Dr. Anthony Fauci quietly worked behind the scenes to help cast doubt on the Wuhan lab leak possibility in favor of the natural origins hypothesis during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, newly released emails show.
Fauci Was Told Early on That Wuhan Coronavirus Looked 'Engineered'
New emails obtained by Buzzfeed through a Freedom of Information Act show National Institute of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by NIH scientist Kristian Andersen on January 31, 2020 that Wuhan coronavirus looked "potentially engineered." In other words, it was manipulated in a lab through gain of function research.
"On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered," Andersen said.
What's up with the Saint Dr Fauci? Was he being a tad dishonest with the American public?
If so, why exactly?
206 comments:
1 – 200 of 206 Newer› Newest»1. He hated Trump and worked to undermine him.
2. He fell in love with his celebrity status.
Old adage; be careful what you wish for. Celebrity is a two edge sword.
All you have are right wing nutcase websites for your information since The Drudge Report quit being a Trumpet.
Before he became sane you got most of your bullshit posts from Matt Drudge.
Better question yet....what the fuck is wrong with you?????? The guy has served how many presidents??? From both sides too boot....Saying fauci hated trump is pure speculation and bias on your part....He had one mission...protect the health of US citizens and did that with out question. OTOH....he sure was uncomfortable defending trumps lies and certain made all the right calls in spite of trump saying otherwise!!!!!!! HIs approval rated again demonstrate the stupidity of the GOP as he has massive positive approval from D's and I's and is below water from the right who have politicized the job he was hired to do!!!!! God dayum the next thing is you will say GW is a hoax......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAQ!!!!!
By Jon GreenbergJune 2, 2021
No, emails to Fauci don’t show early agreement that virus was man-made
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
One email to Fauci from a credible researcher noted the possibility of an engineered virus, but said more work was needed.
Other emails came from less credible voices and cited no evidence.
The release of thousands of emails to and from U.S. infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci has fueled claims that the virus behind COVID-19 was man-made. BuzzFeed and the Washington Post received the emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, and both published articles on June 1.
Fauci’s critics quickly responded.
"Dr Fauci exposed for the fraud he is," said a June 1 Facebook post from the WTF Files. "Fauci's fellow scientist could tell early on that the (coronavirus) looked manufactured."
The post included an email from Kristian Andersen, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. It underlines last few words of this quote from his Jan. 31, 2020, message to Fauci: "The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%> so one has to look really closely at all of the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered."
A smoking gun?
No.
In that same email, Andersen said, "There are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change."
And a little over a month later, they did.
In a March 17, 2020, article in Nature Medicine, Andersen and his colleagues wrote, "Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated
stated on May 23, 2021 in an Instagram post
After the email release, Andersen tweeted June 1 that "we seriously considered a lab leak a possibility," and "what the email shows, is a clear example of the scientific process."
The WTF Facebook post includes another email to Fauci from a professor of dermatology who voiced his suspicion that the virus could have been released from a lab in Wuhan. The email gives no data to support that suspicion.
Plucking emails from the BuzzFeed and Washington Post trove inspired other social media posts suspicious of Fauci.
Instagram posts drew attention to an email to Fauci from independent researcher Adam Gaertner. In one June 2 post, the email’s subject line, "Coronavirus bioweapon production method," and the phrase "This is how the virus was created" are underlined in red.
But despite Gaertner’s use of technical terms, including "adjusted virions" and "conformational rearrangements," the email contains no evidence to prove the point. Gaertner has appeared on web programs that link vaccines to the creation of superspreaders, and he promotes the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Some studies find ivermectin effective in treating COVID-19; others have found no impact.
One Instagram user who shared the image posted an update saying, "Just to be clear this email appears to have been sent to Fauci through public inquiry, so it doesn't necessarily link Fauci to anything."
Our ruling
A Facebook post says, "Fauci's fellow scientist could tell early on that the (coronavirus) looked manufactured."
The only email that came close to matching that claim noted that while some evidence suggested the virus might be man-made, more work was needed and that opinion could change. The email presented a possibility — a starting point for more research — not a conclusion. The man who wrote that email concluded that the virus developed naturally in a scientific journal article in March 2020.
We rate this claim False.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/02/blog-posting/no-emails-fauci-dont-show-early-agreement-virus-wa/
Seriously Scott.
Delusions and Delusional Disorder
Reviewed by Jennifer Casarella, MD on December 13, 2020
Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a psychotic disorder. People who have it can’t tell what’s real from what is imagined.
Delusions are the main symptom of delusional disorder. They’re unshakable beliefs in something that isn’t true or based on reality. But that doesn’t mean they’re completely unrealistic. Delusional disorder involves delusions that aren’t bizarre, having to do with situations that could happen in real life, like being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve mistaken perceptions or experiences. But in reality, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.
A bizarre delusion, by contrast, is something that could never happen in real life, such as being cloned by aliens or having your thoughts broadcast on TV. A person who has such thoughts might be considered delusional with bizarre-type delusions.
People with delusional disorder often can continue to socialize and function normally, apart from the subject of their delusion, and generally do not behave in an obviously odd or bizarre manner.
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/delusional-disorder
The Lying Sociopath is sending his Qanon Lunatic General out to plant the idea of another Insurrection. At the risk of sounding like a broken record.
Step away peacefully from Trump.
Our country is at risk today and is getting more dangerous than ever before
Fivethirtyeight.
Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of talk about whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Some scientists and politicians circulated this idea, but there was no substantiated evidence to back it up.
The most likely story is that the virus crossed over from animals, probably bats, into an intermediary species, before making the jump to humans. That’s how SARS and MERS ended up in humans: we got SARS from palm civets, and MERS from camels.
Recent Stories from FiveThirtyEight
Top Articlesby FiveThirtyEightIs Our PrimarySystem Broken?
That said, we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. We have some evidence to support the natural spillover idea. For example, most of the people in Wuhan who had Covid-like symptoms in December of 2019 were exposed to animals before they got sick. But, we still haven’t found a bat or pangolin in the wild that has COVID-19. We have no smoking gun, if you will.
In the absence of that proof, some people think something else must have created the pandemic. We have no hard evidence to support the lab leak idea, let alone a smoking gun to validate that hypothesis. But despite pushback on this story from many scientists and the media early on, it’s back in the news, and many are talking about the possibility of a lab leak — even President Joe Biden. On May 26, the White House released a statement asking US intelligence to further investigate the origins of COVID-19. There may be some legitimate reasons to do this, but the debate has gotten heated. And when a conversation is centered around controversy, instead of science, we can lose sight of the bigger, more important picture.
I tweeted it to Scott, because I seriously believe that he needs help.
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/delusional-disorder
I've been through some problems, but I got help.
When I went public on Facebook I was irrational. But I admitted it and got help.
But he won't admit it like an alcoholic person.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/does-it-matter-if-there-was-a-lab-leak/
Wow. You sure triggered Roger. Lol.
May 26
Chinese media attacks Dr Fauci for ‘degenerate morality’ for calling for Wuhan lab investigation
State-controlled news outlet irked by chief medical adviser’s support for further investigation into origins of Covid
You believe that anyone doesn't like Trump for any reason, has TDS.
Throughout history, people like that became dictators.
Our Federalist Republic limited the power of the people, because they understood how people act. I have read the founding fathers publications.
So they limited Impulsive decisions about government.
The Constitution gives the states a lot of power, one of the reasons was the slave owners wanted significant power.
It took a Civil War to get rid of slavery.
And our electoral college system gives some Republicans the chance to reverse the outcome of the election.
It sounds odd but I am afraid more than ever before.
Democracies are fragile.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Wow. You sure triggered Roger. Lol.
The poor bastard is so fucked up on TDS he doesn't know what day it is.
If I lived where he claims to live I'd be on the beach right now.
Oh wait, his doors are locked and alarmed.
Never mind.
Roger , great job growth numbers.
Can you tell us what they really mean?
So far, nada.
4F is too sick, he can't travel.
"
If I lived where he claims to live I'd be on the beach right now"
POSTED ON JUNE 2, 2021 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN CORONAVIRUS, LIBERALS
ABOUT THOSE FAUCI EMAILS
Thousands of emails to and from Dr. Anthony Fauci have become public through a FOIA request by the Washington Post. Reaction to the emails has generally been partisan: Democrats have hailed them as validating their view of Fauci as a secular saint, while conservatives have found confirmation of their suspicions of the life-long bureaucrat, who went to work for the NIH during the Nixon administration and has been rising through the bureaucracy, as opposed to treating patients, ever since.
I haven’t yet had time to read the emails, and you can’t competently comment on them until you have read them. That rules out the large majority of what you will see online. If you want to read them for yourself and draw your own conclusions, they are here. Despite that caution, here are some thoughts.
Yahoo News, a pro-Democrat outlet, headlines: “What conservatives see in the Fauci emails.” But the story, while modest, is relatively fair.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails, released through a Freedom of Information Act request, are a Rorschach test. To Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), they revealed the nation’s top infectious expert — and his frequent sparring partner — to be a liar. “Told you,” Paul said. “Can’t wait to see the media try to spin the Fauci FOIA emails.”
On cue, CNN tweeted, “Thousands of emails from and to Dr. Fauci reveal the weight that came from his role as a rare source of frank honesty within the Trump administration’s COVID-19 task force.” That’s not how most conservatives view the email exchanges about masks or theories about the virus’ origins. Where liberals see a beleaguered official, conservatives see in the emails private counsel that is more equivocal than Fauci’s public pronouncements, when not diametrically opposed.
A good example of how some conservatives see the Fauci emails comes from Legal Insurrection.
What are the flash points of controversy? So far, I have seen at least two. One is the fact that Fauci’s emails show that the possible origin of the Wuhan virus in the CCP’s virology lab has been on the radar from the beginning, with some scientists suggesting that the virus’s DNA is most consistent with a laboratory origin.
I have not seen a Fauci email that takes a position on how the Wuhan virus arose. If he ever wrote that he thought that the virus came from a Chinese lab–a lab that he himself helped to finance!–that would be a bombshell. But I haven’t seen such an email, and my guess is that Fauci is too much the bureaucrat to commit himself on that question, especially given the friendly relationship with Chinese scientists documented in these communications.
We can say, though, that Fauci stood by while Republicans like Tom Cotton and Donald Trump were being excoriated in the press for saying that a possible link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology should be investigated. As best I can recall, Fauci said nothing in their defense and kept the intimations he received from others to himself. Knowing that the virus’s origin was a legitimate question, if Fauci was silent his conduct was consistent with loyalty to the Democratic Party, and not consistent with his duties as a public servant.
JOHN HINDERAKER doesn't believe what Scott asshole lied about.
Personal insults are discouraged by Scott.
I'm not locked down.
I chose not to go to my brother Ron's funeral for personal reasons, not my health.
I'm completely recovered from the liver transplant four years ago yesterday.
My doctor Chang said he was amazed by how quickly I recovered.
And on June 25th I will been sober for 9 years.
ABOUT THOSE FAUCI EMAILS,
I THINK THIS IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT:
CH/Scottie CITES (ABOVE):
New emails obtained by Buzzfeed through a Freedom of Information Act show National Institute of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by NIH scientist Kristian Andersen on January 31, 2020 that Wuhan coronavirus looked "potentially engineered." In other words, it was manipulated in a lab through gain of function research.
"On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered," Andersen said.
__________
NOW LET'S COMPARE THAT WITH THIS:
Thousands of the doctor's emails were released this week through FOI requests by The Washington Post and Buzzfeed, giving insight into the handling of the pandemic at its onset.
Amid the emails, one expert speculated to Dr Fauci in January 2020 that the “unusual features” of the novel virus could possibly indicate that it had been “engineered”.
KRISTIAN ANDERSEN, the Scripps Research Institute researcher who sent the email, has since said on Twitter that the correspondence is a “clear example of the scientific process” and maintained that his research regarding the issue debunked the lab-leak theory.
DEBUNKED. DEBUNKED. DEBUNKED.
“As I have said many times, we seriously considered a lab leak a possibility.
A POSSIBILITY. A POSSIBILITY.
"However, significant new data, extensive analyses and many discussions led to the conclusions in our paper,” he said on Twitter.
HOWEVER. HOWEVER. HOWEVER.
SIGNIFICANT NEW DATA,
ANALYSES,
AND DISCUSSIONS
LED TO THE CONCLUSIONS THAT DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED
THE LAB LEAK POSSIBILITY.
