One thing is for sure:
- After the outrageously political and illegal activity the FBI was responsible for during the Trump Russia collusion hoax
- After what we know about the FBI sting operation regarding the kidnapping of Governor Whitmer where there were more FBI operatives than private citizens.
- Given the FBI refuses to deny that they had operatives, agents, or informanants pushing events on Jan 6th....
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Seig Heil Mr Trump
The big lie is killing the Republicans.
Something unusual happened last weekend that may portend a little bit of dissonance in the Republican Party. A conservative senator went on television and directly refuted Donald Trump's Big Lie.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, "What do you say to all those Republicans, all those veterans who believe the election was stolen, who have bought the falsehoods coming from former President Trump?" Rounds responded:
We looked -- as a part of our due diligence, we looked at over 60 different accusations made in multiple states. While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state.
"The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency. And moving forward -- and that's the way we want to look at this -- moving forward, we have to refocus once again on what it's going to take to win the presidency.
Trump was not a happy ex-president. He fired off a scathing response:
"Senator" Mike Rounds of the Great State of South Dakota just went woke on the Fraudulent President Election of 2020. He made a statement this weekend on ABC Fake News, that despite massive evidence to the contrary, including much of it pouring in from Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other states, he found the election to be ok – Just fine.
Is he crazy or just stupid? The numbers are conclusive, and the fraudulent and irregular votes are massive.
Even though his election will not be coming up for 5 years, I will never endorse this jerk again.
And then the oddest thing happened. Rounds stuck by his comments.
"I'm disappointed," the Republican said, "but not surprised by the former president's reaction."
However, he continued, "the facts remain the same. The former president lost the 2020 election."
Rounds went on to argue that relitigating the past and attacking Republicans was no way to win elections. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell backed him up, saying, "I think Sen. Rounds told the truth about what happened in the 2020 election." Sens. Kevin Kramer, R-S.D.,and John Thune, R-N.D., also agreed with Rounds. And here's what Utah's Mitt Romney had to say:
twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1480617074343006212
What makes this unusual is not that some Republicans are speaking out about something Trump has done. Over the years, many have expressed shock and dismay over some of his crude insults or egregious behavior, but they always back off once they realize that the rank and file are sticking with him. Soon after the night of the January 6th insurrection, when so many congressional Republicans made bold declarations of independence from Donald Trump, most slunk back into their safe spaces, afraid to admit what he did that day for fear of angering the base. On the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, Politico took a look at all Trump's cabinet members who resigned from the administration in protest and found that none of them had spoken out since.
No, what makes Rounds' comments, and the powerful senators backing him up even in the face of Trump's spittle-flecked rebuttal, unusual is what they are saying. Top Republicans in the Senate are now disputing the central organizing principle of the GOP in 2022: the Big Lie.
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A Washington Post-Amherst poll released last week showed that only 21 percent of Republicans believe that Joe Biden was legitimately elected, which tracks with most other polling over the last year. Donald Trump's relentless pounding of this issue, day in and day out, starting even before the election was held in November 2020 has done its work. Republican officials all over the country have used Trump's sore-loser strategy to change voting laws, install partisans in the election system and generally prepare the ground to dispute elections whenever Republicans don't win. The Big Lie is now the central organizing principle of the GOP.
RELATED: The evolution of Trump's Big Lie: Republicans retool their conspiracy theory for the mainstream
All of this has the effect of not only validating the mistrust in the electoral system with Republican voters, it's shaking faith in the system among Democratic voters as well. After all, if elections are being overseen by partisan Republicans chosen specifically for their willingness to back Trump's delusional insistence that he won an election he lost by 7 million votes, people will be hard pressed to put much faith in the integrity of their decisions. This is not a problem for the GOP which will be happy to see Democrats flailing about trying to contest elections that really were "rigged." They are not afraid of that.
So why are these Republicans testing the waters by speaking out about the Big Lie now? After all, it stands to benefit them if they can wire elections in their favor. But Rounds' other comments make clear what they are concerned about. They are afraid that all this demeaning of the election system will keep their own voters from the polls In his first comments Rounds said:
[I]f we simply look back and tell our people don't vote because there's cheating going on, then we're going to put ourselves in a huge disadvantage. So, moving forward, let's focus on what it takes to win those elections. We can do that. But we have to let people know that they can -- they can believe and they can have confidence that those elections are fair.
