fapping and then having a nice meal afterwards always insured I didn't make poor choices.
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.@ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice. pic.twitter.com/nxYX1LF2jK— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) April 6, 2022
.@ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice. pic.twitter.com/nxYX1LF2jK
Chris Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union pic.twitter.com/3UjchBJORT— Dripped Out Trade Unionists (@UnionDrip) April 6, 2022
Chris Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union pic.twitter.com/3UjchBJORT
(Image removed from quote.)http://kandisstaylor.com/endorsements/
pic.twitter.com/6gaXD1SKAi— Bad Legal Takes (@BadLegalTakes) April 10, 2022
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Previously on The Bire USA Politics thread:Quote from: benjipwns, http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=47891.msg3026052#msg3026052(Image removed from quote.)She has a PhD.
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Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981Headline CPI in March rose by 8.5% from a year ago, the fastest annual gain since December 1981 and one-tenth of a percentage point above the estimate.Real worker earnings fell by another 0.8% during the month as the cost of living outpaced otherwise strong pay gains.Still, due to the surge in inflation, real earnings, despite rising 5.6% from a year ago, weren’t keeping pace with the cost of living. Real average hourly earnings posted a seasonally adjusted 0.8% decline for the month, according to a separate Bureau of Labor Statistics report.
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Ted Cruz Refuses to Answer When Asked If He Would Blow Another Man to Solve World Hunger https://t.co/T7UlTLkuUI— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 12, 2022
Ted Cruz Refuses to Answer When Asked If He Would Blow Another Man to Solve World Hunger https://t.co/T7UlTLkuUI
Wth did just happen pic.twitter.com/IYPMwhlFPI— Damon Imani (@damonimani) April 11, 2022
Wth did just happen pic.twitter.com/IYPMwhlFPI
After my reporting this week that Senate candidate Herschel Walker�s personal financial disclosure had errors/omissions that worried campaign finance experts, @SollenbergerRC has found more questionable business stuff from Walker too. #gapol #gasenhttps://t.co/OfElNywAkx— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) April 13, 2022
After my reporting this week that Senate candidate Herschel Walker�s personal financial disclosure had errors/omissions that worried campaign finance experts, @SollenbergerRC has found more questionable business stuff from Walker too. #gapol #gasenhttps://t.co/OfElNywAkx
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While debating a bill that would criminalize homeless campus on public property, GOP Tennessee State Sen. Frank Niceley said Hitler was homeless for a while too but he �went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.�https://t.co/HLQgRLRGxS pic.twitter.com/C1DXJn0MQx— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 14, 2022
While debating a bill that would criminalize homeless campus on public property, GOP Tennessee State Sen. Frank Niceley said Hitler was homeless for a while too but he �went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.�https://t.co/HLQgRLRGxS pic.twitter.com/C1DXJn0MQx
How is that not a joke account
in the mouth. And the ONE thing Putin does know is that the United States has the capacity to punch him into OBLIVION! It is complete nonsense to suggest he doesn�t fear that. He is shaking in his boots right now.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
in the mouth. And the ONE thing Putin does know is that the United States has the capacity to punch him into OBLIVION! It is complete nonsense to suggest he doesn�t fear that. He is shaking in his boots right now.
believe that the fallout of using a nuke won�t just be sanctions. We have so many weapons that aren�t nuclear we can use to incapacitate Russia. But Putin doesn�t believe Biden has the will to use them. THAT is the issue!— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
believe that the fallout of using a nuke won�t just be sanctions. We have so many weapons that aren�t nuclear we can use to incapacitate Russia. But Putin doesn�t believe Biden has the will to use them. THAT is the issue!
Merrick Garland does not protect the rule of law, he does not pursue crime, he does not defend America.He plays point for GOP seditionists. That�s about it.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
Merrick Garland does not protect the rule of law, he does not pursue crime, he does not defend America.He plays point for GOP seditionists. That�s about it.
With EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING I loath the lawlessness that Merrick Garland allows because he is so pro-GOP. He is as helpful to GOP schemes in his passivity, as Barr was, if not more so. The GOP is having a HEYDAY of out of control civil rights attacks BECAUSE of Garland! https://t.co/ApyJtYbCHN— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
With EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING I loath the lawlessness that Merrick Garland allows because he is so pro-GOP. He is as helpful to GOP schemes in his passivity, as Barr was, if not more so. The GOP is having a HEYDAY of out of control civil rights attacks BECAUSE of Garland! https://t.co/ApyJtYbCHN
The GOP is in the midst of creating states that no longer have to abide by the Constitution, and are no longer answerable to federal courts. Merrick Garland is HELPING THEM ALONG in that process.His �hands off of GOP lawlessness� is an active measure to HELP that process.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
The GOP is in the midst of creating states that no longer have to abide by the Constitution, and are no longer answerable to federal courts. Merrick Garland is HELPING THEM ALONG in that process.His �hands off of GOP lawlessness� is an active measure to HELP that process.
Dear @POTUS Do you still believe in protecting and defending the Constitution for ALL 50 states? Or have you resigned yourself to letting the red states go by default, to buy peace & �stability?�— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
Dear @POTUS Do you still believe in protecting and defending the Constitution for ALL 50 states? Or have you resigned yourself to letting the red states go by default, to buy peace & �stability?�
prosecutor as Special Counsel.Biden has the absolute and unfettered POWER and right to do this. He is inflicting Garland on us for NO DAMNED GOOD REASON!!— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
prosecutor as Special Counsel.Biden has the absolute and unfettered POWER and right to do this. He is inflicting Garland on us for NO DAMNED GOOD REASON!!
Garland is as personally morally committed to helping red states secede from the constraints of the Constitution as his predecessor. Don�t buy his aw shucks demeanor. He is as cold blooded and calculating as the many GOP seditionists he is protecting. https://t.co/WB6dAFqDsd— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
Garland is as personally morally committed to helping red states secede from the constraints of the Constitution as his predecessor. Don�t buy his aw shucks demeanor. He is as cold blooded and calculating as the many GOP seditionists he is protecting. https://t.co/WB6dAFqDsd
A real AG would have launched a probe into illegal price fixing of gas prices WEEKS ago!!But Garland isn�t a real AG, in any sense of the term. He is a GOP plant, masquerading as an AG.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
A real AG would have launched a probe into illegal price fixing of gas prices WEEKS ago!!But Garland isn�t a real AG, in any sense of the term. He is a GOP plant, masquerading as an AG.
and an investigation into him for criminal conspiracy to engage in malicious trespass on property.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
and an investigation into him for criminal conspiracy to engage in malicious trespass on property.
likely inflates & exaggerates interest in his activities, and overplays his net worth & market position.— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2022
likely inflates & exaggerates interest in his activities, and overplays his net worth & market position.
Walsh, we still have rules about buying and trading private companies. If someone breaks those rules, they need to be held accountable. I think you know that. https://t.co/FwdVnmBPs7— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 14, 2022
Walsh, we still have rules about buying and trading private companies. If someone breaks those rules, they need to be held accountable. I think you know that. https://t.co/FwdVnmBPs7
Absolutely amazing brain worms. pic.twitter.com/C1Epr9JgOL— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) April 15, 2022
Absolutely amazing brain worms. pic.twitter.com/C1Epr9JgOL
I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 17, 2022
I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5
2021 data shows a bit higher, +1 among Republicans pic.twitter.com/4ZyIRiCCG6— Christopher Ingraham? (@_cingraham) April 18, 2022
2021 data shows a bit higher, +1 among Republicans pic.twitter.com/4ZyIRiCCG6
Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public libraryConservatives are teaming with politicians to remove books and gut library boardshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/All is going according to plan in America.
