Things went a little bit in the wrong direction for many...
- Red States: 5.0% was 5.3%
- Blue States: 7.0% was 6.9%
Not sure how this will change again come January, as the variance between the lock down states and others has been amplified. Could be that it won't change much at all. Hopefully ALL states show improvement moving forward.
But we could also see a bit more of the same here, with states that are more aggressively locking down continue to see more issues with unemployment.
133 comments:
Changing the subject, but
MEANWHILE,
CNN:
Trump Has Been Asked to Testify at Impeachment Trial
1:15 pm
House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has sent a letter to former President Donald Trump requesting he testify under oath “either before or during the Senate impeachment trial about his conduct on January 6,” CNN reports.
Writes Raskin:
“You denied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment. You have thus attempted to put critical facts at issue.”
WONDER WHERE THIS WILL GO?
Back on Topic.
"In six months I will be surprised if you give Biden any credit" Roger
No Roger no moving your goal posts.
You said in "The first 100 days".
Roger predicted that the US will have 31 million small businesses by April, 30, 2021
Back on topic
This Red state looks to be enjoying life, best governor in America !!!
https://twitter.com/SamBrockNBC/status/1357047400548950023
Looks like the POS "pastor" has the same TDS roger has
Or maybe just Goddard has that and the waterboy is just carrying water
ROFLMFAO !!!
Scott, the vast majority of red states don't have large cities or minority populations. The infections are much worse in densely populated cities with non white people who are more susceptible to death from the covid-19 virus and side effects.
Houston, Dallas, Miami, Tampa, Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte
You’re fucking idiot
Yeah, most or the red states don't have the surging crime that blue states have.
But Soros selected DA's are trying to add more crime to even it out.
And with crime is higher unemployment. Criminals are not considered employed though in states like California they do collect large sums of unemployment benefits.
So roger has a point
Yeah, most or the red states don't have the surging crime that blue states have
that's because red state residents are armed, and an armed society is a polite society.
New York, Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco, Seattle, Dennver, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Phoenix etc. Fucking stupid drunk shit head
Millions of Americans who were unemployed last year face another shock: A 2020 tax bill they can’t afford
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millions-of-americans-who-were-unemployed-last-year-face-another-shock-a-2020-tax-bill-they-cant-afford-11612458465?siteid=yhoof2
huh.
so pile driving a $23 TRIILION economy into the fucking ground to destroy bad orange man had some negative side effects.
never saw THAT coming.
LOL.
Income inequality leads to increased unemployment and violence.
That's why President Biden has to succeed.
South Dakota has the highest infection rate in the world.
Phoenix in in a red state you stupid ass
Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Indianapolis
You made another Alky stupid comment
Blogger Roger Amick said...
New York, Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco, Seattle, Dennver, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Phoenix etc.
liberal shitholes ALL. with violent crime off the fucking charts.
so what's your point, alky? that liberal mayors and governors are out of their depth and can't handle their jobs?
i'll agree with that.
*Alky stupid
h/t rrb
South Dakota has the highest infection rate in the world.
not according to the CDC, but you've never let the FACTS get in the way of your idiocy...
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days
how many rakes has the alky stepped on today, guys?
anyone?
LOL.
how many rakes has the alky stepped on today, guys?
anyone?
Who can keep up?? As he’s ensconced in his room with a tv
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Income inequality leads to increased unemployment and violence.
no it doesn't. liberal coddling and fucking laziness does though.
envy, greed and sloth alky.
a liberals three favorite of the seven deadly sins.
Damn Roger, it is ever more clear why you rarely type here in your own thoughts.
You get so much wrong.
If we succeed to increase the size of the middle class and again address income inequality, the nation will become more secure and stable.
I'm very proud of the American people who elected President Biden and Kamala Harris.
It will be a seismic change for the better, in red and blue states.
From FDR to Reagan and now Joe Biden, we will we have strengthened the greatest government in historym
Roger
In fact, five of the top ten largest cities are in red states and six of the top ten greater metro areas are in red states.
Either way, liberal states and cities encourage the population density, while most red states still encourage rural, small towns, and medium size cities to exist. It's part of the culture of liberalism, to pack em all in together.
Just another reason to avoid liberalism, if by your own accounts you keep arguing that it makes it harder to control viruses, keep people employed, reduce crime, etc, etc...
At the peak of the Trump Economy there were 31.2 Million Small Business.
Today there are 29.7 Million and decreasing.
Yet, by April 30th, 2021 Alky predicts we. will match the Trump peak.
I haven't copy paste on this horror story
Please Alky , in your own words, what does this mean ((income inequality)), how do we quantify Biden's success?
Trump has refused to testify
Lmao
February 4, 2021
Ms. Carteris:
I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!
While I’m not familiar with your work, I’m very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name just a few!
I’ve also greatly helped the cable news television business (said to be a dying platform with not much time left until I got involved in politics), and created thousands of jobs at networks such as MSDNC and Fake News CNN, among many others.
Which brings me to your blatant attempt at free media attention to distract from your dismal record as a union. Your organization has done little for its members, and nothing for me – besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas – as evident by your massive unemployment rates and lawsuits from celebrated actors, who even recorded a video asking, “Why isn’t the union fighting for me?”
These, however, are policy failures. Your disciplinary failures are even more egregious.
I no longer wish to be associated with your union.
As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me.
Regards
Roger always runs from his issues he brings here.
The Socialists Cancelling Humor.
At "SNL".
🤣A recent Saturday Night Live skit was slammed as “transphobic” over a joke about President Joe Biden’s reversal of the transgender military ban.
“President Biden signed an executive order repealing Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. It’s good news, except Biden is calling the policy, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tuck,’ which is not good news,” joked SNL cast member Michael Che🤡
The Resist Biden movement.
"Susan Sarandon is taking President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders to task over their failure so far to make good on their campaign promises to deliver $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Oscar-winning actress delivered a social media ripping that also targeted Vice President Kamala Harris and Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. “Where are the $2K checks you promised,” she demanded. At a time of widespread economic hardship, the $600 difference “is a matter of survival” for many Americans."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Trump has refused to testify
well geezus alky, i would fucking hope so.
it's a farce on stilts. and you need Trump to validate it and lend it some credibility. after the way you scumbags treated him for 5 years you have a lot of nerve to bitch about him not showing up for your latest episode of "fucktards on parade."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If we succeed to increase the size of the middle class and again address income inequality, the nation will become more secure and stable.