He followed up later saying:
Why are we having that discussion today? I think because we're getting closer and closer to 2022, in which we want people to get out and vote. We want them to have faith in the election process. We want them to feel like they're a part of it and that their vote really matters."
And while he only mentioned it in passing, these folks are very worried about Trump's attacks on Republican incumbents and the fringe weirdos he's endorsing to replace them.
Many smart Republicans understood that Trump's insistence that the election was stolen was largely responsible for the loss of the Senate because of the way his lies played out in Georgia with the two Senate runoff races that sent Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to Washington. It's fair to assume that they hoped Trump would fade away by now and they could carry on about their business without having to confront him on this. But he's still lying and there's no getting around it.
Will this challenge hold up any better than any of the other times a few Republicans tried to stand up to Trump? Who knows? But as the Democrats continue to struggle in the Senate over the vital voting rights legislation that could help stave off some of this partisan electoral engineering based on the Big Lie, it's interesting that there's some nervousness among the GOP leadership about how it might affect them negatively as well.
Many smart Republicans understood that Trump's insistence that the election was stolen was largely responsible for the loss of the Senate because of the way his lies played out in Georgia with the two Senate runoff races that sent Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to Washington. It's fair to assume that they hoped Trump would fade away by now and they could carry on about their business without having to confront him on this. But he's still lying and there's no getting around it. But you are a cultist Scott and a fascist.
Will this challenge hold up any better than any of the other times a few Republicans tried to stand up to Trump? Who knows? But as the Democrats continue to struggle in the Senate over the vital voting rights legislation that could help stave off some of this partisan electoral engineering based on the Big Lie, it's interesting that there's some nervousness among the GOP leadership about how it might affect them negatively as well.
Boy, it doesn't take much to trigger the alky.
Anyway...
The FBI was given a perfect opportunity to definitively and officially DENY their role in J6 and they couldn't do it. If they weren't involved, why didn't they just say so?
Shut it down, fire every employee and cancel every pension.
The FBI puts Confidential informants into the mafia and again they have the authority to investigate potential violations of the law.
You have been blindsided.
Watch The Godfather.
You are just like his supporters.
You are actually rebel..
Roger on the prior thread predicted Bidenomics is going into deflation.
Trump years
Wage Growth
2017 3.45 %
2018 3.62 %
2019 3.75 %
2020 2.83 %
Cite ssa.gov
Two centuries after Alexis de Tocqueville, James Madison, and others warned against the tyranny of the majority, Senate Democrats are trying to establish it in the United States. They are trying to push through a bill that would take election responsibility from the states to the federal government and includes provisions that will guarantee a Democratic Party majority for decades, thus establishing a tyranny. The bill will reduce the influence of the voting public and transfer it to a party establishment too big to overturn.
Right now, the Senate is divided, 50 Republicans/50 Democrats. The Vice President can break a tie, and as she is a Democrat, they have the majority. However, the Democrats do not have the sixty votes to break a filibuster unless at least 10 Republicans vote their way. To get their way in what they call a voting rights bill, the Democrats are looking to change the rules and eliminate the filibuster, maybe only for this one bill. That will enable them to remove the Senate protection against the tyranny of the majority.
Why would the Democrats do that? Generally, their liberal goals are to expand the role of government and shrink the people’s freedom. By establishing a long-term, perhaps a permanent majority, they can reach their goals a lot quicker than if they had to deal with the opposite party or listen to the citizens. In other words, it establishes the tyranny that de Tocqueville and Madison warned about.
https://lidblog.com/tyranny-of-the-majority/
Wedding venues are filling up for July , 2022.
Roger, have you secured your for your coming Wedding?
How goes that house search @ Bonney Lae, Washington?
Hey Roger...
What's going on with the bad orange man?
Since I know of nobody more obsessed about anything, you are my source of all things Trump!
And it's been like five minutes since you brought him up?
Perfect:
I hate inflation, but there’s something delicious about the fact that this problem, above all others, is responsible for the low esteem in which voters currently hold Joe Biden and his party. Inflation is reality’s “F-you” to a central element of liberal hubris — the view that the government can do whatever the hell it wants by way of spending, energy policy, etc. and suffer no bad economic consequences.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/how-bad-is-the-current-inflation-and-when-will-it-abate.php
Central planning fails miserably every time it's tried, yet leftists can always be counted upon to be stupid enough to keep trying.