Florida�s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away. In CO, we don�t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter. Hey @Disney we�re ready for Mountain Disneyland and @twitter we�re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are https://t.co/r7Vcvu20eb— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) April 19, 2022
Florida�s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away. In CO, we don�t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter. Hey @Disney we�re ready for Mountain Disneyland and @twitter we�re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are https://t.co/r7Vcvu20eb
In its recently passed $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, Congress included just $75 million for election security. That’s a fraction of what lawmakers authorized in 2020 and an amount experts say is nowhere near sufficient to address the needs ahead of the next election.At the center of this failure is the Brennan Center, an influential liberal think tank and advocacy organization. Based in New York City, the Brennan Center rarely gets public scrutiny, but it plays an outsize role in the strategic direction of the movement pushing for voting rights and election reform. That flows partly from its massive war chest, which has skyrocketed over the last decade: Between 2010 and 2020, its net earnings grew from $196,000 to $58 million. Its assets jumped from $8 million to $90 million.That financial firepower, coupled with the credibility in Washington that it has built over the years, gives the Brennan Center effective veto power over the voting rights advocacy coalition it leads. In Congress, revisions to election and voting laws are often met with the question, “What does the Brennan Center think?”
This made the Brennan Center’s decision to pull back on the effort to fund elections all the more consequential. Its political attention and lobbying shifted to passing the Freedom to Vote Act, the Democrats’ comprehensive voting rights bill that would, among other things, expand voter registration, ban partisan gerrymandering, weaken state-level voter ID requirements, and restore preclearance, a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brennan Center played a key role in crafting the omnibus legislation, including its earlier iterations like the “For the People Act.”In a letter sent to congressional leadership in late July, a coalition of 19 national advocacy groups, including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Mi Familia Vota, urged Congress to allocate $20 billion for election infrastructure, citing the hundreds of local election officials, mayors, and secretaries of state who had begged for that amount earlier in the month. “As the individuals and leaders closest to the administration of fair and secure elections, they have collectively called for federal support in meeting the immense needs they face,” the national groups wrote. “We write to add our voices to that important ask.”The Brennan Center declined to sign.“It was one of the most jaw-dropping moments of my professional life,” said one election reform lobbyist whose organization signed the letter and who requested anonymity to describe the coalition’s private discussions.Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center, said his organization “felt that the dollar amount that the letter was asking for did not make sense based on our expertise and research and policy analysis … that it was too much,” though he could not say what a better figure would be. “My colleagues on this who are aligned certainly thought it was too much, and we thought the dollar amount was too high to be asking for at that time,” he added.The timing of the ask also didn’t strike them as appropriate, Waldman said. “It was in the heat of the fight for the [For the People] Act, which we regard as the most important voting rights legislation in half a century. … I thought that [the request] was a distraction and a detour from the very hard fight needed to pass voting rights legislation.”His comments about the size of the request for election funding reflected a departure from the Brennan Center’s previous public statements, a fact noticed by both this reporter and the organization’s press shop. The following day, a Brennan Center spokesperson, Alexandra Ringe, who had been listening in on our interview, called to ask if I would consider taking Waldman’s statements about the size of the election funding request off the record, saying they would not go over well with their coalition partners. I declined.In a subsequent email, Ringe wrote that Waldman had “misremembered the decision-making related to the sign-on letter” and that fear of distracting from the Freedom to Vote Act was the sole factor in the Brennan Center’s decision not to sign. Waldman himself followed up to say that he had misspoken in our previous conversation, reiterating that the organization chose not to sign the letter “because of our concerns … that it would distract from the final push for voting rights legislation.”
