- Require ID to purchase cigarettes or alcohol?
- Require ID to drive
- Require ID to purchase a car
- Require ID to open a bank account or cash a check
- Require ID to sign a lease on an Apartment
- Require ID to fly
- Require ID to apply for a job
- Require ID to have health insurance, medicaid, or medicare
- Require ID to receive prescription medications
The list goes on and on and on and on. It is quite literally impossible to be a citizen in good standing anywhere in the country and not have valid identification. If someone does not have valid identification, then free IDs that are provided for people when they want to register to vote is actually a much better thing for them than the alternative idea that they could just register and vote without proving who they are. They actually gain something substantial from the process other than just being able to vote.
At this point in time, the only people who do not have IDs are going to be homeless or squatters without employment, without a bank account, without health insurance, or anything even resembling a real life in 2022. These are people who cannot walk into most stores and even purchase anything unless they have cash, which they would have earned from the off the books job that they have, handouts, or possible criminal activity.
Last time I checked the Democrats were not willing to turn the Senate upside down because Airports and Airlines are racistly requiring their passengers to provide Identification. The President is not giving speeches about the racism involved with the Banks not giving loans to people without ID. People are not protesting the convenience station that had racist employees asking for IDs to buy cigarettes. Bills are not being proposed to shut down landlords who are requiring ID to rent an apartment or to punish those Jim Crow employers who demand that the person they hire can prove their identity?
Why isn't all of that as racist as requiring an ID to vote, like 90% of the world does.
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Here's a question for those on your side who think they know what is right for America:
DOES THE FOLLOWING MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL?
Tucker Carlson Viewers Want U.S. to Side with Russia
January 24, 2022 at 3:19 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 200 Comments
Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) tweeted that people have called his office telling him the U.S. should be “siding with Russia” instead of Ukraine as tensions escalate between the two countries.
Said Malinowski:
“My office is now getting calls from folks who say they watch Tucker Carlson and are upset that we’re not siding with Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine, and who want me to support Russia’s ‘reasonable’ positions.”
BRAIN DEAD? TREASONOUS? JUST OUT AND OUT STUPID? ALL OF THAT?
History will not be kind.
Explain this to us, Ch, in a way that we can understand it, and not tossing about your usual word salad.
Criminalization of the Ballot Box
Some states are discouraging voter participation by imposing arbitrary requirements and harsh penalties on voters and poll workers who violate these rules. In Georgia, lawmakers have made it a crime to provide food and water to voters standing in line at the polls — lines that are notoriously long in Georgia, especially for communities of color. In Texas, people have been arrested and given outrageous sentences for what amount at most to innocent mistakes made during the voting process. ACLU clients Crystal Mason and Hervis Rogers are examples of this egregious treatment.
Because of racism in law enforcement and the broader criminal legal system, criminalization of the ballot box disproportionately impacts people of color, who are more likely to be penalized. This method of voter suppression aims to instill fear in communities of color and suppress their voices in the democratic process.
More on criminalization of the ballot box
Felony Disenfranchisement
A felony conviction can come with drastic consequences, including the loss of your right to vote. Some states ban voting only during incarceration, or while on probation or parole. And other states and jurisdictions, like Maine, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., don’t disenfranchise people with felony convictions at all. The fact that these laws vary so dramatically only adds to the overall confusion that voters face, which is a form of voter suppression in itself.
Due to racial bias in the criminal justice system, felony disenfranchisement laws disproportionately affect Black and Brown people, who often face harsher sentences than white people for the same offenses. Many of these laws are rooted in the Jim Crow era, when legislators tried to block Black Americans’ newly won right to vote by enforcing poll taxes, literacy tests, and other barriers that were nearly impossible to meet. To this day, the states with the most extreme disenfranchisement laws also have long histories of suppressing the rights of Black people.
FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS BY STATE
Thirty-six states have identification requirements at the polls, including seven states with strict photo ID laws.
Map of felony disenfranchisement laws by state
Voter Purges
Cleaning up voter rolls can be a responsible part of election administration because many people move, die, or become ineligible to vote for other reasons. But sometimes, states use this process as a method of mass disenfranchisement, purging eligible voters from rolls for illegitimate reasons or based on inaccurate data, and often without adequate notice to the voters. A single purge can stop up to hundreds of thousands of people from voting. Often, voters only learn they’ve been erroneously purged when they show up at the polls on Election Day and it’s too late to correct the error.
Election administrators properly keep voter rolls up to date by filtering out voters who have changed their address, died, or otherwise become ineligible to vote. But states often conduct such purges using inaccurate data, flawed processes, and targeting certain voters such as those with felony convictions without enforcing federally-mandated safeguards to prevent purging voters who don’t even fall under the targeted group.
Redistricting and Gerrymandering
Every 10 years, states redraw district lines based on population data gathered in the census. Legislators use these district lines to allocate representation in Congress and state legislatures. When redistricting is conducted properly, district lines are redrawn to reflect population changes and racial diversity. But too often, states use redistricting as a political tool to manipulate the outcome of elections. That’s called gerrymandering — a widespread, undemocratic practice that’s stifling the voices of millions of voters.