The FBI puts Confidential informants into the mafia and again they have the authority to investigate potential violations of the law.
Sure Roger...
But an FBI agent cannot "be" the godfather. They are just supposed to be minions watching for criminal activity. The minute they become the people pushing others to commit crimes, then it becomes entrapment... at least from any ethical standpoint.
More to the point, I have not seen anyone suggest that the people being arrested at the capitol had any sort of criminal record, much less were part of some conspiracy. They come from 46 different states, aged anywhere from in their teens to in their eighties. The arrested include over five dozen military people and 15 people who were either former or current law enforcement. But there were no "criminals" much less mafia members to infiltrate.
But probably the biggest difference here is that if the FBI was there, they were in infiltrating a "group" they were infiltrating an event. If we find that it was the FBI who were waving people into the building or otherwise pushing in that direction...
Every conviction, guilty plea, and everything else could be overturned. Especially if this information is kept from the defendants.
They can no longer be given ANY benefit of the doubt.
That our Lil Schitty has lost his fucking mind!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
They can no longer be given ANY benefit of the doubt.
Nope.
The FBI is to be considered an enemy of freedom and liberty, an enemy of the US Constitution, and they are now the STASI for the DNC. This is undeniable.
But an FBI agent cannot "be" the godfather. They are just supposed to be minions watching for criminal activity. The minute they become the people pushing others to commit crimes, then it becomes entrapment... at least from any ethical standpoint.
The story of 'Donnie Brasco' is perhaps the most well known. The issue that ended his infiltration into La Cosa Nostra was when he was faced with committing an actual crime. In his case, murder. That was the event that forced the FBI to pull him and thus revealed his infiltration.
Compare and contrast this to today's FBI. An FBI that not only actively commits the crime, but actually cooks up the plot, and plans the fucking thing, specifically targeting perceived enemies of the state, and is a solely owned subsidiary of the democrat party.
Trump is the Godfather President.
When the FBI put ci into the mafia, people like you said the same thing....
Since J. Edgar Hoover died the FBI has become a nonpartisan political law enforcement agency.
You believe the ci agents are traitors.
The house investigation is the method to get enough information about Trump in order for the DOJ to call a Grand Jury hearing
The rest of those that can leave will be coming here, FL, TX and TN
Newsom unveils 1st-in-nation universal healthcare for illegal immigrants, could DOUBLE taxes
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
The rest of those that can leave will be coming here, FL, TX and TN
Newsom unveils 1st-in-nation universal healthcare for illegal immigrants, could DOUBLE taxes
U-Haul just announced that they are OUT OF TRUCKS for people fleeing Mexifornia.
LOL.
And U-Haul has the same issue here in NY, at least at the store I visited over the holidays.
The exodus from New York state, long a political talking point, continued apace in 2021, according to a recent survey of where Americans are moving when they leave one state for another.
Overall, New York was the third-highest for out-migration, behind only New Jersey and Illinois.
The survey was conducted by United Van Lines, a national moving company, which analyzes its interstate moves every year. Of all the moves into or out of New York handled by United in 2021, 63 percent were leaving the state. This is the 45th year they have done such a study, and it has become a widely cited snapshot of interstate moving trends thanks to its simplicity and focus on numbers of people moving from one state to another.
The Northeast continued to see more residents leaving than moving in, with nearly 59 percent of all moves United handled from that region being out of state moves.
Rounding out United's list of top 10 out-migration states were Connecticut, California, Michigan, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Ohio and Nebraska.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-State-saw-nation-s-third-highest-16767772.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Spotlight
THIS is at least a major part of why the left is so anxious to legalize voter fraud/theft.
No. Biden is the godfather president. The big guy gets a piece of everyone's action.
Bidenomics
People polled believe inflation will be 6% this year.
America is facing an existential moment, Levitsky told me, noting that the Republican Party has shown that it isn’t committed any longer to playing by democratic rules, leaving the United States uniquely threatened among Western democracies.
That all means two things, he continued. First, this Trump-cult version of the G.O.P. must never be able to retake the White House. Since Trump has made embracing the Big Lie — that the 2020 election was a fraud — a prerequisite for being in the Trump G.O.P., his entire cabinet most likely would be people who denied, or worked to overturn, Biden’s election victory. There is no reason to believe they would cede power the next time.
