The Biden administration knew the key to a successful Covid vaccination campaign would be reaching the most vulnerable populations. But more than five months in, even a blueprint that’s worked with other ethnic and racial groups isn’t doing enough to win over Black Americans.
Less than a quarter of Black Americans had received their first Covid-19 shot as of June 7 based on available federal data, amid a weekslong stagnation that has defied the government’s ramped-up effort to accelerate vaccinations and reach the nation’s most vulnerable communities.
Mean Joe Biden is about to open up a an of whoop-ass on the black community for not following their marching orders? Apparently black people just must believe that the virus is implanting tracking devises, which appears to be the standard conspiracy theory here.
Or perhaps, like those ever-elusive free ID cards, they are having issues being able to afford the free shot or possibly not able to find their way to the clinic? If only it wasn't for slavery a century or more ago, I am sure that black people would be good to go on this.
114 comments:
I agree
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!
ECON 101
Joe Biden has not created a single job.
Period.
The American people are return to thier jobs.
It is systematic racism Scott.
Vaccine Skepticism in Black Community Rooted in History. ‘We have been used as guinea pigs and lab rats,’ Clarksdale pastor says.
February 22, 2021 Katherine Mitchell
By Christopher Johnson
Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, communities of color have been ravaged disproportionately by the virus. And as the world celebrates the distribution of vaccines, these same communities who need them most are shying away from the cure.
A Pew Research Center study found only 42% of Black Americans would consider taking the vaccine. The Royal Society for Public Health in the U.K. found that only 57% of respondents from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were likely to accept a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 79% of White respondents.
On Jan. 6, the world watched President Donald Trump supporters storming the home of American democracy to protest the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s win in an action that left five people dead.
The differing treatment of an overwhelmingly White mob in comparison to Black Lives Matter protesters underpins the institutional racism in American society.
The Rev. Edward S. Thomas, 47, of Clarksdale, Mississippi, a fifth-generation pastor, believes the events that took place on Capitol Hill will fuel vaccine hesitancy in the African-American community.
“African-Americans are weary of any vaccine supported and promoted by our government. Our history shows that we have been used as guinea pigs and lab rats, so there is a distrust there and rightfully so,” he says.
“But what happened on Capitol Hill further widens the divide in a sense of us trusting a government who allows a system whereby democracy is what it is called but it is systemic racism. We watched for hours as (some) Capitol Police opened gates and let rioters in. The things that White people are allowed to do and given privilege to do, there would not have been tolerance for African-Americans.”
The African-American community’s distrust of American medical establishment is traced back to a history of exploitation and mistreatment.
For some reasons, some people are afraid to teaching our children Thecoldheartedtruth about Americas dark past.
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/vaccine-skepticism-in-black-community-rooted-in-history-we-have-been-used-as-guinea-pigs-and-lab-rats-clarksdale-pastor-says
No, Biden will just be increasing the encouragement of blacks to get vaccinated.
The number is already increasing.
IF, Biden, Hillary,Polosi and other would not had trashed "Warp Speed", maybe more would have gotten it.
READY FOR ANOTHER SUPER HYPOCRITICAL LYING DONALD TRUMP WHOPPER?
HERE YOU GO:
Trump PRAISES Manchin for Protecting the Filibuster
June 7, 2021 at 11:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments
Former President Donald Trump called into Fox Business to praise Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for his refusal to do away with the filibuster.
Said Trump:
“It’s a very important thing. He’s doing the right thing, and it’s a very important thing.”
HYPOCRISY ALERT!
Taegan Goddard points out:
"Of course, Trump repeatedly urged Mitch McConnell to abolish the filibuster when Republicans had the Senate majority.
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WERE YOU DOING THE WRONG THING THEN, MR. LIAR-IN-CHIEF PRESIDENT?
And Mitch ignored him.
He IGNORED your Messiah?
Yes
If it's okay for the Republican Messiah to advocate for abolishing the filibuster, why shouldn't it be okay for the Democrats to do that?
Could we have a non hypocritical answer here for a change?
The legacy of the Tuskegee experiments is that African Americans mistrust the medical community
Again Jamie talks down to blacks.
Hideous how racist The Three Socialist Stooges of CHI really are.
It came from people like you Scott.
Bill Gates is not the only person implicated by such conspiracy theories. Some have claimed that the government, the Deep State, Anthony Fauci, George Soros, or a host of other people are involved. While the existing microchip conspiracy theories have varied somewhat, there has been one consistent theme: the general shortage of real scientific evidence to support such claims. Because, these days, who needs to actually back up what you have to say, right? Hasn’t “fake it until you make it” become a driving principle for so many?
Nevertheless, these microchip conspiracy theories have become so pervasive that public health officials have actually had to make announcements like the following:
Forbes must be a deep state conspirators.
CS mocking Biden.
Nice.
Asked for a non hypocritical answer, Commensa changes the subject.
But he better be careful, indicating that Trump did something wrong.
He could get himself drummed out of the Repugnant party.
The left needs to treat this like they treat Voter ID:
Blacks are too fucking stoopid to get vaccinated.
The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again.
Geez, it's almost like blacks in America are confined to a nursing home, locked down behind door alarms and needing an orderly to wipe their ass or something.
TDS crowd: "Trump wore his pants backward!!!"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/no-trump-didn-t-wear-042235917.html
A much more important thing!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease.
The Food and Drug Administration said it granted approval to the drug developed by Biogen for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
It’s the only drug that U.S. regulators have said can likely treat the underlying disease, rather than manage symptoms like anxiety and insomnia.
The decision, which could impact millions of older Americans and their families, is certain to spark disagreements among physicians, medical researchers and patient groups. It also has far-reaching implications for the standards used to evaluate experimental therapies, including those that show only incremental benefits.
The new drug, which Biogen developed with Japan’s Eisai Co., did not reverse mental decline, only slowing it in one study. The drug is given as an infusion every four weeks.
The FDA is requiring the drugmaker to conduct a follow-up study to confirm the drug’s benefits for patients. If the study fails to show effectiveness, the FDA could pull the drug from the market, though the agency rarely does so.
Biogen did not immediately disclose the price, though analysts have estimated the drug could cost between $30,000 and $50,000 for a year’s worth of treatment.
A preliminary analysis by one group found that the drug would need to be priced $2,500 to $8,300 per year to be a good value based on the “small overall health gains” suggested by company studies. The non-profit Institute for Clinical and Economic Review added that “any price is too high” if the drug’s benefit isn’t confirmed in follow-up studies.
