“What the Speaker has said, and I totally agree with her, is that we’re not going to vote on one until the Senate sends us both,” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, told reporters after the meeting. “That’s not changed.”…
Pelosi … is standing her ground, supporting the liberals in her caucus who are wary that enacting the smaller infrastructure bill — which the Senate is shooting to pass before the August recess — would erode the momentum behind the larger partisan package, which Democrats intend to pass by reconciliation.
The liberals are demanding that the Senate pass the second measure before the House votes on either, and leadership appears to be well on board.
This went from a celebration about a bi-partisan bill to a whole bunch of infighting and people upset about whether or not there will be one or two big spending bills. The President quite obviously made a mistake by backing up the Pelosi Schumer line publicly. Now we have a giant pissing match with a bunch of people upset.
Even if they pass both bill at some point, there will be bad-will and the idea that there are people upset will override the idea of bi-partisan. This will only please the far left, who don't really care about or frankly want any bipartisanship.
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Hot Air doesn't do anything but propaganda Breitbart etc. and the Thecoldheartedtruth
Looks like a lot of fighting going on behind the scenes at the White House. Now it looks like both Harris and separately Biden are both going to Miami. Right after the press secretary said Biden was not going it leaked that Harris was and suddenly Joe decides to go...
Suspect it's not either Joe or Kamala making decisions, just their camps and that's where the real power and power struggles lie.
Same with infrastructure except you have to add in the legislative branches.
When Joe is shovel ready, and it looks he's getting close, the fights are going to be enormous.
She playing it very effectively.
Pelosi was turning down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's demand to uncouple a bipartisan agreement that would pump money into roads, highways, and broadband from a Democratic-only spending plan. That follow-up package is poised to contain initiatives many Democrats favor, like paid leave and tuition-free community college.
The infrastructure bill will pass before the Family plan via reconciliation.
She's keeping the moderate Democrats and enough Republicans to vote a majority vote .
But she is keeping the liberal Democrats, because they will get the Family plan
And remember that McConnell has not said that he will block the infrastructure bill because he knows that it could cost him the majority in 2022.
A majority on both sides support the infrastructure bill
Breaking911
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1410076755281518598
Biden with Israeli Pres. Rivlin:
"It's not technically appropriate but I'm so delighted his daughter is here.."
"...As the American press here can tell ya, my commitment to Israel is—well, they can't tell you anything actually. They're not supposed to."
Everything Biden does now is written down on cards
And he still can't help but mumble incoherently
Sad sight to see
elder abuse
and the whole world can see it.
shovel ready
The American people want to get infrastructure done. If Republicans do not go for that, and bridges start collapsing, who will get blamed?
Who is already getting blamed? Not Biden.
LOL Commander Thief can't even quote Biden correctly SEE THE VIDEO and Israel's President Rivlin seemed quite pleased with the President's comments.
And oh, yes, he did refer to cards (horrors!)as he was speaking, BUT SPEAKING WELL.
The American Mind
https://twitter.com/theammind/status/1410003485609938945
“Weak and negligent, derelict in the most basic duties a leader has to his people, licking ice cream to delight reporters as his homeland falls apart, Joe Biden is happily at your service as the concierge of decline.” - Paige Willey
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Most of Sununu’s Diversity Council Quits
June 30, 2021 at 12:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
Over half of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s (R) Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion resigned,
“condemning the governor’s decision to sign into law a set of regulations limiting certain kinds of teaching on racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression,” the New Hampshire Public Radio reports.
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SIMPLY PUT:
The GOP position: it's alright to teach racism.
Not alright to teach anti racism.
Alright to teach homophobia.
Not alright to teach inclusion.
JamesNewLeaf said...
LOL Commander Thief can't even quote Biden correctly
Actually it wasn't me who made those quotes but they are correct
embarrassing - both Biden and you
ROFLMFAO !!!
Democrats on Democrats fighting is amusing
Why Republicans Want a Big Fight Over Process
June 30, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Jennifer Rubin:
“Republicans have good reason to turn the news of a bipartisan infrastructure deal into a nonsensical fight about process.
Their fixation on ‘linking’ or ‘delinking’ it to the reconciliation package that Democrats are devising, however, won’t conceal an uncomfortable reality:
The infrastructure deal is overwhelmingly popular,especially among Republicans.
“The plan is a cornucopia of goodies that offer jobs and a patriotic lift to improve American competitiveness.
Unsurprisingly, Biden appeared downright giddy about the prospect of taking his case around the country.
“So, sure, Republicans can try walking away from the hard infrastructure deal, but at what political price?
And if they want to renege and allow Democrats to seize all the credit, well, Biden will happily accept that political gift.”
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And say, THANK YOU!
Joe is off meds again
He is now in favor of new pipelines being built.
Will he reverse his killing of Keystone.
"won’t even get into this now, but, you know, we have — we have thousands of miles of pipeline. The vast majority of those pipes are 60 years or older — some of them more than 80 years old. A lot of them are leaking.
This is the United States of America, for God’s sake. What are we not doing?"
Well ass🤡 u cancelled a new pipeline called XL Keystone pipeline, it was a private/Canadian venture worth billions and 10,000 plus jobs."
Federal Protection of “Oath Keepers” Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol “Insurrection” Lie Wide Open
Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (“1/6”) with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence’s relationship with Stewart Rhodes?
...
A mere indictment of Stewart Rhodes, today, for the same conspiracy charges alleged against his underlings, would collapse the entire “threat” of the Oath Keepers that the country has heard so much about:
Rhodes is the central figure of the organization. He is the founder, leader and center of gravity for the group. In theory, then, an indictment against Rhodes could lead to the group’s collapse. [NPR]
The Justice Department argues that Stewart Rhodes both substantially organized and activated an imputed plan to use violence, on 1/6, in real-time, through a series of encrypted Signal messages beginning at 1:38 p.m., as Trump concluded his rally speech on the National Mall, and 62 minutes before Oath Keepers lieutenants allegedly formed a “military stack” to rush the Capitol doors. [Filing, pp.10-12]
These facts alone, as alleged, are more than legally sufficient to secure an indictment of Stewart Rhodes. We will walk you through the mountains of direct and circumstantial evidence built on top of these allegations, but readers must understand this: the only reason Stewart Rhodes is not in jail *right now* is because of a deliberate decision by the Justice Department to protect him.
Indeed, it is unclear whether the FBI has even sought to search Stewart Rhodes’s residence, personal belongings, or electronic devices, other than a single iPhone allegedly seized on the streets from agents in unmarked FBI vehicles in late April (since returned). For reasons discussed below, there is good reason to suspect the FBI will pursue a tightly controlled and very limited scope of investigation into Stewart Rhodes,. Beyond that narrow scope, they may not want the information they are likely to find.
full article: https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-missing-link-fbi-unindicted-co-conspirator/
So why is the FBI leaving the "leader" alone ????
or do they protect their own ???
Most Associate Images of Capitol Riot with REPUBLICANS
(Why are we not surprised?)
June 30, 2021 at 1:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments
A new Navigator Research survey showed respondents a picture of rioters at the Capitol and asked them which party they associated the image with.
The results were striking:
61% said the Republicans, and
20% said the Democrats.
However, among Fox News watchers,*
33% said the Republicans, and
37% said the Democrats.