“In a democracy,” Levitsky said, “parties lose popularity and they lose elections. That is normal. But a democracy cannot afford for this Republican Party to win again because they have demonstrated a ton of evidence that they are no longer committed to the democratic rules of the game.”
So Biden-Cheney is not such a crazy idea? I asked.
“Not at all,” said Levitsky. “We should be ready to talk about Liz Cheney as part of a blow-your-mind Israeli-style fusion coalition with Democrats. It is a coalition that says: ‘There is only one overriding goal right now — that is saving our democratic system.’”
That brings us to the second point. Saving a democratic system requires huge political sacrifice, added Levitsky. “It means A.O.C. campaigning for Liz Cheney” and it means Liz Cheney “putting on the shelf” many policy goals she and other Republicans cherish. “But that is what it takes, and if you don’t do it, just look back and see why democracy collapsed in countries like Germany, Spain and Chile. The democratic forces there should have done it, but they didn’t.”
To put it differently, this Trump-cult version of the G.O.P. is trying to gain power through an election, but it’s trying to increase its odds of winning by gaming the system in battleground states. America’s small-d democrats need to counter those moves and increase their odds of winning. The best way to do that is by creating a broad national unity vehicle that enables more Republicans to leave the Trump cult — without having to just become big-D Democrats. We all have to be small-d democrats now, or we won’t have a system to be big-D or big-R anythings.
That is what civic-minded Israeli elites did when they created a broad national unity coalition whose main mission was to make the basic functions of government work again and safeguard the integrity of Israel’s democracy.
Such a vehicle in America, said Levitsky, should “be able to shave a small but decisive fraction of Republican votes away from Trump.” In a tight race, it would take only 5 or 10 percent of Republicans leaving Trump to assure victory. And that is what matters.
This is the democratic way of defeating a threat to democracy. Not doing it is how democracies die. I am quite aware that it is highly unlikely; America does not have the flexibility of a parliamentary, proportional-representation system, like Israel’s, and there is no modern precedent for such a cross-party ticket. And yet, I still think it is worth raising. There is no precedent for how close we’re coming to an unraveling of our democracy, either.
As Levitsky put it: “If we treat this as a normal election, our democracy stands a coin flip’s chance of survival. Those are odds that I don’t want to run. We need to communicate to the public and the establishment that this is not a normal donkeys-versus-elephants election. This is democracy versus authoritarians.”
This is not for the long term, noted
When the FBI put ci into the mafia, people like you said the same thing....
Why do you just flat out lie about things Roger?
I have never criticized the FBI for infiltrating the mob. In fact up until the entire Russian collusion ordeal, I never had much reason to even question the FBI. But after watching them flat out lie, knowing that pretty much everyone knew they were lying and they didn't care. Watching Durham uncover actual criminal behavior that was motivated purely by politics.
I mean seriously Roger... what business did the FBI "really" have in trying to delegitimize a Presidential election? What jurisdiction do they have in this situation to try to prove something that they literally had no real evidence of?
Moreover, why did THE FBI plan a plot to kidnap a governor and then tell everyone it was right wing extremist, when they did all of the planning and set everything up themselves. They literally only used private citizens to do the little things (which is what they arrested them for).
Lastly... we does it seem that nobody (other than Trump) wanted to actually beef up security on Jan 6th? Why (if the FBI did have operatives there - which they are not denying) were they not actively there to try to stop it (rather than try to figure out who to arrest if something happened).
Dumb fuck tweet of the day:
President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official
Today’s inflation numbers show a meaningful reduction in headline inflation over last month. We are making progress in slowing the rate of price increases. But there is still more work to do — I remain focused on lowering costs for families and maintaining strong economic growth.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1481297907034857474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1481297907034857474%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2022%2F01%2F12%2Fpotus-tweet-responding-to-news-of-highest-inflation-in-40-years-speaks-volumes-none-of-them-good%2F
Bidenomics will be caught off guard about higher elecricty prices.
"Coal to make up 85% of total U.S. power capacity to be retired in 2022 - EIA
Reuters"
Biden-Cheney 2024?
https://nyti.ms/3qi9lqf
LMAO!!!
Thomas Friedman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/opinion/democratic-ticket-liz-cheney-2024.html
Good one alky!
THWAP!!!
Christ , Bidenomics leader is out of touch with reality.
Thanks RRB.