Nearly 6 million people in the U.S. and many more worldwide have Alzheimer’s, which gradually attacks areas of the brain needed for memory, reasoning, communication and basic daily tasks. In the final stages of the disease, those afflicted lose the ability to swallow. The global burden of the disease, the most common cause of dementia, is only expected to grow as millions more Baby Boomers progress further into their 60s and 70s.
It effected several friends and relatives.
It's ugly to watch them deteriorate.
FROM FEB 1, 2017
TRUMP URGES McCONNELL TO
‘GO NUCLEAR’
Taegan Goddard 82 Comments
President Trump urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to abolish the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if Democrats block his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch,
The Hill reports.
Said Trump:
“If we end up with that gridlock, I would say, if you can, Mitch, go nuclear.”
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SO, DEMOCRATS, GO NUCLEAR!!!
THE REPUBLICAN MESSIAH HIMSELF SAYS IT'S OKAY TO DO THAT!
UNLESS YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT, THAT IS.
ONLY THEN IS IT "WRONG."
HYPOCRISY PILED ON TOP OF HYPOCRISY.
Scott, why do you let him post here?
This is the most racist bullshit I've ever seen here.
Blacks are too fucking stoopid to get vaccinated.
Democrats don't believe that, but he does.
Ch/Scottie likes to hold the Republican tent open wide enough for white supremacists, neo Nazis, Proud Boys, KKKers, Aryan Nationalists, etc., etc., etc., to feel comfortable in it.
Hypocrisy award for Scott and the former
WHITE HOUSE
Trump: I will tell McConnell to 'go nuclear' if Democrats hold up Gorsuch nomination
PUBLISHED WED, FEB 1 2017 12:05 PM ESTUPDATED WED, FEB 1 2017 1:08 PM EST
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will urge Senate Republicans to scrap filibuster rules, or take the "nuclear option," if Democrats in the increasingly tense chamber use them to block his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
After Trump nominated the 49-year-old conservative appellate judge to the top U.S. court Tuesday night, Democrats signaled they could delay the process. If they filibuster, Republicans, who have 52 Senate seats, would need 60 votes to confirm him unless they change the rule on the maneuver.
I had an answer but you keep bumping from the queue with your spam crap.
Repeat the question and give the answer.
Reverend...
You are correct. It is hypocritical for anyone to want to keep the filibuster when you are in the minority and then get rid of it when you are the majority.
Interestingly, it was McConnell and other GOP Senators who were the ones opposed to abolishing the filibuster when they had the chance. There was never a real push from the GOP senate for that.
On the flip side, it would appear that Joe Manchin is one of the very few Democrats who are not completely hypocritical in wanting to protect it two years ago and now are pushing to abolish it.
It started with the birther theory bullshit before he road down the escalator.
Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers.
The Muslim ban.
The Chinese Virus.
An interesting phenomena at my workplace...
I work with several blacks. I report to one in fact. All are amazing individuals in their own right, and my boss is a great guy. An absolute pleasure to work for.
And they're ALL vaccinated. I know this because those of us who have provided proof of vaccination are no longer required to mask-up in the office. Not that it was anything but complete bullshit to begin with.
So...
When it comes to Voter ID and NOW getting vaccinated, the left considers my co-workers too fucking stupid to comply.
How nice of the left... to always assume the absolute WORST of our fellow Americans who happen to be black.
Scott,
How can you let me post this? Where is your sense of wanting to silence me for stating an inconvenient TRUTH about how the left constantly condescends to American Blacks???
Have you no shame?
Well I never!
We are reaching the point where the American people are getting royally tired of experiencing a government that cannot deliver on much of anything.
If abolishing the filibuster can help that, the American people will probably applaud.
I guess we missed the other 4 times you posted this same BS.......Is it senility setting in goat fucker or are you just stupid?????
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
ECON 101
Joe Biden has not created a single job.
It is a simple fact of statistics that blacks have been rather disappointing in their response to getting vaccinated, and yes, the horrible Tuskegee experiment may have contributed to that.
We are not being condescending.
You are.
And by the way, which American president went out of his way to apologize for that horrible experiment.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
We are reaching the point where the American people are getting royally tired of experiencing a government that cannot deliver on much of anything.
Always the government, more and more government, the government needs to deliver, we're nothing without the government, we'll DIE without the government.
Ironically, Blogger Matt Walsh made AOC look like the blithering idiot she is, raising $104,000.00 for AOC's granny living in squalor in PR.
Raising over a hundred large without...
drum roll please...
you guessed it...
THE GOVERNMENT.
and AOC, in her infinite socialistic idiocy promptly refused the $$$, and her "abuela" remains living in "le hole of shit."
Jamie, keep to cut-in-paste.
When you wander off the reservation you post vapid crap.
The Democrats have been trying to eliminate the filibuster for decades.
Before the Nixon southern stategy, the Democrats used it to stop anti discrimination laws.
But since about 1972 the Democrats have been trying to get rid of the filibuster.
They did not do what you lied about.
The Democrats did not try to protect it two years ago.
Even during the Bush administration.
We have tremendous needs that need to be met, especially after years of Trumpian inactivity and mere obstructionism.
The American people want action on these needs.
You need to get on the list of testers
drug developed by Biogen for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Yet poor, poor, pitiful little Socialist AOC Drives a $60,000 Tesla.
When it comes to Voter ID and NOW getting vaccinated
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Please rat, what ID for voting do you think should be required?????? I recall when my paper voter registration ID was sufficient......now it has to be an official photo ID.....which can be an impediment to many citizens !!!!
"The Dixiecrats!"
SQUAWK!!!
"Nixon's Southern Strategery!"
SQUAWK!!!
"Democrats & Republicans switched sides!"
SQUAWK!!!
Sigh.
ALL a fucking lie, and all posted ad nauseam, with nothing but myths and liberal folklore to back it up.
Grand Kleagle Robert C. Byrd KKK-WV himself LED the filibuster AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
LBJ had to rely upon REPUBLICANS to pass that legislation.
Slave owners from our founding to reconstruction were DEMOCRATS, with the KKK their terrorist faction.
NONE of this has fucking changed one bit.
See a black like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas or Tim Scott leave the reservation, and holy fucking shit they are Uncle Tom, Uncle Clarence, and Uncle Tim.
But democrats aren't racist. No siree Bob. Not one fucking bit. Not even a little bit.
