For the moment at least, Biden has turned 9/11 into a day of national shame. Evincing no awareness of what he has done or what was done to us, he has now turned it into a day to be stupid. It is a day to advertise his stupidity — give me the old time willful blindness — to revel in it and to chide Americans for their bigotry.
So how do we put more new fresh crisis into our old tired crisis, sufficient that people will quit paying attention to the fact we don’t have a functioning government?
I know! Let’s have this unpopular, incompetent, corrupt executive branch go for an insane power grab! They can’t even guard an airport from a bunch of goat rapists, but by golly, they’re going to swagger back to America, say fuck you Separation of Powers, fuck your Three Branches of Government, tear off a big chunk of the Constitution and wipe their ass with it on TV, all in the name of “the greater good”. That’s sure to be a hit!
For those of you who slept through School House Rock, that’s not how any of this shit is supposed to work. However, the executive being able to just give itself crazy new powers on the fly is the inevitable end of the road that we’ve been on for quite some time. I’ve been bitching about this consistently my entire adult life, whether the hot new power grab came from Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now this fucking turnip, each time the team sports cheer leaders would be happy their guy was grabbing more unchecked authority for the executive branch, while the team on the outs cried about it… but then promptly did the same thing once they got back in.
Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws. Just make a “rule”. Why even have congress? And the dementia puppet’s speech writer even handily stuck in a line about getting those pesky governors our of the way! Because why do we even have states?
The ultimate goal of course is to just have a cadre of elite “experts” from the Corpo-Uni-Party run every aspect of our lives for “the greater good”, without any of that pesky stuff like freedom or agency getting in the way. And some of you are like, oh Correia, that’s so wacky and far-fetched! Uh huh. And twenty years ago the idea of needing government permission to work or go to church would have sounded insane, but here we are.
On the 20th anniversary of the worst single day in American life since Pearl Harbor, I long to see the flags flying everywhere again.”
“I long for an outpouring of unity as Americans — whatever their political persuasion, whatever the spot on the map they call home — come together to tame the pandemic.”
“For me, part of the sadness of this Sept. 11 will flow from the fear that never again in my lifetime will Americans put aside their differences to battle a common foe.
Instead of using a picture of the twin towers for his political bias Scott is a traitor now
President Biden is visiting the sites of all three Sept. 11 attacks to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
In New York, families of the victims read the names of those who died in the 2001 attacks and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The service in New York, at the 9/11 Memorial plaza at the World Trade Center, included moments of silence at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 9:59 a.m., 10:03 a.m. and 10:28 a.m.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton attended the memorial event in New York, which featured a performance by Bruce Springsteen.
President George W. Bush gave a keynote address at the memorial in Shanksville, Pa., where flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11.
We said “never forget.” Well, we haven’t forgotten the heroism of people like Rick Rescorla, the Flight 93 passengers, the firefighters who charged up the WTC stairs, or the volunteers who set up the American Dunkirk evacuation of lower Manhattan by boat.
But we have forgotten the criminal negligence of our political leaders and intelligence services that got us to that point. We should have purged the incompetents then. Now they’re running the show. The country is still sound, but the people in charge of it have only gotten worse.
Those are my not very encouraging thoughts, twenty years later.
Saturday marks 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, striking the north tower at 8:46 a.m. followed by the south tower at 9:03 a.m. At 9:37 a.m., a third hijacked airline crashed into the Pentagon.
Twenty-two minutes later, the World Trade Center's south tower collapsed. A fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m. after passengers fought with and overcame the hijackers.
At 10:28 a.m. the World trade Center's North Tower collapsed.
In total, 2,977 people were killed, including many New York City first responders.
Michael J. Allen, a professor of American history at Northwestern University, agreed that America is not the country it was when the twin towers fell.
“The United States is a far less confident and optimistic nation now than it was in September 2001, which marked the end of a decade of technology-fueled economic growth, foreign policy dominance and presidential centrism,” he said. “But it is also a more diverse nation with a more clear-eyed sense of the serious challenges Americans face and a more realistic sense of the dangers and limits of American power.”
How did we fall apart after the most shocking attack on the U.S. since Pearl Harbor? The first cracks in the post 9/11 unity came when the administration of then-President George W. Bush used the terrorist attacks as an excuse to attack Iraq, which had no role in them, historians said.
At the same time, millions of Muslim Americans found themselves branded terrorists by bigots and were forced to defend their religion because of bin Laden’s fanaticism.
“The Bush administration’s failed foreign policy response to the 9/11 attacks discredited the existing leadership of the Republican Party and leading Democrats like Hillary Clinton” who supported the Iraq War,
That, he said, helped pave the way for the election of President Barack Obama, one of the few politicians who publicly opposed the Iraq War, and allowed “a new political class to emerge” before the subsequent election of his successor, Donald Trump.
“But that political class is more confrontational and enjoys less trust in a nation that has grown more divided,” Allen said. “The net effect is to leave Americans less capable of reaching consensus on any problem we face — from Covid to climate change to counterterrorism to policing — and thus unable to forge public policy responses.”
The internet also figures into the division.
“Safe to say, if what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, happened today, the response would have been vastly different,” said Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson, an expert on popular culture. “The major variable is social media and the explosion of the digital environment.”
There were conspiracy theorists who floated bogus notions that Jews were warned not to show up for work at the twin towers that day and that the attacks were an inside job or even faked, he said.
But while those notions continue to persist on the web, they did not get the sudden traction in 2001 that, for example, some of the false Covid claims that Trump promoted on Twitter did last year.
Instead, a “we’re all in this together” narrative took hold in the media in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and remained there until the Bush administration began pushing to invade Iraq, which happened in March 2003.
“We had Jay Leno vowing not to make fun of the way President Bush mispronounces words,” Thompson said. “There is no way that warm, unified feeling would happen today."
The endless war is over
When bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks, he did so from a hideout in Afghanistan, which was then being governed by the Taliban, homegrown practitioners of an extreme version of Islam bent on returning the country to some of the practices of the Middle Ages.
The invasion Bush launched quickly dislodged the Taliban but did not destroy them. It also failed to capture bin Laden, who escaped across the border into Pakistan and continued to threaten the U.S. until he was killed in a 2011 raid ordered by Obama.
But now the Taliban are back in power, their triumphant return paved by the Trump administration’s agreement last year to pull U.S. forces out of the country, and the apparent failure of President Joe Biden's administration to anticipate how quickly Kabul would fall.
Mino and hundreds of other Afghanistan War veterans have been frantically trying to help the Afghan interpreters who went into battle with them during America’s “longest war” escape the Taliban.
SO DID TRUMP WHO CLAIMED HE SAW THOUSANDS OF ARAB APPLAUDING IN HOBOKEN WHEN THE TOWERE WENT DOWN AND JUST PUT OUT THE MOST DIVISIVE POS STATEMENT ABOUT TODAY.....WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU AND HIM??????
Non of them are making political agenda because they honor those who sacrificed themselves for others.
In a speech that centered on the future of America and its adherence to the ideals the 40 passengers and crew members fought for, Vice President Kamala Harris said in the face of uncertainty, “it will take all of us going forth to work together” as a nation to face challenges.
“If we do the hard work of working together as Americans, if we remain united in purpose, we will be prepared for whatever comes next,” Ms. Harris said. “The 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 — as we all know — didn’t know each other. Most of them didn’t know each other. They were different people from different places.”
“They were on that particular flight for different reasons. But they did not focus on what may separate us. No. They focused on what we all share — on the humanity we all share.”
Our role in the world is different than the post Second War era.
Twenty years later our nation is not United. Cracks in unity Michael J. Allen, a professor of American history at Northwestern University, agreed that America is not the country it was when the twin towers fell.
Funny, they weren't worried about unity when they tried ram their socialist agenda down our throats. ] Unity is now code for "Sit down, shut up, and do what your rulers demand.
A funny thing happen in 2016. The people didn't elect the leader the rulers wanted. They elected a man to stand up to them. Of course they used everything in their power to go after him.
Here is the record of Lee, the general who cramps claimed to be great and prolonged the killing during the civil wa Opinion: Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser Workers removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Sept. 8. (AP) Opinion by Dana Milbank Columnist Yesterday at 1:03 p.m. EDT Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser. No general in U.S. history was defeated as unequivocally and as totally as Lee. For all his supposed strategic skill, his army was entirely destroyed. One-quarter of those who served under him were killed, and an additional half were wounded or captured. He was a traitor to the United States who killed more U.S. soldiers than any other enemy in the nation’s history, for the supremely evil cause of slavery. To boot, he was a cruel enslaver and a
Funny, they weren't worried about unity when they tried ram their socialist agenda down our throats.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! While you adore an authoritarian lying cock sucking leader.....yeah as long as he takes away women's rights....you are a go!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLL
"There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, disregard for human life. In their determination to defile national symbols they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them."
He said that the Proud Boys etc. are terrorists, and just as dangerous as al Qaeda.
“We had differences of opinion in 2001 as we do in 2021. And I believe, that in America, our diversity is our strength. Sikh and Muslim Americans were targeted because of how they looked or how they worshipped.
The right wing nutcase websites said she was blaming them for being Muslims
Three presidents and their wives stood somberly side by side at the National September 11 Memorial, sharing a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of the nation's worst terror attack with a display of unity.
President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton all gathered at the site where the World Trade Center towers fell two decades ago. They each wore blue ribbons and held their hands over their hearts as a procession marched a flag through the memorial, watched by hundreds of Americans gathered for the remembrance, some carrying photos of loved ones lost in the attacks.
Before the event began, a jet flew overhead in an eerie echo of the attacks, drawing a glance from Mr. Biden toward the sky.
The right wing nutcase websites will probably call him demented because he looked up at the sky.
The right wing nutcase websites are attacking George Bush!
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“Children of the Same Foul Spirit” – George Bush Compares January 6 “Domestic Extremists” to Islamic Terrorists in 9/11 Speech (VIDEO)
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Former President George W. Bush delivered remarks on Saturday on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.
Bush was president when the Twin Towers were hit by hijacked airplanes on September 11, 2001.
Bush watered down Islamic terrorism during his speech and said January 6 “domestic extremists” and jihadists share a “disregard for human life” and a “determination to defile national symbols.”
“They are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our… duty to confront them,” Bush said.
The Gateway Pundit Interviews President Donald Trump LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
I didn't agree with him, mostly because I have a different political view. But George W Bush is a great man. Axios
But when he listened to the people who wanted to invade Iraq. But...
Former president George W. Bush on Saturday warned of homegrown violent extremism while speaking at the Flight 93 memorial on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Driving the news: "We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," said Bush, who joined Vice President Kamala Harris and others at the ceremony.
"There's little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them."Following the Capitol riot, Bush released a statement denouncing "the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement.""The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation," the 43rd president added.The former president's remarks come a week before a Sept. 18 rally planned in support of individuals arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. The rally — spearheaded by former Donald Trump presidential campaign official Matt Braynard — is known as "Justice for J6."
The big picture: Bush also highlighted the unity that was on display in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks in his speech on Saturday.
"In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own," Bush said.
Scott Johnson will go crazy because Bush used the term Insurrection.
the 43rd president added.The former president's remarks come a week before a Sept. 18 rally planned in support of individuals arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. The rally — spearheaded by former Donald Trump presidential campaign official Matt Braynard — is known as "Justice for J6."
The big picture: Bush also highlighted the unity that was on display in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks in his speech on Saturday.
"In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own," Bush said.
Cernovich https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1436715735317827584 20 years later it’s hard to imagine the heroism displayed by first responders, who are now openly despised by New York City and state leaders, and whose personal sacrifice is downplayed by the Commander-in-Chief, who compares this deadly attack to a small riot at the Capitol.
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
It was not a small riot. He called it a violent attack on the Capitol Building.
Stephen L. Miller https://mobile.twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1436428157381275649
If Trump ordered a drone strike on what turned out be an aide worker delivering water around the city in response to a terror attack that killed 13 Americans, CNN would be going full Chernobyl and Schiff and Pelosi would be calling for impeachment and mass military resignations.
instead roger is now praising Bush and Cheney and the entrenched swamp
What We Do With Tragic Anniversaries SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Those of us who were alive and sentient 20 years ago remember exactly where we were when we saw the twin towers collapse and heard that other planes went down.
