Because certain people will put football scores in the comment section while many people are watching on recording delay. 49ers Rams still 0-0 in the first quarter for me.
people who don't understand the concept of DVR
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I had to post the craziest conspiracy theory because Scott has said that the Department of Justice is not impartial but they are investigating the Insurrection, he said it was just a mostly peaceful demonstration, especially compared to the George Floyd demonstrations.
Did the Justice Department Lie About Pence and Harris’ Location on January 6?
January 6 is a tissue of myths, cover-ups, manufactured hysteria, and outright lies.
By Julie Kelly
January 24, 2022
Of the more than 725 Americans arrested so far for various crimes related to the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, nearly every defendant faces the same two misdemeanor charges: “entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds” and “disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds.”
The basis for the offenses is not, as the American people repeatedly have been told, that the building was closed to the public that day. After all, hundreds of people were allowed inside as Capitol police stood by; no signage or official announcements alerted the public that the building was off-limits.
Instead, the Justice Department has argued that the presence of both Vice President Michael Pence and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris rendered entry into the Capitol on January 6 a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code section 1752. In every charging document, the government relies on section 1752 to define a “restricted building” as the location of the “President or other person protected by the Secret Service,” which would have included Pence and Harris.
For example, the initial indictment for Florida resident Howard Adams twice claimed that “the Vice President and Vice President-elect were temporarily visiting” the building that afternoon, which is why Adams was charged in May with two criminal counts under section 1752.
But a superseding indictment issued by prosecutors in December made a major correction to Adams’ case: the new filing omitted the term “Vice President-elect.” Why? Because Kamala Harris was not in the Capitol when Adams or any protester entered the building on January 6. And neither was Vice president Pence.
Bonus Quote of the Day January 30, 2022 at 7:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 141 Comments
“I think it is inappropriate. I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the capitol is okay.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by CBS News, responding to former President Trump dangling the possibility of pardons for Capitol rioters.
Dark Money Now Rivals the National Parties January 30, 2022 at 6:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 106 Comments
Axios: “The hundreds of millions funneled to politically active nonprofits on both sides rival the war chests of national political parties themselves.
"But the groups operate independently, often run by people whose roles are opaque or unknown entirely and with sources of financing that will likely never be revealed.” ______
The Citizens United ruling of the Supreme Court is giving our elections over into the hands of a Trump supporting, cheating, corruption-infested Republican oligarchy.
San Francisco 49ers safety Jaquiski Tartt might have had a Super Bowl trip in his hands. All he had to do was catch a Matthew Stafford pass thrown right to him.
It's rare that a dropped interception ends up being the moment a game turns, but Tartt dropping a pass that hit him right in the hands was the turning point in the Los Angeles Rams' comeback win. They beat the 49ers 20-17 to win the NFC championship, coming back from a 10-point deficit to start the fourth quarter.
The Rams' comeback was about more than one play. Give them credit for making plenty of big plays. Cooper Kupp in particular added to his unbelievable season with some massive plays, totaling 142 yards and two touchdowns on 11 catches. And the 49ers had plenty of chances after Tartt's drop to beat the Rams. But it was clear which play turned the game.
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!"
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump in a statement Sunday said he wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, repeating the false claim that Pence had the power to do so and slamming recent bipartisan efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act.
Trump falsely claimed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers working to reform the Electoral Count Act proves his claim that Pence had the power, according to the ECA, to overturn the 2020 election. Though the Act is vague, it is clear the role of the vice president is ceremonial and does not include the power to overturn the result of a presidential election.
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump wrote.
He is responsible for the forced wokery and evisceration of our military, first by kicking out soldiers who were pro-American patriots and then for kicking out soldiers who wisely refused the vaccines. There is mounting evidence that the vaccines interfere with the body’s natural immune system. The record of vaccine damage among the military is catastrophic and the Biden mandates are to blame.
None of the available vaccines were fully or properly tested, which is why Pfizer wanted to delay the release of its data for seventy-five years. The trials were rushed and emergency authorized by the FDA illegally. No vaccine is to be authorized if there are available therapeutics, which they were and are. Big pharma lied, the FDA lied, and the CDC lied. The vaccine roll-out is part of a get-fabulously-rich scheme of Fauci and his cohorts in those and other bureaucratic institutions, all of which have been hopelessly politicized by the left. Biden is not above using them all in his drive to ruin America.
Biden has refused to demand information from China on the origins of the virus, but most real scientists agree it was created in a lab and did not occur naturally in nature. Still, Pelosi has resisted holding hearings on the origin and Biden can’t bring himself to ask Xi. Oh, he says he did and that XI said no.
Biden has the strength and influence of a wet dishrag. Now he is actively fomenting war between Russia and Ukraine for his own purposes; he thinks it makes him look tough when in fact it just makes him look stupid. His dog wagging has already cost Ukraine ‘s economy dearly.
Zelensky has angrily told Biden to knock it off. But Biden and his cabinet of hawks are champing at the bit for a war somewhere, anywhere. If they think the public is behind them, they are oh, so sadly mistaken. Just in case the Russia-Ukraine thing doesn’t work out, he’s giving in to Iran, letting them get the nukes they crave. That should make for an interesting scenario.
Biden is so out of it that he seems to think he’s playing at war games rather than with actual people and nations. China, Russia and Iran must each be having grand laughs at our expense.
Thanks to this wholly incompetent and illegitimate President and his equally incompetent inner circle and cabinet, America is a sitting duck, vulnerable to all manner of attack from enemies that Biden has emboldened and who are gleefully licking their chops at this moment, at the prospect of bringing America low.
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
Sad that Lil Schitty and his anti vax bullshit support idiots like this.....wonder if Scott et al will take the advice and slurp up????????
USA TODAY Anti-vaxxer tells supporters the new COVID antidote is in 'urine therapy'
Gabriela Miranda Sun, January 30, 2022, 12:40 PM As the pandemic has evolved and vaccinations have become politicized, the door has opened for some questionable alternatives to treat COVID-19.
Urine therapy – where advocates encourage people to drink their own urine to tap into its redemptive properties – is among the latest, and a recent video calling the therapy the next "COVID antidote" was viewed over 366,000 times.
"I've seen a rise in anti-vaxxers and conspiracists supporting urine, Viagra and other odd alternatives to the vaccine," said Dr. Amanda Torres, a physician at Winchester Hospital in Boston. "It's dangerous."
Christopher Key, who travels the country to preach about the dangers of vaccines and masks, has taken to promoting urine therapy on his “Vaccine Police” website.
"OK, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God’s given us everything we need," said Key, who claims "tons of research" has been done on urine therapy..
There is no scientific or peer-reviewed research to support Key's claims.
Key's Twitter account was suspended as of Tuesday morning but his Telegram account, where Key often promotes his beliefs, remained active.
US Attorney going after the Big Guy. Getting Hunter and James Biden records
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! Breitbart News the source....LOLOLOLOLOLOLO!!!!! Appears to me a pile of goat shit!!!!
Don't you have a goat to fuck??????
A criminal IRS investigation into Hunter Biden — President Biden’s son — appears to have convened a grand jury as far back as May 2019, a confidential subpoena served to JPMorgan Chase bank reveals. The subpoena also seeks bank records of James Biden, the president’s brother, which appears to be the first time another Biden family member has surfaced in connection with the investigation.
The document, obtained by Breitbart News, specifically demands information on related transactions between JPMorgan Chase Bank, which the document calls “correspondent bank,” and the Bank of China, which the document calls the “originating or beneficiary bank.”
The document appears to show that as President Biden was launching his campaign that spring, federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware had impaneled a grand jury and were demanding the production of bank records relating to Hunter and James Biden, as well as two of their business associates Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin.
While it has been reported that subpoenas were issued in a Hunter Biden criminal probe from federal investigators, the level of detail this document contains has never been reported.
The GOP of Trump heading down the shitter of America where killing of innocents is rewarded with an endorsement!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Trump praised South Dakota's attorney general, who is facing impeachment after killing a man with his car Bill Bostock Mon, January 31, 2022, 6:05 AM trump throws hat in Conroe, Texas. Former President Donald at a January 29, 2022, rally in Conroe, Texas.Sergio Flores/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Trump praised South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg at a rally Saturday.
