The January 6th investigation is not stopping during the two week holiday break.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – : Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander takes a sip of water as he returns to a conference room for a deposition meeting on Capitol Hill with the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on Dec. 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
“Stop the Steal” leader Ali Alexander, who helped organize rallies before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appeared before a federal grand jury on Friday, multiple news outlets reported.
Alexander’s attorney did not immediately respond to Law&Crime’s email requesting comment. His client has not been charged with a crime.
A far-right activist and convicted felon, Alexander came under scrutiny from the Jan. 6 Committee after telling his followers on Periscope that he had planned to put “maximum pressure on Congress” with help from three Republican lawmakers: Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, and Paul Gosar of Arizona. All three of those lawmakers allegedly requested pardons from former President Donald Trump.
The committee subpoenaed Alexander this past October and reportedly cooperated with that investigation, handing lawmakers thousands of documents and testifying behind closed doors. Police officers who were assaulted during the Jan. 6 siege sued Alexander and others in August 2021.
According to the liberal research center Media Matters, Alexander boasted about a phone call with “people from the White House” weeks before the attack on the Capitol. The Jan. 6 Committee cited this report in describing Alexander’s alleged support for the “possible use of violence” and claimed “communication with the White House and Members of Congress regarding events planned to coincide with the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results.”
CNN reported that Alexander was spotted entering and exiting the federal courthouse, spending roughly four hours behind closed doors.
Alexander pleaded guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008.
The activities of the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement are said to have extended beyond simply organizing demonstrations.
“Trump allies with links to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and the January 6 insurrection participated in the pressure campaign against DOJ,” the Judiciary Committee wrote in a report titled Subverting Justice. “In addition to Trump White House officials, including the President himself, outside Trump allies with ties to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and the January 6 insurrection also pressured DOJ to help overturn the election results.”
In addition to Alexander, the committee also scrutinized Nathan Martin, a city councilman in Shelby, Ohio whose name also appeared on the rally permit; and Stop the Steal, LLC, the organization affiliated with the event.
“The rally on the Capitol grounds on January 6th, like the rally near the White House that day, immediately preceded the violent attack on the seat of our democracy,” the Committee’s Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote late last year. “Over the course of that day, demonstrations escalated to violence and protestors became rioters. The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about the events that came before the attack, including who was involved in planning and funding them. We expect these witnesses to cooperate fully with our probe.”
ABC News and The Guardian also confirmed Alexander’s appearance before the grand jury.
I don't read the "free beacon" and they are not the only people asking this question.
Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?
I suspect that any call for any protests will likely result in riots and violence... if they do, then I think Biden is just as criminally liable as Trump is for Jan 6th!
"Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?"
The vice president, somber in her delivery, said that millions of American women have lost access to the healthcare their mothers and grandmothers had before them.
"This is a healthcare crisis," Harris said. "This is the first time in the history of our nation that a constitutional right has been taken away from the people of America."
She echoed the president and other Democratic leaders in asking the American people to band together and defend "one of the most fundamental ideals" that generations have been fighting for: "To stand for liberty. To stand for freedom. To stand for self-determination and for the right to privacy."
The vice president alluded to the importance of electing leaders who protect and defend individual rights.
She cant do math. "The vice president, somber in her delivery, said that millions of American women have lost access to the healthcare their mothers and grandmothers had before them."
So her grandmother aborted her Mom? Then her mom aborted her. And so.....
The Cum-Allah proves once again that she's as bright as a 1 watt bulb.
It's pretty fucking tough to become a mother OR a grandmother if you abort the very children that one requires to achieve that status.
"This is a healthcare crisis," Harris said. "This is the first time in the history of our nation that a constitutional right has been taken away from the people of America."
Well toots, for starters, when you murder a person that doesn't count as healthcare.
Second, it was never a "constitutional right."
What it was was one of the most fundamentally legally flawed rulings in the history of American jurisprudence. And what has happened simply returns the issue to the people to decide at the state level.
No right has been taken away. And Roe was never "settled law."
This twat supposedly went to law school. I didn't, but I seem to have a better grasp on today's events than she does.
"Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?"
Well KD, that's the thing about the left. Their ideas tend to royally fucking suck. Hence the importance of the USSC. The need the courts to jam through their shitty agenda that they can never get passed by the will of the people. The consent of the governed.
The left prefers to rule by decree. By fiat.
And then they have the unmitigated gall to chant -
"This is what democracy looks like!!!"
Well, today they found out what the US Constitution looks like. And they don't like what they see. As if they ever did.
We don't return to any level of sanity or normalcy around here until these cocksuckers are destroyed, root and fucking branch. Scorched earth. Total and complete destruction.
Yet with each new opinion, narrowing those protections seems to be the goal. The six conservatives on the Supreme Court will go as far back as they have to—to the 13th century even—to peel away the rights and structures that underpin modern life.
Of course the gop will run on inflation. And immigration chaos, and debacle in Afghanistan, and crt in schools, and sending fbi after parents but letting liberal p rotestors rage on, and a host of other things
There were no reports of any arrests or unruly activity during the midday protest in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore told KNX radio the agency was shifting some of its deployment plans to ensure it is prepared to respond of any protests in the coming days get out of hand, the way some did two years ago during mass protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
“Los Angeles will be safe,” Moore told KNX Newsradio. “What was learned from two years ago were lessons in training and development of added tools. We’re not going to have any tolerance for people who wish to hijack this and resort to violence.”
He said the LAPD is aware that some “extremists” may work to take advantage of protests to engage in lawlessness. But he insisted the agency will be prepared.
The court has taken us back even further in time. Part of the justification for overturning Roe was because centuries of history indicate abortion was criminalized. “When the majority says that we must read our foundational charter as viewed at the time of ratification (except that we may also check it against the Dark Ages), it consigns women to second-class citizenship,” the three dissenting justices wrote.
Watching the Republican Party 🥳 breaking up is fun 🙃
J.B. Shurk
I do try to respect President Reagan's 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republican." I know ideological litmus tests rub some people the wrong way. I get that turning internal disagreements into political losses is self-defeating. I agree that priority number one is to beat back the Marxist hoards pushing America to the cliff's edge. And it sure is nice to pat ourselves on the back for having a "big tent" open to everyone. But…you knew it was coming…I sure wish we could move on from Mitch McConnell. Or rather, I wish we could find an effective way to compel Republican senators to move on from McConnell (and his lackeys) as their leader.
The decision in Dobbs is a pure exercise of power, wielded to reduce freedom and equality — for women specifically. That the conservatives on the court cannot see the difference between Plessy and Roe shows how damaged that institution has become.
Every woman of reproductive age in the United States has spent her lifetime possessing a constitutional right that no longer exists. Women with unwanted pregnancies will continue to seek abortions. Some will still get them safely. Some will die or be maimed getting them unsafely. Some will have unwanted children.
All of this will happen — not because of any constitutional principle — but because a majority of the justices have decided they have unbridled power to govern the lives of Americans has they choose.