Some of us are old enough to remember exactly where we were when we heard, many years before, that JFK had been shot and killed.
I expect that most young people today, who have no direct memory of either, will continue to remember 1/6/21, when a president of the United States instigated a deadly attack on the Capitol.
Dark days like these become etched in national memories. But more important is how these days altered history, in what ways our lives permanently changed because of them, and what lessons we as a nation drew from them.
11/22/63 made Lyndon Johnson president, which led to the tragic escalation of the Vietnam War.
9/11/01 motivated Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld to launch a 20-year war on terrorism.
1/6/21 marked the culmination of Trump’s attempted coup, and perhaps the start of something far worse.
All of these days provoke the standard sentiments from politicians that “our hearts go out” to the families of those who perished. Yes, of course. But I wish these grim anniversaries also invited more reconsideration of what America has become as a result.
Donald Trump Jr. https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1436447467596402689
Remember when anyone with a brain called BS on this? That the same incompetents who after 20 years “could not have seen this coming” miraculously found the ISIS plotters of the Kabul bombing and killed them hours later?
Now we know why they didn’t release the “high Level” names!
The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. Our latest investigation shows how a man the military saw as an "imminent threat" and "ISIS facilitator" was actually an aid worker returning to his family: https://nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007963596/us-drone-attack-kabul-investigation.html
Blogger Roger Amick said... Vice President Harris said about the same thing.
“We had differences of opinion in 2001 as we do in 2021. And I believe, that in America, our diversity is our strength. Sikh and Muslim Americans were targeted because of how they looked or how they worshipped.
Since 9/11 Richard Reid Abdullah al-Muhajir Hesham Mohamed Hadayet John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar Naveed Afzal Haq Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad Nidal Malik Hasan Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faisal Shahzad Farooque Ahmed al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Mohamed Osman Mohamud Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Ali Muhammad Brown 3 Times Alton Alexander Nolen "Jah'Keem Yisrael Zale Thompson Elton Simpson, Nadir Hamid Soofi, and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem Usaama Rahim and David Wright Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez Faisal Mohammad Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik Mohamed Barry Omar Mateen Wasil Farooqui Ahmad Khan Rahimi Abdul Razak Ali Artan Sayfullo Saipov al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Here is the record of Lee, the general who cramps claimed to be great and prolonged the killing during the civil wa Opinion: Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser Workers removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Sept. 8. (AP) Opinion by Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank sucks as a military historian. He should keep his opinions in the realm of politics and leave the military history to people who actually read it.
Lee in fact was never a stone cold loser. His lost at Gettysburg was in fact the only blemish to his reputation and his ability to keep the army of Northern Virginia together dispite the want of food, clothing, guns, ammunition, and fodder was nothing short of a miracle.
Lee defeated every Union general except Grant who opposed him, inflicting greater causalities on Union forces.
Even with Grant Lee fought a vicious war attrition, from Culpepper, to the Wilderness Tavern, to Petersburg Lee made Grant pay dearly for every square foot of real estate gained.
Where every other Union general would have high-tailed it back to Washington not so Grant. Grant was all to willing to pay that price of blood because the both knew Grant had the industrial power of the North and and far many more men to draw from. The defeat of the Confederacy was inevitable.
Little known fact. The flag popularly known as the flag of the Confederacy was in fact the battle banner for the Army of Northern Virginia. The official Confederate flag was a diffrent design altogather.
Roger, it's not our intention to scare you. Our intention is to relegate you and the ruling class you tody for to the dustbin of History. That's the only way to return to constitutional governance.
JamesNewLeaf said... Oh boy, if the "ruling class" gets relegated to the dustbin of history, Republicans will lose their real base: the filthy rich they toady for.
18 of America's richest 20 men are democrats as I recall
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Bush Warns of Domestic Terrorism September 11, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 148 Comments
Former President George W. Bush spoke about the threat of domestic terrorism on Saturday during a speech to mark 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, Reuters reports.
Said Bush: “We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come, not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.
He added: “There is little cultural overlaps between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home… they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”
You mean like those "peaceful tourists" who invaded and ransacked our capitol building?
Watch how they lie with such ease and casualness, adeptly manipulation that emotions that all Americans felt after watching the barbaric attack at the airport:
Oh boy, if the "ruling class" gets relegated to the dustbin of history, Republicans will lose their real base: the filthy rich they toady for.
Um the Corporate Globalist made a deal the left and the Democrats. (A faustian bargain no doubt) All you need to do is look at commercIals by Disney, Stoney, IBM, Apple, Microsoft Goldman Sacs etc. to see that it's true among the leftest agenda items they push is critical race theory. They emphasize diversity and unity as long as that unity is to one leftest agenda.
it is the Republican who are champion the ordinary Americans again the Corporate ruling class.
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
thebradfordfile https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1436509628158947335 The USPS is excluded from Biden's insane mandate because none of this has anything to do with a virus, or science, or basic logic.
It's about unprecedented power for the corrupt Democratic Party.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! So old money is not worth as much, dummy???? Wow that is sure an interesting theory for useless lying slurper likefucked daddy!!!!!!
1:The family owns the Walmart corporation. Republican
2;The Walton family fortune is estimated to be about $130 billion.
3:Koch– Republican — Businessmen, owners of Koch Industries, a manufacturing company. Koch brothers have a net worth of about $41 billion each ($82 billion together).
4:Mars– Republican — Own the Mars candy company. The three children of founder Forrest Mars are worth about $78 billion together.
5:Cargill-MacMillan– Republican — The Cargill-MacMillan family owns 90 percent of the largest privately-owned corporation in the U.S. The family, as a whole, is worth about $49 billion.
6: Cox– Democrat — The Cox family owns a number of auto consumer sites and services (Kelley Blue Book, AutoTrader.com, etc.). They have an estimated net worth of $41 billion.
7:Johnson (S.C. Johnson)– Republican — The Johnson family is known for their cleaning products and hygiene products. They are valued at $30 billion.
8:Pritzker– Both — Founders of Hyatt. The family has a combined value of $29 billion in 2017.
9:Johnson (Fidelity)– Republican — Overseers at Fidelity, ensuring the cash of millions of Americans. The family has a combined net worth of $28.5 billion.
10:Hearst– Republican — The Hearst family owns one of America’s largest media companies. The family is valued at $28 billion.Duncan– Republican — The Duncan family works mostly with oil and pipelines. The family is valued at about $21.5 billion.
Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment, that our lives would be changed forever.
The world was loud with carnage and sirens, and then quiet with missing voices that would never be heard again. These lives remain precious to our country and infinitely precious to many of you. Today we remember your loss, we share your sorrow, and we honor the men and women you have loved so long and so well.
For those too young that clear September day, it is hard to describe the mix of feelings we experienced. There was horror at the scale of destruction and awe at the bravery and kindness that rose to meet it. There was shock at the audacity of evil and gratitude for the heroism and decency that opposed it.
In the sacrifice of the first responders, in the mutual aid of strangers, in the solidarity of grief and grace, the actions of an enemy revealed the spirit of a people. And we were proud of our wounded nation.
In these memories, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 must always have an honored place. Here, the intended targets became the instruments of rescue. And many who are now alive owe a vast, unconscious debt to the defiance displayed in the skies above this field.
It would be a mistake to idealize the experience of those terrible events. All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death. All that many could feel was unearned suffering. All that many could hear was God’s terrible silence. There are many who still struggle with a lonely pain that cuts deep within.
In those fateful hours, we learned other lessons as well. We saw that Americans were vulnerable, but not fragile — that they possessed a core of strength that survives the worst that life can bring. We learned that bravery was more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death. We vividly felt how every hour with our loved ones was a temporary and holy gift. And we found that even the longest days end.
Many of us have tried to make spiritual sense of these events. There is no simple explanation for the mix of providence and human will that sets the direction of our lives. But comfort can come from a different store of knowledge. After wandering long and lost in the dark, many have found they were actually watching step by step toward grace.
As a nation, our adjustments have been profound. Many Americans struggled why an enemy would hate us with such zeal. The security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort and reminders of our vulnerability. And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.
There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them.
After 9/11, millions of brave Americans stepped forward and volunteered to serve in the armed forces. The military measures taken over the past 20 years to pursue dangers at their source have led to debate. But one thing is certain: We owe an assurance to all who have fought our nation’s most recent battles.
Let me speak directly to veterans and people in uniform. The cause you pursued at the call of duty is the noblest that America has to offer. You have shielded your fellow citizens from danger. You have defended the beliefs of your country and advanced the rights of the downtrodden. You have been the face of hope and mercy in dark places. You have been a force for good in the world. Nothing that has followed — nothing — can tarnish your honor or diminish your accomplishments. To you, and our honorable dead, our country is forever grateful.
In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. Malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together.
I come without explanations or solutions. I can only tell you what I’ve seen.
On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another. That is the America I know.
At a time when religious bigotry might have flowed freely, I saw Americans reject prejudice and embrace people of Muslim faith. That is the nation I know.
At a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome to immigrants and refugees. That is the nation I know.
At a time when some viewed the rising generation as individualistic and decadent, I saw young people embrace an ethic of service and rise to selfless action. That is the nation I know.
This is not mere nostalgia. It is the truest version of ourselves. It is what we have been and can be again.
Twenty years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans on a routine flight to be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror. The 33 passengers and seven crew of Flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by face. In a sense, they stood in for us all.
The terrorists soon discovered that a random group of Americans is an exceptional group of people. Facing an impossible circumstance, they comforted their loved ones by phone, braced each other for action, and defeated the designs of evil. These Americans were brave, strong and united in ways that shocked the terrorists but should not surprise any of us.
This is the nation we know.
And whenever we need hope and inspiration, we can look to the skies and remember. God bless.”
On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another. That is the America I know.
At a time when religious bigotry might have flowed freely, I saw Americans reject prejudice and embrace people of Muslim faith. That is the nation I know.
At a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome to immigrants and refugees. That is the nation I know.
Candace Owens https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1436722662202617858 It utterly disgusts me that the same “leaders” who are working to defund our police—and demanding our doctors, nurses, military members are fired en masse for refusing a vaccine—are currently giving speeches about the heroes of 9/11.
“Here he comes from Washington DC instituting an unprecedented mandate, even his own people acknowledged is unconstitutional. That’s not leadership. The problem I have with Joe Biden is-this guy doesn’t take responsibility for anything. He’s always trying to blame other people.”
Has Biden took any real questions since he took office
Dayum.....according to dear cramps......Florrduh and DeSantis are doing a great job battling Covid........sure would like some of whatever he is smoking!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Close this content Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. 4 kids among Florida’s COVID death toll as state sets another record for fatalities Ian Hodgson, Tampa Bay Times Fri, September 10, 2021, 7:40 PM·4 min read The death toll from Florida’s COVID-19 surge is continuing to rise, as is the number of children succumbing to the virus.
The state verified 2,448 deaths from the coronavirus this week, including four children under 16 years old.
It’s the third straight week that Florida has set a record number of deaths, and it’s the largest jump in child fatalities since the state switched to weekly reporting on June 4.
However, despite the rise in deaths, the number of new infections is continuing to wane. The state recorded 100,012 new cases in the past week — roughly 14,300 cases per day. That’s a 20 percent drop from the previous week, and the lowest weekly case count since late July.
Daily deaths may continue to rise even as cases fall. It typically takes weeks for an infected person to succumb to COVID-19, and weeks more for their death to be recorded and vetted by state and federal agencies.
Federal data, updated Thursday, shows that more than 300 Floridians died from COVID-19 during the third week of August — a peak 35 percent higher than the worst days of last summer’s infection wave.
With the crest of this delta-driven wave occurring roughly two weeks ago, the number of deaths could remain high for weeks to come.
