For a man who says he knows nothing about his son’s business dealings, Joe Biden keeps popping up in emails that point to a different conclusion. That laptop of Hunter Biden’s that most of the American media has chosen to ignore has produced another interesting story. As attorney Jonathan Turley reasons, it appears that Joe Biden is, in fact, aware that his son peddles influence and helped him do so as vice-president.
While Hunter and Cooper were working on their business plans, they managed to get the billionaires Slim, Velasco and Magnani a private ‘meeting’ with then-vice president Joe Biden.
Hunter and Cooper attended. Photos on Hunter’s laptop dated November 19, 2015 show the six men smiling and hugging in the meeting in Joe Biden’s vice presidential residence at Number One Observatory Circle, Washington DC. Emails also show the billionaires met with Joe at the White House. It is unclear what, if anything, Joe Biden discussed with the Mexican billionaires at their meetings and phone call.
Not only was the President "impeached" for suspecting that Hunter Biden's relationship in the Ukraine might not be on the up and up and that Joe might have been involved, but the media ignored the story (or even implied it was false) and social media banned any mention of it.
Now it might not seem serious that Hunter Biden leveraged his Father's Vice Presidency in his private business interests, but such a thing is actually criminal. It doesn't even really matter what (if anything) was discussed at these meetings. When you are a powerful political figure, you are not allowed to use that influence to help your family or close friends in any way. The quid pro quo is the meeting. Not what was discussed (which we know nothing about and are generally incurious about it).
Moreover, this was all denied at the time. Joe lied to the American public on numerous occasions (including the debates) when he suggested that he had no knowledge of Hunter's business dealings, he had no involvement, and he certainly never intervened or met with any of Hunters business associates. I seem to recall (however) that these questions posed by the media were not so much posed as accusation, but rather simply posed so that Slow Joe could publicly deny them as the media all bobbed their head up and down in obedient agreement. Good journalism, huh?
Under normal circumstance (as in any time in American history other than the present) this would be treated as a scandal. But even knowing that Trump was right about Hunter, Ukraine, and Joe's involvement and even knowing that they were lied to by Joe Biden, the media will still imply that Trump was in the wrong and Biden was in the right here. They cannot help themselves.
As the media says... Democracy dies with transparency. Democracy needs the media bias to exist in the mold that they hope it will.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will not be attending former President Trump’s rally in Sarasota, Fla., on Saturday amid ongoing recovery efforts following the deadly condo building collapse in Surfside, Fla.
“We can confirm that the Governor will not attend the rally in Sarasota. He spoke with President Trump, who agreed that this was the right decision, as the Governor’s duty is to be in Surfside making sure the families and community have what they need in the aftermath of the tragic building collapse,” press secretary Christina Pushaw said in a statement to The Hill.
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Trophy Kill: Trump CFO Does Perp Walk Over Corporate Perks
Yesterday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James paraded triumphantly in front of hundreds of cameras to charge the Trump Organization and its finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, 73, with a 15-count indictment for failing to pay taxes on corporate perks. Weisselberg was a trophy defendant that needed to be prominently displayed. James ran for Attorney General on the pledge to get Trump and his associates. The excitement around the courthouse itself had the feel of a thrill kill as the heavily Democratic city celebrated the arrest of someone close to Trump.
I admittedly view these cases through the lens of a longtime criminal defense attorney but few recognized the obvious problem of a big hunt and small game. It is not that Weisselberg himself is small game, he was a close associate at the top of this company. The charges are small game when these prosecutors pledged to pursue Trump and alleged major crimes. However, the charges are based on violations that are ubiquitous among corporate executives and rarely the subject of such a major prosecution. If prosecuting untaxed perks was really a focus of these offices, they would have to frog march half of Manhattan to the hoosegow.
Nevertheless, the New York Times declared “the charges represent a major milestone for Mr. Vance, a Democrat who twice beat Mr. Trump at the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle to obtain the former president’s tax records.” Indeed, this effort has been going on for years and I also supported Vance’s right to gain such tax records. I stated repeatedly that I believed that the Trump arguments against turning over such records to Congress and prosecutors were unsupportable from a legal basis.
However, one can recognize that major victory in obtaining Trump’s taxes without inflating the significance of this indictment of his former CFO. The piling on of charges is clearly designed to get Weisselberg to flip against Trump. Standing alone, the case is hardly impressive. These are tax reporting violations that go back to 2005 and had nothing to do with Trump’s presidency. This was not Russian collusion or Ukrainian coercion to hush money payments to strippers. It was a failure to tell the IRS that Weisselberg was using cars and apartments paid for by the Trump organizations as well as other benefits.