SO SORRY, CH/SCOTTY.
THAT GOT SHOT DOWN PRETTY QUICKLY.
LOL AT YOU.
Trump had his father's Doctor diagnosed bone spurs.
The United States Navy doctor diagnosed my flat feet in Denver Colorado.
I was very disappointed with the diagnosis. But I'm not a draft dodging asshole kputz or Jimmy Hitler
4F spam vs Jamie Spam.
He's mentally disabled now. I hope he gets some help.
Again, after proving yourselves so ineffective in trying to go after Biden, you Trump slurpers are now trying to go after Dr. Fauci.
But he can defend himself, as seen above and as seen here:
https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-defends-himself-over-email-112439586.html
Fauci lied to congress, straight up.
But since he's been beatified as a saint and is a liberal darling, he will pay no penalty for his lies.
This little prick belongs in fucking prison.
4F your status is simple "unfit for service"
And you don't have a 4F Draft card,
4F is a status.
Cite : Selective Service System
Dr Fauci was aware on January 2020 that the “unusual features” of the novel virus could possibly indicate that it had been “engineered”.
If the President had read his daily intelligence briefings he may have been aware in January of last year!
And you don't have a 4F Draft card,
4F is a status.
It's so easy to catch the alky in his lies these days it almost seems mundane.
It's no wonder he works so hard to steal his family member's valor.
Funny, rat can't show us WHERE Fauci lied.
Roger, I think you should just ignore their stupid comments about you more than you do.
I IGNORE much that is said about me here. It is too ridiculous to merit a comment.
Roger is unhinged by the exposed pro-China Fauci.
The US owes Senator Paul (R) a profound thank you.
His investigation exposed the Democrats.
The same reason why the former President has a 4F status.
But his own doctor diagnosed him with bone spurs.
You aren't old enough to remember how many rich people avoided the Vietnam war.
A few good guys I knew came back in coffins wrapped in the American Flag.
Go fuck Daisy in the barn.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Funny, rat can't show us WHERE Fauci lied.
Sure I can, pederast.
And so can Rand Paul. Saint Phony Fauci LIED to Paul's FACE, therefore he lied to the nation.
Why is China attacking Fauci?
Somewhere I have a 4F status card
Trump was a draft dodging asshole
Federal prosecutors are examining whether Rep. Matt Gaetz obstructed justice during a phone call he had with a witness in the sex-crimes investigation of the Florida congressman, according to two sources familiar with the case.
The witness in question was one of a handful of women who entered Gaetz’s orbit via his one-time “wingman,” former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector Joel Greenberg, who pleaded guilty last month to a host of crimes, including sex-trafficking a 17-year-old in 2017.
Jimmy Hitler is jealous
Roger, hold on to your fragile mind, please do not return to abusing drugs, booze, women and commit suicide.
The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%> so one has to look really closely at all of the sequences to see that some of the features
Sound like it was engineered. Either man-made or genetically enhanced to a more dangerous variant.
It this is not a violation of the Geneva convection on biological weapons, it sails perilously close.
Roger, you failed to succeed in College.
The usual idiot "pastor" screamed:
SIGNIFICANT NEW DATA,
ANALYSES,
AND DISCUSSIONS
LED TO THE CONCLUSIONS THAT DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED
THE LAB LEAK POSSIBILITY.
The idiots here apparently have been told the lab leak theory has been debunked. They really are a waste of time.
After shutting down an inquiry into the origins of Covid Biden ordered the intelligence agency to pursue that theory due to mounting evidence just a few days ago.
Now it could all be a charade by Biden who is controlled by China but it definitely has not been debunked
Just another lie by the "pastor" and his "sources"
the libs lie gene must be in their DNA right next to their mental illness gene.
China is a party to the major international agreements regulating biological weapons, having acceded to the Geneva Protocol in 1952 and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in 1984."
Looks like rat and F'n and some of the rest of you need to read my 11:13 a little more carefully.
Blows Rand Paul right out of the water.
Senator Rand Paul
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1400052122914283529
Can’t wait to see the media try to spin the Fauci FOIA emails.
Yep, I posted 5 or 6 actual emails here yesterday and what they said were obvious.
Today get a bunch of media spin without the actual emails...
Yesterday no questions
today a DNC narrative
enemy of the people
1984
minions are happy, their elites tell them no need to read the emails, Fauci was right all along... and Fauci's lies about masks and not funding etc ? Right wing conspiracy theory !!!
Newspeak
Big Brother
Sure I can, pederast.
And so can Rand Paul. Saint Phony Fauci LIED to Paul's FACE, therefore he lied to the nation.
Anybody who says Fauci didn't lie is ignorant or a liar
Or both
Probably both
And his emails prove it
Enfemminate Jamie, 🛑 begging for attention.
Biden's lumber tax on Candian lumber is his 2nd attack on The Canadian Economy.
KansasDemocrat said...
Enfemminate Jamie, 🛑 begging for attention.
He is a total waste of fucking time.
He lies like there is no tomorrow
endlessly.
Almost as much as he waterboys.
Stephen L. Miller
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1400308637663326214
In a released email, Fauci wrote masks don't work against COVID-19 and it's blowing my mind that it's not the biggest trend in the country.
One of the emails I posted yesterday.
Paul was right about the media obfuscation
enemy of the people
Fauci did follow the Science.
Political Science.
"Are Peter Daszak and Tony Fauci under criminal investigation? We can only hope they are. They certainly deserve it."
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1400263949698797568
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized.
The first was a January 14 warning, from numerous federal agencies including DHS, about violence in Washington, DC and all fifty state capitols that was likely to explode in protest of Inauguration Day (a threat which did not materialize). Then came a January 27 bulletin warning of “a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist over the coming weeks” from “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority” (that warning also was not realized). Then there was a May 14 bulletin warning of right-wing violence “to attack higher-capacity targets,” exacerbated by the lifting of COVID lockdowns (which also never happened). And now we are treated to this new DHS warning about domestic extremists preparing violent attacks over Tulsa (it remains to be seen if a DHS fear is finally realized).
Just like the first War on Terror, these threats are issued with virtually no specificity. They are just generalized warnings designed to put people in fear about their fellow citizens and to justify aggressive deployment of military and law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. A CNN article which wildly hyped the latest danger bulletin about domestic extremists at Tulsa had to be edited with what the cable network, in an “update,” called “the additional information from the Department of Homeland Security that there is no specific or credible threats at this time.” And the supposed dangers from domestic extremists on Inauguration Day was such a flop that even The Washington Post — one of the outlets most vocal about lurking national security dangers in general and this one in particular — had to explicitly acknowledge the failure:
Thousands [of National Guard troops] had been deployed to capitals across the country late last week, ahead of a weekend in which potentially violent demonstrations were predicted by the FBI — but never materialized.
Once again on Wednesday, security officials’ worst fears weren’t borne out: In some states, it was close to business as usual. In others, demonstrations were small and peaceful, with only occasional tense moments.
Americans have seen this scam before. Throughout the first War on Terror, DHS, which was created in 2002, was frequently used to keep fear levels high and thus foster support for draconian government powers of spying, detention, and war.
The " investigation" into the January 6th incident was designed by Biden and Kamala Harris to send national Capitol building and stop counting the invalid ballots.
Take arms.
Going to buy stocking fish for the newly renovated pond. Flathead, channel catfish and large mouth bass.
Fear is crucial for state authority. When the population is filled with it, they will acquiesce to virtually any power the government seeks to acquire in the name of keeping them safe. But when fear is lacking, citizens will crave liberty more than control, and that is when they question official claims and actions. When that starts to happen, when the public feels too secure, institutions of authority will reflexively find new ways to ensure they stay engulfed by fear and thus quiescent.
I saw first-hand how this dynamic functions when doing the Snowden-enabled reporting on mass domestic NSA surveillance under the Obama administration. By the time we broke the stories of mass domestic surveillance on Americans — twelve years after the 9/11 attack — fear levels over Al Qaeda in the U.S. had diminished greatly, especially after the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden. As a result, anger over Obama's sprawling domestic surveillance programs was pervasive and bipartisan. A bill jointly sponsored by then-Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) — which would have greatly reined in NSA domestic spying powers — was on its way to easy, bipartisan victory as a result of that anger over NSA spying. But suddenly, the Obama White House convinced Nancy Pelosi to whip enough Democratic votes to ensure its defeat and save NSA domestic spying from reform. But the momentum which that bill had — it would have been the first since 9/11 to rollback rather than expand government powers — along with anti-surveillance-and-pro-privacy polling data, proved how significantly the playing field had shifted as a result of those revelations and, especially, the reduction in fear levels experienced by Americans.
But shortly thereafter, a new group — ISIS — emerged to replace Al Qaeda. It had a two-year stint with middling success in scaring Americans, but it was sufficient to turn back the tide of pro-privacy sentiment (at one point in 2014, the U.S. intelligence community claimed out of nowhere that a Syria-based group that virtually nobody in the U.S. had ever heard of previously or since — "the Khorasan Group" — was “a more direct and imminent threat to the United States,” but that new villain disappeared as quickly as it materialized). After ISIS’s star turn in the role of existential threat, the Democrats, during the 2016 campaign, elevated Russia, Putin and the Kremlin to that role, abandoning without explanation Obama's eight-year argument that Russia was merely a regional power of no threat to the U.S. This revolving carousel of scary villains ensured that the pressure to reduce the powers and secrecy of the U.S. security state eroded in the name of staying safe.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/june/03/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-has-already-begun-even-without-the-new-laws-biden-wants/
Take, for example, restrictions on absentee voting. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump railed often against voting by mail, often spouting falsehoods about voter fraud. And Trump’s voters appear to have taken his false rhetoric to heart — Democrats were much more likely to cast their votes by mail in 2020 than Republicans.
Georgia Republicans responded to this absentee voting gap by enacting several restrictions on voting by mail, and Texas appears likely to add new limits to its already-restrictive laws governing absentee ballots.
But it’s far from clear that these new restrictions will actually benefit Republicans in future elections. As Democratic data wizard David Shor told me in March, “if you look at the seven states that went from having very little vote by mail to having massive amounts (AL/CT/MO/MS/NJ/NY/PA), they trended about 0.2 percent toward Trump relative to the other 43 states.” It does not appear that higher levels of absentee voting among Democrats led to higher overall turnout among Democrats, at least relative to their Republican neighbors.
Other studies suggest that Black voters mobilize in response to attacks on the right to vote, potentially neutralizing — or, at least, mitigating — the impact of those attacks.
But not every provision of the latest round of voter suppression bills can be overcome either by vigilant voters or by smart campaigns.
Georgia’s new law, for example, permits state-level Republican officials to take over local election boards in Democratic strongholds such as Atlanta. That matters because these local boards can potentially close polling places, disqualify voters, or even refuse to certify an election result. Voters who do everything right might nonetheless have their ballots disqualified.
Similarly, a provision of the Texas bill that survived the conference committee requires county election officials to “develop a remediation plan” to conduct “voter roll maintenance” if the “county has a number of registered voters equal to or greater than the number of people eligible to register to vote in the county.” Counties that do not comply with this provision may face fines of $1,000 a day.
There’s nothing nefarious about a county’s list of registered voters exceeding the number of eligible voters in that county — people move and people die, and they typically do not notify election officials when they do so. But this provision of the Texas bill risks purging voters from the election rolls who complied with the law governing voter registration, and who have every right to vote. As my colleague Zack Beauchamp wrote about the provision, “voting rights activists worry that this is a backdoor effort to revive a 2019 voter purge struck down in court, an effort that tried to kick tens of thousands of recently naturalized voters off the rolls by using outdated citizenship status for them.”
State lawmakers in 2021, moreover, haven’t even begun to consider the most common kind of law that seeks to make the results of an election impervious to the will of the voters: gerrymandering.
Finally, Democratic lawyers have limited resources to challenge anti-democratic laws. And judges who support voting rights may wish to weaken such laws but may also be cautious about handing down a pro-democracy decision that would be reversed by higher courts — including a Supreme Court that is quite skeptical of voting rights.
But lower courts can still play an important role in protecting voting rights — in the past several years, for example, state and federal judges in states like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina weakened or outright dismantled gerrymanders in those states. The Supreme Court is likely to impose new limits on the judiciary’s power to protect democracy, but sufficiently cautious judges may be able to neutralize some of the most aggressive attacks on the franchise.