Admission numbers continue to suggest that the strain on Florida’s
It is only a Reality because Biden supported it happening. Trump had stopped it, Traitor Joe policies matter. "KYIV, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy said on Saturday he had delivered reassurances to Ukraine and Poland on mitigating any threat posed by Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but that the project was now a "reality""
NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate
LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An upstate New York hospital said it will pause the delivery of babies in two weeks because of a spate of resignations by maternity unit workers who are objecting to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
Lewis County General Hospital, in Lowville, will temporarily stop delivering babies after Sept. 24, WWNY reported. During a news conference Friday afternoon, Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer said seven of the 30 hospital workers who resigned were from the hospital’s maternity ward. He added that another seven maternity unit staffers were undecided about getting the vaccine, the television station reported.
The workers were objecting to a Sept. 27 deadline to receive a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Watertown Daily Times reported. Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued the state mandate on Aug. 23.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — A large crowd watched expectantly as a soldier tugged at a black cloth spread over a monumental statue on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Friday morning. As it fell away, it revealed a bronze statue of a Black soldier sitting astride a stallion, a tribute to the U.S. Army’s famed Black cavalry — the Buffalo Soldiers — who for decades taught military horsemanship to white cadets here.
A cheer rose up from the cadets and spectators, in celebration of a Black military legacy that many in the audience felt was long overdue.
“These men trained cadets who then went on to be leaders in the Army as commissioned officers,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Sa’eed Mustafa, whose great-uncle Sgt. Leon Tatum was a Buffalo Soldier. “And yet they were never ever given their just due.”
Underscoring the significance, the unveiling of the tribute to Black soldiers came just days after the removal of a different military monument hundreds of miles away in Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederacy. On Wednesday, Virginia took down a statue of Robert E. Lee, the South’s Civil War general, from Monument Avenue, where it had stood since 1890. It was the last of six Confederate monuments to be removed from a row there, a deeply symbolic and politically fraught moment as the country continues to grapple with homages to its Confederate past rooted in white supremacy.
I just talked a long time with an old friend on the phone, which kept me from sending this: _________
Are America's Richest Families Republicans or Democrats?
Katia Savchuk Forbes Staff I write about billionaires and entrepreneurs around the world
Forbes took at look at the 50 richest clans on our new list of America’s Richest Families.
There are a handful of politicians in the mix, and an overwhelming majority that support one political party far more than another. Some of America’s wealthiest families wear their politics on their sleeves. Charles and David Koch, notorious for their support of right-wing causes, donated more than $2.2 million during the 2012 election, nearly all to Republican candidates. Jon and Patricia Stryker , whose grandfather founded the medical device maker Stryker Corp., have given a total of more than $16 million to Democratic candidates and political groups.
America’s Richest Families: An eBook From Forbes A glimpse into the lives of the richest, most prolific families in America, and how they built—and sustained—their empires.
Other members of rich clans have stepped into the political fray themselves. Penny Pritkzer, part of the family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain, became President Obama’s Commerce Secretary in June 2013. Mark Dayton, an heir to the Dayton family fortune (his ancestors built the company that became Target stores) is a Democrat and the current governor of Minnesota. Pete du Pont, descendant of the founder of chemical giant DuPont, was a Republican governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985 and ran for president in 1988. Dolph Briscoe, Jr., member of the Briscoe ranching family, was a Democrat and governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979. Ross Perot, Sr., is famous for his two impressive but unsuccessful presidential runs as an Independent. He and his son have donated to both parties, but they lean Republican.
The politics of other billion-dollar families aren’t as well known. Of the 50 richest families, 28 mainly donate to Republicans and only seven contribute mainly to Democrats. Not all families stay on the same side of the political spectrum — 15 support candidates from both parties....
Political Affiliations Infographic Infographic: David Lada One caveat: Some of these family fortunes are shared among dozens or even hundreds of people, so we were only able to track political donations of a subset of prominent members.
Here are the political affiliations of America’s 50 richest families, ranked according to wealth:
1. Walton – Republican
2. Koch – Republican
3. Mars – Republican
4. Cargill-MacMillan – Republican
5. Johnson (Fidelity) – Republican
6. Hearst – Republican
7. Cox – Democrat
8. Pritzker – Both
9. Johnson (S.C. Johnson) – Republican
10. Duncan – Republican
11. Newhouse – Democrat
12. Lauder – Both
13. Du Pont – Republican
14. Hunt – Republican
15. Ziff – Both
16. Johnson (Franklin Templeton) – Republican
17. Busch – Both
18. Dorrance – Both
19. Mellon – Republican
20. Brown – Both
21. Carlson – Both
22. Fisher – Republican
23. Butt – Democrat
24. Rockefeller – Both
25. Gallo – Democrat
26. Marshall – Republican
27. Bass – Both
28. Meijer – Republican
29. Bechtel – Republican
29. Reyes – Republican
29. Simplot – Republican
32. Rales – Both
33. Rollins – Republican
34. Scripps – Republican
35. Crown – Both
36. Stryker – Democrat
37. Smith – Republican
38. Pigott – Republican
39. Shoen – Both
39. Simon – Democrat
41. Lefrak – Both
42. Hughes – Republican
42. Phipps – Republican
44. Kluge – Both
44. Tisch – Democrat
46. Johnson (Johnson & Johnson) – Republican
47. Marriott – Republican
48. Kohler – Republican
49. Perot – Both
50. Barbey – Republican __________
That's an old list taken from an old article, but I don't think it has changed much today.
Nine Of The 2020 Forbes Ten Wealthiest Americans Are Democrat-Affiliated Liberal Megadonors
✪ Forbes Magazine released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest people in the world this week, and nine of the top ten wealthiest Americans featured on the list appear to be staunch Democrats and liberal donors…
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Steve Ballmer, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Alice Walton were named as the wealthiest American citizens, all possessing a personal net worth of over 60 billion dollars. Nearly all of them are closely affiliated with Democrat politics in various capacities, most commonly as lavish donors to Democrat campaigns and liberal political causes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the only exception, being a figure who appears unaffiliated with the political left, having donated considerably more money to Republicans than Democrats in the 2018 election cycle, although he donated to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Musk has vaguely affiliated himself with some conservatives, and opposed some of California’s coronavirus lockdown policies.
Bezos himself reportedly personally encouraged Mike Bloomberg to run for President, having feuded with President Trump personally at length over Amazon’s utilization of the Postal Service. He hasn’t donated to Biden, but his general affiliation with Democratic politics is indicated through his tacit Bloomberg endorsement.
Alice Walton, a Walmart heiress, comes from a traditionally Republican family, but is a Biden donor with an extensive history of supporting Democrats. The rest of the top 10 are reliable Democrat donors, donating to Republicans rarely, if at all. Mark Zuckerberg occasionally depicts himself as a political centrist independent of Silicon Valley neoliberal politics, but the Facebook platform engages in prolific censorship of conservatives, without applying the same tactics to the political left.
The wealthiest billionaire oligarchs are determined to use their political power to crush the life prospects of the everyday American and the traditional middle-class American way of life. The political right and real conservatives should oppose them at every turn, reinstating an economic vision that upholds small businesses over multinational corporations and entrepreneurship at a local, community level as an alternative to the domination of monopoly billionaires. ✪
Fucked daddy's life must really suck if all he can post about who has the most money.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really must have a small dick to be such a petty asshole to worry which elites have money and you should be thrilled that biden wants to tax the rich since you think D's have more money....TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!
One caveat: Some of these family fortunes are shared among dozens or even hundreds of people, so we were only able to track political donations of a subset of prominent members.
The most patriotic act I have ever witnessed anyone perform was what my father did on 9/11. He was watching the morning news, as was his routine — despite his poor vision, hearing and understanding of English, the last of which he remedied somewhat through his keen observations and vast store of knowledge.
When he saw the first tower on fire, he rushed to the balcony to examine the horizon. From the fourth floor of our Queens apartment, he usually had a sliver of a view of downtown Manhattan. But instead of the two buildings he was used to seeing, he found only a plume of smoke. Instantly ashen, he began yelling to my mother in Persian — for nothing was ever real unless he narrated for her — “Helen, they struck! They struck the twin towers! May God strike them dead!”
For several moments, he stared into the distance, his clouded vision more clouded for the welling tears. Then, without saying a word, he grabbed his cane and headed for the street.
Since he had arrived in America in 1989, my father had sat on the same balcony looking into the same distance, composing poems, nearly every one of them about Iran. His yearning for the land he had left seemed to grow with each passing year. Everything was better there, everything. Food was tastier. The air was fresher. Even the landscape he used to stare into, he said to my mortification, beat the skyline of Manhattan.
Once a month, he and his fellow exiles gathered in one of their homes and recited the poems they had composed, mostly variations on the same theme of longing. They were no warriors. But in their ceaseless insistence to return home, they made a company of misguided Odysseuses, who had chosen to forget that their Ithaca had rejected them. Even to a daughter, this was offensive: Why not compose poems for the land that had sheltered them, instead?
It took years for me to realize that I had misread my father all along. Everyone misreads the immigrant, including the immigrant himself. It is hard to grasp the depths of the newcomer’s uneasiness — with the new time, the new tongue and the unfamiliar palette of the new landscape.
A recent immigrant described to me the experience of those early months as a period of all-encompassing fog. People understand that the newcomer can be jet-lagged. What they cannot fathom is that he is also head-lagged and heart-lagged. He has landed, yes, but he is only a human shell with a spirit that lingers still in that elsewhere.
Native-born Americans especially misread the immigrant. Some expect him to be instantly grateful and delighted to be in America, when he is hardly able to feel anything but loss — of loved ones he has left behind or of the mastery he had over that bygone life. If he does not articulate gratitude or delight, it is not because he is not grateful or delighted. It is because he, himself, does not yet know what
To experience delight, one must be open to seeing the boons of the present. The newcomer, however, is often in the grip of the past or too swept up in the urgencies of present to recognize anything else. If the immigrant chooses to remain within his own ethnic or religious enclave, it is not because he is refusing to integrate. It is because the enclave is the only familiar place left to him from which he can dare venture into the unfamiliar new world. Some native-born take offense at the immigrant’s poor English. But language, as the late Sen. John McCain keenly saw, is hardly an indicator of patriotism.
The truest measure of all is whether he embraces America’s fundamental values. But the trouble is, he could believe in those values yet not be demonstrative in the same way as the native-born. Most nations do not flaunt patriotism without good reason — a national threat, disaster or some special celebration.
America is not unique in its popular use of its flag. But such fervent and widespread displays of the flag are almost exclusively American. In most other countries, especially those living under authoritarian rule, flags are objects that are flown at government buildings or military outposts. It takes a while before the immigrant to America cultivates a fond, personal relationship to Old Glory.
It is often the moments of dire events, more than any other, that have given cause to the immigrant to demonstrate his patriotism beyond all expectations. For nearly half a century, Chinese Americans lived under “exclusion.” Then came the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which gave them the chance to serve, proving to those who had suspected their loyalties, as well as to themselves, their love for this country.
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The attacks of 9/11, too, helped many immigrants make a similar discovery. My father returned home that morning, carrying a plastic bag. He shuffled to the balcony, where he took out of the bag an American flag — the largest he had been able to find at the corner store. He removed the geranium pots, the only items the co-op board allowed to be displayed from the railings.
Having been a school principal and a community leader all his life before coming to the U.S., he had always taken great care to be a law-abiding role model for everyone else. But that day, he was not the man he had always been. He looped a piece of twine through the holes at each end of the flag and tied it to the railings.
I was stunned as to how he knew to do this, or why the man who had never broken any rules had found it in him to do so. For the rest of the day, he stayed on the balcony, his eyes fixed upon that smoldering horizon. It was as if all the poems and the longings had gone up with that smoke. Perhaps he, too, was discovering what he really felt. Or perhaps I was the one learning what he had always known in his heart.
The certainty with which he acted made clear that the poet was, first and foremost, a sensible man, who knew that if he was able to sit and write about his yearning for another land, it was because of the safety this land had granted him.
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That day, Iran was only a dispensable muse, whereas America — a beloved reality. The moment his peace was lost, all wordplay stopped. The sinister blaze in the horizon kindled a different fire in my father’s heart.
Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American author. This essay is adapted from her book “A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious.”