Ravnsborg killed Joe Boever, 55, with his car in 2020, sparking legal and political repercussions.
Ravnsborg struck a plea deal and paid a $500 fine, but is facing impeachment in South Dakota.
Former President Donald Trump praised South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg during a rally on Saturday.
"Thank you for being here. Appreciate it," Trump said to Ravnsborg, who was part of the crowd at the Save America rally in Conroe, Texas.
"They like you in Texas."
Back in South Dakota, Ravnsborg is facing widespread criticism and his popularity is extremely low.
On September 12, 2020, Ravnsborg struck and killed a 55-year-old man named Joe Boever with his car while driving through North Dakota. He pleaded no contest in a criminal trial as part of a plea deal that resulted in a $500 fine.
The death also led to the first ever impeachment proceeding in South Dakota. Those proceedings were put on hold while Ravnsborg's criminal case was active, but resumed in mid-January.
Ravnsborg told investigators with the North Dakota Bureau of Investigation that he thought Boever was a deer, and only discovered it was a human when he returned to the site of the collision the next day.
"If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt," Trump
He is a racist according to Ch. Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will move quickly with the confirmation process once President Joe Biden announces his pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the panel’s chair said yesterday. The comments from Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin come days after Breyer, the senior liberal on the high court, announced he would be retiring at the end of the court's term. The White House has begun its search for his potential replacement, assuring the pick will be a Black woman. Across the aisle, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders, South Carolina US District Judge J. Michelle Childs, as "qualified by every measure" and "one of the most decent people I've ever met." Graham, who represents South Carolina, sits on the Judiciary Committee.
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump
The Supreme Court Needs Diversity in More Ways Than OneNo current justice is a public-college alum, and only one was a trial judge.
By
Benjamin H. Barton
Jan. 30, 2022 4:16 pm ET
Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, April 28, 2021.
If President Biden makes good on his promise to nominate a black female justice, the Supreme Court will be more diverse than ever in terms of race and sex. But in another sense, the court has become increasingly homogeneous. Recent justices have come from remarkably similar backgrounds—and the president’s reported front-runner, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, would fit right in.
Judge Jackson grew up in a major metropolitan area, and her father was a lawyer. She would be the fifth sitting justice to fit that profile. She earned both her bachelor’s and law degrees at Harvard and would be the seventh justice with an Ivy League undergraduate degree and the eighth graduate of Harvard or Yale law school.
She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and would be the sixth justice to have served as a Supreme Court clerk. Two of her prospective colleagues, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, likewise succeeded the justices for whom they clerked. After clerking, Judge Jackson worked at an elite Washington law firm focusing on appellate litigation, as did five other current justices. She has served as a federal appellate judge, like every other justice but Elena Kagan, and would be the fourth justice from the District of Columbia Circuit.
She did serve as a federal district judge (Sonia Sotomayor is the only current justice with that experience), on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a public defender. Yet on the whole, her experiences from Harvard on greatly resemble those of the justices already on the bench. She’s extremely well qualified in the conventional terms—achievement in elite academic and legal competitions, But is that all that matters?
Studies consistently establish that more experientially diverse decision-making bodies tend to avoid groupthink, consider different and more innovative approaches, and then reach better decisions. Given that every justice is already a lawyer, it makes sense to try to diversify across other educational, geographic and experiential axes. This was the case historically, as Harvard graduates shared the bench with former politicians, law professors and even autodidacts with no formal education.
Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina is seen in an undated photo.
PHOTO: U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF/VIA REUTERS
Mr. Biden may want to look closely at another name reportedly on his short list: Judge J. Michelle Childs. She’s a product of the Columbia, S.C., public school system who earned a scholarship to the University of South Florida and got her law degree at the University of South Carolina—both public institutions. She made partner at a Columbia law firm practicing labor and employment law and has worked in state government and served as a state and federal trial judge. Both she and Judge Jackson are highly qualified to serve on the court, but in terms of sheer diversity, Judge Childs has an advantage.
Mr. Barton is a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
Well alky, when one is making a decision based solely upon race and race alone, that's just about as racist as it get's.
I do not expect someone who requires his food cut up for him by an orderly to be able to comprehend this most basic and fundamental premise.
If your very first criteria for selecting a justice for the highest court in the land is their race and/or gender, then you're an imbecile and too fucking stupid to make the selection.
And if you regularly dine at a table with a plastic tablecloth like one used for an infant in a high chair, then you should probably remain quiet and resist commenting on the topic.
The American Thinker believes that his nominee is a welfare queen.
Every president before Biden had proudly professed that each of their nominees for the Court was the most qualified jurist available in America. With his declaration that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will be a Black woman chosen because of her race and gender, not her qualifications, President Joe Biden reinforced a 220-year Democrat Party message to everyone in the world: Do not be confused -- Black people remain inferior. They cannot achieve because of merit. I, your benevolent master, gave this to you. Black people, I don’t owe you a damn thing. You owe me.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders, South Carolina US District Judge J. Michelle Childs, as "qualified by every measure" and "one of the most decent people I've ever met." Graham, who represents South Carolina, sits on the Judiciary Committee.
More truth about the Floriduh govner doing his best trump imitation while risking the lives of all who live in his state of denial!!!!!!
DeSantis Grandiose moping about “politics” being “at play”?
From a governor who has gleefully rushed to politicize wearing masks, requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, teaching school curriculum, respecting home rule, exercising the right to vote, practicing free speech and much, much, much – did we say “much” – more?
Clearly one lesson DeSantis should learn from the federal government's swift action is that accusing others of playing politics while actively reveling in doing so is always a bad optic – and never a good look.
And here are two more worthwhile lessons that the governor should take from what's happened:
1. It’s never too late to do the right thing, and DeSantis should reverse course and finally do more to get more Floridians to become vaccinated.
Let's not lose sight of why the federal government took forceful action on the two monoclonal antibody treatments: neither has been very effective in combating the omicron variant, which is now the cause of nearly all new COVID infections in Florida and across the country.
But what has been proven to lower the chances of contracting omicron in the first place?
It’s going out and getting COVID vaccine shots. It’s becoming fully vaccinated against COVID. And it’s taking the extra step of getting the widely available COVID booster shot.
Instead of acting like a carnival barker whose silver-tongued con . . . er . . . pitch has left hordes of Floridians with their noses forlornly pressed against the windows of now-shuttered monoclonal antibody treatment sites, here's what DeSantis should have been doing all along:
He should have been relentlessly exhorting Floridians to simply bare their arms and get their COVID vaccine shots. He should have been tirelessly urging Floridians to boost our state's still-underwhelming vaccination rate.
DeSantis still can do these things – and he should.
2. Even when it’s overseen by a president who’s not wildly popular, the federal government is not a beast you should be spoiling to fight in needless, endless fashion.
So let's just say DeSantis hadn’t spent the last year looking for every opportunity to challenge and defy various federal agencies specifically and the federal government in general.
Let's just say DeSantis hadn't spent the past 12 months (and counting) seeking any opening to alienate and antagonize President Joe Biden – even to the point of signing an anti-vaccination requirement bill in Brandon as a nod to the “Let’s Go Brandon” slogan that's actually code for an obscene anti-Biden insult.
The fresh face of the Trump GOP chimes in against Graham on pardons!!!!! I wouldn't fuck her with Lil Schitty's dick!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called it 'inappropriate' for Trump to float pardons for Capitol rioters
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called it 'inappropriate' for Trump to float pardons for Capitol rioters Kelsey Vlamis Sun, January 30, 2022, 7:19 PM marjorie taylor greene Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Donald Trump said Saturday if he was reelected, he'd consider pardons for January 6 defendants.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday it was "inappropriate" and could embolden other violent groups.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Graham "pretends to be a friend to President Trump."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday harshly criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called the former President Donald Trump's comments about Capitol riot defendants "inappropriate."
At a rally in Texas on Saturday, Trump said he would consider pardons for people who were charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol if he decides to run and wins in 2024.