Trump showed us how to do this until you assholes decided to piss yourselves over the flu, and then use the hysteria to remove the bad orange man.
3.5% unemployment and a 6% lift in real wages. and you called him Hitler and a threat to democracy.
all you assholes know how to do is re-distribute wealth. you don't have the first fucking clue when it comes to actually creating wealth.
Roger AmickFebruary 4, 2021 at 1:45 PM
Income inequality leads to increased unemployment and violence.
Really, do tell.
Income inequality?
Still no meat on that bare bone from Alky Stupid ®.
Trump has refused to testify
Adam Schiff will play Donald Trump in the Kangaroo Court.
Dan Rather will type the transcripts
AOC will re-enact her near death experience.
And Bezos's Washington Post and China's NYT will sponsor the proceedings.
Eric Swalwell will translate into Chinese
Nancy Pelosi will provide pens and refreshments
Joe Biden's America
Kangaroo Court
Banana Republic
pretty soon liberals will have a new pillow to bite.:
March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg tweeted on Thursday that he and software developer William LeGate are launching a pillow company to compete against MyPillow, which is led by Trump supporter CEO Mike Lindell.
https://www.axios.com/david-hogg-pillow-mike-lindell-mypillow-legate-6d23b1a7-50b1-4f31-9391-53e69e36ca58.html
LOL.
LMAO:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtaOs7PXIAIudUM?format=png&name=900x900
"Dear Congressman Raskin:
We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt."
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1357429468273467394
Nancy probably thinks Trump is gonna come testify right along side the guy with the Viking horns. What a comical farce.
And no one knows or gives a shit about this woman from GA. She was elected in thr same district that gave is Cynthia McKinney. Nuff said.
Nrws media are pretending that she's done rising star in the gop. No one knows who the hell she is. She sounds like a look, just like mckinney was.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger AmickFebruary 4, 2021 at 1:45 PM
Income inequality leads to increased unemployment and violence.
Really, do tell.
when you stop and think about it, the alky's not wrong.
the failure of liberal policies going all the way back to the 'great society' have spent in the TRILLION$ and have epically FAILED.
all liberals have ever offered is wealth re-distribution to keep people dependent upon government. and when these schemes, no matter how they're packaged and what they're called FAIL, unemployment and violence DOES rise.
look at NYC. violent crime up 220%. unemployment, 14.5%.
every major liberal - governed city in America is a shithole dumpster fire. the poor, left to their own devices and no hope, take matters into their own hands.
so yeah, the alky's right. when liberalism fails, unemployment and violence rise...
...and tomorrow the sun will rise in the east.
No, not the same district that’s district that has given Hank “Guam may tip over and capsize” Johnson
But no one gives a shit about Greene
She was elected in thr same district that gave is Cynthia McKinney. Nuff said.
no, Hank "Guam will tip over" idiot Johnson took McKinney's seat.
Greene reps GA-14
Damn auto correct
Ok.
GA still has a way to go to reach the political absurdity level of CA, NY and MN. But they're getting there.
I miss McKinney.
I'd watch her during committee hearings on C-SPAN and I'd laugh so fucking hard I'd cry.
McKinney’s 11th district was first established in 92 and we’ve added 3 more since
I miss her daddy more The Rev Billy “I’ll cut you” McKinney (said in the GA capital to a fellow state rep) But her Side Show Bob haircuts were awesome. She would get to the State of the Union address like hours and hours before Bubba would walk in and wear garish outfits just get on TV
Roger is the dumbest slug on this blog.
He parrots nonsensical phrases from The Dark Winter President.
Greene’s district has a county The outline of Georgia on the state's quarter is conspicuously missing the upper left corner (Dade County). Interestingly, Dade County has the nickname "The independent state of Dade," stemming from a legend that during the civil war, Dade County seceded from the nation before the rest of Georgia and did not officially rejoin the state until 1945, and also because Dade is isolated from the rest of Georgia by Lookout Mountain - Georgian visitors to Dade County have to enter Alabama or Tennessee to skirt the mountain.
Another Voting Machine Company Sues Fox News
I'm really happy to see this:
Smartmatic, the voting software company that Donald Trump’s lawyers falsely accused of manipulating vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, has filed a $2.7-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and three of its on-air hosts — Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro — who presented the disinformation on their programs. The suit filed Thursday in New York State Supreme Court also names Trump’s lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudolph Giuliani, who were frequent guests on Fox News programs in the weeks after the November election.
....“The company’s reputation for providing transparent, auditable, and secure election technology and software was irreparably harmed,” the suit said. “Overnight, Smartmatic went from an under-the-radar election technology and software company with a track record of success to the villain in [the] Defendants’ disinformation campaign.”
I have no idea if Smartmatic has any chance of winning this suit, or even if it has much of a case, legally speaking. And God knows, Fox has settled plenty of suits in the past for large sums, none of which seem to have slowed them down.
Still, it's worth putting them on notice that there's a price to be paid for going off the deep end on dangerous and absurd conspiracy theorizing. Maybe losing (or, more likely, settling) a few more suits like this will finally teach them a lesson or two.
Look out rrb
Look out, rrb.
THERE'S a knee slapper!
BREAKING NEWS
House Poised to Remove Greene from Committees
6:18 pm
The House is voting on a resolution that would remove embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her assigned committees.
Trump’s Legal Team Says He Won’t Testify
(Taegan Goddard suggests "That might not be the end of it.")
Pillows Are the New Ideological Battleground
===Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg tweeted that he was launching a pillow company to compete against MyPillow, which is led by Trump supporter CEO Mike Lindell.
_______
===Maybe call it Our Pillow?
Trump Ditches Screen Actors Guild
3:44 pm
“Former President Donald Trump parted ways with the Screen Actors Guild in a bombastic letter Thursday as he was facing disciplinary measures with the union,” Politico reports.
“The union’s board voted in January to refer Trump to the union’s disciplinary committee, citing his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that left at least six people dead and ‘a reckless campaign of misinformation aimed at discrediting and ultimately threatening the safety of journalists, many of whom are SAG-AFTRA members.'”