Voter ID Laws
Thirty-six states have identification requirements at the polls. Seven states have strict photo ID laws, under which voters must present one of a limited set of forms of government-issued photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot — no exceptions. These strict ID laws are part of an ongoing strategy to suppress the vote.
Over 21 million U.S. citizens do not have qualifying government-issued photo identification, and these individuals are disproportionately voters of color. That’s because ID cards aren’t always accessible for everyone. The ID itself can be costly, and even when IDs are free, applicants must incur other expenses to obtain the underlying documents that are needed to get an ID. This can be a significant burden on people in lower-income communities. Further, the travel required to obtain an ID is an obstacle for people with disabilities, the elderly, and people living in rural areas.
Who's Affected By Voter Suppression?
The short answer is all of us. Our democracy is debased when the vote is not accessible for all. But the fact is that some groups are disproportionately affected by voter suppression tactics, including people of color, young people, the elderly, and people with disabilities. The proof is in the numbers.
Across the country, 1 in 16 Black Americans cannot vote due to disenfranchisement laws.
Counties with larger minority populations have fewer polling sites and poll workers per voter.
In 2018, Latinx and Black Americans were twice as likely as whites to be unable to get off work while polls were open.
25 percent of voting-age Black Americans do not have a government-issued photo ID.
Geographic isolation is a major barrier to Native American voters due to the inaccessibility of nearby polling locations in many reservations. In South Dakota, 32 percent of Native voters cite travel distance as a factor in deciding whether to vote.
More than one-sixth (18 percent) of voters with disabilities reported difficulties voting in person in 2020.
Nearly two-thirds of polling places had at least one impediment for people with disabilities.
How To Protect Your Vote
The right to vote is the most fundamental constitutional right for good reason: democracy cannot exist without the electoral participation of citizens. We vote because it’s we, the people, who are supposed to shape our government. Not the other way around.
President Biden and states can enact measures to encourage rather than suppress voting. Automatic, online, and same-day voter registration encourage participation and reduce chances of error. Early voting helps people with travel or accessibility concerns participate. And states must enforce the protections of the Voting Rights Act.
The ACLU is not a socialist scam Scott Johnson schizophrenia
Well the lying POS "pastor" immediately went off-topic as usual and didn't answer CHT's thread question
instead he posted a hit "article from his "GODdard" inferring that Tucker Carlson is supporting Russia over the US
He actually was doing the exact opposite
Watch for yourself:
Tucker: They suddenly care about borders
1,723,748 viewsPremiered Jan 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxPQ87t7Do
"BRAIN DEAD? TREASONOUS? JUST OUT AND OUT STUPID? ALL OF THAT?
History will not be kind."
already has more views on just youtube than the FAKE NEWS total viewership
FAKE NEWS is still shouting but dying
hopefully before America dies
and I guess if you can't answer a thread you cowardly immediately go off topic
losers
looking at the liberals here
So two of our lilly white liberals...
have no answer to the question.
Because they are too stupid to come up with one?
Election administrators properly keep voter rolls up to date by filtering out voters who have changed their address, died, or otherwise become ineligible to vote. But states often conduct such purges using inaccurate data, flawed processes, and targeting certain voters such as those with felony convictions without enforcing federally-mandated safeguards to prevent purging voters who don’t even fall under the targeted group.
A single purge can stop up to hundreds of thousands of people from voting.
I wonder out loud...
Where are the examples of such state conduct of purging hundreds of thousands of voters who all showed up on election day to vote and couldn't? One might think that this would become a big story, huh?
But just like all those millions who cannot figure out how to get a Voter ID when the time comes for these race baiting morons to "put up or shut up" in court...
Well the allegations gooooooo bye bye!
Better just to write about it, where they can find people stupid enough to believe them. Obviously no court is stupid enough to believe it.
James I did a little research into the Republican agenda.
They want to protect the super-rich from paying more taxes, even though billionaires became 62 percent richer during the pandemic and many pay practically no federal income taxes. And Republicans really don’t want corporations to pay their fair share either.
Republicans are also for underfunding the Internal Revenue Service so that the agency does not have adequate resources to enforce existing tax laws. Because most tax evasionists are worth millions.
And they would like to do away with the child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40 percent.
It is not a stretch to say Republicans actively promote income and wealth inequality, in campaign events.
Republicans are opposed to abortion rights even in cases of rape and incest. And vigilantes can sue their families members and Lyft and Uber drivers.
They support personal choice when it comes to vaccines and masks. But people with children, don't want unmasked and non immunized people near their kids.
They use CRT rhetoric because
Republicans are all in when it comes to keeping in place monuments to the slave-owning traitors of the Confederacy; removing anything from school curriculum that might make White people feel uncomfortable, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK; and stopping the FBI from investigating death threats against school board members and other public officials because they believe the FBI is a Democratic Gestapo.
No wonder white supremacists are so enamored with the GOP these days, like the Proud Boys.
Voter ID Laws
Thirty-six states have identification requirements at the polls. Seven states have strict photo ID laws, under which voters must present one of a limited set of forms of government-issued photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot — no exceptions. These strict ID laws are part of an ongoing strategy to suppress the vote.
