3 more days and the trump nightmare will move to floriduh to make that state a shithole!!!!!!!!!! Who is going to file the first charges????? Ga or NY?????????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
My Vermont hero's not only make great ice cream....they have working brains as evidenced by this short post.....
Wed, January 13, 2021, 11:32 AM After last week’s chaos in the U.S. Capitol, Ben & Jerry’s issued a statement, that called the violence a “riot to uphold white supremacy.”
“We must dismantle white supremacy and we have to understand that this is a white problem,” Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder Ben Cohen told Yahoo Finance. “This is not a Black problem. This is a problem of us.”
Lil Schitty et al are all scared shitless of this inevitable decay of white man rule.....They stick by the racism and hatred in their last grasp to remain on top!!!!!!!!
ANOTHER SUNDAY FUNNY PARDONS FOR SALE: Market for Pardons Heats Up 6:53 am “As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency,” the New York Times reports.
“The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Mr. Trump’s presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers. Pardons and commutations are intended to show mercy to deserving recipients, but Mr. Trump has used many of them to reward personal or political allies.
AND HERE'S ONE THAT'S FUNNY TOO: MyPillow Guy Hopes Military Presence Is Trump’s Plan 10:12 pm Following his meeting with President Trump on Friday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said in a Facebook interview that he’s praying that the military presence in Washington for the inauguration is part of Trump’s plan to retain power. DREAM ON, CEO SCOTT AND OTHER TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE YOU HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS
AND THIS IS ABSOLUTLY H I L A R I O U S: Trump Envisions $2 Billion Presidential Library 10:00 pm President Trump is telling his supporters and donors he wants to collect $2 billion for a presidential library and museum in Florida, the Washington Post reports.
IT WILL TURN INTO AN AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE PEOPLE WILL GO FOR A GOOD LAUGH
Giuliani Working on Trump’s Impeachment Defense 9:41 pm Rudy Giuliani tells ABC News he’s working as part of the president’s defense team in his upcoming second impeachment trial — and that he’s prepared to argue that the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the widely-debunked claims are true.
Said Giuliani: “I’m involved right now … that’s what I’m working on.”
LOL IT SEEMS CLOWN DONALD CAN ONLY GET CLOWN RUDY TO DEFEND HIM!
AND NOW IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS: Reject Conspiracy Theories or Be Consumed By Them 9:50 pm
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) condemned the Republican Party for nourishing QAnon and other conspiracy theories in The Atlantic.
He says the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was “not a protest gone awry or the work of ‘a few bad apples.’ It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice.”
“When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.”
FBI Probing If Foreigners Funded Insurrectionists 9:15 am
NBC News: “As part of the investigation, the bureau is examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin, apparently by a French national, to key figures and groups in the ALTt-RIGHT before the riot.”
JAWOHL, MEIN FUEHRER! VE VANT YOU FOR OUR DICTATOR!
Trump Approval Hits New Low as Term Ends 9:21 am President Trump will leave office with the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a new CNN Poll, with more Americans than ever in support of removing him from office.
Overall, 34% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency, down from 42% in a pre-election poll and one point below his previous low point in CNN’s polling.
I am amazed how there are so many GOP assholes who believe in the Q Anon nonsense.,......the idiots should really listen to this guy as he seems to know what is going on!!!!!!
Rebecca Falconer Sun, January 17, 2021, 12:31 AM Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) called on his Republican Party to rebuild itself and "repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on fire" in an in an op-ed for The Atlantic Saturday on the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Why it matters: Many of the mob involved in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots wore items signaling their support for the far-right QAnon and a prominent member of the cult was among those arrested following the siege.
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Several Republicans who ran for Congress last year publicly supported or defended the QAnon movement or some of its tenets — something Sasee noted in his op-ed, headlined "QAnon is Destroying the GOP From Within."
Sasse blames the violence on "the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice."
AND NOW BE SURE TO GO TO POLITICALWIRE.COM AND CLICK ON THIS LINK
AND LAUGH AT THE LONG VIDEO THERE ___________
Inside the Capitol Siege 9:33 am Extraordinary new video from Luke Mogelson at the New Yorker offers a chilling look into the Capitol siege that left five dead.
Here we go again. For the second time in 12 years a newly elected Democratic president is inheriting an economy in deep distress. And while it’s hard to focus on such things after last week’s Trumpist putsch, a lot depends on whether Joe Biden’s plan to deal with our economic woes is effective.
The narrow Democratic margin in Congress means that the most ambitious progressive goals will have to be put on hold. But the rescue package Biden unveiled Thursday already indicates he won’t exhibit the excessive caution that inhibited President Barack Obama’s response to economic crisis.
Still, in case anyone on the Biden team is feeling cautious, let me offer four rules, based on hard experience, that should encourage them to be bold in dealing with the mess we’re in.
Rule #1: Don’t doubt the power of government to help. The last time Democrats took the White House, they were still in something of a reflexive cringe, halfway accepting the conservative dogma that government always does more harm than good. But everything that has happened since 2009 says that government spending can be hugely beneficial.
Remember how Republicans denounced Obamacare, with some of them comparing it to slavery? As it turned out, despite its flaws, the Affordable Care Act led to a drastic decline in the number of Americans without health insurance, and it gave many people a new sense of security in the knowledge that they couldn’t be cut off because of pre-existing conditions. Republican attempts to repeal the A.C.A. were a major reason Democrats now control Congress.
More recently, the CARES Act, which provided aid to businesses, expanded unemployment benefits, gave out checks and more, greatly alleviated the damage from the pandemic — poverty may even have gone down while the act was in full effect.
Biden is seeking another major relief package, including a new effort to reduce child poverty, and he may soon move to make the A.C.A. more generous and cover more people. He should push hard on both fronts: Recent experience shows that smart government spending can do a lot to improve Americans’ lives.
Rule #2: Don’t obsess about debt. Constant warnings about the dangers of government borrowing hobbled the Obama agenda almost from the start. Biden shouldn’t let that happen again.
The fact is that the dire predictions of deficit scolds never came true, and there is now widespread agreement among economists that debt is far less of a problem than conventional wisdom asserted. Among other things, while the level of federal debt may seem high, low interest rates mean that the burden of servicing that debt is actually very low by historical standards.
Oh, and no credence at all should be given to what we all know is coming: fake deficit hawkery from Republicans who screeched about debt under Obama, then rammed through a huge, unfunded tax cut under Donald Trump.
Rule #3: Don’t worry about inflation. Constant warnings about soaring prices, combined with false claims that the government was hiding the true rate of inflation (no, this sort of thing didn’t begin with Trump) also marked the Obama years; but inflation never took off. Nonetheless, the usual suspects are ramping up to try it again.
So this is a good time to emphasize one key lesson from the Trump years: We can run a “hot” economy, with low unemployment and large budget deficits, without runaway inflation. And Biden should do everything he can to make the American economy hot again.
But he shouldn’t expect any help from the opposition party.
Rule #4: Don’t count on Republicans to help govern. The original sin of Obama economic policy was the underpowered stimulus of 2009. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped stabilize the economy, but it was much too small given the depths of the crisis. This isn’t hindsight; some of us were very publicly tearing our hair out in real time.
