He won't vote for the Democrat's new voting law or vote to end the filibuster
Unfortunately, we now are witnessing that the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized. Today’s debate about how to best protect our right to vote and to hold elections, however, is not about finding common ground, but seeking partisan advantage. Whether it is state laws that seek to needlessly restrict voting or politicians who ignore the need to secure our elections, partisan policymaking won’t instill confidence in our democracy — it will destroy it.
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| How long till Democrats drive him to switch Parties? |
As such, congressional action on federal voting rights legislation must be the result of both Democrats and Republicans coming together to find a pathway forward or we risk further dividing and destroying the republic we swore to protect and defend as elected officials.
With that in mind, some Democrats have again proposed eliminating the Senate filibuster rule in order to pass the For the People Act with only Democratic support. They’ve attempted to demonize the filibuster and conveniently ignore how it has been critical to protecting the rights of Democrats in the past.
As a reminder, just four short years ago, in 2017 when Republicans held control of the White House and Congress, President Donald Trump was publicly urging Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster. Then, it was Senate Democrats who were proudly defending the filibuster. Thirty-three Senate Democrats penned a letter to Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warning of the perils of eliminating the filibuster.
You can only push this so far. Manchin has always been a luke warm Democrat in a pretty red state. He would not have any issues back home if he chose to switch Parties. I don't believe that any politician wants to switch Parties, but when they do it is generally more because they get demonized and driven out by their own Party.
Democrats are desperate to remake America in to a new image of wokeness and liberalism. They somehow feel that the 50-50 split in the Senate and the razor thin margin in the House provides them with an excuse to do so. The more rational reason for this desperation is the fact that they do not likely feel that they will hold both chambers of Congress after 2020.
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NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Key Adviser Says Trump Can’t Be ‘Reinstated’
June 6, 2021 at 12:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 134 Comments
Corey Lewandowski
said he had spoken to Donald Trump “dozens, if not more than 100 times since he has left the White House and I have never had that conversation about him being reinstated,”
The Guardian reports.
Said Lewandowski:
“I know of no provision under the constitution that allows it to occur,
nor do I know of any provision under the constitution that allows an individual
who lost an election
to come back in
if a recount is dubbed inaccurate.”
TRUMP AIN'T A-GONNA LIKE THAT.
HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT.
Putin’s Daughter Steps Into the Spotlight
June 6, 2021 at 12:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
Washington Post:
“Russia’s premier business conference featured a panelist, Katerina Tikhonova, who was identified as the deputy director for the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.
"One significant detail was left out:
She’s widely acknowledged outside official circles as President Vladimir Putin’s daughter.
“The Russian leader has never publicly identified his children other than to say he has two daughters. That makes for an odd wink-and-nod scenario every time they appear.
"Everyone knows they are Putin’s children, but few dare say so and go against Kremlin policy.
"This dance could become increasingly tricky, however.
"Tikhonova and Putin’s other media-cited daughter, genetics researcher Maria Vorontsova, have gradually boosted their public profiles.”
Is Embracing the ‘Big Lie’ Just Partisan Politics?
June 6, 2021 at 12:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments
Salt Lake Tribune:
“If almost half of U.S. members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
believe the ‘big lie’ about the 2020 presidential election
and almost a quarter of them subscribe to the QAnon conspiracy theory,
what does that say about their ability to discern truth?
"In these cases, it may be about nothing more than allegiance to partisan politics or agenda-driven sources.”
IT SAYS THAT THEY ARE NOT ALL THAT COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH,
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
Workers Are Gaining Leverage Over Employers
June 6, 2021 at 12:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
New York Times:
“The relationship between American businesses and their employees is undergoing a profound shift:
For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.
“Up and down the wage scale, companies are becoming more willing
to pay a little more,
to train workers,
to take chances on people without traditional qualifications,
and to show greater flexibility in where and how people work.
"The erosion of employer power … could persist for years.”
______
And HELP THE DEMOCRATS!
Ransomware Attacks Are Derailing Everyday Life
June 6, 2021 at 12:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
Washington Post:
“It can feel abstract: A group of organized but faceless criminals hijacking corporate computer systems and demanding millions of dollars in exchange for their safe return.
"But the impact of these ransomware attacks is increasingly, unavoidably, real for everyday people.”
WOULDN'T YOU THINK TRUMP WOULD HAVE MADE POOTY STOP DOING THAT?
Adversaries Could Shut Down U.S. Energy Grid
June 6, 2021 at 11:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned that the U.S. power grid is vulnerable to attacks and could be completely shut down by the nation’s adversaries,
CNN reports.
Said Granholm:
“There are thousands of attacks on all aspects of the energy sector and the private sector generally.
It’s happening all the time.
This is why the private sector and the public sector have to work together.”
YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT TRUMP WOULD HAVE TAKEN BETTER STEPS TO DEAL WITH THIS.
"IT SCREWS THEM!"
https://www.aol.com/news/trumps-grievances-cloud-republican-agenda-135038084-174718678.html
Yup, shore does.
Comments from that last article:
QUESTION:
What are the values of trump? He keeps repeating to vote for candidates of like values,
but I don't know what they are nor have I heard trump speak of them.
And while I'm here, what is the GOP platform?
ANSWER:
Trump values are simple.
Make me president,
keep me immune from prosecution. Nothing more, nothing less.
Trump is scared,
Trump is desperate,
Trump fears jail,
not the democrats,
Trump fears jail,
not the party,
Trump fears jail,
not the country,
Trump fears jail,
not the constitution.
Every school child from the first grade to the last semester of college
knows that losing the election by 8 million votes
is not a win,
is not stolen,
is not rigged,
is not a fraud.
And the sky is not falling.
Trump is.
To answer your question FACTUALLY,
the Republican Party didn't even vote on, or release a platform during the last convention.
They have literally no platform anymore.
They have cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations to such extreme lows that only 4% of tax revenue is from corporations versus the booming 1950s when 53% of tax revenue came from corporations.
For this reason, we no longer have revenue to invest in our D- infrastructure, and that is the only thing PROVEN to create good jobs as the Republicans' owe Congressional study proved tax cuts for the wealthy have NEVER helped the economy or created jobs.
The Republican Party shouldn't even exist.
Republicans' own congressional study
5 posts I scrolled tight by
Get a life pedo
Must change the subject
A QAnon troll squad said Democrats are desperate to remake America in to a new image of wokeness?
Israeli Security Issues Insurrection Warning
June 6, 2021 at 4:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
The head of Israel’s internal security service said that “extremely violent and inciting discourse” targeting the lawmakers who are seeking to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as prime minister could take a potentially lethal form —
a grim echo of the warnings ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,
the Washington Post reports.
Joe Manchin Defects
by Cheryl Rofer| June 6, 20211:48 pm| 149 Comments
This post is in: Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Assholes, Meth Laboratories of Democracy
I figure that if I post, Cole will bigfoot me with his West by God Virginia take. Or I hope he will. I feel helpless sitting here in a blue as blue state
Chris Wallace confronted Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, asking him whether he was "being naive" about the possibility of bipartisan cooperation given the current partisan divisions.
The filibuster was used by Dixiecrats to block racial equality laws.
It should be reversed from the Senate floor
"$1.7 Trillion "
Boston Herald released yesterday might weaken this particular argument. Through data obtained from Internal Revenue Service records, they reported that “a staggering 1.24 million stimulus checks remain unspent from the first coronavirus-era bailout.” That is an estimated $1.7 billion unaccounted for based on the max $1,200 per household that was distributed."
"The Boston Herald noted that the IRS data shows California as leading the country with 123,265 stimulus checks left unspent, Florida coming in second with 92,018 checks and Texas, New York and Pennsylvania rounding out the top five."
inflation is on ♨️.
Roger, how are you?
"Chris Wallace confronted Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, asking him whether he was "being naive" about the possibility of bipartisan cooperation given the current partisan divisions."
Got Brave Patriotic Joe's answer?
The race riots during the Summer of Love and the anti-cop rhetoric that divides us are not the same as the days of MLK, Jr.’s assassination. George Floyd was a drug-addicted felon who was resisting arrest when he died at the hands of police in Minnesota. No, he didn’t deserve to die during an arrest but the point is, he was no civil rights hero. He’s been made into one in his death because it serves the agenda of the BLM movement, a Marxist attempt to fundamentally change our system of government and America in general. Biden kowtows to the radical left for political expediency. He never mentioned sacrifices of past generations that allow the opportunities that will be available to this rising generation. Today the 77th anniversary of D-Day is being commemorated. Biden’s historical reference was of the 1960s instead of the greatest generation, which highlights sacrifice and unity. That was a generation that truly changed the world, rising to meet the needs of its own inflection point in history.
Sleepy Joe is a Democratic socialist.
"Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced Sunday he will vote against the For the People Act to federalize local elections.
“I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act."
Good.
50-50 Senate.
Manchin denied having political naivety.
“I’m not being naive. I think (McConnell is) 100 percent wrong in trying to block all the good things that we’re trying to do for America,” Manchin said. “It would be a lot better if we had participation and we’re getting participation.”
Manchin maintained that he will “continue to keep working with my bipartisan friends.”
“There were 33 Democrats in 2017 that signed a letter to please save the filibuster and save our democracy,” Manchin said. “That’s what I’m trying to do.”
