The first Republican says, "You know who I really like? I know she's a Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot. Mm-mm-mm."
And the second one says, "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka. Beautiful face, gorgeous body, great big perfect tits. I'd fuck her. Would you fuck her?"
And the first guy says, "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Breaking news: Conspiracy against trump confirmed.
In a recent study of ballots in Arizona it has become apparent that there was in fact a Conspiracy during the election. A pink stripe!
Turns out it was way worse than the Republicans first thought though, it is now believed that a massive conspiracy involving some 81 million American adults conspired together against trump.
Several people have come forward admitting that they indeed modified ballots they were given by unknown actors in the government. These modifications were very small, but through years of planning they discovered that if they put a mark next to Joe bidens name, when counted, the machine would encounter an error and their vote wouldn't be counted for Trump and be instead be counted for his opponent.
It is at this time believed that every conspirator modified up to and including one whole ballot thereby stealing the election from the Supreme leader.
So yesterday I was talking with Scott, my politician friend. Since he's a Republican, I thought I'd go ahead and ask him how Trump managed to become the face of the Republican Party.
He looked me dead in the eyes and said, "The Democrats kept beating us, so we figured it was time to play our Trump card."
The first Republican says, "You know who I really like? I know she's a Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot. Mm-mm-mm."
And the second one says, "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka. Beautiful face, gorgeous body, great big perfect tits. I'd fuck her. Would you fuck her?"
And the first guy says, "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Is this an indication that alky finally got over his TDS and is telling President Biden jokes?
“Had Mike Pence had the testicles to send the Electoral College vote back to states for recertification, and had Mitch McConnell fought for us instead of a being the gay cocksucker he is, we would right now have a Republican President who would be VETOING the horrific Socialistic Bills that are rapidly going through Congress, including beaners.and Mooslimbs, High Taxes on the mega rich, Massive Regulations, and National Parks and so much else!”
A young man, down on his luck, was hitch-hiking through New England. A well-dressed man driving a Lincoln pulled up, lowered the passenger side window, and asked, “Do you vote Republican or Democrat?”
“Democrat,” said the hitch-hiker. And the Lincoln sped off in a cloud of dust.
The next car that pulled up was a Mercedes and the same question was asked. Once again the driver sped away, leaving him beside the road.
He plodded on until a beautiful woman stopped her Mustang GT and, predictably, asked about his politics.
In desperation the young man said, “I’m a Republican.”
The woman welcomed him aboard, and they sped off down the road.
She was gorgeous. She had the face of a goddess, eyes the color of the sea on a sunny day, golden hair, and legs so beautiful that he couldn’t take his eyes off them as her feet moved on the pedals.
They hadn’t gone very far when he said, “Stop the car. I want to walk.”
“Why?” she asked.
“I’ve been a Republican for ten minutes and already I want to screw somebody.”
I am very excited about the Memorial Day Boat parade starting in Jupiter Fla and organized by my friend Carlos Garvidia.Not only will we have an opportunity to celebrate this great nation end salute those brave Americans who have shed their blood to preserve our freedom but we can also say a collective "fuck you" to "president" Joe Biden. It is in that spirit that I look forward to seeing you on May 31 !
The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot
Jordan Green, Staff Reporter
May 16, 2021
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Early on the morning of Jan. 6, Samuel Fisher, a self-described dating coach, sent a friend a photo of a rifle and pistol through Facebook Messenger. He told his friend he planned to go to the parking garage in Washington DC "super early" and would be "leaving shit in there maybe except pistol." He added, "And if it kicks off, I got a vest and my rifle."
In a post on his personal website, according to a government affidavit filed in support of the federal criminal complaint for unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, Fisher predicted that "Trump and We the People will be betrayed again by every so-called representative who said they'd fight for us." He predicted three possible scenarios for Jan. 6, the day Congress was scheduled to meet to certify the electoral vote.
"Trump has an ace card up his sleeve," Fisher wrote, describing the scenario he looked upon as most favorable. "He plays it. The Deep State is arrested and hanged on the White House lawn for High Treason."
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The second scenario encapsulated his worst fears: "Trump fails, Biden gets installed…. Patriots are ineffective and we live under the rules of the elite pedophiles and chinese communist party."
In a third scenario, with Trump failing to act, his supporters would take things into their own hands: "Trump fails, Biden gets installed…. Patriots show up in the millions with guns. They execute all treasonous members of government and rebuild."
Alongside the MAGA, Gadsden, "America First" and Kekistan flags, the Trump supporters who swarmed around the Capitol on Jan. 6 also carried homemade signs portraying Biden as a stooge of China. "Beijing Biden is CCP loyalist," read one, while another showing a feeble-looking Biden in the embrace with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Along with the QAnon myth purporting that Donald Trump has been waging a battle with a shadowy cabal of pedophiles, a complementary conspiracy theory had taken hold promoting the idea that the Communist Party of China engineered Joe Biden's electoral victory. The idea of communist subversion has only gained strength among Trump's followers and other Republican voters, as belief in QAnon has ebbed since Jan. 6.
BDS
The code word is
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Blogger KansasDemocrat said... What fucking kind of stupid typed this?
😂Some economists say that increasing the minimum wage, will balance out the cost of inflation.🤣
I saw that from yesterday. Easily one of the top ten dumbest fucking things the alky has ever posted.
Labor is a core component of the production of any product or service. This is unavoidable. Cost of labor goes up, cost of the product goes up. And it's also why companies like Apple and Nike rely on chinese slave labor to keep their phones and shoes affordable.
The alky is at his dumbest when commenting on the topic he knows the very least about - economics.
The Biden Tax Mirage: Higher Rates Produce Less Revenue From The Rich
With deficits at levels not seen since World War II, the March $1.9 trillion stimulus only beginning to spend out, and President Biden calling for significantly higher marginal tax rates to help fund another $4 trillion of spending, maybe it’s time for a reality check on how high marginal tax rates, and the actual tax rates paid by Americans, can be raised without crushing economic growth. Proponents of massive tax increases will argue that economic growth and prosperity are compatible with high tax rates by pointing to the 35 years of postwar prosperity in America, when the top federal tax rate was 70% or higher.