One reason the plan was too small was that Obama was trying to gain bipartisan support, rather than using reconciliation to push it through with Democratic votes (which is how Republicans passed the 2017 tax cut). But that support never came; instead, a sluggish recovery helped the G.O.P. take the House in 2010, setting the stage for years of policy sabotage.
Biden must not make the same mistake. It’s OK for him to spend a few days giving some Republicans a chance to get on board, but he can’t let the pursuit of cross-party support lead to watered-down policies.
The sad fact is that Biden can’t expect any significant help in governing from the modern Republican Party — a party that for the most part spent two months refusing to accept clear-cut election results, with many members of Congress still voting to reject electoral votes even after a mob sacked the Capitol. And he shouldn’t let the lack of bipartisanship derail his agenda. Voters don’t care about process; they care about results.
Putting all of this together, the message is “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” Neither defunct ideology, nor bogus economic concerns, nor the vain hope of comity should be allowed to stand in the way of delivering the policies America needs. Paul Krugman
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS GOING OFF INTO THE REALM OF LIARS --- AGAIN
How Republicans WARP REALITY Around Capitol Attack 9:53 am
New York Times: “In one of the ultimate don’t-believe-your-eyes moments of the Trump era, these Republicans have retreated to the ranks of misinformation, claiming it was Black Lives Matter protesters and far-left groups like Antifa who stormed the Capitol — in spite of the pro-Trump flags and QAnon symbology in the crowd.
Others have argued that the attack was no worse than the rioting and looting in cities during the Black Lives Matter movement, often exaggerating the unrest last summer while minimizing a mob’s attempt to overturn an election.
“The shift is revealing about how conspiracy theories, deflection and political incentives play off one another in Mr. Trump’s G.O.P.
For a brief time, Republican officials seemed perhaps open to grappling with what their party’s leader had wrought — violence in the name of their Electoral College fight.
But any window of reflection now seems to be closing as Republicans try to pass blame and to compare last summer’s lawlessness, which was condemned by Democrats, to an attack on Congress, which was inspired by Mr. Trump.”
Most Republicans Still Don’t See Biden as Legitimate 9:47 am ABC News-Washington Post poll: “Overall, more than 6 in 10 Americans say Biden was legitimately elected as the 46th president, including more than 9 in 10 Democrats and more than 6 in 10 independents. But 7 in 10 Republicans say he was not legitimately elected.”
“That suggests that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, propagated by many other Republicans, have taken root within the party despite the absence of credible evidence, dozens of failed legal challenges and multiple recounts affirming Biden’s victories in Georgia and Wisconsin.”
Washington Post: Republicans call for unity but won’t acknowledge Biden won fairly.
Whoops! Giuliani claims he will defend Trump ---but even Trump is not THAT crazy.
White House Pushes Back on Giuliani Claim 10:02 am Although Rudy Giuliani claimed he was representing Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley says no decision has been made:
“President Trump has not yet made a determination as to which lawyer or law firm will represent him for the disgraceful attack on our Constitution and democracy, known as the ‘impeachment hoax.’ We will keep you informed.”
MEANWHILE Big Majority Oppose Possible Self-Pardon 9:57 am
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 68% of Americans oppose President Trump pardoning himself for any federal crimes he may be accused of committing.
Truth Finally Catches Up with Donald Trump 10:19 am Associated Press: “The twice-impeached president painted a fantasy world in office, starring himself.
In this world, he did things bigger, better, more boldly than all who came before him while facing enemies more pernicious than any in creation -- all according to him!
“In service of his ego, his nature and his reelection prospects, he said things that were not only wrong, but the precise opposite of right. He said them over and over, in leaps and bounds, and no less so when the deceptions were exposed.” __________
AND now decent, intelligent, truth-loving, patriotic Americans are telling him to TAKE A HIKE!!!
Democrats only want troops called in when they are selling a hoax for an impeachment charade.
In Biden's America, the only people who don't need to quarantine, who don't need vaccines, and who don't negative virus tests--are illegals at the southern border.
Everything happening in DC right now is based on a fraud--including the inauguration on Wednesday.
LOL. Democrats are locking down DC to cover for nobody showing up to Biden's inauguration. It's so freaking obvious.
The "insurrection" is just another hoax to destroy Trump.
BEN SASSE is a Republican United States senator from Nebraska. Previously, he served for five years as president of Midland University.
Gene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an angry, advancing mob, he retreated up a marble staircase, calmly wielding his baton to delay his pursuers while calling out their position to his fellow officers. At the top of the steps, still alone and standing just a few yards from the chamber where senators and Vice President Mike Pence had been certifying the Electoral College’s vote, Goodman strategically lured dozens of the mayhem-minded away from an unguarded door to the Senate floor.
The leader of that flank of the mob, later identified by the FBI as Douglas Jensen, wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a red-white-and-blue Q—the insignia of the delusional QAnon conspiracy theory. Its supporters believe that a righteous Donald Trump is leading them in a historic quest to expose the U.S. government’s capture by a global network of cannibalistic pedophiles: not just “deep state” actors in the intelligence community, but Chief Justice John Roberts and a dozen-plus senators, including me. Now Trump’s own vice president is supposedly in on it, too. According to the FBI, Jensen “wanted to have his T-shirt seen on video so that ‘Q’ could ‘get the credit.’”
From the June 2020 issue: The prophecies of Q
January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully loaded with weaponry and what prosecutors are calling “homemade napalm bombs.”
The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.
Goebbels: If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
That is bad.
The good thing is, if you keep insisting on the truth and present evidence for it people will come to believe it. ____________
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can[t fool all of the people all of the time. --Abraham Lincoln
If and when the House sends its article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, I will be a juror in his trial, and thus what I can say in advance is limited. But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate reckoning. Until last week, many party leaders and consultants thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon. They can’t. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them. Now is the time to decide what this party is about.
The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.
Read: The conspiracy theories that fueled the Civil War
If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies.
But the problem has worsened in the past five years. On the supply side, media outlets have discovered that dialing up the rhetoric increases clicks, eyeballs, and revenue. On the demand side, readers and viewers like to see their opinions affirmed, rather than challenged. When everybody’s outraged, everybody wins—at least in the short term.
This is not a problem only on the right or only on obscure blogs. The underlying economics that drive Fox News and upstarts such as One America News to cultivate and serve ideologically distinct audiences also drive MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times. More and more fiercely, media outlets rally their audience behind the latest cause du jour, whether it’s battling supposed election fraud or abolishing local police departments.
The conservative swaths of this media landscape were primed for Trump’s “Stop the steal” lie, which lit the fuse for the January 6 riot. For nine weeks, the president consistently lied that he had “won in a landslide.” Despite the fact that his lawyers and allies were laughed out of court more than 60 times, he spread one conspiracy theory after another across television, radio, and the web. For anyone who wanted to hear that Trump won, a machine of grifters was turning clicks into cash by telling their audiences what they wanted to hear. The liars got rich, their marks got angry, and things got out of control.