The Republican Party wields a tremendous amount of power in the United States, in the Senate, in state legislatures, and especially in the judiciary. It is likely that many of the GOP’s attempts to restrict the franchise will endure.
But that doesn’t mean that all of these laws will survive intact. Both the Democratic Party and small-d democrats have limited ability to challenge such laws. But if they are fortunate, they may be able to eliminate at least some of the worst provisions.
Our country is at risk.
It's not right vs left.
The current president party is full of traitors who have been gaslighted by Trump and the desire for power .
You can always tell when the alky is getting his clock cleaned...
The volume of his plagiarized copy/paste's under aliases increases one hundredfold.
All this from someone who is walking distance to the beach, but can't go there because of a door alarm and an orderly holding a straitjacket..
LOL.
https://www.vox.com/22463490/voting-rights-democracy-texas-georgia-suppression-jim-crow-supreme-court-sb7
I'm on 4th street in Santa Monica.
Four blocks from PCH. Highway One
I am not locked up. I can come and go anywhere I want to go
Vox.
LMAO.
Days since they last embarrassed themselves = 0.
https://www.vox.com/22463490/voting-rights-democracy-texas-georgia-suppression-jim-crow-supreme-court-sb7
LOL -
Wise and Healthy Aging
Adult Day Care
He tried to steal the election results. I hope he dies in jail with Trump.
The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign fundraising activity involving his former business, according to people familiar with the matter and a spokesman for DeJoy.
FBI agents in recent weeks interviewed current and former employees of DeJoy and the business, asking questions about political contributions and company activities, these people said. Prosecutors also issued a subpoena to DeJoy himself for information, one of the people said.
That person, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing and politically sensitive investigation.
Mark Corallo, a DeJoy spokesman, confirmed the investigation in a statement but insisted DeJoy had not knowingly violated any laws.
“Mr. DeJoy has learned that the Department of Justice is investigating campaign contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector,” Corallo said. “He has always been scrupulous in his adherence to the campaign contribution laws and has never knowingly violated them.”
The inquiries could signal impending legal peril for the controversial head of the nation’s mail service — though DeJoy has not been charged with any crimes and has previously asserted that he and his company followed the law in their campaign fundraising activity.
Spokesmen for the FBI, Justice Department and Postal Service declined to comment.
DeJoy — who was appointed to run the Postal Service by its board of governors last May — has been dogged by controversy for almost his entire time in office. Soon after starting in the job, he imposed cost-cutting moves that led to a reduction in overtime and limits on mail trips that mail carriers blamed for creating backlogs across the country.
FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising
By Matt Zapotosky and Jacob Bogage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/louis-dejoy-fbi-investigation/2021/06/03/4e24e122-c3d3-11eb-93f5-ee9558eecf4b_story.html
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPo4zLyHqPw/?utm_medium=copy_link
Trump still living in the alky's gin-soaked skull in adult day care rent free.
LMAO.
Yesterday was my 4 year liverversary!!!
People who are paying taxes, helped pay $1,600,000 bill.
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO at the racist rodent bastard
Nice to see that you take pride in being totally and completely dependent upon Uncle Sugar, alky.
While the rest of us remain proudly independent and free to move about the country.
Enjoy your stay in Medicaid -funded Adult Day Care. Just like children's day care with an adult there to wipe your ass.
LMAO.
When I was a kid, being a government-dependent parasite on welfare was a case for shame and scorn, and those who were on it made it their life's work to get off it.
Now it's a source of pride and accomplishment.
The welfare queen lives and resides in adult day care on 4th street in Santa Monica.
Next time use info Wars
An email exchange between Anthony Fauci and a doctor in Florida from March 2020 shows that Fauci promised to pressure then-President Donald Trump to intimidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis into closing gyms, bars, and beaches. Both physicians raged at citizens exercising their individual liberty, with Fauci stating he screamed during television interviews “2 to 5 times per night” when he saw young people having fun.
In the emails, which were obtained under a Freedom Of Information Act request, a Florida HIV specialist named Doug Brust declares himself to be on the “front line,” as well as “frustrated” and “angry.” Brust stated, “On the drive home just now, the gyms, bar-grilles, and restaurants still packed. Yes, bars are closed in Florida–but if they serve food (which they all do)…….they’re open. Ans [sic] so much for the 50% capacity “suggestion.”
Brust went to complain about beachgoers, and stated that he had sent letters to DeSantis demanding the state close beaches, gyms, and restaurants. “I’m the HIV doc here. I’m it. You know how seriously I take caring for my patients. I have [redacted]. I am putting my life on the line so folks can go pump iron, drink beer, have a burger, and get a tan,” Brust seethed.
Alex Jones breaks down Fauci’s fall from grace as the Wuhan lab leak theory dismissed by the disgraced doctor becomes credible and points to a cover-up.
In response, Fauci wrote, “Doug: Thanks for the note. I have pushed hard on PPEs and as you may know, the POTUS has involved the Department of Defense to provide 5 million N-95 respirators. Hopefully that will alleviate at least a portion of the PPE shortage. Regarding the bars and beaches, I have been screaming on TV 2 to 5 times per night to tell the younger generation to start taking this seriously.”
Fauci continued, “I am very surprised that Gov. DeSantis has not completely closed the bars, even if they serve food. Take out only. I will bring this up at the Task Force meeting tomorrow. Please take care of yourself. You are an indispensable front line warrior.”
No public response has been issued by Fauci to the damning conversations contained in the emails.
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO is a Democratic hoax
THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP
Vance defended his decision, saying, “I did not at the time believe beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed. . . I had to make a call and I made the call, and I think I made the right call.”
In 2015, Vance declined to prosecute another celebrity-defendant, Harvey Weinstein, in a case in a case in which a woman alleged that he had groped her breasts in a meeting in his New York office. This time, prosecutors were more careful than they had been with the complaining witness in the 2011 case against the police officers. The alleged victim in the Weinstein case had given “shifting accounts of her previous sexual assault complaint in Italy.”
Five years later, however, Vance became the first DA in the country to convict Weinstein for sexual assault. The 2020 case had six different sexual assault survivors. Plainly, with that amount of evidence, Vance felt confident to proceed successfully against a high-profile defendant.
To a prosecutor, Vance’s history looks like a district attorney who learned from experience to take special care in cases involving celebrities, and to proceed only with the strongest of cases.
That kind of approach is reflected in Vance’s methodical evidence-building in the current investigation—litigating all the way to the Supreme Court to get Trump’s tax returns, multiple interviews with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, recruiting a top financial prosecutor from outside, and collaborating with the state attorney general.
Add the fact that Vance is not running for re-election, and if an indictment comes, the record will reflect a serious prosecutor’s attempt to hold a powerful man accountable in a way he has never been.
Trump can call it a hoax and a witch hunt all he wants. But if and when Vance brings a case, chances are he’ll have assembled the iron-clad evidence to win it.
I believe that he will get convicted and imprisoned in isolation.
Or echo the other pervert and kill himself
https://thebulwark.com/why-the-manhattan-district-attorney-should-have-trump-worried/
Angelo Codevilla:
Scamocracy in America. “At its core, the ruling class politics of Covid-19 is now no more about public health than environmentalism is about the environment, or Feminism is about doing good to women, or BLM is about saving black lives, or the education establishment is about cognition, or the national security establishment is about public safety. None of these causes are about their purported objective than communism was about equality or the proletariat. Lenin made clear in ‘What Is To Be Done?’ (1902) that the revolution is all about power for ‘the vanguard of the proletariat.’ The Party.
Like communism, each of today’s revolutionary movements is based on its own lie, and all are all scams—the purpose of which is to transfer ever more power to the ruling class.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/scamocracy-in-america/
LMAO at you
Dr. Anthony Fauci says publicly released email about lab leak is being misconstrued
By Jacqueline Howard5h
In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that an email he received last year from an executive at the US-based EcoHealth Alliance has been misconstrued and offered a hint of regret about a February 2020 email downplaying the need to wear a mask.
Earlier this week, news outlets including CNN , BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post obtained thousands of emails Fauci sent and received since the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases became a household name early last year.
In one email sent to Fauci last April, an executive at EcoHealth Alliance, the global nonprofit that helped fund some research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked Fauci for publicly stating that scientific evidence supports a natural origin for the coronavirus and not a lab release . (The origins of the virus remain unclear.)
“There are some of your critics who say this shows you have too cozy of a relationship with the people behind the Wuhan lab research,” CNN’s John Berman said to Fauci on New Day. “What do you say to that?”
“That’s nonsense,” Fauci responded. “I don’t even see how they get that from that email.”
Fauci then emphasized that the email was sent to him, and he noted the origins of the coronavirus are still uncertain.
“I have always said, and will say today to you, John, that I still believe the most likely origin is from an animal species to a human, but I keep an absolutely open mind that if there may be other origins of that, there may be another reason, it could have been a lab leak,” Fauci told Berman. “I believe if you look historically, what happens in the animal-human interface, that in fact the more likelihood is that you’re dealing with a jump of species. But I keep an open mind all the time. And that’s the reason why I have been public that we should continue to look for the origin.
“You can misconstrue it however you want – that email was from a person to me saying ‘thank you’ for whatever it is he thought I said, and I said that I think the most likely origin is a jumping of species. I still do think it is, at the same time as I’m keeping an open mind that it might be a lab leak.”
In another email sent to Fauci on April 16, NIH director Francis Collins wrote “conspiracy theory gains momentum,” a dismissive reference to the lab-leak hypothesis. But much of the email is redacted, and Fauci said he did not remember its substance.
“They only took about 10,000 emails from me, of course I remember. I remember all 10,000 of them. Give me a break,” he said. “I don’t remember what’s in that redacted, but the idea I think is quite farfetched that the Chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves as well as other people. I think that’s a bit far out, John.”
This Roger character is an old drunk with liver disease. Who would listen to him?
Berman also brought up a February 5, 2020, email Fauci sent to Sylvia Burwell, former secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, in which he did not recommend wearing a mask since she was traveling to a low-risk location. The email was sent at a time before coronavirus was declared a pandemic and before the CDC advised the public to wear masks for protection . the mask lie is exposed here
“A lot has transpired since then. If you had to go back and do it all over again, would you tell her something different? Do you regret that?” Berman asked Fauci.
“Let’s get real here – if you look at scientific information as it accumulates, what is going on in January and February, what you know as a fact, as data, guides what you tell people and your policies. If March, April, May occur, you accumulate a lot more information and you modify and adjust your opinion and your recommendation based on the current science and current data,” Fauci told Berman.
“So of course, if we knew back then that a substantial amount of transmission was asymptomatic people . If we knew that the data show that masks outside of a hospital setting actually do work when we didn’t know it then. If we realize all of those things back then, of course,” he said. “You’re asking a question, ‘Would you do something different if you know what you know now?’ Of course people would have done that. That’s so obvious.”
CNN’s Eric Levenson contributed to this report.
For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com
If white people are still racist because their grandparents were.
Then Roger is still a drunk.
Systemic alcoholism embedded into his every fiber.
Biden Expands Blacklist of Chinese Companies Banned From U.S. InvestmentMove shows Biden’s willingness to continue some of the hard-line China policies started by former President Trump
President Joe Biden’s executive order brings to 59 the number of Chinese companies banned from receiving American investment.PHOTO: CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
By
Gordon Lubold
and
Alex Leary
Updated June 3, 2021 1:55 pm ET
SAVE
SHARE
TEXT
Listen to this article 3 minutes
00:00
1x
This article is in your queue.
Open Queue
WASHINGTON—President Biden expanded a prohibition on Americans investing in Chinese companies with purported links to China’s military, adding more businesses to a blacklist that has angered Beijing and caused consternation among investors.
An executive order Mr. Biden signed Thursday brings to 59 the total number of Chinese companies banned from receiving American investment and shows how his administration is continuing some of the hard-line China policies left by former President Donald Trump.
The new order prevents Americans from investing in those companies, with a 60-day grace period, until Aug. 2, before sanctions begin and a one-year period for Americans already invested in the firms—either directly or via mutual and index or other funds—to divest themselves.
The action is one of the firmest to date as the Biden administration conducts a broad review of China policy, including how to deal with tariffs and other trade measures taken by Mr. Trump. So far the administration has advanced few concrete actions against Beijing, though the U.S. recently joined allies in imposing sanctions against Chinese officials engaged in the mass incarceration of mainly Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-expands-blacklist-of-chinese-companies-banned-from-u-s-investment-11622741711?mod=mhp
☺rrbJune 3, 2021 at 1:06 PM
You can always tell when the alky is getting his clock cleaned...