Over 21 million U.S. citizens do not have qualifying government-issued photo identification, and these individuals are disproportionately voters of color. That’s because ID cards aren’t always accessible for everyone. The ID itself can be costly, and even when IDs are free, applicants must incur other expenses to obtain the underlying documents that are needed to get an ID. This can be a significant burden on people in lower-income communities. Further, the travel required to obtain an ID is an obstacle for people with disabilities, the elderly, and people living in rural areas.
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7:49 Thanks, Roger. Well stated.
Quinnipiac 35%
Trafalgar 39%
Rasmussen 40%
Roger gives us one while ignoring all the rest
"I don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore, your masked paranoid world. You know, you go out, it’s silly now, you know, you mask, you have to have a card, you have to have a booster, they scan your head. Like you’re a cashier, and I’m a bunch of bananas. I’m not bananas. You are," Maher told a laughing audience during his show "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday."
Right on.
AS was already pointed out to Madam Amick, the Fox poll has a lot of bad news in it for Biden.
Roger gives us one while ignoring all the rest
Yes, but that was FOX!!!!!
Wrong Roger. It's the democrats who are trying to boost tax benefits for the wealthy, by trying to eliminate the cap in interest deductions. Facts are stubborn things.
So Madam Roger and Jane are big fans of Fox?
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
No new tax cuts for Middle income earners.
Not even a proposed one.
6:39 I just finished watching the link provided there.
Tucker Carlson's BS there is both stupid and actually traitorous.
No wonder Fox fanatic viewers called in defending Russia.
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, HOPE FOR AMERICA, HOPE FOR OUR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT GOVERNMENT THAT CAN FINALLY ACCOMPLISH GOOD THINGS---
Bipartisan Infrastructure Group Turns to Election Reform
January 24, 2022 at 9:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The bipartisan group focused on updating the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is seizing on this recess period to court senators more freely,” Axios reports.
“The group is led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and includes many members who helped reach the bipartisan infrastructure deal. They see themselves as the only hope of creating an election reform package able to muster 60 votes in the Senate.”
OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT GOVERNMENT TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF OUR LAND.
The United States Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index dropped again to
Actual:55.0
Down 2 points, 4 point down in the last three months.
Gas continues to rise.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1485741499283296265?t=wM7cV4ATvXGWdjPJRFmUTA&s=19
The President called a Fox news reporter a stupid son of a bitch.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-peter-doocy-laughs-off-biden-sob-insult
LOL indeed.
What IS that thing on top of Doocy's head? SCRAPE IT OFF!
At the end of a Biden photo op, when reporters shouted questions hoping he'd respond, Fox's Peter Doocy asked,
"Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?"
Biden paused, then deadpanned:
"It's a great asset -- more inflation."
And then was heard to mutter under his breath.
"...what a stupid son of a bitch..."
Knee slapping funny.
Gasoline continues to Rise (Madam Amick said they would be under $3.00 by now)
$ 3.31 up 2 cents in the last week.
This is traditionally the time of the year gas goes down.
The hazard going forward is that summer driving is fast approaching, when traditionally prices go up more.
Jan . 6th is McCarthyism 2.o
A party head agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other and foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Court Throws Out Alabama Map
January 24, 2022 at 11:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“A panel of three federal judges threw out Alabama’s congressional map on Monday and ordered state lawmakers to draw a new one with two, rather than just one, districts that are likely to elect Black representatives,” the New York Times reports.
“The case is certain to be appealed and could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court addressing the question of whether lawmakers can draw political maps to achieve a specific racial composition, a practice known as racial gerrymandering.”
As of today, I have been sober for nine years and six months, one day at a time, So help me God.
Actually nine years and seven months.
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As the legal walls close in on Donald Trump, the Supreme Court’s Jan. 19 order rejecting his bid to keep secret a trove of official documents related to Jan. 6, 2021 despite President Joe Biden’s waiver of executive privilege bodes poorly for the former president.
Trump asked the court for an emergency stay preventing disclosure of White House records to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Trump roundly lost the case in the lower courts, which rejected his claims “under any of the tests [he] advocated,” without regard to his status as president. In an unsigned decision, the Supreme Court sided with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as it had “concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent.” Translated, the Supreme Court did not even bother with Trump’s argument that a former president can compete with a sitting president when it comes to the assertion of executive privilege.
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This outcome is much like when President Richard Nixon failed to persuade the court to keep the Watergate tapes secret on executive privilege grounds (it held in 1974 that the president does not have absolute, unqualified immunity from subpoenas under executive privilege). The modern court signaled that Congress might have gotten the Jan. 6 documents even if Trump were still the president today.
Ouch.