America’s institutional collapse Traditional media outlets are only some of the longstanding institutions collapsing as the digital revolution erodes geographic communities in favor of placeless ones. Many people who yell at strangers on Twitter don’t know their own local officials or even their neighbors across the street. The loss of rootedness and institutional authority has created an opening for populists on the right and the left. It’s not a coincidence that in 2016, millions of Republicans threw in their lot behind a man who for almost all of his life had been a Democratic voter and donor, and millions of Democrats wanted as their nominee a senator who staunchly refused to join their party. On both sides, conventional politicians were being told they had lost the thread.
The anger being directed today at major internet platforms—Twitter, Facebook, and Google, especially—is, in part, a consequence of the fading of traditional political authority. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently, Americans have outsourced key parts of political life to Silicon Valley behemoths that were not designed to, and are not competent to, execute functions traditionally in the province of the government. The failure of our traditional political institutions and our traditional media to function as spaces for genuine political conversation has created a vacuum now filled by the social-media giants—who are even worse at the job.
Civic authority has ebbed in other ways. Political incompetence and malpractice around the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened suspicions that some politicians will never let a crisis go to waste. The decisions in California to keep churches closed but to keep open strip clubs and marijuana dispensaries baffle Main Street. Similarly, the jolting juxtaposition of a media-addict mayor breaking up Hasidic funerals while marching in Black Lives Matter protests not only deepens the cynicism of many Americans, but it indisputably undermined institutions of public health that should have been cautiously protecting their standing.
America’s loss of meaning Our political sickness has a third cause. At least since World War II, sociologists and political scientists have been tracing the erosion of the institutions and habits that joined neighbors together in bonds of friendship and mutual responsibility. Little Leagues were not just pastimes; soup kitchens were not just service organizations; they were also venues in which people found shared purpose. Today, in many places, those bonds have been severed.
In 1922, G. K. Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” But according to a recent study of dozens of countries, none has ditched religious belief faster since 2007 than the U.S. Without going into the causes, we can at least acknowledge one cost: For generations, most Americans understood themselves as children of a loving God, and all had a role to play in loving their neighbors. But today, many Americans have no role in any common story.
Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.
Whatever the republican Party does, it faces an ugly fight. The fracture that so many politicians on the right have been trying desperately to avoid may soon happen. But if the party has any hope of playing a constructive, rather than destructive, part in America’s future, it must do two things.
First, Republicans must repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on fire. Putting it out will take courage—and I don’t mean merely political courage. This week, after realizing that some Capitol insurrectionists wanted to capture the vice president, several Republican House members said privately that they believed a vote to impeach the president would put their lives, or the lives of their families, at risk. That is not the “constituent engagement” that elected officials are duty-bound to deal with on a daily basis. That is simply tyranny, just from the bottom up, instead of the top down. When arsonists are inside our house, can we just stand by and hope that they’ll depart quietly?
Zeynep Tufekci: Most House Republicans did what the rioters wanted
Second, the party has to rebuild itself. It must offer a genuine answer to the frustrations of the past decade. Other than by indulging Trump’s fantasies about building iPhones in America, Republicans have not figured out how to address Americans’ anger about community erosion, massive dislocations in the labor force, or Big Tech’s historically unprecedented role in governing de facto public squares.
Sensing a chance at tribal expansion, some on the left are thrilled by the chaos on the right, and they’re eager to seize the moment to banish from polite society not just those who participated and encouraged violence, but anyone with an R next to his or her name. Already on Twitter, a conservative position as longstanding as opposition to abortion has been recast as “domestic terrorism.” An MSNBC host talked about the “de-Baathification” of the GOP, comparing rank-and-file Republicans to supporters of Saddam Hussein. In an exchange on CNN, a host accused Republican voters of making common cause with Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Yet the exploitative overreaction by the left should not allow an underreaction by the right.
The past four years have wounded our country in grievous, long-lasting ways. The mob that rushed the Capitol had been fed a steady diet of lies and conspiracy theories. It is very possible that the QAnon devotee Douglas Jensen believed the junk he’d been sold—that he was a valued foot soldier in Trump’s war against shadowy forces of darkness. So, according to the FBI, he put on his Q T-shirt and acted like a foot soldier. Right up until he ran into Officer Goodman.
In a standoff between the Constitution and madness, both men picked a side. It’s the GOP’s turn to do the same.
"Democrats are locking down DC to cover for nobody showing up to Biden's inauguration. It's so freaking obvious." __________
You mean no one out of all the 81 million people who voted for Biden would have showed up? You mean that none of the numerous blacks in DC who recognize him as their best hope would have showed up?
Many Americans would have made a point of being there just to mount their OPPOSITION to what has happened, the Capitol fiasco wrought by Trump.
No, the real reason this will be a truncated, virtual inauguration is because there is genuine fear that people like you will show up with intent to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, even if it means you have to commit murder to do it.
And btw, weren't you in DC? What part did you have in storming the Capitol?
Benjamin Eric Sasse ( /ˈsæs/ SASS; born February 22, 1972) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Quick Facts: United States Senator from Nebraska, Preceded by ...
Born in Plainview, Nebraska, Sasse holds a bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from St. John's College and master's and doctorate degrees in American history from Yale University.
The corporate media & our corrupt elected officials have completely miscalculated the mood of the country. They know how much they are hated.They’ve exhausted their own credibility the last 4 years.
They don’t really represent the American people anymore & everyone knows it.
This finding yesterday by Mr. @NolteNC below is confirmed by our competitor @Gallup - https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1338837548647526401?s=20
BIDEN WILL BRING BACK DECENCY AND SANITY TO AMERICA
Biden Plans Blitz of Executive Orders
“President-elect Joe Biden, inheriting a collection of crises unlike any in generations, plans to open his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in a 10-day blitz meant to signal a turning point for a nation reeling from disease, economic turmoil, racial strife and now the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Biden’s team has developed a raft of decrees that he can issue on his own authority after the inauguration on Wednesday to begin reversing some of President Trump’s most hotly disputed policies.
Advisers hope the flurry of action, without waiting for Congress, will establish a sense of momentum for the new president even as the Senate puts his predecessor on trial.
“On his first day in office alone, Mr. Biden intends a flurry of executive orders that will be partly substantive and partly symbolic. They include rescinding the travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries, rejoining the Paris climate change accord, extending pandemic-related limits on evictions and student loan payments, issuing a mask mandate for federal property and interstate travel and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families after crossing the border.”
Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, as one of five children of William F. and Nancy A. Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City when Brady was 12 years old and his mother was in her early 30s. He graduated from Central High School in 1973.
I remember the day his father was shot and killed.
Misinformation Plunged After Trump Was Booted from Twitter
“Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively,” the Washington Post reports. _______
Out and out lies are going to be more difficult to promulgate in America. About time!
There is unrest in the forest There is trouble with the trees For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples And they're quite convinced they're right They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings If they like the way they're made And they wonder why the maples Can't be happy in their shade
There is trouble in the forest And the creatures all have fled As the maples scream "Oppression" And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights "The oaks are just too greedy We will make them give us light" Now there's no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw
President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a pioneer in mapping the human genome to be his chief science adviser and is elevating the top science job to a Cabinet position, the AP reports. _______
This is a first! Never before has a science adviser been a Cabinet member!!!
Science rather than propaganda returns to the White House.
“Vice President Mike Pence telephoned Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday to congratulate her and offer his assistance ahead of next week’s swearing-in, the latest indication that Mr. Pence is filling the leadership role all but abdicated by President Trump,” the New York Times reports.