But instead of the two buildings he was used to seeing, he found only a plume of smoke. Instantly ashen, he began yelling to my mother in Persian — for nothing was ever real unless he narrated for her — “Helen, they struck! They struck the twin towers! May God strike them dead!”
My wife is mad at him for insulting Trump voters. And she voted for him in 2000 and 2004. Contributed to Jeb in 2016 (what a waste of money you can see his heart wasn't in it) No, she doesn't consider herself an extremist.
anonymous said... Fucked daddy's life must really suck if all he can post about who has the most money.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really must have a small dick to be such a petty asshole
Hey idiot, I am just responding to the misinformation being posted by the lying POS "pastor" and roger. Sorry if that upsets you.
You appear to have a real affinity for small dicks.
must be because you are forced to take them up your ass so much and big ones must really hurt you still.
Blogger Commonsense said... That's an old list taken from an old article, but I don't think it has changed much today.
No Bezos, No Ellison, No Zuckerberg No Gates? Hack.
This is supposed to be generational wealth and all members of the family do group think. If a Walton contributed to an R all Walton’s contribute to R’s. It’s an absolutely worthless list
“There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,” Bush said, “but in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”
While Bush did not explicitly touch on the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, his speech inevitably invoked the domestic attack on the seat of American political power that was spurred on by one of his successors, President Donald Trump.
Domestic extremism proliferated in the years after the 9/11 attacks as much of America’s resources ― as directed under the Bush administration and the subsequent Obama administration ― were focused instead on the threat of international terrorism. The FBI now considers domestic extremism a top threat to national security.
Trump was conspicuously absent from the events where current and former U.S. leaders gathered to mark the historic occasion. He is expected to provide commentary for a boxing match in Florida later on Saturday.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden spent the morning in downtown Manhattan at the former site of the World Trade Center towers to hear the names of the more than 2,000 people who perished there read aloud.
They were joined by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), and a large contingent of elected officials either from New York or serving in the Biden administration. A ceremony was also held at the Pentagon.
Subscribe to the Politics email. From Washington to the campaign trail, get the latest politics news. address@email.com In Pennsylvania, Bush was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris to commemorate those lost in the terrorist attacks and to remark upon the ways they altered the world.
“Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment that our lives would be changed forever,” Bush began his speech. He said later that “the security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort and reminders of our vulnerability.”
The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has prompted nationwide reflection on the great lengths that have been taken ostensibly to protect Americans ― from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency’s massive program of domestic surveillance.
Both Bush and Harris remarked on the unity that emerged in the hours and days after the attacks took nearly 3,000 lives. Bush also spoke critically of the current political environment that “turns every disagreement into an argument and every argument into a clash of cultures.”
“So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” he said, going on to highlight moments of grace seen 20 years ago that better represent “the nation I know.”
Biden also traveled to Shanksville himself Saturday afternoon and offered praise of Bush’s speech.
“The core of who we are is not divided,” Biden said.
Bush had concluded his remarks by addressing American service members directly, telling them, “you have been a force for good in the world.”
“Nothing that has followed ― nothing ― can tarnish your honor or diminish your accomplishments,” he said, not two weeks after Biden completed a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, ending the nation’s longest war.
Urgent: the British are dropping vaccine passports Just so we’re clear: they’re not doing this because they think vaccines work - but because they know vaccines don’t
Alex Berenson Sep 11
Keep hope alive.
The Sunday Times has just reported that Boris Johnson is giving up on the idea of vaccine passports or making businesses check vaccine status.
Again, this is not because Britain - where 80% of people over 16 are fully vaccinated - has controlled Covid. The opposite, in fact.
Other data show that only about 25% of deaths in Britain are among the unvaccinated - and that vaccinated people over 40 are actually MORE likely to get Covid than the unvaccinated.
The truth always wins. Now that one big country has made a long overdue concession to reality, will the rest follow?
Hey alky that's about the 5th or 6th time in this thread you have posted the exact same shit from someone you used to call a Nazi, a chimp and the village idiot.
You won't remember but who's the village idiot now ?
The Pfizer trial itself showed no benefit from the vaccine for those who had evidence of prior infection. @CDCgov has been lying about those trial results since last December.
Since he’s been caught in another lie, Fauci seems reluctant, even on CNN, to perpetuate the CDC lie.
James Melville 🌸 https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1436439111267667974 A nightclub event in Münster Germany that only allowed vaccinated guests has resulted in 44 Covid infections so far. Yet more proof that vaccine passports are pointless and are counter-productive in curbing the spread of the virus.
Trump was conspicuously absent from the events where current and former U.S. leaders gathered to mark the historic occasion. He is expected to provide commentary for a boxing match in Florida later on Saturday.
Trump wrote "I love you all. To the NYPD and FDNY.
Trump wasn't at the ceremony because he wasn't invited to the ceremony. Neither did the Unity president invite George W. Bush or any other prominate Republican. They allow 41 to go to Shanksville to make a speech.
🤣A couple years ago I was going through a divorce and I should never have talked about it publicly.😆 Roger
The buying of a home in Bonney Lake, Washington, you posted a couple of days ago.
The fact that you have dug yourself out of a deep hole and can now biy a $500,000 plus dollar home and furnish it is impressive and a real success story.
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And 20 years later we have a government we really can't trust
At least those in Washington
including their agencies
Unbelievable
The terrorists are winning
For the moment at least, Biden has turned 9/11 into a day of national shame. Evincing no awareness of what he has done or what was done to us, he has now turned it into a day to be stupid. It is a day to advertise his stupidity — give me the old time willful blindness — to revel in it and to chide Americans for their bigotry.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/a-day-to-be-stupid.php
Stephanie
https://gettr.com/post/par2j2f4d1
Benjamin Franklin "Those who give up freedom for safety deserve neither.
Joe Biden "This is not about freedom this is for your safety"
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JUST IN - Trump speaks on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
GREAT VIDEO:
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/106912727283349270
and a great president
So how do we put more new fresh crisis into our old tired crisis, sufficient that people will quit paying attention to the fact we don’t have a functioning government?
I know! Let’s have this unpopular, incompetent, corrupt executive branch go for an insane power grab! They can’t even guard an airport from a bunch of goat rapists, but by golly, they’re going to swagger back to America, say fuck you Separation of Powers, fuck your Three Branches of Government, tear off a big chunk of the Constitution and wipe their ass with it on TV, all in the name of “the greater good”. That’s sure to be a hit!
For those of you who slept through School House Rock, that’s not how any of this shit is supposed to work. However, the executive being able to just give itself crazy new powers on the fly is the inevitable end of the road that we’ve been on for quite some time. I’ve been bitching about this consistently my entire adult life, whether the hot new power grab came from Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now this fucking turnip, each time the team sports cheer leaders would be happy their guy was grabbing more unchecked authority for the executive branch, while the team on the outs cried about it… but then promptly did the same thing once they got back in.
Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws. Just make a “rule”. Why even have congress? And the dementia puppet’s speech writer even handily stuck in a line about getting those pesky governors our of the way! Because why do we even have states?
The ultimate goal of course is to just have a cadre of elite “experts” from the Corpo-Uni-Party run every aspect of our lives for “the greater good”, without any of that pesky stuff like freedom or agency getting in the way. And some of you are like, oh Correia, that’s so wacky and far-fetched! Uh huh. And twenty years ago the idea of needing government permission to work or go to church would have sounded insane, but here we are.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2021/09/10/this-week-in-politics-its-all-bullshit-and-were-fucked/
h/t: Glenn Reynolds
A different and touching story about 9/11 jumpers and one in particular
Never read anything like it
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
JUST IN - Trump speaks on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
Biden has no events planed. Trump should have been the president. I am more convinced he was cheated out of a second term.
It's 9/11 and you ignored it because you have lost your mind.
President Bush just made a wonderful speech about flight 93
On the 20th anniversary of the worst single day in American life since Pearl Harbor, I long to see the flags flying everywhere again.”
“I long for an outpouring of unity as Americans — whatever their political persuasion, whatever the spot on the map they call home — come together to tame the pandemic.”
“For me, part of the sadness of this Sept. 11 will flow from the fear that never again in my lifetime will Americans put aside their differences to battle a common foe.
Instead of using a picture of the twin towers for his political bias Scott is a traitor now
It's 9/11 and you ignored it because you have lost your mind.
Don't think I ignored it.
But I think Biden has made this a day of shame. Prove me wrong.
“I long for an outpouring of unity as Americans
Well except for leftist Democrats I think all Americans are unified in shame they never had to experience before and deal with.
And they are unified in assessing what a cowardly, pussy, beta man Biden really is.
Biden has no events planed.
Thank God. Glad to see his handlers keeping him out of the public eye today.
We don't need the piece of shit to soil this day. Not THIS day.
President Biden is visiting the sites of all three Sept. 11 attacks to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
In New York, families of the victims read the names of those who died in the 2001 attacks and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The service in New York, at the 9/11 Memorial plaza at the World Trade Center, included moments of silence at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 9:59 a.m., 10:03 a.m. and 10:28 a.m.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton attended the memorial event in New York, which featured a performance by Bruce Springsteen.
President George W. Bush gave a keynote address at the memorial in Shanksville, Pa., where flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11.
He reminded us of how he brought us together
I watched it
Instead of using a picture of the twin towers for his political bias Scott is a traitor now
Alky, if there was ever a day you needed to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up today would be that day.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/9-11-20th-anniversary?st=vfov530j0ilrtda&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
President Biden is visiting the sites of all three Sept. 11 attacks to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
May he fall down the fucking stairs of AF1 at all three sites.
I watched it
So did millions of others. Do you want a fucking cookie?
God damn, you never stop being a low self esteem asshole.
What he said -
TWENTY YEARS AGO, THE TOWERS FELL.
We said “never forget.” Well, we haven’t forgotten the heroism of people like Rick Rescorla, the Flight 93 passengers, the firefighters who charged up the WTC stairs, or the volunteers who set up the American Dunkirk evacuation of lower Manhattan by boat.
But we have forgotten the criminal negligence of our political leaders and intelligence services that got us to that point. We should have purged the incompetents then. Now they’re running the show. The country is still sound, but the people in charge of it have only gotten worse.
Those are my not very encouraging thoughts, twenty years later.
Posted at 9:03 am by Glenn Reynolds
Saturday marks 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, striking the north tower at 8:46 a.m. followed by the south tower at 9:03 a.m. At 9:37 a.m., a third hijacked airline crashed into the Pentagon.
Twenty-two minutes later, the World Trade Center's south tower collapsed. A fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m. after passengers fought with and overcame the hijackers.
At 10:28 a.m. the World trade Center's North Tower collapsed.
In total, 2,977 people were killed, including many New York City first responders.
Twenty years later our nation is not United.
Cracks in unity
Michael J. Allen, a professor of American history at Northwestern University, agreed that America is not the country it was when the twin towers fell.
“The United States is a far less confident and optimistic nation now than it was in September 2001, which marked the end of a decade of technology-fueled economic growth, foreign policy dominance and presidential centrism,” he said. “But it is also a more diverse nation with a more clear-eyed sense of the serious challenges Americans face and a more realistic sense of the dangers and limits of American power.”
How did we fall apart after the most shocking attack on the U.S. since Pearl Harbor? The first cracks in the post 9/11 unity came when the administration of then-President George W. Bush used the terrorist attacks as an excuse to attack Iraq, which had no role in them, historians said.
At the same time, millions of Muslim Americans found themselves branded terrorists by bigots and were forced to defend their religion because of bin Laden’s fanaticism.
“The Bush administration’s failed foreign policy response to the 9/11 attacks discredited the existing leadership of the Republican Party and leading Democrats like Hillary Clinton” who supported the Iraq War,
That, he said, helped pave the way for the election of President Barack Obama, one of the few politicians who publicly opposed the Iraq War, and allowed “a new political class to emerge” before the subsequent election of his successor, Donald Trump.
“But that political class is more confrontational and enjoys less trust in a nation that has grown more divided,” Allen said. “The net effect is to leave Americans less capable of reaching consensus on any problem we face — from Covid to climate change to counterterrorism to policing — and thus unable to forge public policy responses.”
The internet also figures into the division.