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*AMONG THE BRAIN DEAD, IOW.
LOL!
Two good reports in two days. Great for America .
Pending home sales index May 8.0% , and Consumer confidence up firmly.
No need for any new stimulus package, do the $987 Billion deal and be done with it.
"June 29 (Reuters) - A "very optimistic" Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Tuesday said the U.S. central bank may need to start dialing down its massive asset purchase program as soon as this year to allow the option of raising interest rates by late next year."
Cite : Reuters
The Federal Reserve will NOT raise rates late in 2022 , election mid-terms.
Richard Grenell
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1409954803761913859
There is systemic corruption in Washington, DC and the media are a key component.
It’s not a Republican vs Democrat problem - it’s Americans vs the Capital.
OH NO! OH NO!
Legal Experts Say Trump at Risk of Criminal Indictment
June 30, 2021 at 12:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments
Brookings legal experts
released a new report about Donald Trump’s liability for his company’s legal problems and conclude that Trump himself “is at serious risk of eventual criminal indictment in New York State.”
OH NO, NO, NOOOOOOHHH!
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Julie Kelly
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1410031238463856642
“Next thing I know, a riot squad comes out of nowhere and starts attacking people, hitting them with batons and their closed fists. That’s when people got turned up and started to get agitated. The crowd started yelling, what are you guys doing?”
Did Cops Attack and Provoke Peaceful Protesters on January 6?
If the American people deserve the truth about an “attack on our democracy” then they deserve the truth about the way law enforcement handled the crowd on January 6. Release the tapes.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/28/did-cops-attack-and-provoke-peaceful-protesters-on-january-6/
Julie Kelly
Watch this:
Stop the steal protest Washington D.C Jan,6th 2021
VIDEO leading up to Capitol Police attacking protesters
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1410030736464396290
quite peaceful until they were gassed ....
Even singing America the Beautiful...
release all the tapes
AMERICANS ARE BECOMING EVER MORE AWARE THAT
There Is No ‘Moderate’ Position on Climate Change
June 30, 2021 at 12:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments
David Roberts:
“Perhaps the most politically difficult aspect of climate change is that, after decades of denial and delay, there is no longer any coherent ‘moderate’ position to be had.
“To allow temperatures to rise past 1.5° or 2°C this century is to accept unthinkable disruption to agriculture, trade, immigration, public health, and basic social cohesion.
To hold temperature rise to less than 1.5° or 2°C this century will require enormous, heroic decarbonization efforts on the part of every wealthy country.
“Either of those outcomes is, in its own way, radical.
There is no non-radical future available for the US in decades to come.”
I only come out when you start your Goddard spam "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
I see it upsets you
Good
OH DEAR! OH DEAR~
GOP Faces Redistricting Challenges in Shifting Suburbs
June 30, 2021 at 12:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments
“The dynamic caused by a Democratic surge in the suburbs is not at work just in Georgia. In staunchly Republican Kansas, Democrats picked up a seat in 2018. Population growth in the affluent and higher educated suburbs of Kansas City could result in Republicans being forced to draw a district that favors Democrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Census and electoral data show similar patterns in Denver and Des Moines, Iowa, as well as in Columbus, Ohio, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle metro. In all those communities, the counties have seen double-digit population growth and have college education rates high above the national average, which voting data shows tends to skew an area more Democratic.
BUT OF COURSE. THEY ARE NOT SO EASILY BAMBOOZLED.
Tripe is not upsetting.
Real news reporting is -- to Republicans.
Disclose.tv
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1410238541620203522
ICYMI - New US Air Force "fitness test" will feature walking instead of running & modified push-ups as the service is "experimenting with a choose your own adventure physical fitness test".
Previously, airmen could walk instead of run only if they had a medical waiver to do so.
Catturd ™
The Democrat party is destroying our military.
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1410203014992965633
Let me get this straight? You can be off by 135,000 votes in a New York City mayoral primary alone but if someone loses the White House by less than 45,000 across multiple states in a presidential election you can’t have any questions.
Seems legit… if you live in China.
Now they don't expect to have results until late July ?
Did I hear that right ???
3rd world countries have better election systems
by far
RINO alert..
Fox News cuts off Trump after he derails 'border' press conference with election rant
David Edwards
June 30, 2021
Fox News/screen grab
Fox News on Wednesday cut off a broadcast of former President Donald Trump's visit to the border after he began ranting about the 2020 presidential election.
Although Fox News had heavily promoted the former president's trip to Texas throughout the day, the network decided to cancel the president's press conference about a minute after he claimed the voting system in America is a "disaster."
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"We had an election where we did much better than we did the first time and amazingly we lost," Trump complained while sitting next to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). "I just want to thank the people of Texas because we won in a landslide. It wasn't even close."
Chris Matthews talks to Raw Story: Who would you bet on in 2024, Trump or Kamala?
"We got 12 million more votes than we got the first time," he continued. "We better get our elections straightened out because you're going to have a runaway country, you're going to have a banana republic, you're going to have a third world country here pretty soon because our elections are a mess."
At that point, Fox News cut the former president's audio. Hosts Shannon Bream and Brian Kilmeade interrupted the ongoing press conference and quickly changed the subject back to the border.
Banana Republic news robotics
A Big Day for the Supreme Court
June 30, 2021 at 11:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments
“Relatively few people are talking about it right now, but Thursday (and perhaps the days to come) could be one of the most pivotal moments in recent Supreme Court history,” the Washington Post reports.
“Yes, that pertains to the key decisions that are set to be handed down on Thursday, the final day of the court’s current term. The long-awaited cases include key rulings on the Arizona GOP’s election laws and the role of so-called ‘dark money’ in politics.
“But history suggests it’s also quite possibly the time when we get some clarity about the future makeup of the court — and particularly the all-important question about whether Justice Stephen Breyer will retire.”
Michael Tracey
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1410210966864809985
Pundits at 5:30pm: It's some despicable "Donald Trump shit" for Eric Adams to question the veracity of these election results
NYC Board of Elections at 10:30pm: Turns out we actually did add 135,000 fake votes
Glenn Greenwald
This is really amazing. Countless smug liberals -- @HeerJeet, @chrislhayes, Vox's @imillhiser -- spent hours maligning and sneering at Eric Adams as a Trumpian fraud for questioning the NYC election results. When those questions were completely vindicated, they slinked away.
3rd world elections and 3rd world "journalists"
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1410017350150242306
Democrats framed a president for treason--spying on Tucker Carlson is nothing.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Techno Fog
RESPONSE:
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1410074490755850241
The NSA could have categorically denied having Tucker's electronic communications.
They refused.
Instead, they're using vague language to mislead the public. Something is up.
The revolver is the next madness
They are attacking the highest Generals traitors.
Megan Larimer
ELECTION FRAUD VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/MeganLarimer/status/1409683507266285580
You do realize an SOS official was videotaped during an audit demanding the counters to ignore multiple ballots with the same signature for a write in candidate. Her exact words “this is not a time for you to be investigating right now”
The time is never right for fraud
We need election integrity
and forensic audits
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1410008810119380995
Add it all together:
Gen. Milley's insane remarks about "white rage."
SecDef Austin's bogus military "pause" to look for "extremists."
