered black voters in Georgia and this article, the new voter id law disenfranchises about 7% of black registered voters.
If the foreign riff raff that comes into American thread wouldn't be so judging of an American perspective, I'd give them respect. Since they offer none, all I give is spit. Nintex may not always agree but Nintex considers the American perspective.You're conflating your perspective for "the" American perspective, no one I have seen has criticized or judged America only you. Nintex is pro-MAGA but is also under the illusion that the Presidency operates like Dutch Parliament.
I think it's the opposite of placating. They're putting as much pressure as they can on two senators by creating a very public issue out of this and increasing the chances of them getting primaried.But not until 2024 and only in Sinema's case. If Manchin loses a primary or (more likely) retires, West Virginia will almost assuredly elect a Republican.
7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.Georgia does provide a free photo ID however.
I think it's the opposite of placating. They're putting as much pressure as they can on two senators by creating a very public issue out of this and increasing the chances of them getting primaried.They know it won't pass. In what way does this help black Americans? We can already vote.7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.
If the foreign riff raff that comes into American thread wouldn't be so judging of an American perspective, I'd give them respect. Since they offer none, all I give is spit. Nintex may not always agree but Nintex considers the American perspective.You're conflating your perspective for "the" American perspective, no one I have seen has criticized or judged America only you. Nintex is pro-MAGA but is also under the illusion that the Presidency operates like Dutch Parliament.
this is good data, thanks :likeMaybe. You could justify a lot of things in a vacuum. The truth though is that every law is passed in a definite historical context. New voter ID laws are being legislated because record absentee turnout during a pandemic (narrowly) helped Democrats. The North Carolina law was just struck down for targeting African Americans with "surgical precision".
I understand the logic that if voting is already quite secure and there's very little fraud that these steps aren't necessary, and it might not be so bad to err on the side of letting more people vote than fewer
but I also think maybe it's something that always should've been a requirement, it doesn't necessarily sound like an undue complication
something that potentially causes complication should come alongside something that can alleviate it, like a national election holiday
The Democrats know that they're likely to lose this fight. Democrats regularly overestimate their chances, whether it's turning Texas blue or beating Mitch McConnell. They falsely think they can take down Manchin and (likely) Sinema so this is Democrats' theatrical approach to show they "did something".I'm confused. Do you support the bill or not?
Democrats naively think more people support them and their agenda than they think.
But not until 2024 and only in Sinema's case. If Manchin loses a primary or (more likely) retires, West Virginia will almost assuredly elect a Republican.Ok, then maybe it drives up voter turnout in other places? I don't know. Symbolic votes cost nothing. There's generally only upside.
The Democrats know that they're likely to lose this fight. Democrats regularly overestimate their chances, whether it's turning Texas blue or beating Mitch McConnell. They falsely think they can take down Manchin and (likely) Sinema so this is Democrats' theatrical approach to show they "did something".I'm confused. Do you support the bill or not?
Democrats naively think more people support them and their agenda than they think.
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.I think you're simply ignorant of what's in this wave of voter id laws and I encourage you to educate yourself. I also think you're inclined to want the vote to fail because you just like seeing the libs getting owned now.
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.The bill and removing the filibuster are only related because the latter is needed to pass it. Sinema voted for the bill and for maintaining the filibuster.
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.I think you're simply ignorant of what's in this wave of voter id laws and I encourage you to educate yourself. I also think you're inclined to want the vote to fail because you just like seeing the libs getting owned now.
I'm seeing a lot of talk online like "as soon as the republicans are in power they will destroy the filibuster and do whatever they want!!" but likeOur country runs on a slim +1 or +2 seats majority for the past 10 years or so. Combined with heavy party discipline this means that the opposition can basically be ignored and that a lot of policies lack public support but are simply created from 'deals' made by the leading parties. You allow euthanasia without doctors consent, I give you some additional funding for defense, that sort of thing. In general this is not very healthy or sustainable for Democracy and it just further polarizes things.
they've maintained it this long for the same reasons the democrats have, because it's a useful tool for making sure the minority doesn't get steamrolled and laws don't wildly flip flop every 4-8 years
also, if they're not shortsighted they'd realize that trump can only have one more term and then the party has no frontrunner and no guarantees of maintaining power, meaning the now-dead filibuster could go on to benefit democrats in the following 8 years
Sinema and Manchin would play ball and would vote yes and they could use Kamala as a tie breaker but nope.They can't do that unless they get rid of the filibuster.
Sinema and Manchin would play ball and would vote yes and they could use Kamala as a tie breaker but nope.They can't do that unless they get rid of the filibuster.
This is nothing but a game to the D's and defies logic. Pass better legislation Americans care about.they tried. it was called BBB but the Senate is an undemocratic body and killed that too.
This is nothing but a game to the D's and defies logic. Pass better legislation Americans care about.they tried. it was called BBB but the Senate is an undemocratic body and killed that too.
White supremacist pro-MAGA shill chud Jake Tapper attacks democracy::titus
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1484274761890992129
https://twitter.com/zuchons/status/1484278096811503619
You understand why these bills have to be so big, right? Do you know how budget reconciliation works? Please read up on it.
There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that
It doesn't change that BBB, as much as it had some good in it, was a confusing sell to most people.they knew who they were voting for in 2020; Biden campaigned on climate change funding, infrastructure, paid parent leave, universal childcare, shit like that. The representatives know what's in a bill. That's how a republic works dude, everyone else is busy
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-build-back-better-americans-dont-know-opinion-poll/
Himu's premise is that there will be ten Republican votes for some of those separate things. Although the only things I've seen any Republican support for are the child credit and Electoral Count Act. Then again they did wind up with 69 votes on "infrastructure" in the end.There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that
Himu's premise is that there will be ten Republican votes for some of those separate things. Although the only things I've seen any Republican support for are the child credit and Electoral Count Act. Then again they did wind up with 69 votes on "infrastructure" in the end.There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that
Precisely. Infrastructure is one of Trump's major election promises. If the D's focused on solely that, and tried to get to get some R's on board it'd be a winner with a lot of Americans and would be a wonderful nest egg to sweep from the MAGA tent. As it is now, infrastructure is now back on the MAGA menu.??!? They already passed the maximum amount of infrastructure spending they could get Republicans to agree with. That was the whole point of the "clean infrastructure bill". They did it. After that, they wanted to pass the rest of their agenda. That people voted for.
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO. In a Politico poll voting rights is not on the minds of many Americans and if they are you are probably well fed.https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1483857086194884620
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO.Unemployment is extremely low to the point of labor shortages and lower quartile wage growth is so strong it's causing inflation (but even stronger growth and CapEx). the economy is really, really good
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO. In a Politico poll voting rights is not on the minds of many Americans and if they are you are probably well fed.https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1483857086194884620
https://twitter.com/are_selfies/status/1483874482737627139
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO.Unemployment is extremely low to the point of labor shortages and lower quartile wage growth is so strong it's causing inflation (but even stronger growth and CapEx). the economy is really, really good
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/01/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims_20.html?m=1Are you reading that graph correctly? Look at the dashed line.
Republicans can fall into hysteria and moralistic pontificating (Freedom Fries :crowdlaff) too but never as much as the Democrats whose entire platform is existential fear-based rhetoric.
https://youtu.be/jembutRKLe8(https://i.imgflip.com/625oq0.jpg)
Independent gang :rejoice
Republicans can fall into hysteria and moralistic pontificating (Freedom Fries :crowdlaff) too but never as much as the Democrats whose entire platform is existential fear-based rhetoric.
I'd argue that the majority of the Republican platform (aside from tax cuts for the rich/big corps) is riling up their constituents about existential "threats":
TURRISM!
MUSLIM PRESIDENT!
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
ANTIFA!
GAYS MARRYING!
TRANS BATHROOMS!
PEOPLE SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGES IN PUBLIC!
WHITE DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE!
WESTERN CULTURAL DECLINE!
SHARIAH LAW!
BENGHAZI!
STOLEN ELECTIONS!
CRITICAL RACE THEORY!
And moral grandstanding? The anti-abortion, pro-evangelical, "Christian nation" party has that on lockdown. I'd rather 100 SJWs tell me I'm a racist and a colonialist oppressor for failing to use the term Latinx than a single bible thumpin' evangelical giving me a sermon on why I'm going to hell for being a nonbeliever.
And while being chicken little doesn't help the problems, at least the Dems are worried about things that have actually caused death and destruction - covid deaths and extreme weather conditions due to climate change.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484222187942858753
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484533024628912129
what a strange man
CRT isn't taught to grade school students.
The vaccine can actually change the menstruation cycle for women mainly because it activates the immune system.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484222187942858753
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484533024628912129
what a strange man
Some anti-vaxxer dumbly think that the jab impacts reproduction, including sperm count.
Read this the other week.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nn87/unvaxxed-sperm-coin-spreading-covid-disinformation
President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
More Americans disapprove than approve of how Biden is handling his job as president, 56% to 43%. As of now, just 28% of Americans say they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, including only 48% of Democrats.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-curriculum-transparency-rcna12809https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1484573261967114247
This is good. So what.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-curriculum-transparency-rcna12809https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1484573261967114247
This is good. So what.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington today sent Donald Trump a letter to remind him that he will need to pay taxes on any money the Republican National Committee spends to cover his legal bills.:trumps
The RNC has reportedly agreed to cover up to $1.6 million in legal bills stemming from the New York investigations into Trump’s business practices, having already spent about $700,000. As these are Trump’s personal legal expenses arising from his personal businesses, any dollar the RNC spends on covering Trump is taxable income for him under the law.
“For years, Donald Trump has been looking to taxpayers, political supporters, and those seeking to curry favor with him to pay his bills, and this is one more example,” said CREW President Noah Bookbinder. “Trump is facing so many legal issues that it’s important he remembers that not paying taxes on this income could cause him to face even more.”
It may come as a surprise that Trump needs help covering his personal legal expenses, as he claims to be worth billions. Then again, his false claims about the value of his holdings are what brought about the investigations into his business practices in the first place.
We would hope that the former president does not need this reminder. After all, this is the man who said, “I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world. Nobody knows more about taxes.” Trump famously paid a $2 million fine after illegally using his tax-deductible foundation to pay his personal expenses, a scandal first exposed by CREW.
“Tax evasion is a serious crime–it’s what finally sent Al Capone to prison,” said Bookbinder. “Given the litany of laws Donald Trump has apparently violated, we thought it helpful to give him a reminder before he violates another one.”