“The conversation, which was relayed by two officials briefed on the call, was described as gracious and pleasant. The discussion is the first time Mr. Pence and Ms. Harris have spoken since they debated each other last fall.” ____________
This constitutes an acknowledgment of the legitimacy of Harris' election. Trump will not be pleased, but at this point Pence no longer seems to care. Not after he came close to real danger in Trump's siccing the crowds on the Capitol.
President Donald Trump’s two greatest foreign policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the Middle East and an assertive China containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. On the former front, Trump boldly departed from the misbegotten “inside-out” conflict resolution approach, which elevated to the forefront the need for Israeli capitulation to Palestinian-Arab intransigence; on the latter front, Trump became the first president since Richard Nixon’s famous 1972 trip to China to openly call into question our relationship with that ascendant, hegemonic Communist regime.
The key difference is that, as Trump prepares to ride off into the sunset, progress on the latter is likely at greater risk of a prompt post-inauguration reversal from his Democratic successor. The physical moving of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of the Trump administration’s myriad displays of staunch friendship with the Jewish state, is unlikely to be undone. Nor would any sane politician seek to nix the Abraham Accords, the series of landmark peace deals between Israel and Islamic nations that the administration helped negotiate. But pugnacious China-skeptical rhetoric, hardline opposition to Huawei’s emergent 5G telecommunications network and harsh tariffs on Chinese imports are the sort of moves that would be all too easy for a longtime China dove, such as Joe Biden, to quickly reverse.
In order to help box in his successor and secure the continuity of our long-overdue recalibration with our preeminent 21st-century geopolitical threat, there is one farewell action above all that would stick in the craw of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and redound to America’s substantive benefit. Trump ought to formally recognize Taiwan (also known as the Republic of China) as an independent state, distinct from the Beijing-based regime—and he must do so, with all the diplomatic accoutrements such a formal recognition entails, posthaste.
Leaf said... Biden Makes Science Adviser A CABINET POSITION
Yes at least Biden recognizes the importance of science,.,,,,,But with sooooooo many R's thinking Q Anon is real.....it sure is an up hill struggle for the minds of voters!!!!!!!!!! Good that fucking daddy has returned to his stupid ways, but that is what makes the GOP a party of the past!!!!
BTW....Trumps greatest accomplishment is managing to be a 1 term leader who has killed 380 k americans due to his stupidity.....WHo gives a fuck about the ME and I hope Biden puts the embassy back where it belongs and re enters the Iran deal!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
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LHS
Liberal Hatred Syndrome.
"Just as the Nazi Party in Germany succeeded in getting their followers to hate the Jews, and using that hatred to demand that all Jews be rounded up, silenced, and eventually many of them were just "eliminated"... the liberal elite has convinced their followers that "conservatives" are the new Jews who need to be whisked away to some camp to be executed for thought crimes."
Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for 12 hours on Sunday, saying that she has repeatedly run afoul of the company's misinformation policy.
"The account referenced has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy," a Twitter spokesperson said.
Greene's most recent posts included one in which she made false claims about widespread voter fraud in Georgia in both the November election and in the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs and another series of tweets in which she repeated more debunked claims and called Georgia's elections officials "morons."
Twitter restricted those posts from further promotion and slapped them with warning labels. Her account remained live, but she is unable to post.
Following the riot at the Capitol earlier this month, Twitter has ramped up its crackdown on misleading and false information on its platform. Since the violence, Twitter has suspended tens of thousands of accounts tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory, in addition to indefinitely barring President Donald Trump.
Twitter's civic integrity policy states the company "will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process."
"This includes but is not limited to: disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself, such as unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results; and misleading claims about the results or outcome of a civic process which calls for or could lead to interference with the implementation of the results of the process," the company's policies state.
A freshman lawmaker and a vocal supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, Greene has previously expressed sympathy for QAnon, though she has since sought to distance herself. Greene, who already pledged to try and impeach President-elect Joe Biden on his first day in office, has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans since the riots.
"She's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,,so is Scott" Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., wrote in an op-ed, criticizing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for not disavowing her campaign.
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3 more days and the trump nightmare will move to floriduh to make that state a shithole!!!!!!!!!! Who is going to file the first charges????? Ga or NY?????????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
My Vermont hero's not only make great ice cream....they have working brains as evidenced by this short post.....
Wed, January 13, 2021, 11:32 AM
After last week’s chaos in the U.S. Capitol, Ben & Jerry’s issued a statement, that called the violence a “riot to uphold white supremacy.”
“We must dismantle white supremacy and we have to understand that this is a white problem,” Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder Ben Cohen told Yahoo Finance. “This is not a Black problem. This is a problem of us.”
Lil Schitty et al are all scared shitless of this inevitable decay of white man rule.....They stick by the racism and hatred in their last grasp to remain on top!!!!!!!!
How bout them Bills!
ANOTHER SUNDAY FUNNY
PARDONS FOR SALE:
Market for Pardons Heats Up
6:53 am
“As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency,” the New York Times reports.
“The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Mr. Trump’s presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers. Pardons and commutations are intended to show mercy to deserving recipients, but Mr. Trump has used many of them to reward personal or political allies.
AND HERE'S ONE THAT'S FUNNY TOO:
MyPillow Guy Hopes Military Presence Is Trump’s Plan
10:12 pm
Following his meeting with President Trump on Friday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said in a Facebook interview that he’s praying that the military presence in Washington for the inauguration is part of Trump’s plan to retain power.
DREAM ON, CEO
SCOTT AND OTHER TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE YOU HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS
AND THIS IS ABSOLUTLY H I L A R I O U S:
Trump Envisions $2 Billion Presidential Library
10:00 pm
President Trump is telling his supporters and donors he wants to collect $2 billion for a presidential library and museum in Florida, the Washington Post reports.
IT WILL TURN INTO AN AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE PEOPLE WILL GO FOR A GOOD LAUGH
AND HERE'S A REAL KNEE SLAPPER:
Giuliani Working on Trump’s Impeachment Defense
9:41 pm
Rudy Giuliani tells ABC News he’s working as part of the president’s defense team in his upcoming second impeachment trial — and that he’s prepared to argue that the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the widely-debunked claims are true.
Said Giuliani: “I’m involved right now … that’s what I’m working on.”
LOL
IT SEEMS CLOWN DONALD CAN ONLY GET
CLOWN RUDY TO DEFEND HIM!
AND NOW IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS:
Reject Conspiracy Theories or Be Consumed By Them 9:50 pm
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) condemned the Republican Party for nourishing QAnon and other conspiracy theories in The Atlantic.
He says the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
was “not a protest gone awry or the work of ‘a few bad apples.’
It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago
and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice.”
“When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice:
We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions,
or we can be a party of conspiracy theories,
cable-news fantasies,
and the ruin that comes with them.
We can be the party of Eisenhower,
or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones.
We can applaud Officer Goodman
or side with the mob he outwitted.
We cannot do both.”
FBI Probing If Foreigners Funded Insurrectionists
9:15 am
NBC News: “As part of the investigation, the bureau is examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin, apparently by a French national, to key figures and groups in the ALTt-RIGHT before the riot.”