Both Sens. Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) commitment to preserving the filibuster poses obstacles to Senate Democrats’ efforts to abolish the filibuster.
Manchin remained opposed to nixing the filibuster even as he urged his Republican colleagues to support the Jan. 6 commission bill, which ultimately failed in the Senate in a 54-35 vote.
50-50 Senate.
Manchin denied having political naivety.
“I’m not being naive. I think (McConnell is) 100 percent wrong in trying to block all the good things that we’re trying to do for America,” Manchin said. “It would be a lot better if we had participation and we’re getting participation.”
Manchin maintained that he will “continue to keep working with my bipartisan friends.”
“There were 33 Democrats in 2017 that signed a letter to please save the filibuster and save our democracy,” Manchin said. “That’s what I’m trying to do.”
Both Sens. Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) commitment to preserving the filibuster poses obstacles to Senate Democrats’ efforts to abolish the filibuster.
Manchin remained opposed to nixing the filibuster even as he urged his Republican colleagues to support the Jan. 6 commission bill, which ultimately failed in the Senate in a 54-35 vote.
The filibuster was used by Dixiecrats to block racial equality laws.
It should be reversed from the Senate floor
Thanks to the filibuster there will be a bipartisan infrastructure bill. One that does bust the budget and is actually used for infrastructure.
* One that does NOtT bust the budget and is actually used for infrastructure.
The Big Lie is not going away unless he is indicted.
Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for then-candidate Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, says there's no constitutional pathway for the former president to be reinstated.
The Washington Examiner troll squad website
Lewandowski, who now heads the Fight Back Now America PAC, said the topic of reinstatement has never emerged in his "dozens" of conversations with Trump since his departure from office, adding he knows of no constitutional process by which the former president could be reinstated.
"The president and I have never had a conversation about him being reinstated, so I can't specifically comment on what he has said to other individuals because it hasn't been a conversation that I’ve had with them," he told Fox News's Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. "And I know of no provision under the Constitution that allows that to occur, nor do I know of any provision under the Constitution that allows an individual who lost an election to come back if a recount is dubbed inaccurate."
TRUMP DOESN'T APPEAR TO BELIEVE HE'LL BE REINSTATED THIS YEAR, SOURCE CLAIMS
Lewandowski added that "election integrity matters," maintaining the Trump campaign notified the media of at least one incident of voter fraud in Pennsylvania that was not widely reported.
Probably American Greatness
Sleepy Donald Trump.
https://youtu.be/xCnNJx9W-Fk
He babble about all kinds of things and
He was actually wearing his pants backwards!
PROOF roger DOES NOT GO IN THE FRONT OF HIS PANTS !!!
from one of his "fact" checkers
Roger Amick said...
Sleepy Donald Trump.
He babble about all kinds of things and
He was actually wearing his pants backwards!
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No, Trump Did Not Wear His Pants Backwards at Rally
You asked, so we watched the 90-minute speech.
The photographs and video above were taken at the 2021 Republican gathering in Greenville, North Carolina, on June 5. Snopes looked through photographs taken at the event and published by the visual media company Getty Images that clearly show the former president on stage wearing pants with a zipper in the front.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-wear-pants-backwards/
Maybe roger did wear his pants with the zipper in front in 2002 but has since changed ?
https://images.app.goo.gl/Hz2ezZhLMSGGWQcR6
Sorry for the gobbledygook
* PROOF roger DOES NOT KNOW THE ZIPPER GOES IN FRONT OF HIS PANTS !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-wear-pants-backwards/
https://images.app.goo.gl/Hz2ezZhLMSGGWQcR6
Check it out yourself troll squad
Disclose.tv 🚨
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1401217387047890947
Governor Brian Kemp greeted with loud boos at the GOP convention in Georgia.
1-term governor
Lot's of good Republican candidates to replace him
Maybe that's why he was so weak on the fraud
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1401655687546089475
If we built less hospitals - they’d be less sickness.
Pretending to be AOC is fun
Julio Rosas
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1401563580655353861
Brian Stelter's first question in his interview with WH press secretary Jen Psaki was "What does the press get wrong when covering Biden's agenda, when you watch the news, when you read the news, what do you think we get wrong?"
What a farce of a press
roger loves CNN and spends his time watching Trump's crotch. So if Trump has his zipper in front it must belong in the back
ROFLMFAO !!!
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1401626642083155975
Still have yet to see A SINGLE EXAMPLE of a disenfranchised American who couldn't vote because they couldn't get an ID.
That's what CHT says. Maybe roger can quit voting and claim he is that one ???
Win-win
OPINION
Critical race theory: My Texas public school sanitized history, facilitated injustice
Kendra Hurley, Opinion contributor
My suburban Houston middle school held an annual Civil War Day. White eighth-grade-girls lolled about the cafeteria in dresses with hoop skirts and a principal, a self-professed Civil War buff, gave an animated presentation casting Confederate soldiers as misunderstood underdogs.
Perhaps because my parents were transplants to Texas, my mother had the wherewithal to recognize Civil War Day for the inappropriate celebration of plantation culture that it was. She let my sisters and me know how warped she found it all, and that the Civil War was foremost about slavery — a fact that was routinely whitewashed in Texas schools right up to 2019.
I can only imagine what the few Black families at the school thought of the event, but lately I’ve been trying. Because over the past few weeks, as numerous states and Republican lawmakers have taken steps to block schools from teaching the enduring legacy of slavery in the U.S., it has become clear that my school's sanitized approach to the Civil War was not the quirky brainchild of one principal gone rogue.
Rather, it falls neatly in line with a larger philosophy that educating kids about the outsized role racism holds in American history and policy is unpatriotic, “divisive nonsense," as Sen. Mitch McConnell called it.
AN INVENTED INSURRECTION.
How the left is trying to criminalize conservatism.
The Biden Administration is abusing state power to create the appearance of a conspiracy to commit an insurrection on January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol. The problem is the indictment they just filed with the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia—it proves there was no conspiracy.
The malfeasance of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the judges involved with the arrest and incarceration without bail of many of those who participated in the riot at the Capitol have been covered brilliantly in a series of pieces by Julie Kelly. These events are abhorrent to anyone who believes in the rule of law and better suited to a totalitarian police state removing political enemies. America is not supposed to have indefinite detention based on political beliefs, and yet here we are.
This treatment is all the more heinous when compared with the near-total lack of interest in prosecuting the year plus-long violence and destruction perpetrated by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, some of which involved the seizure and continued occupation for weeks of government buildings. This is a far step from equal treatment under the law and should bring a concerted response from all those on the right who oppose tyranny.
Many of the acts described in the indictment are Constitutionally protected, but it seems that fades away when the left doesn’t like the reason they are being exercised. They attached the term “Big Lie,” a Nazi reference, to any disputes over the 2020 elections. Now they act empowered to treat any related activities as outside the law by that fictional connection.
The government had to present their case to prove there was an insurrection planned for January 6th. Once this indictment saw the light of day, however, it was immediately apparent there was no insurrection and no conspiracy to commit illegal acts of any kind. In fact, the indictment has numerous instances of the so-called conspirators, members of a group known and the Oath Keepers and their associates, discussing the legality of certain actions, then specifically choosing to avoid violating the laws.
The only conspiracy here is by the left to deprive their political opponents of their Constitutional rights.
Essentially, the government case uncovers a conspiracy to petition the government for redress of grievances where citizens who believed an investigation into the election was needed gathered to say so. Perfectly legal and specifically outlined in the First Amendment
. This remained the entirety of the government’s case against the January 6th protesters until, in the heat of the moment, some of those involved got swept up in a mob mentality and forced their way into the Capitol.
continues and contains actual indictment:
https://humanevents.com/2021/06/05/an-invented-insurrection/
SLAVERY WAS DIVISIVE NONSENSE said Mitch
As one who grew up with an education McConnell would probably deem patriotic, I am here to point out the ridiculousness of such thinking.
What divides us is not teaching the truth, but leaving kids to fill in the blanks for the vast inequalities they see around them.
What divides us is allowing those kids to grow up into ignorant leaders.
Missing history
At the public Texas schools I attended in the ’80s, we learned that freed slaves were allotted 40 acres of land and a mule.
What we did not learn was that the federal government quickly overturned that agreement, returning those acres to their previous white owners.
We were told that America is a land of opportunity for anyone willing to work long and hard enough. We were not told that for decades many unions excluded Black Americans, thwarting them from the opportunities, pay and work protections offered their white counterparts.
And of course we never studied how banks and government made purchasing homes and property an impossibility for many Black families, foiling them from accruing wealth that would have appreciated over years and generations.
But is rehashing these hard truths really useful, some ask? Can’t we just vow to do better moving forward? The field of cognitive science provides a ready answer:
The rehashing can help. A lot.
Studies suggest that when people aren’t provided the reasons for differences in their worlds – such as why the net worth of a typical white family is nearly 10 times that of a Black family – we routinely default to what Andrei Cimpian, a psychology professor at New York University, calls “shortcut” explanations attributing “inherent” qualities to groups of people.
Bad teaching: Bans on critical race theory in schools narrow reality and sell out kids
In 1982, the year I entered middle school, for instance, a jaw-dropping 57% of Houstonians in a Kinder Institute survey said that the main reason Black Americans had, on average, worse jobs, income and housing than white Americans, was because most Black people don’t have the motivation or willpower to pull themselves out of poverty.