That did not stop the “bag and brag” quality of the event held at the courthouse. People and many news outlets celebrated that a Trump associate was being handcuffed for anything. However, as a trophy kill, this is hardly enough to mount let alone brag out.
Moreover, the failure to pay taxes on benefits is usually a matter addressed civilly not criminally. If the prosecutors can prove the alleged effort to conceal the benefits, that certainly makes the matter more serious but this is not a big game charge eve if this is a major figure in the Trump company. It is of course possible that there are major criminal charges coming and that this is just the first small salvo. However, it would be difficult to nail Trump on such tax allegations over perks without showing knowledge and involvement in the tax omissions.
The prosecutors have alleged that as much as $1.76 million in benefits should have been taxes since 2005. Putting aside the common inflation of such valuations by prosecutors, that is a lot of money. It is result of adding everything from cars to apartments to wifi to holiday gift accounts. I expect some of these should have been taxed, but reading the indictment leaves one wondering how many executives fail to include car and other benefits as income, particularly going back to 2005.
I have made an analogy to Major League Baseball cracking down on substances on the hats and arms of pitchers. Pitchers knew that it was illegal but saw this as a common practice. Umpires did not monitor or punish pitchers for adding substances for better adhesions. As I said yesterday, this is obviously far more serious as an act. This is an alleged crime and a lot of money, particularly the payment of tuition which are hard and reliable figures. However, the question is whether this is a common practice has been the focus of major investigations let alone major criminal cases in the past. It also raises the question of selective prosecution.
The Deep State conspiracy theory bullshit has addicted you.
If it was credible the reporters would be given the Pulitzer prize.
The MSM is not the propaganda of the Democratic party
Ukraine
The perfect phone call.
Yes Roger...
We now know that Trump was 100% correct and legally justified to inquire about Hunter Biden and whether or not the investigations into all of this was shut down over Obama/Biden pressure?
You know... something that Joe Biden admitted that he pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the prosecutor who was overseeing the Biden investigation.
Imagine if Trump had pressured a foreign leader into dropping an investigation in Don Jr - and then Republicans impeached Joe Biden because he looked into it?
Such a thing (when it is not the other way around) is outlandish... right?
Because of the first amendment rights, the politicians discredit the free press.
They can't censor anything, but throughout history, authoritarian politicians discredit the institutions,like the free press and the FBI and the Department of Justice and again the intelligence agencies.
They are trying to convince enough people to believe that only they can be trusted.
Biden insisted that, in spring 2016, he strong-armed Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor solely because Biden believed that official was corrupt and inept, not because the Ukrainian was investigating a natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, that hired Biden's son, Hunter, into a lucrative job.
There's just one problem.
Hundreds of pages of never-released memos and documents - many from inside the American team helping Burisma to stave off its legal troubles - conflict with Biden's narrative.
And they raise the troubling prospect that U.S. officials may have painted a false picture in Ukraine that helped ease Burisma's legal troubles and stop prosecutors' plans to interview Hunter Biden during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
For instance, Burisma's American legal representatives met with Ukrainian officials just days after Biden forced the firing of the country's chief prosecutor and offered "an apology for dissemination of false information by U.S. representatives and public figures" about the Ukrainian prosecutors, according to the Ukrainian government's official memo of the meeting. The effort to secure that meeting began the same day the prosecutor's firing was announced.
In addition, Burisma's American team offered to introduce Ukrainian prosecutors to Obama administration officials to make amends, according to that memo and the American legal team's internal emails.
The memos raise troubling questions:
1.) If the Ukraine prosecutor's firing involved only his alleged corruption and ineptitude, why did Burisma's American legal team refer to those allegations as "false information?"
2.) If the firing had nothing to do with the Burisma case, as Biden has adamantly claimed, why would Burisma's American lawyers contact the replacement prosecutor within hours of the termination and urgently seek a meeting in Ukraine to discuss the case?
Ukrainian prosecutors say they have tried to get this information to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) since the summer of 2018, fearing it might be evidence of possible violations of U.S. ethics laws. First, they hired a former federal prosecutor to bring the information to the U.S. attorney in New York, who, they say, showed no interest. Then, the Ukrainians reached out to President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, told Trump in July that he plans to launch his own wide-ranging investigation into what happened with the Bidens and Burisma.