JAWOHL, MEIN FUEHRER!
VE VANT YOU FOR OUR DICTATOR!
Trump Approval Hits New Low as Term Ends
9:21 am
President Trump will leave office with the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a new CNN Poll, with more Americans than ever in support of removing him from office.
Overall, 34% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency, down from 42% in a pre-election poll and one point below his previous low point in CNN’s polling.
I am amazed how there are so many GOP assholes who believe in the Q Anon nonsense.,......the idiots should really listen to this guy as he seems to know what is going on!!!!!!
Rebecca Falconer
Sun, January 17, 2021, 12:31 AM
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) called on his Republican Party to rebuild itself and "repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on fire" in an in an op-ed for The Atlantic Saturday on the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Why it matters: Many of the mob involved in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots wore items signaling their support for the far-right QAnon and a prominent member of the cult was among those arrested following the siege.
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Several Republicans who ran for Congress last year publicly supported or defended the QAnon movement or some of its tenets — something Sasee noted in his op-ed, headlined "QAnon is Destroying the GOP From Within."
Sasse blames the violence on "the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice."
They kicked ass
AND NOW BE SURE TO GO TO
POLITICALWIRE.COM
AND CLICK ON THIS LINK
AND LAUGH AT THE LONG VIDEO THERE
___________
Inside the Capitol Siege
9:33 am
Extraordinary new video from Luke Mogelson at the New Yorker offers a chilling look into the Capitol siege that left five dead.
ARE YOU GUYS NOT ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES?
NEVER FORGET
THAT TRUMP WAS AT FIRST DELIGHTED
WHEN HE SAW THIS HAPPENING
THIS VIDEO WOULD BE GOOD FOOTAGE FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Here we go again. For the second time in 12 years a newly elected Democratic president is inheriting an economy in deep distress. And while it’s hard to focus on such things after last week’s Trumpist putsch, a lot depends on whether Joe Biden’s plan to deal with our economic woes is effective.
The narrow Democratic margin in Congress means that the most ambitious progressive goals will have to be put on hold. But the rescue package Biden unveiled Thursday already indicates he won’t exhibit the excessive caution that inhibited President Barack Obama’s response to economic crisis.
Still, in case anyone on the Biden team is feeling cautious, let me offer four rules, based on hard experience, that should encourage them to be bold in dealing with the mess we’re in.
Rule #1: Don’t doubt the power of government to help. The last time Democrats took the White House, they were still in something of a reflexive cringe, halfway accepting the conservative dogma that government always does more harm than good. But everything that has happened since 2009 says that government spending can be hugely beneficial.
Remember how Republicans denounced Obamacare, with some of them comparing it to slavery? As it turned out, despite its flaws, the Affordable Care Act led to a drastic decline in the number of Americans without health insurance, and it gave many people a new sense of security in the knowledge that they couldn’t be cut off because of pre-existing conditions. Republican attempts to repeal the A.C.A. were a major reason Democrats now control Congress.
More recently, the CARES Act, which provided aid to businesses, expanded unemployment benefits, gave out checks and more, greatly alleviated the damage from the pandemic — poverty may even have gone down while the act was in full effect.
Biden is seeking another major relief package, including a new effort to reduce child poverty, and he may soon move to make the A.C.A. more generous and cover more people. He should push hard on both fronts: Recent experience shows that smart government spending can do a lot to improve Americans’ lives.
Rule #2: Don’t obsess about debt. Constant warnings about the dangers of government borrowing hobbled the Obama agenda almost from the start. Biden shouldn’t let that happen again.
The fact is that the dire predictions of deficit scolds never came true, and there is now widespread agreement among economists that debt is far less of a problem than conventional wisdom asserted. Among other things, while the level of federal debt may seem high, low interest rates mean that the burden of servicing that debt is actually very low by historical standards.
Oh, and no credence at all should be given to what we all know is coming: fake deficit hawkery from Republicans who screeched about debt under Obama, then rammed through a huge, unfunded tax cut under Donald Trump.
Rule #3: Don’t worry about inflation. Constant warnings about soaring prices, combined with false claims that the government was hiding the true rate of inflation (no, this sort of thing didn’t begin with Trump) also marked the Obama years; but inflation never took off. Nonetheless, the usual suspects are ramping up to try it again.
So this is a good time to emphasize one key lesson from the Trump years: We can run a “hot” economy, with low unemployment and large budget deficits, without runaway inflation. And Biden should do everything he can to make the American economy hot again.
But he shouldn’t expect any help from the opposition party.
Rule #4: Don’t count on Republicans to help govern. The original sin of Obama economic policy was the underpowered stimulus of 2009. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped stabilize the economy, but it was much too small given the depths of the crisis. This isn’t hindsight; some of us were very publicly tearing our hair out in real time.
One reason the plan was too small was that Obama was trying to gain bipartisan support, rather than using reconciliation to push it through with Democratic votes (which is how Republicans passed the 2017 tax cut). But that support never came; instead, a sluggish recovery helped the G.O.P. take the House in 2010, setting the stage for years of policy sabotage.
Biden must not make the same mistake. It’s OK for him to spend a few days giving some Republicans a chance to get on board, but he can’t let the pursuit of cross-party support lead to watered-down policies.
The sad fact is that Biden can’t expect any significant help in governing from the modern Republican Party — a party that for the most part spent two months refusing to accept clear-cut election results, with many members of Congress still voting to reject electoral votes even after a mob sacked the Capitol. And he shouldn’t let the lack of bipartisanship derail his agenda. Voters don’t care about process; they care about results.
Putting all of this together, the message is “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” Neither defunct ideology, nor bogus economic concerns, nor the vain hope of comity should be allowed to stand in the way of delivering the policies America needs.
Paul Krugman
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS GOING OFF INTO THE REALM OF LIARS
--- AGAIN
How Republicans WARP REALITY Around Capitol Attack
9:53 am
New York Times:
“In one of the ultimate don’t-believe-your-eyes moments of the Trump era,
these Republicans have retreated to the ranks of misinformation,
claiming it was Black Lives Matter protesters and far-left groups like Antifa who stormed the Capitol
— in spite of the pro-Trump flags and QAnon symbology in the crowd.
Others have argued that the attack was no worse than the rioting and looting in cities during the Black Lives Matter movement,
often exaggerating the unrest last summer
while minimizing a mob’s attempt to overturn an election.
“The shift is revealing about how conspiracy theories,
deflection and political incentives
play off one another in Mr. Trump’s G.O.P.
For a brief time, Republican officials seemed perhaps open to grappling with what their party’s leader had wrought
— violence in the name of their Electoral College fight.
But any window of reflection now seems to be closing as Republicans try to pass blame and to compare last summer’s lawlessness,
which was condemned by Democrats,
to an attack on Congress,
which was inspired by Mr. Trump.”
Most Republicans Still Don’t See Biden as Legitimate
9:47 am
ABC News-Washington Post poll:
“Overall, more than 6 in 10 Americans say Biden was legitimately elected as the 46th president,
including more than 9 in 10 Democrats and more than 6 in 10 independents.
But 7 in 10 Republicans say he was not legitimately elected.”