All that's left to do is to laugh at these fucking liars. All they have are lies and false narratives to cajole the black vote every two years. Promises that never materialize. And insults fucking galore. Too stupid, unable, too feeble, too poor, too helpless...
It goes on forever.
And it's fucking evil because the left is so fucking PROUD of it.
Please rat, what ID for voting do you think should be required??????
The same ID one needs to navigate every single other facet of American society.
The poorest of the poor, the most vulnerable the left claims to care about so much - odds are great that they're on some level of public assistance, welfare, SSDI, EBT, Section 8 housing - and you're eligible for NONE of that without a government issued ID.
So let's start there.
My email spam had this from Senator Rand Paul "Frankensteen"
Here's what we know:
Fauci knew the virus probably originated from a lab leak in Wuhan.
Fauci knew school-aged children were not at risk, though he continued to advocate for closed schools.
He told colleagues that masks you can buy in a store will do nothing to prevent the spread of the virus.
He ignored the best advice from scientists in his own field in favor of fear mongering and theatrics.
And Friend, that's just the half of it. There are 2,000 emails proving Fauci chose his own ego over the facts. Over and over again.
Democrats chipped away at the filibuster incrementally as it suited their agenda. Harry Reid stepped in it big time when he got greedy with the Federal Courts. And Cocaine Mitch promptly shoved it up his ass and snapped it off....
...As he should have.
Funny. A long, long time ago I registered to vote in Normal, IL and at that time I surely had to supply a signature and identification of some sort, consisting of a driver's license, passport if necessary, birth certificate or whatever, and home address.
In my case, I think a driver's license and home address were entirely sufficient.
Since then, I have never been asked for any id except my signature. And I don't think that's because I'm white, at least not in this town.
So why should it suddenly be any different for minorities -- and so far, it's not, at least not here.
Poor, poor alky.
Still left with nothing but plagiarisms and lies. Lies like performing multi-million $$$ commercial HVAC estimates, and being recruited away from milk cattle ranching to work a fictitious Manhattan Project while fondling his Robert Reich dwarf doll.
Opinion: Democrats have vigorously used the filibuster. It’s pathetic they now won’t pledge to protect it.
When Schumer was minority leader, he vigorously used the filibuster to do just that. Under his leadership, Democrats used the filibuster to block funding for construction of Trump’s border wall in 2019. They used it not once, but twice to impede passage of the Cares Act — forcing Republicans to agree to changes including a $600 weekly federal unemployment supplement. They used it in September and October to stop Republicans from passing further coronavirus relief before the November election. They used it to halt Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) police reform legislation so Republicans could not claim credit for forging a bipartisan response to the concerns of racial justice protesters. They used it to block legislation to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal officials, and to stop a prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion, bans on abortions once the unborn child is capable of feeling pain, and protections for the lives of babies born alive after botched abortions.
No it's not some relic of Jim Crow. No the Democrats haven't been trying to eliminate for decades. It a tool the Democrats will find handy when they are back in the minority. Much to their chagrin, eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominees has backfired on them badly.
Since then, I have never been asked for any id except my signature. And I don't think that's because I'm white, at least not in this town.
So why should it suddenly be any different for minorities -- and so far, it's not, at least not here.
And that's the fucking point, pederast.
We're not singling out minorities. YOU ARE. We want Voter ID required for EVERYONE. It's you assholes who insist that the same government ID minorities likely already have that they use to interact with every other faction of society is suddenly a bridge too far, and you have to couch it in, yep, RAY-CISM to hide the fact that you're completely full of shit.
You pieces of shit haven't changed your fucking spots since you rode the first slave ship to our shores.
Most of it occurred under, you guess it, FDR.
The African-American community’s distrust of American medical establishment is traced back to a history of exploitation and mistreatment.
Yeah, about that filibuster that the democrats have been trying to eliminate since 1972...
“After @POTUS @JoeBiden denounced the rampant abuse of the filibuster last year, we did some digging,” Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted Friday. “Republicans used it once. Democrats used it 327 times.”
https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1375471429660127236
Jamie, put some meat on this bare bone statement, what are your "needs" that you can not secure without a new transfer of wealth?
"JamesNewLeaf June 7, 2021 at 11:08 AM
"We have tremendous needs that need to be met.." Jamie
I get a kick out of the rasin farmer.
The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness.
In their uncontrolled aversion and detestation, Trump haters suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality—–and people died as a result.
By Victor Davis Hanson
June 6, 2021
Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion.
Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited—regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a Trump initiative were irrelevant—given the primordial hatred of the Left of all things Trump: the president, the person, the family.
Under the reductionist malady of Trump Derangement Syndrome, facts and logic did not matter. Instead, anything not said or done in opposition to Trump empowered the supposed existential Trump threat. Ironically, some of the most deductive and reductionist Trump haters were supposedly professionals, the highly educated, and the self-proclaimed devotees of the Enlightenment. And yet in their uncontrolled aversion and detestation, they suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality—and people died as a result.
Most Americans did not care much when the apparently sane went completely insane in their irrational hatred of Trump. Few cared whether Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) wished to destroy his career in trying to predicate his crackpot policies in opposition to Trump. Who worried that Anthony Fauci seemed to have tarnished his distinguished career by his anti-Trump triangulations? Did it matter to anyone that the obsessed Lincoln Project grifters were rendered utterly disgraced, or that the NeverTrumpers were left irrelevant and inert by their irrational and uncontrollable venom?
Yet, existentially hating everything Trump said or did—as opposed to expressing political opposition to him and his policies—did not just implode elite careers. It also turned deadly. The result of such knee-jerk revulsion was a great deal of damage to the country in general and unnecessary deaths of Americans in particular.
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Btw the former was not wearing his pants backwards..
🤣What happened to biofuels?🤣
Epic socialist utopian fail.
Jamie, put some meat on this bare bone statement, what are your "needs" that you can not secure without a new transfer of wealth?
The minority vote.
It will require a fresh mountain of free shit and bullshit for them to have a chance in 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/politics/democrats-2020-election.html
And it's why they need to cheat via HR 1 to gain an edge.
🤣What happened to biofuels?🤣
Useless ethanol blend gasoline only cost me one small engine carburetor. Stupidest fucking thing since 1.6 gal flush toilets.
Opinion by
Marc A. Thiessen
Columnist
March 21, 2019 at 3:56 p.m. EDT
Who is the biggest threat to our constitutional order? It is not President Trump.