But before accepting this as proof by example, it’s worth examining how many taxpayers actually paid those top rates and what percentage of their income high earners actually paid in taxes. Economists Gerald Auten of the Treasury Department and David Splinter of the Joint Committee on Taxation have compiled an extraordinary new database using Internal Revenue Service data on taxes actually collected since 1962. The top marginal income-tax rates and the taxes actually paid, including payroll taxes, as a percentage of income for the top 1%, top 10% and bottom 50% of income earners are shown in the nearby chart.
Remarkably, while the top marginal rate fell from 91% in 1962 to 28% in 1988, the percentage of income actually paid in income and payroll taxes by the top 1% and 10% of filers rose to 21.5% and 19.6% from 16.1% and 14.4%, respectively. As the top tax rate fell by two-thirds, the percentage of income paid in federal income and payroll taxes by the top 1% and 10% of earners rose by a third.
The percentage of income actually paid by the top 1% of earners, which the Tax Policy Center estimates to be 25.7% in 2020, is close to the average rate paid during the last quarter-century. Whether the federal government could actually impose a top rate of 50% on a significant number of taxpayers, or actually collect much more than 30% of the income of the top 1% of earners in income and payroll taxes, without crippling economic growth is a question our postwar experience certainly doesn’t answer. ...
Before Congress bets the future of America on the federal government’s ability to soak the rich without crippling the economy, lawmakers need to recognize that the marginal rates being proposed have never been collected from any significant number of taxpayers except under the direst circumstances such as a war for survival. Voters might also note that in the rest of the developed world, where government takes a larger share of GDP in taxes, high earners pay about the same share of GDP in income taxes that high-income Americans pay today, but everybody else pays a lot more.
Sleepy Joe President Biden has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson and has even been called the "Anti-Reagan."
But there's another legendary political character that people should cite to explain why Biden's governing approach during his first 100 days in office is such a radical break from the past.
That character is a Black woman of indeterminate age who has 12 Social Security cards, mooches on benefits from four fake dead husbands and collects welfare payments under 80 bogus names while getting food stamps.
She is, of course, the infamous Welfare Queen.
That's how Ronald Reagan described her when he introduced the character during a presidential campaign rally nearly half a century ago. Reporters investigating Reagan's 1976 Welfare Queen story concluded that it wasn't quite true. Though never mentioning a name or race, Reagan had exaggerated the abuses of an actual Black woman in Chicago.
It didn't matter, though, if the story was more fiction than fact. The Welfare Queen embodied the GOP's belief that sending government aid to the poor would backfire because freeloaders -- hint, Black people -- will invariably splurge that money on steak and cheese.
The Welfare Queen became the political equivalent of a horror movie villain. Democratic leaders didn't have a counter story that could stop it. It spread the myth that most Black and poor people were lazy cheaters looking for a handout instead of a hand up. The story was so influential that even Democratic presidents became leery of pushing Big Government solutions to help low-income people of color.
Linda Taylor, 47, the inspiration for Reagan's "Welfare Queen," leaves court in 1976 in Chicago following her arraignment on a 31-count indictment involving her alleged receipt of illegal welfare benefits, medical assistance, food stamps, and Social Security & Veteran's benefits. She died in 2002.
But Biden is now boldly going where no contemporary Democratic president has gone before, and he's destroying one of the GOP's most effective political attacks in the process.
The heart of Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda is three massive plans that would use huge sums of government money to help working families, including people of color. The American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law in March, includes direct cash payments to struggling families. Two other plans would rebuild the country's infrastructure and expand tax credits to help working families and make education more affordable.
What's fascinating is how Republicans have responded. It's not what they've said: that Biden is a "radical" and a "socialist" and his proposals are a "sloppy liberal wish list."
It's what they haven't said that's revealing. They haven't successfully deployed any Welfare-Queen-like stories about people of color mooching off pandemic aid to turn a critical mass of White voters against Biden's plans. If there have been such attacks, they haven't gained traction.
"[The Republicans] don't have a coherent pushback," James Carville told the
Why it's hard to brand 'Uncle Joe' a radical
Few people would have predicted Biden to be the leader who deposed the myth of the Welfare Queen. He once helped her retain her place on the throne.
POLITICO: Arizona GOP Elections Official Calls Trump ‘Unhinged’ “The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.
“Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Saturday called a Trump statement accusing the county of deleting an elections database ‘unhinged’ and called on other Republicans to stop the unfounded accusations.” _____
NO, KEEP IT UP!!! It just shows more and more and more how fanatically committed some of you RepubliCONS are to what becomes ever and ever clearer is a Trumpistic Nazi-style lie.
Honest, sensible Republican county officials who oversaw the election are calling want-ta-be dictator Trump's blatant lies unhinged.
Of course they are. They deleted all of the supporting data for the election results.
They're liars and criminals who belong in prison. Only people who are trying to hide criminal activity destroy the evidence of their crime.
Honest people who tell the truth never fear an audit.
Trump is calling them out and rightly so.
Here's to hoping those who are complicit are doxxed, harassed, and their property vandalized. Time to start employing some of the left's tactics on OUR political enemies.
Like Auntie Maxine said, harass them wherever you find them, in a grocery store, in a gasoline station...
How the Neo-Socialist Biden Party economic team missed the coming inflation?
They didn't miss it. No one missed it. They didn't care. Pursuit of their idiotic policies was paramount. So what if it totally fucked an already struggling economy. These sick fucks knew they had to act fast because 2022 is already closing in...
STUMBLING ALONG: U.S. Consumer Confidence Crashes ‘Unexpectedly.’
Ok, let’s see a show of hands — who actually finds this perfectly obvious news to be “unexpected”?
No one here? Good.
So just how biased and corrupt is even the financial media now?
It’s this biased and corrupt.