“Safe to say, if what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, happened today, the response would have been vastly different,” said Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson, an expert on popular culture. “The major variable is social media and the explosion of the digital environment.”
There were conspiracy theorists who floated bogus notions that Jews were warned not to show up for work at the twin towers that day and that the attacks were an inside job or even faked, he said.
But while those notions continue to persist on the web, they did not get the sudden traction in 2001 that, for example, some of the false Covid claims that Trump promoted on Twitter did last year.
Instead, a “we’re all in this together” narrative took hold in the media in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and remained there until the Bush administration began pushing to invade Iraq, which happened in March 2003.
“We had Jay Leno vowing not to make fun of the way President Bush mispronounces words,” Thompson said. “There is no way that warm, unified feeling would happen today."
The endless war is over
When bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks, he did so from a hideout in Afghanistan, which was then being governed by the Taliban, homegrown practitioners of an extreme version of Islam bent on returning the country to some of the practices of the Middle Ages.
The invasion Bush launched quickly dislodged the Taliban but did not destroy them. It also failed to capture bin Laden, who escaped across the border into Pakistan and continued to threaten the U.S. until he was killed in a 2011 raid ordered by Obama.
But now the Taliban are back in power, their triumphant return paved by the Trump administration’s agreement last year to pull U.S. forces out of the country, and the apparent failure of President Joe Biden's administration to anticipate how quickly Kabul would fall.
Mino and hundreds of other Afghanistan War veterans have been frantically trying to help the Afghan interpreters who went into battle with them during America’s “longest war” escape the Taliban.
So did millions of others
SO DID TRUMP WHO CLAIMED HE SAW THOUSANDS OF ARAB APPLAUDING IN HOBOKEN WHEN THE TOWERE WENT DOWN AND JUST PUT OUT THE MOST DIVISIVE POS STATEMENT ABOUT TODAY.....WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU AND HIM??????
President Biden is visiting the sites of all three Sept. 11 attacks to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/9-11-20th-anniversary?st=vfov530j0ilrtda&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
You are a pathological liar Jimmy Hitler Jr.
Roger, hope you get better, soon.
So Sorry about your latest medical setback.
Non of them are making political agenda because they honor those who sacrificed themselves for others.
In a speech that centered on the future of America and its adherence to the ideals the 40 passengers and crew members fought for, Vice President Kamala Harris said in the face of uncertainty, “it will take all of us going forth to work together” as a nation to face challenges.
“If we do the hard work of working together as Americans, if we remain united in purpose, we will be prepared for whatever comes next,” Ms. Harris said. “The 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 — as we all know — didn’t know each other. Most of them didn’t know each other. They were different people from different places.”
“They were on that particular flight for different reasons. But they did not focus on what may separate us. No. They focused on what we all share — on the humanity we all share.”
Our role in the world is different than the post Second War era.
Combating terrorism is our mission.
President Trump, Thanks.
Showing heart felt real compassion.
Trump told the truth about today.
After 20 years al Qaeda won. And Biden help them.
Twenty years later our nation is not United.
Cracks in unity
Michael J. Allen, a professor of American history at Northwestern University, agreed that America is not the country it was when the twin towers fell.
Funny, they weren't worried about unity when they tried ram their socialist agenda down our throats.
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Unity is now code for "Sit down, shut up, and do what your rulers demand.
You can read his speech here.
President George W Bush.
https://news.yahoo.com/george-w-bush-shanksville-transcript-154329368.html
A funny thing happen in 2016. The people didn't elect the leader the rulers wanted. They elected a man to stand up to them. Of course they used everything in their power to go after him.
Here is the record of Lee, the general who cramps claimed to be great and prolonged the killing during the civil wa
Opinion: Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser
Workers removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Sept. 8. (AP)
Opinion by Dana Milbank
Columnist
Yesterday at 1:03 p.m. EDT
Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser.
No general in U.S. history was defeated as unequivocally and as totally as Lee. For all his supposed strategic skill, his army was entirely destroyed. One-quarter of those who served under him were killed, and an additional half were wounded or captured. He was a traitor to the United States who killed more U.S. soldiers than any other enemy in the nation’s history, for the supremely evil cause of slavery. To boot, he was a cruel enslaver and a
Funny, they weren't worried about unity when they tried ram their socialist agenda down our throats.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! While you adore an authoritarian lying cock sucking leader.....yeah as long as he takes away women's rights....you are a go!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLL
Amen.
RRB Said
"Alky, if there was ever a day you needed to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up today would be that day."
"There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, disregard for human life. In their determination to defile national symbols they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them."
He said that the Proud Boys etc. are terrorists, and just as dangerous as al Qaeda.
Vice President Harris said about the same thing.
“We had differences of opinion in 2001 as we do in 2021. And I believe, that in America, our diversity is our strength. Sikh and Muslim Americans were targeted because of how they looked or how they worshipped.
The right wing nutcase websites said she was blaming them for being Muslims
She supports the first President rights.
Three presidents and their wives stood somberly side by side at the National September 11 Memorial, sharing a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of the nation's worst terror attack with a display of unity.
President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton all gathered at the site where the World Trade Center towers fell two decades ago. They each wore blue ribbons and held their hands over their hearts as a procession marched a flag through the memorial, watched by hundreds of Americans gathered for the remembrance, some carrying photos of loved ones lost in the attacks.
Before the event began, a jet flew overhead in an eerie echo of the attacks, drawing a glance from Mr. Biden toward the sky.
The right wing nutcase websites will probably call him demented because he looked up at the sky.
I like Blie Cheese Dressing on my word salad.
"She supports the first President rights." Roger
First amendment rights
Roger AmickSeptember 11, 2021 at 11:49 AM
First amendment rights
Autofil is a pain in the ass. Sometimes I don't correct it immediately.
In debate you are always judge to have lost when you defend a position the opposing team never staked out.
Roger, never ever formally debated in high school or college. For IF he had he would stop losing here.
The right wing nutcase websites are attacking George Bush!
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“Children of the Same Foul Spirit” – George Bush Compares January 6 “Domestic Extremists” to Islamic Terrorists in 9/11 Speech (VIDEO)
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Former President George W. Bush delivered remarks on Saturday on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.
Bush was president when the Twin Towers were hit by hijacked airplanes on September 11, 2001.
Bush watered down Islamic terrorism during his speech and said January 6 “domestic extremists” and jihadists share a “disregard for human life” and a “determination to defile national symbols.”
“They are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our… duty to confront them,” Bush said.
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Roger Amick said...
Former President George W. Bush delivered remarks on Saturday
A person roger called the village idiot
the chimp
and worse than Hitler
does say a lot about roger
The difference is glaringly obvious.
https://twitter.com/PatriotAU/status/1436693549215518724
I didn't agree with him, mostly because I have a different political view. But George W Bush is a great man. Axios
But when he listened to the people who wanted to invade Iraq. But...
Former president George W. Bush on Saturday warned of homegrown violent extremism while speaking at the Flight 93 memorial on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Driving the news: "We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," said Bush, who joined Vice President Kamala Harris and others at the ceremony.
"There's little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them."Following the Capitol riot, Bush released a statement denouncing "the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement.""The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation," the 43rd president added.The former president's remarks come a week before a Sept. 18 rally planned in support of individuals arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. The rally — spearheaded by former Donald Trump presidential campaign official Matt Braynard — is known as "Justice for J6."
The big picture: Bush also highlighted the unity that was on display in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks in his speech on Saturday.
"In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own," Bush said.
Scott Johnson will go crazy because Bush used the term Insurrection.
Roger told use Bush Let 9-1-1 happen.
Roger, can't remember what he said.
the 43rd president added.The former president's remarks come a week before a Sept. 18 rally planned in support of individuals arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. The rally — spearheaded by former Donald Trump presidential campaign official Matt Braynard — is known as "Justice for J6."
The big picture: Bush also highlighted the unity that was on display in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks in his speech on Saturday.
"In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own," Bush said.
rrb will probably pass on saying about it
https://www.axios.com/bush-violent-extremism-homegrown-abroad-sept-11-4cc3c18e-19f5-4cfa-9b19-4ef313616873.html
What did president Biden have to say ?
He was seen yelling with his mask down:
https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1436688502398328838
what an angry man
Did he order another strike against a US aid worker and his family to "celebrate" and then lie and call them terrorists ?
Joe Biden has failed America
repeatedly
A person roger called the village idiot
the chimp
and worse than Hitler
Roger Amick said...
I didn't agree with him, mostly because I have a different political view. But George W Bush is a great man
That says everything you need to know
Cernovich
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1436715735317827584
20 years later it’s hard to imagine the heroism displayed by first responders, who are now openly despised by New York City and state leaders, and whose personal sacrifice is downplayed by the Commander-in-Chief, who compares this deadly attack to a small riot at the Capitol.
Traitor Joe is dangerously out of touch.
President Biden is in Pennsylvania right now at the fire department.
Attention Whore.
"Scott Johnson will go crazy"
"rrb will probably"
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
You cannot scare us.
President George Bush said.
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
It was not a small riot. He called it a violent attack on the Capitol Building.
Barstool Sports
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1436716626196434947
The entire Army team came onto the field with American flags today.
Beautiful.
Biden and Milley will be pissed
but they cannot scare us
Stephen L. Miller
https://mobile.twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1436428157381275649
If Trump ordered a drone strike on what turned out be an aide worker delivering water around the city in response to a terror attack that killed 13 Americans, CNN would be going full Chernobyl and Schiff and Pelosi would be calling for impeachment and mass military resignations.
instead roger is now praising Bush and Cheney and the entrenched swamp
Heroes' homecoming: Three Marines among the 13 US troops killed in ISIS-K suicide blast are honored by their grieving communities who line the streets as their remains return home to Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska in solemn processions
Homecoming processions were held on Friday for three of the Marines killed in ISIS-K suicide blast in Kabul
Huge crowds lined the streets of Jackson, Wyoming to meet the remains of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum
In Laredo, Texas, a police motorcade escorted the casket of Lance Cpl. David Lee Espinoza
Fire trucks hung American flags along the route in Omaha, Nebraska for Cpl. Daegan Page
The three are among the 13 US troops killed in the attack on the Kabul airport evacuation on August 26
All 13 have now been posthumously awarded Purple Hearts
Red states
Roger is a gutless coward, he has always been one and he will die as one.
It's not a war on Muslims.
What We Do With Tragic Anniversaries
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Those of us who were alive and sentient 20 years ago remember exactly where we were when we saw the twin towers collapse and heard that other planes went down.
Some of us are old enough to remember exactly where we were when we heard, many years before, that JFK had been shot and killed.
I expect that most young people today, who have no direct memory of either, will continue to remember 1/6/21, when a president of the United States instigated a deadly attack on the Capitol.
Dark days like these become etched in national memories. But more important is how these days altered history, in what ways our lives permanently changed because of them, and what lessons we as a nation drew from them.
11/22/63 made Lyndon Johnson president, which led to the tragic escalation of the Vietnam War.
9/11/01 motivated Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld to launch a 20-year war on terrorism.
1/6/21 marked the culmination of Trump’s attempted coup, and perhaps the start of something far worse.
All of these days provoke the standard sentiments from politicians that “our hearts go out” to the families of those who perished. Yes, of course. But I wish these grim anniversaries also invited more reconsideration of what America has become as a result.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1436502521246363648
Say what you want about Trump, he never murdered an innocent family for propaganda.
What has America become ?
God , Roger.
You are so freaking boring .
Got a set date when you moved out of 4th Street Midecaid Acres and into your new single family $500,000 home?
Let me help ya , exactly never.
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1436447467596402689
Remember when anyone with a brain called BS on this? That the same incompetents who after 20 years “could not have seen this coming” miraculously found the ISIS plotters of the Kabul bombing and killed them hours later?
Now we know why they didn’t release the “high Level” names!
The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. Our latest investigation shows how a man the military saw as an "imminent threat" and "ISIS facilitator" was actually an aid worker returning to his family: https://nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007963596/us-drone-attack-kabul-investigation.html
And now they refuse to release the tapes of the capitol protest
And the involvement of the FBI
And why it took so long to highlight the pipe bomber
And why Nancy failed to properly secure the Capitol
"trust them"
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
unequal justice
shred the constitution
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Vice President Harris said about the same thing.