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law
Speaking of rioters like AOC. . Police arrest anti-choice protesters at Florida abortion clinic: report
Bob Brigham
June 24, 2022
As thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest the U.S. Supreme Court, two Floridians got in trouble at a health clinic that offers abortion.
"A few hours after the Supreme Court announced its monumental ruling overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday, a small group of anti-abortion activists stood in front of the only Polk County clinic that offers the procedure. Soon after that, two of them were in the back of Lakeland Police Department vehicles," The Ledger newspaper in Lakeland reported Friday.
The two have been released from custody.
"Police arrested Quentin Eugene Deckard of Seffner and Angela Delauney of Mulberry outside the Lakeland Women’s Health Center at 4444 S. Florida Ave. Delauney often protests outside the Lakeland clinic with her husband, Greg Delauney. The couple’s three young children cried as an LPD vehicle drove away with their mother in the back seat," the newspaper reported.
Deckard reportedly shouted through a bullhorn at a Black woman approaching the clinic.
He reportedly shouted, "Black lives don't matter" and "Black people are like cockroaches that should be exterminated."
SCOTUS may push America towards a 'new civil war' by taking away rights: historian
Bob Brigham
June 24, 2022
Historian Michael Beschloss warned the Supreme Court may be risking violence following Friday's court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade.
"This Supreme Court moment defines the word historic," he posted to Twitter when the decision came down.
"Gun safety and abortion rights in one week — this country is changing fast," he noted.
"Today’s Supreme Court decision could have the ultimate historical effect of pushing this country further in direction of some kind of new civil war," he wrote.
\u201cAccording to one of his law clerks, as reported by @nytimes in 1993, Justice Clarence Thomas privately said, \n"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."\u201d
— Michael Beschloss (@Michael Beschloss) 1656123313
He posted historical photos.
He wrote, "here is the 1896 Supreme Court that gave you the evil decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which told you that racial segregation was constitutional and exalted the false and immoral doctrine of “separate but equal”:
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QAnon’s ‘Q’ returns after long absence: ‘It had to be done this way’
Bob Brigham
June 25, 2022
The mysterious person behind the absurd QAnon conspiracy theory is back.
"The anonymous message board user known as 'Q,' whose cryptic announcements spawned the fascist pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, has returned to posting after a nearly two-year hiatus," The Daily Beast reported. "On Friday night, someone with access to Q’s login credentials posted on 8kun, the anarchic internet community where Q last posted in December 2020."
The conspiracy theory has even been believed by elected officials like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
"In QAnon’s telling, Donald Trump was recruited by the military to run for president in 2016 to take down that nefarious 'cabal.' QAnon believers await 'The Storm,' an event in which they believe Trump enemies like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be executed via orders from a military tribunal, or imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay," The Beast reported. "The Q poster followed up with two more messages on Friday night. Asked why they had disappeared for more than a year, they wrote, 'It had to be done this way.'"
Ginni Thomas also appears to believe in the conspiracy theory.
It seems unlikely that the Trump-era Republicans installing the policy priorities of their preponderantly white and Christian coalition across the red states will be satisfied just setting the rules in the places now under their control. Podhorzer, like Mason and Grumbach, believes that the MAGA movement’s long-term goal is to tilt the electoral rules in enough states to make winning Congress or the White House almost impossible for Democrats. Then, with support from the GOP-appointed majority on the Supreme Court, Republicans could impose red-state values and programs nationwide, even if most Americans oppose them. The “MAGA movement is not stopping at the borders of the states it already controls,” Podhorzer writes. “It seeks to conquer as much territory as possible by any means possible.”
The Trump model, in other words, is more the South in 1850 than the South in 1950, more John Calhoun than Richard Russell. (Some red-state Republicans are even distantly echoing Calhoun in promising to nullify—that is, defy—federal laws with which they disagree.) That doesn’t mean that Americans are condemned to fight one another again as they did after the 1850s. But it does mean that the 2020s may bring the greatest threats to the country’s basic stability since those dark and tumultuous years.
You realize that the republican party is gaining significant support from black, Hispanic, and young voters don't you? It's far from just 60 year old white men.
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday that he will seek legislation to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in comments shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Republican told The Washington Post he has asked four Republican lawmakers to draft the legislation. He told the Post that although he favors banning most abortions after 15 weeks, a cutoff at 20 weeks might be necessary to build consensus in the divided Virginia legislature. He reiterated his support for exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk.
In a statement, he said he’s asked for legislation to be introduced when the General Assembly convenes in January.
The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion is an unfolding tragedy for American women and an indelible stain on the court itself. The harm to women is immense but can be ameliorated with efforts in the public and private spheres to safeguard access to abortion. The damage to the court cannot be undone.
This radical conservative majority — unheeding in this case even of the conservative chief justice — has proven itself unmoored from the rule of law, and therefore unworthy of the public esteem that can be its only source of enduring authority.
With the vote of five justices to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, American women have lost a right that was guaranteed them for a half-century, an unprecedented elimination of an individual freedom.
There's nothing in the constitution about abortion. That's why the 10th amendment became applicable. Anything not explicitly enumerated becomes a decision for the states.
Most of the world has a compromise cutoff of 14 to 20 weeks. We should too.
The anti-abortion movement has a long history of violence.
In the last 43 years, anti-abortion activists have committed at least 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 956 known threats of harm or death, 614 stalking incidents and four kidnappings, 0according to the National Abortion Federation. The supposedly “pro-life” movement has bombed 42 abortion clinics, set fire to 194 and made 667 bomb threats.
At the core of the Dobbs decision lies the conviction that the power of government can and should be used to impose a certain moral and religious vision – a supposedly biblical and regressive understanding of the Christian religion – on the population at large.
How did this conviction come to have such influence in the courts, given America’s longstanding principle of church-state separation? To understand why this is happening now, it’s important to know something about the Christian nationalist movement’s history, how its leaders chose the issue of abortion as a means of creating single-issue voters, and how they united conservatives across denominational barriers by, in effect, inventing a new form of intensely political religion.
Christian nationalists often claim their movement got its start as a grassroots reaction to Roe v Wade in 1973. But the movement actually gelled several years later with a crucial assist from a group calling itself the “New Right”.
Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips, Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of this movement were dissatisfied with the direction of the Republican party and the culture at large. “We are radicals who want to change the existing power structure. We are not conservatives in the sense that conservative means accepting the status quo,” Paul Weyrich said. “We want change – we are the forces of change.”
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They were angry at liberals, who they believed threatened to undermine national security with their softness on communism. They were angry at establishment conservatives – the “Rockefeller Republicans” – for siding with the liberals; they were angry about the rising tide of feminism, which they saw as a menace to the social order, and about the civil rights movement and the danger it posed to segregation. One thing that they were not particularly angry about, at least initially, was the matter of abortion rights.
With regards to the mid-terms, I'm liking the left's angle on this. They think reserving the right to slaughter the most innocent among us is a winning strategery.
The campaign ads just write themselves on this one.