CRT isn't taught to grade school students.
https://reason.com/2021/07/06/critical-race-theory-nea-taught-in-schools/
:what
The implication is that these critiques are aspects of critical race theory, which in a weird way makes this an example of the activist left basically accepting the activist right's new working definition of CRT as "all of the various cultural insanities.":foodcourt
Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”
Tema Okun and Robin DiAngelo do seem to have gotten many of their core ideas from a bad Tucker Carlson segment.
Are Republicans becoming the country’s majority party? Tantalizing new polling data from Gallup suggest they might. It could just be a blip, or it could be an early sign of an upheaval that would transform American politics.
That’s what makes the Gallup data so potentially Earth-shattering. Gallup found that partisan identification has shifted by a massive 14 points since early 2021. In the first quarter of 2021, 49 percent of Americans said they were Democrats — defined as solid partisans and Democratic-leaning independents — compared with only 40 percent who said they were Republicans. That lead shrunk in each quarter of the year. By the fourth quarter, the lead shifted to the GOP. As President Biden’s job approval dropped into the low 40s, 47 percent of Americans said they were Republicans compared with 42 percent who said they were Democrats.
Biden’s ultra-liberal ineptitude is giving Republicans another chance to prove they understand the real American dream. If they finally listen to what voters are telling them, 2022 and 2024 could bring about the most decisive realignment since the Great Depression.
To me it seems like people like the free exchange ideas in the modern GOP.
Personally, I would have registered republican by now if it weren't for the fact that my voter registration can be looked up online, and I'm afraid my boss or Co worker might see it.
I think a big part of the rise of the Republican party is a growing disfranchisement. it seems like the internet is creating a hegemony of a few only being able to speak without fear of losing your job or other things. this is going to create false sense of self-righteousness which will back fire at the democrats sooner or later. One of the most common reason I've heard from independents on why they don't vote republican is because they are waiting until they had enough.
It was my opinion that the election of Trump was a reaction to the media's coverage of him. He was a deeply flawed candidate that made many errors that should have sunk him. But the media exaggerated pretty much everything he did during the campaign and from prior.
* Trump calls Mexicans rapists (he said they were sending their rapists)
* Trump called for the execution of 5 innocent teens in 1989. (Trump said rapist should be made to suffer and killers should face execution)
* Trump admits sexual assault "grabbing women by the pussy". (Trump joked about how easy fame groupies are)
* etc etc
All of these actions were bad,
* Mexico isn't sending their rapists
* his ad was ignorant and a call for over the top authoritative response to crime
* referring to women with such disrespect should sink you
But the media exaggerated everything he did. Made him the victim. He went from being a bad guy to being "not as bad as they say".
It's my opinion that the same or a similar thing is happening here. I think the support for Republicans comes from a backlash to the media's coverage.
People can oppose blm riots or even their position that the police are racist without being a racist but that is how they are portrayed
Supporting stricter borders doesn't make you xenophobic but that is how they are portrayed.
Two years of questioning the validity of Trump was patriotic but questioning the validity of Biden is treason
Over and over there are stories of exaggerations and then protecting the democrats I'm most media. I could see this causing this Chang in numbers
monoculture
https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I
Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.
They've been threatening her for years.
https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ
Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.
https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I
Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.
They've been threatening her for years.
https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ
Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.
Didn't you claim to be a republican?
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I
Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.
They've been threatening her for years.
https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ
Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.
Didn't you claim to be a republican?
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454
Didn't you claim to be a republican?
I don't understand.
Simena is a centrist Dem, she doesn't claim to believe in any Republican or small c conservative ideals. You're sending money to a person that doesn't hold your positions. If she does, can you tell me what interests you?
Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I.didn't she start as a Green party activist?
Why are you saying it's about Sinema's "principles" when it's clear that these two groups (sinema and Republicans) have totally different principles, ideals and policy? The only thing they have in common is a mutual enemy, and yet you're willing to throw your support at them both.
and yet you're willing to throw your support at them both.
Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I.didn't she start as a Green party activist?
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955)
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034)
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747)
What an absolute disaster
himu wants to own the libs... pretty simple
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454
Didn't you claim to be a republican?
I don't understand.
Simena is a centrist Dem, she doesn't claim to believe in any Republican or small c conservative ideals. You're sending money to a person that doesn't hold your positions. If she does, can you tell me what interests you?
I think this completely typifies the difference in mindset we have. For you it's about party lines. I don't even fully agree with everything on the Republican platform. Up until now I was Independent. For Democrats and liberals, things are mostly about purity tests and think you have to fully agree with someone to support them. Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I. For Democrats, they think the "other side" is evil. Me, I just think liberals are wrong. However, Sinema has shown gumption to stick to her ideals and isn't about toppling well placed structures or reforming things just to get her way. She has principles. She doesn't skirt her party byline for sake of party. This must be rewarded as it is rare in a politician. As an Independent (although now Republican) I really support that. You have made a grave mistake in projecting your own vote habits on to me. I will gladly vote for or support a Democrat if I like them even if we don't agree on everything.
Colorado's governor is a Democrat and I'd gladly vote for him if I had the opportunity.
The fact she's a centrist Dem is precisely why I'm supporting her. She's not a hard L "liberal" either. Do you support her? She's closer to me than you.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kyrsten_sinema/412509
The fact she's a centrist Dem is precisely why I'm supporting her. She's not a hard L "liberal" either. Do you support her? She's closer to me than you.
Florida bill would ban talk of sexual orientation, gender identity in the classroom
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Building upon a framework created with 2021’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, Florida lawmakers have proposed a new piece of legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms for kindergarten through seventh grade.
Pandemic exploited to normalise mass surveillance, watchdog warns
AlgorithmWatch warns that a plethora of automated decision-making systems were implemented in haste under the guise of public health.
The results produced by AI “have been wildly overblown, subject to hype, and even exploited in dangerous, Cold War-style propaganda among conflicting superpowers,” Chiusi said.
“The trend long precedes the pandemic, and a public health emergency may be framed — and it has been — as the perfect excuse to justify — and even worse, normalize — widespread surveillance, especially in non-democratic contexts. What’s even more worrisome is how little this has been debated in democratic countries as well,” he told Al Jazeera.
2008 Republicans - Pro War, in the pocket of corporate interests, party of the rich
2008 Democrats - Anti war, in the pocket of labor unions, party of the working class
2022 Republicans - Anti war, party of the working class
2022 Democrats - Pro War, in the pocket of corporate interests and labor unions, party of the rich
We might be in the midst of a party system realignment.
The 1960s union Democrat voters are dying out, which means the Democrat party's base has become almost entirely socialists and urban grift recipients. The party's politicians are almost all political grifters who don't care as long as they maintain power.
The Republican party is internally divided between Bush era NeoCons and newer Trump supporters. The Trump faction sees the corruption throughout government. It's united by doing battle against the woke socialists; the Bush era GOP who just appease the socialists for a share of the grift are in their way. However, the Trump faction isn't sure how they want to govern once they get control; it ranges from "new guy, same as the old guy" to eliminating large swaths of government.
>shifting to more of a landscape of libertarianism vs “progressivism"
yeah that is my assessment, at least with voters
while I don't think the left is going to give any real power to pretend socialists like aoc and sanders, the right is in a bit of a civil war. their entire base is now trump style populist mixed with libertarians, but the party is controlled by McConnell and rinos. They are going to have to let trump or desantis be their candidate, and while those 2 aren't libertarians themselves, they have much more overlap with them than neocons and ally themselves with libertarian lite reps like rand paul. I really think our best move is forming a coalition with the populists and supporting the mises caucus to take power at the state level. The south is very into libertarianism now and we should be running republicans that want to do things like kill state income tax and legalize weed.
Trump/Desantis are not libertarians, but trump had many policies that were, like his successful tax cuts and isolationism. We are going to have to deal with policies like securing the border and blocking free trade. I honestly don't think open borders and tree trade are tenable until the issues they are causing are dealt with. Open borders are not beneficial with a welfare state and free trade isn't viable when you kill off domestic industry.
Libertarians are never going to win on their own, so we need to take over the republican party.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955)
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034)
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747)
What an absolute disaster
(https://i.imgur.com/JbEqaRp.gif)himu wants to own the libs... pretty simple
Liberals have codified a monoculture on society that is utterly inescapable. They own all culture. They've curated a culture so stifling that I need - need - to watch Fox News and go to conservative spaces to get away from it all, like a warm bath in the dark of winter. When you make a culture where you can't say anything, can't think anything, can't express anything fear of insults, reprisal, and outright dehumanization yeah, I want them owned. Very badly. I want them deplatformed and humbled. Yes, I want them owned and I am not ashamed to admit it.
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This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023
Isolationism is also dumb. There is no reason to seal yourself off from the world's benefits.
"Strength" or "weakness" as you're suggesting and as dominates discourse is nonsense. Trump does not represent the former and Biden does not represent the latter even under this nonsense theory. What is "strong" about Trump bashing China on Twitter and in campaign rallies because they pursue their own goals while then bending over backwards to excuse other authoritarians and then also excusing China? Jimmy Carter has long been considered "weak" on foreign policy because he initially pursued a policy that favored human rights and treaty negotiations over LBJ and Nixonian power politics before shifting towards another Washington Consensus. Yet, Nixon went to China and Reagan pursued arms treaties with the Soviets. Over the combined 28 years of JFK-LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Bush the United States betrayed more allies and shifted more sides than Jimmy Carter ever did. All of the former are "strong" while Carter is "weak" in the traditional picture. Bill Clinton was so afraid of appearing as "weak" that he intervened in more countries with force in his eight years than every President since Truman had combined.
There is no realignment involving libertarians rising to power within the Republican Party while the Republican Party rejects even its purported principles for pure power politics it perceives as necessary to preserve an America it hates for being "weak."
This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023
This appears to be a subtweet:Mussolini was put in power by the Italian Monarchy, army, landowners, industrialists, and the Catholic Church following a general strike and a time of instability.
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023
Mussolini was put in power by the Italian Monarchy, army, landowners, industrialists, and the Catholic Church following a general strike and a time of instability.This is not accurate, both Mussolini and Hitler acquired power by legal means after failing to do so by illegal means. (Which is why their cases remain relevant to democracies.) Mussolini's legal rise to power is generally inexplicable because he had no real base of support yet the majority of Parliament enacted the Acerbo Law anyway. Hitler's also legal rise to power is not, he was the head of the largest party by far, his alliance held a plurality in the Bundestag and his position against the Republic held a majority. (Also the outlawing of the opposition parties was done by Weimar law where the President had already been ruling by decree for some time. The Enabling Act after all operated on the technicality that it was removing power from the Presidency to the Parliament.)
