This is the reason why it was really impossible to get a fair trial in Minneapolis and why the change of venue should have been granted. Either that or the judge should be providing for a more generous criteria for the court striking people for actual cause.
When a potential juror tells the court that they have developed a negative opinion of Officer Chauvin, they believe that the video was damning, when they claim that the police are acting like military, and they admit to giving money to BLM and having both him and his wife participating in protests over the killing of George Floyd... on what planet is that not someone who should be stricken for cause?
But in this case, all the potential juror had to say was that he believes he could be impartial and that creates a situation where the defense has to use one of their limited strikes. Once they run out of strikes, the rest of the jury will no doubt be made up of similar types of black lives activists which will quite literally make a fair trial for Chauvin to be impossible.
Meanwhile the prosecution still has several of their preemptory strikes available and are able to use them on pretty much anyone who actually hasn't developed a negative opinion about Chauvin and the police. They have been able to quite literally use them because people won't say they support BLM or are against the police.
A fair trial would require a fairly impartial jury. Even in a case like this there are places in outstate Minnesota where you would run into an equal number of people who might be pro-police versus those who would be more BLM. You simply are not going to get that in Minneapolis. The refusal to change the venue was a refusal to provide a fair trial with an impartial jury.
101 comments:
I don't think that it's good versus evil, or black versus white.
It is based upon evidence and intent.
The evidence is clear. He was strangled to death.
The intent is very difficult to prove.
You would like to conduct the trial in a politically conservative region of Minnesota.
Even in a case like this there are places in outstate Minnesota where you would run into an equal number of people who might be pro-police versus those who would be more BLM.
That is not how our justice system should work.
The alleged crimes occurred in Minneapolis Minnesota.
The people of the area, in your opinion are not capable of following the evidence, because they are racially and politically diverse.
Roger you again display your spectacular Stupidity.
Thank you.
I never get tired of LOL@You.
Regarding the barbed wire fence around the Capitol building and the White House.
The former indicted the invasion of the Capitol building on January 6th.
Until the Republican party separates it from the former, the barbed wire fences, are necessary. Ronald Reagan's famous speech, " Mr. Gorbachev tear down the wall" Helped lead the collapse of the Soviet Union.
People like you have to say, " Mr. Trump tear down the wall." And go play golf until the day you die.
Will save the Republican party.
ear. He was strangled to death.
Actually he drowned from the fluid in his lungs do to an OD
This little Fairy was installed by Geppetto Joe. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants to raise the Federal gasoline tax by 50 cents.
Then index it to inflation.
Cali, Roger is wrong.
Thank you again for educating him.
The autopsy disagrees with an alcoholic Republicans called Cali.
You’re the Alky Alky
And as always start off with an insult
And I’m Libertarian
THWAP! THWAP!!
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol– that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our–selves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol– that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our–selves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Quitter just like the rest of your life
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The autopsy disagrees with an alcoholic Republicans called Cali.
according to the autopsy report there was zero trauma to the soft tissue of Junkie Floyd's neck or hyoid bone. fucking none.
your version is fantasy alky. and you have not read the autopsy
The second autopsy report found it was murder.
Roger Amick said...
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol– that our lives had become unmanageable.
Not sure alky ever got over learning to read in third grade
or maybe it was the alcohol
sure is TDS now.
or maybe being lockdowned in a room
with a tv.
and wifi.
sad, no wonder he has compassion for a demented old man who was living in a basement.
Roger Amick said...
The second autopsy report found it was murder.
by drowning or drugs ?
and who paid for it ?
I haven't been following
sad, no wonder he has compassion for a demented old man who was living in a basement.
Joe is his boi
He can sympathize with being locked down and unable to change his own depends
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The second autopsy report found it was murder.
FALSE.
the coroner "ruled" it to be a homicide.
and it's obvious he didn't draw that conclusion from the facts: the toxicology report, and no evidence of trauma.
fear of having himself and his family murdered and his house burned to the fucking ground by a wild pack of BLM animals will do that to a man.
Junkie Floyd had enough Fentanyl in his system to kill three grown adults.
sad, no wonder he has compassion for a demented old man who was living in a basement.