The D.C. Circuit’s unanimous opinion gives five succinct reasons why stating, “the former President has failed to establish a likelihood of success given (1) President Biden’s carefully reasoned and cabined determination that a claim of executive privilege is not in the interests of the United States; (2) Congress’s uniquely vital interest in studying the January 6th attack on itself to formulate remedial legislation and to safeguard its constitutional and legislative operations; (3) the demonstrated relevance of the documents at issue to the congressional inquiry; (4) the absence of any identified alternative source for the information; and (5) Mr. Trump’s failure even to allege, let alone demonstrate, any particularized harm that would arise from disclosure, any distinct and superseding interest in confidentiality attached to these particular documents, lack of relevance, or any other reasoned justification for withholding the documents.”
Only Justice Clarence Thomas noted a dissent. Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the majority but wrote his own statement with the caveat that there may be circumstances where a former president’s view on executive privilege holds water; for example, if communications “were subject to the absolute control of a subsequent President who could be a political opponent of a former President.” (In this age of unmitigated rancor, Kavanaugh appears to be worried about confidential presidential records one day being used as pure political weapons to the detriment of the office of the presidency. The statement suggests that Kavanaugh is not going to cave to pro-Trump pressure if it means sacrificing this slice of constitutional law.)
Keep in mind that the Supreme Court may be asked to rule on additional Trumpian pleas for deference — as news breaks every day about the accelerating pace and scope of the various investigations involving Trump.
For starters, despite having already brought hundreds of criminal actions around the Jan. 6 violence, including a seditious conspiracy indictment against 11 participants, Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly vowed that “the actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.”
News also broke that Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani reportedly may have been behind the attempt to install fake electors in seven swing states. A draft executive order purporting to seize voting machines under the guise of the Big Lie was made public, and the January 6 committee plans to hold public hearings that — in the words of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) — will “blow the roof off the House.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Fox News host Sean Hannity and Ivanka Trump have all been contacted by the committee for voluntary interviews. Several other Trump allies have also been subpoenaed, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Giuliani, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, senior adviser Stephen Miller, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short, as well as former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) already charged Bannon with criminal contempt for refusing to comply. The Committee has also sought or obtained the phone records of numerous individuals, including Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancé, who spoke at the Jan. 6 rally and was involved in campaign fundraising.
If any of these witnesses winds up asking the Supreme Court if they can hide behind executive privilege to avoid testifying or producing documents, we now know that they will almost certainly lose. And if subpoenas at some point come from a criminal grand jury (instead of the relatively less entitled U.S. Congress), these witnesses will definitely lose. By the same token, therefore, if House control goes to Republicans after the November midterm elections and the January 6 committee is subsequently stalled, these folks — and Trump himself — are not off the hook. Biden’s DOJ will remain on the job for at least two more years.
Meanwhile, Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney just asked for a special grand jury to investigate the criminal implications of a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call in which Trump pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more votes for him.
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In New York, state Attorney General Letitia James outlined possible civil fraud by the Trump Organization in a recent court filing seeking to compel the testimony of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. Manhattan’s new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, also announced a new leadership team on the ongoing parallel criminal investigation of Trump and his businesses but is keeping his predecessor’s senior lawyers.
Any of these matters could produce “emergency” appeals to the Supreme Court seeking to somehow shield Trump from public accountability for actions that plowed through standards of legal conduct. Yet, despite its controversial stance on hot-button issues like abortion and voting rights, the new 6-3 conservative majority does not seem inclined to side with Trump when it comes to attempts to subvert the authority of the presidency. For the Constitution itself, this is a good thing.
The right to vote is the most fundamental constitutional right for good reason:
There's only one problem with this razor sharp bit of constitutional analysis -
There is no explicit right to vote listed anywhere within the US Constitution.
We've covered this many times, alky.
Going forward I would suggest you find a different source of legal opinion other than the American Criminal Liberties Union. They're frauds.
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Well don't be shy alky. Post some pics on your twitter feed of some of the gourmet dishes you're cranking out on that hot plate of yours.
Sad how the right's zeal for the right to life has degraded to the party of death....!!!
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By Dana Milbank
Columnist
The weekend began with the March for Life. It ended with a march for death.
Anti-vaccine activists decided to piggyback on Friday’s annual antiabortion march in the capital by having a “Defeat the Mandates” rally on Sunday. Combined, the two groups of (mostly) conservative activists engaged in a demonstration of mass inconsistency.
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Friday’s crowd invoked the mantra of the pro-life movement: “A child, not a choice.” Sunday’s proclaimed the mantra of the abortion rights movement to oppose vaccines: “My body, my choice.”
Friday’s crowd endorsed the most obtrusive of big-government mandates, laws telling women they can’t make their own reproductive decisions. Sunday’s argued that health decisions must be made by patient and doctor, not government.
Friday’s crowd pleaded for the lives of the most vulnerable. Sunday’s demanded the right to infect the most vulnerable by eschewing vaccines and masks in shared spaces.
It was enough to make one wonder: Does taking ivermectin cause people to lose their sense of irony?
The crowds weren’t the same but, collectively, the two rallies captured the hypocrisy of the right at this moment: Protect the unborn, but feel free to infect — and perhaps kill — innocent people already born, including, er, pregnant women. And yet both movements claim to be operating under the authority of “God’s mandate” and “God’s law,” as the anti-vaccine speakers repeatedly put it. God works in mysterious ways, indeed
In a rare moment of self-awareness at the anti-vaccine rally, JP Sears, the event’s emcee, quipped that because of his belief in natural immunity to the coronavirus, “I kind of feel like a flat-Earther.”