They were so afraid of an imminent revolution led by Socialists or Communists that they put the Fascists in power instead.
So Brenan basically says that he is voting for Biden because he's afraid of Bernie Sanders and AOC.
Hitler and Mussolini weren't elected to power. They were appointed by the elite and only after being given their power did they legitimize it with a rigged election.
The claim that they won their victories based on public discontent is the big lie that everyone keeps spreading.
This happens throughout history, whenever the people revolt (or want to revolt) the elite put a pawn in power to control the masses.
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?
Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...
LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?
Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...
Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb? Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?
Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism
You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.
FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?
Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...
Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb? Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?
Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism
You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.
FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
I'm putting you on ignore. Your replies are nothing but incendiary nonsense and unecessary escalation. Enjoy your police state.LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?
Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...
Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb? Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?
Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism)
You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.
FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
Enjoy your police state.Says the guy who wears the MAGA hat. LOL
:deadI agree
https://twitter.com/Ella4the98th/status/1485437485132001280
Some Georgia senators were getting jealous of all the attention Florida gets:
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808
:thinkingSome Georgia senators were getting jealous of all the attention Florida gets:
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808 (https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808)
This is horrifically dumb. Measles vaccines for instance should be required for school entry.
Agreed with Obama there.
I greatly do not want war with Russia, a nuclear power. Or China, a similarly nuclear power. Having two Cold Wars on two fronts? No mas. Since they're neighbors they have reason to be allies in their want for power and might. Russia has eyes on Europe. China on Africa. I have no idea how we are going to get out of this.
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.
Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.
It is time for revolution
We whomp them with the Europe
Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia:existential
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.
Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.
It is time for revolution
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.So who do you think should lead that revolution?
Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.
It is time for revolution
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.
Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.
It is time for revolution
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.So who do you think should lead that revolution?
Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.
It is time for revolution
I don't think Trump fits the current mood, he's again an old man and when push came to shove often did the thing that was expected of him as opposed to the right thing or something that would really make a difference.
He also lacks a comprehensive set of policies or plan so even if Trump and Larry would be able to fix the economy (again) and ease tensions with Russia it is unlikely he would be able to achieve much beyond that in a single term.
I also think that the mood across the anglo-saxion sphere as the Russians so aptly put it, is the same. And US presidents have the ability to inspire and unite the free world beyond their borders (see JFK, Reagan and even Obama).
So Trump would either need a VP that inspires others or a team that makes it work.
"I just had a very intense experience being interrogated by the January 6 committee," Jones said on his podcast on Monday. "They were polite, but they were dogged."
"The questions were overall pretty reasonable," Jones said. "And I wanted to answer the questions, but at the same time, it's a good thing I didn't because I'm the type that tries to answer things correctly even though I don't know all the answers, and they can kind of claim that that's perjury because about half the questions I didn't know the answer to."
The committee acknowledged specifically that once at the Capitol, Jones told people "not to be violent" and to gather and wait for Trump to speak.
On his show, Jones said he tried to discourage people from entering the Capitol, but described containing the crowd as "mission impossible."
"We learned there were a bunch of people inside the Capitol," Jones said. "And that was so stupid and so dumb. I didn't support it that day and I don't support it now."
"Let's get something clear for the committee and my audience and everybody else: I don't want a civil war in this country and that's a terrible idea," Jones explained. "And I don't want lawlessness by anybody. And I don't want anybody attacking anybody, OK?":salute :info
Jones acknowledged that he uses rhetoric about fighting, but said that only applied to the information wars.
"InfoWar means we fight with information," Jones said, adding that it was a "non-violent war."
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1486048504028053504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfm4rqMd78
I still haven’t stopped shaking after last night’s attack. Standing at the White House podium, the president of the United States — the most powerful man in the world — launched a violent incursion against my friend Peter Doocy, the finest reporter in history. Doocy is a true professional — as good as they get. He is my brother, my friend, my colleague, my inspiration, my valentine, my muse. He is a light shining in the darkness, a petal of truth beneath a gloomy cloud of power, a luscious wave that breaks exquisitely onto the shore. Peter didn’t deserve to be called a “stupid son of a bitch.” Nobody in the media does. America is better than this. 👏 This. 👏 Is. 👏 Not. 👏 Normal.
👏 NOT 👏 NORMAL
👏
This morning, my eight-year-old daughter, Chrysanthemum, took off her gas mask and asked me why the president would say something like that to an American hero. I’m ashamed to admit that neither I nor her mother knew what to say. “This president said he’d restore honor and dignity to the White House,” Chrysanthemum said, looking up at us from her hyperbaric chamber. “But he’s attacking the free press, which is just doing its job. This is how we lose our democracy.” She’s so wise for her age. She has so much potential. This isn’t the world I want her to grow up in when she goes outside for the first time.
On the statue I helped removed from New York’s City Hall, there is a quote from the slaveowner Thomas Jefferson that has resonated with me ever since it became convenient to my side at 10 a.m. today: “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” Just think about that. Let it sink in. RT if you agree. Our liberty is at stake here.
#DontBrowbeatMyPete 🙏
I have studied the rise of Adolf Hitler. I know better than most how this happens. The first thing Hitler did after he came to power was call reporters “stupid sons of bitches” when they asked him about inflation. Twelve years later, the world was in ruins. We are closer than you think to that happening again. First, they came for Philip Wegmann. Then they came for Jacqui Heinrich. Now, with the defilement of Peter Doocy — peace be upon him — I fear we are running out of time. We must be brave. For Peter. For America. For the future.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1486048504028053504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfm4rqMd78
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1486050031169847300
:usacry
So, question for someone more "in the know" about more grassroots, local politics...
Is there anyone in the Dem party that has potential for being president-elect in a few years? I know they were trying to push Beto for a little while but he's got the stench of failure on him. I guess there's AOC but I worry she has limited appeal.
So, question for someone more "in the know" about more grassroots, local politics...
Is there anyone in the Dem party that has potential for being president-elect in a few years? I know they were trying to push Beto for a little while but he's got the stench of failure on him. I guess there's AOC but I worry she has limited appeal.
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop
no
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop
no
yeah
New plan, put AoC on the Supreme Court
Obama should come out as trans and be the nominee. Lets gooooooooooooooooooooo
https://mobile.twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1486398035135549442
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.because that worked out so well
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.because that worked out so well
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.because that worked out so well
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop
no
yeah
https://twitter.com/ryanfazio/status/1400291577482862601
Oh no I forgot my DRIVERS LICENSE on the way to the polls! :sabu
That's another thing. Every nicca worth their salt NEVER leaves their house without their ID. A cop stops you because they saw another dude with a black hoodie on? Sheit, you better have ID that says who you say you are. I was taught this as a teenager: never leave the house without proof of identification. But nope. Gotta bend over for people who can't get a gat damn ID and call it racism.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486431065153708042
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1486764426816589828MAGA!
:doge
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/1486780890080428032To be fair to Nikki it's getting pretty ridiculous at this point.
https://twitter.com/AzelfDaBoi/status/1485992791532621827(https://i.imgur.com/cu4yGiG.gif)
Biden calls Zelensky and says as soon as the ground is frozen the Russians will move in to sack Kyiv (according to CNN).Yes, this has been debunked:
Zelensky tells Biden he should calm down and that the peace talks are still ongoing.
He also updates Biden on the local weather as the ground has been frozen for weeks (according to Ukrainian sources).
And now the White House says CNN is FAKE NEWS
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486431065153708042
You just know Hillary desperately wants back in. She is already warming up. That is why she recently brushed off and delivered her 2016 election night “victory” speech. She began saying, “I’m going to face one of my most public defeats head-on by sharing with you the speech I had hoped to deliver if I had won the 2016 election. “
All she has to do is change “defeat” into “victory” and rework the rest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal health care system died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline.
The bill had to pass by midnight on Monday to have a chance at becoming law this year. Democrats needed 41 votes for that to happen, a threshold that did not seem impossible given that they control 56 of the 80 seats in the state Assembly and universal health care has long been a priority for the party.
But intense lobbying from business groups put pressure on more moderate Democrats, who face tough reelection campaigns this year in newly-redrawn districts. Plus, Democrats were missing four lawmakers from their caucus — including three of their more liberal members — who had resigned recently to take other jobs.
“Especially with four democratic vacancies in the Assembly, the votes were not there today, but we will not give up,” Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose and the bill's author, said in a news release.
Kalra's decision not to bring the bill up for a vote incensed his allies in the California Nurses Association, who have been pushing for this bill for years — including campaigning heavily for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2018 election. While Kalra had authored the bill and gotten it out of two legislative committees to reach the Assembly floor, the Nurses Association said in a statement they were “outraged that Kalra chose to just give up on patients across the state.”
Jeff Zucker resigned from CNN because of some connection with Cuomohttps://twitter.com/MattBelloni/status/1488928088847093763
Imagine being a democrat on the cusp of the corona demolition, and knowing that you won't have any single branch for the next twelve years.
Imagine being a democrat on the cusp of the corona demolition, and knowing that you won't have any single branch for the next twelve years.
Goddamit Bernie you fuckin commie you should have stood down against hilary!!
Covering Trump speeches is one thing, I remember them broadcasting Trump's plane sitting on the runway, an empty rally podium or just images of Trump tower with the chryon: "Waiting for Trump"he was. then he won and made the most of it :trumps
CNN and MSNBC were so fixated on Trump coverage that Fox News and other conservatives openly wondered if he was in fact working for the Democrats to disrupt the GOP primary.
In Lenin's own group there would've been infighting about a lack of diversity and representation.Because the Russian Revolution and Soviets were well known for the lack of infighting.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker and his paramour Allison Gollust had an inappropriately close friendship with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — personally calling him to do news segments with his brother Chris Cuomo and even coaching him on what to say during his infamous COVID briefings, The Post has learned.
Gollust and Zucker — the latter of whom dramatically quit CNN Wednesday after their affair was exposed — also gave Andrew Cuomo endless positive coverage because of their relationship, sources said.
“While those 11:30 a.m. daily briefings by Andrew were across every network, they boosted ratings in a poorly performing slot for CNN,” one source said.
According to a source to Cuomo, “Zucker and Gollust even advised Andrew what to say — how to respond and particularly how to hit back at [President Donald] Trump to make it more compelling TV.