Tucker Carlson said that
Moreover, why did THE FBI plan a plot to kidnap a governor and then tell everyone it was right wing extremist, when they did all of the planning and set everything up themselves. They literally only used private citizens to do the little things (which is what they arrested them for).
It's a joke. And futher proof that you have lost your mind Scott
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Christ , Bidenomics leader is out of touch with reality.
Thanks RRB.
Ron Klain posted that tweet. Slow Joe doesn't know anything about it.
LOL.
Feds: FBI informant tried to help the Whitmer kidnap plot suspects
The feds caught a rat.
According to an explosive new court filing, a rogue undercover informant was a double agent, secretly trying to help the Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot suspects snatch the governor, tipped one man off that the feds were onto the group, and tried to thwart their arrests and continue the scheme.
This same informant offered to use a drone to carry out domestic terrorism acts, records show, and use charity funds to pay for attacks.
But the feds caught on to him and booted him from the case.
He was known as Steve, one of four rogue actors in the Whitmer investigation who have been kicked off the case over misdeeds that the defense hopes to use to derail the government's case at trial in March.
"Steve was a 'double agent,' often working against the interests of the government," federal prosecutors disclosed in a Thursday court filing.
"Steve attempted to obstruct the defendants’ arrest and continue the kidnapping plot," the filing states, adding Steve also defied the instructions of his FBI handlers.
"Steve contacted at least one of the defendants shortly before their arrest and said he had been stopped by the feds," prosecutors wrote, alleging the informant also took measures to cover up his own acts.
After contacting one of the defendants, prosecutors said, Steve contacted another informant — not knowing they were an informant — and asked them to "delete the in-car recording of the surveillance of the governor's home."
"Steve told the informant that he would act as the leader in coordinating attacks in multiple states going forward," prosecutors added, noting that never happened.
Steve got fired from the case and wound up getting criminally charged and convicted of being a felon in possession.
More: Feds: Enough with the delays. Let's take this Whitmer kidnap case to trial
More: 3 FBI agents crucial in Whitmer kidnap case, defense lawyers say
"Because (informant) Steve’s actions were so far outside the bounds of the cooperation agreement, it was terminated," wrote prosecutors, who are trying to keep any comments Steve made during the investigation out of the trial.
"As with all informants, before cooperating with the FBI, he agreed to a number of
rules and terms. Those included following agent direction, not committing unsanctioned crimes, candid disclosure to his handling agents, and others ... Steve violated those rules, ending his cooperation and relationship with the FBI," prosecutors wrote. "Steve also failed to record, and to disclose, the presence of existing recordings of pertinent conversations and events."
The government disclosed these details in an effort to keep his statements — and hundreds more — from being admitted at trial, as the defense has requested. The government has asked a judge to keep 258 statements out of the Whitmer kidnap trial, statements the defense claims will help prove that their clients were entrapped.
The government says that's hogwash and claims the defense has cherry-picked "self-serving" comments to bolster a false entrapment narrative, and perhaps more importantly, to keep their clients off the stand.
"Defendants now move to admit more than 258 self-serving, out-of-court statements in part to avoid testifying under oath, subject to cross-examination about those statements," prosecutors argued in a Thursday court filing. "These statements are inadmissible hearsay or are inadmissible because they are irrelevant."
The government is responding to a request by the defense last week that
258 statements made by FBI agents, undercover informants and the defendants themselves be admitted as evidence at trial. The comments include snippets of conversations that were secretly recorded by informants who had infiltrated the group, and text messages sent by investigators and the defendants.
Some of the statements the defense wants to use were those of "Steve" — whose real is name is Stephen Robeson, 58, of Wisconsin, who was indicted in March on charges of illegally possessing a high-powered sniper rifle. He pleaded guilty in October, admitting he bought the rifle from a man at church, used it and then sold it months later to someone on Facebook messenger. He will be sentenced in February. Under the terms of his plea agreement, he is expected to get two years probation.
Robeson's lawyer, Wisconsin attorney Joseph Bugni, declined comment.
The defense, meanwhile, argues that the statements at issue show that it was the FBI that hatched the kidnapping plot — not their clients — and that the jury needs to hear them. But the prosecution says the statements are both irrelevant and hearsay, which is testimony from a trial witness who is reciting a statement made by someone else. In most courts, hearsay is inadmissible unless it meets various exceptions.