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. has unexpectedly decreased in the month of May, according to preliminary data released by the University of Michigan on Friday.
The report showed the consumer sentiment index dropped to 82.8 in May from 88.3 in April. The decrease surprised economists, who had expected the index to rise to 90.4.
It didn’t take an economist to predict that keeping several large states’ economies closed, the federal government printing money faster than a counterfeiter rolling down the autobahn in a Lamborghini, and Biden deliberately strangling domestic energy producers in the name of his Green New Deal scheme, would bring about inflation.
I’m not an economist. I anticipated it. I bet every reader here did too.
What does it take to see this gigantic freight train barreling down the tracks straight at you? Eyes and common sense.
Instead of panicking about the blighted future we’re leaving to our progeny, ask whom our children are going to have to repay.
The answer is … our children.
Every time the federal government sells a bond, it creates a liability for the government. But it also creates an asset for those who bought the bond, in exactly the same amount. For American society overall, the entire process is, financially speaking, largely a wash. (For details on why it’s not completely a wash, see below.)
It is true that this could create problems with inequality. Government bonds, like financial assets in general, are disproportionately owned by the wealthy.
To understand what this means in concrete terms, consider Blackburn, and all of her anxious statements about the danger of government debt. Blackburn’s financial disclosure report states that she and her husband have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in various mutual funds. Most mutual funds invest to various degrees in U.S. government bonds.
While Blackburn frets in public about “a debt burden on our children and grandchildren,” her children will likely be benefiting from this debt burden.
Blackburn has a son and daughter. And if they inherit these mutual funds, part of that inheritance will almost certainly be indirect ownership of government bonds. In other words, while she frets in public about “a debt burden on our children and grandchildren,” her children will likely be benefiting from this debt burden. In the future, money will flow from the U.S.’s children in general to her kids specifically.
Of course, it doesn’t have the same ring to it to say, “I’m desperately worried that deficit spending today will force everyone else’s kids to pay my kids in the future.” This would raise the question of why, if future Americans see this as a problem, they won’t be able to just raise taxes on Blackburn’s children. The answer, of course, is that they will be able to do that if they want — thereby extinguishing most issues regarding deficit spending in the present.
There is somewhat more to it, though not a lot. Not all government bonds are purchased by Americans. Right now about one-third of U.S. government debt is held by foreigners. The Treasury Department updates who has how much every month; right now Japan and China both have a little over $1 trillion in U.S. treasury securities.
The U.S. has been running a trade deficit since the 1980s.
For complex and confusing reasons, however, this is almost certainly a good thing.
The U.S. has been running a trade deficit since the 1980s. That is, we’re buying more from other countries than we’re selling to them. In order to finance the difference, we have to give foreigners American assets. These assets can be anything: cash, or government bonds, or stock in American companies. At the same time, the U.S. has also been accumulating foreign assets.
Foreigners now own $46.25 trillion in such U.S. assets, while the U.S. owns $32.16 trillion in foreign assets. The gap between these two amounts, $14.09 trillion, is essentially the accumulated difference between what we’ve bought and what we’ve sold.
On its face, this would seem to be a significant problem for the U.S., inexorably leading to large outflows of money to other countries. Strangely, though, this is not happening. Investments in stock generally earn higher returns than investments in bonds, particularly government bonds. And the U.S. assets are disproportionately in foreign stock, while foreigners invest more in U.S. bonds.
Because of this, the U.S.’s smaller amount of foreign assets consistently earns a greater return than the larger amount of U.S. assets held by foreigners. Thus rather than money flowing out of the U.S., it’s still flowing into the country. More detail about this strange state of affairs can be found in a recent report from the Brookings Institution.
The upshot is that, if anything, we should want foreigners to be investing more in low-yielding U.S. government bonds, because this means that they’re not buying higher-yielding American stocks.
So Cruz, Blackburn, Johnson, King, and the rest of the huge anti-deficit spending army can stand down. Government debt simply is not a terrifying boogeyman for our descendants to fear, or even much of a problem at all. If our grandchildren end up hating us, it’s much more likely to be because we failed to give them excellent educations, or create a functioning health care system, or prevent global warming from destroying a livable biosphere. Those will be true burdens on them, ones that we can prevent by wisely spending lots of money today.
Yesterday in posts starting at 10:45AM and stretching through 1:55PM I, JamesNewLeaf, walked all over Ch/Scottie's "Slow Fuse Joe" thread MIScharacterization of the NYT article supposedly making Biden look incompetent, an article Ch lyingly called a "hit piece."
I constantly challenged him and others to give us extensive quotes proving his lies AND HE NEVER DID.
NOR DID ANY OTHERS.
NO, NOT ONE SINGLE TIME DID CH OR OTHERS EVEN ATTEMPT TO DEFEND HIS LYING THREAD ARTICLE WITH GENUINE QUOTES.
Excuse me while I take a much deserved VICTORY DANCE.
Instead of panicking about the blighted future we’re leaving to our progeny, ask whom our children are going to have to repay.
The answer is … our children.
Every time the federal government sells a bond, it creates a liability for the government. But it also creates an asset for those who bought the bond, in exactly the same amount. For American society overall, the entire process is, financially speaking, largely a wash.
It is true that this could create problems with inequality. Government bonds, like financial assets in general, are disproportionately owned by the wealthy.
When their children inherit the bonds and again they get richer for doing nothing.
Glad my doing other things (outside of commenting on that story) yesterday provided you cause to do a victory dance. If ignoring you is all that takes, perhaps it should be an ongoing endeavor?
But if you truly believe that an author pointing out that the 78 year old taking days or even weeks to make decisions is "at odds" with the needed urgency, that he is known to have a short fuse and attack his own aides, or that his handlers literally have to "prepare him" to project an "assured demeanor' is somehow a NYT fluff piece?
Then dance away Reverend! Dance till you can dance no more!
Just make sure nobody's watching, or you might end up in a straight jacket!
Jon Schwarz Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.”>He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and “Saturday Night Live.” In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
The author Alky plagiarized. Yeah we should listen him on economics
Roger is apparently bragging about how the blog no longer has the same readership as it had... when exactly?