“We had differences of opinion in 2001 as we do in 2021. And I believe, that in America, our diversity is our strength. Sikh and Muslim Americans were targeted because of how they looked or how they worshipped.
Since 9/11
Richard Reid
Abdullah al-Muhajir
Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar
Naveed Afzal Haq
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad
Nidal Malik Hasan
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Faisal Shahzad
Farooque Ahmed
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Mohamed Osman Mohamud
Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Ali Muhammad Brown 3 Times
Alton Alexander Nolen
"Jah'Keem Yisrael
Zale Thompson
Elton Simpson, Nadir Hamid Soofi, and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem
Usaama Rahim and David Wright
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
Faisal Mohammad
Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik
Mohamed Barry
Omar Mateen
Wasil Farooqui
Ahmad Khan Rahimi
Abdul Razak Ali Artan
Sayfullo Saipov
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Attacks here in the US fuck that stupid whore
Coward Alky said
"First amendment rights" BJ Harris support
And?
Fuck'n idiot Alky it is after all her Job.
Here is the record of Lee, the general who cramps claimed to be great and prolonged the killing during the civil wa
Opinion: Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser
Workers removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Sept. 8. (AP)
Opinion by Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank sucks as a military historian. He should keep his opinions in the realm of politics and leave the military history to people who actually read it.
Lee in fact was never a stone cold loser. His lost at Gettysburg was in fact the only blemish to his reputation and his ability to keep the army of Northern Virginia together dispite the want of food, clothing, guns, ammunition, and fodder was nothing short of a miracle.
Lee defeated every Union general except Grant who opposed him, inflicting greater causalities on Union forces.
Even with Grant Lee fought a vicious war attrition, from Culpepper, to the Wilderness Tavern, to Petersburg Lee made Grant pay dearly for every square foot of real estate gained.
Where every other Union general would have high-tailed it back to Washington not so Grant. Grant was all to willing to pay that price of blood because the both knew Grant had the industrial power of the North and and far many more men to draw from. The defeat of the Confederacy was inevitable.
Little known fact. The flag popularly known as the flag of the Confederacy was in fact the battle banner for the Army of Northern Virginia. The official Confederate flag was a diffrent design altogather.
The official Confederate flag was a diffrent design altogather.
Try to explain to these dumbasses the stars and bars ain’t the battle flag
You cannot scare us.
Roger, it's not our intention to scare you. Our intention is to relegate you and the ruling class you tody for to the dustbin of History. That's the only way to return to constitutional governance.
Oh boy, if the "ruling class" gets relegated to the dustbin of history, Republicans will lose their real base: the filthy rich they toady for.
And that's the expression you mean: "toady for".
Hi James, did you Father Children?
JamesNewLeaf said...
Oh boy, if the "ruling class" gets relegated to the dustbin of history, Republicans will lose their real base: the filthy rich they toady for.
18 of America's richest 20 men are democrats as I recall
but keep lying
it's the "pastor's" brand
kind of like Biden's military
Alabama Man Dies After 43 Hospitals Couldn’t Admit Him
September 11, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 75 Comments
The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs, USA Today reports.
Bush Warns of Domestic Terrorism
September 11, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 148 Comments
Former President George W. Bush spoke about the threat of domestic terrorism on Saturday during a speech to mark 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, Reuters reports.
Said Bush:
“We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come, not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.
He added:
“There is little cultural overlaps between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home… they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”
You mean like those "peaceful tourists" who invaded and ransacked our capitol building?
Glenn Greenwald
VIDEO of LIES:
Watch how they lie with such ease and casualness, adeptly manipulation that emotions that all Americans felt after watching the barbaric attack at the airport:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1436471340056391682
and
Biden's @PentagonPresSec John Kirby -- they just lie like sociopaths, not even blinking:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1436473007095046147
Lies - Biden's foundation
everything democrats accuse you of they are actually doing
Read this and decide who's lying about whether more Republicans or more Democrats are among the filthy rich.
https://www.budgetandthebees.com/who-is-richer-democrats-or-republicans/
43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs, USA Today reports.
Right !!! Guess nobody else had any medical condition requiring admission to those "full" hospitals ICUs either.
What an unlucky guy
Why do liberals and FAKE NEWS keep promoting these hoax stories ?
Oh boy, if the "ruling class" gets relegated to the dustbin of history, Republicans will lose their real base: the filthy rich they toady for.
Um the Corporate Globalist made a deal the left and the Democrats. (A faustian bargain no doubt) All you need to do is look at commercIals by Disney, Stoney, IBM, Apple, Microsoft Goldman Sacs etc. to see that it's true among the leftest agenda items they push is critical race theory. They emphasize diversity and unity as long as that unity is to one leftest agenda.
it is the Republican who are champion the ordinary Americans again the Corporate ruling class.
The word is against.
Read this and decide who's lying about whether more Republicans or more Democrats are among the filthy rich.
Not the filthy rich but who has the power. Trump is filthy rich but he's not part of the ruling class.
Read this and decide who's lying about whether more Republicans or more Democrats are among the filthy rich.
Richest man in America
1 Jeff Bezos - Democrat
2 Bill Gates - Democrat
3 - Warren Buffet - Democrat
4 - Larry Ellison - Democrat
5 - Mark Zuckerberg - Democrat
6 - Michael Bloomberg - Democrat
7 - Larry Page - Democrat
8 - Charles Koch - Republican (mostly)
9 - David Koch - Republican (mostly)
10 - Sergey Brin Democrat
along with the Waltons, Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Phil Knight, Jacqueline Mars, John Mars and you could argue they all democrats
20 - Elon Musk - Independent...
https://moneyinc.com/richest-americans-in-the-world/
ROFLMFAO !!!
The word is against.
Against and your point is?
Guess you are still using an old fashion mechanical keyboard instead of a keyboard app.
Knew James was deliberately using an old list.
Now read the article I provided at 2:39 PM.
The richest FAMILIES are Republicans.
ought it was "center moderate."
JamesNewLeaf said...
Now read the article I provided at 2:39 PM.
The richest FAMILIES are Republicans.
OLD money and not nearly as much as people like Bezos and the richest Americans have.
Not even close
Bezo's (Amazon, Washington Post) currently has over $200 billion, a large increase coming from Covid
Others well over 100 billion, many benefiting from Covid
and from being Democrats
George Bush said that
1Jeff Bezos - Democrat
Owner of the Washington Post, Amazon.
2 Bill Gates - Democrat
Owner of Microsoft
3 - Warren Buffet - Democrat
Owner Berkshire Hathaway
4 - Larry Ellison - Democrat
Owner Oracle
5 - Mark Zuckerberg - Democrat
Owner Facebook
Newsweek
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1436357805041242125
Members of Congress and their staff are exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate
___________________________________________
WAIT !!!
What's behind Biden exempting Congress and their staff
and the Post Office ???
"science"
political science
The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.
You cannot scare us.
Not my words asshole
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1436509628158947335
The USPS is excluded from Biden's insane mandate because none of this has anything to do with a virus, or science, or basic logic.
It's about unprecedented power for the corrupt Democratic Party.
aid...
George Bush said that
Said what?
The richest FAMILIES are Republicans.
OLD money and not nearly as much as people
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! So old money is not worth as much, dummy???? Wow that is sure an interesting theory for useless lying slurper likefucked daddy!!!!!!
Today!
roger amick said:
Not my words asshole
correct, the words of a man you called worse than Hitler, a chimp and the village idiot.
and now you adore
must be awful lonely in that room
ROFLMFAO !!!
AMERICA’S TOP 10 RICHEST FAMILIESWalton– —
1:The family owns the Walmart corporation. Republican
2;The Walton family fortune is estimated to be about $130 billion.
3:Koch– Republican — Businessmen, owners of Koch Industries, a manufacturing company. Koch brothers have a net worth of about $41 billion each ($82 billion together).
4:Mars– Republican — Own the Mars candy company. The three children of founder Forrest Mars are worth about $78 billion together.
5:Cargill-MacMillan– Republican — The Cargill-MacMillan family owns 90 percent of the largest privately-owned corporation in the U.S. The family, as a whole, is worth about $49 billion.
6: Cox– Democrat — The Cox family owns a number of auto consumer sites and services (Kelley Blue Book, AutoTrader.com, etc.). They have an estimated net worth of $41 billion.
7:Johnson (S.C. Johnson)– Republican — The Johnson family is known for their cleaning products and hygiene products. They are valued at $30 billion.
8:Pritzker– Both — Founders of Hyatt. The family has a combined value of $29 billion in 2017.
9:Johnson (Fidelity)– Republican — Overseers at Fidelity, ensuring the cash of millions of Americans. The family has a combined net worth of $28.5 billion.
10:Hearst– Republican — The Hearst family owns one of America’s largest media companies. The family is valued at $28 billion.Duncan– Republican — The Duncan family works mostly with oil and pipelines. The family is valued at about $21.5 billion.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! So old money is not worth as much, dummy
I see VERY lo iq doesn't even know how to compare net worths.
You see $200 Billion is worth a lot more than $10 billion
Guess everyone here except him can figure that out
but keep using that "catch phrase"
You do know what that means "anonymous"
even if you close your eyes when it is happening
ROFLMFAO !!!
Families are not uniform in their political beliefs
Still the 3 or 4 richest Americans are richer than your entire list roger
Thanks for playing !!!
When are you moving ?
The speech by the former President Bush.
Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment, that our lives would be changed forever.
The world was loud with carnage and sirens, and then quiet with missing voices that would never be heard again. These lives remain precious to our country and infinitely precious to many of you. Today we remember your loss, we share your sorrow, and we honor the men and women you have loved so long and so well.
For those too young that clear September day, it is hard to describe the mix of feelings we experienced. There was horror at the scale of destruction and awe at the bravery and kindness that rose to meet it. There was shock at the audacity of evil and gratitude for the heroism and decency that opposed it.
In the sacrifice of the first responders, in the mutual aid of strangers, in the solidarity of grief and grace, the actions of an enemy revealed the spirit of a people. And we were proud of our wounded nation.
In these memories, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 must always have an honored place. Here, the intended targets became the instruments of rescue. And many who are now alive owe a vast, unconscious debt to the defiance displayed in the skies above this field.
It would be a mistake to idealize the experience of those terrible events. All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death. All that many could feel was unearned suffering. All that many could hear was God’s terrible silence. There are many who still struggle with a lonely pain that cuts deep within.
In those fateful hours, we learned other lessons as well. We saw that Americans were vulnerable, but not fragile — that they possessed a core of strength that survives the worst that life can bring. We learned that bravery was more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death. We vividly felt how every hour with our loved ones was a temporary and holy gift. And we found that even the longest days end.
Many of us have tried to make spiritual sense of these events. There is no simple explanation for the mix of providence and human will that sets the direction of our lives. But comfort can come from a different store of knowledge. After wandering long and lost in the dark, many have found they were actually watching step by step toward grace.
As a nation, our adjustments have been profound. Many Americans struggled why an enemy would hate us with such zeal. The security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort and reminders of our vulnerability. And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.
There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them.
After 9/11, millions of brave Americans stepped forward and volunteered to serve in the armed forces. The military measures taken over the past 20 years to pursue dangers at their source have led to debate. But one thing is certain: We owe an assurance to all who have fought our nation’s most recent battles.
Let me speak directly to veterans and people in uniform. The cause you pursued at the call of duty is the noblest that America has to offer. You have shielded your fellow citizens from danger. You have defended the beliefs of your country and advanced the rights of the downtrodden. You have been the face of hope and mercy in dark places. You have been a force for good in the world. Nothing that has followed — nothing — can tarnish your honor or diminish your accomplishments. To you, and our honorable dead, our country is forever grateful.
In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. Malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together.
I come without explanations or solutions. I can only tell you what I’ve seen.
On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another. That is the America I know.
At a time when religious bigotry might have flowed freely, I saw Americans reject prejudice and embrace people of Muslim faith. That is the nation I know.
At a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome to immigrants and refugees. That is the nation I know.