The NSA spying on Tucker.
The FBI's role in Jan. 6th fake insurrection.
The Biden Admin wants to make it a crime to disagree with them.
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
FAKE NEWS
state media
corrupt DOJ
whatever happened to Hunters laptop ?
and the "big guy"
1984
Hi Roger.
"Thinning of the herd" jamesnomorals
Said it as Death tolls rose in Red States.
Drew Holden
https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1409697398356512769
A Venn diagram of all the people who thought the FBI wouldn’t ever falsify documents to wiretap a Trump campaign employee and those currently telling us there’s zero chance the NSA is spying on Tucker would be a full circle.
enemies of the people
The Revolver believes that the "Insurrection" was created by the government to make the Orange Monster look terrible.
Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has been run, in effect, by the United States government itself — and nobody has mentioned it until now?
https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-missing-link-fbi-unindicted-co-conspirator/
So why has the Oath Keepers leader, who was at the capitol and telling people to breach the capitol, still not even arrested?
It's not like you have to go all over the country to find him.
He's known and identified and on tape that has been released.
Probably on some of the 14,000 hours that haven't been released also.
Bill Cosby out
"U.S. NEWSBill Cosby released after sexual assault conviction overturned by Pennsylvania Supreme Court"
Donald Trump is ranked near the bottom of all U.S. presidents by a group of historians, getting the lowest grades for leadership of any commander in chief who has served in the White House in the past 150 years.
The ratings of presidents on 10 leadership qualities, the fourth in a series conducted by C-SPAN, includes assessments by 142 historians and professional observers of the presidency.
STORY FROM AD COUNCIL
It’s not too late to start planning for retirement
The findings underscore the duality of Trump's standing, unprecedented among his fellow presidents. After his upset victory in 2016 and his defeat in 2020, historians hold him in the lowest regard of any president since soon after the Civil War. But he continues to be the face of the Republican Party and its most influential figure, and he is viewed as a potential contender for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2024.
Among other modern presidents, Barack Obama has risen to No. 10, compared with No. 12 in the last C-SPAN historians' survey, in 2017. Ronald Reagan is ranked at No. 9; Bill Clinton at No. 19; George H.W. Bush at No. 21, and George W. Bush at No. 29.
Richard Nixon, the only president forced to resign the office amid scandal, is rated No. 31.
Ch a Trump supporter has a pretty good idea.
Now that Biden has pulled his bait-and-switch, Republicans should press the reset button on this non-deal. I would suggest that GOP Senators announce that any deal with the White House going forward must contain four preconditions:
Every dollar of new spending must be paid for by reprogramming some $2 trillion of federal funds already approved by Congress this year. Any infrastructure bill must include reauthorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline. There is no infrastructure more urgently needed today than pipelines to transport our energy resources across the U.S. and the world. This project costs taxpayers nothing.No money for Green New Deal projects. Every penny must be for real infrastructure: roads, bridges, pipelines, airports.No additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service, especially given its multiple scandals over the past decade. Conservative voters have not forgotten about the past tactics of using IRS enforcement to harass right-leaning groups and donors. Republicans in Congress shouldn’t forget, either.
Most importantly, Biden has a radical and “transformational” grand plan that could set the country on a path toward bankruptcy. Republicans must not be enablers of that.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks and a cofounder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He is the author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.”
He basically said what I have been saying that the two path forward.
The infrastructure and the Keystone pipeline, even though it invaded native American property, it would create jobs and get rid of kputz's stupid trolling.
If the Family plan is passed by recon, the Republicans would love to bitch about deficit spending.
Plus it will address climate change.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/560965-republicans-should-hit-the-reset-button-on-biden-infrastructure-deal
Most of the rank the president survey participants are university academics. In other words, liberals. The fact that they have obama ranked 10th overall illustrates this.
Historians who are commenting on current affairs is just called a pundits.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Donald Trump is ranked near the bottom of all U.S. presidents by a group of historians, getting the lowest grades for leadership
You guys believe that scientists and Democratic hoaxers and again you are calling historians as liberal communist.
You probably believe that Jewish laser beams were used to attack the computer vote machines.
You are not conservative Republicans, you are cultist like Scott.
You actually believe that highly educated people who don't agree with Trump are traitors.
When Roger loses every debate he turns to spamming and projecting.
I hope the US Economic news tomorrow is as good as the last two days. .
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The revolver is the next madness
They are attacking the highest Generals traitors.
Alky, everything above a Major is a political appointee
Sort of gives it away doesn't it? At best Obama is a mediocre president. In ranking presidents Reagan would have to be in the top ten. Woodrell Wilson was way overrated as is FDR. Depression propaganda and rhetoric hide the lack of effectiveness of his economic policies and he will be remembered for the interment of American citizens of Japanese decent.
way doesn't it? At best Obama is a mediocre president.
And your opinion is noted and chuckled at.....At best Trump was the second most incompetent president ever....Only Millard Fillmore did less!!!!! Trumps complete lack of empathy and lack of leadership on covid....inciting riots in DC and not doing anything about his grievances of loss is completely pathetic, like you defending him!!!!!!
Look at the list of participants. Most are university academics. It's well known that most of these are liberals.
So Bill Cosby release from.prision is not news.
Ok.
Good afternoon Denise , hope you are well.
If Obama made the top-10 then Carter must be in top-5
"The American Families Plan"
Admits 20 plus liberal programs over 60 years have failed, but, but this one will suck-ceed.
Go fuck yourself asshole!!!!! Funny all of trumps leadership have led us to a massive pandemic.....massive debt......more people not working......and a shrinking GDP.....a great job by the asshole you fellate!!!!! BTW.....hope is not policy goat fucker...it was trumps go to line!!!!!!
The current obsession with critical race theory is a cynical attempt to change the subject away from the Biden administration’s highly popular policy initiatives, while pandering to the white rage that Republicans deny exists. But it’s only one of multiple subjects on which willful ignorance has become a litmus test for anyone hoping to succeed in Republican politics.
Thus, to be a Republican in good standing one must deny the reality of man-made climate change, or at least oppose any meaningful action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One must reject or at least express skepticism about the theory of evolution. And don’t even get me started on things like the efficacy of tax cuts.
What underlies this cross-disciplinary commitment to ignorance? On each subject, refusing to acknowledge reality serves special interests. Climate denial caters to the fossil fuel industry; evolution denial caters to religious fundamentalists; tax-cut mysticism caters to billionaire donors.
But there’s also, I’d argue, a spillover effect: Accepting evidence and logic is a sort of universal value, and you can’t take it away in one area of inquiry without degrading it across the board. That is, you can’t declare that honesty about America’s racial history is unacceptable and expect to maintain intellectual standards everywhere else. In the modern right-wing universe of ideas, everything is political; there are no safe subjects.
This politicization of everything inevitably creates huge tension between conservatives and institutions that try to respect reality.
There have been many studies documenting the strong Democratic lean of college professors, which is often treated as prima facie evidence of political bias in hiring. A new law in Florida requires that each state university conduct an annual survey “which considers the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented,” which doesn’t specifically mandate the hiring of more Republicans but clearly gestures in that direction.
An obvious counterargument to claims of biased hiring is self-selection: How many conservatives choose to pursue careers in, say, sociology? Is hiring bias the reason police officers seem to have disproportionately supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election, or is this simply a reflection of the kind of people who choose careers in law enforcement?