Research suggests that kids are especially prone to favoring these kinds of stereotyping explanations, which make it more likely for kids to regard inequities as natural rather than offenses to fix. For targeted children, shortcut explanations may become self-fulfilling, limiting what children believe they can accomplish.
The antidote to all this? Education. Provide kids with the full, historical context for the differences they see.
Children fill in the blanks
Cimpian points to a published study he co-authored in which children learned about a fictional planet which has two groups of residents, with one group being far wealthier than the other. When researchers asked kids why that was, most guessed it had to do with something about the residents, like the wealthier ones were smarter.
Kids who explained things in these terms generally considered the disparities fair.
When researchers told children what they claimed was the true explanation for why life was so different for the two groups, a remarkable divergence occurred.
Kids who received explanations regarding qualities of the residents mostly continued to accept the status quo as inevitable and acceptable.
But children given historical explanations – like that gold had been discovered by one group long ago – were more likely to say the disparities were unjust and needed to be fixed.
This past year, the Black Lives Matter movement has provided many white Americans with a crash course in the longstanding injustices inflicted on Black Americans. An annual survey conducted by Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research suggests that in the town where I grew up, that's having an impact.
Between 2019 and 2021, the share of white Houstonians who agreed that “Black people in the U.S. are still a long way from having the same chance in life that white people have,” increased by more than 20%, the biggest increase seen since the Institute began asking the question in 2013.
More Houston residents than ever before believe that poor people are "poor because of circumstances they can’t control” (80%) and that “government has a responsibility to help reduce the inequalities,” the researchers wrote.
Thankfully, my old middle school no longer does Civil War Day.
Since my days there, we’ve accumulated ample evidence that the kind of biased history education I received, and that others are fighting to preserve, is actually a recipe for preserving inequities.
We now know that a clear-eyed understanding of how things became unequal is a key first step to creating a more just world.
The question for parents, schools and policymakers, then, is no longer how to level the playing field.
IT'S WHETHER WE ARE WILLING.
BOOM: Texas Border Town with 85% Hispanic Population Kicks Out Democrat in Mayoral Election
June 6, 2021by Kyle Becker
Written by Kyle Becker
If Texas is going to turn blue by 3035, the Democratic Party might want to consider persuading Hispanic voters it cares more about them than using them as pawns in an open borders electioneering racket. On Saturday night, the donkey party got a taste of a Hispanic revolt in the Texas border town of McAllen, Texas.
“Javier Villalobos defeated Veronica Whitacre in the June 5 runoff election to win the position as McAllen mayor,” NBC 23 reported.
“Villalobos won the election with 4,744 votes to Whitacre’s 4,538 votes,” the report added. “Villalobos won with 51.11 percent of the election total.”
The election race had many conservative political observers optimistic about the odds of making more incursions into blue Hispanic electoral territory.
The Republicans are starting to accrue a larger share of the Latino vote, according to nationwide trends collected by the AS/COA. In 2020, Donald Trump gained ground in state elections even compared to his performance in 2016. Trump gained 14 points with Latinos in Georgia, 12 points in Florida, 8 points in Nevada, 7 points in Colorado, and 6 points in Texas.
The Republicans have gained in presidential elections over the past three cycles: The party has increased its share from 27 percent to 32 percent in 2020.
The Republican Party is looking to increase its gains in the midterm elections. The GOP gained a net 12 seats in the House in the 2020 elections, while flipping 15 districts red.
https://beckernews.com/boom-texas-border-town-with-85-hispanic-population-kicks-out-democrat-in-mayoral-election-39542/
guess I need to follow the "pastors" and rogers posting protocol
ROFLMFAO !!!
The old South tried to say slavery was GOOD for blacks.
Lincoln said he would believe that when whites were willing to have it tried out on THEM.
The Soul of Black Conservatism
Thomas Sowell has spent a lifetime challenging the orthodoxy on race, economics and more—and produced an impressive body of scholarship along the way.
Economist Thomas Sowell has grown accustomed to a certain type of media query, usually from white interviewers. They want to know how, as a black conservative, he has dealt with criticism from fellow blacks. Charlie Rose once asked: “How was it, though, for you . . . to be an African-American man respected by a cross-section of your peers and yet be so against the grain of fellow African-Americans?”
Mr. Sowell, 90, usually responds by challenging the premise. “I don’t know if we can say [that I go] ‘against the grain of fellow African-Americans,’ ” he told Mr. Rose. “You mean fellow African-American intellectuals. But I don’t think African-American intellectuals are any more typical of African-Americans than white intellectuals are of whites.”
In another interview, Mr. Sowell told C-Span’s Brian Lamb that black strangers regularly stop him in public and compliment his views: “When I checked out of my hotel this morning, the black security guard came over and said, ‘Are you Sowell?’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ and he shook my hand warmly and we walked—he walked me the length of the corridor and talked about this and about that. . . . So, it’s not Sowell versus blacks. It’s the black intellectuals.”
There is a long history of conflating the interests of black Americans with those of black organizations, black journalists, black academics and other elites. The media lazily continues to turn to these groups, from the NAACP to Black Lives Matter, as if they speak for all black people.
In December 1980, Mr. Sowell headlined the “Black Alternatives” conference in San Francisco. Its goal was to showcase the variety of perspectives among black politicians, intellectuals and civil-rights activists. “The people who were invited,” he began his keynote address, “are people who are seeking alternatives, people who have challenged the conventional wisdom on one or more issues, people who have thought for themselves instead of marching in step and chanting familiar refrains. . . . We have come through a historic phase of struggle for basic civil rights—a very necessary struggle, but not sufficient. The very success of that struggle has created new priorities and new urgencies. There are economic realities to confront and self-development to achieve, in the schools, at work, in our communities.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-soul-of-black-conservatism-11622226565?mod=e2two
Republicans today would enrage Lincoln.
They're trying to say teaching biased history is a GOOD thing.
Republicans try to say that Democrats
don't speak for all people,
including black people.
Blacks know they DO.
And vote accordingly.
Candace Owens
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1400473002345644033
There are people that are rotting in prison for TRESPASSING.
President Trump has been virtually silenced and wiped off the internet.
The entire Trump Family has been persistently harassed by the attorney general of New York and the DOJ.
This is @JoeBiden’s totalitarian reign.
More and more people are listening to this fantastic young black woman
I guess just not old racist white liberal men
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
The Go Fund Me campaign to raise funds for @aoc’s abuela has already passed $40,000. Today t I learned that you actually don’t need the government to do nice things for your grandparents.
Unless you’re a political hack.
#HelpAbuela
Matt Walsh
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1401205449546944516
UPDATE: “someone” in AOC’s abuela’s family told GoFundMe that she won’t take the money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire straits (and it was Trump’s fault). @AOC still hasn’t acknowledged this effort or thanked us. Here’s the email from GoFundMe: (in link)
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
This is shocking.
Is @AOC legally allowed to deny the funds? The money wasn’t for her. Abuela is SUFFERING. Why would wealthy AOC insist money be routed to Abuela from the government, but block over $100,000 from philanthropists?
#HelpAbuela
If this woman was truly in need as AOC said and then was denied these funds shich came with no strings attached this is elder abuse.
By AOC
*which
Candace Owens
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1400470056983842818
There are people who committed no violent acts on January 6th that are STILL rotting in a DC prison because our corrupt government wants to teach people who think they can stand against totalitarianism a lesson.
They are quite literally, political prisoners.
No wonder people of all colors are flocking to her
She speaks truth to power
All hands on deck.
Understanding The Urgency
Still, some activists say it’s not clear that Democrats in Washington, and especially Manchin and Sinema — the latter of whom supports the For The People Act but not filibuster reform — realize how dire the situation is.
That includes the Republican assault on voting rights in the states and in a Republican Party where 139 GOP members of Congress voted to overturn an election in January, then voted against the creation of a commission to investigate the riotous insurrection that occurred thanks to their lies.
“There is a misguided commitment to making sure that this passes with a bipartisan vote,” Ufot said. “And they appear to be willing to leverage the attacks on democracy for some sort of intellectual commitment that they have to bipartisanship, even if it doesn’t make sense. … Listen: the threat is inside the house.”
Voting rights groups are hoping to ramp up pressure on West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a key Democratic holdout on major voting rights legislation and the filibuster reform that would allow it to pass with a simple majority. (Michael Swensen via Getty Images)
Voting groups greeted Biden’s decision to place Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of voting rights legislation this week as a welcome sign that the administration is pushing democracy protection to the top of its agenda. The Senate’s confirmation of Kristen Clarke to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has also increased hopes that the nation’s top law enforcement body will soon help bolster the current legal challenges to restrictive voting laws to defend Black and brown voters who are being disenfranchised.
“We’ve been playing whack-a-mole filing lawsuits or being party to lawsuits across the landscape,” said Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP. “There is no way, considering the rapid pace in which legislative bodies are seeking to suppress the Black vote, that we will be able to keep up all our efforts without support from this administration and the federal government stepping in and pushing back on these efforts.”