The former President and his personal lawyer got them to make Biden look terrible.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story
This is not sufficient evidence for impeachmenthearings
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story
Plus the MSM covered the story.
Plus one very important thing.
Trump was the President.
Biden was a candidate.
The MSM did cover the story.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/msnbcnewsjunkies/permalink/1779231898905346/
from REAL CLEAR POLITICS.COM
Court Bends Over Backward to Disenfranchise Voters of Color
COMMENTARY by Jaime Harrison
July 03, 2021
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled on Brnovich v. DNC and once again set back voting rights in the United States. In 2016, the Democratic National Committee sued the state of Arizona over two restrictive voting laws. One law automatically tossed out votes that were cast in the wrong precinct. The other law made third-party ballot collection — a practice that communities of color rely on in Arizona — illegal. Together, the laws made voting disproportionately harder for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous voters.
When Congress enacted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, it had this sort of nonsense in mind. Our leaders knew then that racist voter suppression tactics often appear neutral at first glance. It was more important to consider unequal impact on voters of color. These two Arizona laws are textbook examples of what Section 2 of the VRA was intended to outlaw. They affected voters of color uniquely and severely. You don’t need to be a judge to see that. You just need common sense.
And yet, a conservative 6-3 majority twisted themselves in knots to uphold both laws. And in the process, they conjured the ghost of Jim Crow.
The Supreme Court refused to see sufficient discriminatory impact in the fact that Latinx voters, including elderly and disabled voters, used ballot collection at a rate far greater than white voters.
Or that, on tribal lands, where the nearest mailbox can be up to two hours away, ballot collection was often the only practical way to vote absentee.
The court’s majority is apparently fine with the reality created by the out-of-precinct voting law, one in which Black, Indigenous, and Latinx voters are twice as likely to have their votes tossed out.
Make no mistake, the court’s ruling will have profound consequences. It will embolden Republicans to unleash a tsunami of similar seemingly neutral, but viciously discriminatory, laws across the country. For decades the Voting Rights Act prevented attempts to disenfranchise voters. At a time when voters need greater protection from federal law, the Supreme Court has decided instead to give them less. My grandfather and I used to vote together, and he was no stranger to voter suppression. As a Black man in South Carolina during Jim Crow, he fit the description of who literacy tests and grandfather clauses were meant to single out. He said the people in power didn’t even see him as a person. They just saw him as an obstacle.
Republican legislators across the country see voters as obstacles to power. If you live on tribal lands, they want absentee voting to feel almost impossible. If you’re used to voting where you always do, they have no problem shuffling precincts around and tossing out your ballot. Sadly, none of this is necessary. If Republican lawmakers spent their time serving their communities instead of changing the rules to stay in power, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting voted out in the first place. Maybe they’re fully aware that their policies aren’t good for the American people.
Democrats believe in the strength of our work and our ideas. We want voters to judge us on what we deliver. That’s why we’re fighting to make every vote count. We don’t have any interest in sitting around and wringing our hands. In 2020, we implemented our most comprehensive on-the-ground infrastructure ever. We had voter protection staff in 33 states and invested in technology to proactively respond to voter suppression efforts. We expanded our national voter hotline and launched a new tool to track voter roll purges. We improved IWillVote.com so voters can access vital information like their polling locations and make sure their votes count.
In 2022, we’re going to do even more. We’re already making historic investments to shore up our state party infrastructure and help fund voter protection staff in key states like Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. We will have boots on the ground in these places well ahead of the midterm elections. Across the country, we’ll be doing more than just poll watching. We’ll be educating, advocating for, and organizing voters so they're equipped to take on voter suppression tactics in their state. In Congress, we’ll keep fighting to pass voting rights legislation — and that’s just the start.
We know that Republican lawmakers will try to exploit Thursday’s ruling by the court to make voting harder. That is undeniable. But what is also undeniable is that Democrats will continue to fight back. We will champion voting rights and deliver for the American people. We will remain firm in our belief that the American people reward leaders who respond to the needs of the communities they serve. It is the philosophy that has informed us through the years, from the New Deal, to the 1965 Civil Rights Act, to the American Rescue Plan. The Supreme Court may have made the path forward more difficult, but we are no stranger to tall tasks or long odds.
Now, let’s get to work.