“The first calls I got this morning were from four members of the January 6 committee, who felt devastated for our democracy, because Jeff was not going to be around to make sure that CNN is able to do its job,” she said (later clarifying to colleagues that she meant to say four congresspeople, including one member of the committee).
benji I'm sorry but his interpretation of the second amendment is non-cannonThis post is one of the few exceptions to the First Amendment.
A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Actcool cool cool
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The bill empowers every U.S. state or territory to create sweeping new Internet regulations, by stripping away the critical legal protections for websites and apps that currently prevent such a free-for-all—specifically, Section 230. The states will be allowed to pass whatever type of law they want to hold private companies liable, as long as they somehow relate their new rules to online child abuse.
The goal is to get states to pass laws that will punish companies when they deploy end-to-end encryption, or offer other encrypted services. This includes messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage, as well as web hosts like Amazon Web Services. We know that EARN IT aims to spread the use of tools to scan against law enforcement databases because the bill’s sponsors have said so. In a “Myths and Facts” document distributed by the bill’s proponents, it even names the government-approved software that they could mandate (PhotoDNA, a Microsoft program with an API that reports directly to law enforcement databases).
The document also attacks Amazon for not scanning enough of its content. Since Amazon is the home of Amazon Web Services, host of a huge number of websites, that implies the bill’s aim is to ensure that anything hosted online gets scanned.
Separately, the bill creates a 19-person federal commission, dominated by law enforcement agencies, which will lay out voluntary “best practices” for attacking the problem of online child abuse. Regardless of whether state legislatures take their lead from that commission, or from the bill’s sponsors themselves, we know where the road will end. Online service providers, even the smallest ones, will be compelled to scan user content, with government-approved software like PhotoDNA. If EARN IT supporters succeed in getting large platforms like Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services to scan, they might not even need to compel smaller websites—the government will already have access to the user data, through the platform.
A provision of the bill that purports to protect services using encryption (Section 5, Page 16) doesn’t come close to getting the job done. State prosecutors or private attorneys would be able to drag an online service provider into court over accusations that their users committed crimes, then use the fact that the service chose to use encryption as evidence against them—a strategy that’s specifically allowed under EARN IT.
In March of last year, Politico reported on the “secret sit-down” in Florida that Trump convened with four of the Trump-adulating Ohio candidates—including Mandel. “What ensued was a 15-minute backroom backbiting session reminiscent of Trump’s reality TV show [The Apprentice],” the report said.:rejoice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo
https://youtu.be/QAwSFr1hz6c (https://youtu.be/QAwSFr1hz6c)He also had polio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo)You don't have to vote Republican (or at all) to have conservative ideals. And even if he were a lefty, he'd still be a conspiratorial meathead who spreads nonsense.
Why post if you're just gonna be a baby when someone comments on it?
I can post that you are a dumb biaaaaatch if that makes you feel better.Alright, have fun being asshurt then.
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White people exposing other shitty white people in defense of Joe Rogan is so weird to me. Fuck them all.
https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1490032451372023809
Last August, in the midst of a presidential battle that would determine the future of America, an upstart liberal group called MeidasTouch sent its supporters an urgent call to action. “Tonight is a huge night,” MeidasTouch declared on Twitter. “We are giving half of our contributions directly and immediately to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We are proud to have already chipped in 25K to their campaign. RT and chip in here.”
For MeidasTouch, the pro-Biden blitz was part of a rapidly expanding political action committee that turned viral tweets and posts into campaign contributions. Founded by three brothers, the group says it has generated more than a billion views on social media, mocking and humiliating Trump and his enablers. Crowd favorites included “Creepy Trump,” “Bye Ivanka,” and “Bye Don Jr: Love Me, Daddy!” Its podcast has become a popular destination on the anti-Trump circuit, with recent guests including Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Ted Lieu, and Mary Trump, the former president’s estranged niece. All this exposure translated into more than $5 million in contributions from #Resistance donors desperate to oust Trump and his Republican collaborators.
The three brothers who founded MeidasTouch sell themselves as the progressive breakout success of the 2020 election cycle, weaving a narrative of a start-from-scratch operation that — thanks to a gift for creating viral anti-Trump videos and a unique understanding of the digital tides — rapidly blossomed into a behemoth of Democratic politics. “We’ve become the most recognizable and impactful brand name in progressive politics in the 30 days since we launched,” Ben Meiselas, the eldest brother, told Adweek in June. They aren’t, per their own telling, just the top brand, they’re also pioneers of a radical transparency model that the notoriously opaque world of Super PACs could stand to learn from. “I knew that PACs in general, political action committees, have a reputation about them,” Meiselas said on a recent MeidasTouch podcast. “And I wanted this to be so different from every other PAC, starting with the fact that me, who works for this every day, doesn’t get paid. But, two, to have the most ridiculous amount of transparency possible.”
But the full story of MeidasTouch is more complicated. The group spent more than $1 million on an advertising strategy that it calls revolutionary but campaign veterans and independent experts say is nonsensical and a more effective tool for fundraising than for helping Democrats win elections. And despite its promised transparency, MeidasTouch’s financial structure makes a dollar-for-dollar accounting of its spending impossible — and, according to a former Federal Election Commission attorney, raises some of the same legal issues that got the Trump campaign into trouble in 2020.
It’s not hard to find examples of how MeidasTouch’s grandiose self-promotion doesn’t match reality. Take, for example, the fundraising plea blasted out last August. The Super PAC, per its own disclosure forms, didn’t donate $25,000 to the Biden campaign — and indeed, a direct donation from MeidasTouch to Biden would have violated campaign-finance laws. Instead, the donations came from people who clicked on an embedded link in Meidas’ tweet and were given the option to split their donation between the Biden campaign and the Super PAC. Donors gave $31,623 to the Biden campaign, and MeidasTouch received nearly $30,000.
“It’s extremely misleading,” says Adav Noti, chief of staff at the Campaign Legal Center and a former associate general counsel at the Federal Election Commission. “It’s not just PACs who do it. The Trump campaign did it ad nauseam. They did it so much it started not working anymore, which is hard to do. It’s obviously misleading.”
The three brothers behind MeidasTouch don’t see any gray area around their efforts. With a “numbers-don’t-lie” approach, the Meiselas brothers point to their prodigious online success. MeidasTouch has created more than 500 political videos “for fractions of pennies on the dollar,” which it says have racked up more than 1 billion views across all social media platforms. It touts the hundreds of hashtags it created, such as #DiaperDon, that it says were top U.S. and global Twitter trends. It has legions of devoted followers who call themselves the #MeidasMighty. The brothers host a podcast that one recently called “the top new news podcast in the world.” And when Democrats emerge victorious, Meidas’ founders aren’t shy about claiming credit. “We accomplished exactly what we set out to with Biden’s victory and now control of the Senate with the wins in Georgia,” Brett Meiselas, an Emmy Award-winning digital editor who is the PAC’s creative engine, told Rolling Stone in January. “The Meidas Mighty are one of the most powerful forces in politics!” he tweeted in April.
But experts and fellow political operatives questioned the connection between MeidasTouch’s success and Democrats’ victories, and when Rolling Stone began asking questions about how MeidasTouch spends its money, things got weird.
Given an opportunity to respond to Rolling Stone’s reporting and inquiries, the brothers leveraged their social media muscle to promote a misinformation campaign full of bizarre conspiracy theories and online vitriol. They went after the credibility of the magazine and its reporter more than a week before this story was published online. MeidasTouch publicly threatened to sue Rolling Stone and privately threatened to sue someone who spoke to the magazine for this story — demanding the publication apologize and pay its legal costs.
It turns out, when someone dared to scrutinize these darlings of the anti-Trump movement, they responded a lot like, well, Donald Trump.
“There’s no way any message was getting across with [these buys]. None. Zero. Zip. It’s not possible,” says Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic political consultant who ran both Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and Doug Jones’ 2017 upset Senate win in Alabama. “We already know voters don’t remember anything at 300 points a week. You could buy 300 points a week, day in and day out, for 52 weeks and, at the end of it, no one would know what you’re talking about.”
Meidas argues its ads are special because they’re backed by a massive social media footprint and generated follow-up coverage. But according to David Shor, an influential Democratic data analyst, “The only people who engage with anti-Trump ads are liberals.” Moreover, when Priorities USA, a liberal Super PAC, studied whether Twitter virality could be used to measure how effective an ad would be at persuading swing-state voters, it found it wouldn’t work. “The better the ad did on Twitter, the less it persuaded battleground-state voters,” Nick Ahamed, Priorities’ analytics director, told the Daily Beast in December. “Our takeaway is that we, as political operatives or people online on Twitter a lot, aren’t necessarily a good judge of what is persuasive.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcLsow4lYo
A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.:american
Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”
Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.
“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
Broadly, there are more Republican women and Hispanics running for Congress than ever before, according to figures tracked by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. So far, more than 253 women and 228 people of color have filed to run as Republicans across the House map, the committee says. In the most important seats, roughly two dozen open and battleground districts, a leading GOP candidate is either a woman or a person of color.
It’s a stunning turnaround from the aftermath of the 2018 election, when the number of GOP women in the House dropped to just 13 and there was only one Black Republican in the chamber. When Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) sounded the alarm, she sparred with the NRCC over whether the party ought to intervene in primary contests to fix the disparity. There is no such discord heading into 2022.
McCarthy has thrown his weight into races earlier than in the past, with plans to make diversifying the party a priority by opening up donor pools to star candidates and helping them clear primary fields.
McCarthy "wants to show that our district and myself as a candidate are welcomed into the Republican Party, and they're excited to have a Hispanic, female, Republican, small-business owner bilingual that lives on the border, that shares the conservative values,” said Monica De La Cruz, a McCarthy-backed candidate running in South Texas. “I feel that he has expressed to me that I'm a good voice for the Republican Party.”
In Michigan, McCarthy took special interest in courting James, who lost successive Senate bids in 2018 and 2020, falling by less than 2 points in the last election. McCarthy’s top competition was the Republican Governors Association, which was urging James to make another statewide bid, this time against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Aware that James had seen polling of the governor’s race, CLF strategists decided to commission some surveys of their own. They polled multiple scenarios throughout 2021, trying to prove to James he had a better chance of winning a House seat than a statewide race. The polls included matchups in current districts, potential new districts and head-to-head battles with three possible Democratic incumbents he could have faced: Democratic Reps. Andy Levin, Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin.
https://twitter.com/AdamShawNY/status/1491109056790286336
Male economists are freaking out over a NYT profile
A handful of prominent male economists, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, are freaking out — mostly on Twitter — about a weekend New York Times profile of economist Stephanie Kelton, known for her work on Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT.