Johnson is meeting with Manchin next week, and other groups may soon ramp up public pressure on the ground in Arizona and West Virginia to sway the two most obvious Democratic holdouts. They also want Biden and Harris to push Manchin and Sinema, and the White House is also planning to pressure more corporations to join the fight as well.
But anxiety over the fate of the For The People Act is intensifying, even as voting rights groups publicly insist they’re still optimistic about its chances to pass this year. For months, activists have reminded Democrats that federal action is needed, but those calls have reached a fever pitch: Even as they celebrated the victory in Texas this week, voting rights groups pleaded for help from Washington.
“We can’t just fight this in Georgia and then hop over to Florida, and hop over to Texas,” Cliff Albright, a co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, said on a press call this week. “We shouldn’t be in a state-by-state battle. We have got to have federal legislation. We need the full force of the White House and the full force of Congress to stand on the side of people, to stand on the side of democracy, to not underestimate those that are trying to turn the clock back on us
The Big Lie is not going away unless he is indicted.
Indicted for what?
Manchin would rather preserve Jim Crow on some outdated theory of bipartisanship that frankly does not exist in the same way today as it did a generation ago before the advent of Fox News and other right-wing propaganda machines on television, and of course the rise of Donald Trump,”
“I would like to see the president rise to the occasion, to use the stature of his office, the bully pulpit, to make Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema understand that this is necessary, that this is of foundational importance,” he continued. “And yes, to educate them on the ahistorical understanding that they have of the filibuster and of what will be required to protect the right to vote in this country.”
Show your plagiarism, alky.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mondaire-jones-manchin-jim-crow-bipartisanhip-filibuster_n_60bd5793e4b099fb31c93659?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001
“Sen. Manchin would rather preserve Jim Crow on some outdated theory of bipartisanship that frankly does not exist in the same way today as it did a generation ago before the advent of Fox News and other right-wing propaganda machines on television, and of course the rise of Donald Trump,” Jones told the MSNBC host.
All you do is fucking LIE.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Republicans try to say that Democrats
don't speak for all people,
including black people.
Blacks know they DO.
And vote accordingly.
Democrats defeated President Donald Trump and captured the Senate last year with a racially diverse coalition that delivered victories by tiny margins in key states like Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.
In the next election, they cannot count on repeating that feat, a new report warns.
A review of the 2020 election, conducted by several prominent Democratic advocacy groups, has concluded that the party is at risk of losing ground with Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters unless it does a better job presenting an economic agenda and countering Republican efforts to spread misinformation and tie all Democratic candidates to the far-left.
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The 73-page report, obtained by The New York Times, was assembled at the behest of three major Democratic interest groups: Third Way, a centrist think tank, and the Collective PAC and the Latino Victory Fund, which promote Black and Hispanic candidates. It appears to be the most thorough act of self-criticism carried out by Democrats or Republicans after the last campaign.
The document is all the more striking because it is addressed to a victorious party: Despite their successes, Democrats had hoped to achieve more robust control of both chambers of Congress, rather than the precarious margins they now hold.
In part, the study found, Democrats fell short of their aspirations because many House and Senate candidates failed to match Joe Biden’s support with voters of color who loathed Trump but distrusted the Democratic Party as a whole. Those constituencies included Hispanic voters in Florida and Texas, Vietnamese American and Filipino American voters in California, and Black voters in North Carolina.
Overall, the report warns, Democrats in 2020 lacked a core argument about the economy and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic — one that might have helped candidates repel Republican claims that they wanted to “keep the economy shut down” or worse. The party “leaned too heavily on ‘anti-Trump’ rhetoric,” the report concludes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-report-raises-2022-alarms-153751948.html
You were saying, pederast?
It's an undeniable FACT that President Trump delivered the best economy of my lifetime, starting with RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT for Blacks and Hispanics, 6% REAL WAGE GROWTH, no inflation to speak of, and a foreign policy that brought unimaginable levels of peace to the Middle East.
A record so successful the left was reduced to weaponizing the fucking flu to take him out.
Georgia Republican Party on Saturday approved a resolution to censure Brad Raffensberger.
The Georgia Secretary of State “failed to perform his duties in accordance with the laws and Constitution of the State of Georgia, and Republican Party values," according to a version of the resolution posted on Twitter by Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein.
The resolution cited Raffensperger for "Entering into the Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release which changed Georgia's absentee voting procedures outside the Constitutionally prescribed format set forth in Georgia law." The resolution said that Raffensperger had undermined election security by permitting "mass mailings of absentee applications by his office and third parties which created opportunities for fraud and overwhelmed election offices; rendering accurate signature matching nearly impossible; allowing ballot drop boxes without proper chain of custody; and ignoring sworn affidavits and disregarding evidence of voter fraud.”
DEMS TO SELVES: WAS IT SOMETHING WE SAID?
The New York Times reports today on an unintentionally hilarious and revealing internal study a consortium of Democrat-aligned consulting groups have produced concerning the fact that aside from Joe Biden, Democrats performed very poorly in the last election. There is special worry over the “overperformance” of Trump and Republicans with hispanics and blacks, which isn’t supposed to happen according to Democratic “emerging demographic majority” dogma that says if “we label you BIPOC, you have to vote for us.”
This comes on top of the news from out of McAllen, Texas, a city that is 85 percent hispanic and which Biden and Hillary Clinton carried easily, but which yesterday elected a Republican mayor by a wide margin. Maybe ignoring the crisis at the border is starting to boomerang on Democrats?
[...]
I suspect the problems Democrats are starting to have with minority voters goes well beyond the “defund the police” stupidity. I am guessing many hispanics, who endlessly hear Democratic leaders chant “black lives matter,” rightly wonder—what about us? I doubt they are impressed by being “included” in the broad BIPOC banner the left is offering them as a consolation prize. Are Asians being beat up largely in Democrat-run cities (and mostly by blacks the data suggest) really fooled by the left’s attempt to attribute anti-Asian bigotry to Trump? Are there really gangs of MAGA-hat wearing marauders in Oakland and San Francisco targeting Asians?
Stay woke, Dems. It’s working so well for you.
Democrats know this while not admitting it publicly. Which is why they have to cheat, or nationalize elections (same thing) to win.
Told ya so. Warned ya.
Higher Inflation and higher interest rates.
Yep.....as I have said more than once....fauci is a scientist and never says anything that is not factual....even in emails that fly over the goat fuckers head with ease!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Most of the emails are utterly mundane interactions with colleagues: talk about convening groups to coordinate research efforts, sharing news stories tracking the virus’ spread around the world, strategizing about how best to get the word out about what they’re learning.
As for the grand verification of a conspiracy that his GOP critics are looking for — a byzantine tale in which he misdirected U.S. government funds to a lab in Wuhan, China that weaponized a bat coronavirus that then accidentally escaped the scientists’ control in a freak accident? No such thing. As fierce Fauci critic Michael Brendan Dougherty conceded in the National Review, there’s absolutely “no smoking-gun evidence of wrongdoing” in the emails.
The left also lobbed potshots at Fauci throughout much of 2020, urging him to be a more strident critic of Donald Trump’s tragically dismissive response to the virus.
When the president of the United States humiliated the nation by absurdly rambling about injecting disinfectant and shining light into people’s bodies or promoted useless off-label drugs, the scientist leading the nation’s pandemic fight should have spoken up instead of just sighing or doing a silent facepalm.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Told ya so. Warned ya.
Higher Inflation and higher interest rates.
Yep.
And 'sun rising in the east' predictable after "electing" (LOL) a paste-eating dementia patient who fancies himself the next FDR and set's out to prove it by spending just as fucktardedly.
Added bonus - Fingerfuck Joe tweets to stir 100 year-old Tulsa race turds instead of recognizing D-Day.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/06/joe-biden-neglects-d-day-tweets-about-tulsa-race-massacre/
Trump's dick in his mouth again lies about biden and d day........BWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Such a waste of a life!!!!!!!! No different than your BS about Obama and his not attending d day ceremonies,.......GOP mantra.....Lie rinse repeat is all you assholes ever have!!!!!
HEY, SCOTTIE AND ALL YOU OTHER TRUMP SLURPERS HERE:
WANT TO KNOW WHAT A MESS TRUMP HAS MADE OF THE GOP?
READ THIS:
Trump’s Grievances Are the GOP’s Agenda
June 7, 2021 at 6:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Associated Press:
“Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress. Just don’t ask what they’d do if they win.
“The GOP’s embrace of Trump’s self-serving priorities has almost completely consumed the party’s long-standing commitment to
fiscal discipline,
free markets
and even the rule of law.
"That leaves Republican candidates from North Carolina to North Dakota unwilling or unable to tell voters how they would address the nation’s biggest challenges if given the chance.
“Party leaders acknowledge it could be another year or more before Republicans develop a clear governing agenda.”
________
MEANWHILE, WHY NOT JUST GO AHEAD AND PUT FORWARD, AS YOUR PARTY'S "PLATFORM," THIS:
"WHATEVER TRUMP SAYS WE AGREE WITH."
The strongest and almost the only VALID criticism of Fauci can be found in the post of 5:38AM.
He should have been even quicker and firmer about pointing out what malarkey Trump's dismissive covid ramblings were.
The grateful American public would have admired him even more then.
How trump celebrated D Day,,,,,,,bashing Pelosi and Mueller!!!!!!! Too bad rats memory is so flawed he remembers none of this!!!!!