Back in 2004 when the Blogosphere was still a big thing, Indy and I were the only front page posters and people like Sean Trende, Gerry Daly and others would come join the discussion comment threads?
This blog went up in flames as soon as I allowed people like Roger to have front page access... that and most bloggers moved to Twitter as the Blogosphere died in general. There are actually very few real "blogs" left of any prominence.
There hasn't been much for noticeable change in the traffic here for years.
So... The vaunted Associated Press has been collaborating with Hamas. Israel said "Not anymore" and blowed up the building they shared. Of course, the AP said that they had 'no idea' Hamas was also in that building. No matter. It's rubble now.
Pro tip; When you lease offices, make sure Hamas is not the landlord.
This blog went up in flames as soon as I allowed people like Roger to have front page access... that and most bloggers moved to Twitter as the Blogosphere died in general. There are actually very few real "blogs" left of any prominence.
There hasn't been much for noticeable change in the traffic here for years.
just wait until roger finally gets committed
or the "pastor" reaches his final resting place
either one will drop traffic by 40%
(and 10 of the 40 will be by me not dumping on them)
does keep on top of issues though, to a greater extent than I would without them
Washington (CNN) — Republican Rep. Fred Upton on Sunday called out an effort by some of his GOP colleagues to downplay the Capitol insurrection, saying their "bogus" claims about the deadly attack are evidence of a need to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the incident.
"It's absolutely bogus. You know, I was there. I watched a number of the folks walk down to the White House and then back. I have a balcony on my office. So I saw them go down. I heard the noise -- the flash bangs, I smelled some of the gas as it moved my way," the Michigan congressman told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked about comments made by several congressional Republicans last week who attempted to re-write what happened on January 6.
The comments from the longtime congressman come as a rift in his party grows between members who are offering an inaccurate account of the insurrection and those who have consistently condemned the violence on January 6 while also casting blame on former President Donald Trump and his 2020 election lies for the attack. Upton was among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the riot.
Among the claims made last week was one by Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia, who falsely compared the riot to a tourist visit, saying during a hearing on the attack that "there was no insurrection and to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold baseline."
Upton told Bash he wasn't sure what was motivating his colleagues to make such claims, but that those statements stand as a reason why he supports a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack. Lawmakers on Friday cleared a hurdle on Friday in creating a bipartisan commission after the top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee struck a deal on how to structure the independent panel.
"Get the facts out, try to assure the American public this is what happened, and let the facts lead us to the conclusion," Upton said.
After the agreement was announced Friday, it was not clear whether House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy -- who has been fighting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the commission proposal -- would sign off on the deal, as he said he was still reviewing it. Upton said in his interview that he hopes the California Republican will support the proposal.
Going a step further on Sunday, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who was ousted from her post in GOP leadership last week for challenging Trump's election lies, told ABC News that McCarthy should "absolutely" testify before the commission should lawmakers establish the investigatory body.
"I would anticipate that -- I would hope he doesn't require a subpoena, but I wouldn't be surprised if he were subpoenaed," Cheney said of McCarthy, adding later that the attempts by some of her colleagues to downplay the insurrection are "disgraceful and despicable."
The proposed commission would include a 10-member panel, with half appointed by Democratic congressional leaders, including the chair, and half by Republicans, including the vice chair. The panel will have the power to issue subpoenas if they are signed off by both the chair and vice chair, according to a summary released by the committee. The commission would be tasked with issuing a final report by the end of this year, making it a quick timeline for the panel to put out a final product.
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Two Republicans are at a bar
The first Republican says, "You know who I really like? I know she's a Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot. Mm-mm-mm."
And the second one says, "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka. Beautiful face, gorgeous body, great big perfect tits. I'd fuck her. Would you fuck her?"
And the first guy says, "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Breaking news: Conspiracy against trump confirmed.
In a recent study of ballots in Arizona it has become apparent that there was in fact a Conspiracy during the election. A pink stripe!
Turns out it was way worse than the Republicans first thought though, it is now believed that a massive conspiracy involving some 81 million American adults conspired together against trump.
Several people have come forward admitting that they indeed modified ballots they were given by unknown actors in the government. These modifications were very small, but through years of planning they discovered that if they put a mark next to Joe bidens name, when counted, the machine would encounter an error and their vote wouldn't be counted for Trump and be instead be counted for his opponent.
It is at this time believed that every conspirator modified up to and including one whole ballot thereby stealing the election from the Supreme leader.
So yesterday I was talking with Scott, my politician friend. Since he's a Republican, I thought I'd go ahead and ask him how Trump managed to become the face of the Republican Party.
He looked me dead in the eyes and said, "The Democrats kept beating us, so we figured it was time to play our Trump card."
Roger Amick said...
Two Republicans are at a bar
The first Republican says, "You know who I really like? I know she's a Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot. Mm-mm-mm."
And the second one says, "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka. Beautiful face, gorgeous body, great big perfect tits. I'd fuck her. Would you fuck her?"
And the first guy says, "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Is this an indication that alky finally got over his TDS and is telling President Biden jokes?
He'a had a real hard time
alone
in his room
with a tv
and nothing to do
You should get the Kansas City Vaccine.
Then you won’t catch anything.
Trump is laughing his ass off at all the Biden carter comparisons.
In just 4 months Biden took a peaceful middle east and blew it up
Took our energy independence and gave us gas shortages and $7/gal prices
Took a secure border and controlled illegal immigration and created a shit storm there.
Biden has been an absolute disaster.
Yeah but Trump is obnoxious! So none of that other stuff matters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1393672450928480262
This is happening with the support of the United States.
I don’t care how any spokesperson tries to spin this. The US vetoed the UN call for ceasefire.
If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?
How can they credibly claim to stand for human rights?
Comfortably Smug
@ComfortablySmug
She needs to introduce articles of impeachment
When Trump was president, journalists didn’t have to live in fear of air strikes.