“That suggests that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud,
propagated by many other Republicans,
have taken root within the party despite the absence of credible evidence,
dozens of failed legal challenges
and multiple recounts affirming Biden’s victories in Georgia and Wisconsin.”
Washington Post:
Republicans call for unity
but won’t acknowledge Biden won fairly.
So let's look at a real poll not the slimy polls run by the lying media who just finished getting embarrassed by the election polls...
NOTE: On January 5, President Trump’s job approval rating with Rasmussen was 47 percent. Today, the president’s job approval is 48 percent.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/15/nolte-rasmussen-poll-shows-no-slip-in-support-for-president-trump/
A real president, not a one who stole an election.
Why was Biden so scared of doing a ten day audit to ensure the election was run fairly ?
He knows it was fraudulent. Just like he know who Mr. Big is with the Chinese.
RASMUSSEN is laughable.
It does not represent Americans.
Whoops! Giuliani claims he will defend Trump
---but even Trump is not THAT crazy.
White House Pushes Back on Giuliani Claim
10:02 am
Although Rudy Giuliani claimed he was representing Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley says no decision has been made:
“President Trump has not yet made a determination as to which lawyer or law firm will represent him for the disgraceful attack on our Constitution and democracy, known as the ‘impeachment hoax.’ We will keep you informed.”
MEANWHILE
Big Majority Oppose Possible Self-Pardon
9:57 am
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 68% of Americans oppose President Trump pardoning himself for any federal crimes he may be accused of committing.
Elections without observers are not fair.
Elections that stop counting in the middle of the night for a fraudulent reason and restart in the "dark" are not fair.
Elections without signature verification are not fair.
Elections with stacks of pristine ballots "voting" for one candidate are not fair.
Elections with news blackouts are not fair.
Elections with big tech's thumb on the scales are not fair.
Elections without ballot chain of custody are not fair.
And their was much more.
Joe Biden, not a real president unless you are demented too.
Courts including Trump-appointed judges all the way up to the Supreme Court would not uphold the lying claims above.
Quote of the Day
10:14 am
“I’m not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), telling CNN why he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning the loss of his 25-year old son.
JamesNewLeaf said...
RASMUSSEN is laughable.
It does not represent Americans.
No it doesn't represent Americans.
It POLLS Americans
ACCURATELY and without the media's biased agenda.
ROFLMFAO at the constant loser
and serial liar and plagiarizer
24x7
Here we go again. For the second time in 12 years a newly elected Democratic president is inheriting an economy in deep distress.
Because of donk policies
JamesNewLeaf said...
Courts including Trump-appointed judges all the way up to the Supreme Court would not uphold the lying claims above.
Actually not a single court allowed for evidence of fraud to actually be presented under oath or deposed.
They generally ruled on "standing" or "timeliness"
But keep repeating your LIES. Everyone here knows that's all a failed "pastor" does.
Still posting on 2016 supposed Trump/Russia collusion ???
And not a word about actual Biden/China or Iran collusion or interference.
Fuck off "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Truth Finally Catches Up with Donald Trump
10:19 am
Associated Press:
“The twice-impeached president painted a fantasy world in office,
starring himself.
In this world,
he did things bigger, better, more boldly than all who came before him
while facing enemies more pernicious than any in creation -- all according to him!
“In service of his ego,
his nature and his reelection prospects,
he said things
that were not only wrong,
but the precise opposite of right.
He said them over and over,
in leaps and bounds,
and no less so
when the deceptions were exposed.”
__________
AND now decent, intelligent, truth-loving, patriotic Americans are telling him to
TAKE A HIKE!!!
Now F'n Daddy comes back here with nothing but his filthy tongue and lying vitriol.
Apologies to readers for having to put up with his depravity.
Ryan Fournier
@RyanAFournier
Trump: Investigated, no evidence.
Biden: Evidence, no investigation.
Banana Republic
JamesNewLeaf said...
Now F'n Daddy comes back here with nothing but his filthy tongue and lying vitriol.
Apologies to readers for having to put up with his depravity.
Fuck off "pastor"
ROFLMFAO at the little twerp who endlessly spams from his savior GODdard
and thinks that is a contribution
China Joe’s buddies lied
For more than a year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin, choosing instead to devote enormous resources to deceit and disinformation. Nearly two million people have died. Their families deserve to know the truth. Only through transparency can we learn what caused this pandemic and how to prevent the next one.
The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus—known as SARS-CoV-2—was transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The virus could have emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, spreading in a pattern consistent with a natural epidemic. Alternatively, a laboratory accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure included only a few individuals and was compounded by asymptomatic infection. Scientists in China have researched animal-derived coronaviruses under conditions that increased the risk for accidental and potentially unwitting exposure.
The CCP’s deadly obsession with secrecy and control comes at the expense of public health in China and around the world. The previously undisclosed information in this fact sheet, combined with open-source reporting, highlights three elements about COVID-19’s origin that deserve greater scrutiny:
1. Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV):
The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.
Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one.
The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019. Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their previously unreported illness.
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Democrats only want troops called in when they are selling a hoax for an impeachment charade.
In Biden's America, the only people who don't need to quarantine, who don't need vaccines, and who don't negative virus tests--are illegals at the southern border.
Everything happening in DC right now is based on a fraud--including the inauguration on Wednesday.
LOL. Democrats are locking down DC to cover for nobody showing up to Biden's inauguration.
It's so freaking obvious.
The "insurrection" is just another hoax to destroy Trump.
BEN SASSE is a Republican United States senator from Nebraska. Previously, he served for five years as president of Midland University.
Gene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an angry, advancing mob, he retreated up a marble staircase, calmly wielding his baton to delay his pursuers while calling out their position to his fellow officers. At the top of the steps, still alone and standing just a few yards from the chamber where senators and Vice President Mike Pence had been certifying the Electoral College’s vote, Goodman strategically lured dozens of the mayhem-minded away from an unguarded door to the Senate floor.
The leader of that flank of the mob, later identified by the FBI as Douglas Jensen, wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a red-white-and-blue Q—the insignia of the delusional QAnon conspiracy theory. Its supporters believe that a righteous Donald Trump is leading them in a historic quest to expose the U.S. government’s capture by a global network of cannibalistic pedophiles: not just “deep state” actors in the intelligence community, but Chief Justice John Roberts and a dozen-plus senators, including me. Now Trump’s own vice president is supposedly in on it, too. According to the FBI, Jensen “wanted to have his T-shirt seen on video so that ‘Q’ could ‘get the credit.’”
From the June 2020 issue: The prophecies of Q
January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully loaded with weaponry and what prosecutors are calling “homemade napalm bombs.”
The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.
Goebbels: If you repeat a lie often enough,
people will believe it.
That is bad.
The good thing is,
if you keep insisting on the truth
and present evidence for it
people will come to believe it.
____________
You can fool all of the people
some of the time
and some of the people
all of the time
but you can[t fool all of the people
all of the time.
--Abraham Lincoln
If and when the House sends its article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, I will be a juror in his trial, and thus what I can say in advance is limited. But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate reckoning. Until last week, many party leaders and consultants thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon. They can’t. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them. Now is the time to decide what this party is about.
The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.
Read: The conspiracy theories that fueled the Civil War
If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The same Democrat politicians who said it was too dangerous to vote in person only 2 months ago - now suddenly want to fully open the economy.