With Normandy as his backdrop, the president took swipes at Mueller and Pelosi
With marble crosses and Stars of David marking the graves of those who died fighting the Nazis on D-Day visible in the background, Mr. Trump used the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy to bash the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in an interview with Fox News.
“He made such a fool out of himself,” Mr. Trump told the interviewer, Laura Ingraham, in a discussion taped minutes before the president stepped onto the dais with a few dozen surviving D-Day soldiers.
His remarks about Mr. Mueller, a decorated military veteran who served in Vietnam, were not particularly surprising on their own — Mr. Trump has been criticizing him for months.
But President Trump chose to make the statements in an interview that was carved out shortly before a solemn occasion commemorating one of the most consequential military victories in American history.
It was similar to Mr. Trump’s dismissiveness of the Vietnam War in another television interview earlier in the week; he had made such remarks before, but the timing, coming before D-Day celebrations with leaders of allied nations, was notable.
The conniving prick 0linsky lifted the block on "gain of function research" right before he left office -
January 9, 2017 – “lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP).”
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/09/recommended-policy-guidance-potential-pandemic-pathogen-care-and-oversight
You mean it's not covering up their suspicions that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab?
The strongest and almost the only VALID criticism of Fauci can be found in the post of 5:38AM.
He should have been even quicker and firmer about pointing out what malarkey Trump's dismissive covid ramblings were.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden Administration told a federal court yesterday that it will no longer give preferential treatment to select racial groups when awarding relief under the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. It also told the court that it will work to undo any preferences that it illegally conferred on so-called “priority” racial group applicants during the first 21 days of the program. This is a major victory for equal rights under law and a repudiation of the odious and unconstitutional racial preferences that have consistently found their way into the Biden Administration’s COVID-relief efforts.
[...]
AFL President Stephen Miller issued the following statement:
“We are pleased that the Biden Administration has abandoned this unconstitutional and racially discriminatory scheme in response to our lawsuit. But we will never be satisfied until the Biden Administration recognizes and accepts its constitutional obligations to treat American citizens equally and without regard to race in every aspect of government. It has been clear from the beginning of the Administration that President Biden intends to implement an illegal regime of race preferences across all of society – AFL will fight this unconstitutional obsession every step of the way.”
https://www.aflegal.org/news/biden-administration-caves-in-response-to-afl-lawsuit-will-end-unconstitutional-racial-preferences-in-the-restaurant-revitalization-fund
Yes, THAT Stephen Miller. The nice Jewish boy the left calls a Nazi.
LOL.
"Conniving" describes Trump
far better than Obama.
You mean it's not covering up their suspicions that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab?
______
Correct. He encouraged looking into that, even though he cautioned that the evidence might not support it.
Blogger rrb said...
The conniving prick 0linsky lifted the block on "gain of function research" right before he left office -
ASshole rat senility sneaking in again as he forgets Obama has been out of office for 5 years dayum pathetic dumb fuck he is!!!!!
Eat a pistol BWAA.
That would actually IMPROVE your IQ.
He dismissed it as a conspiracy theory even though he knew better. And there was strong circumstantial evidence that the virus escape the lab, Evidence known since early 2020.
Correct. He encouraged looking into that, even though he cautioned that the evidence might not support it.
WHAT A MESS TRUMP LEFT US IN CONTINUED:
Vaccination Rates Fall Way Off
June 7, 2021 at 6:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
Washington Post:
“Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the ‘last mile’ of the coronavirus immunization campaign into a marathon … The United States is averaging fewer than 1 million shots per day, a decline of more than two-thirds from the peak of 3.4 million in April.
“The slowdown is national — with every state down at least two-thirds from its peak — and particularly felt across the South and Midwest. … Recognizing the challenge — and the risk of missing the goal — Biden officials have mobilized thousands of organizations and volunteers.”
Democrats Face Wrenching Test on Agenda
June 7, 2021 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
Associated Press:
“Six months into the party’s hold on Washington … there is a gloomy uncertainty over their ability to make gains on campaign promises… Talks over an infrastructure package are teetering, though Biden is set to confer again Monday with the lead GOP negotiator, and an ambitious elections overhaul bill is essentially dead now that Sen. Joe Manchin announced his opposition Sunday.
“The summer work period is traditionally among the busiest for Congress, but Democrats are growing wary because time is running out for Biden to negotiate a sweeping infrastructure package and other priorities are piling up undone. The days ahead are often seen as a last chance at legislating before the August recess and the start of campaigns for next year’s elections.”
Wall Street Journal:
Biden’s agenda takes on steep GOP resistance in Senate.
BUT TAKE WARNING:
Progressive Dam About to Break
June 6, 2021 at 11:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 329 Comments
“House progressives are getting fed up with efforts to accommodate Republican senators — and Joe Manchin. Look for them to start demanding swift action — and threatening payback,” Axios reports.
“The White House is under growing pressure to accede to the left’s demand to bust the filibuster. That rule effectively requires the support of 10 Republicans for most measures in this 50-50 Senate, rather than the simple majority that most Democrats want.”
EIGHTY-ONE MILLION AMERICANS WANT ACTION TOO
WUHAN CORONAVIRUS UPDATE:
Why the Science Points to a Lab Leak. “Covid was not a hoax, but it was immediately seen by the Left as the means through which they might oust Donald Trump from the White House. (‘God’s gift to the Left,’ as Jane Fonda expressed it.) For that strategy to work, the focus needed to be here at home, on the alleged (almost entirely mythical) failures of the Trump administration. Pointing the finger at China would not only reinforce President Trump’s speculation about the virus, it would also validate the tough approach he took toward the CCP throughout his term in office. So the truth about the origin of covid had to be suppressed. That is how it looks to me, anyway.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/454450/
What I've been saying for over a year.
The left weaponized the flu to destroy President Trump.
And the payback needs to be epically and over-the-top destructive, punitive, and draconian. Scorched fucking earth. Burn the left to the fucking ground and salt the earth where they stood.
Nothing less.
ECON 101
Joe Biden has not created a single job.
Period.
The American people are return to thier jobs.
Econ 101 the goat fucker still does not understand supply and demand in economics......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Blogger rrb said...
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/454450/
Another dumbass unsupported opinion put up by the fraud rat who can't find his own ass in the dark!!!!!!!!!
Quote of the Day
June 7, 2021 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
“You can be the world’s greatest surfer and you can show up to the beach with the best surfboard you can imagine. But if there’s no waves that day, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), quoted by NBC News, on his chances if he runs for president in 2024.
ARE YOU SAYING IT'S LOOKING BLEAK FOR YOU, MARCO, WITH TRUMP DRAINING AWAY THE WAVES?
Cheney Compares Trump Claims to Communism
June 7, 2021 at 7:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) compared Donald Trump’s election claims to those of the Chinese Communist Party on The Axe Files, concluding “it’s very dangerous and damaging.”
Said Cheney:
“When he says that our system doesn’t work… when he suggests that it’s, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it’s failed — those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us.”
Congress Should Cancel Its Summer Recess
June 7, 2021 at 7:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
Jonathan Bernstein:
“By now, it’s not news that Republicans, using the filibuster and other foot-dragging techniques, are doing their best to obstruct Senate action.
"To some extent this is about their opposition to Democratic legislation. But it’s more than that. They’re also stretching out how much time is spent on executive-branch nominations they don’t have the votes to defeat, for example, and even delaying those that they don’t object to.
“To be sure, if Democrats had the votes, they’d fight back by streamlining Senate procedures to reduce the time it takes to act; for that matter, they’d also eliminate the filibuster, or at least reduce the opportunity to use it. Since they don’t have the votes, the only other option to fight back against obstruction is to add more floor time by canceling district work periods.”
Joe Biden has not created a single job.
Period.
The American people are return to thier jobs.
Precisely. We're back to the old "saved or created" bullshit, of which today's job growth is neither.
Typical democrats.
They pile-drive a $23 TRILLION economy into the fucking ground, then want credit for taking their boot off it's neck.
Of course The Democrats have the Votes.
Your team has it ALL Jamie.
Don't start with the excuse making.
Hell you, Jamie, you and your ilk told us repeatedly you "have an unstoppable mandate" & " The people have spoken" , so don't let your mangina start weeping.
Exactly
"They pile-drive a $23 TRILLION economy into the fucking ground, then want credit for taking their boot off it's neck."
They committed the largest Economic theft in the History of the United States.
They pile-drive a $23 TRILLION economy into the fucking ground,
ALL THANKS TO TRUMP AND HIS INEPT LEADERSHIP THAT CENTERED AROUNG HIM!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! BTW....nothing can fix your deranged inept mind who makes north of 150 k lira a year!!!!!!!
What democrats don't even realize is that Manchin's position on HR 1 is moot. It's as unconstitutional as the day is long and probably get's overturned 9-0.
Unlike H.R. 1, the 1990 copyright law was the subject of a congressional report, which the court still found inadequate to sustain the law because it cited “just two examples of patent infringement suits against the States.”
“Congruence and proportionality” mean a law cannot be indiscriminately broad unless there is evidence such sweeping coverage is necessary. Congress may not displace a large area of local legislation, but must selectively address specific ills shown through legislative hearings and committee findings.