When the Roe v Wade decision was issued, most Protestant Republicans supported it. The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions in 1971 and 1974 expressing support for the liberalization of abortion law, and an editorial in their wire service hailed the passage of Roe v Wade, declaring that “religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” As governor of California, Ronald Reagan passed the most liberal abortion law in the country in 1967. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
...Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
Yep. And 0linsky opposed gay marriage. Until he had an epiphany and chose to support it for political expedience and profit.
I was pro-abortion at one time. The allure of leftists killing off their own kids was powerful and compelling. Until I realized that the kids didn't deserve to die just because their birthing people were fucking assholes.
Republican Party campaign consultants are throwing up their hands in frustration at a ruling that will make it harder for them to do their jobs in November -- particularly as they try to bring suburban women back into the fold after four years of Donald Trump.
I still think the Republicans will get the house, but barely, and the Democrats will keep the Senate majority.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden Saturday signed a bipartisan gun bill designed to keep weapons away from dangerous people, one month after a horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
"Lives will be saved," Biden said in brief remarks. Biden described the bill as "the most significant law" of its kind in "the last 30 years."
Citing a litany of mass shootings from Las Vegas to Parkland, Biden said people for too long have urged government to "just do something" about the lethal problem. "Today, we did," he said.
The new law enhances background checks on young gun buyers between 18 and 21 years of age. It encourages states to develop more and better "red flag" laws that would deny guns to people who are deemed to be dangerous.
It also adds dating partners to the list of domestic abusers who are prohibited from buying firearms, eliminating the so-called "boyfriend loophole."
Democrats now have a choice. They can give speeches and send fundraising emails. Or they can act: declare this court illegitimate. Demand its expansion. Abolish the filibuster. Treat this like the emergency it is, and make America a representative democracy.
Jill Filipovic is the author of OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind
(CNN)The Republican Party has a gun problem and a misogyny problem, and both only seem to be getting worse. As the increasingly marginalized moderates of the GOP warn that their party is turning toward a conspiracy-driven and unhinged fringe, members of that fringe seem ascendant -- and determined to mire the nation in lies, hate and the glorification of gun violence.
This week, Eric Greitens, a Republican running for a US Senate seat in Missouri, released an ad in which he toted a shotgun and, flanked by camo-clad men carrying assault weapons, went "RINO hunting." RINOs are "Republicans in Name Only," or insufficiently radical, insufficiently pro-Trump Republicans. (Greitens has dismissed criticism of the video clip as "faux outrage," telling a St. Louis radio station that it has a sense of humor and calling the hunting of RINO politicians "a metaphor.")
Some of history's leading fascist movements used the strategy of armed volunteer militias intimidating, threatening and attacking political opponents. And the implications of Greitens' ad are stunning: Line up behind the most extreme right-wing policies -- and implicitly behind former President Donald Trump -- or be hunted down by armed, jackbooted thugs.
The democrat party has locked up the trans vote. But in doing so has completely abandoned their old voter base - hourly working class. They try to smear anyone who opposes them, but the gop is now representing middle class working families and kitchen table issues.
Make America a representative democracy by destroying one of the co-equal branches of our representative republic. With a temper tantrum. All because one of the most fatally flawed court rulings in the history of the republic was finally overturned, and the decision was sent back to the states to be decided by THE PEOPLE.
The most fucked up definitions of democracy can always be found on the left.
The basis of the reversal IS representative democracy. But the left cannot see past their blinding rage.
Armed volunteer militias intimidating, threatening and attacking political opponents. Complete with pro-lifers being hunted down by armed, jackbooted thugs, better known as ANTIFA.
When the Roe v Wade decision was issued, most Protestant Republicans supported it. The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions in 1971 and 1974 expressing support for the liberalization of abortion law, and an editorial in their wire service hailed the passage of Roe v Wade, declaring that “religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” As governor of California, Ronald Reagan passed the most liberal abortion law in the country in 1967. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
In 1982 Joe Biden proposes a constitutional amendment that would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to choose their own policies on abortion.
OTC birth control solves this problem and renders Roe irrelevant.
But democrats said NO...
Rather than working with Republicans to craft a compromise measure—say, one that protected insurance coverage for contraception but also paved the way for over-the-counter pills—and helping to secure a rare bipartisan win for women’s health care, liberals actively advocated against conservative colleagues’ efforts.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, suggested, without evidence, that making pills available over the counter would hike costs for individual women to $600 a year. Republican politicians pushing for OTC pills, she said, would somehow “drag women back to the 1950s.”
In 2014, Planned Parenthood’s political arm bought ads in multiple states. “In its first TV ad buy of the 2014 cycle,” noted HuffPost, “Planned Parenthood’s political arm is warning voters in North Carolina and Colorado that Republican Senate candidates’ support for over-the-counter birth control is not what it seems.” . . .
This was a dark moment in Democratic politics: Even as they ramped up efforts to portray Republicans as the harbingers of a Handmaid’s Tale scenario and to portray themselves as hip to the needs of marginalized groups, Democrats sacrificed an opportunity to help women struggling to obtain birth control prevent unintended pregnancies. Instead, at the expense of undocumented immigrants, low-income women, victims of domestic violence, and others, they opted to help middle-class women save $10 a month—and prop up insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, and the Democratic fundraising machine in the process.
All the while, they insisted that they were putting contraception in reach for more American women. But evidence suggests they were merely shifting around costs.
Trump made a secret call to Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election, report says tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images
Donald Trump made a mysterious call to Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election, Politico reports. A filmmaker recording Trump said he had an interview with Trump cancelled so he could call Putin. At the time, Putin had just rebuffed false claims Trump was pushing about Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Former President Donald Trump made a mysterious call to Russian President Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 presidential election, a British filmmaker told Politico.
Alex Holder, who was filming Trump and his family for a documentary in the months before the Capitol riot, told the outlet that he had been scheduled to film an interview with Trump on October 25, 2020.
That interview was abruptly cancelled on the day, Holder said.
"My memory is that the chief of staff sort of came over and said that the interview couldn't happen today because the president was on the phone," Holder told Politico.
"I believe, if I remember correctly, that he said that he was on the phone to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, which is why the interview had to be postponed."
Trump's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on the apparent call. No official read out of such a call was ever made public.
On the day of the apparent call, Trump was busy campaigning in New England. Holder said the call to Putin was made while on a flight from New Hampshire to Maine.
Politico noted that at the time Trump was pushing baseless claims that his opponent in the election, Joe Biden, had profited from dubious business deals his son, Hunter Biden, had made in Ukraine and Moscow.
Putin that day had dismissed the allegation, and was quoted in Russian state media reports just before the alleged call saying that he saw no evidence of criminality in Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and Russia.
Trump's relationship with Putin has long been a source of rumor and controversy.
It was the subject of a lengthy investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who ultimately found that evidence did not substantiate charges Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.
Mueller though did conclude that Russia sought to help Trump win that election. In 2021, a US intelligence report found that Russia had sought to influence the election by channeling damaging disinformation about Biden through Trump allies.