The prosecution claims the statements at issue "do not meet any recognized hearsay exemptions or exceptions."
"To the contrary, they are exactly the sort of self-serving, unreliable out-of-court statements that the rules of evidence prohibit," prosecutors argue.
The government argues that "there is no evidence" that any of the FBI agents or undercover informants "were specifically authorized to make particular statements on behalf of the United States government."
Prosecutors maintain that the statements at issue aren't part of their case, including 34 FBI agent statements that the defense wants to use.
"The government has not endorsed or bound itself with any of those statements by including them in search warrant affidavits or court pleadings. The statements were not made under oath or even part of anything as formal as an agency report. Instead, the statements were made over text message or otherwise captured on one of their own recording devices. These were the agents’ own statements and not the statements of the United States government," prosecutors argue, adding that makes them inadmissible.
Hey alky, please tell this stupid twat that 52/100 is NOT a minority.
Thanks alky.
Vice President Kamala Harris
@VP
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19h
United States government official
Let us be clear: The Constitution gives Congress the power to pass legislation. And nowhere does the Constitution give a minority the right to unilaterally block legislation. The Senate must act.
https://twitter.com/VP
Kids in cages squawk. Another Slow Joe fail
Migrants packed together, women climbing on bags and tiny foil tents: Disturbing new images of Biden's border facilities are revealed as Kamala finally returns call to Guatemala president on migration's 'root causes'
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Kids in cages squawk. Another Slow Joe fail
If he wasn't such a fucking racist asshole I'd almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
Everything the dumb fuck touches turns to shit.
Seig Heil - incorrect German
Sieg Heil - correct German
McConnell Rips Biden Over Election Reform
January 12, 2022 at 1:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tore into President Joe Biden for his Tuesday election reform speech, calling his rhetoric “unbecoming of a president of the United States of America,” Politico reports.
Said McConnell: “I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at that podium yesterday.”
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McConnell just has a guilty conscience.
Biden is saying some things McConnell should be saying.
https://share.newsbreak.com/bzjuso0p
Fake Fauci
Damn, Roger, wtf is wrong with you that you have to spam every thread?
Roger...
The plot was hatched by the FBI operatives. They set up a fake sale of arms from another FBI operative. The FBI operatives drove to the agreed location to fake purchase fake weapons from a fake weapons dealer in order to complete a fake kidnapping of the Governor.
When they got to the scene there were as many FBI operatives as private citizens and then they arrested them... for basically following along with the fake plan.
While you might see this as a "joke" - I certainly do not.
McConnell just has a guilty conscience.
Biden is saying some things McConnell should be saying.
No McConnell is listening to the overwhelming number of Americans who want secure elections.
Biden is wanting to undermine our elections and the American public in the process.
I thought you believed that Democracy was about doing what the American electorate wants... not what a small minority and partisan politicians want.
I guess I was wrong. Rather you want an extremely unpopular minority position to be put into law by bending rules that have existed since the 1800s...
Biden is saying some things McConnell should be saying.
So... McConnell is supposed to be advocating for codifying voter fraud into federal law?
No, preventing it.
I thought you believed that Democracy was about doing what the American electorate wants... not what a small minority and partisan politicians want.
_________
It's about doing what the American electorate decides, not about doing what one partisan politician wants -- Donald Trump.
Newspaper Asks Rob Portman to Reconsider
January 12, 2022 at 2:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran an editorial urging Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to run for reelection despite his retirement announcement last year.
“Otherwise, the ugliness that is the Republican primary for your seat will continue its cavalcade of intemperate, cruel, ill-judged, narrow-minded and explosive rhetoric designed to divide not unite.
“Otherwise, the majority of candidates from your party will continue to spew their lies about the 2020 election, lies that don’t just bust apart hopes to rebuild any consensus in America, but also that continue to shred the very heart and soul of the traditional conservative Republican Party values you have served so ably over your long career of public service.”
________
Simply put, the soul of the GOP is at stake.
White House to Launch Site to Order Covid Tests
January 12, 2022 at 2:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
A senior White House adviser told PBS Newshour that a federal website to order Covid-19 rapid tests “should be online by this weekend.”
Tests should start to arrive by the end of the month.