Jaime Harrison is chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
In reference to the former President Trump Trump remember when he blackmailing the president of Ukraine, egging on an insurrection???
He was the President, not just a candidate.
Both rules by the Supreme Court decisions not intended to combat voter fraud.
They reversed the civil rights era.
They are taking the country backwards.
I see things in a historical view.
We will have boots on the ground in these places well ahead of the midterm elections. Across the country, we’ll be doing more than just poll watching. We’ll be educating, advocating for, and organizing voters so they're equipped to take on voter suppression tactics in their state. In Congress, we’ll keep fighting to pass voting rights legislation — and that’s just the start..
Now, let’s get to work.
Jaime Harrison is chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
We need to follow the path of The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr..
Peaceful demonstrations.
Ghandi liberated India from the British Empire without violence.
We have to do the same thing again.
Fuck!!@!!!
WAKEFIELD, Mass. (AP) — An hourslong standoff with a group of heavily armed men that partially shut down Interstate 95 ended Saturday with nine suspects in custody, Massachusetts state police said.
Police said the suspects include two people who were arrested earlier on Saturday.
The standoff shut down a portion of I-95 for much of the morning, causing major traffic problems during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Authorities said the southbound interstate reopened, but northbound lanes remain closed.
In Massachusetts, Interstate 95 runs from the Rhode Island line, around Boston to the New Hampshire line. Wakefield is just east of where Interstate 95 and 93 meet north of Boston.
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Armed Standoff With Police Shuts Down Part Of Route 95
The standoff began around 2 a.m. when police noticed two cars pulled over on I-95 with hazard lights on after they had apparently run out of fuel, authorities said at a Saturday press briefing.
Between eight to 10 men were clad in military-style gear with long guns and pistols, Mass State Police Col. Christopher Mason said. He added that they were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.”
The men refused to put down their weapons or comply with authorities’ orders, claiming to be from a group “that does not recognize our laws” before taking off into a wooded area, police said.
Police said they used negotiators to interact with the other suspects.
Mason said the “self-professed leader” of the group wanted it to be known that they are not antigovernment.
“I think the investigation that follows from this interaction will provide us more insight into what their motivation, what their ideology is,” Mason said.
In a video posted to social media Saturday morning, a man who did not give his name, but said he was from a group called Rise of the Moors, broadcast from Interstate 95 in Wakefield near exit 57.
“We are not antigovernment. We are not anti-police, we are not sovereign citizens, we’re not Black identity extremists,” said the man who appeared to be wearing military-style equipment. “As specified multiple times to the police that we are abiding by the peaceful journey laws of the United States.”
The website for the group says they are “Moorish Americans dedicated to educating new Moors and influencing our Elders.”
Mason said he had no knowledge of the group, but it was not unusual for the state police to encounter people who have “sovereign citizen ideology,” although he did not know if the people involved in the Wakefield standoff was a part of that.
“We train to those encounters,” Mason said. “We very much understand, I guess, the philosophy that underlies that mindset.”
Residents in Wakefield and Reading near where the standoff is taking place have been asked to shelter in place.
Wakefield police said in its statement that no threats had been made but the men were considered armed and dangerous.
They are crazy right wing terrorists.
Joe Biden entertained Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco - his son Hunter's business associates - in the vice president's office in 2014
While Joe was Vice President, he also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 Hunter had arranged to meet Alemán's son for meetings over a 'flippin gigantic' business deal, according to Hunter's emailsThe revelations, laid bare in photos and emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop, suggest Joe's claim that he never spoke about business with Hunter was falseHunter and Biden family friend Cooper hatched a plan in 2013 to invest in multiple businesses in Mexico and Latin America The White House has failed to respond to DailyMail.com's requests for comment
Joe Biden entertained his son's business associates in the vice president's office, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.
The then-vice president also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán's son for meetings over a 'flippin gigantic' business deal.
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The revelations, laid bare in photographs and emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop, are the latest in a growing body of evidence calling into question the president’s claim that he never spoke about business with Hunter.
In the light of shocking documents uncovered by DailyMail.com from the laptop, the president now faces serious questions – not just whether he knew about Hunter's controversial business dealings, but also whether he was involved in facilitating them himself while vice president.
The White House continues to fail to respond to any of our questions.
This explains how badly the cuntHarris didn't go to the border until a few days after she was appointed to lead the border crisis. And replace white people with beaners!