This “congruence and proportionality” standard was also the basis for a ruling in 2000 upholding state immunity from lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act in Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett. The justices who dissented in the Garrett case agreed “congruence and proportionality” were essential, but they would have upheld the law because of a “vast legislative record” in 13 congressional hearings that found discriminatory treatment “throughout society in general.”
The most compelling precedent showing the unconstitutionality of H.R. 1 is the Supreme Court’s invalidation of provisions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). RFRA authorized lawsuits against state and local governments for imposing burdens on religious rights. The Court ruled in City of Boerne v. Flores in 1997 that RFRA – passed by an almost-unanimous bipartisan Congress – “reflect[ed] a lack of proportionality or congruence between the means adopted and the legitimate end to be achieved.”
Congress then held hearings “spanning three years” on religious discrimination in local prisons and in the application of local zoning laws. They resulted in the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”) which was upheld in 2005 with a unanimous opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Cutter v. Wilkinson.
The City of Boerne decision addressed whether RFRA qualified under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which authorizes the amendment’s enforcement by “appropriate legislation.” H.R. 1 invokes not only Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment but also the Constitution’s “Elections Clause” in Article I, Section 4, Clause 2.
This general congressional authorization to “make or alter regulations” enacted by state legislatures is, however, no broader than Congress’ power under the Intellectual Property Clause (Section 8, Clause 8) to grant copyrights and patents. And in her 2020 Allen v. Cooper opinion, Justice Kagan ruled the Intellectual Property Clause did not abrogate states’ sovereign immunity.
The limited “make or alter” power granted Congress in a subsidiary clause does not entitle it to enact a sweeping law that is neither “congruent” nor “proportional.” H.R. 1 would replace the authority explicitly assigned by the same constitutional section to “each State by the Legislature thereof.” If H.R. 1 is now enacted, it is a dead man walking to certain execution under binding Supreme Court precedent.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/07/even-if-congress-pretends-h-r-1-is-constitutional-the-supreme-court-cant/
(CNN)Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney accused former President Donald Trump of having committed the worst violation of a president's oath of office by inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection -- and taking a jab at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over his subsequent visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
"I was stunned. I could not imagine any justification for doing that," Cheney said of McCarthy's visit to Trump during an episode of David Axelrod's "The Axe Files" podcast, which was taped Saturday afternoon as part of a University of Chicago alumni weekend event. "And I asked him why he had done it, and he said, well, he had just been in the neighborhood, essentially."
War mongering RINO
alky,
What did Cheney have to say about Biden ?
Something about his dangerous policies ?
thanks in advance
rrb said...
What democrats don't even realize is that Manchin's position on HR 1 is moot. It's as unconstitutional as the day is long and probably get's overturned 9-0.
It definitely goes against the constitution but it probably was thought out as a step in eventually packing the court and formally creating a Banana Republic
Totalitarianism
Joe Biden's America
Earlier today Cristina Laila reported on the explosive video that was revealed during the Georgia ballot counting at the State Farm Arena where crooked Democrats pulled out suitcases full of ballots and began counting those ballots without election monitors in the room.
Trump’s legal team showed a video from the State Farm Arena tabulation center when poll workers were told to leave at 10:25 PM.
A few “workers” stayed behind and were seen pulling suitcases full of ballots out from under tables to be tabulated!
This was the most explosive video of the entire campaign season!
TRENDING: BREAKING: Ruby Freeman's Daughter Election Supervisor Wandrea Shaye Moss Is Subpoenaed for Deposition in Fulton County GA
WATCH: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table AFTER supervisors told poll workers to leave room and 4 people stayed behind to keep counting votes pic.twitter.com/AcbTI1pxn4
— Team Trump (@TeamTrump) December 3, 2020
We now have identified one of those people involved who were caught on video counting illegal ballots from a suitcase stashed under a table!
As you can see from the video one woman in a purple top was filmed helping pull out the ballots and then sitting down to count the ballots.That woman has now been identified.
Local 11 News covered the story from the State Farm Arena that a pipe had burst.
(This later was proven to be complete fraud and an excuse to kick out the GOP election observers!)
Hat tip to Christina Diggins
Alex Berenson
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1401212568371335172
1/ For 18 months the elite media intentionally conflated the lab leak and bioweapons theories as a way to call the lab leak crazy.
They’re now doing the same with the #Fauchina emails. The emails do NOT prove #SARSCoV2 leaked, or that Fauci knew it was engineered...
2/ What they prove is that Fauci was WARNED about the potential the virus had been modified in a lab and that he secretly took the warning seriously while at the same time secretly engineering a campaign to discourage any investigation into it...
3/ We do not know yet why he took that course. Perhaps - for example - he simply feared a US-China war if the truth came out.
But if you believe “the science” changed his mind in weeks last February, you have learned nothing in the last year.
Comparing what the emails said with his public comments are damning
and evil
Comparing what the emails said with his public comments are damning
and evil
Yep.
And as a result Stairmaster Joe will award the fraudulent little shit the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Count on it.
TRENDING: BREAKING: Ruby Freeman's Daughter Election Supervisor Wandrea Shaye Moss Is Subpoenaed for Deposition in Fulton County GA
Yep the daughter of the "supervisor" is one of the people processing ballots with no official observers. when it was supposedly shutdown for a fake pipe burst and when a surge of Biden votes magically appeared.
She has now been deposed.
Expect to hear the 5th
Most secure election ever
Shocking what states lead with lowest vaccination rates??????? Those GOP let moronic who think covid is still a hoax
USA TODAY
Vaccination rates fall to new lows; Mississippi last in nation for fully vaccinated people: Live COVID-19 updates
Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY
Mon, June 7, 2021, 7:25 AM·6 min read
Joe Biden
Anthony Fauci
The rate of vaccinations around the country has sunk to new lows in recent weeks, threatening President Joe Biden's goal of 70% of American adults with at least one dose by July 4.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on June 3 that 63% of adults had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, only slightly up from the 62% the week before.
Twelve states, including Utah, Oklahoma, Montana, the Dakotas, and West Virginia, have seen vaccinations sink to 15 daily shots per 10,000 residents; Alabama had just four people per 10,000 residents get vaccinated last week, according to data from The Washington Post.
The “low-hanging fruit — those people who absolutely want to get vaccinated without you telling them anything” have already been vaccinated, which has led to the slowdown, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-diseases expert, said on a White House-organized call with community leaders last week, according to the Post.
Yep the daughter of the "supervisor" is one of the people processing ballots with no official observers.
YOU MEAN LIKE THE NINJA'S IN AZ?????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Dr. Li-Meng YAN
@DrLiMengYAN1
https://twitter.com/DrLiMengYAN1/status/1401307070792667149
"Dr. Fauci does have a lot to hide, he should have been sounding the alarm well before this disease broke out."
”We Chinese live under CCP’s control, will never question that our government has motive to harm people. Over 70 years experience clearly shows that CCP regime could do everything to meet their goals, and enhance their communism ideology, including novel bioweapon #COVID19”
Fauci was all in on diverting from the leak theory
Would have hurt his and Biden's friends in China
now they have had well over a year to cover-up (lost records, missing scientists etc.)
and now Fauci changes his tune...
Comparing what the emails said with his public comments are damning
THE ONLY THING DAMNING IS YOUR CRAVEN STUPIDITY ALONG WITH ASSHOLE THIEF AND HIS TWITTER BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
"Dr. Fauci does have a lot to hide, he should have been sounding the alarm well before this disease broke out."
HE WAS YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!!!! The problem being you and the dumb fat fuck trump ignored him!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Disclose.tv 🚨
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1401219682485653505
Pentagon funneled $39 MILLION to the EcoHealth Alliance, the "charity" that funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan bio lab accused of being the source of the outbreak (Daily Mail)
The majority of the DoD funding to #EcoHealth came from the DTRA, a US military branch with a mission to "counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks".
from Fauci saying no gain of function research, to just a little with highly respected Chinese scientists to now a lot.
What a fraud
defended by the Chinese, dems and Biden.
If he goes down they go down
* and defended by VERY lo iq
Hang her for betraying our President Trump! The big steal is the most dangerous thing ever
Cheney Compares Trump Claims to Communism
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) compared Donald Trump’s election claims to those of the Chinese Communist Party on The Axe Files, concluding “it’s very dangerous and damaging.”
Said Cheney: “When he says that our system doesn’t work… when he suggests that it’s, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it’s failed — those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us.”
hey alky, you must have missed this:
alky,
What did Cheney have to say about Biden ?
Something about his dangerous policies ?
thanks in advance
Gasoline continue to trend upward at the pump.
Bidenomics
AntifaBook.com
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1401711201063690240
Kristian Anderson deleted his account @K_G_Andersen when people started noticing he was saying one thing on Twitter about Wuhan while he was saying the exact opposite in the Fauci emails
Receipts!
https://web.archive.org/web/20210602145818/https://twitter.com/k_g_andersen/status/1223310649498824704
Deleted his account after desperately deleting around 5,000 tweets
Fraud
The cover-up is just as bad as the crime here
He and Fauci need to be held to account
bio lab accused of being the source of the outbreak (Daily Mail)
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! THAT CLAIM IS BASED ON PURE SPECULATION AND NOT BASED IN FACT FUCKED UP DADDY!!!! TWITTER IS A BIGGER PILE OF SHIT THAN YOU ARE!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL Twitter.....home of the intellectual dishonest and easily brainwashed!!!!!