The volume of his plagiarized copy/paste's under aliases increases one hundredfold.
All this from someone who is walking distance to the beach, but can't go there because of a door alarm and an orderly holding a straitjacket.😆
After all these years with my lovely bride , she still amazes me.
She took the led on buying the fish going in "her pond". She got what she wanted. I drove her. Once home we got the fish prepared to go into her pond. It takes about 20 minutes to acclimate them to the pond temp. And release.
She rocked this.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, find that additional steps are necessary to address the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13959 of November 12, 2020 (Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies), including the threat posed by the military-industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its involvement in military, intelligence, and security research and development programs, and weapons and related equipment production under the PRC’s Military-Civil Fusion strategy. In addition, I find that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constitute unusual and extraordinary threats, which have their source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13959 to address those threats.
Accordingly, I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Sections 1 through 5 of Executive Order 13959, as amended by Executive Order 13974 of January 13, 2021 (Amending Executive Order 13959 — Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies), are hereby replaced and superseded in their entirety to read as follows:
“
Section 1. (a) The following activities by a United States person are prohibited: the purchase or sale of any publicly traded securities, or any publicly traded securities that are derivative of such securities or are designed to provide investment exposure to such securities, of any person listed in the Annex to this order or of any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, and, as the Secretary of the Treasury deems appropriate, the Secretary of Defense:
(i) to operate or have operated in the defense and related materiel sector or the surveillance technology sector of the economy of the PRC; or
(ii) to own or control, or to be owned or controlled by, directly or indirectly, a person who operates or has operated in any sector described in subsection (a)(i) of this section, or a person who is listed in the Annex to this order or who has otherwise been determined to be subject to the prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section shall take effect:
(i) beginning at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on August 2, 2021, with respect to any person listed in the Annex to this order;
or
(ii) beginning at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on the date that is 60 days after the date of the determination in subsection (a) of this section with respect to any person not listed in the Annex to this order.
(c) The purchase or sale of publicly traded securities described in subsection (a) of this section made solely to effect the divestment, in whole or in part, of such securities by a United States person is permitted prior to:
(i) 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 3, 2022, with respect to any person listed in the Annex to this order; or
(ii) 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on the date that is 365 days after the date of the determination in subsection (a) of this section with respect to any person not listed in the Annex to this order.
(d) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the date of this order.
Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
The companies band by the executive order
Annex
AERO ENGINE CORPORATION OF CHINA
AEROSPACE CH UAV CO., LTD
AEROSPACE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS GROUP COMPANY LIMITED
AEROSUN CORPORATION
ANHUI GREATWALL MILITARY INDUSTRY COMPANY LIMITED
AVIATION INDUSTRY CORPORATION OF CHINA, LTD.
AVIC AVIATION HIGH-TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
AVIC HEAVY MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED
AVIC JONHON OPTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
AVIC SHENYANG AIRCRAFT COMPANY LIMITED
AVIC XI’AN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY GROUP COMPANY LTD.
CHANGSHA JINGJIA MICROELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA ACADEMY OF LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY
CHINA AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
CHINA AEROSPACE TIMES ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
CHINA AVIONICS SYSTEMS COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA COMMUNICATIONS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA COMMUNICATIONS CONSTRUCTION GROUP (LIMITED)
CHINA ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION
CHINA GENERAL NUCLEAR POWER CORPORATION
CHINA MARINE INFORMATION ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
CHINA MOBILE LIMITED
CHINA NATIONAL NUCLEAR CORPORATION
CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL CORPORATION
CHINA NORTH INDUSTRIES GROUP CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA NUCLEAR ENGINEERING CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD.
CHINA SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY GROUP POWER COMPANY LIMITED
CHINA SOUTH INDUSTRIES GROUP CORPORATION
CHINA SPACESAT CO., LTD.
CHINA STATE SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA TELECOM CORPORATION LIMITED
CHINA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
CHINA UNICOM (HONG KONG) LIMITED
CHINA UNITED NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
CNOOC LIMITED
COSTAR GROUP CO., LTD.
CSSC OFFSHORE & MARINE ENGINEERING (GROUP) COMPANY LIMITED
FUJIAN TORCH ELECTRON TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
GUIZHOU SPACE APPLIANCE CO., LTD
HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
HUAWEI INVESTMENT & HOLDING CO., LTD.
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
INNER MONGOLIA FIRST MACHINERY GROUP CO., LTD.
INSPUR GROUP CO., LTD.
JIANGXI HONGDU AVIATION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
NANJING PANDA ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED
NORTH NAVIGATION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
PANDA ELECTRONICS GROUP CO., LTD.
PROVEN GLORY CAPITAL LIMITED
PROVEN HONOUR CAPITAL LIMITED
SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
SHAANXI ZHONGTIAN ROCKET TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
ZHONGHANG ELECTRONIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS COMPANY LIMITED
Who prevented Americans from using Ivermectin?
Who prevented Americans from using hydroxychloroquine?
Who prevented Americans from using monoclonal antibodies?
Who insisted on experimental vaccines? And got royalties for doing so?
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1400285459889143809
Fourth Street Senior Housing
Dump
This describes Trump from 45 years ago.
The nowhere man
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, the world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all 'til somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
Ah, la, la, la, la
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
"Fourth Street Senior Housing is a 66-unit affordable housing apartment building for people 62+ who income qualify."
"Inflation"
These are embedded cost, not "transitory".
"much more than expected in the first three months of the year, even as millions of Americans remained on unemployment roles or out of the workforce, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Thursday.
Hourly compensation jumped 7.2 percent in the first quarter, according to the BLS’s revised estimate of labor costs and productivity. This had been reported as rising 5.1 percent in the first estimate"
The Revolver is the new Drudge Report.
When Tucker Carlson drew attention to the reports piling up in VAERS, the Washington Post, Forbes, and most other disparagers failed to mention his explicit reference to a group of Harvard researchers who conclusively demonstrated that the VAERS detection rate is abysmal. Again, see Part 1 of this series.
Carlson’s conclusion that nobody actually knows the true number of people who’ve died after Covid vaccination was flippantly assailed by the odious propagandists at Media Matters. They made an irrelevant rebuttal which involved a blatant lie:
But, that data does exist. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention oversees VAERS, it also runs the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). [Media Matters]
But of course the data exists somewhere. Carlson’s point was that no one has collected and analyzed it to determine the true number of post-COVID-vaccine deaths.
Moreover, it doesn’t exist at VSD, which contains information from only nine healthcare facilities scattered across the US — not the entire country. And its purpose is to “conduct studies based on questions or concerns already raised by the medical literature and reports to VAERS,” not to be a frontline detection system in its own right.
So, someone would have to actively sift through the VSD data to know the number of post-vaccination deaths experienced at just those nine facilities. And there’s zero indication anyone has done even that.
Not only does nobody know the real number of Americans who’ve died after taking a Covid vaccine, no one in charge seems to even care.
Wrong again I pay for my rent and food and stuff
" I pay for my rent and food and stuff" 4F
Just like a big boy , wow.
Right place. Thanks for telling us where you live 4F.
I don't read Roger anymore. I like pithy and interesting and Roger is neither.
More inflation and unemployment reports like what we’ve seen in the past month will cause more worries about a return of the 1970s stagflation which combines high inflation with high unemployment. Such a condition could cause the Fed to hike rates much faster than it had planned. The markets and the economy would likely be hit hard by this, and thus, higher rates will likely be short-lived.
The risk of 1970s stagflation is by no means a sure thing. As I mentioned last week, this article by Kathy Jones, Chief Fixed Income Strategist at Schwab, makes a strong case that we won’t see a rerun of the 1970s stagflation.
It's probably going to take several more months of high inflation numbers before there's a chance of the Fed changing. With the Fed’s zero rate policy in a holding pattern for the foreseeable future, two other factors will influence deposit rate changes this year.
First, the deposit and loan levels at the banks will influence deposit rates. Since the pandemic began, government stimulus checks combined with lower spending has caused deposit levels to surge and loan balances to fall. That created the perfect storm for deposit rates, resulting in record low deposit rates.
As the pandemic ends, consumer spending should rise and the government will hopefully wind down the stimulus checks. That should eventually allow deposit levels and loan balances at banks to return to their pre-pandemic condition, and banks will once again have to worry about attracting deposits.
For deposit levels to fall and loan balances to grow, America’s personal savings rate will need to fall back to normal levels.
If the Republicans don't block the infrastructure package, the risk of inflation should drop down to the previous level.
Demand for goods and services is not inflationary kputz.
https://www.depositaccounts.com/blog/fed-deposit-interest-rate-predictions/
Trumpoholics Anonymous
Step 1. Admit you are powerless to resist Trumpism.
Step 2. Recognize that you can't solve this problem alone. The goodness of the majority is needed to restore sanity.
Step 3. Accept that the goodness of the majority is not bound by geographic borders. It's bigger than any individual, even you.
Step 4. Conduct a searching and fearless moral inventory. Identify the real costs of Trumpism for yourself and your life.
Step 5. Come clean. Admit to yourself and at least one other human being the exact nature of your problem.
Step 6. Keep a list of elected officials and candidates who also suffer from Trumpism. You are responsible for helping them.
Step 7. Create a project to address your most dangerous symptoms, e.g., lying, sarcasm, cheating, bullying, bigotry.
Step 8. Make a list of everyone your behavior has harmed. The list will include millions.
Step 9. Make direct amends to those you've harmed wherever possible. Otherwise, make amends in the voting booth.
Step 10. Continue to evaluate your choices. When you backslide, admit your mistake, correct it, and forgive yourself.
Step 11. Recognize that the goodness of the majority isn't perfect. It is simply a platform on which to build a better world.
Step 12. Carry this message and practice these principles in your daily affairs.
Shocking that the trump crime syndicate has its tentacles in all aspects of the deep state.....>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
FBI Investigating Post master general DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising
Federal agents have interviewed current and ex-employees of Louis DeJoy and a business he once
Isn't this the mega donator that gave trump millions and was rewarded with a job he fucked up to the end????
Trump isn't president anymore dumbass. You can stop posting about him.
ymore dumbass. You can stop posting about him.
You dumb fuck he is the titular head of the party you suck on......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! When he goes away and shuts the fuck up......maybe then,......until then asshole he is a viable target!!!!!!!!!
Masks seem to work in spite of Lil Scotty saying they don't BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-3QDFDPCDOVHULJ2ZTGBP3EFHHA
Masks have stopped disease spread for centuries. Here’s why they may catch on in the U.S.
(AP)
More than a year into a pandemic that has sickened tens of millions of
people in the United States and killed more than 500,000, most people are eager to reclaim some semblance of their former lives.
About half of the country has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration. Infection rates are dropping. And federal health authorities have relaxed mask recommendations for people who are fully vaccinated against the virus.
But it’s still unclear what our new normal will look like and whether, at least in some form, it will include face coverings — which have been shown to not only help protect against covid-19 but also, with additional measures such as social distancing, slow the spread of influenza and other respiratory
Masks seem to work in spite of Lil Scotty saying they don'
There is no scientific evidence that mask work.
So much for the smoking gun attack on Fauci from the right.....most claims easily refuted by his own words!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Suggest you all read and actually see facts instead of dumb ass opinions you all follow!!!!
Alky: "I pay for my rent and food and stuff"
This is actually as sad as it is funny.
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
Wild details here about the situation in Mar-a-Lago. Ex-President Trump apparently spends his days channel surfing looking for any new news about the Arizona “audit”. He will appear at a rally next week in which he’ll be introduced as the “real president”.
Sleepy Donald Trump is losing his mind.
Trump is more obsessed than ever with 2020 election and is brushing off allies who are telling him to move on
By Dana Bash and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Jun 3, 2021
(CNN) - Donald Trump is more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election and pushing his lie that there was widespread fraud that led to his defeat, according to several former advisers and allies still close to the former Republican president.
Some of the people around Trump are telling him that he should move on from fighting over the campaign and instead focus on policies. But the former President is most focused on the people encouraging him to continue drawing attention to the issue.
Trump is listening to "the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel," one former adviser told CNN.