AOC - the new democrat party
standing with "journalists" who have no idea what is going on around them
but they probably were on the neighborhood watch
“Had Mike Pence had the testicles to send the Electoral College vote back to states for recertification, and had Mitch McConnell fought for us instead of a being the gay cocksucker he is, we would right now have a Republican President who would be VETOING the horrific Socialistic Bills that are rapidly going through Congress, including beaners.and Mooslimbs, High Taxes on the mega rich, Massive Regulations, and National Parks and so much else!”
The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats!
A young man, down on his luck, was hitch-hiking through New England. A well-dressed man driving a Lincoln pulled up, lowered the passenger side window, and asked, “Do you vote Republican or Democrat?”
“Democrat,” said the hitch-hiker. And the Lincoln sped off in a cloud of dust.
The next car that pulled up was a Mercedes and the same question was asked. Once again the driver sped away, leaving him beside the road.
He plodded on until a beautiful woman stopped her Mustang GT and, predictably, asked about his politics.
In desperation the young man said, “I’m a Republican.”
The woman welcomed him aboard, and they sped off down the road.
She was gorgeous. She had the face of a goddess, eyes the color of the sea on a sunny day, golden hair, and legs so beautiful that he couldn’t take his eyes off them as her feet moved on the pedals.
They hadn’t gone very far when he said, “Stop the car. I want to walk.”
“Why?” she asked.
“I’ve been a Republican for ten minutes and already I want to screw somebody.”
Roger Stone
PHOTO !!!
https://gab.com/RogerJStoneJr/posts/106238630530722820
I am very excited about the Memorial Day Boat parade starting in Jupiter Fla and organized by my friend Carlos Garvidia.Not only will we have an opportunity to celebrate this great nation end salute those brave Americans who have shed their blood to preserve our freedom but we can also say a collective "fuck you" to "president" Joe Biden. It is in that spirit that I look forward to seeing you on May 31 !
Too bad alky will be stuck in his room
and stuck on TDS
alone
The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot
Jordan Green, Staff Reporter
May 16, 2021
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Early on the morning of Jan. 6, Samuel Fisher, a self-described dating coach, sent a friend a photo of a rifle and pistol through Facebook Messenger. He told his friend he planned to go to the parking garage in Washington DC "super early" and would be "leaving shit in there maybe except pistol." He added, "And if it kicks off, I got a vest and my rifle."
In a post on his personal website, according to a government affidavit filed in support of the federal criminal complaint for unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, Fisher predicted that "Trump and We the People will be betrayed again by every so-called representative who said they'd fight for us." He predicted three possible scenarios for Jan. 6, the day Congress was scheduled to meet to certify the electoral vote.
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"Trump has an ace card up his sleeve," Fisher wrote, describing the scenario he looked upon as most favorable. "He plays it. The Deep State is arrested and hanged on the White House lawn for High Treason."
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The second scenario encapsulated his worst fears: "Trump fails, Biden gets installed…. Patriots are ineffective and we live under the rules of the elite pedophiles and chinese communist party."
In a third scenario, with Trump failing to act, his supporters would take things into their own hands: "Trump fails, Biden gets installed…. Patriots show up in the millions with guns. They execute all treasonous members of government and rebuild."
Alongside the MAGA, Gadsden, "America First" and Kekistan flags, the Trump supporters who swarmed around the Capitol on Jan. 6 also carried homemade signs portraying Biden as a stooge of China. "Beijing Biden is CCP loyalist," read one, while another showing a feeble-looking Biden in the embrace with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Along with the QAnon myth purporting that Donald Trump has been waging a battle with a shadowy cabal of pedophiles, a complementary conspiracy theory had taken hold promoting the idea that the Communist Party of China engineered Joe Biden's electoral victory. The idea of communist subversion has only gained strength among Trump's followers and other Republican voters, as belief in QAnon has ebbed since Jan. 6.
BDS
The code word is
China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China
China - $60 million advocacy spending in 2020 - good
Russia $160,000 in 2016 - Trump is a Putin puppet
Rowan
VIDEO US STATE MEDIA WILL NOT SHOW OF THIS PROTEST:
https://twitter.com/canmericanized/status/1393642182398070792
You got this Toronto!
Record smashing crowd at Freedom Rally #ReopenCanada
No masks
No social distancing
Must be thousands of white supremacists in Canada as well as black white supremacists too
Is this on CNN, the WP, NYT or any state media outlet ???
Roger , please, oh please tell us more about your views on the US Economy.
Both Macro and Micro.
You are so insightful and informative of the the Neo-Socialist Biden Party plans.
What fucking kind of stupid typed this?
😂Some economists say that increasing the minimum wage, will balance out the cost of inflation.🤣
So...
The vaunted Associated Press has been collaborating with Hamas.
Israel said "Not anymore" and blowed up the building they shared.
Of course, the AP said that they had 'no idea' Hamas was also in that building.
No matter. It's rubble now.
My only problem with this is that Israel gave them a one-hour heads up to evacuate.
https://moonbattery.com/israel-takes-out-ap-in-gaza/
https://youtu.be/GDE9BND1T_w
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
What fucking kind of stupid typed this?
😂Some economists say that increasing the minimum wage, will balance out the cost of inflation.🤣
I saw that from yesterday. Easily one of the top ten dumbest fucking things the alky has ever posted.
Labor is a core component of the production of any product or service. This is unavoidable. Cost of labor goes up, cost of the product goes up. And it's also why companies like Apple and Nike rely on chinese slave labor to keep their phones and shoes affordable.
The alky is at his dumbest when commenting on the topic he knows the very least about - economics.
How do you bring a Republican to their knees?
Paint your dick orange.
Miss Me Yet?
Yes! Delightfully So!