The cover-up is just as bad as the crime here
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!THE ONLY COVER UP IS THE BAG OVER YOUR PIN HEAD!!!!!!!!
Hans Mahncke
DAMNING image:
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1401711960157261827
Since Andersen deleted his account, I thought I'd leave this here for posterity's sake.
Jan 14, 2020
Who do you think were misleading Trump ?
Clay Travis
MORE Evidence:
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1401673076862029824
This is wild. A top “scientist” Tweeting covid couldn’t be man made on the same day he emailed Dr. Fauci saying covid looked man made. Said “scientist” has now deleted his Twitter account.
To bad these guys were covering for China from the beginning
If this isn't criminal nothing is.
And way over VERY lo iq's head
On Jan. 1, Mr. Meadows wrote that he wanted the Justice Department to open an investigation into a discredited theory, pushed by the Trump campaign, that anomalies with signature matches in Georgia’s Fulton County had been widespread enough to change the results in Mr. Trump’s favor.
Mr. Meadows had previously forwarded Mr. Rosen an email about possible fraud in Georgia that had been written by Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who worked with the Trump campaign. Two days after that email was sent to Mr. Rosen, Ms. Mitchell participated in the Jan. 2 phone call, during which she and Mr. Trump pushed Mr. Raffensperger to reconsider his findings that there had not been widespread voter fraud and that Mr. Biden had won. During the call, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Raffensperger to “find” him the votes necessary to declare victory in Georgia.
Mr. Meadows also sent Mr. Rosen a list of allegations of possible election wrongdoing in New Mexico, a state that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani had said in November was rife with fraud. A spokesman for New Mexico’s secretary of state said at the time that its elections were secure. To confirm the accuracy of the vote, auditors in the state hand-counted random precincts.
And in his request that the Justice Department investigate the Italy conspiracy theory, Mr. Meadows sent Mr. Rosen a YouTube link to a video of Brad Johnson, a former C.I.A. employee who had been pushing the theory in videos and statements that he posted online. After receiving the video, Mr. Rosen said in an email to another Justice Department official that he had been asked to set up a meeting between Mr. Johnson and the F.B.I., had refused, and had then been asked to reconsider.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of three entities looking into aspects of the White House’s efforts to overturn the election in the waning days of the Trump administration. The House Oversight Committee and the Justice Department’s inspector general are doing so as well.
Mr. Rosen is in talks with the oversight panel about speaking with investigators about any pressure the Justice Department faced to investigate election fraud, as well as the department’s response to the Jan. 6 attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.
He is also negotiating with the Justice Department about what he can disclose to Congress and to the inspector general given his obligation to protect the department’s interests and not interfere with current investigations, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Mr. Rosen said last month during a hearing before the oversight committee that he could not answer several questions because the department did not permit him to discuss issues covered by executive privilege.
Mr. Durbin opened his inquiry in response to a Times article documenting how Jeffrey Clark, a top Justice Department official who had found favor with Mr. Trump, had pushed the Justice Department to investigate unfounded election fraud claims. The effort almost ended in Mr. Rosen’s ouster.
AntifaBook.com
MIND BLOWING 2 minute VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1401681226033999872
Here is Dr Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test on his opinion of Dr Fauci
when the "hero" is actually the villain
definitely over alky's head too
TOO BAD THE INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST FUCKER DADDY POSTS EVERY PIECE OF TRIPE AND BULLSHIT HE FINDS ON THE ILL EQUIPPED TWITTER,,, THE MAN MADE COMMENT AGAIN HAS BEEN DISCOUNTED ON EVERY PLATFORM BUT THE POS TWITTER!!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
CLAY TRAVIS IS A SPORTS REPORTER YOU DUMB FUCK!!!!!!!
chard Clay Travis (born April 6, 1979) is an American political commentator, sports journalist, writer, lawyer, radio host, television analyst, media personality and founder of OutKick. He has been named by iHeartMedia to be one of two hosts of a new three-hour weekday conservative talk show which will replace the late Rush Limbaugh on many radio stations.[1] He will be joined by Buck Sexton on the program.
Mullins, inventor of the PCR test on his opinion of Dr Fauci
Opinions are like assholes except yours is exceptional large fucked up daddy......>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Hey VERY lo iq
Those are ACTUAL EMAILS and TWEETS by your boys.
It's called EVIDENCE.
It doesn't matter who is commenting on it
Look at the EVIDENCE and tell me waht he got wrong
I'll save you the time
NOTHING
Hard to imagine ANYONE on the PLANET being less intelligent than you
and you don't have a clue
Those are ACTUAL EMAILS and TWEETS by your boys.
AND YOU ARE ACTUALLY A FUCKING MORON!!!!!!!!!!! Your interpretation of the tweets is typical of trump ass sucking assholes like you!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
People who say VERY lo iq is good for nothing are wrong. He is good for one thing.
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
and that's all he is good for.
WSJ
S&P 500 Edges Higher to Start the Week
The S&P 500 was up slightly after the index rose to its second-highest close ever following Friday’s monthly employment report.
he sound an unsuspecting male makes when being penetrated by another male's hardened genitalia
The post fucked up makes every time i hand him is scrawny white ass to him on a platter!!!!!!! As predicable as trump telling a lie!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
keep bending over VERY lo iq
We expect it of you just like you know what is happening to you
You're the boards "receiver"
ROFLMFAO !!!
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1401644696821190659
No matter what Fauci did, the media will cover for him.
Enemy of the people.
Over the weekend, the NYT reported on the raging contagion of crazy in the final days of the Trump presidency.
WASHINGTON — In Donald J. Trump’s final weeks in office, Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to investigate unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, according to newly uncovered emails provided to Congress, portions of which were reviewed by The New York Times.
In five emails sent during the last week of December and early January, Mr. Meadows asked Jeffrey A. Rosen, then the acting attorney general, to examine debunked claims of election fraud in New Mexico and an array of baseless conspiracies that held that Mr. Trump had been the actual victor. That included a fantastical theory that people in Italy had used military technology and satellites to remotely tamper with voting machines in the United States and switch votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The insanity here cannot be overstated. But the intent is blindingly unsubtle.
No matter what Fauci did, the media will cover for him.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Keep posting the twitter tripe.dumb fuck.....sad your limited intellect limits you to a single source that is completel BULLSHIT.,....just like you......LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1401860950790131713
Breaking ...
Captain Crunch Brain is so rested from his 5-day weekend - he's going to try break his record and work 3-hours this week.
VERY lo iq's favorite tweeter.
Wonder if VERY lo iq can figure out who he is referring to ?
A puzzler for Denny
Including Ch etc.
Meanwhile during his otherwise low energy speech in North Carolina Saturday, Trump himself continued to call the election, “the Crime of the Century,” even as some of his minions try to walk back the notion that he might be reinstated to the presidency this August.
ICYMI: I wrote about the Doom Loop over at MSNBC Daily:
But Trump’s embrace of the story shows how the right’s doom loop of craziness works — and how it is accelerating narratives that began in the fevered imaginations of his hardcore true believers.
It should also remind us that even though an idea is fake, the consequences of a new Big Lie can be very real, and even deadly.
Delegitimizing our democracy is now central to Trump’s agenda and his hopes for a political comeback. And polls suggest that his lies about the election have influenced tens of millions of voters.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll from May found that a quarter of Americans — and 53 percent of Republicans — actually believe Trump is the "true president" of the United States.
WOW, a string of comments from VERY lo iq.
That show what he considers "substantive"
ROFLMFAO !!!
do 3rd graders still pick on you VERY lo iq ?
They wouldn't even have to break a sweat
Hey alky,
Have you figured out what side of your pants the zipper goes yet?
You are never too old to learn.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1401537931031072771
Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishment will be showing Americans how Great Donald Trump really was!
FACT CHECK - TRUE
How the trump legacy of being fucking stupid lives on in the south, in red states that holds the big lie closest to their hearts....like fucked up daddy!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Experts are concerned that states across the South, where vaccination rates are lagging, could face a surge in coronavirus cases over the summer.
A dozen states — many of them in the Northeast, including Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut — have already reached a benchmark of at least 70 percent of adults with at least one vaccine dose, a goal President Biden has set for the nation to make by July 4. But in the South, that marker is nowhere in sight for several states.
In 15 states — including Arkansas, the Carolinas, Georgia and Louisiana — about half of adults or fewer have received a dose, according to a New York Times analysis. In two states, Alabama and Mississippi, it would take about a year to get one dose to 70 percent of the population at the current pace of distribution.
Public-health experts and officials in states with lower vaccination rates say the president’s benchmark will help reduce cases and deaths but is somewhat arbitrary — even if 70 percent of adults are vaccinated, the virus and its more contagious variants can spread among those who are not.
The Election Wizard
https://twitter.com/Wizard_Predicts/status/1401672308595560454
A virologist who told that COVID-19 looks 'potentially engineered' and 'inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory' - only to later reverse course (before receiving a multi million-dollar NIH grant) has deleted more than 5,000 tweets.
follow the money
Fauci has a lot of explaining to do as well as the MSM
who will desperately try to cover it up
Anonymous JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...
Donald Trump Jr.