"We will treat them fairly," he said. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons."
So far 761 people have been charged in the Capitol riot, with counts that include entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, and assaulting police officers, among others.
During an appearance Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Graham was asked about the comments and called them "inappropriate."
"I don't want to send any signal that it was OK to defile the Capitol," the South Carolina Republican said, adding: "There are other groups with causes that may want to go down the violent path if these people get pardoned
Perfect post (*zero CUT n paste) rrbJanuary 31, 2022 at 6:57 AM
Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
Well alky, when one is making a decision based solely upon race and race alone, that's just about as racist as it get's.
I do not expect someone who requires his food cut up for him by an orderly to be able to comprehend this most basic and fundamental premise.
If your very first criteria for selecting a justice for the highest court in the land is their race and/or gender, then you're an imbecile and too fucking stupid to make the selection.
And if you regularly dine at a table with a plastic tablecloth like one used for an infant in a high chair, then you should probably remain quiet and resist commenting on the topic.
Blogger Roger Amick said... Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders After years of denouncing Graham as GAY, suddenly the alky is his biggest fan. LOL.
“Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the election!” — Former President Donald Trump, in a statement saying publicly for the first time that he wanted Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes.
North Carolina Removes MLK-Themed Novel from Classes January 31, 2022 at 9:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina,” Popular Information reports.
“Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, in a matter of hours after receiving one parent complaint. Nolte said he did not read the book — or even obtain a copy — prior to making the decision.” _________
When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
Almost every school have the complete works of Martin Luther King. He is taught in every history class. A study of his speeches and writings are core to a American Literature high school class.
Funny MLK is not popular with the radical left. Wonder why.
When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
So to 'prove' your point you gripe about the removal of a work of FICTION.
Works of fiction that serve simply to foment racial hatred are not helpful other than to promote the advancement of racial hatred. Something we already have too much of thanks to the grifters of the con known as BLM.
According to Candid, a website devoted to tracking nonprofit donations, groups like BLM, which claim to be devoted to racial "equity," have raised over $25 billion since George Floyd’s death.
What exactly have these billions accomplished? Are black lives any safer? Quite the opposite. Thanks to activism from groups like BLM, police budgets have been slashed in major cities across the country, and the number of arrests has plunged by 24%. As police were being defunded, murder rates skyrocketed, with black lives hardest hit.
In 2019, before the “defund the police” movement, 7,777 black people were murdered, making up 53.5% of all homicide victims. That was already bad, but in 2020, both of those numbers rose. 9,941 black people were murdered the year George Floyd died, accounting for 55.8% of all murders. That is an additional 2,000 black lives lost to violent crime last year. In contrast, only 60 unarmed men were killed by police in 2020, and only 18 of those were black.
The people who donated to BLM deserve to know where their money went. So do the people who live in communities that have been devastated by violence. Congress should investigate, and perhaps it will starting next January.
18 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2020, but Nic Stone would have us believe it was 18 MILLION. Fomenting racial hatred to sell books. It doesn't get any more cynical that that.
And as long as every virtually every prominent voice on the right is censored/silenced by Google, Facebook, and Twitter, I'll be OK with hate speech fiction being removed from our school libraries.
What Trump Is Pushing GOP to Do if They Win Midterms January 31, 2022 at 9:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments
Daily Beast: “Trump has privately told GOP lawmakers, congressional candidates, and operatives in recent months that Republicans on Capitol Hill should be prepared to launch a full-blown investigation to ‘get to the bottom of’ how FBI agents supposedly caused violence and mayhem on Jan. 6.
“The theory that the feds somehow orchestrated or caused the rioting at the Capitol is groundless, but it has nevertheless been embraced in influential spheres of Republican politics, in Trumpland, and in right-wing media and online culture AND IN OBSCURE BLOGS LIKE COLDHEARTEDTRUTH THAT NO ONE READS. The appeal, of course, lies in the attempt to shift obvious blame off of the 45th U.S. president and conservatives.” ______
Joe Rogan Apologizes January 31, 2022 at 9:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
Joe Rogan, responding to Neil Young’s objections to his podcast and host Spotify, said his show has grown “out of control” and pledged to be more balanced and informed about controversial topics and guests, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Rogan, in an Instagram video: “If I pissed you off, I’m sorry… It’s a strange responsibility to have this many viewers and listeners. It’s nothing that I’ve prepared for. I’m going to do my best to balance things out.”
Rogan also thanked Spotify for their support and said he’s a huge Neil Young fan.
I don't even know exactly what is in that particular MLK novel, but to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from our schools simply because a minority of parents do not approve of it (which is true) would be a violation of our laws regarding academic freedom.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed Americans .
"Oil prices rose on Friday, set for their sixth weekly gain, amid concerns of tight supplies as major producers continue their policy of limited output increases amid rising fuel demand.
Brent crude futures settled 69 cents, or 0.77%, higher at $90.03 per barrel, after falling 62 cents during the previous day. However, prices did reach $91.04 earlier in that session, the highest since October 2014."
House Democrats Demand Drug Pricing Reform January 31, 2022 at 9:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“A group of nearly 40 House Democrats are pressuring party leaders to speed up passage of a huge package of drug pricing reforms that they see as critical to hanging onto their majority this November,” Politico reports.
“Those Democrats — many in battleground districts — are anxious to revive the stalled measure, which was included in President Joe Biden’s social spending plan, given the party has vowed to tackle drug prices during the last several elections.”
One of the final healthcare actions made by the Trump Administration has been rescinded by the Biden Administration. On December 23, 2020, the Trump Administration finalized a rule that directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take action to require that federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) make insulin and injectable epinephrine available to certain patients at 340B prices. The Biden Administration delayed the rule twice before it became effective on July 20, 2021, and the first opportunity for HHS to impose the requirements of the rule would have been through grants awarded in fiscal year 2022. So, while the rule has been in effect since July, it has yet to be implemented.
It’s always fun to check up on what’s going on in academia. Here’s an announcement that showed up in the Bard College library newsletter (Bard tuition, $57,498 a year):
In keeping with campus-wide initiatives to ensure that Bard is a place of inclusion, equity, and diversity, the Stevenson Library is conducting a diversity audit of the entire print collection in an effort to begin the process of decanonizing the stacks. Three students, who are funded through the Office of Inclusive Excellence, have begun the process which we expect will take at least a year to complete. The students will be evaluating each book for representations of race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and ability.
So, to paraphrase this library announcement: three Bard students, chosen and paid for by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, are tasked with reviewing every book in the Bard library to evaluate how well it adheres to their moral standards. Facing outrage from library-fans, Bard quickly retracted and rewrote this announcement and clarified that the audit was more high-level analysis of each book and author.
Still I like to imagine these students marching through the stacks, pulling every spine, reading every page to examine for “representations of race, gender, religion, and ability.” Does Charles Dickens dehumanize someone with a limp somewhere? I bet he does. There’s some nasty ableism in Beowulf. Was Aristotle a feminist? This could take a while. Also, I think I kind of want to be on this committee.
The term decanonizemeansexclusion of a person’s name from a list or catalog. It’s a term most commonly associated with the church, who decanonizes to demote a saint who’s on the outs.
There’s of course a whole new intellectual underpinning for all of this. Here’s the librarian Sofia Leung, who offers trainings and workshops on critical race theory in libraries:
“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks,” she writes, asking her readers to pause and think about that in her essay, Whiteness as Collections. Or watch her talk with the University of Michigan on the “‘Ordinary’ Existence of White Supremacy in Libraries.”
The announcement about decanonization came in a cheery library update. It wasn’t the top item. It’s just there between an alumna to be honored and a local cleanup effort. Decanonization is a casual, business-as-usual sort of activity, hardly anything to pay attention to or ask about.
When I wrote to ask about the announcement, Bard officials explained that this was all a big misunderstanding. Nothing the library newsletter had about this effort should be taken literally, they told me.
“It will help us understand and answer questions about representation in our collections and build a more inclusive collection going forward,” wrote Betsy Cawley, the director of Bard libraries. “Nothing is being removed, recategorized, or replaced.”