The Biden Tax Mirage: Higher Rates Produce Less Revenue From The Rich
With deficits at levels not seen since World War II, the March $1.9 trillion stimulus only beginning to spend out, and President Biden calling for significantly higher marginal tax rates to help fund another $4 trillion of spending, maybe it’s time for a reality check on how high marginal tax rates, and the actual tax rates paid by Americans, can be raised without crushing economic growth. Proponents of massive tax increases will argue that economic growth and prosperity are compatible with high tax rates by pointing to the 35 years of postwar prosperity in America, when the top federal tax rate was 70% or higher.
But before accepting this as proof by example, it’s worth examining how many taxpayers actually paid those top rates and what percentage of their income high earners actually paid in taxes. Economists Gerald Auten of the Treasury Department and David Splinter of the Joint Committee on Taxation have compiled an extraordinary new database using Internal Revenue Service data on taxes actually collected since 1962. The top marginal income-tax rates and the taxes actually paid, including payroll taxes, as a percentage of income for the top 1%, top 10% and bottom 50% of income earners are shown in the nearby chart.
Remarkably, while the top marginal rate fell from 91% in 1962 to 28% in 1988, the percentage of income actually paid in income and payroll taxes by the top 1% and 10% of filers rose to 21.5% and 19.6% from 16.1% and 14.4%, respectively. As the top tax rate fell by two-thirds, the percentage of income paid in federal income and payroll taxes by the top 1% and 10% of earners rose by a third.
The percentage of income actually paid by the top 1% of earners, which the Tax Policy Center estimates to be 25.7% in 2020, is close to the average rate paid during the last quarter-century. Whether the federal government could actually impose a top rate of 50% on a significant number of taxpayers, or actually collect much more than 30% of the income of the top 1% of earners in income and payroll taxes, without crippling economic growth is a question our postwar experience certainly doesn’t answer. ...
Before Congress bets the future of America on the federal government’s ability to soak the rich without crippling the economy, lawmakers need to recognize that the marginal rates being proposed have never been collected from any significant number of taxpayers except under the direst circumstances such as a war for survival. Voters might also note that in the rest of the developed world, where government takes a larger share of GDP in taxes, high earners pay about the same share of GDP in income taxes that high-income Americans pay today, but everybody else pays a lot more.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/05/the-biden-tax-mirage-higher-rates-produce-less-revenue-from-the-rich.html
Biden just dethroned the Welfare Queen
Sleepy Joe President Biden has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson and has even been called the "Anti-Reagan."
But there's another legendary political character that people should cite to explain why Biden's governing approach during his first 100 days in office is such a radical break from the past.
That character is a Black woman of indeterminate age who has 12 Social Security cards, mooches on benefits from four fake dead husbands and collects welfare payments under 80 bogus names while getting food stamps.
She is, of course, the infamous Welfare Queen.
That's how Ronald Reagan described her when he introduced the character during a presidential campaign rally nearly half a century ago. Reporters investigating Reagan's 1976 Welfare Queen story concluded that it wasn't quite true. Though never mentioning a name or race, Reagan had exaggerated the abuses of an actual Black woman in Chicago.
It didn't matter, though, if the story was more fiction than fact. The Welfare Queen embodied the GOP's belief that sending government aid to the poor would backfire because freeloaders -- hint, Black people -- will invariably splurge that money on steak and cheese.
The Welfare Queen became the political equivalent of a horror movie villain. Democratic leaders didn't have a counter story that could stop it. It spread the myth that most Black and poor people were lazy cheaters looking for a handout instead of a hand up. The story was so influential that even Democratic presidents became leery of pushing Big Government solutions to help low-income people of color.
Linda Taylor, 47, the inspiration for Reagan's "Welfare Queen," leaves court in 1976 in Chicago following her arraignment on a 31-count indictment involving her alleged receipt of illegal welfare benefits, medical assistance, food stamps, and Social Security & Veteran's benefits. She died in 2002.
But Biden is now boldly going where no contemporary Democratic president has gone before, and he's destroying one of the GOP's most effective political attacks in the process.
The heart of Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda is three massive plans that would use huge sums of government money to help working families, including people of color. The American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law in March, includes direct cash payments to struggling families. Two other plans would rebuild the country's infrastructure and expand tax credits to help working families and make education more affordable.
What's fascinating is how Republicans have responded. It's not what they've said: that Biden is a "radical" and a "socialist" and his proposals are a "sloppy liberal wish list."
It's what they haven't said that's revealing. They haven't successfully deployed any Welfare-Queen-like stories about people of color mooching off pandemic aid to turn a critical mass of White voters against Biden's plans. If there have been such attacks, they haven't gained traction.
"[The Republicans] don't have a coherent pushback," James Carville told the
Why it's hard to brand 'Uncle Joe' a radical
Few people would have predicted Biden to be the leader who deposed the myth of the Welfare Queen. He once helped her retain her place on the throne.
POLITICO:
Arizona GOP Elections Official Calls Trump ‘Unhinged’
“The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.
“Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Saturday called a Trump statement accusing the county of deleting an elections database ‘unhinged’ and called on other Republicans to stop the unfounded accusations.”
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NO, KEEP IT UP!!!
It just shows more and more and more how fanatically committed some of you RepubliCONS are to what becomes ever and ever clearer is a Trumpistic Nazi-style lie.
Show your plagiarism king alky...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/politics/biden-welfare-queen-blake/index.html
"The alky is at his dumbest when commenting on the topic he knows the very least about - economics." RRB
Yep.
Jamie, do tell.
How the Neo-Socialist Biden Party economic team missed the coming inflation?
They confirmed they did.
Yet you called them brilliant.
Honest, sensible Republican county officials who oversaw the election are calling want-ta-be dictator Trump's blatant lies unhinged.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Honest, sensible Republican county officials who oversaw the election are calling want-ta-be dictator Trump's blatant lies unhinged.
Of course they are. They deleted all of the supporting data for the election results.
They're liars and criminals who belong in prison. Only people who are trying to hide criminal activity destroy the evidence of their crime.
Honest people who tell the truth never fear an audit.
Trump is calling them out and rightly so.
Here's to hoping those who are complicit are doxxed, harassed, and their property vandalized. Time to start employing some of the left's tactics on OUR political enemies.