But beyond that, the modern G.O.P. is no home for people who believe in objectivity. One striking feature of surveys of academic partisanship is the overwhelming Democratic lean in hard sciences like biology and chemistry; but is that really hard to understand when Republicans reject science on so many fronts?
One recent study marvels that even finance departments are mainly Democratic. Indeed, you might expect finance professors, some of whom do lucrative consulting for Wall Street, to be pretty conservative. But even they are repelled by a party committed to zombie economics.
Which brings me back to General Milley. The U.S. military has traditionally leaned Republican, but the modern officer corps is highly educated, open-minded and, dare I say it, even a bit intellectual — because those are attributes that help win wars.
Unfortunately, they are also attributes the modern G.O.P. finds intolerable.
So something like the attack on Milley was inevitable. Right-wingers have gone all in on ignorance, so they were bound to come into conflict with every institution — including the U.S. military — that is trying to cultivate knowledge.
It's great to find a guy who has won a Pulitzer Prize, and has a higher education than you Scott agreed with me on your lack of objective thoughts.
THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP
In 2008, Mr. Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory.
Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1977. He has taught at Yale, M.I.T. and Stanford. At M.I.T. he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.
Compared to the University of Minnesota
1. Maybe you should watch a school board meeting and ask yourself again whether CRT is a cynical attempt to change.
2. What popular policy initiative? Not immigration. Not Iran policy. Certainly not China policy. Not trade, not taxes. What is Biden doing that's popular? Whispering?
The current obsession with critical race theory is a cynical attempt to change the subject away from the Biden administration’s highly popular policy initiatives,
Want to know what is hurting Biden
Look at James and Rogers rants.
CRT
HIGH Unemployment
HIGH Inflation
HIGH Gasoline soline prices and rising
Cancell Culture
The obsession is trying to implement CRT over everyone's strong objections.
For some reason Roger has to regurgitate Krugman's résumé when he's losing an argument.
Doesn't matter how big his résumé is, Krugman's is still an idiot.
Biden, your policies raised the price of gasoline a $1 per gallon and it is your party wanting a new higher tax on every gallon.
Policy failures.
"And that means, in this bill, there is no gas tax. Working families have already paid enough."
Talk about rants and lack of direction, cramps offers the following complaints!!!!!!
Popular policy initiative? Not immigration. Not Iran policy. Certainly not China policy. Not trade, not taxes. What is Biden doing that's popular? Whispering?
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And what has the GOP done in the past week....refused to set up a bipartisan inquiry.....Jowls saying no to all of biden's initiatives, a lame infrastructure bill that all are bitching about......2 R's voting FOR a select committee......IOW's we don't care what happened on 1-6.... CFO for trump to be indicted tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!! Going to be a fun day for me!!!!!!
Bingo.
"CommonsenseJune 30, 2021 at 4:57 PM
For some reason Roger has to regurgitate Krugman's résumé when he's losing an argument.
Doesn't matter how big his résumé is, Krugman's is still an idiot"
Well to idiot 4F-Alky, Krugman an idiot is brilliant.
Dennis, I greeted you with a common pleasantry.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharply split along party lines, the House launched a new investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on Wednesday, approving a special committee to probe the violent attack as police officers who were injured fighting Donald Trump's supporters watched from the gallery above.
The vote to form the panel was 222-190, with all but two Republicans objecting that majority Democrats would be in charge. The action came after Senate Republicans blocked creation of an independent commission that would have been evenly split between the two parties.
Ahead of the vote, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told lawmakers in the chamber: “We will be judged by future generations as to how we value our democracy." She said she preferred that an independent panel lead the inquiry but Congress could wait no longer to begin a deeper look at the insurrection that was the worst attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years.
As the vote was called, Pelosi stood in the House gallery with several police officers who fought the rioters and with the family of an officer who died, hugging several of them. One of the officers, Michael Fanone of Washington's Metropolitan Police, said he was angry at Republicans for voting against an investigation after he almost lost his life to protect them.
“I try not to take these things personally, but it’s very personal for me,” Fanone said.
Confederate Party is the GOP of today party
RIP Donald Rumsfeld
I don't have a lot of sympathy for him, because he convinced Bush to invade Iraq
, I greeted you with a common pleasantry.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! You disingenuous goat fucking idiot!!!!!!
Even Republicans are canceling the former President Trump.
A speech by President Trump at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park was nixed on Tuesday after park commissioners said no partisan events are allowed in the park.
The commissioners made the announcement just 5 days prior to the speech.
They asked Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall his opinion on the event over a month ago. Marshall wrote his response on June 16th. The letter to Marshall from the commission was not received by him until June 14th.
The USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Commission Chairman is Bill Tunnell who said he nixed the event when Trump was invited to be the guest speaker.
NBC 15 reported:
NBC 15 News has learned an event featuring former President Donald Trump as the keynote speaker that was being planned for this Saturday at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park was nixed after park commissioners became wary.
“After the request was made, then there was contact with the Republican Party, they contacted us and then it became apparent that it was going to be a partisan political event, rather than just a patriotic event planned for that evening,” commission chairman Bill Tunnell.
Tunnell says commissioners sought an opinion from the attorney general’s office in late May. NBC 15 News obtained Attorney General Steve Marshall’s June 16th response, which notes their letter was dated May 26th , postmarked June 11th and received June 14th. “Due to the imminence of the date of the proposed event, my Opinions Division is unable to timely respond with an official position,” Marshall wrote. But he went on in the letter to cite case law that says parks may be used for political events provided access is “available for all political parties and candidates on an equal basis.”
The state park has been used for political events previously.
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“Grant,” said Rice University professor Dr. Douglas Brinkley, “is having his Hamilton moment.”
Recent presidents’ ratings have moved since they first entered the survey:
• Barack Obama rose to #10 from his #12 ranking in 2017;
• George W. Bush continued his steady incline, now ranking at #29, from #33 in 2017 and
#36 in 2009;
• Bill Clinton began at #21 in 2000 and held steady at #15 in 2009 and 2017 before declining
this cycle to #19.
"What stands out to me here is the stability,” said presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. “It's
interesting, particularly at the top and bottom of the list, how little significant movement there has
been. By contrast, the living presidents seem much more likely to fluctuate. It's almost as if there
was a boomerang effect where historians go overboard a bit when presidents leave office and they
are at the nadir of their partisan reputation, and then they graduate to a less political status."
One of the survey categories with the greatest change over the last 20 years was Pursued Equal
Justice for All. From 2000 to 2021, presidents having the biggest increases here were Grant (+12),
Coolidge (+10), Taft (+7) and Harding (+7). The biggest drops were Wilson (-17), Jefferson (-9),
Monroe (-9) and Nixon (-9).
Howard University's Dr. Edna Greene Medford commented on this category: "Despite the fact that
we've become more aware of the historical implications of racial injustice in this country and we're
continuing to grapple with those issues, we still have slaveholding presidents at or near the top of
the list. So even though we may be a bit more enlightened about race today, we are still
discounting its significance when evaluating these presidents."