Holder has handed over months of interviews he filmed with Trump and his family to the House committee investigating Trump's attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat. The existence of the tapes reportedly surprised Trump aides, who only learnt of them when they were subpoenaed by the House committee this week.
Criminal in every way. "Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” t “there is a war out there, and we need to recognize that we’ve got to armor up.”
"I believe, if I remember correctly, that he said that he was on the phone to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, which is why the interview had to be postponed."
LMAO.
The desperation is palpable as the intensity and velocity of the lies increases.
Actually it was a video-conference call with Putin, the President of Iran, the President of NK, and it was hosted by Satan himself.
Gas prices in the United States are inextricably tied to international events entirely outside the purview of any president, whether Carter or Joe Biden. And this brings us to the causes of the current gas price increases: You can start with the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused crude oil prices to drop as demand fizzled and is now causing a surge as production strains to keep apace of consumption (and particularly demand in nations like China, which is ending its lockdown). Russia's oil exports have been significantly reduced due to that nation's invasion of Ukraine, and the subsequent blowback from the international community. Finally, while demand for gas has increased, it is still not back to the levels that existed before the pandemic.
Much like the climate, gas prices exist in a complex and planet-wide system in which it is virtually impossible for any single American official to significantly alter what happens. Even as Biden calls on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax, it does little more than nibble at the edges of the problem.
"He has no real effect on world oil prices," Christopher Knittel, an energy economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told USA Today. He later added, "Even the things he has already done and has suggested are short-term, marginal impacts on the price of gasoline. It's hard for Americans to see this, but the world market is so big and so vast, it's hard for even a big country and an economic powerhouse like ourselves to have a large impact" on gas prices.
Gas prices in the United States are inextricably tied to international events entirely outside the purview of any president, whether Carter or Joe Biden.
Conservative pollster Frank Luntz said this week that he thinks former President Donald Trump's popularity is being damaged by the January 6 panel's public hearings on the Capitol riot.
Speaking on CNN's "New Day" program, Luntz said the panel focused "too much" on politicians but commented that the hearings are still hurting Trump.
Some legal experts fear that prosecutors will use intimate pieces of evidence, such as text messages, internet search history and period tracking apps to build their cases, as well as, perhaps, information gathered from medical professionals.
And, though states with abortion bans have focused punishment on the providers and not those seeking or self-managing an abortion, women will still be in the line of fire, said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director of If/When/How, a reproductive justice group.
Evidence, sure Roger. How about directly from Joe:
"I told you before that we're going to take action on these problems. That's exactly what we're doing," Biden said in remarks broadcast from the White House.
"It will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank,"
Some legal experts fear that prosecutors will use intimate pieces of evidence, such as text messages, internet search history and period tracking apps to build their cases, as well as, perhaps, information gathered from medical professionals.
They will treat them just as the DOJ has treated the Jan 6th protesters!
Everytime Poor Alky challenges me, i mop the floor with him. Using his words and those of Joe's.
Joe thought he could . He can't .
Evidence, sure Roger. How about directly from Joe:
"I told you before that we're going to take action on these problems. That's exactly what we're doing," Biden said in remarks broadcast from the White House.
"It will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank,"
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The January 6th investigation is not stopping during the two week holiday break.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – : Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander takes a sip of water as he returns to a conference room for a deposition meeting on Capitol Hill with the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on Dec. 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
“Stop the Steal” leader Ali Alexander, who helped organize rallies before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appeared before a federal grand jury on Friday, multiple news outlets reported.
Alexander’s attorney did not immediately respond to Law&Crime’s email requesting comment. His client has not been charged with a crime.
A far-right activist and convicted felon, Alexander came under scrutiny from the Jan. 6 Committee after telling his followers on Periscope that he had planned to put “maximum pressure on Congress” with help from three Republican lawmakers: Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, and Paul Gosar of Arizona. All three of those lawmakers allegedly requested pardons from former President Donald Trump.
The committee subpoenaed Alexander this past October and reportedly cooperated with that investigation, handing lawmakers thousands of documents and testifying behind closed doors. Police officers who were assaulted during the Jan. 6 siege sued Alexander and others in August 2021.
According to the liberal research center Media Matters, Alexander boasted about a phone call with “people from the White House” weeks before the attack on the Capitol. The Jan. 6 Committee cited this report in describing Alexander’s alleged support for the “possible use of violence” and claimed “communication with the White House and Members of Congress regarding events planned to coincide with the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results.”
CNN reported that Alexander was spotted entering and exiting the federal courthouse, spending roughly four hours behind closed doors.
Alexander pleaded guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008.
The activities of the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement are said to have extended beyond simply organizing demonstrations.
“Trump allies with links to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and the January 6 insurrection participated in the pressure campaign against DOJ,” the Judiciary Committee wrote in a report titled Subverting Justice. “In addition to Trump White House officials, including the President himself, outside Trump allies with ties to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and the January 6 insurrection also pressured DOJ to help overturn the election results.”
In addition to Alexander, the committee also scrutinized Nathan Martin, a city councilman in Shelby, Ohio whose name also appeared on the rally permit; and Stop the Steal, LLC, the organization affiliated with the event.
“The rally on the Capitol grounds on January 6th, like the rally near the White House that day, immediately preceded the violent attack on the seat of our democracy,” the Committee’s Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote late last year. “Over the course of that day, demonstrations escalated to violence and protestors became rioters. The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about the events that came before the attack, including who was involved in planning and funding them. We expect these witnesses to cooperate fully with our probe.”
ABC News and The Guardian also confirmed Alexander’s appearance before the grand jury.
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The President and the vice President called for peaceful demonstrations..
Your plagiarized post
https://freebeacon.com/courts/aoc-calls-supreme-court-illegitimate-tells-abortion-advocates-to-escalate-protests/
I don't read the "free beacon" and they are not the only people asking this question.
Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?
I suspect that any call for any protests will likely result in riots and violence... if they do, then I think Biden is just as criminally liable as Trump is for Jan 6th!
The 2022 election will now determine whether new, cruel, and punishing restrictions will be put in place on women and families
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
Your plagiarized post
It was a fucking tweet, genius.
AOC AND MAXINE WATERS have special legal immunity = (D).
Perfect description of Bidenomics.
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Coldheartedtruth TellerJune 24, 2022 at 4:44 PM
The 2022 election will now determine whether new, cruel, and punishing restrictions will be put in place on women and families."
CHT out thinks Alky at every turn.
"Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?"
Come on Roger , be better than the Parrot 🦜
The 2022 election will now determine whether new, cruel, and punishing restrictions will be put in place on women and families
So when Republicans take the House and Senate...
Will that be validation that the court was correct and will you be willing to acknowledge said validation? Or are you just whistling dixie?
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
The 2022 election will now determine whether new, cruel, and punishing restrictions will be put in place on women and families
Thanks for freely admitting your willingness to lie about the issue in order to have a shot in the mid-terms.
No new, cruel, and punishing restrictions were put in place on women and families.
What WAS done is the issue was returned to the states.
To "We The People."
As it should be.
Blue states are expanding abortion. Isn't that a good thing?