Joe is his boi
He can sympathize with being locked down and unable to change his own depends
The estimated lethal dose of fentanyl in humans is 2 mg. The recommended serum concentration for analgesia is 1–2 ng/ml and for anaesthesia it is 10–20 ng/ml. Blood concentrations of approximately 7 ng/ml or greater have been associated with fatalities where poly-substance use was involved.
Junkie Floyd had 11ng/ml according to the toxicology report.
The doctor who conducted the autopsy showed drugs contributed, but were not the cause of death. Eight minutes and 43 seconds killed George Floyd.
Contributed. You failed 3rd grade English.
Off topic because I have swapped your asses.
Biden used his prime time address to denounce what he called “vicious hate crimes” against Asian Americans.
Asian Americans have been “attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated” for the novel coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China, Biden said.
“So many of them are fellow Americans, are on the frontlines of this pandemic trying to save lives – and still are forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America,” he said. “It's wrong. It's un-American. And it must stop.”
'It's wrong, it's un-American':Biden denounces attacks against Asian Americans
Asian Americans have reported increased racism directed at them amid the coronavirus, as some politicians, including the former president, continue to refer to the virus as the "China virus," the "China flu," or other names considered derogatory.
Contributing: Maureen Groppe, Michael Collins, Savannah Behrmann, Rebecca Morin
Scott is married to a lovely woman of Chinese descent.
But because the former said that, he doesn't care.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/11/president-joe-biden-speech-takeaways-covid-vaccine-eligibility/4655040001/
alky, the homicide ruling is subjective.
the autopsy results are objective.
you're so morally fucking bankrupt you're willing to send an innocent man to prison for life just to satiate your TDS and racist-fueled lust for power and control.
you and those like you are the reason so many of us despise liberals. you politicize EVERYTHING and demand your own way 100% of the time or you set the world on fire.
Asian Americans have been “attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated” for the novel coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China, Biden said.
and virtually NONE of them make the news or police reports.
just another hoax to blame on the scourge of white supremacists to keep the myth alive, the soldiers n DC, and the razor wire wrapped around the cowardly tyrants.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
stick to flailing on Junkie Floyd alky.
Off topic because I have swapped your asses.
Swapped our ass so bad, whatever that means, you changed the subject
LMAO
THWAPP!!
When Chauvin’s trial for his alleged role in Floyd’s death begins, much of the argument will center instead on the autopsy details, most specifically whether fentanyl and underlying health conditions — not the police officer’s actions — stopped Floyd’s heart and
Seven experts in toxicology, cardiology and illegal drug use consulted by The Washington Post largely disagreed with that idea, most of them strenuously. All but one said the autopsy findings and other court documents, coupled with the well-known chain of events that evening, made death by a fentanyl overdose unlikely to impossible. (One expert, Craig Beavers, chair of the American College of Cardiology’s cardiovascular team section, said he did not have enough information about all the circumstances to form a final conclusion.)
“From my review of the video and the autopsy report, I see nothing that makes me think he died of an opioid overdose,” said Kavita Babu, chief opioid officer and chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass. Instead, she and others said, the defense uses events out of order and medical findings out of context to deflect blame from Chauvin to Floyd.
Two autopsies — one by a county medical examiner and another by a private medical examiner hired by Floyd’s family — as well as a review by military experts conducted for the federal government, reached the conclusion that Floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest as the officers subduing him compressed his neck and chest.
Andrew Baker — the medical examiner in Minnesota’s Hennepin County, who is expected to be a key witness in the trial — formally declared Floyd’s death a homicide in June, listing “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression” as the cause of death.
The report listed heart disease, fentanyl intoxication, recent methamphetamine use and Floyd’s bout with the coronavirus as other “significant conditions.”
The analysis also found other health issues, including sickle cell trait. People who inherit one gene for sickle cell disease and one normal gene have sickle cell trait. They generally do not have any symptoms of the disease but can pass the trait to their children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Those findings have given Chauvin’s attorney, Eric J. Nelson, an opening to argue that Chauvin is not responsible for Floyd’s death.
I still think that prosecution has a good chance of convicting for 3rd degree murder and of manslaughter.