Ever since Trump took office, Democrats have been telling us he is an authoritarian who threatens our system of government. Well, today it is Democrats who are declaring war on the Constitution. Leading Democrats are promising that, if elected in 2020, they will abolish the electoral college and might also pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices — allowing them to marginalize Americans who do not support their increasingly radical agenda and impose it on an unwilling nation.
The purpose of the electoral college is to protect us from what James Madison called the “tyranny of the majority.” Each state gets to cast electoral votes equal to the combined number of its U.S. representatives (determined by population) and its senators (two regardless of population). The goal was to make sure even the smallest states have a say in electing the president and prevent those with large, big-city populations from dictating to the less populous rural ones.
No wonder Democrats don’t like it. Today, they have become the party of big-city elites, while their support is declining in less populous states of Middle America. Just look at a county-by-county map of the 2016 election — you can actually drive from coast to coast without driving through a single county that voted for Hillary Clinton. Clinton lost in 2016 because millions of once-reliable Democratic working-class voters in the American heartland switched their allegiance to Trump.
Thanks to the electoral college, Democrats have no choice but to try to win at least some of those voters back if they want to win the presidency. But if we got rid of the electoral college, Democrats could write off voters in “fly-over” country and focus on turning out large numbers of their supporters in big cities and populous liberal states such as New York and California. Unburdened by the need to moderate their platform to appeal to centrist voters, they would be free to pursue full socialism without constraint. If voters in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania oppose spending tens of trillions on a Green New Deal and a government take-over of the health-care, energy and transportation sectors of the economy, tough luck.
The electoral college protects us from this kind of unconstrained radicalism, by forcing the political parties to broaden their appeal — which is precisely why more and more Democrats want to get rid of it. Fortunately, the framers of the Constitution required supermajorities for amendments — another wise protection against the tyranny of the majority.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/06/the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness/
We are reaching the point where the American people are getting royally tired of experiencing a government that cannot deliver on much of anything.
If abolishing the filibuster can help that, the American people will probably applaud.
Almost half of voters surveyed in a new Hill-HarrisX poll said the filibuster should remain in place.
Forty-three percent of registered voters in the March 12-14 survey said the Senate procedural tactic should be kept as is.
Thirty-seven percent of respondents said the filibuster should be limited and difficult to use, while another 20 percent said it should be eliminated entirely.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/543468-poll-majority-say-filibuster-should-be-reformed-or-eliminated
That 20% who favor abolishing the filibuster has been a staple in many of these polls.
Manchin Asked If His Negotiation Strategy Is Flawed
June 7, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 104 Comments
During an interview with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked:
“If you were to keep the idea that maybe you would vote to kill the filibuster, wouldn’t that give Republicans an incentive to actually negotiate?
Because ‘Old Joe Manchin’s out there and who knows what he’s gonna do.’
By taking it off the table, haven’t you empowered Republicans to be obstructionists?”
Manchin replied:
“I don’t think so,”
and pointed to the seven “brave” Senate Republicans who voted for a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission as evidence.
BS, Joe. If you put pressure on Republicans to do what a majority of Americans know is the right thing, namely encourage rather than discourage all our people to vote, they would be more likely to do that right thing.
Jamie, put some meat on this bare bone statement, what are your "needs" that you can not secure without a new transfer of wealth?
"JamesNewLeaf June 7, 2021 at 11:08 AM
"We have tremendous needs that need to be met.." Jamie
That 20% who favor abolishing the filibuster has been a staple in many of these polls.
That 20% is the same whack-job, far-left 20% who wanted George w Bush sent to the Hague for war crimes and actually believe the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' bullshit.
Is that all you have alky?
More plagiarism?
LOL.
Fucking pathetic.
I happen to Agree. Will Powell have the balls to Buck Neo-socialist Biden and raise rates.
""If we ended up with a slightly higher interest rate environment it would actually be a plus for society's point of view and the Fed's point of view," Yellen said
Re 12:30
I guess it's not as simplistic as Ch wants to make it sound (as usual):
Monmouth University Polling Institute
Thursday, April 29, 2021
West Long Branch, NJ –
Americans are evenly divided between those who approve of the filibuster,
those who disapprove of it,
and those who have no opinion.
The Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll also finds that nearly 4 in 10 favor reforming how the U.S. Senate uses the filibuster while about 2 in 10 want to eliminate it altogether.
Public opinion is also divided on whether specific types of legislation should be subject to a filibuster, including spending and tax bills – a category that includes two major packages recently proposed by the Biden administration.
Also, nearly half of the public would leave in place the 60-vote cloture threshold to stop a filibuster. Few Americans, though, say they are very familiar with how the filibuster works and a small but measurable number offer seemingly contradictory responses to certain questions about reform.
One-third of Americans approve (34%)
and one-third disapprove (34%)
of the filibuster when it is described as a procedure used in the Senate to block a bill from being put to a vote until a supermajority of 60 senators agree to end debate.
Another third (33%), though, have no opinion either way.
A majority of Republicans (61%) approve of the filibuster and just 13% disapprove of it.
Only 9% of Democrats approve of the filibuster, while a majority (54%) disapprove.
Independents are relatively more divided between approve (38%) and disapprove (30%).
"As with everything else in American politics, opinion on the filibuster is subject to a sharp partisan divide. However, there is a sizable chunk of the public that hasn’t really given it a lot of thought,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
Nearly 4 in 10 Americans (38%) want to keep the filibuster in its current form with no changes,
while a majority either think the Senate should reform how it can be used (38%)
or get rid of it entirely (19%).
Most Democrats would like to see some changes,
including 49% who want reforms
and 30% who want it eliminated entirely.
Just 14% of Democrats want to leave the filibuster as is.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Republicans think the filibuster should not be changed at all
while about one-third are open to either some reforms (22%)
or elimination (10%).
report.
Four in ten (41%) independents want the filibuster kept as is,
38% are in favor of reform, and
16% prefer elimination.
Those polled who initially say they disapprove of the filibuster are split between wanting to get rid of it entirely (50%)
and wanting to keep it with reforms (46%).
Among those who approve of the filibuster, three-quarters (76%) do not want it to be changed,
but 22% want some changes made to how it can be used.
Among those who initially express no opinion of the filibuster, a little under half (45%) think it should be kept with some reforms,
one-third (34%) want it kept with no changes,
and just 7% want to get rid of it entirely.
The poll asked about using the filibuster to stop six different types of bills. About half of the public supports using the filibuster to block bills on federal tax rate changes (52%),
new programs and spending (50%),
gun control (48%),
raising the minimum wage (47%),
immigration (46%),
and election rules and voting rights (46%).