DUMB AND FUCKING DUMBEST!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
Junior's greatest accomplishment was shooting an elephant in Africa.....to bad it was not his old man!!!!!!
follow the money
Like trump with his taxes and paying off hookers you dumbass??????
Ryan Fournier
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1401717689547116544
BREAKING NEWS: Both President Joe Biden and the White House forgot to post on social media about the heroes who fought and died on the beaches of Normandy 77 years ago today. #DDay
They were probably busy enjoying their long weekends.
5 days for Biden
SWEET !!!
how are those separated kids at the border doing?
Oh that's right, Kamala did a flyover.
She's obviously on top of this
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! This asshole is the latests reincarnate of hitler youth movement and fucked up idol........
Ryan Fournier is an American political commentator and Republican strategist who is best known for the creation of Students for Trump during the 2016 Presidential Election. Since then, Ryan has worked with numerous campaigns and coalitions to amplify President Trump’s message and empower young Americans in the process.
Seems to me fucked up is best know for posing bullshit from twitter without regard for facts....Typical behavior of brain damaged trump slurpers!!!!
Had enough. My tweet length speech #analysis:
- Horrifying that a former president do something like this at all.
- Banana Republic meets Rodney Dangerfield.
- The Big Lie is alive and well.
- Silver lining: Too long, boring, & sad to be an effective incitement to violence
Rats go to source The Gateway Pundit once again is more full o shit than he or trump is!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Why is it only assholes and brain damaged R's read the tripe and believe it....what a fucking sad set of idiots!!!!!!
USA TODAY
Fact check: Fauci's emails don't show he 'lied' about hydroxychloroquine
Daniel Funke, USA TODAY
Sun, June 6, 2021, 11:32 AM
The claim: Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci 'lied' about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19
The release of hundreds of Dr. Anthony Fauci's emails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic has become fodder for online misinformation.
Social media users have claimed Fauci's emails contain the origins of the coronavirus (false) and show that he knew face masks were ineffective at preventing the virus's spread (missing context). Others have falsely claimed the emails, which The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, were leaked.
Now, the Gateway Pundit, a conservative website that has repeatedly published false claims about COVID-19, says the emails show Fauci "lied" about a coronavirus treatment that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
"Fauci Was Informed of Hydroxychloroquine Success in Early 2020 But Lied to Public Instead Despite the Science," reads the headline on a June 3 article, which has more than 8,200 shares on Facebook.
Similar claims have circulated widely among pro-Donald Trump and alternative health pages and groups on Facebook. According to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool, posts mentioning Fauci and hydroxychloroquine have racked up tens of thousands of interactions in the days after the emails were made public.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, did send and receive emails about hydroxychloroquine in spring 2020. But he didn't "lie" about its effectiveness in treating COVID-19.
Fact check: Fauci didn't say half of CDC, FDA employees refused COVID-19 vaccine
Hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, is not a proven treatment for COVID-19, public health officials say. Early in the pandemic, Fauci expressed interest in the drug, but he maintained that more data was needed to prove its efficacy. Fauci's emailed comments on hydroxychloroquine line up with what he said in public and the scientific consensus about the drug.
You people should be ashamed of how often you use the f word. A lot of people prefer a more intelligent and decent a use of the English language.
Conservative Radio Host Turns Against Arizona ‘Audit’
June 7, 2021 at 10:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Conservative radio host Mike Broomhead, a staple on the Phoenix airwaves, has turned against the Arizona GOP “audit” of the 2020 election results, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Said Broomhead:
“You’re turning this into the clown show that you’ve been accused of… You’re turning this into the sideshow at the state fair.”
He added: “No matter where you stand, the one thing we can all agree on is it has put a great big wedge in this community.
That to me is the worst part of this. It’s one more reason for us to stand on opposite sides of the streets and complain about each other.”
Heineman Mulls Another Run for Nebraska Governor
June 7, 2021 at 10:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
Former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman may seek his old job again, the Lincoln Journal Star reports.
But the dynamics are in play now for a little Shakespearean drama that could pit Gov. Pete Ricketts against his Republican predecessor with the possibility that former President Donald Trump might suddenly come barging on stage opposing both of them.
ha ha ha ha
Pritzker Signs New Illinois Maps Into Law
June 7, 2021 at 10:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), who as a candidate vowed to veto any partisan redistricting plan for the legislature, signed into law Friday new partisan-drawn districts for the General Assembly and state Supreme Court designed to maintain his party’s control in Illinois,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
“Pritzker, who only a day earlier indicated that he was still reviewing the final lines of the legislation,
said he was satisfied that they preserved racial and ethnic minority representation in line with the federal Voting Rights Act.”
YOU SEE, IN ILLINOIS WE DON'T MIND ALLOWING OUR BLACK CITIZENS TO VOTE LIKE OTHER AMERICANS.
LINCOLN WOULD APPROVE OF THAT, DONTCHA THINK? :-).
Democrats Want to Avoid Benghazi-Like Probe
June 7, 2021 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
Daily Beast: “Democrats understand that creating a special committee risks making an investigation into Jan. 6 a partisan circus. And Republicans are already arguing that any probe would turn into a political hit job designed to hurt Donald Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
“It’s just that Democrats don’t have many other good options.”
Taegan Goddard comments:
Insofar as the GOP’s goal with the Benghazi hearings was to deny Hillary Clinton the presidency, this model arguably works.
Then GO FOR IT!
Justices Won’t Take Up Challenge to All-Male Draft
June 7, 2021 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider the constitutionality of a federal law requiring men, but not women, to register for the military draft when they turn 18,” NBC News reports.
“As is its usual practice, the court didn’t say why it wouldn’t take the case. But three justices, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Brett Kavanaugh, said the court’s longstanding deference to Congress on military issues cautions against taking the case while lawmakers are considering whether to change the law.”
Bowman Says Manchin Is the ‘New Mitch McConnell’
June 7, 2021 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) blasted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) as an obstructionist “doing everything in his power to stop democracy” after the moderate Democrat said he would not support H.R. 1, the expansive election and anti-corruption bill, Axios reports.
Said Bowman: “Joe Manchin has become the new Mitch McConnell… Manchin is not pushing us closer to bipartisanship, he is doing the work of the Republican Party by being an obstructionist, just like they’ve been since the beginning of Biden’s presidency.”
The Beginning of the End of Democracy as We Know it?
This morning, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced in the Charleston Gazette-Mail that he’s a “no” on the For the People Act – and a no for ending the filibuster.
This is a direct in-your-eye response to President Biden’s thinly-veiled criticism of Manchin last Tuesday in Tulsa.
If it means the end of the For the People Act, it would open the way for Republican-dominated states to continue their shameless campaign to suppress the votes of likely Democratic voters – using Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud as pretext. That’s the beginning of the end of American democracy as we know it.
Manchin’s support for extending the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to all fifty states is better than nothing, but it would depend on an activist Justice Department willing to block state changes in voting laws that suppress votes, and an activist Supreme Court willing to uphold such Justice Department decisions.
Don’t bet on either. We know what happened to the Justice Department under Trump, and we know what’s happened to the Supreme Court.
So without Manchin, is the For the People Act dead? Probably, unless Biden can convince one Republican senator to join him in supporting it.
Would Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins be willing to do so and buck the voter-suppressing, Trump-dominated GOP? Or will history record that Republican senators were more united in their opposition to democracy than Democratic senators are in their support for it?
The optimist in me says Romney will do it because he’s an institutionalist who’s appalled the authoritarianism that Trump has unleashed in the GOP. The cynical realist in me says no way.
Unfortunately I agree with him.
Unless the Republicans gain sanity, the American Dream will die.
A minority party will burn The Constitution of the United States of America and for which it stands, for one and all.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the bless- ings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
Democratic Republics are fragile.
This certainly adds credence to judges NOT having lifetime appointments.......why did it take 37 years to be overturned???? Talk about legislating from the bench!!!!!
George Skelton
Mon, June 7, 2021, 8:00 AM
Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento.
"Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment," Judge Roger Benitez wrote. (Associated Press)
The U.S. district judge began his 94-page ruling sanctioning the AR-15 assault rifle for home and militia use by equating it with a Swiss Army knife.
Yes, you read that correctly.
And it’s all you need to know about the quality of the judge’s tortured opinion — even if it is ultimately upheld, heaven forbid, by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
But come on, that couldn’t actually happen. Right?
We’ll probably find out.
This is how San Diego-based federal Judge Roger Benitez — the gun lobby’s best friend in recent years — began his opinion:
“Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for home and battle….
“Yet, the State of California makes it a crime to have an AR-15 type rifle. Therefore, this court declares the Californian statues to be unconstitutional.”
And just like that, the judge threw out California’s 3-decade-old ban on assault weapons. He granted a 30-day stay while the state appeals.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has successfully championed gun controls that Benitez has previously blocked, hit the bulls-eye with his response to Friday’s ruling:
“Today’s decision is a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians, period.
“As the son of a judge, I grew up with deep respect for the judicial process and the importance of a judge’s ability to make impartial fact-based rulings. But the fact that this judge compared the AR-15 — a weapon of war that’s used on the battlefield — to a Swiss Army knife completely undermines the credibility of the decision.”
Look, I never went to law school. But I know the difference between a Swiss Army knife and an AR-15.
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