Why it matters: This Twitter-based econ fight is about more than one economist. It's an argument over a natural economic experiment — the U.S. government spending unprecedented sums to keep the economy from free-falling during COVID.
And the gender dynamics — male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist, Times' reporter Jeanna Smialek, in ways distinctive from typical academic arguments — look terrible here.
“I am sorry to see the @nytimes taking MMT seriously as an intellectual movement. It is the equivalent of publicizing fad diets, quack cancer cures or creationist theories,” Summers tweeted.
Summers' tweet was criticized by some for being condescending and dismissive in its equating an economic idea with a quack cancer cure.
Noah Smith, a well-known economist and former Bloomberg columnist, wrote a Substack post calling the article "bad."
Other economists say that the merits of MMT are up for debate, but noted the criticisms of Smialek and Kelton got personal in ways atypical from how men's economic research is criticized.
For example, Smith, who does offer substantive criticisms, also calls the Times profile a "puff piece," noting that Smialek writes about Kelton's outfits
Economics is a predominantly white, male field, and women and people of color often face fierce resistance and hostility.
The NYT article on MMT, written by Jeanna Smialek, is mostly a puff piece about Stephanie Kelton, MMT’s most well-known proponent. In glowing tones, it describes Kelton’s clothes, her office, her house, her neighborhood, her blog, her manner of speaking, her personal story, and so on, calling her “the star architect of a movement that is on something of a victory lap”. Very little is written about the background of the macroeconomic policy debate, and what does appear is highly questionable:QuoteIn economics, there’s a school of thought sometimes called “freshwater.” It’s the set of ideas that became popular at inland universities in the 1970s, when they began to embrace rational markets and limited government intervention to fight recessions. There’s also “saltwater” thinking, an updated version of Keynesianism that argues that the government occasionally needs to jump-start the economy. It has traditionally been championed in the Ivy League and other top-ranked schools on the coasts.
You might call the school of thought Ms. Kelton is popularizing, from a bay that feeds into the East River, brackish economics.
The brief description of freshwater and saltwater economics is fine, but to describe MMT as being “brackish” — i.e., some sort of fusion of freshwater and saltwater, or a middle ground between the two — is absurd. MMT doesn’t take its inspirations from either of those schools of thought — its ideas (to the extent that such exist) are rooted in things like functional finance and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, which split off from the mainstream long before it divided into freshwater and saltwater. MMT doesn’t even use formalized mathematical models of the economy like freshwater and saltwater econ do (or like Post-Keynesian macro does), so it’s pretty impossible to compare these schools of thought. In terms of policy prescriptions, MMT is far, far more sanguine about government borrowing than either freshwater or saltwater.
The article then demonstrates that it has little notion of what separates MMT from mainstream thinking:QuoteM.M.T. theorists argue that society should feel capable of spending to achieve its goals to the extent that there are resources available to fulfill them. Deficit spending need not be constrained to recessions, even theoretically. Want to build a road? No problem, so long as you have asphalt and construction workers. Want to feed children free lunches? Also not a problem, so long as you have the food and the cafeteria workers.
In fact, this is also a feature of all freshwater and saltwater models of the economy. Those models deal only in real variables — asphalt and construction workers and food and cafeteria workers and so on. In fact, those models’ lack of attention to financial constraints of any kind is exactly why they failed to predict the Great Recession!
These passages — and the lack of any other engagement with non-MMT theories, research, or ideas — make it clear that Smialek’s main source on all of these topics was Kelton herself. She does briefly quote Jason Furman, a Harvard economist and former CEA chair under Obama:Quote“M.M.T. was already pretty marginal,” said Jason Furman, a Harvard economist, noting that, in his view, most policymakers and prominent academics ignored it already. Even if policy in the pandemic effectively embraced the idea that you do not have to pay for your spending, that idea, he said, was also Keynesian.
And the M.M.T crowd, while dismissing the Fed’s role, has not come up with a clear and obviously workable idea for how to stem inflation, he argued, adding, “If you were open-minded, this would discredit it still further.”
But even though Furman notes that Kelton did a bad job of characterizing the difference between MMT and Keynesian thinking, the NYT writer doesn’t follow up on this at all; she makes no effort to clarify where MMT actually does differ from other forms of economic thought. Nor does she quote any other macroeconomists.
This is important because any attempt to engage with the actual substance of MMT quickly finds that such substance is curiously lacking. MMT proponents almost always refuse to specify exactly how they think the economy works. They offer a package of policy prescriptions, but these prescriptions can only be learned by consulting the MMT proponents themselves. There is no model here — no set of equations or definite formal statements that a layperson could use to generate their own MMT policy prescriptions without appealing directly to the gurus.
Every economist who has attempted to engage seriously with MMT literature has concluded the same. When Drumetz Françoise and Pfister Christian of the Banque de France read Kelton’s book and tried to comprehend the essence of MMT, they concluded:QuoteOverall, it appears that MMT is based on an outdated approach to economics and that the meaning of MMT is a more that of a political manifesto than of a genuine economic theory…As Hartley (2020) notes, MMT “is not a falsifiable scientific theory: it is rather a political and moral statement by those who believe in the righteousness – and affordability – of unlimited government spending to achieve progressive ends”.
To most people, who correctly recognize that MMT is a set of political memes to push for more deficit spending, this inflation represented a reason to be less enthusiastic about MMT itself — we finally seemed to have reached our limits. Proponents of austerity and/or tighter monetary policy began to use “MMT” as shorthand for the policies the U.S. had already undertaken.
Of course, MMT proponents themselves didn’t see things that way. They did indeed attempt to take a victory lap. But this is always what they were going to do, no matter what! If Covid relief efforts hadn’t been sufficient to produce inflation, they would have also taken a victory lap. If interest rates on U.S. government bonds had risen, causing a contraction in economic activity, they would have taken a victory lap, arguing that the Fed should have used monetary policy to lower those interest rates. Even if the U.S. government had defaulted on its sovereign debt, throwing the economy into chaos, the MMT people would have taken a victory lap, arguing that this was a mistake.
In other words, there was no conceivable state of the Universe in which MMT people would not have taken a victory lap. They always take victory laps, all day long, rain or shine. When you have an unfalsifiable meme complex instead of a concrete and falsifiable theory, it’s easy to claim that your ideas cannot fail, they can only be failed.
But to the rest of the world, inflation gave a reason to be skeptical of MMT’s constant advocacy of yet more deficit spending. So their star began to dim. This NYT puff piece represents the MMT gang’s efforts to jump-start a revival of their falling fortunes. The attempt seems likely to fail. As Jason Furman notes in a recent thread, MMT’s failure to persuade even the leftiest U.S. politicians to accede to its tenets should tell us something about its future prospects:
https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1490479534461923336
So ultimately, neither puff pieces in major newspapers nor fierce Twitter battles will have much of an effect on actual policy. MMT people will continue to find new starry-eyed advocates to dazzle with words that sort of sound like economic theory, and this will lead to brief outbursts of social media rage, followed by frenzied and bitter assaults from MMT’s small but highly active social media army. And then eventually most of the new enthusiasts will realize that there’s no “there” there — that the problems they had thought were mere asterisks were actually the whole thing — and they’ll quietly drift away.
how many BBC bulls destroyed his wife before he figured out it wasn't for them? :shaqQuote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-admits-belonging-to-swingers-group/A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.:american
Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”
Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.
“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
how many BBC bulls destroyed his wife before he figured out it wasn't for them? :shaqQuote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-admits-belonging-to-swingers-group/A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.:american
Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”
Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.
“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
He picked the perfect thumbnail for his descent into madness. :lolThanks to the attack on Joe Rogan and the corruption Russell describes the streams of the wank dads, culture war and US politics have now completely crossed.
Claim:hmm
In early 2022, the Biden administration endeavored to advance racial equity by distributing crack pipes to drug users.
Rating
Mostly False
What's True
In 2022, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services substance abuse harm reduction grant did require recipients to provide safer smoking kits to existing drug users. In distributing grants, priority would be given to applicants serving historically underserved communities. However...
What's False
This was just one of around 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports. The purpose of the program was to reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, although that was a secondary consideration.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1491441851748204546
:hmm
Today, on the heels of organizations applying for grant money for harm reduction efforts, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and the Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Dr. Rahul Gupta released the following statement:
“HHS and ONDCP are focused on using our resources smartly to reduce harm and save lives. Accordingly, no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits. The goal of harm reduction is to save lives. The Administration is focused on a comprehensive strategy to stop the spread of drugs and curb addiction, including prioritizing the use of proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes, as well as taking decisive actions to go after violent criminals who are trafficking illicit drugs like fentanyl across our borders and into our communities. We will continue working to address the addiction and overdose epidemic and ensure that our resources are used in the smartest and most efficient manner.”
RatingFacebook was also blocking articles and redirecting people to a "fact check" about how the crack pipe claim was true yet false. No idea what they're doing now.
Outdated
Context
After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage in February 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits, as part of a substance abuse harm reduction grant program. This newly-stipulated detail was not originally available, meaning the assertions made in a first wave of coverage had become outdated.
Origin
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in the safe smoking kits to be distributed as part of a substance abuse harm reduction program. As a result of that newly-stipulated detail, Snopes has changed its rating from “Mostly False” to “Outdated.”]
https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1491578161825525760
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:trumpsspoiler (click to show/hide)The walls are closing in...[close]
I feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
Its like being back in 1930s GermanyFACT CHECK
Its like being back in 1930s GermanyFACT CHECK
In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
they also had an amazing state funded pest control :)Its like being back in 1930s GermanyFACT CHECK
In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
QuoteI feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
When Sadddam promised the mother of all tank battles and had his Cold War era tank army demolished by high-tech cruise missiles the US and by extension NATO were at the 'height' of their power.
People have mistaken the reluctance of the Russian Federation to intervene up until the mid 2000's with 'acceptance' of the current security situation.
The Russians simply couldn't do anything to stop the US from attacking Serbia because they had a mostly obsolete army like Saddam.
Once they had modernized their armed forces and were able to strike back and win (in places like Georgia and Syria), they started doing so.
Meanwhile the US policy was that the 'cold war' was over (Obama famously told Romney this in a debate) and the Russians and Chinese were 'partners' on the global stage even though there was no commitment from their side.