Trump's obsession with 2020 has sharply divided the Republican Party, pitting those who embrace the "big lie" against those who have debunked the former President's falsehoods about the election -- which has often led to them being punished or denounced. More broadly, his attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the results threatens American democracy and has already led some of his GOP supporters to openly question the integrity of the US electoral process.
Trump continues to tout partisan-led efforts like the so-called audit of Maricopa County ballots in Arizona, which will not change the outcome of the results in the state that Joe Biden carried by more than 10,000 votes.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump is "increasingly consumed" with the idea that the partisan ballot reviews in Arizona and other states could prove that he won the 2020 election and has recently suggested to some allies that the audit results could put him back in the White House.
Since leaving office, Trump, who remains the most influential figure in the GOP and shares strong support among the Republican base, has made limited public appearances and has been banned from social media platforms Twitter and Facebook. He plans to reemerge to address the North Carolina Republican Party's state convention this weekend.
But instead of focusing on helping his party make gains in 2022, Trump has taken to recounting his grievances and debunked claims about 2020. In his televised interviews with right-wing media outlets, Trump has continued to tease a potential White House bid in 2024 but also play into false beliefs from some of his supporters that he'll be reinstated as president.
The false narratives about the 2020 election stoked Trump supporters to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and is now creating concern on Capitol Hill that it could incite further violence.
QAnon conspiracy theorists and Trump-supporting online forums have promoted the dangerous suggestion that a military coup like the one in Myanmar should occur in the US so Trump can be reinstated as President in the coming months.
At an event in Dallas on Sunday, Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, appeared to support a Myanmar-style coup, but later claimed he hadn't endorsed any such action.
Flynn's lawyer Sidney Powell, who repeatedly pushed baseless theories about the 2020 election, also appeared at the event and said Trump should be "simply reinstated" and that a "new inauguration day is set."
_____
Ch, will fly to DC for the inauguration of Donald Trump in August
Wages jumped 7.2 percent in the first quarter. It Trump was the President you would be cheering.
But kputz said it is inflation.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Sleepy Donald Trump is losing his mind.
I'd say that if your obsession with him is any measure, he's caused you to lose YOUR MIND, alky.
He's a billionaire and our 45th President.
You're a broken down drunk on Medicaid living in adult day care waiting for a nurse to change your adult diaper.
So as BWAA would say -
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
https://www.breitbart.com/
🤣'Sell your Tesla!': Critics go after AOC for posting photos of her grandma’s hurricane-ravaged home😆
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Wages jumped 7.2 percent in the first quarter. It Trump was the President you would be cheering.
But kputz said it is inflation.
It IS wage inflation you moron.
Two days ago i talked to a friend who is the service director for a local Honda dealership. I asked how the recovery is going for them and he specifically referenced his hiring dilemma -
While he used to pay $13/hr for a lot jockey/car wash person pre-covid, he's having to pay more than $16/hr. Because we're still paying people to sit home and jack off.
That's wage inflation straight up.
If you understood basic macroeconomics you would understand this.
Kdem is right. And you criticize him like you have something to brag about... waiting to die in adult day care you're not allowed to leave unattended.
Now go tell your fellow inmates about how you came this () close to being on the next Manhattan Project.
wash person pre-civid, he's having to pay more than $16/hr.
Fuck you and your friend.....why should anyone be entitled to make a living washing cars.....a menial job requiring no skill should be paid as little as possible according you you,.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Is it inflation.....not really, but is it saving the economy.....yep!!!!
"Wages jumped 7.2 percent"
Roger, I said it is inflationary, well, because it is.
"That's wage inflation straight up.
If you understood basic macroeconomics you would understand this.
Kdem is right." REV
You are right.
'I thought I was going to lose my life': Capitol Police officers share their harrowing January 6 stories for the first time
US Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell was beaten with a flagpole. His hand was sliced open. He was hit with so much chemical spray that the liquid soaked through to his skin. During intense hand-to-hand combat with rioters on the west front of the US Capitol on January 6, there were moments where Gonell thought he might die.
"They called us traitors. They beat us. They dragged us," Gonell told CNN, in his first interview about the violence he experienced and witnessed on January 6. "And I could hear them, 'We're going to shoot you. We're going to kill you. You're choosing your paycheck over the country. You're a disgrace. You're a traitor.'"
Several hundred feet away that same day, US Capitol Police Officer Byron Evans was inside the locked Senate chamber with 100 senators and Vice President Mike Pence, hand on his weapon and mentally preparing for a life-or-death situation to come through the doors.
"I remember thinking, all that stuff like, Byron, this is the day. All those times you've given thought on what you would do, you're doing it. This is the day," Evans said.
"This could be the day that I may have to use deadly force," he said. "I had already heard of shots fired over the radio."
Gonell and Evans are just two of the thousands of US Capitol Police officers, Metropolitan Police officers, National Guard troops and federal agents who battled violent rioters, protected lawmakers at the Capitol and rushed in to try to stop the deadly riot that unfolded at the heart of American democracy. The two officers publicly shared their experiences on January 6 for the first time with CNN, offering a window into how the law enforcement officers at the Capitol that day are still struggling to make sense of what happened, and grappling with guilt that more wasn't done to stop it.
CNN spoke to Evans in an interview arranged by US Capitol Police after CNN had requested to speak to officers who had been on the ground January 6. Gonell spoke to CNN in his personal capacity and did not represent the department.
The repercussions of the January 6 insurrection continue to ripple across Washington, as congressional Democrats and Republicans bitterly battle over what more should be done to investigate the circumstances leading up to the insurrection and the security failures that day. Republicans blocked the formation of an independent commission last week. For many Capitol Police officers, the attempts by some Republicans to whitewash the January 6 attack have stung, exposing a fractured relationship between the officers and the lawmakers they protect.
Especially after the mother and girlfriend of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick embarked on a last-minute lobbying campaign to try to convince GOP senators to support the commission, many officers were left deeply disappointed after the bill failed to pass.
'Fighting inch by inch'
For Gonell, the wounds of January 6 are all too apparent.
His shooting hand was sliced open during the attack, making pulling the trigger of his gun a challenge. His shoulders still have contusions. He tried to walk off an injury to his right foot, but two weeks after the attack, he said, he finally sought medical help because he couldn't walk anymore. As a result, Gonell needed bone fusion surgery so he could walk without the pain returning.
Gonell said the FBI has asked him to view video of the attack to help identify the rioters. It's still difficult for him to watch footage of the events of January 6, he said, having to relive the battles that he fought while he was under assault.
Gonell immigrated to the US from the Dominican Republic when he was 12, eventually joining the Army Reserve and deploying to Iraq in 2003. He joined the Capitol Police force in 2008.
Roger , do we agree?
"Inflation"
These are embedded cost, not "transitory"
n one particularly harrowing incident, Gonell said he pulled an officer who had fallen to the ground back away from the rioters. Then the mob grabbed onto him. For the next five minutes, Gonnell said, he was in a fight for his life as rioters grabbed onto anything they could, pulling on his riot shield, his shoulder straps and his uniform.
"It was very scary, because I thought I was going to lose my life," Gonell said. "Then I started getting beat up with a flagpole, with a flag, the American flag that I swore to defend here and overseas. And I don't know how I got this strength, but I hit that person so hard that they let me go. I started backpedaling."
'Y'all, they are in the building'
Evans has served as a Capitol Police officer for 16 years, working primarily in and around the Senate chamber.
He was on a scheduled break on January 6 when he first heard on the police radio the danger that officers were suddenly facing as rioters broke through the police line.
"You could just hear the tone in officers' voices that were coming across the radio," Evans said, explaining that he had raced back to the Senate and locked down the Capitol door at his post near the chamber.
Soon he was approached by Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who minutes later would heroically lead the insurrectionists up a flight of stairs and away from the Senate chamber doors.
"I went to my sergeant and told him I think we need to lock down the chamber," Evans explained. "And as I'm having that conversation with him, another officer comes up, Eugene Goodman, and he tells us, 'Y'all, they are in the building.' "
When the Senate chamber was locked down, Evans was inside bracing for the worst. He was nearby when Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, was on the phone with Trump -- a conversation that would later become a heated part of Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
Evans aided in the evacuation of the 100 senators and Pence. Once the senators were safely in lockdown, Evans said, televisions were wheeled into the room and they all got their first glimpse of what was unfolding.
"I just remember the anger I felt when I saw those images, busting windows, climbing the walls and stuff like that. It was an audible gasp in the room, seeing those images," he said.
The images of insurrectionists on the Senate floor where he had been just minutes earlier were the most jarring.
"You just feel a personal connection to something that you protect every single day, and then to see the, on the floor, just doing whatever they wanted to do, doing things that no one is allowed to do, so, so cavalier -- it definitely made you angry," Evans said. "To see them up there, like it was some fun house, that will always stick in my mind."
'I just started crying'
Gonell said he had been fighting for roughly five hours before he was able to get a break and contact his family.
"I started texting my wife and I just said, 'I'm OK. See you whenever,' " he said, explaining that he meant he had no idea when he would be back home.
Gonell finally returned home at 3 a.m., but he couldn't hug his wife yet. "When I came in, she wanted to hug me, and I told her no, because I was covered in pepper spray and I didn't want to get that on her. I was injured. My hands were bleeding still."
After showering -- which Gonell said was painful because the chemical spray had soaked through to his skin -- he finally hugged his wife. He started crying, he said, out of relief but also because he was fighting feelings of guilt that he couldn't do more.
"
Everything that happened," Gonell explained. "I didn't think I would be able to see them. I went to my son's bed and gave him a hug. He was asleep still. Gave him a kiss. And I just started crying, for like five, 10 minutes. I just cried. She kept telling me it was going to be OK. I'm like, 'No, I've got to go back to work. I've got to go back to work.' I felt guilty. I still do."
Evans said that Capitol Police officers have gotten closer in the weeks after the attack as they've sought out some kind of return to normalcy at the Capitol. He said he had to stop watching videos showing what happened on January 6 because he would get too angry about it.
"That's the feeling that I'll never shake," he said.
Both Evans and Gonell say they've struggled with the aftermath of the riots, with some Republicans opposing a commission to investigate what happened to them and downplaying the attack itself, even comparing the rioters to normal tourists.
Normal tourists.
The PANTAGRAPH
FROM THE PULPIT
James Boswell
The earliest Christians were “common-ists.” No, not communists – not modern atheistic Marxists – but followers of Jesus who sought to practice his teachings by having “everything in common. They would sell their property and possessions to give to anyone who had need… No one claimed private ownership of any of their possessions, but everything they owned was held in common” (Acts 2:44,45; 4:23).
One reason the Christian believers in Jerusalem could observe so socialistic and communal an agenda was their conviction that the return of Jesus was going to take place within a very short time, bringing the comforts of God’s Kingdom to all the earth. As the years wore on, however, and Jesus’ imminent return failed to arrive, churches founded in Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy relaxed such stringent requirements for membership.
Still, as late as a quarter of a century after Jesus’ crucifixion, the Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Corinth, could assure them that “the present form of the world is passing away” and the return of Jesus was now so very near that they might want to consider abstaining from sex within marriage and even from marriage itself(!) in order to prepare for his imminent return: 1st Corinthians chapter 7. (Paul’s conviction that the return of Jesus was so very near may have been based on a saying of Jesus that not all of his earliest followers would die before his return: Mark 9:1; compare Matthew 16:28).
Of course, Jesus could be exceedingly demanding, and envisioned a coming Kingdom of God in which there would be no more wealth and no more poverty (Luke 6:20-26) and in which no one would ever try to rule or take advantage of another, but all would strive to be loving servants, even slaves, of one another, as he himself came to be, even to the point of dying for the sake of the vast “many”(Mark 10:43-45).
In the political turmoil of today, it is upsetting that many who claim allegiance to Jesus and his teachings so adamantly oppose any kind of “common-ism,” even when supported by democratic forms of it. It is saddening to see that several nations in our world today are far more reflective of that aspect of Jesus’ teaching than is our own American society, portions of which seem hell bent on establishing a government dedicated to the selfish greed they wish to legislate and force onto all our institutions.
____________
Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. He may be contacted through his website www.TheDeadSeaGospel.com and at jamezbozwel@aol.com
Skip self promoting spam
Roger, I told you well before she made this declaration, inflation was coming. You opposed me .
"
Later on Tuesday, Yellen told a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event that she does not anticipate that inflation would be a problem for the US economy and that any price increases would be transitory because of supply chain shortages and the rebound in oil prices to pre-pandemic levels.May 5, 2021"
She is Spectacularly alky-style wrong.