At a time when some viewed the rising generation as individualistic and decadent, I saw young people embrace an ethic of service and rise to selfless action. That is the nation I know.
This is not mere nostalgia. It is the truest version of ourselves. It is what we have been and can be again.
Twenty years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans on a routine flight to be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror. The 33 passengers and seven crew of Flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by face. In a sense, they stood in for us all.
The terrorists soon discovered that a random group of Americans is an exceptional group of people. Facing an impossible circumstance, they comforted their loved ones by phone, braced each other for action, and defeated the designs of evil. These Americans were brave, strong and united in ways that shocked the terrorists but should not surprise any of us.
This is the nation we know.
And whenever we need hope and inspiration, we can look to the skies and remember. God bless.”
Hey rrb Bush is a fucking traitor????
On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another. That is the America I know.
At a time when religious bigotry might have flowed freely, I saw Americans reject prejudice and embrace people of Muslim faith. That is the nation I know.
At a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome to immigrants and refugees. That is the nation I know.
Roger Amick said...
The speech by the former President
Hey roger, do you realize you keep repeating the same thing ?
the words of a man you called worse than Hitler, a chimp and the village idiot
and now you adore ?
might be time for that dementia test
if you can remember to take it
Wouldn't be bad to remind Biden while you are at it
Candace Owens
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1436722662202617858
It utterly disgusts me that the same “leaders” who are working to defund our police—and demanding our doctors, nurses, military members are fired en masse for refusing a vaccine—are currently giving speeches about the heroes of 9/11.
I honestly hate these people.
can see why
Christina Pushaw
EXPLOSIVE VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1436417914266083331
“Here he comes from Washington DC instituting an unprecedented mandate, even his own people acknowledged is unconstitutional. That’s not leadership. The problem I have with Joe Biden is-this guy doesn’t take responsibility for anything. He’s always trying to blame other people.”
Has Biden took any real questions since he took office
other than maybe from China ?
Wealth Envy if James, Dennis and Roger if so funny.
Roger, you will never own a single family home in Washington.
It will never ever happen.
*taken for the board Nazi
Dayum.....according to dear cramps......Florrduh and DeSantis are doing a great job battling Covid........sure would like some of whatever he is smoking!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
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Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
4 kids among Florida’s COVID death toll as state sets another record for fatalities
Ian Hodgson, Tampa Bay Times
Fri, September 10, 2021, 7:40 PM·4 min read
The death toll from Florida’s COVID-19 surge is continuing to rise, as is the number of children succumbing to the virus.
The state verified 2,448 deaths from the coronavirus this week, including four children under 16 years old.
It’s the third straight week that Florida has set a record number of deaths, and it’s the largest jump in child fatalities since the state switched to weekly reporting on June 4.
However, despite the rise in deaths, the number of new infections is continuing to wane. The state recorded 100,012 new cases in the past week — roughly 14,300 cases per day. That’s a 20 percent drop from the previous week, and the lowest weekly case count since late July.
Daily deaths may continue to rise even as cases fall. It typically takes weeks for an infected person to succumb to COVID-19, and weeks more for their death to be recorded and vetted by state and federal agencies.
Federal data, updated Thursday, shows that more than 300 Floridians died from COVID-19 during the third week of August — a peak 35 percent higher than the worst days of last summer’s infection wave.
With the crest of this delta-driven wave occurring roughly two weeks ago, the number of deaths could remain high for weeks to come.
Admission numbers continue to suggest that the strain on Florida’s
It is only a Reality because Biden supported it happening.
Trump had stopped it, Traitor Joe policies matter.
"KYIV, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy said on Saturday he had delivered reassurances to Ukraine and Poland on mitigating any threat posed by Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but that the project was now a "reality""
What a disaster Traitor Joe is.
INFLATION SOARS
no hiding Traitor Joe
Battle Beagle
https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1436721384160366592
This dude could float a battleship on the blood innocents
Iraq: PLOS Medicine Survey
460,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect result of the war
About 241,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone since 2001
now roger's hero
the new neocon
Maybe he has a picture of Cheney by his bedside now
either Liz or Dick
ROFLMFAO !!!
https://www.facebook.com/100066947250467/posts/168411462067095/?sfnsn=mo
NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate
LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An upstate New York hospital said it will pause the delivery of babies in two weeks because of a spate of resignations by maternity unit workers who are objecting to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
Lewis County General Hospital, in Lowville, will temporarily stop delivering babies after Sept. 24, WWNY reported. During a news conference Friday afternoon, Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer said seven of the 30 hospital workers who resigned were from the hospital’s maternity ward. He added that another seven maternity unit staffers were undecided about getting the vaccine, the television station reported.
The workers were objecting to a Sept. 27 deadline to receive a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Watertown Daily Times reported. Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued the state mandate on Aug. 23.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/ny-hospital-pause-baby-deliveries-after-staffers-quit-over-vaccine-mandate/NNMBMQ6VTFFT5DDAMXV46DQ5TQ/
Actual hospital shortages and caused by Biden and the dems
Guess women can "pause" that pregnancy too
Another crisis caused by Biden, and boy is it about to get worse when it hits other essential services nationwide
Almost like Biden does these unconstitutional things on purpose
the big guy sure likes his 10 percent
worst president in a landslide
Iraq: PLOS Medicine Survey
460,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect re
660K american dead from trump's flu and the idiots who think they are immune......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
All fully Vaccinated.
Presidents and First Ladies.
YET, all wearing Masks.
Odd photo to post Roger.
Sending the message os Fear.
Wokism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEST POINT, N.Y. — A large crowd watched expectantly as a soldier tugged at a black cloth spread over a monumental statue on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Friday morning. As it fell away, it revealed a bronze statue of a Black soldier sitting astride a stallion, a tribute to the U.S. Army’s famed Black cavalry — the Buffalo Soldiers — who for decades taught military horsemanship to white cadets here.
A cheer rose up from the cadets and spectators, in celebration of a Black military legacy that many in the audience felt was long overdue.
“These men trained cadets who then went on to be leaders in the Army as commissioned officers,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Sa’eed Mustafa, whose great-uncle Sgt. Leon Tatum was a Buffalo Soldier. “And yet they were never ever given their just due.”
Underscoring the significance, the unveiling of the tribute to Black soldiers came just days after the removal of a different military monument hundreds of miles away in Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederacy. On Wednesday, Virginia took down a statue of Robert E. Lee, the South’s Civil War general, from Monument Avenue, where it had stood since 1890. It was the last of six Confederate monuments to be removed from a row there, a deeply symbolic and politically fraught moment as the country continues to grapple with homages to its Confederate past rooted in white supremacy.
Hang Milly
I just talked a long time with an old friend on the phone, which kept me from sending this:
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Are America's Richest Families Republicans or Democrats?
Katia Savchuk Forbes Staff
I write about billionaires and entrepreneurs around the world
Forbes took at look at the 50 richest clans on our new list of America’s Richest Families.
There are a handful of politicians in the mix, and an overwhelming majority that support one political party far more than another.
Some of America’s wealthiest families wear their politics on their sleeves. Charles and David Koch, notorious for their support of right-wing causes, donated more than $2.2 million during the 2012 election, nearly all to Republican candidates. Jon and Patricia Stryker , whose grandfather founded the medical device maker Stryker Corp., have given a total of more than $16 million to Democratic candidates and political groups.
America’s Richest Families: An eBook From Forbes
A glimpse into the lives of the richest, most prolific families in America, and how they built—and sustained—their empires.
Other members of rich clans have stepped into the political fray themselves. Penny Pritkzer, part of the family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain, became President Obama’s Commerce Secretary in June 2013. Mark Dayton, an heir to the Dayton family fortune (his ancestors built the company that became Target stores) is a Democrat and the current governor of Minnesota. Pete du Pont, descendant of the founder of chemical giant DuPont, was a Republican governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985 and ran for president in 1988. Dolph Briscoe, Jr., member of the Briscoe ranching family, was a Democrat and governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979. Ross Perot, Sr., is famous for his two impressive but unsuccessful presidential runs as an Independent. He and his son have donated to both parties, but they lean Republican.
The politics of other billion-dollar families aren’t as well known. Of the 50 richest families, 28 mainly donate to Republicans and only seven contribute mainly to Democrats. Not all families stay on the same side of the political spectrum — 15 support candidates from both parties....
Political Affiliations Infographic
Infographic: David Lada
One caveat: Some of these family fortunes are shared among dozens or even hundreds of people, so we were only able to track political donations of a subset of prominent members.
Here are the political affiliations of America’s 50 richest families, ranked according to wealth:
1. Walton – Republican
2. Koch – Republican
3. Mars – Republican
4. Cargill-MacMillan – Republican
5. Johnson (Fidelity) – Republican
6. Hearst – Republican
7. Cox – Democrat
8. Pritzker – Both
9. Johnson (S.C. Johnson) – Republican
10. Duncan – Republican
11. Newhouse – Democrat
12. Lauder – Both
13. Du Pont – Republican
14. Hunt – Republican
15. Ziff – Both
16. Johnson (Franklin Templeton) – Republican
17. Busch – Both
18. Dorrance – Both
19. Mellon – Republican
20. Brown – Both
21. Carlson – Both
22. Fisher – Republican
23. Butt – Democrat
24. Rockefeller – Both
25. Gallo – Democrat
26. Marshall – Republican
27. Bass – Both
28. Meijer – Republican
29. Bechtel – Republican
29. Reyes – Republican
29. Simplot – Republican
32. Rales – Both
33. Rollins – Republican
34. Scripps – Republican
35. Crown – Both
36. Stryker – Democrat
37. Smith – Republican
38. Pigott – Republican
39. Shoen – Both
39. Simon – Democrat
41. Lefrak – Both
42. Hughes – Republican
42. Phipps – Republican
44. Kluge – Both
44. Tisch – Democrat
46. Johnson (Johnson & Johnson) – Republican
47. Marriott – Republican
48. Kohler – Republican
49. Perot – Both
50. Barbey – Republican
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That's an old list taken from an old article, but I don't think it has changed much today.
YET, all wearing Masks.
YET YOU REMAIN A FLAMING ASSHOLE OF TRUMPISM!!!!!!!!!!!
Nine Of The 2020 Forbes Ten Wealthiest Americans Are Democrat-Affiliated Liberal Megadonors
✪ Forbes Magazine released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest people in the world this week, and nine of the top ten wealthiest Americans featured on the list appear to be staunch Democrats and liberal donors…
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Steve Ballmer, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Alice Walton were named as the wealthiest American citizens, all possessing a personal net worth of over 60 billion dollars. Nearly all of them are closely affiliated with Democrat politics in various capacities, most commonly as lavish donors to Democrat campaigns and liberal political causes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the only exception, being a figure who appears unaffiliated with the political left, having donated considerably more money to Republicans than Democrats in the 2018 election cycle, although he donated to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Musk has vaguely affiliated himself with some conservatives, and opposed some of California’s coronavirus lockdown policies.
Bezos himself reportedly personally encouraged Mike Bloomberg to run for President, having feuded with President Trump personally at length over Amazon’s utilization of the Postal Service. He hasn’t donated to Biden, but his general affiliation with Democratic politics is indicated through his tacit Bloomberg endorsement.
Alice Walton, a Walmart heiress, comes from a traditionally Republican family, but is a Biden donor with an extensive history of supporting Democrats. The rest of the top 10 are reliable Democrat donors, donating to Republicans rarely, if at all. Mark Zuckerberg occasionally depicts himself as a political centrist independent of Silicon Valley neoliberal politics, but the Facebook platform engages in prolific censorship of conservatives, without applying the same tactics to the political left.
The wealthiest billionaire oligarchs are determined to use their political power to crush the life prospects of the everyday American and the traditional middle-class American way of life. The political right and real conservatives should oppose them at every turn, reinstating an economic vision that upholds small businesses over multinational corporations and entrepreneurship at a local, community level as an alternative to the domination of monopoly billionaires. ✪
https://thenewamericanist.com/nine-of-the-2020-forbes-ten-wealthiest-americans-are-democrat-affiliated-liberal-megadonors/
So I stand corrected 9 of the top 10 richest Americans are democrats.