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities are deeply concerned about the possibility of domestic terror and violence, including mass shootings, as the July Fourth holiday approaches and the summer season gets fully underway.
A new Homeland Security bulletin obtained exclusively by ABC News warns that "violent extremists might seek to exploit easing COVID-19 restrictions, increased access to mass gatherings, and possible changes in levels of violence during the summer months to conduct attacks against a range of potential targets with little or no warning."
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The intelligence document locks in on the nation returning to normalcy after the pandemic and notes that by the end of Wednesday, "34 states will have State of Emergency orders expire," which means bans on mass gatherings and social distancing restrictions will be largely lifted.
"In recent weeks, domestic violent extremists (DVEs) motivated by various violent ideologies have continued to advocate violence and plan attacks," the bulletin said. "As of 16 June, racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists (RMVE-WSs) were sharing downloadable links to a publication discussing targeting mass gatherings, critical infrastructure, and law enforcement officers."
"In a sense, we have the perfect storm," a senior law enforcement official told ABC News. "It's a very volatile moment and it's about to be a more target-rich environment."
The official encouraged the public not to be in a panic mode but to be alert and to reach out to law enforcement if they see anything suspicious in the coming weeks.
"Sociopolitical factors that possibly contributed to violent acts in 2020, including social isolation and other pandemic-related stressors and divisive political climates, continue to exist," the document, which was pushed to 18,000 law enforcement agencies on Monday, bluntly states.
Homeland Security officials also expressed fears about "the recent rise in mass shootings nationwide," noting that it "increases our concern for violence, particularly in advance of upcoming holiday celebrations and anniversaries associated with high-profile extremist attacks."
While no specific plot has been identified for Independence Day, the intelligence brief ominously notes that federal officials are seeing evidence of radicals -particularly white supremacists-and violence prone people- planning.
Be safe!
https://6abc.com/extremist-violence-bulletin-extremism-warning-covid-restrictions-lifted-mass-shootings/10846580/
4TH of July weekend.
Everyone Celibrate the True Greatness of America.
Everyone Celibrate the True Greatness of America.
The alky is celebrating his new friends - the African American White Supremacists.
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities are deeply concerned about the possibility of domestic terror and violence, including mass shootings, as the July Fourth holiday approaches and the summer season gets fully underway.
Yep.
The assclowns of the FBI and DOJ are focused on Trump supporters while a rabbi was stabbed by a moose-limb raghead outside a synagogue in Boston.
And you can bet that the African American White Supremacists in Chicago will be setting new records for shootings and homicides as they spend the holiday gunning each other down.
But it's Trump supporters who are the real threat.
Right alky?
LOL.
Alky’s like the bubble boy in Seinfeld, it’s moops not moors
The Seditionist Investigators are assisting the FBI.
The ‘Holy Shit’ Moments
Joan, the mom from Pennsylvania, stumbled into the sedition hunters world by chance. Someone in the budding community reached out through a political Facebook group she runs, hoping for publicity. The internet detectives were trying to identify the man who stormed onto the floor of the U.S. Senate wearing a “Hershey Christian Academy” sweatshirt, and they thought she could help spread the word.
Joan got to work. She went to Hershey Christian Academy’s Facebook page and started digging, learning everything she could about the small school with barely a dozen staff members. It had only opened in 2019, and now ― because someone had the bright idea of breaking into the Capitol while wearing school swag ― it was at the center of the insurrection.
“I went and started looking at all the likes, all the comments. Then on every single like and comment I would go look on their profile and snoop around and say, ‘Oh, that guy’s too fat, that guy’s too bald, that guy’s too bearded, it’s not him,’” she said.
Soon she stumbled on a “pretty vanilla” Facebook profile of a man named Zeeker whose main photo was of a snowman. When she plugged Zeeker’s name into Facebook’s search bar, she turned up photos that he’d been tagged in. She realized she might just have a match. She took some screenshots, poked around his Instagram, and did a bit of Googling.
“Zeeker Bozell,” she learned, was Brent Bozell IV — as in the son of Brent Bozell III, the high-profile conservative activist and founder of the Media Research Center, and grandson of Brent Bozell Jr., the ghostwriter for Barry Goldwater and supporter of Joseph McCarthy.
“Whoa,” she thought as she went down a Google rabbit hole and read his grandfather’s Wikipedia page, which laid out the family’s ties to William F. Buckley, who founded the National Review and is considered the intellectual godfather of the conservative movement. “I’ve really stumbled on something.”