Between 41% and 48% oppose using the filibuster for any of these purposes.
A solid majority of Republicans support using the filibuster to block these six types of bills
while a solid majority of Democrats oppose using the filibuster in these situations.
“There isn’t a lot of difference in opinion, but it is ironic that support registers a few points higher for applying the filibuster to tax and spending bills that the Senate can already maneuver around.
They used the reconciliation process once this year to pass the Covid stimulus, and will probably need to use it again for Biden’s infrastructure and healthcare plans,” said Murray.
The poll also asked about using the filibuster to block the appointment of nominees.
Just over 4 in 10 support using the filibuster to stop the appointment of someone to the president’s cabinet (41%, with 52% opposed)
and the appointment of a federal judge (43%, with 50% opposed).
In this case, majority public opinion is close to Senate rules, which were changed in the last decade to prevent use of the filibuster on both types of nominations. Regardless, a majority of Republicans support using the filibuster to stop these appointments
and a majority of Democrats oppose this use of the filibuster.
If the Senate decides to keep the filibuster, nearly half (46%) of Americans think the threshold required to break a filibuster should stay at 60 votes.
About one-third (32%) think the threshold should be lowered to less than 60 while 16% would actually raise it above 60.
Among those who approve of the filibuster, 74% want to keep the threshold as is,
but 16% think it should be raised above 60 votes
and 8% think it should be lowered below that.
Among those who disapprove of the filibuster, 67% want the threshold lowered below 60 votes,
15% support leaving it at 60,
and 12% would actually like to see it raised.
Half (49%) of those with no opinion of the filibuster want to keep the 60-vote threshold,
20% say it should be lowered,
and 21% say it should be raised.
In addition to the 12% who disapprove of the filibuster but say they actually want a higher – or tougher – cloture threshold,
16% who disapprove say they support using the filibuster in at least half of the 8 bill or appointment scenarios presented in the poll.
By the same token, 20% of people who approve of the filibuster in general say they oppose its use in at least half of these legislative situations.
“It’s really important to put these numbers in context. A sizable proportion of the public doesn’t pay close attention to how the filibuster actually works. That leads to some contradictory views on filibuster reforms and a default position for many to stick with the status quo,” said Murray.
Just 1 in 5 (19%) Americans say they are very familiar with how the Senate filibuster works
while another 40% are somewhat familiar.
Slightly over 1 in 10 are not too (10%) or not at all (2%) familiar with it and another 29% have not heard of the filibuster at all.
Americans who are at least somewhat familiar with the filibuster are split between approving of it (45%) and disapproving of it (41%), while 15% have no opinion.
Those who are unfamiliar or have not heard of the filibuster are much more likely to hold no opinion of it (58%) than either
approve (18%)
or disapprove (24%) of it.
Americans who are 55 or older (67%) are much more likely to be at least somewhat familiar with the filibuster process than younger Americans (48% of those 18 to 34 and 58% of those 35 to 54). White Americans (64%) are more likely than Americans of color (47%) to be familiar with the filibuster, as are people with a college degree (74%) compared to those without one (52%). There are no significant differences in familiarity by party.
The Monmouth University Poll was conducted by telephone from April 8 to 12, 2021 with 800 adults in the United States. The question results in this release have a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points. The poll was conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, NJ.
Carolyn Lau, Research Associate, assisted with development of the questions and analysis for this
Yep, good job Jamie
Spam.
Can't actually debate.
The media was fixated on "unexpectedly" during the "Lost Years", now the media has a new word they are fixated upon, "headwind".
The can't/ won't blame bidenomics, so they use new headwinds for the Failures.
"$100 + oil prices" seem to be coming .
$100 oil, ouch.
"Traders have alighted on what some believe to be a one-way bet in the world’s most important commodity market: oil prices going to $100 a barrel.
They have scooped up call options tied to Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude-oil prices reaching $100 by the end of next year. Oil prices haven’t topped that milestone since 2014, when a gush of U.S. crude depressed energy markets.
Owners of $100 options—now the most widely owned WTI call contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange" wall Street Journal
So Reverend...
The problem is that there are three positions on the filibuster
leave as is
Make it harder to use
Eliminate it
Eliminate (which is what Democrats want to do) is consistently favored by about 20% or less.
The idea of making Senators go back to the literal filibuster of reading out of the dictionary to hold the floor would not actually prevent the filibuster. Senators ended up taking turns, etc... But they also held up all other business, so that would not be an option for the Senate. They would never approve that measure.
So perhaps the idea might be to see how many of the "making it harder" would actually make a determination to "eliminate it".
I suspect they believe that they are providing a compromise position (where none really occurs). But eliminating the Filibuster completely overhauls our political system and would eliminate bi-partisanship. People overall do not favor a partisan system where one side controls everything. They strongly prefer bi-partisanship to totalitarianism.
And let's be serious.
The Democratic agenda is not popular enough with the general public to put even an ounce of pressure on Republicans to support it. If Democrats were offering an overwhelmingly popular agenda, then Republicans would be forced to support it or be cast out in 2022 as "obstructionists".
And let's be serious.
The Democratic agenda is not popular enough with the general public to put even an ounce of pressure on Republicans to support it.
And there's the crux of the biscuit.
Ironically it's why dems need to pull shit like eliminating the filibuster IN ORDER TO pass H.R.1, IN ORDER TO nationalize our elections IN ORDER TO pass their agenda via sleight of hand.
Ultimately there is nothing BUT trickery, sleight of hand and false narratives once you peel back the curtain on the left's agenda.
Who else in their right mind insists upon elimination of the filibuster, insists upon packing the courts, and insists upon statehood for DC? It's those who wish to secure power for ever and ever by any means necessary. But it's the GOP who is the existential threat to democracy. Nice psychological projection... again.
Yeah right.
Monmouth DEMOGRAPHICS (weighted)
Self-Reported
23% Republican
45% Independent
32% Democrat
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_042921/
Don't you just love a poll that over-samples democrats by 9 whole points?
LOL.
Anything the former guy says publicly can only hurt the GOP now. But do not expect them to get the message. They will continue to worship at the shrine Of Trump, a man who is defeated, lost both sides of the Congress is not germane to anything happening in this great country. And this worship will continue to be an undoing for them.
The Whigs of the 21st century.