Devout catholic Biden is getting called out for his all abortion all the time rhetoric.
The Republicans will run about inflation.
The vice president, somber in her delivery, said that millions of American women have lost access to the healthcare their mothers and grandmothers had before them.
"This is a healthcare crisis," Harris said. "This is the first time in the history of our nation that a constitutional right has been taken away from the people of America."
She echoed the president and other Democratic leaders in asking the American people to band together and defend "one of the most fundamental ideals" that generations have been fighting for: "To stand for liberty. To stand for freedom. To stand for self-determination and for the right to privacy."
The vice president alluded to the importance of electing leaders who protect and defend individual rights.
We will see
Her job is to defend the US Constitution.
If she does her job.
But she can't.
Americans will vote because of Bidenomics.
She cant do math.
"The vice president, somber in her delivery, said that millions of American women have lost access to the healthcare their mothers and grandmothers had before them."
So her grandmother aborted her Mom?
Then her mom aborted her.
And so.....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/roe-wade-supreme-court-war-modern-life/
The conservative Supreme Court is reversing the 20th century
Roger your team had 50 years to Codify Roe.
Your team failed.
The Cum-Allah proves once again that she's as bright as a 1 watt bulb.
It's pretty fucking tough to become a mother OR a grandmother if you abort the very children that one requires to achieve that status.
"This is a healthcare crisis," Harris said. "This is the first time in the history of our nation that a constitutional right has been taken away from the people of America."
Well toots, for starters, when you murder a person that doesn't count as healthcare.
Second, it was never a "constitutional right."
What it was was one of the most fundamentally legally flawed rulings in the history of American jurisprudence. And what has happened simply returns the issue to the people to decide at the state level.
No right has been taken away. And Roe was never "settled law."
This twat supposedly went to law school. I didn't, but I seem to have a better grasp on today's events than she does.
Keep running from your posts Roger.
CHT out thinks Alky at every turn.
"Btw... both the President and Vice President called for a peaceful rally on Jan 6th. Are you suggesting that calling for peace absolves people from incitement charges?"
Come on Roger , be better than the Parrot 🦜
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Roger your team had 50 years to Codify Roe.
Your team failed.
Well KD, that's the thing about the left. Their ideas tend to royally fucking suck. Hence the importance of the USSC. The need the courts to jam through their shitty agenda that they can never get passed by the will of the people. The consent of the governed.
The left prefers to rule by decree. By fiat.
And then they have the unmitigated gall to chant -
"This is what democracy looks like!!!"
Well, today they found out what the US Constitution looks like. And they don't like what they see. As if they ever did.
We don't return to any level of sanity or normalcy around here until these cocksuckers are destroyed, root and fucking branch. Scorched earth. Total and complete destruction.
Yet with each new opinion, narrowing those protections seems to be the goal. The six conservatives on the Supreme Court will go as far back as they have to—to the 13th century even—to peel away the rights and structures that underpin modern life.
Of course the gop will run on inflation. And immigration chaos, and debacle in Afghanistan, and crt in schools, and sending fbi after parents but letting liberal p rotestors rage on, and a host of other things
There were no reports of any arrests or unruly activity during the midday protest in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore told KNX radio the agency was shifting some of its deployment plans to ensure it is prepared to respond of any protests in the coming days get out of hand, the way some did two years ago during mass protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
“Los Angeles will be safe,” Moore told KNX Newsradio. “What was learned from two years ago were lessons in training and development of added tools. We’re not going to have any tolerance for people who wish to hijack this and resort to violence.”
He said the LAPD is aware that some “extremists” may work to take advantage of protests to engage in lawlessness. But he insisted the agency will be prepared.
The court has taken us back even further in time. Part of the justification for overturning Roe was because centuries of history indicate abortion was criminalized. “When the majority says that we must read our foundational charter as viewed at the time of ratification (except that we may also check it against the Dark Ages), it consigns women to second-class citizenship,” the three dissenting justices wrote.
Before the reformation era in the 15th century
Watching the Republican Party 🥳 breaking up is fun 🙃
J.B. Shurk
I do try to respect President Reagan's 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republican." I know ideological litmus tests rub some people the wrong way. I get that turning internal disagreements into political losses is self-defeating. I agree that priority number one is to beat back the Marxist hoards pushing America to the cliff's edge. And it sure is nice to pat ourselves on the back for having a "big tent" open to everyone. But…you knew it was coming…I sure wish we could move on from Mitch McConnell. Or rather, I wish we could find an effective way to compel Republican senators to move on from McConnell (and his lackeys) as their leader.
They still think we a Marxist
Sure Rog...
Just as we are watching a full scale Democratic free fall meltdown.
From Biden to Pelosi to Schumer they are all failing worse than the others!
btw... since the hearings started?
How you think it is affecting the midterm polling?
Rasmussen went from GOP +5 to +8
Economist went from GOP +2 to +4
Politico wenr from Dems +2 to tied
How do you explain that one?
The decision in Dobbs is a pure exercise of power, wielded to reduce freedom and equality — for women specifically. That the conservatives on the court cannot see the difference between Plessy and Roe shows how damaged that institution has become.
Every woman of reproductive age in the United States has spent her lifetime possessing a constitutional right that no longer exists. Women with unwanted pregnancies will continue to seek abortions. Some will still get them safely. Some will die or be maimed getting them unsafely. Some will have unwanted children.
All of this will happen — not because of any constitutional principle — but because a majority of the justices have decided they have unbridled power to govern the lives of Americans has they choose.
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law
Scott polls from before this decision, don't matter.
Let's see in a month
Bipartisanship can save lives
House passes landmark gun legislation this afternoon sending it to Biden to sign into law
President Joe Biden has said he will sign the bill, the most sweeping gun legislation in decades, and is glad Congress is "finally doing something."
Speaking of rioters like AOC.
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Police arrest anti-choice protesters at Florida abortion clinic: report
Bob Brigham
June 24, 2022
As thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest the U.S. Supreme Court, two Floridians got in trouble at a health clinic that offers abortion.
"A few hours after the Supreme Court announced its monumental ruling overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday, a small group of anti-abortion activists stood in front of the only Polk County clinic that offers the procedure. Soon after that, two of them were in the back of Lakeland Police Department vehicles," The Ledger newspaper in Lakeland reported Friday.
The two have been released from custody.
"Police arrested Quentin Eugene Deckard of Seffner and Angela Delauney of Mulberry outside the Lakeland Women’s Health Center at 4444 S. Florida Ave. Delauney often protests outside the Lakeland clinic with her husband, Greg Delauney. The couple’s three young children cried as an LPD vehicle drove away with their mother in the back seat," the newspaper reported.
Deckard reportedly shouted through a bullhorn at a Black woman approaching the clinic.
He reportedly shouted, "Black lives don't matter" and "Black people are like cockroaches that should be exterminated."
Scott polls from before this decision, don't matter.
Roger...
You stated that the Jan 6th hearings would change everything?
Oh... and did you forget?
We knew about this decision for weeks. This isn't new.