In a sense, the dual events showed the changing nature of the political right. The March for Life, in its 49th year, is where the right has been; the march for death shows where it is going. The former, held potentially on the cusp of the long-sought overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, was a joyful assembly; the latter was paranoid and rage-filled.
The well-curated March for Life program avoided harsh language about “baby killers” in favor of calls for compassion. “Every life is worthy of our prayer and our protection, whether in the womb or in the world,” the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros said before his opening prayer. “We can and we must make the case for life both born and unborn, by our example of unconditional love. … We march with compassion, we march with empathy, with love, with our arms extended to embrace all.”
Unconditional love? Embrace all? The angry speakers at the march for death didn’t sign up for that. They railed against medical boards, peer-reviewed journals, vaccine and antiviral manufacturers, expertise of any kind. They declaimed enemies seen and unseen trying to deny them their freedom.
media?”
“No!” the crowd roared.
“Anybody trust the CDC and FDA?”
“No!”
“Do you trust Fauci?”
“No!”
Pierre Kory, a doctor who promotes the horse dewormer ivermectin for covid-19, added that the sinister “they” are also “killing us with censorship and propaganda” and “manipulating the minds of millions.” Dr. Kory’s prescription: “We must live free or we will die.”
The speakers took turns releasing medical disinformation.
One suggested breathing exercises to combat covid-19. Another repeated false claims that vaccines cause autism.
“The vaccines are killing 15 people for every person it might save,” proclaimed entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, contrary to the facts. “We will kill 100 kids for every child we might save.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misinformed the crowd that “if you take the vaccine, you have a 21 percent increased chance of dying over the next six months.”
Pfizer has begun a study comparing its original COVID-19 vaccine with doses specially tweaked to match the hugely contagious omicron variant.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the study on Tuesday.
COVID-19 vaccine makers have been updating their shots to better match omicron in case global health authorities decide the change is needed.
While omicron is more likely than previous variants to cause infection even in people who’ve been vaccinated, it’s not yet clear that a change to the vaccine recipe is needed.
The original vaccines still offer good protection against severe illness and death. Studies in the U.S. and elsewhere have made clear that adding a booster dose strengthens that protection and improves the chances of avoiding a milder infection.
This can be a significant burden on people in lower-income communities. Further, the travel required to obtain an ID is an obstacle for people with disabilities, the elderly, and people living in rural areas.
But somehow, and let's call this what it is; a fucking miracle, these same folks manage to make it to their county/municipal social services office to sign up for every entitlement under the fucking sun: Welfare, Medicaid, EBT, WIC, Section 8 Housing...
Several years ago I was summoned to meet with a client - the director of a local public housing authority - to discuss the telecom services we were providing. The day of the meeting just happened to coincide with what's known locally as 'lottery day.' This is the day people seeking public housing visit the authority to apply for a unit. There are two large parking lots flanking the building. On this day all vehicles were directed to park in the south lot while the north lot was equipped to handle the massive crowd of applicants. These folks, numbering in the several hundreds formed a lined that snaked it's way through the lot which had the line set up in a circuitous maze. There were at least a dozen porta-johns set up against the back of the lot. This event was regularly scheduled and well planned in advance.
The point being that if Voter ID is such a fucking burden and is just a bridge too far, how did all of these folks obtain the FREE ID required to apply for housing? How did they even get to the housing lottery in the first place?
All of the excuses put up by the left are complete and utter bullshit. When there's free shit on the line, those who seek it will crawl on hands and knees across broken glass and burning coals to go get it, which means that a Voter ID is also within their reach.
Don't believe otherwise.
It's a miracle! The alky finally figured out the correct spelling of "Pfizer."
Oh wait...
That's because he plagiarized again.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/pfizer-opens-study-covid-shots-updated-match-omicron-82458260
Never mind...
Don't believe otherwise.
Spoken like a true old white man who only cares about himself......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Another Trump slurper wannabe!!!!!
Heh -
Kathy "Cuomo with tits" Hochul just had her NYS mask mandate struck down by the court.
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/State-Supreme-Court-knocks-down-NY-mask-mandate-16801243.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-spotlight
Why are leftists ALWAYS such authoritarian and totalitarian tyrannical ASSHOLES???
The right wing believes that the covid-19 pandemic was created by the Chinese government in coordination with big tech companies and of course Doctor Fauci and the Democrats.
The devastation wreaked by the Covid-19 virus on human life and the world economy – especially the way it made doomsday scenarios of contagion all too real – has made ordinary people anxious to know its origin. Shockingly, there is enough evidence and reason to suspect that the pandemic might have been the result of a vaccine arms race that skirted dangerously close to bioweapons development. And that a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China – inadvertent or, well, by design – may have been responsible for the pandemic. The behind-the-scenes players were the U.S. government, Big Pharma, and China – which in essence means the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Wuhan Institute of Virology (Photo credit: Ureem2805 CC BY-SA 4.0 license
This is no fuzzy conspiracy theory. But it's a complex story and calls for careful unraveling. Conservative political commentator Glenn Beck does that in a stunning “chalkboard exposé” – his signature methodology for connecting the dots on important issues of the day. Crimes or Cover-Up? Exposing the World’s Most Dangerous Lie, a two-hour production, has Beck unfolding the map and the timeline in three parts: 1) The Vaccine Arms Race, 2) The Pandemic Begins, and 3) Censorship and Cover-Up. (Supporting documents are available here.)