“I mean, I’m just, like, a mom,” Joan later told me. “It was kind of a holy shit moment.”
The FBI enlisting the public’s help to hunt down criminals is not a new phenomenon. Even back in its early days, when it was still called the Bureau of Investigation, it crowdsourced the hunt for the people who kidnapped Charles Lindbergh’s baby by distributing pamphlets across New York banks that listed the serial numbers for the expiring gold certificates that had been used in the ransom payoff, and eventually got a hit after a sharp gas station attendant thought to jot down a license plate number on the margin of the certificate.
The Three Stooges rrb kputz and Drunken Ali have insults. Because they are stupid troll squad assholes!
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60479dd7c5b653040034f749
Patriots of conscience, regardless of party, should forcefully reject this inherently un-American mindset.
Founders’ intentionsFor all their faults (particularly on matters of race), America’s founders were able to look past the authoritarian systems of monarchy and empire in their time, and envision a form of government in which the people ruled themselves, via their elected representatives. Inherent in that radical idea was the expectation that citizens whose preferred candidates failed to win elections would accept the judgment of the constitutional process. Democracy may well be, as Winston Churchill put it, the worst form of government except for all the others, but it is the only legitimate form of government, warts and all.
The warts of America’s particular form of democracy were evident when the last two Republican presidents (George W. Bush and Donald Trump) each initially won the office despite having received fewer votes nationally than his opponent. Democrats were especially frustrated that Trump won while losing by almost 3 million ballots in 2016. It has spurred appropriate discussion about reforming the Electoral College, within the processes laid out in the Constitution, to better reflect the will of the people.
But no serious American of any party argued that Trump wasn’t the legitimate president as chosen by the system currently in place. That restraining respect for the constitutional process could stand as another definition of patriotism.
However, political polarization today is so deep and toxic that many have become convinced that any electoral win by the other side is intrinsically illegitimate and should be opposed by any tactics necessary, including tactics outside the Constitution. Examples of this dangerous (and thoroughly unpatriotic) instinct can no doubt be found on both the left and the right — but only on the right has it become a defining characteristic of the movement, embraced at every level of Republican politics.
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Jan. 6 was among the darkest moments in the nation’s history, not merely because of a rogue president’s unheard-of refusal to accept his electoral defeat, nor his incitement of his followers to assault the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn that defeat. The more lasting danger is the contempt for electoral democracy that the episode has exposed on America’s political right.
The American right is no longer patriotic. It's an authoritarian party today is.
The Republicans have to run away from Trump.
It looks like the building inspectors didn't know enough about construction.
Engineers who have visited or examined photos of the wreckage of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex have been struck by a possible flaw in its construction: Critical places near the base of the building appeared to use less steel reinforcement than called for in the project’s original design drawings.
The observation is the first detail to emerge pointing to a potential problem in the quality of construction of the 13-story condo tower in Surfside, Fla., that collapsed last month, killing at least 24 and leaving at least 124 still unaccounted for.
Reached by phone, Allyn E. Kilsheimer, a forensic engineering expert hired by the town of Surfside to investigate the collapse, said the investigation was still in its early stages. But he confirmed there were signs that the amount of steel used to connect concrete slabs below a parking deck to the building’s vertical columns might be less than what the project’s initial plans specified.
“The bars might not be arranged like the original drawings call for,” Mr. Kilsheimer said in an interview. He said he would need to inspect the rubble more closely to determine whether in fact the slab-to-column connections contained less steel than expected.
The construction company probably saved money by not installing all the specified requirements.
It's very common in the constitution industry.
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-too-much-of-the-political-right-has-given-up-on-electoral-democracy/article_0357e2b4-4759-5408-8408-6ace6d513601.html
For months, this contempt for electoral democracy has been exposed in the more than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures that have passed laws designed to make voting more difficult for minorities, urban dwellers, the poor and others they fear will vote for Democrats. And it was exposed again last month, when Senate Republicans didn’t merely oppose an effort to protect voting rights via federal law but refused to even let that effort be debated on the floor.
Plenty of words come to mind to describe these actions by one of America’s two major political parties. “Patriotic” is nowhere among them.
Of course, the purveyors of this poison claim they are themselves acting out of a patriotic urge to protect the sanctity of the vote. This is the biggest lie of all. Countless election officials and dozens of judges of both parties have looked more closely than in any election in modern memory, and have found zero evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump falsely claims robbed him of the presidency. There is, therefore, also no validity to the coordinated voter-suppression campaigns sweeping red-state America, predicated on that phony allegation.