Republican are runnung on.
"Its the Stuoid Biden Economy ".
SCOTUS may push America towards a 'new civil war' by taking away rights: historian
Bob Brigham
June 24, 2022
Historian Michael Beschloss warned the Supreme Court may be risking violence following Friday's court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade.
"This Supreme Court moment defines the word historic," he posted to Twitter when the decision came down.
"Gun safety and abortion rights in one week — this country is changing fast," he noted.
"Today’s Supreme Court decision could have the ultimate historical effect of pushing this country further in direction of some kind of new civil war," he wrote.
\u201cAccording to one of his law clerks, as reported by @nytimes in 1993, Justice Clarence Thomas privately said, \n"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."\u201d
— Michael Beschloss (@Michael Beschloss) 1656123313
He posted historical photos.
He wrote, "here is the 1896 Supreme Court that gave you the evil decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which told you that racial segregation was constitutional and exalted the false and immoral doctrine of “separate but equal”:
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QAnon’s ‘Q’ returns after long absence: ‘It had to be done this way’
Bob Brigham
June 25, 2022
The mysterious person behind the absurd QAnon conspiracy theory is back.
"The anonymous message board user known as 'Q,' whose cryptic announcements spawned the fascist pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, has returned to posting after a nearly two-year hiatus," The Daily Beast reported. "On Friday night, someone with access to Q’s login credentials posted on 8kun, the anarchic internet community where Q last posted in December 2020."
The conspiracy theory has even been believed by elected officials like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
"In QAnon’s telling, Donald Trump was recruited by the military to run for president in 2016 to take down that nefarious 'cabal.' QAnon believers await 'The Storm,' an event in which they believe Trump enemies like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be executed via orders from a military tribunal, or imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay," The Beast reported. "The Q poster followed up with two more messages on Friday night. Asked why they had disappeared for more than a year, they wrote, 'It had to be done this way.'"
Ginni Thomas also appears to believe in the conspiracy theory.
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It seems unlikely that the Trump-era Republicans installing the policy priorities of their preponderantly white and Christian coalition across the red states will be satisfied just setting the rules in the places now under their control. Podhorzer, like Mason and Grumbach, believes that the MAGA movement’s long-term goal is to tilt the electoral rules in enough states to make winning Congress or the White House almost impossible for Democrats. Then, with support from the GOP-appointed majority on the Supreme Court, Republicans could impose red-state values and programs nationwide, even if most Americans oppose them. The “MAGA movement is not stopping at the borders of the states it already controls,” Podhorzer writes. “It seeks to conquer as much territory as possible by any means possible.”
The Trump model, in other words, is more the South in 1850 than the South in 1950, more John Calhoun than Richard Russell. (Some red-state Republicans are even distantly echoing Calhoun in promising to nullify—that is, defy—federal laws with which they disagree.) That doesn’t mean that Americans are condemned to fight one another again as they did after the 1850s. But it does mean that the 2020s may bring the greatest threats to the country’s basic stability since those dark and tumultuous years.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/06/red-and-blue-state-divide-is-growing-michael-podhorzer-newsletter/661377/
You realize that the republican party is gaining significant support from black, Hispanic, and young voters don't you? It's far from just 60 year old white men.
Curious that democrats have finally discovered women's rights after working so hard to ruin Title IX.
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
The PEOPLE VOTED VIDEO:
https://gettr.com/post/p1fn7926e9d
Trump in 2016: I will put 2-3 judges on the Supreme Court and we will overturn Roe v Wade
He even put out a list of judges he would consider
The left then panicked and created the Russian collusion hoax
or slow-moving coup as it could be called
In the last Virginia recent governor election 60% of all voters who considered abortion the top issue voted for Youngkin, a pro-lifer...
as are the majority of Hispanics...
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday that he will seek legislation to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in comments shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Republican told The Washington Post he has asked four Republican lawmakers to draft the legislation. He told the Post that although he favors banning most abortions after 15 weeks, a cutoff at 20 weeks might be necessary to build consensus in the divided Virginia legislature. He reiterated his support for exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk.
In a statement, he said he’s asked for legislation to be introduced when the General Assembly convenes in January.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/24/virginia-gov-glenn-youngkin-said-he-will-seek-legi/
New Biden Poll
Trafalgar Group (R) 6/20 - 6/23 1079 LV
35 Fav
60 Unf
-25
ouch
* must have been those Jan 6 "hearings"
The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion is an unfolding tragedy for American women and an indelible stain on the court itself. The harm to women is immense but can be ameliorated with efforts in the public and private spheres to safeguard access to abortion. The damage to the court cannot be undone.
This radical conservative majority — unheeding in this case even of the conservative chief justice — has proven itself unmoored from the rule of law, and therefore unworthy of the public esteem that can be its only source of enduring authority.
With the vote of five justices to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, American women have lost a right that was guaranteed them for a half-century, an unprecedented elimination of an individual freedom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/24/supreme-court-conservative-majority-rule-of-law/
There's nothing in the constitution about abortion. That's why the 10th amendment became applicable. Anything not explicitly enumerated becomes a decision for the states.
Most of the world has a compromise cutoff of 14 to 20 weeks. We should too.
The anti-abortion movement has a long history of violence.
In the last 43 years, anti-abortion activists have committed at least 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 956 known threats of harm or death, 614 stalking incidents and four kidnappings, 0according to the National Abortion Federation. The supposedly “pro-life” movement has bombed 42 abortion clinics, set fire to 194 and made 667 bomb threats.
11 murders in 43 years. That's a slow week for Antifa.
At the core of the Dobbs decision lies the conviction that the power of government can and should be used to impose a certain moral and religious vision – a supposedly biblical and regressive understanding of the Christian religion – on the population at large.
How did this conviction come to have such influence in the courts, given America’s longstanding principle of church-state separation? To understand why this is happening now, it’s important to know something about the Christian nationalist movement’s history, how its leaders chose the issue of abortion as a means of creating single-issue voters, and how they united conservatives across denominational barriers by, in effect, inventing a new form of intensely political religion.
Christian nationalists often claim their movement got its start as a grassroots reaction to Roe v Wade in 1973. But the movement actually gelled several years later with a crucial assist from a group calling itself the “New Right”.
Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips, Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of this movement were dissatisfied with the direction of the Republican party and the culture at large. “We are radicals who want to change the existing power structure. We are not conservatives in the sense that conservative means accepting the status quo,” Paul Weyrich said. “We want change – we are the forces of change.”
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They were angry at liberals, who they believed threatened to undermine national security with their softness on communism. They were angry at establishment conservatives – the “Rockefeller Republicans” – for siding with the liberals; they were angry about the rising tide of feminism, which they saw as a menace to the social order, and about the civil rights movement and the danger it posed to segregation. One thing that they were not particularly angry about, at least initially, was the matter of abortion rights.
With regards to the mid-terms, I'm liking the left's angle on this. They think reserving the right to slaughter the most innocent among us is a winning strategery.
The campaign ads just write themselves on this one.