Allies See Mike Pence Ready to Launch 2024 Bid
January 12, 2022 at 2:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
Vanity Fair:
“For Pence, whose office declined multiple requests for comment for this article, surviving Trump, literally and figuratively, meant keeping his head down and doing his job. For a long time, the conventional wisdom among Republicans has been that Trump ended Pence’s political career on January 6, convincing his die-hard base that Pence was the Benedict Arnold of their revolution.
“Instead, Trump’s actions seem to have had the opposite effect, accidentally launching Pence’s quite feasible bid for the Republican nomination.”
A Reckless Climate Gamble
January 12, 2022 at 2:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments
Robinson Meyer:
“There is only one climate-change story that really matters in the United States right now. It is that, nearly a year after President Joe Biden took office, the Democratic Party has still not passed the great substance of its climate policy through Congress. Every day that goes by, the party takes another step toward political catastrophe and planetary misgovernance. Time is running out. By the end of the summer, the midterm campaigning season will begin in earnest and the window to pass major legislation will have closed.
“It is really that simple. Given the United States’ importance in the global economy—it is the second-largest emitter of carbon pollution annually, and one of the planet’s biggest producers of oil and natural gas—its ability, or lack thereof, to pass climate policy will set the standard for the rest of the world.”
Most See Political Instability as Biggest U.S. Threat
January 12, 2022 at 2:20 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
A new Quinnipiac poll finds 76% of Americans say they think political instability within the country is a bigger danger to the United States compared to the 19 percent who think other countries that are adversaries of the United States are the bigger danger.
The sower of political instability is Donald Trump.
It's his raison d'être.
Loony toons loony toons loony toons loony toons loony toons loony toons loony toons believe the big lie like Scott Johnson Powerline schizophrenia squad asshole.
The Claremont Institute’s mission, as its president, Ryan Williams, recently put it, is to “save Western civilization.” Since the 2016 presidential race, Claremont tried to give an intellectual veneer to the frothy mix of nativism and isolationism represented by candidate Donald Trump. The think tank was perhaps best known for its magazine, the Claremont Review of Books, and on the eve of the ’16 election, the Review published an essay called “The Flight 93 Election,” comparing the choice facing Republican voters to that of the passengers who ultimately chose to bring down the fourth plane on September 11th. If conservatives didn’t rush the proverbial cockpit, the author, identified by the pen name Publius Decius Mus, “death is certain. To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.”
The essay’s author, later revealed to be a conservative writer named Michael Anton, went to work in the Trump White House, which made sense given his description in “Flight 93 Election” of “the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.”
Former Claremont scholars said they were aghast by the think tank’s full-on embrace of Trump in 2016. “The Claremont Institute spent 36 years as a resolutely anti-populist institution, [and] preached rightly that norms and institutions were hard to build and easy to destroy, so to watch them suddenly embrace Trump in May 2016 was like if PETA suddenly published a barbecue cookbook,” one former fellow told Vice News.
In recent years, the think tank courted controversy when it awarded paid fellowships to Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer who was an early promoter of the Seth Rich and Pizzagate conspiracy theories, and Charlie Kirk, head of the pro-Trump activist group Turning Point USA who has pushed baseless election-fraud theories and vowed to defend young people who wouldn’t refused vaccination from what he called failure
But Claremont wouldn’t fully land in the spotlight until the end of Trump’s presidency. On Jan. 6, John Eastman, a law professor and Claremont scholar, spoke at the “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, that preceded the Capitol insurrection. Eastman repeated several election-related conspiracy theories, alleging that “machines contributed to that fraud” by “unloading the ballots from the secret folder,” a version of the rampant conspiracy theories spread by Trump campaign lawyers about the company Dominion Voting Systems.
As would later be revealed, Eastman also wrote two memos outlining a plan for how then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 result on January 6. “The main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permission — either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court,” Eastman wrote. “Let the other side challenge his actions in court…” (Worth noting: The Claremont Review would later publish its own critique of Eastman’s memos by a professor of government and ethics at Claremont McKenna college. After walking through a key piece of Eastman’s argument, the professor, Joseph Bessette, wrote: “One doesn’t have to be a scholar of the American Founding, a professor of constitutional law, or an expert in election law to know that this simply cannot be right.”)
Claremont continues to push the stolen-election myth and has apparently helped state lawmakers draft legislation to make election laws more favorable to the Republican Party. In October, Claremont President Ryan Williams told an undercover liberal activist that Eastman was “still very involved with a lot of the state legislators and advising them on election integrity stuff.”