The Fed will start winding down a program that saved the economy
By David Goldman, CNN Business
Updated 4 hours ago Jun 3, 2021
New York (CNN Business) - The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will begin winding down a program that purchased tens of billions of dollars of corporate assets to shore up the economy during the pandemic.
In a statement, the central bank said the facility was crucial to businesses during the depth of the recession. But as the economy rapidly recovers, the time to start winding it down has begun.
"Shock and awe is no longer needed for the time being," said Nicholas Elfner, co-head, of research at Breckinridge Capital Advisors. "The Fed's decision to begin winding down its portfolio of corporate bonds is an important signal of confidence in the investment-grade corporate market that their presence is no longer needed at this time."
The program "proved vital in restoring market functioning last year, supporting the availability of credit for large employers, and bolstering employment through the Covid-19 pandemic," the Fed said.
The Fed currently holds $13.7 billion worth of corporate assets, including more than $5 billion of corporate bonds and another $8.5 billion worth of exchange-traded funds.
That's a huge amount of money to unwind, so the Fed said it would sell off those assets over time to keep markets functioning properly and to reduce any resulting shock to the system.
"Portfolio sales will be gradual and orderly, and will aim to minimize the potential for any adverse impact on market functioning," the Fed said.
The corporate assets are in addition to another $7 trillion worth of government debt that the Fed said it will continue to purchase to keep the economic recovery humming. In an April press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said it wasn't time to even "start thinking about thinking about" tapering the purchases of Treasury bonds.
TM & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc.
A WarnerMedia Company.
All Rights Reserved.
Roger, tell us why and what this Fed. Move does to the economy?
While in college, Trump obtained four student draft deferments. In 1966, he was deemed fit for military service based upon a medical examination, and in July 1968 a local draft board classified him as eligible to serve. In October 1968, he was classified 1-Y, a conditional medical deferment, and in 1972, he was reclassified 4-F due to bone spurs, permanently disqualifying him from service.
THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
6:18
Any of you find anything in all of that you can intelligently dispute?
I thought not.
It is an early draft of an article that will appear not this weekend, but probably next Friday.
Brainard expressed doubt that generous unemployment benefits are a big source of the labor market shortage. She noted that most of the jobs the economy added in April were in lower-paying occupations.
She said a combination of factors are keeping people out of the labor force, but expects more people to look for work in the coming months as the pandemic fades.
Read: Unemployment claims fall to new pandemic low of 406,000 as layoffs wane
Eventually, Brainard believes the low era of inflation that prevailed before the
“It is critical to remember that inflation averaged less than 2% over the past quarter-century, and that statistical measures of trend inflation ran consistently below 2% for decades before the pandemic,” she said.
If the Fed is wrong and inflation remains elevated, she said, “we have the tools and experience to gently guide inflation back down to target, and no one should doubt our commitment to do so.”
Prosecutors Want Rioters to Pay for Damages
June 3, 2021 at 5:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 102 Comments
Washington Post:
“U.S. prosecutors this week put a price tag on damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 breach — $1.5 million so far — and for the first time are asking defendants to cover some of the bill in plea offers.
_______
ONE POINT FIVE MILLION? BUT CH/SCOTTIE TOLD US IT WAS JUST A PEACEFUL WALK THROUGH!
Federal Reserve move, in part .
"The dollar rose, adding further pressure to prices."
Oh, oh.
Activists Land a Third Seat on ExxonMobil Board
June 3, 2021 at 6:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 104 Comments
“An activist investor is likely to pick up a third seat on the board of ExxonMobil, giving it additional leverage to press the oil giant to address investor concerns about climate change,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Exxon said Wednesday that an updated vote count showed shareholders backed a third nominee of Engine No. 1, an upstart hedge fund that had already won two board seats at Exxon’s annual shareholder meeting last week.”
Green That Life:
A fossil fuel industry that is now under fire. Will it last?
_________
Biden may bring the fulfillment of the dream that Obama dreamed...
This administration perhaps marking at last the years when "the oceans stopped rising."
_______
That could make even the Good Lord God Almighty Him/Her Self smile.
Want interesting reading?
It's coming.
The Case for Voting In Under 30 Minutes
June 3, 2021 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 102 Comments
Jennifer Rubin:
“I have argued that Democrats put H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, first.
“However, there is a separate measure not included in either bill that could go far to improve ballot access:
Requiring that no voter has to wait in line to vote for more than 30 minutes.
“Reduction of wait times should theoretically be agreeable to both parties and all voters. It has nothing to do with ‘voter security,’ and everything to do with eliminating barriers to voting.”
Boehner Criticizes GOP Push to Restrict Voting
June 3, 2021 at 4:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
Former Speaker John Boehner (R) criticized his party for recently enacting strict voting rules in states around the country, saying the “very partisan way” it’s happening will only undermine people’s confidence in the electoral process, CNN reports.
The Difference Between the Rioters and Mainstream GOP
June 3, 2021 at 3:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 210 Comments
Adam Serwer:
“The rioters were outliers in the sense that they employed political violence and intimidation in an attempt to overturn the election. But the rioters fell squarely within the Republican mainstream in sharing Trump’s belief that his defeat meant the election was inherently illegitimate.
The main ideological cleavage within the GOP is not whether election laws should be changed to better ensure Republican victory,
but whether political violence is necessary to achieve that objective.
“Most elected Republicans have repudiated the violence of the Capitol riot,
but they share the belief of the rank and file that the rioters’ hearts were in the right place.”
That can't be. Their hearts were in the same delusional place Trump's was.
Janet Mills Tops Paul LePage In Possible Maine Race
June 3, 2021 at 3:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments
A new SurveyUSA poll in Maine shows Gov. Janet Mills (D) leading former Gov. Paul LePage (R) in a possible 2022 race,
45% to 38%.
Taegan Goddard observes:
The Scale of Trump’s Delusion Is Breathtaking
Democrats Breathe Sigh of Relief After Special Election
June 3, 2021 at 2:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
Politico:
“In a post-election analysis Wednesday, nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers and strategists hailed the unexpectedly strong margins in New Mexico as a sign that their majority might not be doomed just yet.”
Said one national Democratic strategist:
“If we had collapsed, we would have had a retirement problem; we would have had a recruitment problem.”
_______
Good News! Chariot's still a-comin'!
Justices Narrow Scope of Cybercrime Law
June 3, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments
“The Supreme Court has sharply curtailed the scope of the nation’s main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors have abused by seeking prison time for minor computer misdeeds,” Politico reports.
“The 6-3 decision handed down Thursday means federal prosecutors can no longer use the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to charge people who misused databases they are otherwise entitled to access…
In an unusual lineup, the court’s three Trump appointees — who are also the newest justices — joined the court’s three liberals to reject the Justice Department’s interpretation of the statute.”
My, my.
More good stuff:
Senate Report to Detail Security Failures at Capitol
June 3, 2021 at 1:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“Two Senate committees plan to release a flurry of recommendations in a thorough 100-page-plus report about what went wrong on January 6, but they will stop short of examining former President Donald Trump’s role in the run-up to the attack on the US Capitol,” CNN reports.
Filed Under:
House of Representatives, Senate
White House Tells Execs to Review Ransomware Plans
June 3, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
“The White House told corporate leaders they should immediately begin developing plans to counter ransomware attacks after a spate of hacks have crippled key U.S. businesses,”
Bloomberg reports.
“The stark warning is the latest effort in the scramble by the Biden administration to respond to the recent attacks.”
GOOD NEWS!
Wage Growth Is Holding UpBut unlike low-wage workers in past recessions, whose earnings power eroded, many of those who held on to their jobs saw their wages rise even during the worst months of the pandemic.
“Now, as the economy bounces back and employers need to find staff, workers have the kind of leverage that is more typical of a prolonged boom than the aftermath of a devastating recession.”
Oh yes, that DOES sound GOOD!
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement.
It Led One Virginia Pastor To Quit
PUBLIC RADIO
Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he was ministering to young parishioners in their 20s and 30s.
But in the four years since he had joined the church as a pastor, Stacy had found himself increasingly up against an invisible, powerful force taking hold of members of his congregation:
conspiracy theories, disinformation and lies.
Stacy has seen the real consequences of these lies build up over the years; he says it has tainted the name of his faith.
"If Christians in America are serious about helping people see Jesus and what he's about and what he claims, then the label 'evangelical' is a distraction because it bears, unfortunately, the weight of a violence," he told NPR. "I would not use that term because of its association with Jan. 6."
That's the day the U.S. Capitol was attacked and invaded by a violent mob driven by what's commonly known as "the big lie": that President Biden wasn't legitimately elected. The rioters moved toward the Capitol following a rally held by then-President Donald Trump, during which he repeated that big lie. Rioters say they were compelled to stop Congress' certification of Biden's election, which was happening at that time at the Capitol.
The lie is so powerful that a recent survey by the conservative American Enterprise Institute shows that 3 in 5 white evangelicals say Biden was not legitimately elected.
Among them is Pastor Ken Peters, who founded the Patriot Church in Knoxville, Tenn., last year.
"I believe that right now we have an illegitimate president in the White House and he was not elected by the people," Peters told NPR. "I believe the truly 'We the People'-elected, should-be president is residing in Florida right now."
On its website, the Patriot Church is described as a movement: "a church interceding on behalf of her nation." That movement has a name:
Christian nationalism.
Some conservative evangelical circles have incubated and spread these kinds of conspiracy theories — some of which have led to violence – for years.
Andrew Whitehead, who has spent several years researching Christian nationalism at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, defines it as the belief that America is a Christian nation, one that should privilege white, native-born politically conservative Christians.
"We do find evidence that Americans who embrace Christian nationalism are much more likely to embrace conspiratorial thinking," Whitehead told NPR. "The leaders of those movements have continually cast doubt on who you can really trust or even the federal government."
Trump seized on the opportunity to exploit their distrust for his own political survival. He made himself a champion for evangelical social issues — abortion being at the top of the list. He won their confidence — and their blind loyalty.
For Stacy, the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is not something he fathomed when he decided to step away from his mainstream church in November.
Rather, it was a slow burn of other conspiracy theories that had been churning at his church and others for years.
The danger of ambivalence
During the protests last summer after George Floyd's killing, Stacy noticed his congregation making a turn toward a conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking.
"I began to see on social media people ignoring or pushing away Black Lives Matter by saying, you know, oh, well, no one's over here talking about trafficking," Stacy told NPR. He said the concern about child trafficking started out as legitimate — it is an awful truth that exists. But he quickly noticed that his parishioners started using it as shorthand for a lie:
that Democrats with prominent roles in business, media and government are running child trafficking rings.
It was that conspiracy theory that compelled a man named Edgar Maddison Welch to fire inside a family pizzeria in Washington, D.C., in December 2016.
That false notion became prevalent again nearly a year later at the center of QAnon, an umbrella of conspiracy theories that has amplified false ideas about an evil liberal agenda and that casts Trump as a savior. QAnon has coalesced since then, perpetrating the lie that President Biden's election was illegitimate.
Stacy was afraid of what he saw taking root in his church. "This is about a wholesale view of reality — what is real, what is true," he said.
He saw some people in his own congregation — mostly the parents or elders of the young adults he worked with — elevating the idea of sex trafficking of kids and what he called "Democrat pedophilia."
"It was people who I respected, and that's even more complicated because they were [my] elders," Stacy said.
"The crack, the split was kitchen tables, where you have two completely different information streams, one that the parents use and one that their kids use," he said. Those two streams of information divided families: Older members of the church were entertaining conspiracies, and younger members were pushing back.
Stacy tried to have conversations with the members who believed these falsehoods. He saw it as his duty, even though the church he worked for avoided these discussions.
"As a church we're not in that discussion," a member of Spotswood Baptist Church leadership told NPR. "We have no interest being involved in that. It's not something that's been in any way discussed or on our agenda."
But Stacy couldn't separate his role as pastor from the conspiracy theories that were putting a strain on the younger parishioners he worked with. "The danger was of them being given a co-opted Jesus, a Jesus who believed in Q, a Jesus who believed in deep state, a Jesus who automatically voted Republican."
He said he could see several outcomes, none of which was any good: Either the younger members would leave the church altogether, or they'd buy into the conspiracy theories or they'd just learn to tolerate them.
That tolerance — and ambivalence — could be what do the most damage. They're how conspiracy theories spread.