There are four key dramatis personae: Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the U.S. President; Dr. Ralph Baric, epidemiologist and expert on coronaviruses at the University of North Carolina; Dr. Peter Daszak, a zoologist whose EcoHealth Alliance channeled over $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the epicenter of the outbreak; and Dr. Zhengli Shi, a Chinese virologist at the Wuhan institute who was collaborating with Dr. Daszak.
Over 83,000 pages of emails from Dr. Baric, obtained by the U.S. Right to Know Organization, and over 3,000 pages of Dr. Fauci’s emails (including those to and from Dr. Daszak), accessed by media under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), provide evidence to suspect risky, unethical behavior, if not outright wrongdoing, and a hasty, hermetic cover-up. To this hefty sheaf Beck adds more documents and federal contracts that fill out the picture.
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And of course Ch has joined the lunatic train!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/was_the_pandemic_caused_by_a_leaked_bioweapon_or_a_mishap_in_the_vaccine_race.html
Joe’s numbers are in the tank.
Kamala’s are under the tank.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s are lost somewhere in an abandoned exploratory tunnel excavated by Elon Musk’s Boring Company.
Every psephologist in Alpha Centauri expects the Democrats to lose the House in a historic tsunami of red redress.
The Democrats will lose 40, 50, maybe 60 seats.
Some are predicting 70 seats will switch from blue to red in the House.
The Senate is more dicey, but more and more observers believe that the GOP will flip the Senate as well.
But remember the premise.
Elections are only legitimate if Democrats win.
The 2022 midterms are almost certain to be a rout for Democrats, especially in the House but also, if by a less dramatic margin, in the Senate and in many state elections.
Ergo, to the Democratic mouthpiece, the midterm elections will by definition be illegitimate.
To rubes like you and me, that seems preposterous.
We think that a free, open, and democratic election is one in which the election rules are known beforehand and everyone who is entitled to vote has an equal opportunity to do so.
That goes completely against the grain of the anti-democratic Democratic mindset.
One of the most remarkable essays about the 2020 election was “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” published in Time magazine last February.
By “saved the election,” the author meant “saved the election for the Democrats.”
This is Time, so the anti-Trump animus is patent on every page.
What’s remarkable, though, is that the author cheerfully—almost gleefully—describes exactly how a cabal of anti-Trump operatives swung the election against Trump and then stymied his efforts to challenge the results.
“There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” we read.
Isn’t that exactly what Trump partisans argued, much to the ridicule and contempt of their political opponents?
Yes, but it’s different when they do it.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/of-cabals-and-elections_4230742.html
Rat's gibberish from Epoch times is indicative of his troubled and fucked up existence!!!!!
Kathy "Cuomo with tits" Hochul just had her NYS mask mandate struck down by the court.
And our NY asshole applauds the stupidity of the courts!!!!!!
The fed is going to address inflation very soon.
The Fed is likely to signal a March interest rate hike and that further policy tightening is coming
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The Federal Reserve meets this week and is expected to signal that it is ready to raise interest rates as soon as March and that it will consider other policy tightening.
The Fed issues its policy statement Wednesday afternoon, at the end of its two-day meeting, and it is expected to show that it is willing to take the steps necessary to fight inflation.
“I don’t think they’re going to be spooked by this,” said one strategist of the stock market’s correction. “They need to tighten financial conditions so they can have a better handle on inflation.”
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022.
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022.
Graeme Jennings | Reuters
The Federal Reserve is expected to say this week it is moving forward with interest rate hikes and considering other policy tightening, reversing the easy policies it put in place to fight the pandemic.
The Fed begins its two-day meeting Tuesday and on Wednesday afternoon, the central bank is expected to issue a new statement that shows it is resolved to fight inflation. Against the backdrop of a violent stock market correction, Fed officials are expected to say they are ready to push up the fed funds rate from zero as soon as March.
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The rich people who depend upon the stock market are not going to be cheering.
The rich people who depend upon the stock market are not going to be cheering.
The goat fucker will be thrilled as he has been praying for this for months!!!!!! Sad he doesn't realize his meager stock holdings will suffer....oh well, can't fix stupid!!!
If this reaches the Supreme Court, it very possible that the very conservative Supreme Court decision could make gerrymandering unconstitutional.
Court Throws Out Alabama Map
January 24, 2022 at 11:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 69 Comments
“A panel of three federal judges threw out Alabama’s congressional map on Monday and ordered state lawmakers to draw a new one with two, rather than just one, districts that are likely to elect Black representatives,” the New York Times reports.