The Election Infrastructure Initiative, a project of the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, puts the tab to fully modernize U.S. elections at $53 billion over the next 10 years. The initiative has called on Congress to allocate less than half of that, $20 billion. That ask has been endorsed in letters by secretaries of state, mayors, and election administrators. In a February poll by Data for Progress, nearly three-quarters of respondents supported congressional spending to upgrade state and local voting equipment and security systems.Many local election leaders have struggled to understand why the Brennan Center — a group with the ear of influential Democrats in Congress — dropped prioritization of election funding over the last year, particularly after helping elevate their concerns during the pandemic. Moreover, while the Freedom to Vote Act would push many election reforms that are needed and overdue, those changes would not come cheap. Advocates worried that chaos could come from a slew of new unfunded mandates.Jessica Huseman, one of the country’s leading voting rights journalists, detailed many of these concerns publicly last spring in a Daily Beast op-ed. The For the People Act “was written with apparently no consultation with election administrators, and it shows,” Huseman wrote, noting that it was packed with deadlines and obligations that would be impossible for election officials to meet. “The sections of the bill related to voting systems … show remarkably little understanding of the problems the authors apply alarmingly prescriptive solutions to.”The Brennan Center quickly issued a defense of the bill it had helped draft, publishing a response to Huseman’s piece on its website. The center defended the amount authorized in funding for upgrades and maintenance. But “there have been millions in authorized funding that has never been appropriated,” Huseman, who currently serves as editorial director of Votebeat, told me. “Looking specifically to voting, the funding promised in the Help America Vote Act took 15 years to actually become appropriated, even though the states were on the hook for the requirements long before this. This is the origin of the anxiety for state election administrators, and I think it’s a well-founded concern.”“Brennan Center gets way over their skis on election policy,” said one national election reformer who has partnered with the organization on research and requested anonymity because their organization shares some of the same funders as the Brennan Center. “They’ve been great [at] fleshing out the more liberal position on voting rights, but when it comes to election administration … they are not that connected to the election officials community … and they haven’t really wrestled with the implications of what they advocate for.”“The charitable answer is they didn’t want to have a fight about money until after the bill had passed, but you can easily pass the bill and not win the money,” said the election lobbyist, who was shocked that the center didn’t join the July letter.
Throughout July, as Senate Democrats prepared their $3.5 trillion social spending request, lawmakers assured state and local election officials that their proposal would include billions for election funding. A Politico story published just four days before the package was unveiled confirmed that lawmakers were eyeing as much as $15 to $20 billion for that purpose and felt confident that they could deliver, even as their voting rights bill remained stalled.But at the eleventh hour the funding was pulled, at the urging of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who had “abruptly” changed her mind, as Huseman reported in a detailed ticktock of the negotiations. Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., the author of the For the People Act, had convinced Pelosi that authorizing election funding would reduce their leverage to pass his bill, the same argument the Brennan Center used to justify not signing the coalition letter.Leading negotiations in the Senate, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., was angry. She felt blindsided by Pelosi’s move, per Huseman’s sources, even as spokespersons for both House leaders defended the last-minute cuts. The spokespersons told Huseman that election funding would require more “safeguards” to ensure it couldn’t be used for voter suppression, but top federal elections experts say there is no history of misspending those funds. “After all,” Huseman wrote, “it costs far less money to close polling locations and remove drop boxes, and state legislatures across the country have been doing this without any additional spending since the 2020 election.” (Klobuchar, Pelosi, and Sarbanes did not return The Intercept’s requests for comment for this story.)“All of the money that’s been released has been for specific purposes,” Kathleen Hale, a political scientist who directs the Election Administration Initiative at Auburn University, told The Intercept. “It’s all been audited; I’ve been doing this for the last 15 years, and there’s absolutely nothing going on like that.”While it was becoming too late in the negotiations process to pivot to funding elections in the infrastructure deal, the Democrats’ Freedom to Vote Act was looking increasingly doomed in the Senate. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., made it clear that she was not willing to gut the filibuster — a legislative move that would have been required to ensure the bill’s passage. A Punchbowl News survey of senior congressional staffers found that even among Democratic staff, just 12 percent thought the bill had a shot.Some leaders urged Congress to push forward with a narrower bill, abandoning demands like public financing of elections, to which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had expressed strong opposition. Others within the voting rights coalition faced immense pressure to stay quiet when they raised concerns about technical language in the statute, saying the Brennan Center in particular warned that even private deliberations could derail passage of the bill itself.