Williams went on to tell the undercover activist, Lauren Windsor, that Eastman’s position was this: “Look, unless we get right what happened in 2020, there’s no moving on. They’re just going to steal every subsequent election.”
On the real clear politics aggregates,
Biden and Trump are at equal unfavorability ratings now,
both at minus 10.7 UNfavorable.
You do realize Reverent...
That the country (75%) or more want voter ID, want more secure elections. That those new voter laws are extremely popular in the states that have passed them, passed by politicians ELECTED IN THOSE STATES to follow what the electorate wants.
There is no "Federal" call other than partisan Democrats who want to "nationalize" elections.
That those new voter laws are extremely popular in the states that have passed them, passed by politician
YOUR OPINION, NOT A FACT TURD BREATH!!!!!!!! Another funny thing....the most challenging changes are from republican run states with R majorities in both houses......and all passed with simple majorities unlike the US senate with its 60 vote rule!!!!!!!
The FBI refuses to deny any involvement in events on January 6
On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz reminded people why they've appreciated his contributions to the conservative cause. Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director for the FBI's national security branch, appeared before the Senate to answer questions about the FBI's role in events on January 6. Cruz grilled her with a series of questions to determine whether the FBI played a part in the events of the day, including questions about Ray Epps, a very visible presence on the day. Sanborn, instead of giving a full-throated denial, refused to answer any questions, leaving the strong impression that the FBI was behind the whole thing.
The questions Ted Cruz asked are of pivotal importance. Internet sleuths have examined whatever publicly available footage they could obtain of events in and around the Capitol on January 6. Even without the 14,000 hours that the Capitol Police, under Nancy Pelosi's control, refuse to produce, the known footage has raised some serious questions. The three most disturbing questions involve Ray Epps, the missing "restricted area" signs and fences, and the Scaffold Commander.
(1) Ray Epps was seen on January 5 aggressively encouraging people to storm the Capitol and on January 6 doing so again, appearing to give the marching orders to a small cadre of people. If anyone should have been arrested, it was Ray Epps. Instead, Epps spent six months on the FBI's most-wanted list and then vanished.
(2) There's footage showing unknown men — never arrested — systematically removing the signs and fences that the Capitol Police had erected informing people that areas usually available to the public were now off-limits. This meant that almost all the people who walked onto the newly "forbidden land" and even into the Capitol when Capitol police waved them in had no way of knowing that they were engaged in a criminal act.
(3) The Scaffold Commander had a megaphone; placed himself on a scaffold; and assertively, as if there were a plan, directed the crowd to enter the Capitol. Again, those who followed his advice, in the absence of signs and fences, and with the police holding the doors open, had no way of knowing they had committed a crime. The FBI, surprisingly, shows no interest in this man.
No wonder that many people now believe that January 6, from start to finish, was an FBI-planned event intended to entrap Trump supporters. This gave Democrats, their administrative state allies, and the media a narrative they could use to destroy both Trump and his supporters by libeling them as insurrectionists and hunting them down as domestic terrorists. (Positing this as a plan explains how the entire leftist infrastructure immediately began hammering away at the word "insurrectionist," a key word from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.)
SPEAKING OF HONESTY AND DISHONESTY, IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE GROSSLY DISHONEST THAN THIS
Trump Allies Sent Fake Electoral College Certificates
January 13, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump’s allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost. The documents had no impact on the outcome of the election, but they are yet another example of how Team Trump tried to subvert the Electoral College — a key line of inquiry for the January 6 committee,” CNN reports.
“The fake certificates were created by Trump allies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico, who sought to replace valid presidential electors from their states with a pro-Trump slate.”
Michigan Live:
Republicans who falsified the Michigan electoral college vote are under scrutiny from Congress.
Trump Loyalists Join Forces to Take Over Election Process
January 13, 2022 at 10:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“Extreme Republicans loyal to Donald Trump and his ‘big lie’ that the 2020 election was rigged have formed a nationwide alliance aiming to take control of the presidential election process in key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential race,” The Guardian reports.
“At least eight Republicans who are currently running to serve as chief election officials in crucial swing states have come together to form the coalition.”
WOULD BE DICTATOR TRUMP CANNOT ADMIT HE LOST AND WILL TRY AGAIN TO SUBVERT THE NEXT ELECTIONS.
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