LOL.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/george-floyd-fentanyl/2021/03/10/c3d4f328-76ec-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html
If I had been standing on the sidewalk that day, I think I would have HAD to call out to those policemen
,
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? Don't you hear what the man is saying? You've got him pinned down, helpless. HE SAYS HE CAN'T BREATHE! HE'S ASKING YOU NOT TO KILL HIM! TAKE YOUR KNEE OFF OF HIS NECK! AT LEAST DO THAT! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"
Caliphate4vrMarch 12, 2021 at 11:20 AM
And I’m Libertarian"
Always Wrong Roger , is wrong again.
Cali, Roger is using urban gutter trash slang.
" I have swapped your asses"
Urban Dictionary- "To tell another man he is sexually desirable..."
Science , the act of requires breathing.
"HE SAYS HE CAN'T BREATHE" dunce Jamie
KansasDemocrat said...
Cali, Roger is using urban gutter trash slang.
" I have swapped your asses"
Urban Dictionary- "To tell another man he is sexually desirable..."
He thought he was talking to his butt buddy, the POS "pastor"
but that one been too busy spamming and plagiarizing from Goddard
Pedo the pufta feigns bravery
COPS Lol@Pedo
MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family just weeks before the trial is scheduled to begin for the former officer charged with murder in his death.
The City Council unanimously approved the settlement Friday.
Scott's mind will explode
Let's see just how redneck you really are.
10 - 20: A little redneck
20 - 30: Pretty much redneck
30 - 40: Bonafide redneck
How many have you done?
Have you ever...
1. Owned pellet or BB gun as a kid? Y
2. Owned a real gun? Y
3. Shot a real gun? Y
4. Gone squirrel rabbit deer & coon?
5. Gone fishing? Y
6. Owned or used a sling shot? Y
7. Plucked a chicken/turkey? Y
8. Gathered wild ginseng?
9. Eaten deer meat? Y
10. Eaten frog legs? Y
11. Fed a baby farm animals with a bottle? Y
12. Gathered fresh eggs? Y
13. Driven a stick shift? Y
14. Started a vehicle using a manual choke? Y
15. Rode in the back of a pick-up truck? Y
16. Shucked corn? Y
17. Waded barefoot in a creek? Y
18. Caught fireflies in a jar at night? Y
19. Tasted wild honeysuckle? Y
20. Gathered wild blackberries? Y
21. Used an outhouse? Y
22. Rode a horse? Y
23. Smelled the scent of cured tobacco hanging in tobacco barn?
24. Taken the ashes out of a wood stove or wood heater? Y
25. Carried in wood? Y
26. Walked barefoot down a gravel or dirt road? Y
27. Slept in a tent? Y
28. Been attacked by a rooster? Y
29. Eaten raw apple, potato or turnip off the blade of a pocket knife? Y
30. Dipped skoal or chewed chewing tobacco or applied it to a BEE STING?
31. Eaten homemade snow Ice Cream? Y
32. Used a pump to draw water from a well? Y
33. Been on a hay ride? Y
34. Jumped into a pile of raked leaves? Y
35. Carved your initials into a tree? Y
36. Sucked on a piece of water hose to siphon gas out of a gas tank? Y
37. Been shocked by an electric fence? Y
38. Split wood with an ax? Y
39. Hung laundry outside on a clothes line to dry? Y
40. Eaten fried bologna? Y
I got 37
MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family
LMAO.
how much did Junkie Floyd's family make from the T-Shirt sales?
LOL.
$$$ is what these bullshit episodes ALWAYS end up being all about.
everything BLM touches turns to shit.
Cuomo can I kiss you?
The former I can grab their pussys.
BIDEN: I can grab their pussy's.
THWAP!!!
Junkie Floyd's family - hittin' the RAY-CISS lottery jackpot.
jus' like "hands up, don't shoot" an shit, yo.
fo shizzle.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
The City of Minneapolis should give the Junkie Floyd family their $27M settlement on an EBT card.
Redneck list
I got only 14. I'm a New Yorker.
I got them all
39.
only missed on the ginseng.