Decanonization is not decanonization at all. Judging each book does not mean judging each book (“an earlier brochure entry suggesting that has been revised”). It is just a fact-finding mission to learn more, not to remove anything.
In some cold upstate New York panic, they retracted and rewrote the whole thing. “The erroneous entry has been removed,” the school tells me now.
Regardless, if any Common Sense-readers would like to read books that three Bard students deem offensive, please turn yourself in to the local police station.
This is insane. It’s good that Bard retracted it, but it is a scandal that this kind of anti-intellectual, illiberal lunacy ever saw the light of day in the first place. I know you must be tired of hearing this, but what Bard undertook to do is Totalitarianism 101. Totalitarian regimes always try to control the memory of history and culture, for the sake of manipulating society to affirm its ideology.
'We are going to win by killing people’: Morning Joe warns that ‘fascist’ Trump made his plans clear
Travis Gettys
January 31, 2022
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest "fascist" remarks, and he said the former president's rhetoric had grown so alarming that even Republican senators were pushing back.
The twice-impeached one-term president suggested he would pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists if he returned to the White House, and stated flatly that he had wanted former vice president Mike Pence to overturn his election loss that day, and the "Morning Joe" host said there was no doubt that Trump was an authoritarian.
"You have seen the rise of authoritarianism, and it is certainly what we all understand Donald Trump has been wanting to do for quite some time," Scarborough said. "If you can't win an election, steal an election, overturn an election -- that's what he was saying, talking about Mike Pence. Yeah, he actually said some things -- we haven't been playing his rallies of late, but he actually said some things that were so inflammatory that you had Republicans coming out and actually criticizing him and saying, 'Hey, no, no, let's take a step back, we didn't want to overturn the election, we were just talking about having some of the votes recounted.'"
"But, again, Donald Trump is now speaking in shorthand, now saying what he really means," Scarborough added. "He wanted a free and fair election overturned. Why? Because he didn't win, and, again, his words have consequences. This new sort of almost fascist -- I don't know, do you say almost fascist after Jan. 6 or do you say fascist? His fascist instinct to use violence to overturn government institutions, we're actually seeing it at Trump events where you have people asking, when do we start using guns? You are seeing it at forums. This past weekend, I believe it was, you had a Michigan Senate candidate telling people to bring guns to polling places. If they didn't win, they needed to be locked and loaded. Basically saying, if we can't win at the ballot box we are going to win by killing people."
The three stooges here don't care because they want Trump to be the next President and it will be the end of the American dream..
: “The strongest case for the work of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and for that committee to move quickly to public hearings, is that former President Donald Trump continues to make it clear that he set out to undermine democracy, that he sees nothing wrong with having done so, and that he would do it again if given a chance.”
“I’d prefer to ignore what Trump is saying, but that’s not really an option. He’s acting like a presidential candidate — he is, as the political scientist Josh Putnam puts it, running for 2024, although we won’t know for some time whether he’ll be running in 2024 — so he can’t just be ignored.”
This is exactly correct about you and Ch about CRT
The truth for Lil Schittty et al is right in front of their noses and they still deny what trump is.....All thinking trump won without a shred of truth only opinion speaks volumes for their lack of intellect and integrity!!!!!!!!
But you are not smart enough to comprehend science and English.
Yet we ARE smart enough to NOT require a nursing home to survive, complete with mashed nannas and plastic tablecloths and having to share a room with someone so deranged he considers himself the 5th Beatle.
I'm always amused when someone who cannot care for himself chooses to lecture me on what's "smart."
survive, complete with mashed nannas and plastic tablecloths and having to share a room with someone so deranged he considers himself the 5th Beatle.
Wow our asshole rat repeating the same thing over and over is a sad testimony of his mental state!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Repeating the same BS just shows how little you have to offer except trash talk projecting your own insecurities!!!!!!
Totalitarian regimes always try to control the memory of history and culture, for the sake of manipulating society to affirm its ideology.
Oh, you mean like tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, alky?
And I'm sure you must also be referring to books full of LIES, like A People's History of the United States and The 1619 Project.
Yeah, your Marxist BLM/Antifa crew and their totalitarian tendencies sure have corrupted modern American society in a plethora of ways, insisting to peddle lies that those who are easily duped like yourself would fall for.
Ballsy said: So since James was caught posting b.s. about that non MLK themed book, he's changed his tune now to a different book. We are not impressed. _______
So, Ballsy, tell us more about the MLK novel that was pulled. Its title, its plot, etc.
The Mockingbird novel was about a black man accused of rape not getting anything faintly resembling justice in a southern town's majority white bigotted trial situation.
Oh, you mean like tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I am sure there are plenty of links available of all those statues being torn down....or are you describing some asshole rioters in Portland??????? which has nothing to do with your opinion!!!!!! BTW the 1619 project is an extremely accurate summary of history......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Just because you were told not to like it....therefore 1619 is bullshit!!!!!!!
Oh, so THAT'S why it was renounced by historians across the country
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Yes rat.....a few renounced it....but so fucking what!!!!!!!!! There were plenty of positive reviews of the piece, but, it also was decisive as your lack of knowledge proves.....Sorry rat....I doubt you read much of it so all you got is what you parrot from the shit hole sites you visit.....At least it got people talking instead of just yelling like you!!!!!
“The theory that the feds somehow orchestrated or caused the rioting at the Capitol is groundless, but it has nevertheless been embraced in influential spheres of Republican politics, in Trumpland, and in right-wing media and online culture.
The fake pastor copy this so I go to source and ask How do you know?
AM Blogger Roger Amick said... The three stooges here don't care because they want Trump to be the next President and it will be the end of the American dream.
Right now I'll take anybody except Biden.
Roger you don't seriously believe Biden is better than Trump? McConnell? McConnell would clean Biden's clock. Him and most other Democrats. The Democrat bench is so light will take years to recover.
As far as Biden SCOTUS pick, nothing is for certain. But what Clyburn wants Clyburn usually gets.
The Mockingbird novel was about a black man accused of rape not getting anything faintly resembling justice in a southern town's majority white bigotted trial situation.
To Kill a Mocking Bird was about the coming of age of the daughter of a white lawyer in the Jim Crow south during the rape trial of a black man.
Spoiler alert: The black man was freed after the rape accuser recanted.
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I had to post the craziest conspiracy theory because Scott has said that the Department of Justice is not impartial but they are investigating the Insurrection, he said it was just a mostly peaceful demonstration, especially compared to the George Floyd demonstrations.
Did the Justice Department Lie About Pence and Harris’ Location on January 6?
January 6 is a tissue of myths, cover-ups, manufactured hysteria, and outright lies.
By Julie Kelly
January 24, 2022
Of the more than 725 Americans arrested so far for various crimes related to the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, nearly every defendant faces the same two misdemeanor charges: “entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds” and “disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds.”
The basis for the offenses is not, as the American people repeatedly have been told, that the building was closed to the public that day. After all, hundreds of people were allowed inside as Capitol police stood by; no signage or official announcements alerted the public that the building was off-limits.
Instead, the Justice Department has argued that the presence of both Vice President Michael Pence and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris rendered entry into the Capitol on January 6 a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code section 1752. In every charging document, the government relies on section 1752 to define a “restricted building” as the location of the “President or other person protected by the Secret Service,” which would have included Pence and Harris.
For example, the initial indictment for Florida resident Howard Adams twice claimed that “the Vice President and Vice President-elect were temporarily visiting” the building that afternoon, which is why Adams was charged in May with two criminal counts under section 1752.
But a superseding indictment issued by prosecutors in December made a major correction to Adams’ case: the new filing omitted the term “Vice President-elect.” Why? Because Kamala Harris was not in the Capitol when Adams or any protester entered the building on January 6. And neither was Vice president Pence.
You are as crazy as her..
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/24/did-the-justice-department-lie-about-pence-and-harris-location-on-january-6/
Bonus Quote of the Day
January 30, 2022 at 7:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 141 Comments
“I think it is inappropriate. I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the capitol is okay.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by CBS News, responding to former President Trump dangling the possibility of pardons for Capitol rioters.