When the Roe v Wade decision was issued, most Protestant Republicans supported it. The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions in 1971 and 1974 expressing support for the liberalization of abortion law, and an editorial in their wire service hailed the passage of Roe v Wade, declaring that “religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” As governor of California, Ronald Reagan passed the most liberal abortion law in the country in 1967. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
After the last 5 years of woke snowflake crt transgenderism, calling anyone else radical is sbdurd.
...Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
Yep. And 0linsky opposed gay marriage. Until he had an epiphany and chose to support it for political expedience and profit.
I was pro-abortion at one time. The allure of leftists killing off their own kids was powerful and compelling. Until I realized that the kids didn't deserve to die just because their birthing people were fucking assholes.
Opinions evolve, minds change.
Suck it up, sport. You lost.
And you know who beat you?
TRUMP.
LOL.
Democrats haven't been this pissed off since Lincoln freed their slaves.
What happened last night across America makes J6 look like a popcorn fart by comparison.
I can't wait for the J24 "commission...
Question now being asked of democrats is how can they say this is an attack on women's rights if they can't define what a woman is?
Republican Party campaign consultants are throwing up their hands in frustration at a ruling that will make it harder for them to do their jobs in November -- particularly as they try to bring suburban women back into the fold after four years of Donald Trump.
I still think the Republicans will get the house, but barely, and the Democrats will keep the Senate majority.
But it is still six months away??
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden Saturday signed a bipartisan gun bill designed to keep weapons away from dangerous people, one month after a horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
"Lives will be saved," Biden said in brief remarks. Biden described the bill as "the most significant law" of its kind in "the last 30 years."
Citing a litany of mass shootings from Las Vegas to Parkland, Biden said people for too long have urged government to "just do something" about the lethal problem. "Today, we did," he said.
The new law enhances background checks on young gun buyers between 18 and 21 years of age. It encourages states to develop more and better "red flag" laws that would deny guns to people who are deemed to be dangerous.
It also adds dating partners to the list of domestic abusers who are prohibited from buying firearms, eliminating the so-called "boyfriend loophole."
Suburban women do not want abortions right up until birth. They think it's barbaric.
Dems are wildly desperate. They're losing those Suburban mothers, blacks, Hispanics and young voters.
Democrats now have a choice. They can give speeches and send fundraising emails. Or they can act: declare this court illegitimate. Demand its expansion. Abolish the filibuster. Treat this like the emergency it is, and make America a representative democracy.
Jill Filipovic is the author of OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind
All that serious damage because a decision didn't go their way?
This is why they will get crushed in November. America had had enough.
She is absolutely correct.
(CNN)The Republican Party has a gun problem and a misogyny problem, and both only seem to be getting worse. As the increasingly marginalized moderates of the GOP warn that their party is turning toward a conspiracy-driven and unhinged fringe, members of that fringe seem ascendant -- and determined to mire the nation in lies, hate and the glorification of gun violence.
This week, Eric Greitens, a Republican running for a US Senate seat in Missouri, released an ad in which he toted a shotgun and, flanked by camo-clad men carrying assault weapons, went "RINO hunting." RINOs are "Republicans in Name Only," or insufficiently radical, insufficiently pro-Trump Republicans. (Greitens has dismissed criticism of the video clip as "faux outrage," telling a St. Louis radio station that it has a sense of humor and calling the hunting of RINO politicians "a metaphor.")
Some of history's leading fascist movements used the strategy of armed volunteer militias intimidating, threatening and attacking political opponents. And the implications of Greitens' ad are stunning: Line up behind the most extreme right-wing policies -- and implicitly behind former President Donald Trump -- or be hunted down by armed, jackbooted thugs.
The democrat party has locked up the trans vote. But in doing so has completely abandoned their old voter base - hourly working class. They try to smear anyone who opposes them, but the gop is now representing middle class working families and kitchen table issues.
...and make America a representative democracy.
Hmmm...
Make America a representative democracy by destroying one of the co-equal branches of our representative republic. With a temper tantrum. All because one of the most fatally flawed court rulings in the history of the republic was finally overturned, and the decision was sent back to the states to be decided by THE PEOPLE.
The most fucked up definitions of democracy can always be found on the left.
The basis of the reversal IS representative democracy. But the left cannot see past their blinding rage.
Democrats are now dumping on their hero RBG for not retiring when Obama was in office, choosing instead to die in her seat at 87 years old. Lol
Some of history's leading fascist movements used the strategy of armed volunteer militias intimidating, threatening and attacking political opponents.
I agree wholeheartedly...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/24/livewire-pro-abortion-protests-escalate-in-americas-major-cities/
Armed volunteer militias intimidating, threatening and attacking political opponents. Complete with pro-lifers being hunted down by armed, jackbooted thugs, better known as ANTIFA.
Liz Cheney is now asking WY democrats to register as Republicans and vote for her in August. See is sending out mailers requesting it. She's done.
THIS is what the left is melting down over -
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Justice Alito.
The left simply despises democracy.
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
When the Roe v Wade decision was issued, most Protestant Republicans supported it. The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions in 1971 and 1974 expressing support for the liberalization of abortion law, and an editorial in their wire service hailed the passage of Roe v Wade, declaring that “religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” As governor of California, Ronald Reagan passed the most liberal abortion law in the country in 1967. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater supported abortion law liberalization too, at least early in his career, and his wife Peggy was a cofounder of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.
In 1982 Joe Biden proposes a constitutional amendment that would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to choose their own policies on abortion.
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1540355879995932672
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html
Lawmakers held hostage in AZ State Senate building. Let's see the government response to this real insurrection.
OTC birth control solves this problem and renders Roe irrelevant.
But democrats said NO...
Rather than working with Republicans to craft a compromise measure—say, one that protected insurance coverage for contraception but also paved the way for over-the-counter pills—and helping to secure a rare bipartisan win for women’s health care, liberals actively advocated against conservative colleagues’ efforts.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, suggested, without evidence, that making pills available over the counter would hike costs for individual women to $600 a year. Republican politicians pushing for OTC pills, she said, would somehow “drag women back to the 1950s.”
In 2014, Planned Parenthood’s political arm bought ads in multiple states. “In its first TV ad buy of the 2014 cycle,” noted HuffPost, “Planned Parenthood’s political arm is warning voters in North Carolina and Colorado that Republican Senate candidates’ support for over-the-counter birth control is not what it seems.” . . .
This was a dark moment in Democratic politics: Even as they ramped up efforts to portray Republicans as the harbingers of a Handmaid’s Tale scenario and to portray themselves as hip to the needs of marginalized groups, Democrats sacrificed an opportunity to help women struggling to obtain birth control prevent unintended pregnancies. Instead, at the expense of undocumented immigrants, low-income women, victims of domestic violence, and others, they opted to help middle-class women save $10 a month—and prop up insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, and the Democratic fundraising machine in the process.
All the while, they insisted that they were putting contraception in reach for more American women. But evidence suggests they were merely shifting around costs.
https://reason.com/2019/01/16/deregulate-the-pill/
AG Mary Garland refuses to act .