A threat to democracy
When asked about the QAnon conspiracy theory that political leaders run a sex trafficking ring, Peters of the Patriot Church in Knoxville, Tenn., wouldn't disavow it.
"I don't know if they're right or wrong — I have no evidence personally to go one way or the other," Peters said. "Let's investigate that instead of investigating preachers who were at the [Jan. 6] rally as if we started some sort of insurrection." Peters was among those who participated in the Jan. 6 rally with Trump.
What can come off as a benign plea of ignorance and a feigned desire to learn the truth is enough to keep the theory going — and have it gain steam. According to a recent study by Lifeway Research, 49% of Protestant pastors say they frequently hear members of their congregations repeating baseless conspiracy theories.
The recent study by the American Enterprise Institute showed that 27% of white evangelicals — the most of any religious group — believe that the widely debunked QAnon conspiracy theory about political leaders running a child sex trafficking ring is "completely" or "mostly accurate," and that 46% say they're "not sure."
If Peters pleads ignorance about that conspiracy theory, he fully embraces the big lie that led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In a video of a sermon on Jan. 24, he shouts from the pulpit, "Biden was illegally put in as president, [the] fake president of the United States."
Mixing God and country in this way is a danger to the American way of life as we know it, researcher Whitehead explained.
"Christian nationalism is a threat to a pluralistic, democratic society because it sees particular ends, like keeping a certain person in the presidency, as that is what God has desired and that God wants. It's really difficult to ever come to the conclusion of 'We should share power or compromise or even abide by the democratic process' because if God does desire to, who are we to stand in the way of that?"
Taking distance to gain clarity
Stacy needed distance to figure out what was happening in his church. He's living in Scotland with his wife and kids and earning a Ph.D. in theology at the University of Aberdeen.
He eventually wants to come back to the U.S. and pastor a church again.
He reflected back on the conversations he had with his older parishioners:
"It's almost like putting a pebble in someone's shoe, and eventually you just got to stop walking and you've got to sit down. You have to take your shoe off and you have to figure out what in the world is it that is making me limp forward here?"
"That is what those conversations were designed to do."
But he's going to have to figure out if planting pebbles of truth is enough to dismantle a mountain of lies.
Copyright 2021 NPR.
To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
ShareTweetEmail
And now I would like to see
Ch/Scotty try to say something intelligent about my Pantagraph article above or the one I just presented.
Happy with non communal Christians?
Happy with conspiracy-laden Evangelicals?
But they think a lot like you do, don't they?
In his second public address since leaving office,RINO former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday put a little space between himself and his ex-boss, saying he and former President Donald Trump might never “see eye to eye” on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Pence called it a “dark day in the history of the United States” and thanked the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement for quelling the violence. He didn’t mention the insurrection in his first post-vice-presidency speech, in South Carolina in April.
He will ignore you or say you have TDS.
The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government. There is no Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. Hell, there is nothing even approximating a Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. The election has been certified, Joe Biden is the president, and, until 2024, that is all there is to it. It does not matter what one’s view of Trump is. It does not matter whether one voted for or against Trump. It does not matter whether one views Trump’s role within the Republican Party favorably or unfavorably. We are talking here about cold, hard, neutral facts that obtain irrespective of one’s preferences; it is not too much to ask that the former head of the executive branch should understand them.
Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would still be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis. But, however bad it got, Donald Trump would not be “reinstated” to the presidency. That is not how America works, how America has ever worked, or how America can ever work. American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified. The idea is otherworldly and obscene.
There is nothing to be gained for conservatism by pretending otherwise. To acknowledge that Trump is living in a fantasy world does not wipe out his achievements or render anything else he has said incorrect. It does not endorse Joe Biden or hand the Republican Party over to Bill Kristol or knock down an inch of the wall on the border. It merely demands that Donald Trump be treated like any other person: subject to gravity, open to rebuttal, and liable to be laughed at when he becomes so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/maggie-haberman-is-right/
Maggie Haberman is right.
Charlie Cook reports that the former is fucking crazy
Cooooo coooo with peanuts and butter.
Donald Trump is getting worse
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Jun 3, 2021
(CNN) - The evidence is everywhere.
CNN's Dana Bash reported Thursday morning that former President Donald Trump is "more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election," with one former Trump aide telling her that the former President is only listening to "the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel."
That follows on reporting from The New York Times and The Washington Post that Trump is convinced that he will, at some point this summer, be reinstated as president once a variety of kooky and non-credible audits come to, uh, fruition.
"Trump has become so fixated on the audits that he suggested recently to allies that their success could result in his return to the White House this year, according to people familiar with comments he has made," wrote the Post.
Trump himself has been sending out a slew of statements on the topic -- blasting Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, both Republicans, for not doing more to support the ridiculous recount in Maricopa County. And on Monday, Trump blasted this out: "Great work is being done in Georgia revealing the Election Fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election. But, we must not allow ANYONE to compromise these ballots by leaving the building unsecured, which was done late Friday. Republicans and Patriots must protect this site and the Absentee Ballots." (For more on the situation with Georgia's absentee ballots, read this.)
The so-obvious-it's-hitting-you-in-the-face conclusion? Trump isn't giving up his delusions about the 2020 election. They're getting worse.
And, it's not just Trump. Those who take their cues from him -- which is rightly understood as the majority of the Republican base -- are descending deeper into the madness of wild conspiracy theories too.
Witness Michael Flynn, Trump's one-time national security adviser, who over the weekend appeared to endorse a Myanmar-like coup in the United States. (Flynn later said on Parler that "there is NO reason whatsoever for any coup in America, and I do not and have not at any time called for any action of that sort.")
Or Republican-controlled legislatures around the country moving to pass so-called "election security" laws in response to the nonexistent threat posed by widespread election fraud.
You get the idea. This crap is not slowing down or going away, It's picking up steam.
All of which undermines the strategy employed by Republican leaders in Washington to date -- which is best described by Homer Simpson regarding a big test he needs to take: "During the exam, I'll hide under some coats and hope that somehow everything will work out."
The desperate hope of the likes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was that in the wake of the 2020 election, Trump would simply fade away. That, yes, he would remain a figure of some stature for some within the Republican Party, but that his ability to command the national stage or exert considerable influence over the direction of the Party would wane considerably.
It just hasn't happened. Which creates this reality for Republicans: As Trump swerves more and more into ever-wilder fantasies about his return to power, the GOP base follows right along with him. And since no politician can hope to win elections without the base of their party behind them, Republican elected officials go along for the ride.
Which means they are now on board with a man who believes he will be reinstated as president this summer because of a series of outlandish recounts and audits in swing states.
What's more worrisome for Republicans: There is zero evidence that Trump has hit rock bottom yet. Or that there is a bottom at all. And they have permitted his ridiculous behavior for so long now, it's hard to imagine they can suddenly say that the former President has crossed some line in terms of propriety or responsibility. He -- and they -- left that line in the dust a long time ago.
Once President Trump had aired out the possibility that the virus was deliberately created by apparatchiks of the Chinese Communist Party, the topic became taboo:
Then, the bomb-thrower-in-chief weighed in. At a press briefing just hours later, Trump contradicted his own intelligence officials and claimed that he had seen classified information indicating that the virus had come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Asked what the evidence was, he said, “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.”
Trump’s premature statement poisoned the waters for anyone seeking an honest answer to the question of where COVID-19 came from. According to Pottinger, there was an “antibody response” within the government, in which any discussion of a possible lab origin was linked to destructive nativist posturing.
The revulsion extended to the international science community, whose “maddening silence” frustrated Miles Yu. He recalled, “Anyone who dares speak out would be ostracized.”
I am trying to understand why the right and trump are making Fauci the Hillary of this year??? What gain do they expect? What do they think will the outcome be??? Did Fauci not do his job??? You claim he covered up the china virus origins and everything I can gather is he NEVER discounted the origins because he did not have the facts to say otherwise....The guy is completely fact base where Lil Schitty and his slurpers base all their complaints based on opinions driven by trump and his lies....Sorry sports.....maybe we will get an answer soon, but I will not hold my breath like you do!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAA
The earliest Christians were “common-ists.” No, not communists – not modern atheistic Marxists – but followers of Jesus who sought to practice his teachings by having “everything in common. They would sell their property and possessions to give to anyone who had need… No one claimed private ownership of any of their possessions, but everything they owned was held in common” (Acts 2:44,45; 4:23).
Where's the passage where they gave half their wealth to Caesar.
Boy, I just read the last few posts, and they are spot on!
Here is my revision of the article that will probably appear in our local newspaper on June 11.
__________
The Pantagraph:
FROM THE PULPIT
James Boswell
The earliest Christians were “common-ists.” No, not communists – not modern atheistic Marxists – but followers of Jesus who sought to practice his teachings by having “everything in common. They would sell their property and possessions to give to anyone who had need… No one claimed private ownership of any of their possessions, but everything they owned was held in common” (Acts 2:44,45; 4:23).
One reason Christian believers in Jerusalem could observe so socialistic and communal an agenda was their conviction that the return of Jesus was going to take place within a very short time, bringing the blessings of God’s Kingdom to all the earth. As the years wore on, however, and Jesus’ imminent return failed to materialize, churches founded in Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy relaxed such stringent requirements for membership.
Still, as late as a quarter of a century after Jesus’ crucifixion, the Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Corinth, could assure them that “the present form of the world is passing away” and the return of Jesus was now so very near, he said, that they might want to consider abstaining from sex within marriage and even from marriage itself(!) in order to prepare themselves spiritually for his imminent return:1 Corinthians chapter 7. (Paul’s conviction that Jesus’ return was so very near was probably based on a saying of Jesus that not all his original followers would die before his return: Mark 9:1; compare Matthew 16:28).
Of course, Jesus could be exceedingly demanding, and envisioned an imminent Kingdom of God in which there would be neither wealth nor poverty (Luke 6:20-26) and in which no one would ever try to rule over or take advantage of others, but all would strive toward being loving servants, even slaves, of one another, as he himself felt tasked to be, even to the point of dying for the sake of the vast “many”(Mark 10:43-45).
In the political turmoil of today, it is surprising that so many who claim allegiance to Jesus adamantly oppose any form of “common-ism,” even when supported by democratic societies. It is saddening to see that several nations in our world today are far more reflective of that aspect of Jesus’ teaching than is our own American society, portions of which seem hell bent on establishing a government dedicated to pursuing the selfish greed they wish to legislate and force onto all of us.
______
Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He may be contacted at his website www.The Dead Sea Gospel and jamezbozwel@aol.com.
Where's the passage where they gave half their wealth to Caesar.
________
Thank you, Commonsense, I had already posted my column here before I saw that.
There is no such passage. The early church did not yet exist when enemies of Jesus asked him the trick question as to whether Jews should pay taxes to Caesar.
He did not respond by saying they or anyone should "give half their wealth to Caesar." He responded by asking whose image was on the denarius.
When told "Caesar's," he said,
"Then give Caesar what is Caesar's and God what is God's," an answer his critics could not dispute.
The image on the denarius was of
Caesar, but Caesar like all other humans was "created in the image of God," according to the Torah. One could say that Jesus was really pointing out that Caesar himself was owned by God.
At any rate, his opponents who thought they had him trapped, were awed. Mark 12:13-18.
The Pentagram:
FROM THE PEDERAST
James Boswell
He may be contacted at his website www.The Dead Small Children and jamezbozwel@pederast.com.
LOL Feeble, rat, feeble.
Caesar became the metaphor for secular government. Early Christian communities did indeed hold property in common as a means of survival in a hostile.
However, by the time Constatine became emperor the practice of property held in common fell by the wayside and private property reign supreme.
Note: The Christian church found the problem with holding property in common was the people didn't work to obtain income. Paul wrote about it in 2 Corinthians.
I see the three stooge are trying to flood the board with diversion to avoid the fact that Trump and Rand Paul were right. 26 out if the last 30 posts. Good grief. No one's gonna read all that shit.
rrb said...
The Pentagram:
FROM THE PEDERAST
James Boswell
He may be contacted at his website www.The Dead Small Children and jamezbozwel@pederast.com.
Any "pastor" who supports someone who says Communist China is "Good guys, guys" while they practice genocide, fund their country through forced slave labor camps, are by far the largest pollutants on the planet etc. is not someone to look for guidance.
Unless you are a devil worshiper.
And his actions here confirm that
Where have I ever supported Communist China? You lie.
I was critical of the way Trump cozied up to dictators in communist as well as other oligarchy ruled countries.