Brinkley suggested that President Trump’s 2021 impeachment also affected some of the other
presidents’ results: "This year, people compared which is worse: Watergate or the Trump
impeachment? The word ‘impeachment’ probably cost Nixon a few spots downward this year, and
maybe Clinton too."
Brinkley, Medford and Smith have advised C-SPAN on this project since its first survey in 2000.
They initially recommended the 10 qualities of presidential leadership and guided the network on
the survey’s organization, execution and analysis. In 2021, Shlaes joined the advisory team. For
each new survey cycle, C-SPAN's advisers re-assess the leadership qualities, recommend
additional participants and review the results tabulated by C-SPAN. The four C-SPAN advisers'
research and writing span American history from the nation's founding to the late 20th century.
In addition, Dr. Robert X. Browning, executive director of the C-SPAN Archives, has consulted on
the data and analytics for all four presidential surveys.
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span.org/presidentsurvey2021.
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Melissa Trump has sex with daughter's friends during sleepovers'She groomed them. She formed emotional relationships with kids'
By WND News Services
More fake GW setting record temps in the far north of Canada
Bob Henson
@bhensonweather
Today's 103.3°F in Canada's Northwest Territories is the highest temp ever recorded north of latitude 60°N (!).
Biden administration is fixated on maximizing extractive, redistributive, and vengeful policies to “address” abstractions such as climate change, systemic racism, and the intelligence community’s latest absurd fiction designed to increase their budget, “terrorism from white supremacy.”
Despite his media portrayal as a great uniter, Biden cynically embraces talking points to divide Americans by race, encouraging citizens to blame each other for difficulties getting ahead instead of the destructive effects of policies he spent half a century voting for and now aims to revive. A long-time proponent of trade policies that dismantled our industrial base—sending millions of working-class jobs abroad—and of unfairly flooding the labor market with foreign workers, he appears committed to the belief that the inevitable decline in economic opportunity afflicting Americans of all races was in fact due to insufficient commitment to those policies instead of the other way around. Deploying theories of “systemic inequities” is a convenient pre-emptive strike for a man whose administration is officially forecasting economic decline.
In a demonstration of the sincerity of his administration’s commitment to black Americans’ success, his appointees congratulate themselves for frivolous interventions such as banning menthol cigarettes, but have little interest in addressing the fact that our public school system graduates a mere 7 percent of black 12th graders proficient in math. In fact, Biden’s most definitive contribution to the pitiful state of public education has been to assert in his State of the Union address that, when it comes to public education, “12 years is no longer enough” and “that’s why my American Families Plan guarantees four additional years of public education for every person in America.” Our concierge of decline does not demand higher-quality education—rather, he instructs Americans to spend four more years of their lives with the government’s educators, devoid of any obligation to the public to improve.
Such complacency in the face of deterioration is not only dysfunctional, but dangerous. Our adversaries are well aware: China’s delegation humiliated Biden’s Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to their faces on our own soil, asserting, “the United States does not have the qualification to say it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”
To many Americans, the Biden Decline feels distinctly wrong. Do leaders who love their country typically stand idly by while so many urgent problems accumulate for their citizens? A president who supplants his obligations to the people with wildly impractical ideological fixations does not seem motivated to steward our country to success. He seems intent on ushering in an era of weakness that puts our country’s safety, prosperity, and future at risk. The American people are resilient, but the lengths to which our leaders have gone to subvert our country’s strength will require serious course-correction to return to fighting weight.
Ever since the end of the ice age the globe has been warming.
Washington Post
"Los Angeles urges everyone to mask up because of delta variant — even the vaccinated"
Be safe Roger.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I don't have a lot of sympathy for him, because he convinced Bush to invade Iraq
He’s the reason I prefer The Gulf of Rumsfeld over Persian Gulf
lol
Trump Backers Want to Export the Arizona ‘Audit’
June 30, 2021 at 7:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 49 Comments
Politico:
"A monthslong examination of all the ballots from the 2020 election in Arizona’s most populous county may be winding down soon. But now the state is spreading the ‘audit’ playbook across the country. Supporters of former President Donald Trump … are behind a new push to review the results in states including Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“The new drive is worrying state election administrators, who say the efforts will further inflame conspiracy theories and erode faith in the American democratic system. The burden of these reviews could fall on the shoulders of state and local election officials, further complicating a field where many are worried about a brain drain due to exhaustion and threats workers faced in the aftermath of the 2020 election.”
WON'T WORK. EVEN ARIZONANS ARE SICK OF THIS STUPIDITY.
Why mask if you are fully vaccinated?
Notice Fuaci is off the radar of the media.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Why mask if you are fully vaccinated?
Notice Fuaci is off the radar of the media.
It’s stupid, it’s ridiculous, I’m vaxed and supposedly had it 4/2020 but I’m done with the argument. Let the states and local businesses decide leave me alone
And move the fuck on
Cookkkkkkkeerr
On his Monday night show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on him and reading confidential texts and emails to try and take his show off the air.
“The war on terror, now ongoing for 20 years, has pivoted in its aims. The war on terror is now being waged against American citizens, opponents of the regime,” Tucker explained.
RINO's are traitors???
The Senator Who Decided to Tell the Truth
A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud, but all he found was lies.
By Tim Alberta
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VULCAN, Michigan—Right around the time Donald Trump was flexing his conspiratorial muscles on Saturday night, recycling old ruses and inventing new boogeymen in his first public speech since inciting a siege of the U.S. Capitol in January, a dairy farmer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sat down to supper. It had been a trying day.
The farmer, Ed McBroom, battled sidewinding rain while working his 320 acres, loading feed and breeding livestock and at one point delivering a distressed calf backwards from its mother’s womb, before hanging the newborn animal by its hind legs for respiratory drainage. Now, having slipped off his manure-caked rubber boots, McBroom groaned as he leaned into his home-grown meal of unpasteurized milk and spaghetti with hamburger sauce. He would dine peacefully at his banquet-length antique table, surrounded by his family of 15, unaware that in nearby Ohio, the former president was accusing him—thankfully, this time not by name—of covering up the greatest crime in American history.
A few days earlier, McBroom, a Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee, had released a report detailing his eight-month-long investigation into the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The stakes could hardly have been higher. Against a backdrop of confusion and suspicion and frightening civic friction—with Trump claiming he’d been cheated out of victory, and anecdotes about fraud coursing through every corner of the state—McBroom had led an exhaustive probe of Michigan’s electoral integrity. His committee interviewed scores of witnesses, subpoenaed and reviewed thousands of pages of documents, dissected the procedural mechanics of Michigan’s highly decentralized elections system, and scrutinized the most trafficked claims about corruption at the state’s ballot box in November. McBroom’s conclusion hit Lansing like a meteor: It was all a bunch of nonsense.
“Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast by the people of Michigan,” McBroom wrote in the report. “There is no evidence presented at this time to prove either significant acts of fraud or that an organized, wide-scale effort to commit fraudulent activity was perpetrated in order to subvert the will of Michigan voters.”
For good measure, McBroom added: “The Committee strongly recommends citizens use a critical eye and ear toward those who have pushed demonstrably false theories for their own personal gain.”
Dr. Fauci Accused of Hatch Act Violations
BY MATT MARGOLIS JUN 30, 2021 1:04 PM ET
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A complaint against Dr. Anthony Fauci alleges that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) violated the Hatch Act—which prohibits government employees from “us[ing] his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”
The complaint, filed on Wednesday, was made by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), a non-profit organization “dedicated to promoting compliance in government and restoring the public’s trust in government officials.”