Joe Manchin’s Incoherent Case for Letting Republicans Destroy Democracy
Jonathan Chait
What does Joe Manchin want? The inscrutable whims of the West Virginia senator and 50th Senate vote have always controlled the future of the Biden administration’s domestic agenda. As such, Manchin’s desires are the subject of daily speculation and the vessel into which his party has projected a mix of hope and rage.
It would be a relief of sorts if Manchin would simply tell us what he wants. The problem is that his statements frequently conflict with each other. (On infrastructure, he has alternatively demanded that the bill be enormous, that it be fully paid for, and obtain Republican support, all of which are individually difficult and collectively impossible.) His position on voting rights is, if anything, even less clear.
In an op-ed yesterday, Manchin laid out a series of propositions that purport to explain his position, but upon close inspection make it difficult to understand what he believes or wants.
The internal contradiction of Manchin’s position is summarized in the first two sentences. The first one establishes that the right to vote is fundamental: “The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics.” But in the next line, he qualifies that this right can “never” be protected in a partisan fashion: “Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.”
Is your dog 7 years or older? You’ll…AdHill's Pet
Here we have two values in conflict: the right to vote, and the evil of partisan voting laws. Manchin claims the first to be “fundamental,” but if he is unwilling to violate the second value to secure it, then it clearly isn’t.
Perhaps Manchin is implying that, in his hierarchy of values, bipartisanship trumps all else. And he does, quite hopefully, propose a different bill to protect voting:
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would update the formula states and localities must use to ensure proposed voting laws do not restrict the rights of any particular group or population. My Republican colleague, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has joined me in urging Senate leadership to update and pass this bill through regular order. I continue to engage with my Republican and Democratic colleagues about the value of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and I am encouraged by the desire from both sides to transcend partisan politics and strengthen our democracy by protecting voting rights.
So what happens if and when this bipartisan bill fails? Well, then the voting system will be determined by a series of state-level vote-suppression laws, all of which will have been enacted on a party-line basis. (Note that none of the 50 states have ever sought to impose their own supermajority requirement, despite its putative value in protecting minority rights.)
Maybe Manchin thinks it’s fine for states to pass Republican-only voting restrictions. Or maybe he thinks it’s bad, but less bad than overriding it with a national-level bill to protect voting rights that requires curtailing the filibuster.
But Manchin doesn’t think that. He explicitly argues that this would “destroy” democracy: “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.”
Destroying democracy sounds pretty bad. Indeed, that description would seem to be the worst possible outcome. The only way to prevent that outcome would be either to weaken or abolish the filibuster to pass voting protections, or to threaten to do so as leverage to get Republican support. But Manchin flatly rules out either, asserting, “I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.”
Why is he choosing this? Because, Manchin argues, “Voting and election reform that is done in a partisan manner will all but ensure partisan divisions continue to deepen.” And that is probably correct: Partisan divisions are likely to continue deepening if the Senate enacts protections for Americans’ right to vote. They will also probably continue deepening if it doesn’t. Partisan divisions have been deepening for a long time.
The key difference is that, if the Senate fails to act, then we’ll have deepening partisan divisions plus state-level partisan voting restrictions that, in Manchin’s own estimation, will destroy democracy. And that, somehow, is the outcome Manchin says he has chosen.
Why does 4F-Alky hide behind so many monikers?
Alky has his prissy little dander up, hence the Blue-Anon plagiarism.
Our federal criminal system has successfully recovered millions of ransom dollars.
The Justice Department on Monday is expected to announce it has successfully seized millions of dollars in cryptocurrency Colonial Pipeline paid to the cyber criminal group Darkside following last month's ransomware attack that led the pipeline to briefly shut down its operations, according to a seizure warrant unsealed this afternoon.
Department officials are expected to announce the seizure in a news conference Monday afternoon, sources familiar confirmed to ABC News. News of the seizure was first reported by CNN.
Joseph R Biden Jr. President of the United States of America and protect our troops.
With Beef price up 10% you.
The poor and elderly are being priced out of the ability to b.b.q.
This will not be another Helsinki treason case.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the administration will address ransomware, which he called a “national security priority” at every stop of President Biden’s first foreign trip as President, saying the US hopes to see commitments from its allies on how to address cyber threats.
“Ransomware is a national security priority, particularly as it relates to ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in the United States, and we will treat it as such in the G7, we will treat it as such at every stop along the way on this trip,” Sullivan said at Monday’s White House press briefing.
Pressed by CNN’s Phil Mattingly on what specific commitments the US would like to see on ransomware coming out of the G7 and NATO summits, Sullivan said he hopes there is the start of an “action plan” between the US and its allies across a number of critical areas in regards to continued ransomware threats.
“First, how to deal with the increasing the robustness and resilience of our defenses against ransomware attacks collectively. Second how to share information about the nature of the threat among our democracies. Third, how to deal with the cryptocurrency challenge which is lies at the core of how these ransom transactions are played out,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan added he wants to address how the countries at the G7 can “collectively speak with one voice to those countries, including Russia, that are harboring or permitting cyber criminals to operate from their territory.”
This may be as dangerous as Pearl Harbor attacks by the Japanese navy.
The Biden administration Sunday confronted the implications of a sudden and grave national security challenge as ransom-demanding cyber hackers target the staples of American life -- food, gas, water, hospitals and transport.
The assaults, which have led the FBI director to make comparisons to 9/11, are targeting the country's vulnerable infrastructure as it struggles back to life after pandemic shutdowns and are putting civilians on the front lines of an invisible conflict likely to defy quick fixes to lessen the threat.
They leave President Joe Biden, who took office amid multiple crises, with thorny dilemmas about how to respond without escalating a full-on international cyber war and expose him to new political vulnerability. Many of the attacks appear to be the work of criminal gangs on Russian soil, heaping more pressure on the President's already tense, high-stakes summit next week with President Vladimir Putin during his first foreign trip.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a congressional hearing on Monday that Biden would make clear when he saw the Russian leader that "states cannot be in the business of harboring those who are engaged in these kinds of attacks."
His comment came after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Sunday warned that "very malign actors" had the US in their sights after attacks on a pipeline, government agencies, a Florida water system, schools, health care institutions and, even last week, the meat industry and a ferry service to millionaire's playground Martha's Vineyard.
"Even as we speak, there are thousands of attacks on all aspects of the energy sector and the private sector generally ... it's happening all the time," Granholm told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
These unrivaled attacks have lead to shortages of beef and chicken and pork and vegetables.
The hackers are attacking all of them.
USSC Again, votes 9-0 With Trump and against Biden.