It's almost like they're full of shit.
But the problem has worsened in the past five years. On the supply side, media outlets have discovered that dialing up the rhetoric increases clicks, eyeballs, and revenue. On the demand side, readers and viewers like to see their opinions affirmed, rather than challenged. When everybody’s outraged, everybody wins—at least in the short term.
This is not a problem only on the right or only on obscure blogs. The underlying economics that drive Fox News and upstarts such as One America News to cultivate and serve ideologically distinct audiences also drive MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times. More and more fiercely, media outlets rally their audience behind the latest cause du jour, whether it’s battling supposed election fraud or abolishing local police departments.
The conservative swaths of this media landscape were primed for Trump’s “Stop the steal” lie, which lit the fuse for the January 6 riot. For nine weeks, the president consistently lied that he had “won in a landslide.” Despite the fact that his lawyers and allies were laughed out of court more than 60 times, he spread one conspiracy theory after another across television, radio, and the web. For anyone who wanted to hear that Trump won, a machine of grifters was turning clicks into cash by telling their audiences what they wanted to hear. The liars got rich, their marks got angry, and things got out of control.
America’s institutional collapse
Traditional media outlets are only some of the longstanding institutions collapsing as the digital revolution erodes geographic communities in favor of placeless ones. Many people who yell at strangers on Twitter don’t know their own local officials or even their neighbors across the street. The loss of rootedness and institutional authority has created an opening for populists on the right and the left. It’s not a coincidence that in 2016, millions of Republicans threw in their lot behind a man who for almost all of his life had been a Democratic voter and donor, and millions of Democrats wanted as their nominee a senator who staunchly refused to join their party. On both sides, conventional politicians were being told they had lost the thread.
The anger being directed today at major internet platforms—Twitter, Facebook, and Google, especially—is, in part, a consequence of the fading of traditional political authority. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently, Americans have outsourced key parts of political life to Silicon Valley behemoths that were not designed to, and are not competent to, execute functions traditionally in the province of the government. The failure of our traditional political institutions and our traditional media to function as spaces for genuine political conversation has created a vacuum now filled by the social-media giants—who are even worse at the job.
https://twitter.com/MattBraynard/status/1350553519116455936
Four years ago....
200+ individuals charged with felony rioting at Trump's inauguration.
All charges dropped.
Guess those were "good" people and not a hoax
Civic authority has ebbed in other ways. Political incompetence and malpractice around the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened suspicions that some politicians will never let a crisis go to waste. The decisions in California to keep churches closed but to keep open strip clubs and marijuana dispensaries baffle Main Street. Similarly, the jolting juxtaposition of a media-addict mayor breaking up Hasidic funerals while marching in Black Lives Matter protests not only deepens the cynicism of many Americans, but it indisputably undermined institutions of public health that should have been cautiously protecting their standing.
America’s loss of meaning
Our political sickness has a third cause. At least since World War II, sociologists and political scientists have been tracing the erosion of the institutions and habits that joined neighbors together in bonds of friendship and mutual responsibility. Little Leagues were not just pastimes; soup kitchens were not just service organizations; they were also venues in which people found shared purpose. Today, in many places, those bonds have been severed.
In 1922, G. K. Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” But according to a recent study of dozens of countries, none has ditched religious belief faster since 2007 than the U.S. Without going into the causes, we can at least acknowledge one cost: For generations, most Americans understood themselves as children of a loving God, and all had a role to play in loving their neighbors. But today, many Americans have no role in any common story.
Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.
Whatever the republican Party does, it faces an ugly fight. The fracture that so many politicians on the right have been trying desperately to avoid may soon happen. But if the party has any hope of playing a constructive, rather than destructive, part in America’s future, it must do two things.
First, Republicans must repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on fire. Putting it out will take courage—and I don’t mean merely political courage. This week, after realizing that some Capitol insurrectionists wanted to capture the vice president, several Republican House members said privately that they believed a vote to impeach the president would put their lives, or the lives of their families, at risk. That is not the “constituent engagement” that elected officials are duty-bound to deal with on a daily basis. That is simply tyranny, just from the bottom up, instead of the top down. When arsonists are inside our house, can we just stand by and hope that they’ll depart quietly?
Zeynep Tufekci: Most House Republicans did what the rioters wanted
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1350824014646808579
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Yikes. If he was a Republican the 25th amendment talk would be trending and rightfully so.
Demented and a fraudulent president
Second, the party has to rebuild itself. It must offer a genuine answer to the frustrations of the past decade. Other than by indulging Trump’s fantasies about building iPhones in America, Republicans have not figured out how to address Americans’ anger about community erosion, massive dislocations in the labor force, or Big Tech’s historically unprecedented role in governing de facto public squares.
Sensing a chance at tribal expansion, some on the left are thrilled by the chaos on the right, and they’re eager to seize the moment to banish from polite society not just those who participated and encouraged violence, but anyone with an R next to his or her name. Already on Twitter, a conservative position as longstanding as opposition to abortion has been recast as “domestic terrorism.” An MSNBC host talked about the “de-Baathification” of the GOP, comparing rank-and-file Republicans to supporters of Saddam Hussein. In an exchange on CNN, a host accused Republican voters of making common cause with Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Yet the exploitative overreaction by the left should not allow an underreaction by the right.
The past four years have wounded our country in grievous, long-lasting ways. The mob that rushed the Capitol had been fed a steady diet of lies and conspiracy theories. It is very possible that the QAnon devotee Douglas Jensen believed the junk he’d been sold—that he was a valued foot soldier in Trump’s war against shadowy forces of darkness. So, according to the FBI, he put on his Q T-shirt and acted like a foot soldier. Right up until he ran into Officer Goodman.
In a standoff between the Constitution and madness, both men picked a side. It’s the GOP’s turn to do the same.
https://twitter.com/RepKevinBrady/status/1350597955447889921
Rep. Kevin Brady
@RepKevinBrady
Media Reporting: #Pelosi holding Trump impeachment papers in House.
Why?
Admit they need “evidence” before Senate holds trial.
Evidence now...AFTER vote to impeach?
Congratulations, #HouseDemocrats - now hold U.S. record for most “evidence-free impeachments”......ever.
“It's Easier to Fool People than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
"Democrats are locking down DC to cover for nobody showing up to Biden's inauguration.
It's so freaking obvious."
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You mean no one out of all the 81 million people who voted for Biden would have showed up? You mean that none of the numerous blacks in DC who recognize him as their best hope would have showed up?
Many Americans would have made a point of being there just to mount their OPPOSITION to what has happened, the Capitol fiasco wrought by Trump.
No, the real reason this will be a truncated, virtual inauguration is because there is genuine fear that people like you will show up with intent to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, even if it means you have to commit murder to do it.
And btw, weren't you in DC? What part did you have in storming the Capitol?
Benjamin Eric Sasse ( /ˈsæs/ SASS; born February 22, 1972) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Quick Facts: United States Senator from Nebraska, Preceded by ...
Born in Plainview, Nebraska, Sasse holds a bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from St. John's College and master's and doctorate degrees in American history from Yale University.