The Clowns Are Firmly In Charge
4:39 pm
Michael Gerson:
“Apart from the ethics of the matter, there is a political case to be made for the firm repudiation of dangerous crackpots. As a rule, such people are easy to motivate and organize because they are, well, dangerous crackpots. But American political movements — conservatives in the 1950s and ’60s,
liberals in the ’60s and ’70s —
suffered from public identification of their cause with radicalism. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton succeeded, in part, by getting beyond scary ideological caricatures of their parties. Does McCarthy really want to fight his campaign for the suburbs with Greene as the face of the GOP?
“It was beyond good luck that Republicans, after the Capitol assault, were given some dramatic ways to break with violent, anti-democratic radicalism. They had the opportunity to strongly repudiate Greene. And they could convict Trump of inciting an uprising. Now it seems likely that Republicans will throw these chances away. The clowns, it appears, are firmly in charge.”
Why haven't you posted against Greene’s conspiracy theories and toxic rhetoric.
Greene is a QAnon conspiracy theoristGreene has a history of bigoted commentsGreene heavily promoted the false claim that Trump actually won the 2020 electionGreene endorsed the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook school shooting was stagedGreene on Facebook in 2018:
Parkland school shooting was a false flag planned eventGreene: “I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.
”Greene heckled Parkland survivor and activist David Hogg, calling him a “coward”Greene repeatedly endorsed using violence against DemocratsGreene agreed that 9/11 “was done by our own gov[ernment]
”Greene falsely claimed that there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11
Greene pushed conspiracy theory about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting
Greene visited Congress and tried to get Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who are Muslim, to retake their oaths on the Bible
Greene shared an anti-Muslim video that portrays Jewish people as trying to destroy Europe through immigration. Seig Heil Mr rrb
Greene penned a conspiracy theory that the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California was started by a space laser beam run by nefarious entities, including “Rothschild Inc
”Greene endorsed a deranged conspiracy theory about Democrats and satanic child murderGreene in 2019 suggested Ruth Bader Ginsburg was replaced with a body double
Greene falsely implicated Hillary Clinton in the death of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Greene liked a meme claiming that Democrats have used the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for human trafficking, pedophilia, and organ harvesting. That sounds like Ali
Greene said that “the only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood
Greene called the 2018 pipe bomb packages to members of Congress and others a hoax
Greene claimed that the Obama administration used MS-13 to assassinate Seth RichGreene falsely claimed that Obama is “a Muslim” and that he “opened up our borders to an invasion by Muslims” like the ex President
Greene promoted the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton has killed her political enemiesGreene pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and speculated that the white nationalist riot in Charlottesville was an “inside job”
Greene posted a picture of herself holding a gun next to a montage of members of “the Squad” Greene praised militia members as people who can protect the country from “a tyrannical government”
Greene attacked women who are gun safety activists by saying they “need to grow some balls”
After the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Greene called her Democratic colleagues “the enemies to the American people” and vowed they “will be held accountable”
Silence speaks volumes
JUST IN!
IT PASSED! IT PASSED!
House Votes to Remove Greene from Committees
6:18 pm
The House passed a resolution to remove embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her assigned committees.
SHE GONNA BE SO MAD!
🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆
Never forget Alky you should be living in redneck Georgia, this is actual history
The Province of Georgia[1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Pacific Ocean.[2]
LA, not lower Alabama as LA is known here, should be our largest city.
LMAO
Oh and BTW I had a ancestor that came with Oglethorpe establishing the state
ATLANTA — The U.S. House stripped Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments Thursday afternoon.
Greene, a freshman member from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, has a long record of making incendiary remarks ranging from allegedly supporting violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats, to spreading baseless claims that mass school shootings were staged.
They need to do the same with anti semite Ilhan Omar. But they won't.
The Dark Winter President spokes skank Raggedy Ann said Biden wants the schools open, IF, the Unions Want them Open.
More Political Science.
CNN
The House votes to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments
Updated 6:53 PM ET, Thu February 4, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expresses regret for past remarks
NOT ENOUGH
Lawmaker on McCarthy: He needs to be clear he stands for truth
HE DOES NOT
'Boy, the lies': Cuomo responds to McCarthy's QAnon remark
RIGHT!
(CNN)The House voted Thursday evening to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, a decisive step that comes in the wake of recently unearthed incendiary and violent past statements from the congresswoman that have triggered widespread backlash from Democrats and divided congressional Republicans.
House Democrats, who control the chamber, set up the vote after first attempting to pressure Republicans to strip the Georgia Republican of committee assignments on their own. House Republicans did not take that action, however, and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday released a statement calling the push by Democrats to take away the congresswoman's committee assignments a "partisan power grab."
Greene defended herself ahead of the vote in a speech on the House floor and attempted to distance herself from the dangerous and debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, which she has previously embraced.
The congresswoman said that after "seeing things in the news that didn't make sense to me," she "stumbled across" QAnon at the end of 2017.
Greene said that she became "very interested" in the conspiracy theory and began posting about it on Facebook and talking about it, adding that throughout 2018 she was "upset about things" and felt she could not trust the government.
YET YOU COULD TRUST THE QANON NONSENSE?
"The problem with that is though is I was allowed to believe things that weren't true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret," she said.
APPARENTLY YOU DID NOT ASK ENOUGH QUESTIONS AND TALK WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
Greene also said that she believes "9/11 absolutely happened" and "school shootings are absolutely real and every child that is lost, those families mourn it."
THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE FROM THE NONSENSE YOU EARLIER SPOUTED.
In an attempt to put the controversy behind her, the congresswoman said, "These were words of the past, and these things do not represent me. They do not represent my district, and they do not represent my values."
THEY GOT YOU ELECTED -- BY REPUBLICANS!
The measure approved by the House directs Greene's removal from the House Education and Labor Committee and Budget Committee "in light of conduct she has exhibited."
The move could set a risky precedent as Democrats target a sitting member of the opposing party in Congress over views expressed prior to her serving as an elected official -- one that has the potential to someday be used against the party by Republicans.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on Thursday, however, that she has no concerns about the precedent it could set.
"None, not at all. Not at all. If any of our members threatened the safety of other members we'd be the first ones to take them off of a committee. That's it," Pelosi said.
Outrage over Greene grew more intense in Congress in the wake of a report from CNN's KFile that she repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress.
The Georgia Republican has also faced backlash over recently resurfaced comments about the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
Students who survived the Parkland, Florida, shooting and families of the victims have called for Greene's resignation after comments surfaced that showed her agreeing with people who claimed the shooting was a "false flag" operation.