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking “green cards” to remain in the country permanently.
The designation applies to people who come from countries ravaged by war or disaster. It protects them from deportation and allows them to work legally. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
These unrivaled attacks have lead to shortages of beef and chicken and pork and vegetables.
The hackers are attacking all of them.
Under Trump, Putin didn't fuck with us.
Under Diddlefingers Joe he's having his way with us.
Embrace the suck, alky.
Embrace the fucking SUCK.
Roger Amick said...
The Biden administration Sunday confronted the implications of a sudden and grave national security challenge as ransom-demanding cyber hackers target the staples of American life -- food, gas, water, hospitals and transport.
The assaults, which have led the FBI director to make comparisons to 9/11
I see alky has moved on from trespassers being like 9/11.
Putin will be happy to see Joe and his success in closing America's pipeline while opening Russia's.
They will probably share a toast.
Does anyone know if this was part of Hunter earning his $3.5 million from Moscow ?
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
$100 oil, ouch.
Better chance of you developing a working brain.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Maybe you can finally provide a legit reason why gas prices are going up today.....
Really, Roger now believes meat price spikes sole reason for a 10% rise y.o.y. is because of hacking.
God, Roger, you are the champion of being spectacularly wrong 🏆
Enjoy your only feeding from me Troll Denny.
I gave you my answer on why gas
Has gone up.
will be happy to see Joe and his success in closing America's pipeline while opening Russia's.
You really must enjoy being a stupid fucking asshole rat.......try taking your head out of you stupid white ass mr makes north of 150k......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! and pigs can fly....LOLOLOLOLOL
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decided Sanchez v. Mayorkas on Monday, ruling that a married couple who fled earthquakes in El Salvador cannot receive green cards even though they have been lawfully in the U.S. for 20 years and received “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS).
The ruling, which has potential to affect hundreds of thousands of immigrants with TPS was not unexpected, but is being hailed as evidence of the urgency to create a “pathway to citizenship” for TPS holders and other immigrants.
It doesn't matter to the dreamers who came here as children.
Neo-socialist party of Biden.
IF, they lived their actual lives like they talk, could reduce the prices of gas, housing , food and water within a week.
Exactly.
"Putin will be happy to see Joe and his success in closing America's pipeline while opening Russia's.
They will probably share a toast.
Does anyone know if this was part of Hunter earning his $3.5 million from Moscow?"
WashPost Publisher Slams Biden for 'Unprecedented Assault' on Media
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has pursued an "unprecedented assault on American news organizations" under President Joe Biden, The Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan argued in an opinion article on Monday.
After it was revealed last month that the Department of Justice under the Trump administration had sought subpoenas to obtain records belonging to journalists from several media organizations, Biden said he would not "let that happen" in his administration, according to The Hill.
But a lawyer for reporters at The New York Times said the Biden administration had imposed a gag order on the journalists in an attempt to prevent the probes from becoming public and unsuccessfully tried to obtain their email logs.
Ryan wrote that "This escalation, on Biden’s watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing"
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fred-ryan-biden-media/2021/06/07/id/1024160/
WOW, the FAKE NEWS Washington Post and New York Times both calling out the Biden administration for attacking the lap dog press
Guess asking softballs is not enough.
Sen. Joe Manchin (Dixiecrat) has taken his place in the long history of using the filibuster to strip voting rights from Black people.
drefanzor
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/drefanzor/status/1393000875170295808
Joe Biden's America
He's rising everyone up
Hey alky have you tried the amazing revelation you learned yesterday and tried wearing your pants with the zipper in front yet ?
Like President Trump.
Or are you leaving it in back because of Trump ?
Wow, 4F-Alky went all in on dealing Sen. Minchin the racist card.
🤣
Roger AmickJune 7, 2021 at 3:10 PM
Sen. Joe Manchin (Dixiecrat) has taken his place in the long history of using the filibuster to strip voting rights from Black people.🤣
My hope is other Seat holding Democrats are Treating Joe like Alky is.
Joe Biden is president of the United States.
On Wednesday, I depart for Europe on the first foreign travel of my presidency. It is a trip stacked with meetings with many of our closest democratic partners — including the Group of Seven nations, our NATO allies and the leadership of the European Union — before concluding by meeting with Vladimir Putin. In this moment of global uncertainty, as the world still grapples with a once-in-a-century pandemic, this trip is about realizing America’s renewed commitment to our allies and partners, and demonstrating the capacity of democracies to both meet the challenges and deter the threats of this new age.
Whether it is ending the covid-19 pandemic everywhere, meeting the demands of an accelerating climate crisis, or confronting the harmful activities of the governments of China and Russia, the United States must lead the world from a position of strength. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan and our domestic vaccination strategy, our economy is now growing faster than at any time in almost 40 years. We have created more jobs in the first four months of our administration than under any other president. Wages are increasing for American workers. And, as America’s economic recovery helps to propel the global economy, we will be stronger and more capable when we are flanked by nations that share our values and our vision for the future — by other democracies.
That’s the agenda I will advance at every stop. In the United Kingdom, after meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to affirm the special relationship between our nations, I will participate in the G-7 summit. This group of leading democracies and economies has not met in person in two years due to the coronavirus. Ending this pandemic, improving health security for all nations and driving a robust, inclusive global economic recovery will be our top priorities.
Already, the G-7 finance ministers have made an unprecedented commitment to build momentum for a global minimum tax rate of at least 15 percent to end the race-to-the-bottom on corporate taxation. And with the United States back in the chair on the issue of climate change, we have an opportunity to deliver ambitious progress that curbs the climate crisis and creates jobs by driving a global clean-energy transition.
Just as it does at home, honing the ability of democracies to compete and protecting our people against unforeseen threats requires us to invest in infrastructure. The world’s major democracies will be offering a high-standard alternative to China for upgrading physical, digital and health infrastructure that is more resilient and supports global development.
As new technologies reshape our world in fundamental ways, exposing vulnerabilities like ransomware attacks and creating threats such as invasive AI-driven surveillance, the democracies of the world must together ensure that our values govern the use and development of these innovations — not the interests of autocrats.
Those shared democratic values are the foundation of the most successful alliance in world history. In Brussels, at the NATO summit, I will affirm the United States’ unwavering commitment to Article 5 and to ensuring our alliance is strong in the face of every challenge, including threats like cyberattacks on our critical infrastructure.