That's the reason US power waned, there's no longer a clear technological advantage and the loss in Afghanistan has confirmed the view that the US can no longer dictate their will without an army in place.
The other reason is the US barked up the wrong tree with Iraq. All those resources could've been spend on containing China (and even Russia) and propping up China's asian neighbours.
Condoleezza Rice I believe actually admitted this to Bush, making the case that the US should've invaded to free North Korea instead of Iraq.
At the same time Europe has realized after 2 'lost decades' that their foreign policy of just following the US and leaning on their army is not the best way to go about things.
It seems to me that short of waging more wars with millions of dead (i.e. what Trump didn't want to do in Afghanistan) to keep their enemies at bay there is little the US could've done to prevent losing their soft power which was based on a short lived military, economical and technological advantage.
In the end it was Obama who told the world the US would 'lead from behind' essentially doing nothing to protect US puppet rulers in Egypt and elsewhere while at the same time supporting a coup in Russia's backyard that the EU was very uncomfortable with.
And George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton squandered the opportunities to pull Russia into NATO and Europe and instead let it spin out of control which soured Russians once yearning for freedom on the ideals of Democracy.
:gladbronthey also had an amazing state funded pest control :)Its like being back in 1930s GermanyFACT CHECK
In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
QuoteI feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
When Sadddam promised the mother of all tank battles and had his Cold War era tank army demolished by high-tech cruise missiles the US and by extension NATO were at the 'height' of their power.
People have mistaken the reluctance of the Russian Federation to intervene up until the mid 2000's with 'acceptance' of the current security situation.
The Russians simply couldn't do anything to stop the US from attacking Serbia because they had a mostly obsolete army like Saddam.
Once they had modernized their armed forces and were able to strike back and win (in places like Georgia and Syria), they started doing so.
Meanwhile the US policy was that the 'cold war' was over (Obama famously told Romney this in a debate) and the Russians and Chinese were 'partners' on the global stage even though there was no commitment from their side.
That's the reason US power waned, there's no longer a clear technological advantage and the loss in Afghanistan has confirmed the view that the US can no longer dictate their will without an army in place.
The other reason is the US barked up the wrong tree with Iraq. All those resources could've been spend on containing China (and even Russia) and propping up China's asian neighbours.
Condoleezza Rice I believe actually admitted this to Bush, making the case that the US should've invaded to free North Korea instead of Iraq.
At the same time Europe has realized after 2 'lost decades' that their foreign policy of just following the US and leaning on their army is not the best way to go about things.
It seems to me that short of waging more wars with millions of dead (i.e. what Trump didn't want to do in Afghanistan) to keep their enemies at bay there is little the US could've done to prevent losing their soft power which was based on a short lived military, economical and technological advantage.
In the end it was Obama who told the world the US would 'lead from behind' essentially doing nothing to protect US puppet rulers in Egypt and elsewhere while at the same time supporting a coup in Russia's backyard that the EU was very uncomfortable with.
And George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton squandered the opportunities to pull Russia into NATO and Europe and instead let it spin out of control which soured Russians once yearning for freedom on the ideals of Democracy.
Thanks for the lucid, well considered response.
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1491728441187737601
https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1491753874306342913
:trumps
Several advisers were unhappy about his decision to talk to her as part of his marathon conversations with book authors at Mar-a-Lago. But they concluded he couldn’t help himself and couldn't be stopped.That pretty much sums up Donald Trump
Thanks Himu, I want to write a detailed response, but non-shitposting is rare for me on TheBore and I have a few things I need to take care of. Will write soon. I appreciate you delineating your thoughts.
https://youtu.be/h4e8lSQy64c
"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.":trumps
a benji roundupCompletely disregarding the ethics of it, you have to admit this is actually some pretty good social media campaigning for a government agency.
Happy Valentines Day, turn in your loved ones:
https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1493208813670965248
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1492318197416083457Translation: Trump called Maggie to complain about Scooter Libby.
"It's just been revoked!" - :trumps
In todays episode of Trump was righthttps://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1493560039377887234
Apparently Hillary Clinton's campaign hacked Trump Tower and the White House after Tump's election to find evidence of his collusion with Russia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers)
Trump is taking the news as well as you'd expectQuote"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."QuoteTrump added: "In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.":trumps
Oops
Drink your favorite liberal tears in this Jan 6th fistpump mug!https://twitter.com/auctnr1/status/1493247205775400960
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Are they going back to Iraq?Farther back, price controls. 8)
Drink your favorite liberal tears in this Jan 6th fistpump mug!https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1493696189480546304
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https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092 (https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092)
Are they going back to Iraq?
Three members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.
Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.
“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.
Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).
The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.
Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein ’s approval ratings have plummeted to unprecedented lows as California voters turn against their senior senator, according to a new poll from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
Voters disapproved of Feinstein’s job performance by an enormous 19-point margin. Her standing has steadily eroded, with her approval rating — now at just 30 percent — dropping 5 points since May. She does not command majority approval among Democrats, topping out at 45 percent, and she has lost the left, with Democrats who consider themselves “strongly liberal” more likely to disapprove by 5 points.
Vice President Kamala Harris also fared poorly in her home state. More voters disapproved of her job performance (46 percent) than approved (38 percent) — a sign of political peril for Harris, whose ascension was a point of pride in California.
stosts attack on education continues:School board politics :lawdQuote from: https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-voters-send-democrats-a-warning-on-schools-180841783.htmlThree members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.
Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.
“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.
Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).
The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.
Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.
stosts attack on education continues:Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-voters-send-democrats-a-warning-on-schools-180841783.htmlThree members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.
Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.
“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.
Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).
The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.
Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.
Perhaps more controversially, the board moved to diversify the city’s elite Lowell High School by implementing a lottery instead of academic entrance exams. The move angered San Francisco’s large and politically active Chinese American community, which had long seen Lowell as a beacon of promise.
Posters in favor of the recall were plastered across Chinatown ahead of Tuesday’s vote. “They seem to have their eyes on the wrong thing — the wrong priorities,” community activist Bayard Fong told Yahoo News of the board members.
The board earned national mockery for an hours-long meeting in which it debated whether a gay father would add sufficient diversity to a parental advisory board.
School board politics :lawdhttps://twitter.com/AliMCollins/status/1493662689670746112
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That last tweet is so bad :dead
Papa John just doesn't look the same without the grease.
School board politics :lawdhttps://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1494341615434944526
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Nick Kristof, the former New York Times columnist who quit his job to run for Oregon governor, is officially out of the race.
In a 33-page opinion issued Thursday morning, the Oregon Supreme Court gave finality to a determination Secretary of State Shemia Fagan made in January: That Kristof cannot legally vie for the governorship, because he does not meet the state’s three-year residency requirement for the job.
“We recognize [Kristof] has longstanding ties to Oregon, that he owns substantial property and operates a farm here, and that the secretary did not question his current Oregon residency,” the opinion reads. “Moreover, he has thought deeply and written extensively about the challenges faced by those living in rural areas of Oregon — and the rest of the country. But that is not the issue here. The issue, instead, is whether [Kristof] has been, during the three years preceding the November 2022 election, ‘a resident within this State.’”
In light of the evidence, the court found, Fagan was within her rights to rule that Kristof was not.
In January, Oregon election officials ruled Kristof did not meet residency requirements established in the state’s constitution and therefore could not run to be governor. Oregon election officials ruled that to meet the three-year residency requirement for this year’s gubernatorial race, a person must be a resident in Oregon for the entire three-year period starting in November 2019.
Kristof has said that the term “resident” should be interpreted somewhat loosely. He and his lawyers argued for months that he grew up in Yamhill, still owns and maintains a farm there and has always considered Oregon his home. They added that the historical point of having a residency requirement in the Oregon constitution was to exclude those who were unfamiliar with the state, and that Fagan gave “no weight to forty years of published writings” in which Kristof claimed Yamhill was his home.
Fagan disagreed. In January, she said there was there was a mountain of “objective evidence” showing Kristof considered himself a New York resident until recently. That evidence included Kristof’s decision to vote in New York in 2020. Kristof also had a New York driver’s license that year.
Kristof has suggested, at times pointedly, that the attempts to force him out of the governor’s race have political motives. At the start of his political campaign, Kristof positioned himself as an outsider and said Fagan — a longtime politician with ties to the Democratic establishment — was basing her decision on “politics, not precedent.”:usacry
Ilhan Omar scolds journalists for promoting harassment of Canadian Freedom Convoy donors: 'Unconscionable'
The Democratic 'Squad' member says journalists 'need to do better'
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., slammed journalists whose reporting on the data breach of donors to the Canadian Freedom Convoy is leading to the harassment of private citizens.
Members of the media on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border have been sharing names and how much money they contributed to the truckers who've been protesting Canada's vaccine mandate, stemming from the recent hack of the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.
Just want to say that this recall was whatever (sf school board members are wacky) but definitely part of a dark money coordinated assault on education, same as any of those anti-CRT bills. Getting SF BOE members recalled is a nice trophy for conservatives.School board politics :lawdhttps://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1494341615434944526spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL0CUuPXIAYqfqw?format=jpg&name=900x900)[close]
2/3rds of people polled by the DCCC are Himu:
https://twitter.com/_ericting/status/1494436102836404225
The ACLU of Virginia disagrees:
https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/1494327778203901952
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
:huh
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?School board elections becoming national issues in the United States actually has some decent history, especially during media lulls, because they connect in ways that lots of abstract issues don't. Most everyone can imagine "what if my kids school was doing [Z]" in ways the more esoteric debates over something like whether Build Back Better should raise the child murder tax credit by 1% in line with deficit projections over a ten year baseline IF and ONLY IF Kyrie Irving were to get vaccinated in Afghanistan during the Winter Solstice.
:huh
San Francisco school board recall sends a dangerous message
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This rhetoric of "parents' rights" is not new to the 2020s; conservatives in Colorado in the 1990s even sought to pass a "parents' rights" amendment "to direct and control the upbringing, education, values and discipline of their children." Yet it is now being reworked to funnel all the discontents of the era into a set of right-wing school politics at the heart of the GOP's strategy for the coming midterm elections.
Political organizing around schools is nearly as old as compulsory schooling itself, sparking battles over access, the teaching of subjects like evolution and sex and mandatory prayer and pledges of allegiance. Parents played a role on both sides of all these issues, advocating for the school rules that they felt aligned with their own values.