“The case is certain to be appealed and could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court addressing the question of whether lawmakers can draw political maps to achieve a specific racial composition, a practice known as racial gerrymandering.”
rrb would want to lynch Chief Justice Roberts.
The President of the United States of America, talks like a construction worker!
President Joe Biden called Fox News reporter Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch” on a live microphone Monday, after Doocy asked Biden if inflation was a political liability to him.
Doocy regularly baits Biden during press events, shouting over other reporters and trying to get the president off guard.
Biden has a long record of swearing on hot microphones.
In 2010, he was caught telling then-President Barack Obama that passing the Affordable Care Act was “a big fucking deal.”
For Doocy to regularly bait Biden at press events, biden has to regularly do press events. He does not. He's the least transparent president in history.
Texas: Due to new voter restrictions passed in the state last year, hundreds of absentee ballots applications are being rejected.
The cause is a new ID requirement: Voters who qualify to vote by mail in the state must now apply with either a state ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. But there’s a problem: The type of number on the application (whether state ID, driver’s license or SSN) must match the type of number the voter used when they first registered to vote — forcing them to remember sometimes decades-old minutiae.
What’s worse, outdated application forms — without the ID number field — are still in circulation by the thousands all around the state, in municipal offices, libraries and the like. Some counties are rejecting up to 50% of ballot applications.
To add to the trouble, the secretary of state’s office says a “paper shortage” is restricting the number of registration forms they can print and distribute this year. Texas law requires voters to register using paper forms. (The League of Women Voters has threatened a lawsuit over the shortage.)
president in history.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The trump slurping asshole speaks!!!!!!!!
There are many who would disagree with the ball less wonders tenet...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-returns-visitor-logs-white-house-transparency-ethics-experts/
Trump administration is least transparent admin. in decades, ethics experts say
WASHINGTON -- Protesters from coast to coast called on President Trump over the weekend to release his tax returns.
He responded on Twitter, saying: “The election is over!... Now tax returns are brought up again?”
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Mr. Trump says he can’t release them because he’s under audit. But tax experts say that shouldn’t matter.
“The only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, okay?” Mr. Trump said in January.
Criminalization of the Ballot Box
Some states are discouraging voter participation by imposing arbitrary requirements and harsh penalties on voters and poll workers who violate these rules. In Georgia, lawmakers have made it a crime to provide food and water to voters standing in line at the polls — lines that are notoriously long in Georgia, especially for communities of color. In Texas, people have been arrested and
The rule is no electioneering within 100 feet of the ballot box. Volunteers give food and water to election workers and they in turned give to the voters.
To say differently is push Roger's Big lie. For me, I appreciate the moment of contemplation.
Not sure why its such a bad thing to know who is mailing in voting ballots. Especially since chain if ownership is questionable at best.
Not sure why its such a bad thing to know who is mailing in voting ballots.
Sad, our ball less wonder has trouble understanding what a ballot box is.......and why would you give a fuck who mails the ballot??? Just because you don't trust anything does not mean grandma has her grandson drop the ballot off....do you think everyone is perverted as you and will change a ballot???? Have any documentation that occurred in any numbers at all?????
There are many who would disagree with the ball less wonders tenet...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-returns-visitor-logs-white-house-transparency-ethics-experts/
Trump administration is least transparent admin. in decades, ethics experts say
-- Protesters from coast to coast called on President Trump over the weekend to release his tax returns.
By every objective method, Trump's administration was far more transparent than Biden's or Obama's.
While James nosy gossip monger is still trying to gets the goods on Trump's tax returns.
Trouble is for him there is less meets the eye. And Trump has every right to say fuck off.@
But I do know. A ballot box is thst which we saw video footage of ballot harvesters stuffing from backpacks in the middle of the night.
Video footage.
t box is thst which we saw video footage of ballot harvesters
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You saw shit asshole!!!!!! Sorry that you are so fucking gullible to believe the tripe you thought you saw!!!!
Roger Amick said...
FOX: APPROVAL 47%...
Would support Biden in 2024......
30%
Same poll
glad you think it is so credible
ROFLMFAO !!!
* and sinking
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
President Biden phoned Peter Doocy of Fox News after being caught on a hot mic calling him “a stupid son of a bitch” and said, “It’s nothing personal, pal,” the Daily Beast reports.
When asked by Sean Hannity if Biden apologized, Doocy remained diplomatic and said the president “cleared the air.”
He added: “And I appreciate it. We had a nice call.”
The laptop scandal is not going away!!!
Another conspiracy theory bullshit.
VVladimir Putin didn’t need the green light that Joe Biden gave Russian forces during his marathon press conference last Thursday for a “minor incursion” into Ukraine. The Russian president already knew the U.S. commander in chief couldn’t stop him even if he wanted to. Sure, Putin has seen the polling and knows foreign entanglements won’t help a Democrat hemorrhaging support from his own party.
But that doesn’t seem to be all. You don’t need a secret dossier authored by a British ex-spy for hire like Christopher Steele to understand the possible weird real-world mirror version of Russiagate. This time, it’s basically all out in the open—or at least it was, until the press and social media scrubbed reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop from the internet in the run-up to the 2020 election. The laptop, whose provenance and contents have both since checked out beyond any shadow of doubt, give evidence of Hunter’s financial relationships with foreign officials and businesses, like the more than $50,000 per month he got for sitting on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, starting in the spring of 2014.