2 systems ofJustice
Exactly 💯
MyballsinthewoodsagainJune 25, 2022 at 8:37 AM
All that serious damage because a decision didn't go their way?
This is why they will get crushed in November. America had had enough
Roger is dumber then a Parrot 🦜
""Lives will be saved," Biden "
When it happens post the individual(s) name.
Anonymous said...
Roger is dumber then a Parrot 🦜
Well he is a big racist Planted-in-the-Hood supporter
Which aborted millions of his future voters
What could go wrong ?
Trump made a secret call to Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election, report says
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018.
Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images
Donald Trump made a mysterious call to Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election, Politico reports.
A filmmaker recording Trump said he had an interview with Trump cancelled so he could call Putin.
At the time, Putin had just rebuffed false claims Trump was pushing about Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
Former President Donald Trump made a mysterious call to Russian President Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 presidential election, a British filmmaker told Politico.
Alex Holder, who was filming Trump and his family for a documentary in the months before the Capitol riot, told the outlet that he had been scheduled to film an interview with Trump on October 25, 2020.
That interview was abruptly cancelled on the day, Holder said.
"My memory is that the chief of staff sort of came over and said that the interview couldn't happen today because the president was on the phone," Holder told Politico.
"I believe, if I remember correctly, that he said that he was on the phone to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, which is why the interview had to be postponed."
Trump's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on the apparent call. No official read out of such a call was ever made public.
On the day of the apparent call, Trump was busy campaigning in New England. Holder said the call to Putin was made while on a flight from New Hampshire to Maine.
Politico noted that at the time Trump was pushing baseless claims that his opponent in the election, Joe Biden, had profited from dubious business deals his son, Hunter Biden, had made in Ukraine and Moscow.
Putin that day had dismissed the allegation, and was quoted in Russian state media reports just before the alleged call saying that he saw no evidence of criminality in Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and Russia.
Trump's relationship with Putin has long been a source of rumor and controversy.
It was the subject of a lengthy investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who ultimately found that evidence did not substantiate charges Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.
Mueller though did conclude that Russia sought to help Trump win that election. In 2021, a US intelligence report found that Russia had sought to influence the election by channeling damaging disinformation about Biden through Trump allies.
Holder has handed over months of interviews he filmed with Trump and his family to the House committee investigating Trump's attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat. The existence of the tapes reportedly surprised Trump aides, who only learnt of them when they were subpoenaed by the House committee this week.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Criminal in every way.
"Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” t “there is a war out there, and we need to recognize that we’ve got to armor up.”
Roger continues to fail, here and of course in real life.
"I believe, if I remember correctly, that he said that he was on the phone to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, which is why the interview had to be postponed."
LMAO.
The desperation is palpable as the intensity and velocity of the lies increases.
Actually it was a video-conference call with Putin, the President of Iran, the President of NK, and it was hosted by Satan himself.
AZ lawmakers held hostage by liberal protesters. Far worse than a guy in a viking helmet stealing a podium.
A real insurrection. Will garland even notice?
Gas prices in the United States are inextricably tied to international events entirely outside the purview of any president, whether Carter or Joe Biden. And this brings us to the causes of the current gas price increases: You can start with the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused crude oil prices to drop as demand fizzled and is now causing a surge as production strains to keep apace of consumption (and particularly demand in nations like China, which is ending its lockdown). Russia's oil exports have been significantly reduced due to that nation's invasion of Ukraine, and the subsequent blowback from the international community. Finally, while demand for gas has increased, it is still not back to the levels that existed before the pandemic.
Much like the climate, gas prices exist in a complex and planet-wide system in which it is virtually impossible for any single American official to significantly alter what happens. Even as Biden calls on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax, it does little more than nibble at the edges of the problem.
"He has no real effect on world oil prices," Christopher Knittel, an energy economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told USA Today. He later added, "Even the things he has already done and has suggested are short-term, marginal impacts on the price of gasoline. It's hard for Americans to see this, but the world market is so big and so vast, it's hard for even a big country and an economic powerhouse like ourselves to have a large impact" on gas prices.
The gas tax holiday won't help him
https://www.rawstory.com/gas-prices-2657562341/
1/20/2025
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
Gas prices in the United States are inextricably tied to international events entirely outside the purview of any president, whether Carter or Joe Biden.
If only this were true.
Conservative pollster Frank Luntz said this week that he thinks former President Donald Trump's popularity is being damaged by the January 6 panel's public hearings on the Capitol riot.
Speaking on CNN's "New Day" program, Luntz said the panel focused "too much" on politicians but commented that the hearings are still hurting Trump.
Actually it is true because they have zero power to effect fuel costs
Will state legislatures require GPS tracking on pregnant women?
Omg, a new low in Alky Fucktardisms.
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He(feckless Joe)has no real effect on world oil prices"
Some legal experts fear that prosecutors will use intimate pieces of evidence, such as text messages, internet search history and period tracking apps to build their cases, as well as, perhaps, information gathered from medical professionals.
And, though states with abortion bans have focused punishment on the providers and not those seeking or self-managing an abortion, women will still be in the line of fire, said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director of If/When/How, a reproductive justice group.
In some states call abortion is murder.
Provide evidence
So ,Biden who is the President of the largest Economy in the world is helpless.
But, Putin, who controls The Russian Economy
(#11) does control fuel and grain prices .
Only in Alky Fucktardland
Roger asked me to "provide evidence ".
Ok, when you posted that Biden's release of oil from The SPR would reduce prices to "$ 3.00" a gallon.
Your belief Feckless Joe would control the Market Price.
So putin can affect gas prices but Biden can't. Got it.
Evidence, sure Roger.
How about directly from Joe:
"I told you before that we're going to take action on these problems. That's exactly what we're doing," Biden said in remarks broadcast from the White House.
"It will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank,"
Some legal experts fear that prosecutors will use intimate pieces of evidence, such as text messages, internet search history and period tracking apps to build their cases, as well as, perhaps, information gathered from medical professionals.
They will treat them just as the DOJ has treated the Jan 6th protesters!
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
Provide evidence
Here ya go. Schooled by an 8 yr old cartoon character. DOOOH!
Everytime Poor Alky challenges me, i mop the floor with him.
Using his words and those of Joe's.
Joe thought he could . He can't .
Evidence, sure Roger.
How about directly from Joe:
"I told you before that we're going to take action on these problems. That's exactly what we're doing," Biden said in remarks broadcast from the White House.
"It will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank,"
Roger is a coward, he has been one his entire worthless life.
Roger asked me to "provide evidence ".
Ok, when you posted that Biden's release of oil from The SPR would reduce prices to "$ 3.00" a gallon.
Your belief Feckless Joe would control the Market Price.
Roger asked for "Evidence ".
I can do this all day long, taking my baseball bat to Alky.
June 22, 2022.
"THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. I’d like to talk to you about the actions I’m announcing to bring down gas prices."
Joe thinks he can.
Cali, very well done.
Roger mentally is a child.
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