I forage for it in September but don’t tell anyone it’s protected
I think it’s ok for personal use if harvested on private land, but squirrelly
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped to an all-time high on Friday under Sleepy Joe as rising reopening optimism continued to encourage the rotation into cyclical stocks. Meanwhile, surging bond yields rekindled valuation fears and took the comeback momentum out of tech names.
The 30-stock benchmark rose 250 points to hit another intraday record high. Bank stocks gained amid rising rates, while industrials continued their strength on the back of new stimulus. Goldman Sachs shares jumped 2.3%, and JPMorgan climbed 1.8%. Boein
The S&P 500 jumped 1% and hit a new closing high Thursday, surpassing its previous record from Feb. 16, as President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package became law.
Biden’s much-anticipated relief bill will send direct payments of up to $1,400 to many Americans as soon as this weekend, and will also put nearly $20 billion into Covid-19 vaccinations and $350 billion into state, local and tribal government relief.
Biden announced Thursday evening that he would direct states to make all adults eligible for the vaccine by May 1 in his first primetime address as president. Biden also set a goal for Americans to be able to gather in person with their friends and loved ones in yards
27
Seems 'bout right
Floyd Family said, "it's not about the money"
Damn lie.
In 3 years they will be as poor as they started.
industrials continued their strength on the back of new stimulus means tens of thousands jobs and services because of higher demand.
No more trickle down economics than from the Reagan era in 1980.
Roger again makes shut up and gets shut wrong in the topic of Economics, investing and Goverment debt spiking debt and deficits.
Forbes
"Mar 12, 2021,11:43am EST
"Home Depot Rises To Top Buy"
Have owned and accumulated this stock since 2006.
Roger, what is you top stock that you own?
Sleepy Joe has introduced The Quad.
Quad partners will also cooperate to strengthen “last-mile” vaccination, building on existing health-security and development programs, and across our governments to coordinate and strengthen our programs in the Indo-Pacific.This includes supporting countries with vaccine readiness and delivery, vaccine procurement, health workforce preparedness, responses to vaccine misinformation, community engagement, immunization capacity, and more.
Australia will contribute US$77 million for the provision of vaccines and “last-mile” delivery support with a focus on Southeast Asia, in addition to its existing commitment of US$407 million for regional vaccine access and health security which will provide full vaccine coverage to nine Pacific Island countries and Timor-Leste, and support procurement, prepare for vaccine delivery, and strengthen health systems in Southeast Asia.
Japan will assist vaccination programs of developing countries such as the purchase of vaccines and cold-chain support including through provision of grant aid of $41 million and new concessional yen loans, ensuring alignment with and support of COVAX.
The United States will leverage existing programs to further boost vaccination capability, drawing on at least $100 million in regional efforts focused on immunization.
The United States, Japan, India and Australia will also work together to contain the Chinese military expansion into the region. China has a history of expansion and military operations in the seaway, that could cause economic growth, because they could try again to make it difficult to keep the seaways open.
The United States, Japan, India and Australia will also work together to contain the Chinese military expansion into the region. China has a history of expansion and military operations in the seaway, that could cause economic problems, because they could try again to make it difficult to keep the seaways open.
Scatter Brain Alky.
Using Alky's numbers.
32,000,000 acres ÷ 900,000 new black farmers is 35.5 acres.
They can't make a living .
Under Sleepy Joe Biden the
U.S. tops 100 million Covid vaccine doses administered, 13% of adults now fully vaccinated.
2021 Misery Index
Trump Leaves Office=7.70%
Prez. Geppetto first full month 7.88%
JUSTICE’ BILL WOULD TRANSFER UP TO 32 MILLION ACRES TO BLACK FARMERS
The Justice for Black Farmers Act would enable Black farmers to acquire up to 160 acres apiece at no charge through a USDA system of land grants.
Kputz can't use a calculator
Pre-pandemic the index was 5.54%.
Roger predicted Prez. Geppetto will have it lover then that by April 30th, 2021.
Sleepy Joe has doubled the number of injections in 53 days. The former too about 8 months to immunize 7. 7%
Damn what a stupid post. Operation Warp Speed was historic.
And 0 to 1.5M per day in only a month.