Yet because so many of these issues would ultimately be settled in state legislatures, Congress and the courts, the right successfully framed school politics as concerned parents having their rights infringed by politicians, bureaucrats and judges. This was the case with desegregation and busing, with Black parents constantly pressing for equal access to local schools and better education. In Boston in the 1960s, Black parents organized Operation Exodus, an effort to transport their children to better schools in the years before court-ordered busing.
The arrival of court-ordered busing in the 1970s, which occurred after White-run school boards failed to comply with the state's Racial Imbalance Act of 1965, led to the formation of groups like ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights), a movement by White parents to resist school desegregation.
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That same erasure happened in the debate over African American Vernacular English that exploded in 1996, after the Oakland school board passed a garbled resolution recognizing AAVE, or ebonics, as a language. The resolution, which was widely reported as a requirement to teach ebonics as a replacement for standard English (or "teach black schoolchildren in ghetto-ese," as the Boston Globe put it), was both ridiculed and denounced by everyone from civil rights leader Jesse Jackson to conservative Education Secretary William Bennett.
It was treated as a sign that public schools were incapable of properly educating students, that standards were nearing non-existence under the reign of liberal bureaucrats.
The politics of the ebonics panic allowed no space for the broader story, one that began with the problem of poor Black students being underserved and undereducated within the school system. A lawsuit brought in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1979 on behalf of poor Black students argued that they were being denied equal access to education because the school system did not account for the socioeconomic and cultural background of these students. A judge ruled that the school had to find ways to identify students who spoke AAVE and find ways to use that knowledge to assist their education. It was in response to these concerns that the Oakland school board acted.
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In places like Loudoun County and San Francisco, conservative activists are attempting to do the same today, refashioning a suite of school discontents into a wave of Republican victories.
What these decades of backlash politics show is that narrative plays a powerful role in shaping where politics flow. Democratic politicians often lack courage when backlash politics are in motion, as likely to jump on the outrage bandwagon as shrink into the shadows, waiting for it to blow over. But they and progressive activists have a responsibility to counter moral panics with narratives more rooted in reality and more concerned with those whose needs are being overlooked.
Journalists and commentators also play a critical role in how backlash politics form: whose stories get told and emphasized, what frames are applied to the story of what schools need and where they fail, what policy issues and political concerns are treated as legitimate and which get hand-waved away. Getting those issues right is not just critical for how elections unfold, but how schools are ultimately valued and reformed.
I am completely illiterate when it comes to school boards, since the concept is completely alien to me.I would never. Do you think I would really just go on the internet and try to mess with you?
But I now know about some stuff form the 60's and 90's but not what the San Francisco stuff is or was about.
Are you fucking with me here, benji?
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?In the United States, children are mindless robots that can be programmed at will by the educational apparatus. Whoever controls the schools effectively controls the entire country. This is also exactly why Benji decided to become a college professor.
:huh
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?In the United States, children are mindless robots that can be programmed at will by the educational apparatus. Whoever controls the schools effectively controls the entire country. This is also exactly why Benji decided to become a college professor.
:huh
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
:huh
Critical race theory and Democratic Pedophiles also supporting stuff like this.
https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs
I’m 100% pro vax but the mandates are silly. They were done on the premise that being vaccinated prevents you from spreading it. We’ve long known that the vaccines only keep you from getting severely ill and don’t prevent the spread much. Repeal the mandate.
Entire countries are dropping them with great success. Denmark even had to put out an official correction to misinformation site when persistent misinformation indicated they are now struggling, which they aren't.
It's very hard to continue to call it science, when the hard evidence, on country scales, disagree.
I'm both vaccinated and pro-vax, but the mandates are completely out of alignment with reality.
I understand the mandates were meant to get the majority of the public vaccinated. More people vaxxed, more people are safe. It’s a macro aggregate thing.
But the minor details in this do matter. Now what? You lift the restriction after firing 1% of public service employees? That seems wrong to me.
Visiting players and entertainers can be unvaxxed, but my friend from out of town who isn’t vaxxed can’t do much of anything? Again, minor detail but seems wrong to me.
I’ve never understood what we were aiming for here. 100% vaccinated? Where else in life are we 100% anything? Is it 90%, 99%? If it was 99% was it really worth firing all these people recently?
Because this specific NYC mandate is not and never was about protecting people, it was designed to incentivize people to get vaccinated
Thats the odd thing about all of this. People can talk around in circles, but the mandate isn't really about protecting people and never was, it was a designed as a punitive measure.
Thats also the reason visitors can play... obviously. Its about protecting NYers, if you're not from here, they didn't care about you getting vaxxed. Stupid loophole shows intentions. (that being said, if this did apply to visitors, I'd bet the NY teams would all be playing games in NJ to avoid any issues with visitors, so of course the exemption is there)
not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves
You know, I'm starting to get the feeling you're a single issue voter.
I'm personally insulted that you would call me a liberal.not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves
Nice healthy community you have here bork
Once again the the r/NYC comments make me feel incredibly not insane and alone and not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves.
Once again the the r/NYC comments make me feel incredibly not insane and alone and not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves.
Hey, can you tone it down with this shit? Thanks.
"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."
--Mother Theresa
I'd suggest you try this Potato but unfortunately guns are illegal in Australia.Can confirm that they are not illegal and I wont be using mine to do that. But hey, you're a real peach of a human being. Let's hope you come to your senses and give up this ridiculous angry man cosplay you're currently doing. Maybe try getting really deep into knitting or something. Calm your nerves and you penchant for stupidity. Either way, I only wish you the best for your own sake. Stay safe and, remember, don't do anything drastic.
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Thankfully there's an option!
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It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park.Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.
I'd suggest you try this Potato but unfortunately guns are illegal in Australia.Can confirm that they are not illegal and I wont be using mine to do that. But hey, you're a real peach of a human being. Let's hope you come to your senses and give up this ridiculous angry man cosplay you're currently doing. Maybe try getting really deep into knitting or something. Calm your nerves and you penchant for stupidity. Either way, I only wish you the best for your own sake. Stay safe and, remember, don't do anything drastic.
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Thankfully there's an option!
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It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park.Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.
It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park.
Earlier you often made a distinction between liberals and leftists. Now you've twice conflated the two and accused Potato of being both, when he's pretty clearly not a leftist.
But you quite clearly are mentally ill and need to seek some help.It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park.Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.
See. It's the online liberal moral grand standing. Help. Posts after accusing me of being mentally ill.
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Your hypocrisy is showing leftist. You've chastised me for months for nothing more than disagreement.
Please, for my sake, kill yourself.
Earlier you often made a distinction between liberals and leftists. Now you've twice conflated the two and accused Potato of being both, when he's pretty clearly not a leftist.
He said earlier he's not a liberal. I assume he's a leftist because he's a domineering online asshat, which generally conflates to being a leftist.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. My bad. I edited it to say "online left".
I think he's just fucking with you because you unnecessarily snipe at him and foreigners in general. Your personal foes aren't inherently political enemies, democratic politics is about building coalitions, not casting out anyone who dares cross you. A point you seem to grasp with the Democrats current woes but perhaps not with your MAGA chasing.
I don't really consider it harassment. I just want dialogue and there's none to be had. Just mockery for pretty normal viewpoints. :yeshrug
Harden the fuck up? It's the internet. It's just games. Since you don't want any dialogue, why should I? I'll just shit post instead.
Let's be real: I'm not mentally ill. You're just being an asshat as usual. Since what I say doesn't garner any actual viewpoints beyond mockery I might as well just bait for a reaction. I'm really liking yours right now. I'm feeling pretty good. :)
"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."
--Mother Theresa
I'm not mentally ill. I just hate you and like the reaction to what I wrote clearly struck a chord. I'm glad it did, you weak Australian bitch. Sorry you got in your fee fee's, leftist scum. Find a good rope yet? Try the belt you're wearing. You've dehumanized me for months, including in your reply there. I will not spare a quarter. Go ahead. Kill yourself, fuck.
Himu, you are a 4'2 mental midget and absolutely have some form of mental illness. You've had like eight different personality crises in a decade and your new personality is based solely around being an antagonistic piece of shit. Being a cunt might be laughs and games to you but it's annoying as shit to others. We are not your therapist and not here to help you, and all you do here is spread brain rot, so get lost.
I don't really consider it harassment. I just want dialogue and there's none to be had. Just mockery for pretty normal viewpoints. :yeshrug
Harden the fuck up? It's the internet. It's just games. Since you don't want any dialogue, why should I? I'll just shit post instead.
Let's be real: I'm not mentally ill. You're just being an asshat as usual. Since what I say doesn't garner any actual viewpoints beyond mockery I might as well just bait for a reaction. I'm really liking yours right now. I'm feeling pretty good. :)"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."
--Mother Theresa
I'm not mentally ill. I just hate you and like the reaction to what I wrote clearly struck a chord. I'm glad it did, you weak Australian bitch. Sorry you got in your fee fee's, leftist scum. Find a good rope yet? Try the belt you're wearing. You've dehumanized me for months, including in your reply there. I will not spare a quarter. Go ahead. Kill yourself, fuck.
:ufup
I think he's just fucking with you because you unnecessarily snipe at him and foreigners in general. Your personal foes aren't inherently political enemies, democratic politics is about building coalitions, not casting out anyone who dares cross you. A point you seem to grasp with the Democrats current woes but perhaps not with your MAGA chasing.
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.
Maybe Potato is taking it too personally, I don't know, he just seems to be giving you some shit back rather than pursuing any kind of leftist agenda. (Madrun is trying to sow discord as is typical of the Canadian menace.)
even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.
Didn't really have anything to say other thanspoiler (click to show/hide)Made you look dickhead!
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Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.
Maybe Potato is taking it too personally, I don't know, he just seems to be giving you some shit back rather than pursuing any kind of leftist agenda. (Madrun is trying to sow discord as is typical of the Canadian menace.)
In the past I simply reminded Potato he's injecting a non-American perspective onto my American viewpoint. Pretty simple. :yeshrug He took it personally (good) which is precisely I brought up Euros and Australians in the aforementioned post. Nice, easy, reaction.
Benji, I'm not trying to sow discord, I'm legit tired of seeing Himu's dumb fucking rants in every thread. It's nintex bad but then also aggressive on top. The forum would be better without Himu here.
The Madrun Agenda:
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Himu, I love you buddy - but what does the Republican party offer you besides a slight respite from the particularly annoying grievance politics from the Democratic party? There's a lot to criticize with the left, especially their handling of sensitive issues regarding race and identity... But what do the Republicans do for you? Is it largely their stance on vax freedom?spoiler (click to show/hide)Life experience. Living in a blue city in a red state is a complete opposite experience to living in a blue city in a blue state. It's easy to say you're a progressive until you've actually lived in a place that actually is.