SHE SAID THE GRIEVING PARENTS WERE ONLY PAID ACTORS.
A spokesman for McCarthy called such comments from Greene "deeply disturbing" in a recent statement and McCarthy attempted to distance Republicans from her rhetoric in his statement on Wednesday.
"Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference. I condemn those comments unequivocally. I condemned them in the past. I continue to condemn them today. This House condemned QAnon last Congress and continues to do so today," he said.
SHE DIDN'T. SHE ACTIVELY ESPOUSED THEM.
But the California Republican went on to accuse Democrats of divisiveness, saying that "the Democrats are choosing to raise the temperature by taking the unprecedented step to further their partisan power grab regarding the committee assignments of the other party."
YEAH, HOW TERRIBLE TO CALL TREASON TREASON AND FANATICISM FANATICISM.
Pelosi criticized House Republicans for failing to punish Greene, saying on Thursday ahead of the vote, "I remain profoundly concerned about House Republican leadership acceptance of extreme conspiracy theorists." She went on to say, "particularly disturbing is their eagerness to reward a QAnon adherent, a 9/11 truther, a harasser of child survivors of school shootings and to give them valued committee positions, including, who could imagine they would put such a person on the education committee."
Greene has faced pushback from some prominent congressional Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who slammed her embrace of "loony lies and conspiracy theories," without naming the congresswoman, in a short but pointed statement Monday night.
Despite her remarks on the House floor Thursday, Greene has otherwise been publicly defiant in the face of the criticism. In a tweet on Thursday, she wrote, "It's not just me they want to cancel. They want to cancel every Republican. Don't let the mob win."
She addressed the controversy during a closed-door meeting of the House GOP conference on Wednesday evening and said her social media posts do not reflect who she is as a person, according to a person in the room.
She announced on Saturday that she had spoken with former President Donald Trump and said she is "so grateful for (Trump's) support," adding, "More importantly the people of this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First."
HE FINDS GOOD PEOPLE ON ALL SIDES.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, made the first move toward stripping Greene of her roles on the two committees after speaking with McCarthy on Wednesday.
"I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments," Hoyer said in a statement, adding that "the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow."
McCarthy later told reporters he had offered to have Greene moved to the Small Business Committee.
"Marjorie's also a small business owner. Move her to Small Business. I made that offer to Democrats and they chose to do something that Congress has never done," he said.
LOL. AS IF SHE DID NOT DO SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER DONE. EXCEPT MAYBE TRUMP.
Good to be me.
Bought this stock back in 1998.
Been plowing the dividends back into it ever since.
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Roger, the people that fleeced you, what was their promised RIP?
You stupid coward.
SOME FRANK TALK ALL YOU TRUTHERS
NEED TO HEAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCnUHNeTkg&feature=youtu.be
SCOTT ESPECIALLY
Little gurl James is yelling, why?
House Judiciary GOP
https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1357455006413258753
@HouseJudiciary Democrats just voted against reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before committee hearings!
Why won’t they stand for the flag?
Joe Biden's America
1984
Banana Republic
Eli Klein
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1357080891609255938
Biden’s failure to stand up to the teachers unions is purely political and treacherous
A disastrous experiment with the lives of millions kids
Watch this 2 minute clip, seriously
New York Post
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1357416541470474242
Joe Biden not ready to reopen schools despite approval from CDC chief https://trib.al/PlUprnM
Unions over science, let the kids suffer
Joe Bidens America
1984
Canana Republic
Stephen L. Miller
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1357381897312104448
The CDC Director has contradicted everything Psaki just said here and yet it's strange we don't have a 5 alarm fire coming from the press about listening to experts and screaming at her about it.
thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile
Is it just me, or is Biden siding with teachers unions because all his "believe in science" talk is bullshit?
Democrats are destroying the lives of millions of healthy children as a payoff to teachers unions.
Incredible.
Well Biden always said 'We choose truth over facts'
Banana Republic
Joe Biden's America
Canana Republic
Not a Canada republic. Canada’s queef PM has most of their pro teams playing in the US. Here’s the most recent, I’ve told them in all social media not bring any damn poutine with them.
TORONTO ARROWS TO ESTABLISH TEMPORARY HOME IN ATLANTA FOR START OF 2021 SEASON
Lauren Boebert
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1357393700830261248
Hypocrisy 101: @IlhanMN cites my legitimate mileage reimbursements while she paid her husband* over $1 million in campaign consulting fees.
*Not her brother, the new husband.
Dems are fine with immigration fraud and finance fraud.
Just don't make them say the pledge of allegiance.
Banana Republic
Joe Biden's America
Newsmax
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1357494198874824704
Donald Trump of 'Home Alone 2' fame has resigned from Screen Actors Guild http://ow.ly/DZPq50DrHMm
ROFLMFAO !!!
House poised to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments - ABC News
https://trends.gab.com/item/601c70be144291532bad1314
Have the dems done anything about their Chinese spy problem yet ?
Or marrying your brother.
Or members actually inciting violence ?
How about AOC and her lies, is she going to go down to Bidens cages at the border and do another crying photo op ?
Of course the speaker is probably too busy getting her hair done, eating ice cream and flying in her private jet.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Half of Americans polled for a new survey said Trump should be convicted, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The nationwide survey found that 50 percent of respondents believe Trump should be convicted and 45 percent believe he should not be convicted, with most participants answering along party lines.
Independents polled were split, with 49 percent saying Trump should be convicted and 45 percent saying he should not be convicted.
There is wide agreement on conviction within each party: 86 percent of Republicans say Trump should not be convicted, and 86 percent of Democrats say he should.
“The impeachment question is framed by two distinctly different versions of history and offers as vivid an example of the chasm between Republicans and Democrats as you can find,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement released with the results.
These findings are similar to a separate Monmouth University poll released a few weeks ago, which found that most Americans believe Trump should be impeached and convicted.
The new poll from Quinnipiac University also found that most of those polled (59 percent) do not believe there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, though nearly three-fourths of Republicans surveyed do believe there was widespread fraud.
The Republicans have lost their minds. Almost 75% believe he was reelected by a landslide.
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is a very conservative Republican. Small government and low taxes. He is highly educated, but because he won't kiss Trump's mushroom p***s .🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪other Republicans want him out of office.