Sleepy Joe excedid my projected April percentage by 9% by March 12th
Three months after he fucking knew how dangerous it was on everybody
Fucking wrong again ballsless
Let's see, who was Trump's Covid adviser again ???
Oh, Dr. Fauci who got everything wrong. Good thing Trump overruled him on travel from China.
Too bad he didn't fire him and instead listened to him for so long.
China loved him.
And now so does Biden....hmmmm
yeah... about all those attacks on asians...
Another White Supremacy Attack, As Three Trump Supporting Uber Passengers Hurl Racial Slurs at Asian Uber Driver
Have you guessed the punchline yet?
Of course you have.
The three RNC volunteers were reportedly taking an Uber from San Francisco to Trump's Florida estate at Mar-a-Lago. They were to meet with Mike Lindell about opportunities in the wall-building space.
One or more of the women wouldn't put on masks during the ride. Eventually, the driver pulled over and told them to get out. At that point, one of the women deliberately coughed on the man, and assaulted him, while shouting "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!!! SPEAK ENGLISH!!"
Video at the link, or here.
You can see these Trump-inspired racists beating the South Asian immigrant driver with Trump's Art of the Deal.
Uber has banned all three women, and now Lyft has banned them as well.
The women were reportedly all wearing the new invisible MAGA hats that all the Asian-attackers are wearing lately.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/393170.php
I hear Jussie Smoe-Lay got a gig with the Biden* regime as a special advisor to the Cum-Allah...
Fucking wrong again ballsless
He's correct. As usual, you're the fucking liar alky.
Sundown Joe is such a fucking failure he needs to steal his successes from Trump.
what a fucking shit bag.
The past year has been a bewildering period in American political and social history. We are in the last, maddening stages of a year-long pandemic that forced deep changes in everyone’s lives. In the middle of it, we saw a sudden mass movement emerge around the policing of black America, pioneered by the young, a movement that now sees any difference in outcome between various identity groups as completely intolerable. We saw American cities in flames. We had an election with a massive, historic turnout, even as the plague was about to hit its peak.
We then witnessed the first violent transfer of power in American history, in which a sitting president falsely insisted he had won the election in a landslide, tried to rig the results in his favor, and then whipped up a crowd to storm the Capitol Building to prevent certification. And then we got the Democrats in tenuous control of the White House, House and Senate — despite doing rather poorly in the Congressional vote.
To make understanding all this even harder, we are also in the death rattle of a liberal democratic culture, where reasonable debate in any one venue is much rarer, reality is bespoke, and “news” is being replaced by “narratives” brimming with moral clarity. To see how this all shakes out is now impossible. Are these fads or enthusiasms manifestations of the wildness that plagues often bring — soon to subside? Or a permanent, seismic shift toward a very different America?
I suspect the latter. This seems to me to be a sea-change in American history and politics, greater than any since the 1970s. The most centrist candidate the Democrats put forward in early 2020 has, in his first fifty days, become the most radically progressive president since LBJ.
Rrb's favorite gay guy Anderson Sullivan.
The Covid19 plague, in other words, has done what many others have in history. By shaking the society up in so many ways, by suspending it in mid-air while forcing the population into mass and fearful isolation, by shattering so many familiar patterns, it has blown the future wide open. And the conservative tendency in America, the usual brake on this kind of revolutionary change, is nowhere to be found. It was killed by the GOP many, many years ago, and in so far as it exists at all, lingers in a tiny, traumatized fragment of the Democrats or in a political party that is now an authoritarian, profligate cult wrapped in a con-man’s conspiracy theories.
And, unusually, the Democratic Party, given the slimmest of margins by Georgia’s Senate seats, has seized the day. They have actually grasped their opportunity and maintained impressive discipline! The American Rescue Plan is the first move of an administration that is proving to be everything the Republicans once falsely claimed about Obama: this administration really seems dedicated to a fundamental transformation of America. Biden is doing what Obama never could (or wanted to). Uncle Joe’s reputation for moderation, his old white-guy familiarity, his past centrism, his age and working-class affect, his confused senior stare and stuttering speech, has become a brilliant frontman for intensifying left-radicalism.