“PPT respectfully requests that you investigate whether National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci violated the Hatch Act in the course of conducting an interview with The Washington Post just days before the General Presidential Election in November 2020,” the group asked.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci’s evaluation of the two candidates running for President during his interview with The Washington Post on October 30, 2020 demonstrated a clear intent to use his influence as one of the nation’s leading COVID-19 experts to affect the outcome of the coming national election,” the complaint reads.
“When the totality of circumstances is taken into account, it becomes clear that Dr. Fauci exceeded the mere exchange of opinions and in fact, participated in impermissible political activity,” the complaint continues. “Despite personally categorizing similar statements as ‘political’ just days before, Dr. Fauci nevertheless offered his evaluation of the Biden campaign’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic relative to the approach taken by President Trump and connected differences in the nation’s likely health outcomes to the different approaches.”
PPT noted that “as a member of the career Senior Executive Service, Dr. Fauci … is barred from campaigning for or against a candidate in a partisan election, making campaign speeches or distributing campaign material even while off-duty” under the Hatch Act.
Dr. Fauci has lost a ton of credibility in recent weeks, following the release of thousands of Dr. Fauci’s emails due to a Freedom of Information Act request. The emails contained several bombshells, including Fauci, in his own words, saying that face masks don’t protect people from COVID-19. Fauci originally advocated against mask-wearing before he became a strong advocate for it and eventually recommended double-masking. Another email from a scientist suggests that the virus may have had a man-made component (that researcher eventually walked back that claim). Fauci repeatedly publicly refuted the man-made virus theory for a year before flip-flopping, possibly to protect his own connections to funding “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
RELATED: The Five Biggest Bombshells (So Far) From Fauci’s Emails
Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec claimed earlier this month that White House officials are “actively discussing an exit strategy” for Dr. Fauci, though this report hasn’t been confirmed. In late May, former Trump administration official Peter Navarro said he believed Fauci would be gone within 90 days.
Trump’s other mission these days is to keep insisting that he actually won the election. His loss is clearly something he will never get over. On his deathbed he’s gonna be yelling at the attending physician about the vote count in Michigan.
A grand jury in Manhattan has indicted the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg
I had a pastrami sandwich, I’d like to indite today
The sauerkraut might’ve been old, or maybe the Russia, Russia, Russia dressing
LOL
LEAKS
"Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent
There is dysfunction inside the VP’s office, aides and administration officials say. And it’s emanating from the top.
The Affirmative Action vP is a disaster.
"Roger AmickJune 30, 2021 at 9:55 PM
A grand jury in Manhattan has indicted the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg"
Your post is incomplete, surely they indicted Donald Trump , right?
AP sources: Trump company, executive indicted in tax probe
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MICHAEL R. SISAK
June 30, 2021, 8:39 PM
Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief have been indicted on charges stemming from a New York investigation into the former president’s business dealings, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The charges against the Trump Organization and the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, remained sealed Wednesday night, but were expected to involve alleged tax violations related to benefits the company gave to top executives, possibly including use of apartments, cars and school tuition, people familiar with the case said.
The people were not authorized to speak about an ongoing investigation and did so on condition of anonymity. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that charges were expected Thursday.
The company and Weisselberg were expected to make their first court appearance Thursday.
The charges against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization would be the first criminal cases to arise from the two-year probe led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a Democrat who leaves office at the end of the year.
Prosecutors have been scrutinizing Trump’s tax records, subpoenaing documents and interviewing witnesses, including Trump insiders and company executives.
A grand jury was recently empaneled to weigh evidence and New York Attorney General Letitia James said she was assigning two of her lawyers to work with Vance on the criminal probe while she continues a civil investigation of Trump.
Messages seeking comment were left with a spokesperson and lawyers for the Trump Organization. Weisselberg's lawyer, Mary Mulligan, declined to comment. The Manhattan district attorney's office declined to comment.
Trump’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Jason Miller, a longtime former senior adviser to the Republican, spun the looming charges as “politically terrible for the Democrats.”
“They told their crazies and their supplicants in the mainstream media this was about President Trump. Instead, their Witch Hunt is persecuting an innocent 80 year-old man for maybe taking free parking!” Miller tweeted, apparently referring to Weisselberg, who is 73.
Trump, who’s been critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, was in Texas visiting the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday. He did not respond to shouted questions about the charges as he participated in a briefing with state officials.
Trump had blasted the investigation in a statement Monday, deriding Vance’s office as “rude, nasty, and totally biased” in their treatment of Trump company lawyers, representatives, and long-term employees.
Trump, in the statement, said the company’s actions were “things that are standard practice throughout the U.S. business community, and in no way a crime” and that Vance’s probe was an investigation was “in search of a crime.”
Trump Organization lawyers met virtually with Manhattan prosecutors last week in a last-ditch attempt to dissuade them from charging the company. Prosecutors gave the lawyers a Monday deadline to make the case that criminal charges shouldn’t be filed.
Ron Fischetti, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, told the AP this week that there was no indication Trump himself was included in the first batch of charges.
“There is no indictment coming down this week against the former president,” Fischetti said. “I can’t say he’s out of the woods yet completely.”
Weisselberg, a loyal lieutenant to Trump and his real estate-developer father, Fred, came under scrutiny, in part, because of questions about his son’s use of a Trump apartment at little or no cost.
Barry Weisselberg managed a Trump-operated ice rink in Central Park.
Barry’s ex-wife, Jen Weisselberg, has been cooperating with the investigation and turned over reams of tax records and other documents to investigators.
“We have been working with prosecutors for many months now as part of this tax and financial investigation and have provided a large volume of evidence that allowed them to bring these charges,” Jen Weisselberg's lawyer, Duncan Levin, said Wednesday. “We are gratified to hear that the DA’s office is moving forward with a criminal case.”
Allen Weisselberg has worked for the Trump Organization since 1973. The case against him could give prosecutors the means to pressure the executive into cooperating and telling them what he knows about Trump’s business dealings.
Prosecutors subpoenaed another long-time Trump finance executive, senior vice president and controller Jeffrey McConney, to testify in front of the grand jury in the spring. Under New York law, grand jury witnesses are granted immunity and can not be charged for conduct they testify about.
Prosecutors probing untaxed benefits to Trump executives have also been looking at Matthew Calamari, a former Trump bodyguard turned chief operating officer, and his son, the company’s corporate director of security. However, a lawyer for the Calamaris said Wednesday that he didn’t expect them to be charged.
“Although the DA’s investigation obviously is ongoing, I do not expect charges to be filed against either of my clients at this time,” said the lawyer, Nicholas Gravante.
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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in Weslaco, Texas, and Bernard Condon in New York contributed to this report.
MY, MY! MY MY!
Trump said, 'yeah, okay' and hung up the phone when his health secretary warned him about the coronavirus in January 2020, a new book says
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Then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Trump dismissed warnings about the coronavirus in January 2020, according to a new book.Then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar tried to tell Trump about the threat of COVID-19 in a phone call."Yeah, okay," Trump responded, then hung up. See more stories on Insider's business page.