After being humiliated all day, the Alky slinks from his tv, in his room
LMAO
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
John Katko of New York
Fred Upton of Michigan
Nicole Malliotakis of New York
Carlos Gimenez of Florida
Chris Jacobs of New York
Young Kim of California
Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida
Chris Smith of New Jersey
Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida
I salute you.
Fuck off pederast
Roger is a pederast?
USA TODAY OPINION
Whatever legal or constitutional test you apply, Trump incited the violent Capitol attack
Free speech is not imperiled in Trump's impeachment trial. What's at stake is a president's freedom to incite a violent attack on his own government.
by Norman Eisen and Katherine Reisner, Opinion contributors
Then-President Donald Trump addressed an enormous crowd in front of the White House on Jan. 6.
"We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he loudly declared to the thousands of people gathered.
He added: “After this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. … We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue … and we're going to the Capitol.”
Donald J. Trump has already been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for “incitement of insurrection.” On Tuesday, his lawyers provided an “answer” to the Article of Impeachment delivered to the Senate, in which they “denied that President Trump incited the crowd to engage in destructive behavior.” The former president’s words, they assert, are instead “protected speech” pursuant to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
***Trump's speech was not protected
Like so much else the ex-president and his lawyers say, that is false. Trump’s incendiary remarks Jan. 6 were clearly incitement, even within the parameters of the term in First Amendment jurisprudence.
The ex-president’s short Tuesday filing implicates a question we will see more of in his full brief on Monday:
Were Trump’s remarks mere "advocacy,” or were they instead "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and … likely to incite or produce such action"?
The former is protected under the First Amendment.
The latter, under the landmark 1969 Supreme Court decision Brandenburg v. Ohio, is not.
As a threshold matter, and as the House points out in its trial brief also filed Tuesday, the Brandenburg test does not apply. That is a test designed for ordinary criminal prosecutions of private citizens — not government officials. The Supreme Court has ruled their speech is entitled to lesser protection when it comes to the performance of the public duty they owe us all.
Presidents are held to a “high crimes and misdemeanors” constitutional standard for wrongdoing, and the First Amendment does not protect speech that constitutes impeachable conduct. Every prior presidential impeachment, including Trump’s first one, was based in part upon words spoken by the president. The First Amendment did not come into play there, and neither is it relevant here.
Even if the Brandenburg test were applied, Trump would flunk.
First, Trump’s speech encouraged the use of violence or lawless action. Trump’s lawyers have absurdly argued that his Jan. 6 remarks did not have "anything to do with the action at the Capitol.” In fact, there can be no doubt that Trump was exhorting the crowd to engage in acts of lawlessness and violence. He ignited the supporters before him by repeating baseless claims, rejected by dozens of courts since Election Day, that he had “won” the election “in a landslide.” He insisted, “We won’t have a country” if we don’t “fight like hell,” adding that “we will not let them silence your voices. We’re not going to let it happen.”
***No fig leaf to hide behind:
Donald Trump's impeachment filing fails to make a case for acquittal
The crowd in return made clear they received his message as they chanted “Fight for Trump” throughout Trump’s remarks. Then, as the attack on the Capitol was already underway, and aides pleaded with Trump to call on the mob to stand down, he at first resisted any action to rein in the violence.
Instead, as he watched it unfold, aides described him as pleased, delighted and excited. If there were any doubt about the meaning of Trump’s remarks to the angry crowd gathered just a short march from the Capitol, his subsequent actions confirm that he MEANT to incite violence and lawlessness.
***A history of courting the 'alt-right'
Second, Trump plainly intended that his speech would result in the use of violence or lawless action. His lawyers suggest that Trump was merely advocating for good government in his speech, and that these remarks were “clearly about the need to fight for election security in general.”
Yet, as we have come to expect with Trump, his tweets suggested otherwise. He pushed conspiracies about fraud, proclaimed that the Jan. 6 rally “will be wild!” and exhorted his supporters to “be strong.”
He issued these directions after a long history of courting, condoning and recruiting extremists to act on his behalf. From telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” to his enthusiastic support for the car caravans that tried to run Biden campaign buses off the road, to his regular encouragement of “Stop the Steal” rallies, including the one on Jan. 6, Trump hardly practiced the art of subtlety. The evidence of this years-long courtship of the violent "alt-right," with a crescendo of specific calls to action culminating in the violent insurrection at the Capitol, is plain to see.
***Constitutional:
Of course the Senate can hold a Trump impeachment trial. There's no real legal argument against it.
Finally, the use of violence or lawless action was imminent and the result of his speech. Trump addressed the crowd about noon on Jan. 6, with Congress scheduled to meet in joint session at 1 p.m. The attack on the U.S. Capitol began soon after 1:10 p.m. He told them they’d walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, to the Capitol, together; then they did walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol (of course, abandoned by Trump).
Trump’s defense lawyers have tried to make this a complicated question of constitutional law, but it’s simple. They claim that the freedom of speech that is the “backbone of all American liberties” is imperiled. It is not.
The Supreme Court’s test for discerning what is advocacy and what is incitement to violence is so stringent that it let Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader, off the hook. Although it is not required in an impeachment trial, even if we do apply the test, the results are clear: Trump incited insurrection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCnUHNeTkg&feature=youtu.be
Really, really good.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuttier than Mr. Peanut’s jockstrap, so is everybody else with an (Q) by their name.
Greene hasn’t actually apologized for any of it, save expressing suspiciously timed regret about posting some QAnon content to her social media, which she turned into another excuse to blame “the media” for reporting on the things she herself had posted.
Republicans argue that Greene shouldn’t be punished for how she acted before she was elected, ignoring the fact that Greene’s insistence that she be allowed to masklessly aspirate her germy breath in the halls of Congress may very well have endangered the lives of her colleagues, their staff, and their families. Again, the kind of conduct that would merit disciplinary action or dismissal in most other jobs. Not to mention the fact that the petri dish lockdown happened on account of an attack that Greene encouraged.
Congressional Republicans either agree with Greene or they’re too scared of the possibility of upsetting people who do to take a stand against her. They are either on board, or too timid to turn the ship around. And both scenarios effectively mean that Greene is the GOP and the GOP is Greene.
If Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuttier than Mr. Peanut’s jockstrap, so is everybody else with an (R) by their name. At least, until the vast majority of people on that side of the aisle who stood behind her on Thursday get the nerve to actually do something about it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-isnt-owning-the-libs-shes-leading-the-gops-space-laser-suicide-march
The polite thing to say would be that it brings me no joy to write these words. But the polite thing wouldn’t be Thecoldheartedtruth thing (besides, politeness died with the rise of the “fuck your feelings” party). While everybody who works in and around the Capitol complex deserves to work in a place where they don’t have to risk crossing paths with somebody as deranged as Greene, it brings me (and, judging by how eagerly she pounced on Greene, Speaker Pelosi) incredible satisfaction to witness the GOP finally implicitly admitting that Greene is who they are now.
She is the GOP without airbrushing, Fox News without the hair and makeup, or the Ivy League Vaseline on the lens obscuring the pock marks. She’s Sarah Palin, but not occasionally charismatic. She’s Steve Bannon, but not occasionally smart. She’s Donald Trump, but not occasionally funny. She’s the moral ugliness of the modern party laid bare, all the reasons that upstanding citizens shouldn’t vote for any Republican, conveniently combined into one person.
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is a very conservative Republican. Small government and low taxes. He is highly educated, but because he won't kiss Trump's mushroom p***s .🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪other Republicans want him out of office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCnUHNeTkg&feature=youtu.be
Parties have reputations. Not everyone is passionately immersed in politics. People see politics as it goes by on their screens; they get impressions. Do Republicans want their party to seem like a serious alternative, or yet another American institution that has lost hold of reality? Suburban voters, the college-educated—they will not align with what appears to be degenerate radicalism.
Arthur Kimes
https://twitter.com/ComradeArthur/status/1357518943984967682
Tucker reporting that Bank of America went through its customers records and searched its data file for anyone using a credit card in Washington DC area around the 6th and 7th including T-shirts, hotel rooms etc. and turned them over to the Feds
(http://ace.mu.nu sidebar)
In response to a FBI "inquiry"
Joe Biden's America
Police State
1984
Where's Hunter? Oh he's selling books while under 2 criminal investigations which "the big guy" will make "disappear" I'm sure
Catturd
https://gab.com/Catturd/posts/105678532210888910
The FBI is now nothing more than the KGB for the Democrat party.
Banana Republic
Joe Biden's America
1984
Bipartisan Support Emerges for Domestic Terror Bills
6:49 am
Washington Post: “An apparent bipartisan majority of the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday endorsed the idea of new laws to address domestic terrorism in the wake of last month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, as experts warned such internal threats would plague the country for decades to come.”
Oh my! You mean the GOP may now start opposing rather than encouraging domestic terrorism? What a switch!
Trump DELIGHTED in what he saw happening at the Capitol, and yet you supported and defended him. Why the change?
Meanwhile Biden bows to Russia's position on arms treaty and stops supplying arms to Saudi backed forces fighting Irans's proxy in Yemen. Iran announces nuclear bomb capabilities any moment.
Announces he is going to get "tough" on Russia.
Thanks Joe.
Banana Republic.
1984
Not America first, now Russia, China, Iran etc first
Trump Allies See Impeachment Trial as PR Nightmare
6:46 am
Politico:
“Allies of former President Donald Trump are imploring his impeachment team to avoid one specific topic when they defend the ex-president at his Senate trial next week: the deadly riot that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol.”
Oh, we wouldn't want to talk about THAT, now would we?
Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1357675098887577601
I woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking about what a bunch of morons the Democrats (+11) are for giving some one like me free time.
In this Democrat tyrannical government, Conservative Republicans have no say on committees anyway.
Oh this is going to be fun!
Yep, dems are forcing through a very unpopular cesspool of a bill by a procedural action. But foreigners and the ruling class love it.
Unity !!!
Joe is going to represent all Americans.
Eat your peas and shutup.
Joe Biden's America
1984
Animal Farm
Banana Republic
What follows is called objective journalistic opinion, not mere propaganda:
Biden Stimulus Plan Is Not Without Risks
6:39 am
Larry Summers:
“President Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief plan, added to the stimulus measure Congress passed in December with the incoming administration’s strong support, would represent the boldest act of macroeconomic stabilization policy in U.S. history. Its ambition, its rejection of austerity orthodoxy and its commitment to reducing economic inequality are all admirable. It is imperative that safety-net measures for those suffering and investments in vaccination and testing be undertaken rapidly after the indefensible delays of the last months of the Trump administration.
“Yet bold measures need to be accompanied by careful consideration of risks and how they can be mitigated. While the arguments for providing relief to those hurt by the economic fallout of the pandemic, investing in controlling the virus and supporting consumer demand are compelling, much of the policy discussion has not fully reckoned with the magnitude of what is being debated.”
Senate Approves Budget Bill with Harris Breaking Tie
6:49 am
“The Senate approved a budget bill early Friday that paves the way for passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with Vice President Harris casting the tiebreaking vote on the measure that will be key to enacting Biden’s first major legislative initiative,” the Washington Post reports.
“Passage of the budget bill by a 51-to-50 vote came just after 5:30 a.m. Friday, after an all-night Senate session during which senators plowed through dozens of amendments in a chaotic process known as a ‘vote-a-rama.’ Democrats cheered the progress on measures to address the pandemic, while Republicans complained of partisanship and excessive spending.”
Axios:
“The resolution will now go back to the House for final approval, at which point committees be allowed to begin writing the bill.”
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. :-)
Hunter Biden Writing Memoir Based On Drug Abuse – Gets A Cool $2 Million In Advance
The Biden White House recently put out a statement saying that members of Joe Biden’s family would not cash in on his presidency.
Days later, we learn that Hunter Biden is writing a book, for which he has already been paid an advance of $2 million.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/hunter-biden-writing-memoir-based-drug-abuse-gets-cool-2-million-advance/
Say it ain't so Joe
But check to see if the "big guy" got his cut
Banana Republic
1984
A TWEET FROM THE GEORGIA WHACKO IW Q NEW LOW EVEN FOR A DUMB FUCK LIKE THIEF!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! HER CROCK OF SHIT SPEECH YESTERDAY PROVES SHE CAN'T CHANGE HER SPOTS!!!!!!!!!! SHE IS THE BANANA FARMER!!!!!! AND A FRUITCAKE BAKER!!!!!
I see someone is cleaning up Goddard's ass again this morning.
Still doesn't understand the ethics of stealing other peoples material
Must have cheated to get through "pastor" school
ROFLMFAO !!!