A "devil worshipper" could hardly write what I write.
You are as off base as all the demented conspiracy theorists you adore. And just proved it.
7:15
When Commonsense loses an argument so incredibly, he produces gobbledegook.
Trump trying to actually talk to Kim of NK is a bad thing?
If obama did it, you'd be giving him a nobel Prize.
Why would you ever expect rat to be truthful????? His false idol trump has taught him well!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Rat finds great pleasure out of making stuff up to suit his bias.....another sign of a mind taken over by the trump worm....But remember....he makes north of 150 k a year so he can feel free to bash however he likes!!!!!
Mark Hemingway
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1400652053047922688
While we're all admitting the lab leak censorship was a catastrophic failure of politically induced groupthink, anyone want to revisit the immediate censorship of the NY Post's Hunter Biden story? How's that decision looking in light of all the additional facts we now know?
And why is Joe not being held to account for his deliberate lie that it was Russian disinformation or for the contents that exist on the laptop ?
And why is FBI leadership also not being held to account ?
Joe Biden's America
unequal justice
Banana Republic
FAKE NEWS
1984
Round up the opposition and lock them up or get them fired.
Says tbe guy who never makes an argument, but rather copy pastes the hell out of every board.
Trump trying to actually talk to Kim of NK is a bad thing?
______
When done as stupidly and fawningly as he did it, yes.
What did he gain from it for us?
Nothing.
Myballs said...
Says the guy who never makes an argument, but rather copy pastes the hell out of every board.
_____
I just made many arguments of my own.
JamesNewLeaf said...
Where have I ever supported Communist China? You lie.
Any "pastor" who supports someone who says Communist China is "Good guys, guys" while they practice genocide, fund their country through forced slave labor camps, are by far the largest pollutants on the planet etc. is not someone to look for guidance.
Why don't you denounce Biden instead of playing straw man word games like the weasel you are?
What a POS lying "pastor"
and that's no lie.
A lot of good stuff at politicalwire.com today.
Don't let democracy die in the darkness of this reeking Trumpian swamp.
U.S. added 559,000 jobs in May.
More than double in April
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1400632527665106947
If you lie about your taxes, you go to prison.
Fauci lied about a global pandemic and he got magazine covers, prime time tv, and a book deal.
and the left idolizes you
Oh, by the way, I guess conspiracy riddled F'n didn't hear:
Biden has consistently made it clear that he will bring up human rights abuses with Xi and Putin.
Trump didn't. He avoided that.
Jewish Deplorable
https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1400792461207801861
BREAKING: Jobs report sharply misses again, with 559K jobs added vs 675K expected
context matters.
Of course they didn't miss as much as last month...
Fauci lied about a global pandemic
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You and bradford are full of TRUMP!!!!!!!! God you are single dimension idiots!!!!!!!
The economy added 559,000 jobs last month, double April's disappointing 266,000, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 5.8 percent from 6.1 percent, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Anonymous Myballs said...
I see the three stooge are trying to flood the board with diversion to avoid the fact that Trump and Rand Paul were right. 26 out if the last 30 posts. Good grief. No one's gonna read all that shit.
The amount of shit they post that no one will read is unbelievable
Employers added 559,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, in a pickup of the labor market’s recovery from Covid-19.
Several factors are propelling a burst of economic activity. More Americans have become vaccinated against the coronavirus, and state and local governments have eased restrictions on businesses as Covid-19 cases have declined and as the federal government has relaxed its pandemic guidance. Those factors, along with federal pandemic aid, have prompted a pickup in spending, particularly at services businesses, which in turn is stoking labor demand.
Fucking thief finds another asshole to post.....BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You really need to expand the places you post.....they all seem to be irretrievably biased and stupid!!!!
Mark Hemingway | Washington Examiner
www.washingtonexaminer.com › author › mark-hemingway
May 24, 2021 · Mark Hemingway is a Senior Writer for The Weekly Standard.
Headline at Yahoo news:
As Trump restarts rallies, GOP strategists hope against all odds that he won't rehash 2020 election
________
Plainly expressed, they're hoping he won't keep going off bonkers about being REINSTATED.
JamesNewLeaf said...
Trump didn't. He avoided that.
LIE
and actions speak louder than words by the "big guy"..
His son got millions from them and both Bidens shared an office with the head of the Communist China Party in DC
Hunter got millions from Moscow.
Joe called Communist China "Good guys, guys"
stop lying for just a minute "pastor"
it would be a full-time job to correct all your lies and no one is up for that. I guess that is your strategy
Nick Bunker, economic research director for North America at the jobs site Indeed, said those constraints are likely to ease in coming months as additional Americans become vaccinated, schools more fully open and the federal supplement ends broadly in September. Taking those factors together, the labor market could reach an inflection point in early fall because more workers will likely be available, Mr. Bunker said.
“It’s a bit like a rocket where takeoff has been slightly delayed, but takeoff will still happen,” he said.
Gregg Easterbrook
https://twitter.com/EasterbrookG/status/1400436239623405568
a generation ago there was no early voting for anyone. Now merely having a week of early voting, instead of a month, is "suppression." Society increasingly desperate to invent grievances.
actually to lock in ways to conduct fraud
The unemployment rate fell to 5.8 percent, the Labor Department reported.
As infections ebb, vaccinations spread and businesses reopen, the economy has started to regain its footing, but the path has not been smooth. Job growth bounced up and down in recent months, and may continue its uneven progress throughout the summer, analysts said.
“It’s probably going to be a bumpy ride from here till September,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.
Job postings on the online jobs site Indeed were up 27 percent at the end of May from their level in February 2020, before the pandemic hit.
Nearly half of small-business owners surveyed by the National Federation of Independent Business in May said they were struggling to fill slots. Many employers have blamed enhanced pandemic-related unemployment benefits for the shortage of workers, which has prompted 25 Republican-led states withdraw from some or all of the federal jobless assistance programs in the coming weeks, months ahead of their expiration.
Most economists have pushed back against this argument and say the reality is more complicated. A lack of child care, continuing health concerns, low wages and competing priorities all probably play a larger role, they say.
“Is there a labor shortage?” Ms. Farooqi asked. “In my mind, absolutely not. There is a ramping-up effect, and that is going to persist for a little bit. You have to expect some frictions.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, job postings plummeted much faster than job searches, said Julia Pollak, a labor economist at the online jobs site ZipRecruiter. Now, there is a similar dynamic: Postings have picked up much more quickly than search activity.
“It’s just a matter of time,” said Ms. Pollak, who pointed out that many prime-age workers were only recently able to get their first Covid-19 vaccination.
She also said there was a mismatch between the type of jobs being offered and those being searched for. More than half of seekers want remote work, while only 10 percent of employers are offering that option.
— Patricia Cohen
Since I have no idea what F'n means when he keeps referring to Biden saying "good guys, guys" about China, I think he should give us a link so we can see for ourselves what he is so convinced is something horrible that Biden once said in reference to China.
It's great to see that the recovery is showing such healthy signs.
Roger, parrots.
He doesn't have the education to actually debate economics.
The Biden Boom has begun.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts that the United States will see 6.5 percent GDP growth in 2021—a mark that would eclipse most postwar presidents. Harry Truman set the record with 8.6 percent growth in 1950. President Obama only compiled 2.6 percent in 2015, his best year. President Trump’s top year was 3 percent in 2018—and worst was a whopping minus 3.7 percent in 2020
JamesNewLeaf said...
Since I have no idea what F'n means when he keeps referring to Biden saying "good guys, guys" about China, I think he should give us a link
Looks like big tech is hiding but here is a similar link
At an event in Iowa City, Biden was explaining why he believes concerns that China could eventually surpass the U.S. as a world superpower and economic force are overstated.
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” the former vice president said.
“I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us,” he added.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-s-comments-downplaying-china-threat-u-s-fires-pols-n1001236
His "C'mon man. They're not bad guys, guys" was widely distributed. Until big tech got involved...
Amazed you can't recall. Well not really.
Roger, just a few days ago you said GDP would be "10 %" this year and "12%" a year going forward.
Oh how terrible.
Doesn't compare with Trump's ridiculous coddling of dictators.
Roger, parrots.
He doesn't have the education to actually debate economics.
WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! While you the unemployed goat fucker does.....LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! You can't even answer the simple question why gas prices are going up that I asked you 6 times about.....!!!!!
Trump’s Planned ‘Reinstatement’ Is No Joke
June 4, 2021 at 8:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
Seth Masket:
“If Trump is trying to recruit allies for his reinstatement, at what point to we treat this not as a delusion but as a coup attempt? He kinda has priors.”
Jonathan Bernstein:
“It’s quite possible that Trump doesn’t realize what he’s proposing is flat-out illegal.”
JamesNewLeaf said...
Oh how terrible.
Doesn't compare with Trump's ridiculous coddling of dictators
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Biden's crime family was entrusted with around $1.5 billion of Chinese Communist Party money and Hunter received millions from Moscow.
Without a reasonable cover story.
They tower over Trump
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1001236
Just for Jamie.
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” the former vice president said.
“I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us,” he added
When Commonsense loses an argument so incredibly, he produces gobbledegook.
Really! Name one thing I said that was untrue.
You should know history as well as I do.
When you lose and are unable to rebut the argument, you call it gobbledegook.
China is an enemy who has infiltrated the news media, political class, and the government.
The rulers are now the CCP.
First time I ever said gobbledegook, lol.
Quote of the Day
June 4, 2021 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments
“It’s not a policy, but it’s a philosophy where I just don’t want to deal with it. I mean, there’s about a third of the House Republican caucus that I am willing to book. I could name them to you if you want.”
— CNN anchor Jake Tapper, in an interview with Kara Swisher, on refusing to talk to Republicans who push election fraud conspiracies.
Taeggan Goddard comments:
"If they’re willing to lie about the election, how can you trust what they’ll say on television?"
Good point.
_______
Trump Allies Worry He’s Stuck In the Past
June 4, 2021 at 7:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 104 Comments
“A cadre of aides and advisers working to tame Donald Trump’s obsession with the 2020 election, including his fixation with debunked voter fraud theories and ballot audits, are realizing the task at hand is much tougher than they thought,” CNN reports. (LOL LOL LOL)
“Over the past few weeks, Trump has faced pleas from inside his orbit to move the ball forward as Republicans approach the 2022 midterm elections… Several former advisers and allies still close to the 45th President said he is under mounting pressure to concentrate on promoting GOP policy priorities and defining his successor, rather than re-litigating his failed reelection campaign.
“But the former President has brushed those voices aside, choosing instead to listen to a crowd of characters both on television and in his wider circle who have encouraged him to keep his focus on the 2020 election.”
KEEP IT UP, DONNIE! GO, BOY, GO!
CNN
a self admitted propaganda network
Who lie like there's no tomorrow,
A foundation for the "pastor" and his Goddard
They rely on low intelligence viewers
Disclose.tv
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1400746863029108751
Germany's most senior Catholic cleric said in a letter that he wanted to take a share of responsibility "for the catastrophe of sexual abuse" by members of the Church.
"pastor", you are not alone
And the thief relies on low intellect blogs and twitter to formulate his back ass opinions.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
TOP DEFINITION
BWAAAAAAAAAA!
The sound an unsuspecting male makes when being penetrated by another male's hardened genitalia
sammy was busy minding his own business when chris crept up behind and inside him causing him to yell BWAAAAAAAAAA!
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BWAAAAAAAAAA%21
It never gets old !!!
enjoy yourself VERY lo iq
Really! Name one thing I said that was untrue.
One????? How about there was wide spread fraud in the election??????? Or GW is a hoax???? Or women have no rights to their own body...... Or evolution is just a theory????????
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1400553913296752646
So Bill Gates’ name shows up more than 2 dozen times in the Fauci emails. Who wants to bet that those were not ignored or too long to read for Fauci?
I bet Bill got lots of attention while actual doctors/scientists were ignored because that would mean future TV time for Dr Evil!
That was just the first dump
More coming !!!
Jewish Deplorable
https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1400803876429873160
20k construction jobs lost in May... Build back better!
but government "jobs" are probably going through the roof !!!
things like CRT instructors or investigating White supremicists
Joe Biden's America
Charlie Kirk
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1400676472688234497
Big Tech has suspended the Informed Consent Action Network after it announced it will release 3,000 more Fauci emails, citing COVID-19 misinformation.
This is so unbelievably dangerous.
big tech covering for dems...
Post a Comment