It isn’t just public faith in elections being undermined here. In a February poll by the American Enterprise Institute, 39% of Republican respondents agreed that “if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions.”
That’s not a sentiment that anyone who respects a constitutional system of government would support. On this of all days, Americans should remember there is just one legitimate means of change in a democracy: free and fair elections. Protecting that institution is patriotic. Undermining it isn’t — ever.
That’s not a sentiment that anyone who respects a constitutional system of government would support. On this of all days, Americans should remember there is just one legitimate means of change in a democracy: free and fair elections. Protecting that institution is patriotic. Undermining it isn’t — ever.
Well alky, tomorrow we celebrate the anniversary of telling King George and the Brits to go fuck themselves.
Then we started killing them. And we kept killing them until they surrendered.
And now that our elections are demonstrably not free and not fair, we may seek an alternate means of redress. In the 18th century we reached the point where we had had enough. Perhaps we find ourselves there again.
Enjoy destroying our country on Independence Day July 4th.
Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment as journalists documented the violence perpetrated by supporters of President Donald Trump.
The first such charge came last week, when 43-year-old Shane Jason Woods of Illinois was charged with engaging in violence on the Capitol grounds Jan. 6, as well as assaulting a law enforcement officer. Authorities say Woods was caught on video knocking down a cameraman.
The arrests come at a contentious moment for the Justice Department and First Amendment advocates, who have sharply criticized federal law enforcement for secretly issuing subpoenas of reporters’ phone records during the Trump administration.
The new attorney general, Merrick Garland, has ordered the drafting of new rules for prosecutors when trying to identify who may have leaked classified information, but critics of the long-standing Justice Department policy say it should not have taken another set of controversial subpoenas for law enforcement officials to stop using such secretive measures to hunt for reporters’ sources.
[Sen. Wyden proposes new shield law to protect journalists’ phone, email records]
Amid that ongoing tension, the Justice Department has begun arresting some of those who allegedly surrounded a group of reporters outside the Capitol, ran them off and then set out to destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of their gear.
Traitors.
In 1861 you would have been a Democrat because they supported slavery.
Because you have actually said that they are inferior to you.
Countless election officials and dozens of judges of both parties have looked more closely than in any election in modern memory, and have found zero evidence of the widespread voter fraud.
Because you believe the big lie asshole
Your own words prove you are a traitor.
And now that our elections are demonstrably not free and not fair, we may seek an alternate means of redress. In the 18th century we reached the point where we had had enough. Perhaps we find ourselves there again.
Instead of hiding behind your computer, get a gun and shoot n*****s
Blogger Roger Amick said...
In 1861 you would have been a Democrat because they supported slavery.
Fuck you alky. You pull this shit all the fucking time, with me, CH... telling us what we would have been when your party loved slavery and the fucking Klan.
I report to a black man you fucking imbecile. One of the greatest guys I've ever known. Smart, honest, a pleasure to work for... and he's a conservative.
Because you have actually said that they are inferior to you.
Liberals and democrats are inferior to me alky. Race has nothing to do with it.
YOU are inferior to me alky. Look at yourself. Sitting in a tiny room in a fucking nursing home at age 70, you drank a liver to death, managed to snag a new one, you've pissed away two marriages, you're a serial abuser, and your entire fucking existence revolves around camping out on an obscure political blog.
You're human garbage, alky. The lowest scum on earth. Don't you ever psychologically project your racism on me or anyone else ever again you piece of shit.
Die in a fire.
Nothing has changed much among Democrats. They are just wrapping their hatred and racisim in the doctrine of Critical Race Theory.
In 1861 you would have been a Democrat because they supported slavery.
And now that our elections are demonstrably not free and not fair,
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You ignorant asshole!!!!! Why don't you provide some explicit examples demonstrating they were not fair....A bullshit flapping your lips opinion is all you have... Do the country a favor put the little hole of your 7 mm into mouth and pull trigger you obnoxious blowhard of nothingness!!!!!!!! You have Trumpitis etched into your pea sized brain,,,,, idiot!!!
Common says:
Nothing has changed much among Democrats.
___________
James retorts:
One thing sure has changed much.
There are now LOTS of Blacks among them.
Which makes my point exactly.
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