While in Brussels, I’ll meet with the president of the European Commission and the president of the European Council to discuss how the United States and Europe can work in close coordination on global challenges. We will focus on ensuring that market democracies, not China or anyone else, write the 21st-century rules around trade and technology. And we will continue to pursue the goal of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
So, when I meet with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, it will be after high-level discussions with friends, partners and allies who see the world through the same lens as the United States, and with whom we have renewed our connections and shared purpose. We are standing united to address Russia’s challenges to European security, starting with its aggression in Ukraine, and there will be no doubt about the resolve of the United States to defend our democratic values, which we cannot separate from our interests.
In my phone calls with President Putin, I have been clear and direct. The United States does not seek conflict. We want a stable and predictable relationship where we can work with Russia on issues like strategic stability and arms control. That’s why I acted immediately to extend the New START treaty for five years and bolster the security of the American people and the world.
At the same time, I have also imposed meaningful consequences for behaviors that violate U.S. sovereignty, including interference in our democratic elections. And President Putin knows that I will not hesitate to respond to future harmful activities. When we meet, I will again underscore the commitment of the United States, Europe and like-minded democracies to stand up for human rights and dignity.
This is a defining question of our time: Can democracies come together to deliver real results for our people in a rapidly changing world? Will the democratic alliances and institutions that shaped so much of the last century prove their capacity against modern-day threats and adversaries? I believe the answer is yes. And this week in Europe, we have the chance to prove it.
Cumalla Harris is in well over her head at the presser where she got asked actual news worth questions.
Not the Tweetdent of the United
At the same time, I have also imposed meaningful consequences for behaviors that violate U.S. sovereignty, including interference in our democratic elections. And President Putin knows that I will not hesitate to respond to future harmful activities. When we meet, I will again underscore the commitment of the United States, Europe and like-minded democracies to stand up for human rights and dignity.
This is a defining question of our time: Can democracies come together to deliver real results for our people in a rapidly changing world? Will the democratic alliances and institutions that shaped so much of the last century prove their capacity against modern-day threats and adversaries? I believe the answer is yes. And this week in Europe, we have the chance to prove it.
Is Joe going to take Putin to the woodshed for the Russian bounties ?
The one alky still believes
Maybe someone can ask about the $3.5 million Hunter got.
Or why their pipeline is good but ours is bad.
And if a pipeline is the safest way to transport oil and gas.
I hope Russia doesn't treat America like China recently did.
embarrassing
Allen: So, where does this bill stand right now? I know Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s going to call a special session. Do you anticipate that that’s going to happen?
DeVore: I do. I think that probably we’ll see it sometime after the 4th of July weekend, by Independence Day. And the interesting thing, politically, speaking as a former lawmaker, I think, the Democrats in Texas are on really thin ice here, and for a couple of reasons.
No. 1, the issue of voter ID with mail-in ballots is approved by 81% of Texas voters. And that’s with the same polling firm that we hired that Gov. Abbott uses, right? I mean, these guys are very well-regarded in the state of Texas … . That’s No. 1. So, you have majorities of even Democrats who support having mail-in ballots, having some of the same safeguards as voting in person does. So, that’s No. 1.
No. 2, when they walked out, they also killed a very crucial bail reform bill. Now, because of court rulings, the existing bail system in the state of Texas has some very significant weaknesses that if you are a, let’s say, a violent felon who gets arrested on a new violent charge, where you are accused of shooting somebody or stabbing somebody, but you have money, you can make bail.
And what happened about a year or two ago is that exact thing happened out in Houston, and then the person who made bail went out and killed a police officer. Well, we haven’t fixed that. And, specifically, it hasn’t been fixed because Democrats walked out on their job.
And so, what I think is very dangerous for them politically is that between now and the special session, until they actually come back and don’t walk out, if there are any incidents that happen where you have a convicted felon or somebody with a known violent record, but has the money to make bail because we didn’t introduce risk assessments into the process, and kill somebody, heaven forbid, that’s on the Democrats.
They had a chance to fix it, and they walked off their jobs. And so, I’m not sure that their leadership is going to want to keep this charade up much longer, because every month that goes by where they don’t fix that is another month where they could see some very powerful … hit pieces. Hit them in the mail come campaign time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/07/will-california-expats-turn-texas-blue-heres-the-surprising-polling-data/
And Neo-socialist Biden has is on the wrong side of both of these.
"United States voters remain overwhelmingly favorable to economic nationalist policy prescriptions, a survey reveals.
A survey from the liberal Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta, finds that voters’ top foreign policy priorities are protecting jobs for Americans, 47 percent, and reducing illegal immigration to the U.S., 42 percent."
Product of Socialism
"Roger AmickJune 7, 2021 at 2:49 PM
These unrivaled attacks have lead to shortages of beef and chicken and pork and vegetables.
The hackers are attacking all of them."
Unbelievablely and Spectacularly wrong.
Roger Amick said...
Joe Biden is president of the United States.
WOW.
Did he have his name tag on ???
or were you looking at his zipper ?
Roger, what effect will Biden's black farmers have on beef, pork, chicken, fish , Turkey and grain prices?
20,000 this year and 3,200,000 me acres coming on line.
Goat fucker....what effect will it be when you go away and leave us alone????????? Your POS spread is just a burden to the country as you provide nothing of worth to society ......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
This of course is an offensive insult. But it also shows the level of desperation progressives have about their agenda.They are acting stupidly and won't be happy unless Manchin crosses the aisle.
Sen. Joe Manchin (Dixiecrat) has taken his place in the long history of using the filibuster to strip voting rights from Black people.
Yep, the very last thing the three socialist Stooges of CHT are able to do is have a debate on their posts and Biden's policies.
CS , Roger really knows how to drive over any Democrat with an independent voice/vote.
In a first for Cumalla
"Harris tells migrants: 'Do not come, do not come'"
First for the goat fucker....another award winning useless post.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! The last thing the goat fucker has is the ability to post gibberish with a flourish!!!!! LOLOLOL
IRS Records Reveal How the Wealthiest People AVOID Income Tax
June 8, 2021 at 7:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments
ProPublica has obtained “a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
“Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system:
that everyone pays their fair share
and the richest Americans pay the most.
"The IRS records show that the wealthiest can — perfectly legally — pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.”
IT IS LONG PAST TIME FOR THIS TO CHANGE.
And by the way, that's the REAL insurrection that's been going on.
Warren Buffett admitted it when he said that "class warfare" has been going on for a long time, and it's HIS enormously wealthy class who've been winning it -- against the rest of us.
"FAIR SHARE."
BS!
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