Dark Money Now Rivals the National Parties
January 30, 2022 at 6:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 106 Comments
Axios:
“The hundreds of millions funneled to politically active nonprofits on both sides rival the war chests of national political parties themselves.
"But the groups operate independently, often run by people whose roles are opaque or unknown entirely and with sources of financing that will likely never be revealed.”
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The Citizens United ruling of the Supreme Court is giving our elections over into the hands of a Trump supporting, cheating, corruption-infested Republican oligarchy.
San Francisco 49ers safety Jaquiski Tartt might have had a Super Bowl trip in his hands. All he had to do was catch a Matthew Stafford pass thrown right to him.
It's rare that a dropped interception ends up being the moment a game turns, but Tartt dropping a pass that hit him right in the hands was the turning point in the Los Angeles Rams' comeback win. They beat the 49ers 20-17 to win the NFC championship, coming back from a 10-point deficit to start the fourth quarter.
The Rams' comeback was about more than one play. Give them credit for making plenty of big plays. Cooper Kupp in particular added to his unbelievable season with some massive plays, totaling 142 yards and two touchdowns on 11 catches. And the 49ers had plenty of chances after Tartt's drop to beat the Rams. But it was clear which play turned the game.
He blocked me
US Attorney going after the Big Guy.
Getting Hunter and James Biden records .
$31 million is in question.
Trump just admitted in writing
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!"
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump in a statement Sunday said he wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, repeating the false claim that Pence had the power to do so and slamming recent bipartisan efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act.
Trump falsely claimed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers working to reform the Electoral Count Act proves his claim that Pence had the power, according to the ECA, to overturn the 2020 election. Though the Act is vague, it is clear the role of the vice president is ceremonial and does not include the power to overturn the result of a presidential election.
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump wrote.
He is responsible for the forced wokery and evisceration of our military, first by kicking out soldiers who were pro-American patriots and then for kicking out soldiers who wisely refused the vaccines. There is mounting evidence that the vaccines interfere with the body’s natural immune system. The record of vaccine damage among the military is catastrophic and the Biden mandates are to blame.
None of the available vaccines were fully or properly tested, which is why Pfizer wanted to delay the release of its data for seventy-five years. The trials were rushed and emergency authorized by the FDA illegally. No vaccine is to be authorized if there are available therapeutics, which they were and are. Big pharma lied, the FDA lied, and the CDC lied. The vaccine roll-out is part of a get-fabulously-rich scheme of Fauci and his cohorts in those and other bureaucratic institutions, all of which have been hopelessly politicized by the left. Biden is not above using them all in his drive to ruin America.
Biden has refused to demand information from China on the origins of the virus, but most real scientists agree it was created in a lab and did not occur naturally in nature. Still, Pelosi has resisted holding hearings on the origin and Biden can’t bring himself to ask Xi. Oh, he says he did and that XI said no.
Biden has the strength and influence of a wet dishrag. Now he is actively fomenting war between Russia and Ukraine for his own purposes; he thinks it makes him look tough when in fact it just makes him look stupid. His dog wagging has already cost Ukraine ‘s economy dearly.
Zelensky has angrily told Biden to knock it off. But Biden and his cabinet of hawks are champing at the bit for a war somewhere, anywhere. If they think the public is behind them, they are oh, so sadly mistaken. Just in case the Russia-Ukraine thing doesn’t work out, he’s giving in to Iran, letting them get the nukes they crave. That should make for an interesting scenario.
Biden is so out of it that he seems to think he’s playing at war games rather than with actual people and nations. China, Russia and Iran must each be having grand laughs at our expense.
Thanks to this wholly incompetent and illegitimate President and his equally incompetent inner circle and cabinet, America is a sitting duck, vulnerable to all manner of attack from enemies that Biden has emboldened and who are gleefully licking their chops at this moment, at the prospect of bringing America low.
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
Sad that Lil Schitty and his anti vax bullshit support idiots like this.....wonder if Scott et al will take the advice and slurp up????????
USA TODAY
Anti-vaxxer tells supporters the new COVID antidote is in 'urine therapy'
Gabriela Miranda
Sun, January 30, 2022, 12:40 PM
As the pandemic has evolved and vaccinations have become politicized, the door has opened for some questionable alternatives to treat COVID-19.
Urine therapy – where advocates encourage people to drink their own urine to tap into its redemptive properties – is among the latest, and a recent video calling the therapy the next "COVID antidote" was viewed over 366,000 times.
"I've seen a rise in anti-vaxxers and conspiracists supporting urine, Viagra and other odd alternatives to the vaccine," said Dr. Amanda Torres, a physician at Winchester Hospital in Boston. "It's dangerous."
Christopher Key, who travels the country to preach about the dangers of vaccines and masks, has taken to promoting urine therapy on his “Vaccine Police” website.
"OK, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God’s given us everything we need," said Key, who claims "tons of research" has been done on urine therapy..
There is no scientific or peer-reviewed research to support Key's claims.
Key's Twitter account was suspended as of Tuesday morning but his Telegram account, where Key often promotes his beliefs, remained active.
US Attorney going after the Big Guy.
Getting Hunter and James Biden records
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! Breitbart News the source....LOLOLOLOLOLOLO!!!!! Appears to me a pile of goat shit!!!!
Don't you have a goat to fuck??????
A criminal IRS investigation into Hunter Biden — President Biden’s son — appears to have convened a grand jury as far back as May 2019, a confidential subpoena served to JPMorgan Chase bank reveals. The subpoena also seeks bank records of James Biden, the president’s brother, which appears to be the first time another Biden family member has surfaced in connection with the investigation.
The document, obtained by Breitbart News, specifically demands information on related transactions between JPMorgan Chase Bank, which the document calls “correspondent bank,” and the Bank of China, which the document calls the “originating or beneficiary bank.”
The document appears to show that as President Biden was launching his campaign that spring, federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware had impaneled a grand jury and were demanding the production of bank records relating to Hunter and James Biden, as well as two of their business associates Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin.
While it has been reported that subpoenas were issued in a Hunter Biden criminal probe from federal investigators, the level of detail this document contains has never been reported.
The GOP of Trump heading down the shitter of America where killing of innocents is rewarded with an endorsement!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Trump praised South Dakota's attorney general, who is facing impeachment after killing a man with his car
Bill Bostock
Mon, January 31, 2022, 6:05 AM
trump throws hat in Conroe, Texas.
Former President Donald at a January 29, 2022, rally in Conroe, Texas.Sergio Flores/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Trump praised South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg at a rally Saturday.
Ravnsborg killed Joe Boever, 55, with his car in 2020, sparking legal and political repercussions.
Ravnsborg struck a plea deal and paid a $500 fine, but is facing impeachment in South Dakota.
Former President Donald Trump praised South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg during a rally on Saturday.
"Thank you for being here. Appreciate it," Trump said to Ravnsborg, who was part of the crowd at the Save America rally in Conroe, Texas.
"They like you in Texas."
Back in South Dakota, Ravnsborg is facing widespread criticism and his popularity is extremely low.
On September 12, 2020, Ravnsborg struck and killed a 55-year-old man named Joe Boever with his car while driving through North Dakota. He pleaded no contest in a criminal trial as part of a plea deal that resulted in a $500 fine.
The death also led to the first ever impeachment proceeding in South Dakota. Those proceedings were put on hold while Ravnsborg's criminal case was active, but resumed in mid-January.
Ravnsborg told investigators with the North Dakota Bureau of Investigation that he thought Boever was a deer, and only discovered it was a human when he returned to the site of the collision the next day.
"If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt," Trump
He is a racist according to Ch. Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will move quickly with the confirmation process once President Joe Biden announces his pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the panel’s chair said yesterday. The comments from Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin come days after Breyer, the senior liberal on the high court, announced he would be retiring at the end of the court's term. The White House has begun its search for his potential replacement, assuring the pick will be a Black woman. Across the aisle, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders, South Carolina US District Judge J. Michelle Childs, as "qualified by every measure" and "one of the most decent people I've ever met." Graham, who represents South Carolina, sits on the Judiciary Committee.
https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1487966555011010565?t=qI3vPzG6OTirMAnEd2Awuw&s=19
"Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump
WSJ
OPINION COMMENTARY
The Supreme Court Needs Diversity in More Ways Than OneNo current justice is a public-college alum, and only one was a trial judge.