Operation Warp Speed was history
For morons like you.....BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! If the drug companies did not start work on their own based on their knowledge of the virus......they'd still be in trials you dump fuck,.....Pfiezer self funded and took no money from the feds to develop their vaccine!!!!!!Sad ballz that reality again eludes you.....LOLOLOLOLOL
Biden is doing what Obama never could (or wanted to). Uncle Joe’s reputation for moderation, his old white-guy familiarity, his past centrism, his age and working-class affect, his confused senior stare and stuttering speech, has become a brilliant frontman for intensifying left-radicalism.
For example
Sundown Joe is such a fucking failure he needs to steal his successes from Trump.
what a fucking shit bag.
I hear Jussie Smoe-Lay got a gig with the Biden*
And I hear you have trumps dick stuck up your ass!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
You know this was a direct hit
"MyballsMarch 12, 2021 at 3:18 PM
Damn what a stupid post. Operation Warp Speed was historic.
And 0 to 1.5M per day in only a month"
Alky's Tourette syndrome kicks in.
"frontman for intensifying left-radicalism. " Alky
Well, no need to hide Geppetto Joe.
🚫
Roger AmickMarch 11, 2021 at 9:21 PM
He's going to be the greatest President in the last 90 years🚫
He's going to be the placeholder(s) between the GREATEST PRESIDENT ever !!!
TRUMP 2024 !!!
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1370397677347819521
If you're very good and totally obedient you might be allowed to have big gatherings on July 4, for the first time since you were allowed to have big gatherings to celebrate Joe Biden's victory
Joe Biden's America
Let them eat cake
his old white-guy familiarity
Yeah, now that you mention it the drooling fuck DID have to slip Scranton into his speech last night.
I was hoping for the "a drunk driver killed my wife and kid" story.
and instant classic.
classic LIE that is.
THWAP!!!!!!!!!
Trump was going to let you pack the churches for last Easter until Fauci and Birx FINALLY managed to talk some sense into his head.
The death toll would have been ENORMOUS.
have to slip Scranton into his speech last night.
Which was right after trump slipped his dick into you fat mouth!!!!!!!!! BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1.6 Billion goes to Amtrak, in the 2.1 Trillion Dollar Bill.
Why?
Good for AMTRAK....they need the money!!!!!!!!
Biden’s Revolution Takes Shape
Andrew Sullivan:
“This seems to me to be a sea-change in American history and politics, greater than any since the 1970s. The most centrist candidate the Democrats put forward in early 2020 has, in his first fifty days, become the most radically progressive president since LBJ.
“The Covid-19 plague, in other words, has done what many others have in history. By shaking the society up in so many ways, by suspending it in mid-air while forcing the population into mass and fearful isolation, by shattering so many familiar patterns, it has blown the future wide open.”
MIDDLE CLASS OF AMERICA, UNITE!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR POVERTY!
A Rare Victory for Younger Americans
Catherine Rampell:
“For decades, the general trend in federal fiscal policy, with some limited exceptions, has been to transfer wealth away from the young and toward the old. The federal government spends about six times as much per capita on older Americans (primarily in the form of Social Security and Medicare) as it does on children.
“Thanks to Biden’s legislation, though, the United States will see a (partial) reversal of decades of de-prioritizing kids. The covid-19 package is expected to cut overall poverty by about one-third — and child poverty roughly in half, according to an analysis from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. Among the biggest beneficiaries of this law will be young children of color.”
Biden to Encourage Families to Claim Migrant Youth
"by ending a Trump-era order that discouraged potential family sponsors from coming forward to care for them.”
(Biden has to clean up all the s. Trump left behind.)
HEADLINES at politicalwire.com
Prosecutors Want to Talk Again to Michael Cohen
(He met with them for the 7th time this week.
This will be his 8th.)
Trump Properties Placed on Debt ‘Watch Lists’
by banks, that is.
The nearly $2 trillion now being printed and borrowed and delivered directly to Americans is not about “rescuing” the economy. Pent-up demand, a big transfer of resources to ordinary people under the CARES Act, and an end to lockdowns will do that anyway. This package is about artificially super-charging the economy in the short term, while maximizing its redistributive effect. It’s a demonstration of the Democrats’ historically strongest argument: vote for us and we’ll take care of you.