GOP Eyes Path to Power by Embracing Far Right
8:16 am
“Over the course of 24 hours this week, House Republicans voted to defend a freshman conspiracy theorist with a history of violent rhetoric and a mainstream party leader who backed Donald Trump’s impeachment,” the AP reports.
“The seemingly conflicting moves signal that Republican leaders, particularly in the House, are betting they can return to political power by cobbling together a coalition featuring both pro-Trump extremists and those who abhor them. The votes also suggest that Washington Republicans are unable, or unwilling, to purge far-right radicals from their party, despite some GOP leaders’ best wishes.”
It ain't gonna work.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
--A. Lincoln
Speaking of a house divided...
Trump Planning Revenge Tour Against Republicans
8:08 am
Former president Donald Trump is planning to embark on a nationwide speaking tour specifically designed to hurt Republicans who have backed his impeachment, Insider reports.
Trump wants to target the 10 House Republicans who voted for his impeachment last month, as well as any Republican senators who speak out against him at next week’s trial.
_____________
Biden is seeking to help a divided nation that is crying out to him for greater unity.
Trump is seeking to divide a party that refuses to march lockstep with him in his extremism.
“Over the course of 24 hours this week, House Republicans voted to defend a freshman conspiracy theorist
Plus this same group of alleged Americans also voted to overturn an election!!!!!! Why does the GOP hate democracy and embrace whack a doodles into their tent?????????
STOLEN ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Tim Pool
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1357667842527756292
They didn't rig the election they "fortified" it
Holy fuck I can't believe Time just ran this story
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Must Read
Sometimes the truth is accidentally told. Even without getting into the foreign influence and "voting machines" rather than tabulators.
Banana Republic
Stolen Election
"fortified"
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1357543318213771264
The recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom now has 1.4 million signatures. Only 95,709 more signatures are needed by March 17.
The end is near for Newsom.
Well Newsom is forcing signature verification and didn't mail out millions of ballots against an unverified voter list with automatic voter registration for drivers licence applicants unless they opted out... And then "harvested"
Of course in a "vote" election he will do the opposite
Stolen Election
"fortified"
The next fucking moron shows up without a shred dignity or proof.....Typical of the Trump GOP......pure BULLSHIT AND WHO CAN YELL THE LOUDEST!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Jewish Deplorable
VIDEO: https://mobile.twitter.com/ThatTrumpJew/status/1357498990015700992
This is one of my favorite Jen Psaki moments
Now she just says she is going to "circle back" and doesn't, or the few times she did, without a substantive response.
Animal HOUSE
Joe Biden's America
Animal farm
Banana Republic
Of course remember Hunter is the smartest person Joe has ever met.
Joe must never have met VERY lo iq
ROFLMFAO !!!
probably tied with Hunter :>)
Peter J. Hasson
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1357497723969232899
President Biden today claimed he was "shot at" overseas
He made the same claim over a decade ago before walking it back
Scrambled eggs and he's got his finger on the nuclear button.
Can't "walk" that back.
Holy fuck I can't believe Time just ran this story
I can't fucking believe that is what you got from that story!!!!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Brit Hume
PICTURE: https://mobile.twitter.com/brithume/status/1357461869972377603
Look at the picture carefully.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
OMG it’s real!!!
Joe Biden's America
Animal House
and I mean Animal HOUSE
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Fucking daddy flying up his own ass again!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
anonymous said...
Holy fuck I can't believe Time just ran this story
I can't fucking believe that is what you got from that story!!!!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
How does it feel VERY lo iq to be the blog's fire hydrant and have everyone piss on you ?
Must have been very tuff growing up and having everyone laugh and make fun of you.
Most of us do feel sorry for you.
You can't help that you were born with such a small brain and futiley flail at making a cogent reply
bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
"In six months I will be surprised if you give Biden any credit" Roger
No Roger no moving your goal posts.
You said in "The first 100 days".
Roger predicted that the US will have 31 million small businesses by April, 30, 2021
nt Biden today claimed he was "shot at" overseas
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Trump claimed to have bone spurs and never walked that back or produced an X-ray of his painful condition!!!!!!
Job growth returned to the U.S. in January, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by 49,000 while the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%, the Labor Department said Friday in the first employment report of the Biden administration.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for growth of 50,000 and the unemployment to hold unchanged at 6.7%. However, many analysts on Wall Street had been looking for higher numbers; Citigroup had projected a gain of 250,000.
Latest AP poll......Biden approval 61%
Final Cuban poll Castro at 93% approval
Last North Korea Poll Kim at 99.99 % approval
Russian poll: Putin at 84 % approval
1984
Coronavirus and the economic shutdowns have affected everyone – but it hasn’t impacted everyone equally. Women have been among the hardest hit by the economic fallout from COVID-19, losing nearly 2.2 million jobs between February and November 2020.
The December 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics report had more bad news for women: all of the jobs lost were women’s jobs. Specifically, that December report revealed that while men gained 16,000 jobs, women lost 156,000 jobs.
Women-owned businesses, which had been on the rise in recent years, have certainly had a rough go during the pandemic as well. In a recent survey, more than half of female small business owners feared they will have to permanently close their businesses.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/covid-impact-women-careers-businesses-joni-ernst-carrie-lukas
Shutdowns have consequences
WASHINGTON — Senate lawmakers gave their support to President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package just before sunrise on Friday, clearing a major hurdle for the legislation to proceed without Republican support after an overnight voting session that stretched for about 15 hours.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived early in the morning to the Senate dais, where she cast her first tiebreaking vote, and the Senate adopted the resolution along party lines, 51-50, at about 5:30 a.m.
In the marathon session — known as a vote-a-rama and for which more than 800 amendments were drafted — Senate Democrats maneuvered through a series of politically tricky amendments that Republicans wanted to attach to a coronavirus relief package as lawmakers pressed forward with a budget plan that includes Mr. Biden’s economic aid proposal.
The resolution will go to the House, where Democrats do not require Republican support to approve it.
Still, the proposal did not pass the Senate without setbacks for some Democrats. Lawmakers dealt a significant blow to Mr. Biden’s plan by dismissing a major tenet: a measure that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
In an impassioned speech around 5 a.m., Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, called for his colleagues to back the budget resolution “in the strongest possible terms,” even after they rejected the minimum wage proposal for which he has been the Senate’s leading proponent.