By
Benjamin H. Barton
Jan. 30, 2022 4:16 pm ET
Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, April 28, 2021.
If President Biden makes good on his promise to nominate a black female justice, the Supreme Court will be more diverse than ever in terms of race and sex. But in another sense, the court has become increasingly homogeneous. Recent justices have come from remarkably similar backgrounds—and the president’s reported front-runner, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, would fit right in.
Judge Jackson grew up in a major metropolitan area, and her father was a lawyer. She would be the fifth sitting justice to fit that profile. She earned both her bachelor’s and law degrees at Harvard and would be the seventh justice with an Ivy League undergraduate degree and the eighth graduate of Harvard or Yale law school.
She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and would be the sixth justice to have served as a Supreme Court clerk. Two of her prospective colleagues, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, likewise succeeded the justices for whom they clerked. After clerking, Judge Jackson worked at an elite Washington law firm focusing on appellate litigation, as did five other current justices. She has served as a federal appellate judge, like every other justice but Elena Kagan, and would be the fourth justice from the District of Columbia Circuit.
She did serve as a federal district judge (Sonia Sotomayor is the only current justice with that experience), on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a public defender. Yet on the whole, her experiences from Harvard on greatly resemble those of the justices already on the bench. She’s extremely well qualified in the conventional terms—achievement in elite academic and legal competitions, But is that all that matters?
Studies consistently establish that more experientially diverse decision-making bodies tend to avoid groupthink, consider different and more innovative approaches, and then reach better decisions. Given that every justice is already a lawyer, it makes sense to try to diversify across other educational, geographic and experiential axes. This was the case historically, as Harvard graduates shared the bench with former politicians, law professors and even autodidacts with no formal education.
Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina is seen in an undated photo.
PHOTO: U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF/VIA REUTERS
Mr. Biden may want to look closely at another name reportedly on his short list: Judge J. Michelle Childs. She’s a product of the Columbia, S.C., public school system who earned a scholarship to the University of South Florida and got her law degree at the University of South Carolina—both public institutions. She made partner at a Columbia law firm practicing labor and employment law and has worked in state government and served as a state and federal trial judge. Both she and Judge Jackson are highly qualified to serve on the court, but in terms of sheer diversity, Judge Childs has an advantage.
Mr. Barton is a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
Not Breitbart
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-supreme-court-needs-diversity-in-more-ways-than-one-ketanji-brown-jackson-judge-ivy-league-biden-appointee-appointment-11643566752
Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
Well alky, when one is making a decision based solely upon race and race alone, that's just about as racist as it get's.
I do not expect someone who requires his food cut up for him by an orderly to be able to comprehend this most basic and fundamental premise.
If your very first criteria for selecting a justice for the highest court in the land is their race and/or gender, then you're an imbecile and too fucking stupid to make the selection.
And if you regularly dine at a table with a plastic tablecloth like one used for an infant in a high chair, then you should probably remain quiet and resist commenting on the topic.
The American Thinker believes that his nominee is a welfare queen.
Every president before Biden had proudly professed that each of their nominees for the Court was the most qualified jurist available in America. With his declaration that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will be a Black woman chosen because of her race and gender, not her qualifications, President Joe Biden reinforced a 220-year Democrat Party message to everyone in the world: Do not be confused -- Black people remain inferior. They cannot achieve because of merit. I, your benevolent master, gave this to you. Black people, I don’t owe you a damn thing. You owe me.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders, South Carolina US District Judge J. Michelle Childs, as "qualified by every measure" and "one of the most decent people I've ever met." Graham, who represents South Carolina, sits on the Judiciary Committee.
More truth about the Floriduh govner doing his best trump imitation while risking the lives of all who live in his state of denial!!!!!!
DeSantis
Grandiose moping about “politics” being “at play”?
From a governor who has gleefully rushed to politicize wearing masks, requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, teaching school curriculum, respecting home rule, exercising the right to vote, practicing free speech and much, much, much – did we say “much” – more?
Clearly one lesson DeSantis should learn from the federal government's swift action is that accusing others of playing politics while actively reveling in doing so is always a bad optic – and never a good look.
And here are two more worthwhile lessons that the governor should take from what's happened:
1. It’s never too late to do the right thing, and DeSantis should reverse course and finally do more to get more Floridians to become vaccinated.
Let's not lose sight of why the federal government took forceful action on the two monoclonal antibody treatments: neither has been very effective in combating the omicron variant, which is now the cause of nearly all new COVID infections in Florida and across the country.
But what has been proven to lower the chances of contracting omicron in the first place?
It’s going out and getting COVID vaccine shots. It’s becoming fully vaccinated against COVID. And it’s taking the extra step of getting the widely available COVID booster shot.
Instead of acting like a carnival barker whose silver-tongued con . . . er . . . pitch has left hordes of Floridians with their noses forlornly pressed against the windows of now-shuttered monoclonal antibody treatment sites, here's what DeSantis should have been doing all along:
He should have been relentlessly exhorting Floridians to simply bare their arms and get their COVID vaccine shots. He should have been tirelessly urging Floridians to boost our state's still-underwhelming vaccination rate.
DeSantis still can do these things – and he should.
2. Even when it’s overseen by a president who’s not wildly popular, the federal government is not a beast you should be spoiling to fight in needless, endless fashion.
So let's just say DeSantis hadn’t spent the last year looking for every opportunity to challenge and defy various federal agencies specifically and the federal government in general.
Let's just say DeSantis hadn't spent the past 12 months (and counting) seeking any opening to alienate and antagonize President Joe Biden – even to the point of signing an anti-vaccination requirement bill in Brandon as a nod to the “Let’s Go Brandon” slogan that's actually code for an obscene anti-Biden insult.
I want the Affirmative Action Black woman to be quickly confirmed.
It drives a stake in thru the heart of Dr. Kings dream.
The fresh face of the Trump GOP chimes in against Graham on pardons!!!!! I wouldn't fuck her with Lil Schitty's dick!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called it 'inappropriate' for Trump to float pardons for Capitol rioters
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called it 'inappropriate' for Trump to float pardons for Capitol rioters
Kelsey Vlamis
Sun, January 30, 2022, 7:19 PM
marjorie taylor greene
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Donald Trump said Saturday if he was reelected, he'd consider pardons for January 6 defendants.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday it was "inappropriate" and could embolden other violent groups.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Graham "pretends to be a friend to President Trump."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday harshly criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called the former President Donald Trump's comments about Capitol riot defendants "inappropriate."
At a rally in Texas on Saturday, Trump said he would consider pardons for people who were charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol if he decides to run and wins in 2024.
"We will treat them fairly," he said. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons."
So far 761 people have been charged in the Capitol riot, with counts that include entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, and assaulting police officers, among others.
During an appearance Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Graham was asked about the comments and called them "inappropriate."
"I don't want to send any signal that it was OK to defile the Capitol," the South Carolina Republican said, adding: "There are other groups with causes that may want to go down the violent path if these people get pardoned
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rrbJanuary 31, 2022 at 6:57 AM
Affirmative action is racism according to rrb and kputz and Scottie.
Well alky, when one is making a decision based solely upon race and race alone, that's just about as racist as it get's.
I do not expect someone who requires his food cut up for him by an orderly to be able to comprehend this most basic and fundamental premise.
If your very first criteria for selecting a justice for the highest court in the land is their race and/or gender, then you're an imbecile and too fucking stupid to make the selection.
And if you regularly dine at a table with a plastic tablecloth like one used for an infant in a high chair, then you should probably remain quiet and resist commenting on the topic.
Current Avg.$3.366 up again
Roger, what month of what year do we get to your sub "$3.00" gasoline.
California is enjoying $4.14 a gallon on average.
When did you last buy gas Rog?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders
After years of denouncing Graham as GAY, suddenly the alky is his biggest fan.
LOL.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
I want the Affirmative Action Black woman to be quickly confirmed.
It drives a stake in thru the heart of Dr. Kings dream.