Election funding and election subversion are not unrelated issues. While immediate fears about subversion have been tied to rogue election clerks and state legislators, poorly funding elections heightens risk too. “Inadequately funded elections can lead to foreign or domestic actors tampering with our voting technology, voter registration databases, or machines that count ballots,” said Hasen. “And when funding is inadequate it creates opportunities for mistakes to happen and creates opportunities for people to try to manipulate things without oversight.”
His band was okay though
just wait until Atlantic writer J.D. Vance hears about this https://t.co/RxAeo9Ufve pic.twitter.com/VScFCZUWIW— Christopher Ingraham? (@_cingraham) April 22, 2022
just wait until Atlantic writer J.D. Vance hears about this https://t.co/RxAeo9Ufve pic.twitter.com/VScFCZUWIW
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene denying that she ever said Speaker Pelosi was a "traitor to our country" and then being presented with evidence that she, in fact, said that. pic.twitter.com/RbFKLZJi01— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 22, 2022
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene denying that she ever said Speaker Pelosi was a "traitor to our country" and then being presented with evidence that she, in fact, said that. pic.twitter.com/RbFKLZJi01
He's worth millions of dollars. He is 72 and could travel, start a new business, spend time with family, whatever. But he'd rather tell the world he is emasculated and dishonest. For what? For whom? https://t.co/x2jso9b0EU— Melanie Marlowe (@profmarlowe) April 25, 2022
He's worth millions of dollars. He is 72 and could travel, start a new business, spend time with family, whatever. But he'd rather tell the world he is emasculated and dishonest. For what? For whom? https://t.co/x2jso9b0EU
I am not sure that "To this day, there has not been a single prosecution in GA for voter fraud in the 2020 election" makes the point you think it does. https://t.co/2TCgPkN7vR— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) April 24, 2022
I am not sure that "To this day, there has not been a single prosecution in GA for voter fraud in the 2020 election" makes the point you think it does. https://t.co/2TCgPkN7vR
Florida politics just hit different.Image description: A man wears a shirt reading "Trump was robbed" while carrying a hybrid LGBT pride / Confederate Battle-flag. pic.twitter.com/80ORq2FS3I— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) April 18, 2022
Florida politics just hit different.Image description: A man wears a shirt reading "Trump was robbed" while carrying a hybrid LGBT pride / Confederate Battle-flag. pic.twitter.com/80ORq2FS3I
The People's Convoy was pelted with eggs by teenagers in Oakland, California Friday leaving truckers fuming - which left two live-streamers calling the police on the kids. Police arrived & shrugged off the complaint, sending convoy-goers to tell their fans to flood the 911 line.— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) April 25, 2022
The People's Convoy was pelted with eggs by teenagers in Oakland, California Friday leaving truckers fuming - which left two live-streamers calling the police on the kids. Police arrived & shrugged off the complaint, sending convoy-goers to tell their fans to flood the 911 line.
Trucker Itinerant Circus going wellThe People's Convoy was pelted with eggs by teenagers in Oakland, California Friday leaving truckers fuming - which left two live-streamers calling the police on the kids. Police arrived & shrugged off the complaint, sending convoy-goers to tell their fans to flood the 911 line.— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) April 25, 2022https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1518438352017580032
The message – one of more than 2,000 texts turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating January 6 and first reported by CNN – shows that some of Trump’s most ardent allies on Capitol Hill were pressing for Trump to return himself to office even after the Capitol attack.“In our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law,” Greene texted on 17 January. “I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.”
Meadows did not appear to respond to Greene’s text.
It�s that time of year again. Time to be a responsible citizen by flipping through the California State primary booklet and examining this year�s slate of candidates. pic.twitter.com/1opuRUd1KB— Travis View (@travis_view) April 26, 2022
It�s that time of year again. Time to be a responsible citizen by flipping through the California State primary booklet and examining this year�s slate of candidates. pic.twitter.com/1opuRUd1KB