You would think moving to NYC would make me more liberal/progressive than I was. I moved here as a progressive. In the end, I had to learn what it was like to live with and sit with the impact of my own policies. It was a massive wake up call.
Liberalism leads to:
1. Mediocrity - Privileged liberals hewed and hawed about the Pandemic and being scared to even go out even as they sat in their homes doing Zoom meetings, complaining about having to commute to the office well after vaccines were available. Whether my former roommates or whatever, I just noticed that the privilege of being able to work from home was an elite status that the elite couldn't recognize was privileged, nor could they appreciate as the rest of us - like myself and others I knew - had to sacrifice our bodies, our time, our safety to make ends meet in the middle of a pandemic. Through this experience I saw the laziness that was bred through virtual meetings, the privilege of work from home that it creates, and the mediocrity it brings. The rest of us operated on pure grit and a will to live despite all odds. Meanwhile the privileged are too scared to live because of social anxiety. It's really pathetic.
2. Weakness - Tied into the last point, and as we can see from Biden's lack of leadership, liberalism leads to weakness. Endless complaining, no solutions, just bleeding hearts. Their solution to most problems is to...do nothing. Or they do something but have no real end game plan so they protest the closing a nuclear plant to purport an increase in natural gas usage only to want to limit natural gas and increase gas energy prices a year later. They have no long term strategy. It is only ever feelings based finger pointing and victim blaming. There's almost never an idea of hope presented by the left. It's endless navel gazing and problems and doom and gloom. Going by the left, you can't do anything because you're black. You're a woman. You're this, you're that. Everything is tied to some victim complex of identity and I refuse to let my victories be defined by the color of my skin but the talent that I have and dreams I wish to achieve.
3. Excuse making - Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs. Homeless are smoking crack on the subway and attacking people where children take the commute to school? Let's ignore it, they need a place to sleep! This all forms a trifecta of low expectations. They don't push anyone to do aspire to be their best, they merely look at society and victimize. Are these very real issues? In some cases, sure. But endless victimhood, what has it gotten us? Absolutely nothing. Hopes. Dreams. And a can do spirit. Maybe we will fail, but that's the tough America is made of.
More and more as I lived here I noticed that the real problems people face aren't met with respect but with money being thrown at the issue. It made me more fiscally conservative due to how much of my tax dollars go towards shit that don't solve anything.
Conservatives understand all of this. Although they have their own issues with liberty, Republicans have more respect towards it as a rule. I very much identify with the libertarians but the Libertarian Party isn't going to win a fight against the Democratic Party which I increasingly view as even worse for society than the Republicans especially through the lens of identity politics. I can talk to Republicans about things and they'll disagree on some things but understand where I'm coming from. I communicate my complex views on liberty and Democrats think I'm a bigot.
Over regulation, disregarding families and family values, no long term strategy, lack of strong leadership, privileged elitists, too fiscally liberal, reducing people to their identity/race/gender, the endless victim olympics, over 50 years of being a total clown show, their inability to get things done on a local/state/federal level, on and on and on. On most issues I realize I'm closer to the Republicans than the Democrats. A few years ago I flirted with conservatism and I wrongly put it in the box but I can admit I was wrong and I should have went all the way then and there. I've finally pushed the button.
At the end of the day we live in a two party system and the American people are keep choosing between the two because they can't govern. But for all of his faults, Americans did real well under Trump, especially our wallets and businesses and families.
Republicans offer me:
1. Hope. They actually believe the things they say. Conservatives just want upward mobility. That's what I want. Republicans actually believe if you work hard enough you'll make it. That's what I believe. I wouldn't have moved across the country if I didn't. In this, we are aligned. When I came here I found opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. Turns out opportunity knocks if you want it bad enough. No one stopped me because of my race. No one limited me but myself. By contrast, the left only judges, finger points, says this and that person thinks a certain way therefore they're bad and must be avoided.
2. A modern life. Republicans wisely understand that the conditions of our lives in here and now - today - is a rare circumstance in the circumference of human history and we should hold on to what we hold dear at all costs. Although there's much to improve, the liberal/progressive/communist idea of toppling what we have of unprecedented education, unprecedented peace, unprecedented opportunity for the human being to strive is bad. Often liberals are too concerned with transforming things without knowing what they're transforming them into. They are all heart, no brain.
3. Freedom. To own a gun. To own a business and run it how you like. To think what you want.
Throw in deregulation, school choice (as I plan for a family), more traditional values, lower taxes, better distribution of those taxes, less welfare programs that keep society mediocre, a can do spirit and it's pretty obvious which is better.
I think a better question is what the Democrats have to offer me.
I haven't even gotten into Vaccine mandates, the endless Covid safety parade, the endless Covid virtue signaling, turning vaccines into a full fledged identity, or the failures of the Biden administration. All of those things were the final domino enough to finally make me push the button. Republicans are by no means perfect but at this point, but they're closer to my ideals than the Democrats.
TLDR: Moving to NYC made me more conservative after challenging my progressive views. The only things I agree with Democrats on is healthcare reform (I get really good healthcare in NY and think it's worth paying a tax for) and a few other issues like decriminalization of drugs which funnily came from the more libertarian Colorado.[close]
Read this tweet which is a reply to the original thread.
https://twitter.com/RussLakey/status/1494484143723319296
Democrats and their endless virtue. "BUT PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!!!!! :stop"
Yeah, and? It's a pandemic. Remember when Trump was Prez and they lost their shit at 400k dying under his watch? But they are really quiet about blaming Biden for deaths when it hits even more than Trump's numbers. Yet they still use PEOPLE ARE DYING!!! as an excuse, even when their rigid policies clearly aren't fucking working.
https://twitter.com/BringAWarrant/status/1494445331345559553
https://twitter.com/WinstonSmithTC/status/1494449877622800392
https://twitter.com/LivingSamsara/status/1494482375170052104
https://twitter.com/fsmith1340/status/1494480739626364945
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LET'S DO IT! We have the momentum! Liberals have masks despite being triple vaxxed and endless faggotry. Have to make sure Liberals lose so much ground they lose an entire generation. We have to make sure liberals never see power again.
Do you have a beast mode? 8)
BIG COPE over not getting to work from home
Mmmm...no. I tell my perspective from my life and you've got the liberals coming out calling me stupid for feeling that way whether it's Stro or some non-American. Most are liberal so I apply it to liberals. But my main ire goes beyond homelessness and covid policies but liberal policies in general, to which the liberal response in this thread and forum confirm to me: the problem is liberals. Since the liberals are unwilling to engage when I was being intellectually honest and nice, why should they get respect returned? I am nice to those who are nice to me.It's fine to have problems with progressives and Democrats in general but for the most part you've only really outlined three broad disagreements with them:
Mmmm...no. I tell my perspective from my life and you've got the liberals coming out calling me stupid for feeling that way whether it's Stro or some non-American. Most are liberal so I apply it to liberals. But my main ire goes beyond homelessness and covid policies but liberal policies in general, to which the liberal response in this thread and forum confirm to me: the problem is liberals. Since the liberals are unwilling to engage when I was being intellectually honest and nice, why should they get respect returned? I am nice to those who are nice to me.It's fine to have problems with progressives and Democrats in general but for the most part you've only really outlined three broad disagreements with them:
-COVID policy in NYC, which is more extreme than most of the country, including even DC at times, and as you yourself have noted other Democratic Governors are not following Hochul in statewide policies while pushing back against the the larger coastal state Democrats that are closer to her
-homeless/crime policy in NYC, which as you yourself again noted Eric Adams (himself not very popular among progressives) seems to be trending away from the de Blasio policies (which themselves were far from the popular policies of Rudy and Bloomberg, both "liberals")
-they're jerks online
When you pressed him a bit, stost outlined his own policy interests regarding homelessness from a leftist perspective that probably wouldn't be entirely acceptable among big city progressives, Democrats or "liberals" and you didn't have too much criticism for those. The SF recall is interesting because it was a coalition on specific interests, where typical broad politics it would have never succeeded (indeed the board members and their defenders tried to go exactly this route by accusing their multicultural San Francisco opponents of being Trumpers, Republicans, white supremacists, etc.) which I think is another instance of evidence for where if you want to bring down big city party-backed Democrats as you proclaim it's about building coalitions on issues, not engaging in MAGA style politics. I think you're probably right that the de Blasio polices weren't entirely popular even among Democrats, but you seem to be painting anyone who disagrees with you as inherently backing those.
In other words, I'm saying you need a little more Hugh Honey and less Vic Vinegar in both your real estate and your life.
The environment of the Bore is made as such where I, or someone else, says something. Then people, rather than trying to understand what is being said, get on a soapbox of correctness and attempt to judge or bully the person in to why they're wrong. Person doubles down. Tirade continues. Person triples down.
The Bore does this with any person they don't like and always has. We are a monoculture and like to keep it that way. Look at Ghoul's posts on this page and thread. it's done specifically to create a reaction. He's acting like a toxic ass. So I respond as a toxic ass back. That's Bore 101.
You could argue it's the format, and that's true as far as it goes, but it's also the people. The Discord can be just as toxic.
See you in a monthI wonder what random issue his personality will be based on by then?
This isn't a fair ascertainment of my views at all. I've made the argument for example that liberals own all culture. This means it's impossible to escape liberal viewpoints as well as people. So not only do you have to suffer with it in real life, in the media you consume, in the ways they impact your day to day life but you go online and they're fucking everywhere as well. It's not that liberals are jerks online. It's actually the cherry on top.I disagree with your position on culture, doesn't seem like that at all to me. People seem pretty good at siloing. Even where progressives are dominant I don't see anything that suggests they're winning the fight, especially online. For example, the people still using Latinx are a rear guard that got crushed dramatically. People ignore/mock all the NFL's attempts at seeming woke. Elite culture has always pushed their views, I don't know why you're suddenly so upset about it that you're willing to become caustic, it's been this way our entire lives. Seinfeld was elite "liberal" culture in the 1990's.
You're also pulling together homeless and crime policy into one batch. You've missed taxes, as well as the fact the Democrats don't get anything done or the fact that for the most part liberal policies are wholly reactionary.
SO HOW ABOUT THOSE USA POLITICS?Too soon. Not funny.
I'll spare Madrun the time and leave on my own will. I'm pretty sure Bork will ban me though anyways so you win anyways.