Like Auntie Maxine said, harass them wherever you find them, in a grocery store, in a gasoline station...
Make their lives a living fucking hell.
🐑Politics
Biden Aides See Political, Not Economic, Peril in Inflation DataBy
Nancy Cook
,
Saleha Mohsin
, and
Jennifer Jacobs
May 15, 2021, 8:00 AM CDT
Surge in consumer prices triggered criticism of Biden policies
Administration convinced underlying inflation not problematic😣
This so sad, the Neo-Socialist Biden Party are asleep.
How the Neo-Socialist Biden Party economic team missed the coming inflation?
They didn't miss it. No one missed it. They didn't care. Pursuit of their idiotic policies was paramount. So what if it totally fucked an already struggling economy. These sick fucks knew they had to act fast because 2022 is already closing in...
STUMBLING ALONG: U.S. Consumer Confidence Crashes ‘Unexpectedly.’
Ok, let’s see a show of hands — who actually finds this perfectly obvious news to be “unexpected”?
No one here? Good.
So just how biased and corrupt is even the financial media now?
It’s this biased and corrupt.
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. has unexpectedly decreased in the month of May, according to preliminary data released by the University of Michigan on Friday.
The report showed the consumer sentiment index dropped to 82.8 in May from 88.3 in April. The decrease surprised economists, who had expected the index to rise to 90.4.
It didn’t take an economist to predict that keeping several large states’ economies closed, the federal government printing money faster than a counterfeiter rolling down the autobahn in a Lamborghini, and Biden deliberately strangling domestic energy producers in the name of his Green New Deal scheme, would bring about inflation.
I’m not an economist. I anticipated it. I bet every reader here did too.
What does it take to see this gigantic freight train barreling down the tracks straight at you? Eyes and common sense.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/450238/
Instead of panicking about the blighted future we’re leaving to our progeny, ask whom our children are going to have to repay.
The answer is … our children.
Every time the federal government sells a bond, it creates a liability for the government. But it also creates an asset for those who bought the bond, in exactly the same amount. For American society overall, the entire process is, financially speaking, largely a wash. (For details on why it’s not completely a wash, see below.)
It is true that this could create problems with inequality. Government bonds, like financial assets in general, are disproportionately owned by the wealthy.
To understand what this means in concrete terms, consider Blackburn, and all of her anxious statements about the danger of government debt. Blackburn’s financial disclosure report states that she and her husband have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in various mutual funds. Most mutual funds invest to various degrees in U.S. government bonds.
While Blackburn frets in public about “a debt burden on our children and grandchildren,” her children will likely be benefiting from this debt burden.
Blackburn has a son and daughter. And if they inherit these mutual funds, part of that inheritance will almost certainly be indirect ownership of government bonds. In other words, while she frets in public about “a debt burden on our children and grandchildren,” her children will likely be benefiting from this debt burden. In the future, money will flow from the U.S.’s children in general to her kids specifically.
Of course, it doesn’t have the same ring to it to say, “I’m desperately worried that deficit spending today will force everyone else’s kids to pay my kids in the future.” This would raise the question of why, if future Americans see this as a problem, they won’t be able to just raise taxes on Blackburn’s children. The answer, of course, is that they will be able to do that if they want — thereby extinguishing most issues regarding deficit spending in the present.
There is somewhat more to it, though not a lot. Not all government bonds are purchased by Americans. Right now about one-third of U.S. government debt is held by foreigners. The Treasury Department updates who has how much every month; right now Japan and China both have a little over $1 trillion in U.S. treasury securities.
The U.S. has been running a trade deficit since the 1980s.
For complex and confusing reasons, however, this is almost certainly a good thing.
The U.S. has been running a trade deficit since the 1980s. That is, we’re buying more from other countries than we’re selling to them. In order to finance the difference, we have to give foreigners American assets. These assets can be anything: cash, or government bonds, or stock in American companies. At the same time, the U.S. has also been accumulating foreign assets.
Foreigners now own $46.25 trillion in such U.S. assets, while the U.S. owns $32.16 trillion in foreign assets. The gap between these two amounts, $14.09 trillion, is essentially the accumulated difference between what we’ve bought and what we’ve sold.
On its face, this would seem to be a significant problem for the U.S., inexorably leading to large outflows of money to other countries. Strangely, though, this is not happening. Investments in stock generally earn higher returns than investments in bonds, particularly government bonds. And the U.S. assets are disproportionately in foreign stock, while foreigners invest more in U.S. bonds.
Because of this, the U.S.’s smaller amount of foreign assets consistently earns a greater return than the larger amount of U.S. assets held by foreigners. Thus rather than money flowing out of the U.S., it’s still flowing into the country. More detail about this strange state of affairs can be found in a recent report from the Brookings Institution.
The upshot is that, if anything, we should want foreigners to be investing more in low-yielding U.S. government bonds, because this means that they’re not buying higher-yielding American stocks.
So Cruz, Blackburn, Johnson, King, and the rest of the huge anti-deficit spending army can stand down. Government debt simply is not a terrifying boogeyman for our descendants to fear, or even much of a problem at all. If our grandchildren end up hating us, it’s much more likely to be because we failed to give them excellent educations, or create a functioning health care system, or prevent global warming from destroying a livable biosphere. Those will be true burdens on them, ones that we can prevent by wisely spending lots of money today.
9:21 Rabid Rat Bastard (aka rrb), in obsequious service to his Fuehrer Trump, simply repeats the lie and desperately calls for civil war.
Yesterday in posts starting at 10:45AM and stretching through 1:55PM
I, JamesNewLeaf, walked all over Ch/Scottie's "Slow Fuse Joe" thread MIScharacterization of the NYT article supposedly making Biden look incompetent, an article Ch lyingly called a "hit piece."
I constantly challenged him and others to give us extensive quotes proving his lies
AND HE NEVER DID.
NOR DID ANY OTHERS.
NO, NOT ONE SINGLE TIME DID CH OR OTHERS EVEN ATTEMPT TO DEFEND HIS LYING THREAD ARTICLE WITH GENUINE QUOTES.