Nobody took his SAT or faked bone spurs
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1350468531654111232
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The corporate media & our corrupt elected officials have completely miscalculated the mood of the country. They know how much they are hated.They’ve exhausted their own credibility the last 4 years.
They don’t really represent the American people anymore & everyone knows it.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1350436744014000129
Good Morning!
This finding yesterday by Mr. @NolteNC below is confirmed by our competitor
@Gallup - https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1338837548647526401?s=20
The white hot hate from, James, Alky is clear.
Roger your LA Rams lost.
BIDEN WILL BRING BACK DECENCY AND SANITY TO AMERICA
Biden Plans Blitz of Executive Orders
“President-elect Joe Biden, inheriting a collection of crises unlike any in generations,
plans to open his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in a 10-day blitz meant to signal a turning point for a nation
reeling from disease, economic turmoil, racial strife and now the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Biden’s team has developed a raft of decrees that he can issue on his own authority after the inauguration on Wednesday to begin reversing some of President Trump’s most hotly disputed policies.
Advisers hope the flurry of action,
without waiting for Congress,
will establish a sense of momentum for the new president even as the Senate puts his predecessor on trial.
“On his first day in office alone,
Mr. Biden intends a flurry of executive orders that will be partly substantive and partly symbolic.
They include rescinding the travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries,
rejoining the Paris climate change accord,
extending pandemic-related limits on evictions and student loan payments,
issuing a mask mandate for federal property and interstate travel
and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families after crossing the border.”
COMPASSION, CARING AND SENSITIVITY RETURN.
Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, as one of five children of William F. and Nancy A. Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City when Brady was 12 years old and his mother was in her early 30s. He graduated from Central High School in 1973.
I remember the day his father was shot and killed.
He graduated from the same high school as I did.
Misinformation Plunged After Trump Was Booted from Twitter
“Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively,” the Washington Post reports.
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Out and out lies are going to be more difficult to promulgate in America. About time!
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream "Oppression"
And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
Biden Makes Science Adviser A CABINET POSITION
President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a pioneer in mapping the human genome to be his chief science adviser and is elevating the top science job to a Cabinet position, the AP reports.
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This is a first! Never before has a science adviser been a Cabinet member!!!
Science rather than propaganda returns to the White House.
James is a perfect Socialist.
It was a big deal when someone got shot and killed in Rapid City courtroom.
Pence Calls Harris to Offer Assistance
“Vice President Mike Pence telephoned Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday to congratulate her and offer his assistance ahead of next week’s swearing-in, the latest indication that Mr. Pence is filling the leadership role all but abdicated by President Trump,” the New York Times reports.
“The conversation, which was relayed by two officials briefed on the call, was described as gracious and pleasant. The discussion is the first time Mr. Pence and Ms. Harris have spoken since they debated each other last fall.”
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This constitutes an acknowledgment of the legitimacy of Harris' election. Trump will not be pleased, but at this point Pence no longer seems to care. Not after he came close to real danger in Trump's siccing the crowds on the Capitol.
The Trumptanic has sunk.
Kputz doesn't even know what a socialist is.
The Democratic party doesn't want to take away private ownership or ownership of the means of production or manufacturing.
He's just a cow fucking idiot.
Roger Amick said...
He's just a cow fucking idiot.
Hey why don't you and the lying plagiarizing POS "pastor" just get a room ?
sounds like yours is too small.
ROFLMFAO !!!
President Donald Trump’s two greatest foreign policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the Middle East and an assertive China containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. On the former front, Trump boldly departed from the misbegotten “inside-out” conflict resolution approach, which elevated to the forefront the need for Israeli capitulation to Palestinian-Arab intransigence; on the latter front, Trump became the first president since Richard Nixon’s famous 1972 trip to China to openly call into question our relationship with that ascendant, hegemonic Communist regime.
The key difference is that, as Trump prepares to ride off into the sunset, progress on the latter is likely at greater risk of a prompt post-inauguration reversal from his Democratic successor. The physical moving of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of the Trump administration’s myriad displays of staunch friendship with the Jewish state, is unlikely to be undone. Nor would any sane politician seek to nix the Abraham Accords, the series of landmark peace deals between Israel and Islamic nations that the administration helped negotiate. But pugnacious China-skeptical rhetoric, hardline opposition to Huawei’s emergent 5G telecommunications network and harsh tariffs on Chinese imports are the sort of moves that would be all too easy for a longtime China dove, such as Joe Biden, to quickly reverse.
In order to help box in his successor and secure the continuity of our long-overdue recalibration with our preeminent 21st-century geopolitical threat, there is one farewell action above all that would stick in the craw of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and redound to America’s substantive benefit. Trump ought to formally recognize Taiwan (also known as the Republic of China) as an independent state, distinct from the Beijing-based regime—and he must do so, with all the diplomatic accoutrements such a formal recognition entails, posthaste.
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-parting-shot-china-should-full-us-recognition-taiwan-opinion-1561792
there's still plenty of time to set several politically lethal traps for Slow Joe.
just do it.
Leaf said...
Biden Makes Science Adviser A CABINET POSITION
Yes at least Biden recognizes the importance of science,.,,,,,But with sooooooo many R's thinking Q Anon is real.....it sure is an up hill struggle for the minds of voters!!!!!!!!!! Good that fucking daddy has returned to his stupid ways, but that is what makes the GOP a party of the past!!!!
Roger, I am well aware what Socialism is.
You and James are Socialists.
BTW....Trumps greatest accomplishment is managing to be a 1 term leader who has killed 380 k americans due to his stupidity.....WHo gives a fuck about the ME and I hope Biden puts the embassy back where it belongs and re enters the Iran deal!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
A lot of people liked this horror movie about Thecoldheartedtruth.con
LHS
Liberal Hatred Syndrome.
"Just as the Nazi Party in Germany succeeded in getting their followers to hate the Jews, and using that hatred to demand that all Jews be rounded up, silenced, and eventually many of them were just "eliminated"... the liberal elite has convinced their followers that "conservatives" are the new Jews who need to be whisked away to some camp to be executed for thought crimes."
Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for 12 hours on Sunday, saying that she has repeatedly run afoul of the company's misinformation policy.
"The account referenced has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy," a Twitter spokesperson said.
Greene's most recent posts included one in which she made false claims about widespread voter fraud in Georgia in both the November election and in the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs and another series of tweets in which she repeated more debunked claims and called Georgia's elections officials "morons."
Twitter restricted those posts from further promotion and slapped them with warning labels. Her account remained live, but she is unable to post.
Following the riot at the Capitol earlier this month, Twitter has ramped up its crackdown on misleading and false information on its platform. Since the violence, Twitter has suspended tens of thousands of accounts tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory, in addition to indefinitely barring President Donald Trump.
Twitter's civic integrity policy states the company "will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process."
"This includes but is not limited to: disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself, such as unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results; and misleading claims about the results or outcome of a civic process which calls for or could lead to interference with the implementation of the results of the process," the company's policies state.
A freshman lawmaker and a vocal supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, Greene has previously expressed sympathy for QAnon, though she has since sought to distance herself. Greene, who already pledged to try and impeach President-elect Joe Biden on his first day in office, has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans since the riots.
"She's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,,so is Scott" Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., wrote in an op-ed, criticizing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for not disavowing her campaign.
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