It “slashes” poverty the easy way: by giving everyone who earns less than $75,000 a check for $1400, and by creating a new, no-strings subsidy for every child, in a direct repudiation of the welfare reform of the Clinton era. The goal is to make the subsidy permanent (and it sure will be hard to repeal). The ARP bails out union pensions; it expands access to Obamacare significantly; it creates generous spending programs for Native Americans, and even offers reparations to Latino, Asian and black farmers.
Eric Levitz excitedly lists all the left policy triumphs in the bill here. Jamelle Bouie can barely contain himself here. And it seems to me they have every reason to celebrate. Just six months, or even six weeks ago, much of this was a leftist pipe-dream. Now it’s reality. And the Republicans have failed to make it even faintly unpopular.
But wait, there’s more. The Biden administration sees this $2 trillion as a mere hors d’oeuvre for a possible $4 trillion more in infrastructure and green investment. A few trillion over the last year; and a few trillion in the ARP; even more trillions for infrastructure. After a while, we’re talking serious money.
But don’t worry. No new taxes will pay for it. Cakes will be eaten and had too. The government will either borrow these trillions, or just print them, and the Federal Reserve itself assures us that there will be no consequences to this, and that a bigger debt than any since the Second World War for the foreseeable future is no problem. Interest rates will not rise, they assure us. Inflation will, at worst, nudge above 2 percent. Just as Trump pumped a trillion into an established recovery, so Biden will up the ante and pump trillions and trillions more into an already surging economy.
Step back some more, and look at the rest of the Biden agenda. It’s pretty similar in scale and ambition. HR1 — reforming democracy — has some good parts, but it is also a Christmas tree of hyper-progressive goals. On “social justice” questions, Biden mandates “equity” as a core principle in all policy-making, and Ibram Kendi indoctrination sessions for government employees; he is likely to end due process for college men accused of sexual assault or rape; he wants to legislate that sex-based rights are trumped by gender-based rights, and to repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act when it comes to gays, lesbians and transgender people. After a lifetime of opposition, Biden now backs full public funding of abortion. On immigration, Biden’s goal appears to be facilitating as much of it as possible, while granting a mass amnesty. Am I missing something? Is there a policy area where the left is not in control? (Seriously, if you can find an area where they’re not, I’ll post it, and recalibrate.)
But don’t fucking tell me I should have voted for Trump. He’s insane. And he made this left triumphalism possible, by destroying the vestiges of fiscal conservatism in the GOP. It is so telling that Republicans have barely made any of the fiscal arguments I just cited — because they don’t have a leg to stand on. If they bring up the danger of debt, they deserve to be laughed and/or booed off the stage.
And the GOP beyond and before Trump made this sharp left turn possible by their long refusal to see how dangerous the soaring inequality of the neoliberal era actually was and is; by choosing a vast transfer of wealth to the already rich as their primary goal in the last two GOP administrations; and by fumbling the immigration question, when they could have made a deal under Trump. And in that respect, Biden’s radicalism is not without reason. Or purpose. We desperately need a correction.
Liberal democracy itself is threatened by the extreme gulf between rich and poor — and rebalancing this is vital. The lack of real economic gains for the vast majority for decades requires a major adjustment — and if sending people checks is the easiest way to do this, so be it. The resilience of low inflation and the persistence of a financial crisis recession suggests that a bigger stimulus in 2009 would have been preferable. Finding a way to support greater inclusion of minorities and women in every sphere of life and work is the right thing to do. Expanding healthcare to those most excluded it from it should not be a controversial question. In all these areas, the Democrats have their hearts and minds in the right place. A shift to the left in 2021 is completely defensible. Even the British Tories are economic lefties now. My 1980s self would look at my 2021 politics and be amazed how far I’ve come.
But a capitulation to the far left is something else.
What I fear is that economic history has not ended, and that uncontrolled borrowing, spending and printing will lead to inflation that destroys people’s savings and livelihoods. What I fear is the next recession, when our staggering debt could render the government incapable of mitigating it. What I fear is an assault on the very ideas of individual freedom, merit, objective standards, hard work, self-reliance and free speech that have long defined the American experiment — in favor of crude racial engineering.