Then-President Donald Trump cut the conversation short when his health secretary, Alex Azar, warned him of the coronavirus in January 2020, according to a new book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," by The Washington Post's Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb.
The president was at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida at the time, a trip that took place roughly a month after the House impeached him over his efforts to solicit Ukraine's interference in the 2020 election. The Senate was readying his trial. Trump aides thought the president needed cheering up and sent him off to West Palm Beach, the book says.
Meanwhile, health staffers in his administration were growing increasingly concerned over COVID-19, according to the book.
"Mr. President, I've got to tell you something," Azar told Trump during a mid-January 2020 phone call, before COVID-19 broke out across the country and forced officials to impose lockdowns. "There's this new virus out of China that could be extremely dangerous. It could be the kind of thing we have been preparing for and worried about."
Azar then relayed to Trump that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had started to screen travelers from China to the US but that additional safety measures probably needed to be taken to mitigate potential spread of the virus, per the book.
"Yeah, okay," Trump replied, seemingly unconvinced of the threat. Then he hung up the phone.
Azar, then the head of the Health and Human Services Department, failed to get through to the president. He had been on shaky ground with Trump, who was still upset over a recent health policy that banned most flavored electronic cigarettes. The move had angered Trump's base, and the president thought it would cost him his reelection, according to the book.
The Post journalists reported that Azar "could barely get a word in before Trump started shouting" at him over e-cigarettes during that January phone call.
That same month, Trump dismissed Azar's advice on another occasion, according to the book. Trump wanted to send a tweet praising Chinese President Xi Jinping on the pandemic, though Azar begged him not to.
"For the love of God, don't do that," he told the president, per the book. But Trump went ahead and tweeted.
In the following months, as COVID-19 infections and deaths surged across the US, Trump continued to dismiss advice from his own administration. Trump and his close allies would also often downplay the severity of the outbreak and flout guidelines like mask wearing and social distancing. More than 400,000 Americans died of COVID-19 during his administration.
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My My My
WaPo putting forth democrat lies that they're the ones supporting police and Republicans are defunding. It's just sickening, the level of bullshit coming from this administration.
Donald J. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, surrendered on Thursday to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The exact charges were not yet known. Prosecutors were expected to unseal an indictment later in the day against Mr. Weisselberg and the Trump Organization, the real estate business that catapulted Mr. Trump to tabloid fame, television riches and ultimately, the White House.
Mr. Weisselberg, accompanied by his lawyer, Mary E. Mulligan, walked into the Lower Manhattan building that houses the criminal courts and the district attorney’s office about 6:20 a.m. He is expected to appear in court in the afternoon along with representatives of the Trump Organization.
The charges against the Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg — whom Mr. Trump once praised for doing “whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line” — emerged from the district attorney’s sweeping inquiry into the business practices of Mr. Trump and his company.
Top Trump Executive, Allen Weisselberg, Surrenders to Face Charges https://nyti.ms/3w4UlM1
The Day of Rage.
The most disturbing video I have ever seen before.
Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation https://nyti.ms/3h5iZIg
It is an argument Democrats should be making more often: In their unanimous opposition to the American Rescue Plan, Republicans voted against a whole bunch of popular programs, not the least of which was funding for the police, whom they claim to adore. If Democrats have been slow off the mark to hold Republicans accountable for their votes, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace zeroed in on GOP hypocrisy in this exchange with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.):
WALLACE: Congressman Banks, you voted against that package, against that $350 billion, just like every other Republican in the House and Senate, so can't you make the argument that it's you and the Republicans who are defunding the police?
BANKS: Not at all, Chris. I mean, let’s go back again and look at the last year and the record of comments that Democrats have made from Rashida Tlaib, who said that —
WALLACE: No, No, wait, sir, respectfully —
BANKS: — policing is inherently evil.
WALLACE: Wait, wait, sir, respectfully, I heard you make that point but I'm asking you, there's $350 billion in this package the president says can be used for policing. And let me put up some of the specific things he said.
BANKS: Chris, the point that I'm making is important.
WALLACE: Congressman Banks, let me finish and then I promise I’ll give you a chance to answer. The president is saying cities and states can use this money to hire more police officers, invest in new technologies and develop summer job training and recreation programs for young people. Respectfully, I’ve heard your point about the last year, but you and every other Republican voted against this $350 billion.
Wallace never got a straight answer because there was nothing Banks could really say. Republicans had voted against providing more funding for the police. In fact, for more than a year, they had refused to allocate needed funds for state and local governments that employ police and other first responders. They called money for police, firefighters and paramedics “a blue-state bailout.”
While Republicans would prefer to talk about the defund-the-police rhetoric of a few Democratic backbenchers, the media should press them on their obstruction. After all, Republicans refused to support not only police funding but also hugely popular items such an expanded child tax credit, funding for a successful coronavirus vaccination program and the restaurant revitalization fund (although Republicans have been touting that item). If the shoe were on the other foot, Republicans would not hesitate to go on attack. (Why does the other side hate the police, kids and restaurants?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/28/democrats-hold-gop-accountable-refusing-defend-law-or-order/
The facts don't matter to you!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/28/democrats-hold-gop-accountable-refusing-defend-law-or-order/
Facts? Even the article says it's an opinion.
Stupid Roger.
They are manufactured charges. For anyone else, it's an irs audit with a letter saying how much you owe. Hell, I myself got one a few months ago for a DCRA deduction from 2018.
The sick GOP would rather cover up 1-6 than find out what really happened....McCarthy is acting like trump threatening any who serve on the committee that their careers will be limited!!!!!! Yep. the party of lincoln has turned into the party of white power and lies.....Saw a poll that included that 48% of R's are in favor of states having the power to overturn elections!!!!! Gee that sure seems Putinesque to me!!!!!!! Why does the GOP hate freedom????????
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/jan-6-capitol-attack-takeaways.html?smid=url-share
Day of Rage:
An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol https://nyti.ms/3jskDp1
It's not an opinion, the actual words matter to rational people.
But not you.
se, it's an its audit with a letter saying how much you owe
Your stupidity is on full display for all to see ballz.......systemic fraud is doing it year after year.....Me thinks they got donnie by the scrotum in spite of your naive opinion!!!!! Allen is shitting bricks since he did it and trump approved it which will show in future actions against the trump crime syndicate!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
You're flailing. My previous point still stands.
The point is on the top of your head ballz......your point is for idiots like you making a mistake.....not the likes of trumps crime family doing the same thing over and over....that is fucking fraud you imbecile!!!!!!
You just said nothing. Feel free to actually make a point. This is an irs audit issue. Nothing more.
And you ballz are just another R making excuses for the crime and the audit is what found the fraud......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Sorry sport......the point is on top of your head!!!!
For the unwilling who never admit trump did no wrong....in a few hours we all will see the incriminating facts they have on Trump Inc....It ain't gonna be simple mistakes but a criminal enterprise hiding income......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Keep digging loser as your point is pretty dull.....!!!!
Trump’s Reaction to the Coming Indictments
July 1, 2021 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook:
“The former president was on a conference call with his advisers Monday discussing his favorite topic — revenge — when he was interrupted with an update on the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation. He would not be personally indicted, Trump was told — only Weisselberg and the Trump Organization would be. Trump was thrilled by what he saw as light charges, and according to one of the advisers on the call, his mind raced to 2024.”