Yep. Content of character now takes a backseat to color of skin. And the left calls this "progress."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham lavishly praised one of Biden’s possible contenders
After years of denouncing Graham as GAY, suddenly the alky is his biggest fan.
LOL.
Fat Boy is confused.
“Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the election!”
— Former President Donald Trump, in a statement saying publicly for the first time that he wanted Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes.
North Carolina Removes MLK-Themed Novel from Classes
January 31, 2022 at 9:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina,” Popular Information reports.
“Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, in a matter of hours after receiving one parent complaint. Nolte said he did not read the book — or even obtain a copy — prior to making the decision.”
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When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed Americans.
Is this the best they can do with spending 6 Trillion?
Fat Boy is confused."
So are his fellow Socialist Jane and Alky.
When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
Almost every school have the complete works of Martin Luther King. He is taught in every history class. A study of his speeches and writings are core to a American Literature high school class.
Funny MLK is not popular with the radical left. Wonder why.
That book isn't about MLK. Its about an anti police anti white book. The only thing relevant to MLK is tbe kid addressing letters to a deceased MLK.
When the Republicans pass a bill against CRITICAL RACISM THEORY, all books in favor of MLK will be removed from our schools.
So to 'prove' your point you gripe about the removal of a work of FICTION.
Works of fiction that serve simply to foment racial hatred are not helpful other than to promote the advancement of racial hatred. Something we already have too much of thanks to the grifters of the con known as BLM.
According to Candid, a website devoted to tracking nonprofit donations, groups like BLM, which claim to be devoted to racial "equity," have raised over $25 billion since George Floyd’s death.
What exactly have these billions accomplished? Are black lives any safer? Quite the opposite. Thanks to activism from groups like BLM, police budgets have been slashed in major cities across the country, and the number of arrests has plunged by 24%. As police were being defunded, murder rates skyrocketed, with black lives hardest hit.
In 2019, before the “defund the police” movement, 7,777 black people were murdered, making up 53.5% of all homicide victims. That was already bad, but in 2020, both of those numbers rose. 9,941 black people were murdered the year George Floyd died, accounting for 55.8% of all murders. That is an additional 2,000 black lives lost to violent crime last year. In contrast, only 60 unarmed men were killed by police in 2020, and only 18 of those were black.
The people who donated to BLM deserve to know where their money went. So do the people who live in communities that have been devastated by violence. Congress should investigate, and perhaps it will starting next January.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/the-black-lives-matter-scam
18 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2020, but Nic Stone would have us believe it was 18 MILLION. Fomenting racial hatred to sell books. It doesn't get any more cynical that that.
And as long as every virtually every prominent voice on the right is censored/silenced by Google, Facebook, and Twitter, I'll be OK with hate speech fiction being removed from our school libraries.
What Trump Is Pushing GOP to Do if They Win Midterms
January 31, 2022 at 9:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments
Daily Beast:
“Trump has privately told GOP lawmakers, congressional candidates, and operatives in recent months that Republicans on Capitol Hill should be prepared to launch a full-blown investigation to ‘get to the bottom of’ how FBI agents supposedly caused violence and mayhem on Jan. 6.
“The theory that the feds somehow orchestrated or caused the rioting at the Capitol is groundless, but it has nevertheless been embraced in influential spheres of Republican politics, in Trumpland, and in right-wing media and online culture AND IN OBSCURE BLOGS LIKE COLDHEARTEDTRUTH THAT NO ONE READS. The appeal, of course, lies in the attempt to shift obvious blame off of the 45th U.S. president and conservatives.”
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Trump may be headed full steam to prison.
The theme of the book is anti white, anti police. Even the kid's mother is upset when he dates a white girl. To say it's MLK themed is false.
Removal of a work of fiction the remover had not read.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a work of fiction that has long been read and taught in our schools.
And rightly so.
I guess Commonsense is in favor of removing To Kill a Mockingbird. Written by a southerner, it exposes the hypocritical racism of a southern town.
"I guess"
Gutless Jane.
Ok. I'm sure.
Jane caught lying , again.
"MyballsJanuary 31, 2022 at 8:58 AM
The theme of the book is anti white, anti police. Even the kid's mother is upset when he dates a white girl. To say it's MLK themed is false."
Joe Rogan Apologizes
January 31, 2022 at 9:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
Joe Rogan, responding to Neil Young’s objections to his podcast and host Spotify, said his show has grown “out of control” and pledged to be more balanced and informed about controversial topics and guests, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Rogan, in an Instagram video: “If I pissed you off, I’m sorry… It’s a strange responsibility to have this many viewers and listeners. It’s nothing that I’ve prepared for. I’m going to do my best to balance things out.”
Rogan also thanked Spotify for their support and said he’s a huge Neil Young fan.
I don't even know exactly what is in that particular MLK novel, but to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from our schools simply because
a minority of parents do not approve of it (which is true) would be a violation of our laws regarding academic freedom.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed Americans .
"Oil prices rose on Friday, set for their sixth weekly gain, amid concerns of tight supplies as major producers continue their policy of limited output increases amid rising fuel demand.
Brent crude futures settled 69 cents, or 0.77%, higher at $90.03 per barrel, after falling 62 cents during the previous day. However, prices did reach $91.04 earlier in that session, the highest since October 2014."
Ready for higher prices?
House Democrats Demand Drug Pricing Reform
January 31, 2022 at 9:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“A group of nearly 40 House Democrats are pressuring party leaders to speed up passage of a huge package of drug pricing reforms that they see as critical to hanging onto their majority this November,” Politico reports.
“Those Democrats — many in battleground districts — are anxious to revive the stalled measure, which was included in President Joe Biden’s social spending plan, given the party has vowed to tackle drug prices during the last several elections.”
SOMETHING TRUMP ALSO PROMISED BUT NEVER DID.
SOMETHING TRUMP ALSO PROMISED BUT NEVER DID.
One of the final healthcare actions made by the Trump Administration has been rescinded by the Biden Administration. On December 23, 2020, the Trump Administration finalized a rule that directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take action to require that federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) make insulin and injectable epinephrine available to certain patients at 340B prices. The Biden Administration delayed the rule twice before it became effective on July 20, 2021, and the first opportunity for HHS to impose the requirements of the rule would have been through grants awarded in fiscal year 2022. So, while the rule has been in effect since July, it has yet to be implemented.
https://www.policymed.com/2021/10/biden-administration-rescinds-trump-administration-insulin-pricing-rule.html
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1488177065186652170?t=O6vH6xvMX2uNo313M8H5PQ&s=19
It’s always fun to check up on what’s going on in academia. Here’s an announcement that showed up in the Bard College library newsletter (Bard tuition, $57,498 a year):
In keeping with campus-wide initiatives to ensure that Bard is a place of inclusion, equity, and diversity, the Stevenson Library is conducting a diversity audit of the entire print collection in an effort to begin the process of decanonizing the stacks. Three students, who are funded through the Office of Inclusive Excellence, have begun the process which we expect will take at least a year to complete. The students will be evaluating each book for representations of race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and ability.
So, to paraphrase this library announcement: three Bard students, chosen and paid for by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, are tasked with reviewing every book in the Bard library to evaluate how well it adheres to their moral standards. Facing outrage from library-fans, Bard quickly retracted and rewrote this announcement and clarified that the audit was more high-level analysis of each book and author.
Still I like to imagine these students marching through the stacks, pulling every spine, reading every page to examine for “representations of race, gender, religion, and ability.” Does Charles Dickens dehumanize someone with a limp somewhere? I bet he does. There’s some nasty ableism in Beowulf. Was Aristotle a feminist? This could take a while. Also, I think I kind of want to be on this committee.
The term decanonizemeansexclusion of a person’s name from a list or catalog. It’s a term most commonly associated with the church, who decanonizes to demote a saint who’s on the outs.
There’s of course a whole new intellectual underpinning for all of this. Here’s the librarian Sofia Leung, who offers trainings and workshops on critical race theory in libraries:
“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks,” she writes, asking her readers to pause and think about that in her essay, Whiteness as Collections. Or watch her talk with the University of Michigan on the “‘Ordinary’ Existence of White Supremacy in Libraries.”