And benefiting greatly with their policies.
The party of multi-billionaires
The exception was Elon Musk who was a Hillary Clinton supporter in 2016 but apparently started supporting republicans in 2018.
and as I pointed out to Roger the top 3 or 4 here had fortunes eclipsing his entire "family" list
Very Odd message The Socialist Party is sending with the Photo Roger sent .
Fully Vaccinated does what Exactly, if , like all the Socialist, they still live in FEAR?
Fucked daddy's life must really suck if all he can post about who has the most money.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really must have a small dick to be such a petty asshole to worry which elites have money and you should be thrilled that biden wants to tax the rich since you think D's have more money....TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!
Pedo did you note the disclaimer?
One caveat: Some of these family fortunes are shared among dozens or even hundreds of people, so we were only able to track political donations of a subset of prominent members.
Idiot
Yeah shorty.....he does not miss things like what you do.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
"can post about who has the most money" Unknown poster
I believe James started the discussion on wealth envy.
The most patriotic act I have ever witnessed anyone perform was what my father did on 9/11. He was watching the morning news, as was his routine — despite his poor vision, hearing and understanding of English, the last of which he remedied somewhat through his keen observations and vast store of knowledge.
When he saw the first tower on fire, he rushed to the balcony to examine the horizon. From the fourth floor of our Queens apartment, he usually had a sliver of a view of downtown Manhattan. But instead of the two buildings he was used to seeing, he found only a plume of smoke. Instantly ashen, he began yelling to my mother in Persian — for nothing was ever real unless he narrated for her — “Helen, they struck! They struck the twin towers! May God strike them dead!”
For several moments, he stared into the distance, his clouded vision more clouded for the welling tears. Then, without saying a word, he grabbed his cane and headed for the street.
Since he had arrived in America in 1989, my father had sat on the same balcony looking into the same distance, composing poems, nearly every one of them about Iran. His yearning for the land he had left seemed to grow with each passing year. Everything was better there, everything. Food was tastier. The air was fresher. Even the landscape he used to stare into, he said to my mortification, beat the skyline of Manhattan.
Once a month, he and his fellow exiles gathered in one of their homes and recited the poems they had composed, mostly variations on the same theme of longing. They were no warriors. But in their ceaseless insistence to return home, they made a company of misguided Odysseuses, who had chosen to forget that their Ithaca had rejected them. Even to a daughter, this was offensive: Why not compose poems for the land that had sheltered them, instead?
It took years for me to realize that I had misread my father all along. Everyone misreads the immigrant, including the immigrant himself. It is hard to grasp the depths of the newcomer’s uneasiness — with the new time, the new tongue and the unfamiliar palette of the new landscape.
A recent immigrant described to me the experience of those early months as a period of all-encompassing fog. People understand that the newcomer can be jet-lagged. What they cannot fathom is that he is also head-lagged and heart-lagged. He has landed, yes, but he is only a human shell with a spirit that lingers still in that elsewhere.
Native-born Americans especially misread the immigrant. Some expect him to be instantly grateful and delighted to be in America, when he is hardly able to feel anything but loss — of loved ones he has left behind or of the mastery he had over that bygone life. If he does not articulate gratitude or delight, it is not because he is not grateful or delighted. It is because he, himself, does not yet know what
To experience delight, one must be open to seeing the boons of the present. The newcomer, however, is often in the grip of the past or too swept up in the urgencies of present to recognize anything else. If the immigrant chooses to remain within his own ethnic or religious enclave, it is not because he is refusing to integrate. It is because the enclave is the only familiar place left to him from which he can dare venture into the unfamiliar new world. Some native-born take offense at the immigrant’s poor English. But language, as the late Sen. John McCain keenly saw, is hardly an indicator of patriotism.
The truest measure of all is whether he embraces America’s fundamental values. But the trouble is, he could believe in those values yet not be demonstrative in the same way as the native-born. Most nations do not flaunt patriotism without good reason — a national threat, disaster or some special celebration.
America is not unique in its popular use of its flag. But such fervent and widespread displays of the flag are almost exclusively American. In most other countries, especially those living under authoritarian rule, flags are objects that are flown at government buildings or military outposts. It takes a while before the immigrant to America cultivates a fond, personal relationship to Old Glory.
It is often the moments of dire events, more than any other, that have given cause to the immigrant to demonstrate his patriotism beyond all expectations. For nearly half a century, Chinese Americans lived under “exclusion.” Then came the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which gave them the chance to serve, proving to those who had suspected their loyalties, as well as to themselves, their love for this country.
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The attacks of 9/11, too, helped many immigrants make a similar discovery. My father returned home that morning, carrying a plastic bag. He shuffled to the balcony, where he took out of the bag an American flag — the largest he had been able to find at the corner store. He removed the geranium pots, the only items the co-op board allowed to be displayed from the railings.
Having been a school principal and a community leader all his life before coming to the U.S., he had always taken great care to be a law-abiding role model for everyone else. But that day, he was not the man he had always been. He looped a piece of twine through the holes at each end of the flag and tied it to the railings.
I was stunned as to how he knew to do this, or why the man who had never broken any rules had found it in him to do so. For the rest of the day, he stayed on the balcony, his eyes fixed upon that smoldering horizon. It was as if all the poems and the longings had gone up with that smoke. Perhaps he, too, was discovering what he really felt. Or perhaps I was the one learning what he had always known in his heart.
The certainty with which he acted made clear that the poet was, first and foremost, a sensible man, who knew that if he was able to sit and write about his yearning for another land, it was because of the safety this land had granted him.
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That day, Iran was only a dispensable muse, whereas America — a beloved reality. The moment his peace was lost, all wordplay stopped. The sinister blaze in the horizon kindled a different fire in my father’s heart.
Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American author. This essay is adapted from her book “A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious.”
But instead of the two buildings he was used to seeing, he found only a plume of smoke. Instantly ashen, he began yelling to my mother in Persian — for nothing was ever real unless he narrated for her — “Helen, they struck! They struck the twin towers! May God strike them dead!”
His father was a Iranian born man.
What great news Roger, got a set Moving Day?
Roger is moving to Bonney Lake, Washington
"The typical home value of homes in Bonney Lake is $570,271"
Amazing that Roger just a two years ago was begging for dimes in the internet is moving into a $500,000 plus home .
What a success story. Congrats Roger.
This is a great story of overcoming hardships to succeed.
A couple years ago I was going through a divorce and I should never have talked about it publicly.
But life has become better than before
My wife is mad at him for insulting Trump voters. And she voted for him in 2000 and 2004. Contributed to Jeb in 2016 (what a waste of money you can see his heart wasn't in it) No, she doesn't consider herself an extremist.
That's an old list taken from an old article, but I don't think it has changed much today.
No Bezos, No Ellison, No Zuckerberg No Gates? Hack.
anonymous said...
Fucked daddy's life must really suck if all he can post about who has the most money.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really must have a small dick to be such a petty asshole
Hey idiot, I am just responding to the misinformation being posted by the lying POS "pastor" and roger. Sorry if that upsets you.
You appear to have a real affinity for small dicks.
must be because you are forced to take them up your ass so much and big ones must really hurt you still.
Hence your catch phrase "BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
and everyone here knows what that means.
With the possible exception still of you.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger Commonsense said...
That's an old list taken from an old article, but I don't think it has changed much today.
No Bezos, No Ellison, No Zuckerberg No Gates? Hack.
This is supposed to be generational wealth and all members of the family do group think. If a Walton contributed to an R all Walton’s contribute to R’s. It’s an absolutely worthless list
As all pederast post’s are
“There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,” Bush said, “but in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”
While Bush did not explicitly touch on the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, his speech inevitably invoked the domestic attack on the seat of American political power that was spurred on by one of his successors, President Donald Trump.
Domestic extremism proliferated in the years after the 9/11 attacks as much of America’s resources ― as directed under the Bush administration and the subsequent Obama administration ― were focused instead on the threat of international terrorism. The FBI now considers domestic extremism a top threat to national security.
Trump was conspicuously absent from the events where current and former U.S. leaders gathered to mark the historic occasion. He is expected to provide commentary for a boxing match in Florida later on Saturday.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden spent the morning in downtown Manhattan at the former site of the World Trade Center towers to hear the names of the more than 2,000 people who perished there read aloud.
They were joined by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), and a large contingent of elected officials either from New York or serving in the Biden administration. A ceremony was also held at the Pentagon.
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In Pennsylvania, Bush was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris to commemorate those lost in the terrorist attacks and to remark upon the ways they altered the world.
“Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment that our lives would be changed forever,” Bush began his speech. He said later that “the security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort and reminders of our vulnerability.”
The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has prompted nationwide reflection on the great lengths that have been taken ostensibly to protect Americans ― from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency’s massive program of domestic surveillance.
Both Bush and Harris remarked on the unity that emerged in the hours and days after the attacks took nearly 3,000 lives. Bush also spoke critically of the current political environment that “turns every disagreement into an argument and every argument into a clash of cultures.”
“So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” he said, going on to highlight moments of grace seen 20 years ago that better represent “the nation I know.”
Biden also traveled to Shanksville himself Saturday afternoon and offered praise of Bush’s speech.
“The core of who we are is not divided,” Biden said.
Bush had concluded his remarks by addressing American service members directly, telling them, “you have been a force for good in the world.”
“Nothing that has followed ― nothing ― can tarnish your honor or diminish your accomplishments,” he said, not two weeks after Biden completed a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, ending the nation’s longest war.
from the former NYT reporter now banned big tech
Urgent: the British are dropping vaccine passports
Just so we’re clear: they’re not doing this because they think vaccines work - but because they know vaccines don’t
Alex Berenson
Sep 11
Keep hope alive.
The Sunday Times has just reported that Boris Johnson is giving up on the idea of vaccine passports or making businesses check vaccine status.
Again, this is not because Britain - where 80% of people over 16 are fully vaccinated - has controlled Covid. The opposite, in fact.
Other data show that only about 25% of deaths in Britain are among the unvaccinated - and that vaccinated people over 40 are actually MORE likely to get Covid than the unvaccinated.
The truth always wins. Now that one big country has made a long overdue concession to reality, will the rest follow?
Not if Uncle Joe can help it…
Hey alky that's about the 5th or 6th time in this thread you have posted the exact same shit from someone you used to call a Nazi, a chimp and the village idiot.
You won't remember but who's the village idiot now ?
YOU
Thomas Massie
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1436675864175988741
The Pfizer trial itself showed no benefit from the vaccine for those who had evidence of prior infection. @CDCgov has been lying about those trial results since last December.
Since he’s been caught in another lie, Fauci seems reluctant, even on CNN, to perpetuate the CDC lie.
if we only had a real media
and a real president
again
Apex World News
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1436624699937763330
AUSTRALIA: People in Sydney are out and about in defiance of the strict lockdown.
Hopefully the people of Australia win
and their tyrants lose
but figured roger needed to see what a beach looks like.
He never makes it out those 4 or blocks
Too much crime in-between ?
James Melville 🌸
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1436439111267667974
A nightclub event in Münster Germany that only allowed vaccinated guests has resulted in 44 Covid infections so far. Yet more proof that vaccine passports are pointless and are counter-productive in curbing the spread of the virus.
#NoVaccinePassports
I think Biden's plan was to destroy America
and so far he is winning
Trump was conspicuously absent from the events where current and former U.S. leaders gathered to mark the historic occasion. He is expected to provide commentary for a boxing match in Florida later on Saturday.
He was there before the cermoney.
NYPD officer just sent me a photo of what Trump wrote in the logbook
Trump wrote "I love you all. To the NYPD and FDNY.
Trump wasn't at the ceremony because he wasn't invited to the ceremony. Neither did the Unity president invite George W. Bush or any other prominate Republican. They allow 41 to go to Shanksville to make a speech.
🤣A couple years ago I was going through a divorce and I should never have talked about it publicly.😆
Roger
The buying of a home in Bonney Lake, Washington, you posted a couple of days ago.
The fact that you have dug yourself out of a deep hole and can now biy a $500,000 plus dollar home and furnish it is impressive and a real success story.
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