What I fear is a generation’s rejection of limited government, and color-blind liberalism. What I worry about is a press whose mission seems increasingly devoted to enforcing elite orthodoxies, rather than pushing back on all forms of power. I fear an educational establishment that instills critical theory’s racism and sexism into the hearts and souls of children from the start, an establishment that regards the very idea of America as indelibly evil, and its founding ideals a myth and a lie.
I voted for Biden because the alternative was madness in every respect — and sure wasn’t conservatism in any recognizable sense. And the sheer, amazing relief of living without the former guy’s unhinged, all-pervasive id remains. No regrets. And I didn’t expect Biden to be a moderate, because he has always operated with an acute sense of where his party now is — and it is now controlled by the far left.
Still, I allowed myself to hope that, in some respects, Biden might temper the zeal of his base; that he would remember that black voters backed him in part because he wasn’t as radical as his fellow white liberals; that he could see something more than bigotry in people’s defense of their religious freedom; that he understood that the pace of demographic and cultural change was too fast for America to avoid a serious white nationalist backlash; and that he still saw a nation’s borders and sovereignty as worth defending.
It’s early. We’ll see where this goes. I’m open to changing my mind. But all the signs point to a revolutionary moment, enabled by an economic boom. The Democrats have seized the day. And maybe the decade.
The lying POS JamesNewLeaf said...
Trump was going to let you pack the churches for last Easter until Fauci and Birx FINALLY managed to talk some sense into his head.
The death toll would have been ENORMOUS.
Actually Biden held campaign rallies.
Must have actually killed how many by your logic ???
Would have to be ENORMOUS
Liz Wheeler
https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1370368815389892614
WOW: New study destroys the myth that lockdowns work.
“In ~ 98% of the comparisons using 87 different regions of the world we found no evidence that the number of deaths/million is reduced by staying at home.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-1
Trump was right again
HEADLINES at politicalwire.com
Shit no one reads for $500 Alex
Value stocks are beating growth stocks by the widest margin in two decades, the latest sign that investors expect the next year to bring a powerful economic rebound.
As the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines quickens and the economy bounces back from last year’s shutdowns, portfolio managers are snapping up cyclical stocks—banks, energy companies and others whose fortunes are closely linked to economic growth. Those shares often fit the description of value stocks, which trade at low multiples of their book value, or net worth.
The shift in bets marks a reversal of a trend that has held essentially since the financial crisis, in which growth stocks outpaced value stocks. That reflected in part the rise of big tech companies such as Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.77% and in part the softness of the U.S. economy. This year, the Russell 1000 Value Index is up 11% and the Russell 1000 Growth Index has edged up 0.2%.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/value-investors-finally-have-reason-to-celebratefor-now-11615545000?st=e8yq9mnb96h1ioo&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Roger understands nothing about the US Economy.
Exactly zero.
Jimmy Failla
https://twitter.com/jimmyfailla/status/1370400073276923905
The only way I’m NOT BBQing with friends and family on the 4th of July is if we get in a fight at our Memorial Day BBQ.
" investors expect the next year to bring a powerful economic rebound." Roger
not until 2022?
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1370187546915913734
If you voted for Biden and didn’t qualify to get the $1,400 - great news - the Boston Bomber got his $1,400 and maybe he’ll lend you a few bucks.
or maybe some illegal immigrant
Comfortably Smug
https://mobile.twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1370182096443093001
Would you trust Joe Biden to watch your pet for a week? So why are you trusting him to run the country?
JONATHAN CAPEHART:
I think the most memorable moment from President Biden's speech last night was when he sort of broke decorum and speech protocol by leaning on the podium and leaning into the camera and saying, "I need you."
...sure [the speech] was workmanlike and brief, and sure, it didn't have the soaring rhetoric. But ... it just--it overflowed with empathy, and I don't think he can give too many speeches where he's overflowing with empathy, especially after the last four years where we had a president who had none and also used every opportunity to talk to the American people, to talk about himself.
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