The announcement about decanonization came in a cheery library update. It wasn’t the top item. It’s just there between an alumna to be honored and a local cleanup effort. Decanonization is a casual, business-as-usual sort of activity, hardly anything to pay attention to or ask about.
When I wrote to ask about the announcement, Bard officials explained that this was all a big misunderstanding. Nothing the library newsletter had about this effort should be taken literally, they told me.
“It will help us understand and answer questions about representation in our collections and build a more inclusive collection going forward,” wrote Betsy Cawley, the director of Bard libraries. “Nothing is being removed, recategorized, or replaced.”
Decanonization is not decanonization at all. Judging each book does not mean judging each book (“an earlier brochure entry suggesting that has been revised”). It is just a fact-finding mission to learn more, not to remove anything.
In some cold upstate New York panic, they retracted and rewrote the whole thing. “The erroneous entry has been removed,” the school tells me now.
Regardless, if any Common Sense-readers would like to read books that three Bard students deem offensive, please turn yourself in to the local police station.
This is insane. It’s good that Bard retracted it, but it is a scandal that this kind of anti-intellectual, illiberal lunacy ever saw the light of day in the first place. I know you must be tired of hearing this, but what Bard undertook to do is Totalitarianism 101. Totalitarian regimes always try to control the memory of history and culture, for the sake of manipulating society to affirm its ideology.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/totalitarianism-at-the-bard-library/
And rrb will be one of them.
'We are going to win by killing people’: Morning Joe warns that ‘fascist’ Trump made his plans clear
Travis Gettys
January 31, 2022
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest "fascist" remarks, and he said the former president's rhetoric had grown so alarming that even Republican senators were pushing back.
The twice-impeached one-term president suggested he would pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists if he returned to the White House, and stated flatly that he had wanted former vice president Mike Pence to overturn his election loss that day, and the "Morning Joe" host said there was no doubt that Trump was an authoritarian.
"You have seen the rise of authoritarianism, and it is certainly what we all understand Donald Trump has been wanting to do for quite some time," Scarborough said. "If you can't win an election, steal an election, overturn an election -- that's what he was saying, talking about Mike Pence. Yeah, he actually said some things -- we haven't been playing his rallies of late, but he actually said some things that were so inflammatory that you had Republicans coming out and actually criticizing him and saying, 'Hey, no, no, let's take a step back, we didn't want to overturn the election, we were just talking about having some of the votes recounted.'"
"But, again, Donald Trump is now speaking in shorthand, now saying what he really means," Scarborough added. "He wanted a free and fair election overturned. Why? Because he didn't win, and, again, his words have consequences. This new sort of almost fascist -- I don't know, do you say almost fascist after Jan. 6 or do you say fascist? His fascist instinct to use violence to overturn government institutions, we're actually seeing it at Trump events where you have people asking, when do we start using guns? You are seeing it at forums. This past weekend, I believe it was, you had a Michigan Senate candidate telling people to bring guns to polling places. If they didn't win, they needed to be locked and loaded. Basically saying, if we can't win at the ballot box we are going to win by killing people."
This is exactly correct about you and Ch about CRT
Totalitarian regimes always try to control the memory of history and culture, for the sake of manipulating society to affirm its ideology.
A free press means that people who see both sides can make up their own minds.
But you are not smart enough to comprehend science and English.
The three stooges here don't care because they want Trump to be the next President and it will be the end of the American dream..
: “The strongest case for the work of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and for that committee to move quickly to public hearings, is that former President Donald Trump continues to make it clear that he set out to undermine democracy, that he sees nothing wrong with having done so, and that he would do it again if given a chance.”
“I’d prefer to ignore what Trump is saying, but that’s not really an option. He’s acting like a presidential candidate — he is, as the political scientist Josh Putnam puts it, running for 2024, although we won’t know for some time whether he’ll be running in 2024 — so he can’t just be ignored.”
This is exactly correct about you and Ch about CRT
The truth for Lil Schittty et al is right in front of their noses and they still deny what trump is.....All thinking trump won without a shred of truth only opinion speaks volumes for their lack of intellect and integrity!!!!!!!!
But you are not smart enough to comprehend science and English.
Yet we ARE smart enough to NOT require a nursing home to survive, complete with mashed nannas and plastic tablecloths and having to share a room with someone so deranged he considers himself the 5th Beatle.
I'm always amused when someone who cannot care for himself chooses to lecture me on what's "smart."
survive, complete with mashed nannas and plastic tablecloths and having to share a room with someone so deranged he considers himself the 5th Beatle.
Wow our asshole rat repeating the same thing over and over is a sad testimony of his mental state!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Repeating the same BS just shows how little you have to offer except trash talk projecting your own insecurities!!!!!!
So since James was caught posting b.s. about that non MLK themed book, he's changed his tune now to a different book. We are not impressed.
Totalitarian regimes always try to control the memory of history and culture, for the sake of manipulating society to affirm its ideology.
Oh, you mean like tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, alky?
And I'm sure you must also be referring to books full of LIES, like A People's History of the United States and The 1619 Project.
Yeah, your Marxist BLM/Antifa crew and their totalitarian tendencies sure have corrupted modern American society in a plethora of ways, insisting to peddle lies that those who are easily duped like yourself would fall for.
Ballsy said:
So since James was caught posting b.s. about that non MLK themed book, he's changed his tune now to a different book. We are not impressed.
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So, Ballsy, tell us more about the MLK novel that was pulled. Its title, its plot, etc.
The Mockingbird novel was about a black man accused of rape not getting anything faintly resembling justice in a southern town's majority white bigotted trial situation.
It was as close to a lynching as it could get.
And see my comment in the next thread up.
Oh, you mean like tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I am sure there are plenty of links available of all those statues being torn down....or are you describing some asshole rioters in Portland??????? which has nothing to do with your opinion!!!!!! BTW the 1619 project is an extremely accurate summary of history......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Just because you were told not to like it....therefore 1619 is bullshit!!!!!!!
I am sure there are plenty of links available of all those statues being torn down..
There are BWAA.
BTW the 1619 project is an extremely accurate summary of history......
Oh, so THAT'S why it was renounced by historians across the country for being chock full of inaccuracies and outright lies.
Oh, so THAT'S why it was renounced by historians across the country
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Yes rat.....a few renounced it....but so fucking what!!!!!!!!! There were plenty of positive reviews of the piece, but, it also was decisive as your lack of knowledge proves.....Sorry rat....I doubt you read much of it so all you got is what you parrot from the shit hole sites you visit.....At least it got people talking instead of just yelling like you!!!!!
SOMETHING TRUMP ALSO PROMISED BUT NEVER DID.
Well let's see Biden it trying to blame the killing of a popular program under his predecessor.
And Roger is lying about it. Par for the course.
Oh, so THAT'S why it was renounced by historians across the country
If you believe the country was founded in 1619 you could be in ignorant preacher.
I already posted information about that anti white, anti police book. I don't need to do it again.
“The theory that the feds somehow orchestrated or caused the rioting at the Capitol is groundless, but it has nevertheless been embraced in influential spheres of Republican politics, in Trumpland, and in right-wing media and online culture.
The fake pastor copy this so I go to source and ask How do you know?
AM
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The three stooges here don't care because they want Trump to be the next President and it will be the end of the American dream.
Right now I'll take anybody except Biden.
Roger you don't seriously believe Biden is better than Trump? McConnell? McConnell would clean Biden's clock. Him and most other Democrats. The Democrat bench is so light will take years to recover.
As far as Biden SCOTUS pick, nothing is for certain. But what Clyburn wants Clyburn usually gets.
The Mockingbird novel was about a black man accused of rape not getting anything faintly resembling justice in a southern town's majority white bigotted trial situation.
To Kill a Mocking Bird was about the coming of age of the daughter of a white lawyer in the Jim Crow south during the rape trial of a black man.
Spoiler alert: The black man was freed after the rape accuser recanted.
A reflection of our times.
The pastor's shallow description of the novel shows profound ignorance of literature and history.
Guess history, literature is beyond a DOC seminary can teach.
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