“We now come to the end of the debate that has gone on for over 14 hours, and we end this debate in a moment in which our country faces more crises, more pain, more anxiety than any time since the Great Depression,” Mr. Sanders said. “But we have the opportunity to give hope to the American people and restore faith in our government by telling them that tonight we understand the pain that they are experiencing and we are going to do something very significant about it.”
By a voice vote, senators backed an amendment from Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, to “prohibit the increase of the federal minimum wage during a global pandemic.” It was a signal that the wage increase would be difficult to pass in an evenly split Senate, where at least one Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, is on record opposing it.
“A $15 federal minimum wage would be devastating for our hardest-hit small businesses at a time they can least afford it,” Ms. Ernst said on the Senate floor. “We should not have a one-size-fits-all policy set by Washington politicians.”
Mr. Sanders seemed unfazed. He said that his plan was to carry out the wage increase over five years and that he had never wanted to raise it during the pandemic.
“We need to end the crisis of starvation wages in Iowa and around the United States,” Mr. Sanders said. He added that he planned to try to get the phased-in wage increase included in a budget reconciliation bill that would allow Mr. Biden’s stimulus plan to circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rule.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during the debate that Democrats would not give up on trying to raise the wage to $15 an hour even outside the stimulus measure.
“It’s not the last bill we’ll pass,” Ms. Pelosi said. “This is the rescue package.”
Entering the early hours of the morning, senators in both parties pushed forward test votes to showcase their dueling priorities. In an evenly split Senate, any amendment required the majority’s support to pass, and therefore several failed on a 50-to-50 tie.
Among the Republican proposals that did not garner enough support were measures to reduce funding to states like New York, which is under investigation over coronavirus deaths in nursing homes; to prohibit funding for schools that do not reopen for in-person classes once teachers are vaccinated; and to block funds from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and the chairwoman of the education committee, called the effort to put restrictions on sending aid to schools “simply a political show.”
“If we withhold funds and schools cannot implement health safety protocols, then we are acting counter to actually getting students back in the classroom,” Ms. Murray said.
Democrats did, however, rally around some amendments from Republicans. The Senate, by unanimous vote, agreed to a motion from Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, both Republicans of Florida, to block tax increases on small businesses during the pandemic.
Alky here is a "new business" , David Hogg Pillow company LLC.
He and his millionaire backers are going to put "My Pillow" out of business.
This is Alky Stupid.
Republicans forced dems to admit that they want to send checks to illegal immigrants and millions in funding to schools that aren't opening. That will play very poorly in 2022.
Only with the racist base.
If the economy recovers, the Democrats will get a larger majority in the Senate and house
David Hogg Pillow company LLC.
He and his millionaire backers are going to put "My Pillow" out of business.
It's called capitalism. Words have coniquentionces.
Words have coniquentionces.
words have conquistadories!!!
LOL.
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS HAVE DEVASTATED THEIR STATES
Over the past year, there has been a pretty clear divide between liberal governors, who almost without exception imposed irrationally harsh covid lockdown measures, and conservative governors, who generally took a more nuanced and pro-freedom approach. The data are now in, courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and they tell a story that cannot be misinterpreted.
My colleague Martha Njolomole created these charts. First, job losses in December 2020. She focused on the fact that Minnesota, shut down once more by feckless Governor Tim Walz, lost nearly 50,000 jobs in December alone, trailing only Michigan and California. By contrast, Wisconsin, about as similar to Minnesota as a state can be, is on the way to recovery, adding 15,000 jobs in that month. What state added the most jobs in December? Texas, by far.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), the committee’s former chairman, joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling for legislation to set specific federal penalties for domestic terrorism cases. Such legislation would aim to bring the prosecution of such crimes into parity with laws targeting terrorism that originates overseas — something proponents said would recognize that the threats are equally insidious.
“What happened Jan. 6 just cries out” for such a response, McCaul said. “I think it sends a strong message about where Congress is, that we’re going to treat domestic terrorism on an equal plane as international terrorism.”
Several lawmakers said they also endorse targeting social media companies with legislation meant to hold them accountable when extremist propaganda is circulated on their platforms. Some backed the approach set out in a bill, co-written by Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), seeking to overhaul of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law giving technology companies liability protection from what third parties post on their sites.
“They’ve dragged their feet too long,” Neumann told lawmakers, referring to social media companies and noting that although the preference was to have business “self-correct … we might be at the point where it is needed for Congress to pass legislation to address the problem.”
Despite their unanimous condemnation of the Capitol attack and white supremacy, the experts assembled Thursday were not in lockstep when it came to recommendations for how Congress ought to go about legislating a response. While Greenblatt came with a seven-part plan, including specific legislative recommendations to increase penalties and for funding mitigation activities, Brian Michael Jenkins of the Rand Corp. took the opposite approach, recommending that prosecutors might do best to go after domestic terrorists by leveraging existing statutes.
Even Republicans are calling the 1/6 terrorism despite rrb
words have conquistadories!!!
LOL
It's call Alky Stupid, ®,
The Wall Street Journal reports that the President Biden plans are working!
US. stocks rose Friday, suggesting the S&P 500 is poised for its best week in three months, on investors’ bets that a fresh coronavirus-relief spending package will bolster the economy.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.5%, indicating that the broad market gauge may continue to rise after closing at a record high on Thursday. The benchmark is up over 4.5% this week, on track for its biggest one-week gain since the week ending Nov. 6.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.6%, or 171 points, higher.
The market has rallied this week as President Biden pushed ahead with efforts to pass a $1.9 trillion relief package. Democrats are using a special procedure to move ahead on the stimulus bill: The Senate on Friday approved a budget plan that advances the reconciliation process necessary to get the aid plan approved with a simple majority in the Senate.
Auto fill. Consequentions I didn't fix it before because I knew it would drive you to drink a six pack of PBR
words have conquistadories!!!
Roger Amick said...
Auto fill. Consequentions
I see why the term alky stupid is trending here
ROFLMFAO !!!
Auto fill puts in real words
"words have conquistadories!!!"
Yes Yours do, I am holding you to them.
In six months I will be surprised if you give Biden any credit" Roger
No Roger no moving your goal posts.
You said in "The first 100 days".
Roger predicted that the US will have 31 million small businesses by April, 30, 2021
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Auto fill puts in real words
and 'alky' fill puts in alky stupid.
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