Said Trump:
“Just wait until 2024, you’ll see. This is going to hurt Sleepy Joe.”
“The adviser had the impression that Trump, who was already coming off a high from the large crowd at his rally in Ohio last weekend, was emboldened by the news.”
Said the adviser: “Now he’s definitely going to run for president again.”
The Senator Who Decided to TELL THE TRUTH
July 1, 2021 at 6:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8
Tim Alberta:
“A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud, but all he found was lies.”
Trump Refuses DeSantis Plea to Cancel Florida Rally
July 1, 2021 at 6:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments
Washington Examiner:
“Former President Donald Trump is rejecting pleas from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to postpone a campaign-style rally this weekend some 200 miles from the Miami suburb amid a search survivors in the Surfside collapse… DeSantis’s office has ‘made a direct plea’ to the former president’s team, calling on it to postpone the Saturday event in Sarasota.
“One Florida Republican bluntly said Trump and his team need to ‘read the room.’ … For now, the Trump camp is holding firm.”
Top Trump Executive Surrenders to Face Charges
July 1, 2021 at 6:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
Donald Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, surrendered on Thursday to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, the New York Times reports.
A Test of Chutzpah
July 1, 2021 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
“A vote on the House floor today will reveal how much chutzpah a group of moderate House Republicans have,” Politico reports.
“Lawmakers will vote on a $715 billion surface transportation infrastructure bill (separate from the plan Biden just negotiated with Senate Republicans). Tucked inside are hundreds of millions of dollars in goodies sought by House Republicans in the form of earmarks, which were revived by House leaders this year after a yearslong ban.
“Yet Republicans are expected to vote overwhelmingly against the package, calling it a financial boondoggle — even as many of them reap the benefits. The attack ads practically write themselves.”
Punchbowl News:
“In the old days, this would never happen. If a member got an earmark, they’d vote for the bill. Or their earmark would get dropped somewhere along the way, and they’d never get another one.”
Roll Call:
Plenty of GOP earmarks in spending bill its members will oppose.
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It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face.
McCarthy Issues Threat
July 1, 2021 at 7:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Punchbowl News: “During a closed-door meeting with freshman House Republicans Wednesday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a stark warning.
“If any Republican accepts an appointment from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Jan. 6 select committee, they better be ready to get all their committee assignments from her.”
“Republicans, McCarthy said, get their committee assignments from Republicans — not from Democrats. Or else.”
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007606996/capitol-riot-trump-supporters.html
TAKE A LOOK AT CH'S "PEACEFUL PROTEST."
"There was no insurrection and to call it an insurrection is a boldfaced lie."
THAT is a boldfaced lie.
Moderate good news
"Initial jobless claims, week ended June 26: 364,000 vs. 388,000 expected and an upwardly revised 415,000 during prior week
Continuing claims, week ended June 19: 3.469 million vs. 3.340 million expected and an upwardly revised 3.413 million during prior week"
Weekly jobless claims total hits new pandemic-era low of 364,000
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 1 20218:30 AM EDTUPDATED 1 MIN AGO
Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM
WATCH NOW
VIDEO01:39
U.S weekly jobless claims total 364,000, versus 390,000 estimate
Initial filings for unemployment insurance fell sharply last week, indicating continued improvement in the U.S. jobs market, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
First-time jobless claims totaled 364,000 for the week ended June 26, compared to the 390,000 Dow Jones estimate. That marked a new pandemic-era low and a decline of 51,000 from the previous week.
Bidennomics is great news for Americans
The Fed is drawing cash from the Economy.
"This morning, the Fed sold a record $992 billion in Treasury securities in exchange for cash, via overnight reverse repos (RRPs), to 74 counterparties. Yesterday’s overnight RRPs matured and unwound this morning, and were replaced, plus some, by today’s RRPs. You can practically hear that giant sucking sound of cash that the Fed is draining out of the financial system"
REGARDING THE VIDEO LINKED AT 7:51:
An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol
July 1, 2021 at 8:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
The New York Times
has compiled an amazing video of the riots at the Capitol on January 6.
“We filed motions to unseal police body-camera footage, scoured law enforcement radio communications, and synchronized and mapped the visual evidence.
“What we have come up with is a 40-minute panoramic take on Jan. 6, the most complete visual depiction of the Capitol riot to date.
In putting it together, we gained critical insights into the character and motivation of rioters by experiencing the events of the day often through their own words and video recordings. We found evidence of members of extremist groups inciting others to riot and assault police officers. And we learned how Donald Trump’s own words resonated with the mob in real time as they staged the attack.”
What does a simpleton that know zero about economics say :
"
Bidennomics is great news for Americans"
Not really.
I just watched the entire 40 minute video
LINKED AT 7:51.
HAVE YOU WATCHED IT, CH?
STILL SAY IT WAS ONLY A PEACEFUL PROTEST?
There will be no votes loss over representatives who vote for personal financial responsibility over personal gain.
Nancy Pelosi's bait and switch pretty much killed the infrastructure bill.
“Lawmakers will vote on a $715 billion surface transportation infrastructure bill (separate from the plan Biden just negotiated with Senate Republicans). Tucked inside are hundreds of millions of dollars in goodies sought by House Republicans in the form of earmarks, which were revived by House leaders this year after a yearslong ban.
“Yet Republicans are expected to vote overwhelmingly against the package, calling it a financial boondoggle — even as many of them reap the benefits. The attack ads practically write themselves.”
Julie Kelly
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1410342403056226305
Just talked to a J6 defendant spouse.
20 FBI agents raided their house at 9:30pm on a Sunday. Arrested defendant in front of 4-year-old.
Agents asked her about their political affiliation, who they voted for, views on immigration and the wall. Asked what news they watched…
whether defendant followed Q or was a member of the Oath Keepers or Three Percenters. (She had no idea what they were talking about.)
Also asked if he was abusive to her.
No lawyer present.
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
state media
corrupt justice
1984
Christopher Cadelago
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1410349107080740870
NEW: VP Kamala Harris' aides & others inside and out the administration say her office is mired in disfunction.
“It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like shit.”
https://politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290
Matt Whitlock
Remember when like 40+ Harris campaign staffers spoke on background about the disorganization and toxicity of her short-lived Presidential campaign?
Feels like there might be a pattern here.
Looks like the war between the Biden and Harris camps is on
should be a doozy
Roger, are holding to your prediction of 12% GDP this year and 10% GDP in the coming years ?
Tim Young
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1409967130754355200
WATCH: Jim Jordan calls out Fauci suddenly going missing from the media and Congress...
so now he chooses to skip congressional testimony...
He should be charged
He can't appear , he knows he has lied will be called on his criminal behavior.
"Bidennomics is great news for Americans" Dillard
so now he chooses to skip congressional testimony...
Making shit up just like the goat fucker.......>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
Gasoline up 5 cent in the last 7 days.
Over a dollar in one year.
Bidennomics is great news for Americans" Dillard
Good Morning Denise, hope you have a great day.
ESAD you disingenuous goat fucking troll!!!!!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Over a dollar in one year.
All thanks to Biden getting the virus to a semi tamed state and people enjoying traveling again!!!!!
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