Excuse me while I take a much deserved VICTORY DANCE.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/16/deficit-spending-propaganda/
Instead of panicking about the blighted future we’re leaving to our progeny, ask whom our children are going to have to repay.
The answer is … our children.
Every time the federal government sells a bond, it creates a liability for the government. But it also creates an asset for those who bought the bond, in exactly the same amount. For American society overall, the entire process is, financially speaking, largely a wash.
It is true that this could create problems with inequality. Government bonds, like financial assets in general, are disproportionately owned by the wealthy.
When their children inherit the bonds and again they get richer for doing nothing.
The deficit makes them welfare queens!
Boy Reverend....
Glad my doing other things (outside of commenting on that story) yesterday provided you cause to do a victory dance. If ignoring you is all that takes, perhaps it should be an ongoing endeavor?
But if you truly believe that an author pointing out that the 78 year old taking days or even weeks to make decisions is "at odds" with the needed urgency, that he is known to have a short fuse and attack his own aides, or that his handlers literally have to "prepare him" to project an "assured demeanor' is somehow a NYT fluff piece?
Then dance away Reverend! Dance till you can dance no more!
Just make sure nobody's watching, or you might end up in a straight jacket!
Meanwhile Hamas is still lobbing rockets into Israel.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Since the decline in visitors here since you lost your mind Scott, you might end up in a straight jacket!
We sliced and diced your insane comment from a right wing media websites!
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Anonymous Roger Amick said...
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Talk about a dancing fool !!!
Gibberish much ???
And don't bump into the tv
ROFLMFAO !!!
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1393549478829957120
The state of Wisconsin authorized an audit of the 2020 election!
dominoes are falling !!!
Christopher Hill
https://mobile.twitter.com/threeguysyesh/status/1393559108725493776
AZ, MI, WA, GA - that's the ballgame.
AZ: deleted records
MI: deleted records
GA: would bet one infamous machine's records are also deleted
WA:?
Deleted records = stolen election
What's wrong with some ACTUAL transparency ?
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.”>He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and “Saturday Night Live.” In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
The author Alky plagiarized. Yeah we should listen him on economics
ballgame = enough electoral votes to overturn Biden's "victory"
makes you wonder about some "senators" too...
Only losers take victory dances when there is no victory.
Roger is apparently bragging about how the blog no longer has the same readership as it had... when exactly?
Back in 2004 when the Blogosphere was still a big thing, Indy and I were the only front page posters and people like Sean Trende, Gerry Daly and others would come join the discussion comment threads?
This blog went up in flames as soon as I allowed people like Roger to have front page access... that and most bloggers moved to Twitter as the Blogosphere died in general. There are actually very few real "blogs" left of any prominence.
There hasn't been much for noticeable change in the traffic here for years.
So...
The vaunted Associated Press has been collaborating with Hamas.
Israel said "Not anymore" and blowed up the building they shared.
Of course, the AP said that they had 'no idea' Hamas was also in that building.
No matter. It's rubble now.
Pro tip; When you lease offices, make sure Hamas is not the landlord.
And Israel was under no obligation to warn them.
This blog went up in flames as soon as I allowed people like Roger to have front page access... that and most bloggers moved to Twitter as the Blogosphere died in general. There are actually very few real "blogs" left of any prominence.
There hasn't been much for noticeable change in the traffic here for years.
just wait until roger finally gets committed
or the "pastor" reaches his final resting place
either one will drop traffic by 40%
(and 10 of the 40 will be by me not dumping on them)
does keep on top of issues though, to a greater extent than I would without them
so, thanks
ROFLMFAO !!!
* me
Washington (CNN) — Republican Rep. Fred Upton on Sunday called out an effort by some of his GOP colleagues to downplay the Capitol insurrection, saying their "bogus" claims about the deadly attack are evidence of a need to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the incident.
"It's absolutely bogus. You know, I was there. I watched a number of the folks walk down to the White House and then back. I have a balcony on my office. So I saw them go down. I heard the noise -- the flash bangs, I smelled some of the gas as it moved my way," the Michigan congressman told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked about comments made by several congressional Republicans last week who attempted to re-write what happened on January 6.
The comments from the longtime congressman come as a rift in his party grows between members who are offering an inaccurate account of the insurrection and those who have consistently condemned the violence on January 6 while also casting blame on former President Donald Trump and his 2020 election lies for the attack. Upton was among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the riot.
Among the claims made last week was one by Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia, who falsely compared the riot to a tourist visit, saying during a hearing on the attack that "there was no insurrection and to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold baseline."
Upton told Bash he wasn't sure what was motivating his colleagues to make such claims, but that those statements stand as a reason why he supports a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack. Lawmakers on Friday cleared a hurdle on Friday in creating a bipartisan commission after the top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee struck a deal on how to structure the independent panel.
"Get the facts out, try to assure the American public this is what happened, and let the facts lead us to the conclusion," Upton said.
After the agreement was announced Friday, it was not clear whether House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy -- who has been fighting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the commission proposal -- would sign off on the deal, as he said he was still reviewing it. Upton said in his interview that he hopes the California Republican will support the proposal.
Going a step further on Sunday, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who was ousted from her post in GOP leadership last week for challenging Trump's election lies, told ABC News that McCarthy should "absolutely" testify before the commission should lawmakers establish the investigatory body.
"I would anticipate that -- I would hope he doesn't require a subpoena, but I wouldn't be surprised if he were subpoenaed," Cheney said of McCarthy, adding later that the attempts by some of her colleagues to downplay the insurrection are "disgraceful and despicable."
The proposed commission would include a 10-member panel, with half appointed by Democratic congressional leaders, including the chair, and half by Republicans, including the vice chair. The panel will have the power to issue subpoenas if they are signed off by both the chair and vice chair, according to a summary released by the committee. The commission would be tasked with issuing a final report by the end of this year, making it a quick timeline for the panel to put out a final product.
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