The reason that a company like Burisma was willing to pay the drug-addled son of the vice president of the United States so much money for a no-show job wasn’t to buy his expertise in natural gas exploration and drilling, of course. Hunter Biden’s sordid memoir, Beautiful Things, published last year, makes it clear that, during the period in question, he was a wreck of a human being who spent lavishly on crack and methamphetamine, which he consumed in expensive hotel rooms in the company of prostitutes. It would seem that the obvious point of paying Hunter Biden was to buy protection from the American official in charge of Ukraine policy—Joe Biden.
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The new Drudge report is another example of the conspiracy theory addiction on the right wing.
The Ukraine crisis is a creation of the Globalist American Empire. It is a product of American overreach, and the crisis continues because the DC national security cabal refuses to admit any mistakes, backtrack, or engage in any serious negotiation whatsoever. America’s ruling elites are willing to risk war, possibly even nuclear war, for the sake of their own desire to exert control everywhere on Earth.
The Soviet Union fell in 1991. Vladimir Putin took power in Russia in 2000. Yet the crisis over Ukraine dates to only 2014. For Putin’s first 14 years in power, conflict in Ukraine was sharp, often bitter, but fundamentally political. The situation changed only in 2014, when revolutionaries overthrew democratically-elected pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, with America’s endorsement.
Without getting into too much detail on the 2014 coup, this was a prototypical “color revolution” where a supportive American press and State Department gave political and moral cover to a violent, extrajudicial change in the government of Ukraine. Protesters seized control of key government buildings in Kyiv and the capitals of numerous regions. President Yanukovych agreed to early elections and constitutional changes but was still thrown out of power (without following the legal impeachment process), and the new government subsequently purged everyone associated with him from government (sound familiar?).
Roger Amick said...
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the lying POS "pastor" says this is treasonous
I guess it is if you are an enemy of America
like the far-left has become
https://www.revolver.news/2022/01/height-of-arrogance-the-globalist-american-empire-risks-nuclear-war-with-russia/
Tucker Carlson is the biggest idiot in history.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/01/height-of-arrogance-the-globalist-american-empire-risks-nuclear-war-with-russia/
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Tucker Carlson is the biggest idiot in history.
Thanks for the granular, detailed analysis of your issues with Carlson's point of view, alky.
You've proved two thins -
1) You've never watched his show.
2) You don't possess the intellectual horsepower to reply with a comprehensive and compelling retort.
Your BFF & Twitter partner Indy Voter was correct about you.
You ARE a fucking moron.
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Good one alky.
Inflation remains on the rise.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
Everything Brandon touches turns to shit...
“The average American 401(k) retirement account lost more than $7,300.” — ABC on DOW’s record-breaking 1700-point dive.
https://flipboard.com/video/recount/56df5fbab0
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
But not to be outdone domestically and economically, now the dumb fuck is poised to get a bunch of our service personnel KILLED in a non-NATO country just because he thinks he's FDR.
The bombastic Biden is not a good look.
RRB.
Exactly.
F4 Roger, Jane and dopey , none have fathered a male child want this war, to save Biden's Failed Presidency.
F4 Roger, Jane and dopey , none have fathered a male child want this war, to save Biden's Failed Presidency.
Thanks for being such a transphobe KD by not counting the alky's Char-Lee the Tran-Nee.
LOL.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB.
Exactly.
F4 Roger, Jane and dopey
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Just like you supported Busch's misguided BS!!!!!
No troops but
KYIV, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. plane carrying military equipment and munitions landed in Kyiv on Tuesday, the third shipment of a $200-million security package to shore up Ukraine as it braces for a possible Russian military offensive.
"Our partners are increasing the amount of military assistance. And today we are meeting the third aircraft from the United States government as part of this assistance," Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told reporters before the plane landed.
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The United States has been Ukraine's most powerful backer in trying to avert a new attack by Russia, which has massed troops near Ukraine's border. Moscow denies planning an offensive. read more
The United States has committed more than $650 million of security assistance to Ukraine in the past year and more than $2.7 billion in total since 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Ukraine has been a grateful recipient of the aid though it has criticised as "premature" a partial pullout of U.S. and other embassy staff.
In other news the DOW is down another 400 points today SO FAR.
I probably blocked you years ago Jimmy Hitler Jr.
Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
January 25, 2022 at 10:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
David French:
“When you walk through the evidence of Trump’s brazen effort to bully, threaten, and command subordinates and state officials to steal an election, his actions quite obviously demand a close criminal inquiry.
“For a sitting American president to seek to engineer a coup is unprecedented, but our law contains ample precedents that punish other citizens for similar misconduct.
"The law is not just for the little people. Trump is not a king. He does not enjoy sovereign immunity. He is presently nothing more than a private citizen, and if President Trump broke the law, then Citizen Trump should face the consequences.”
Amen, amen!
We're pissing away BILLION$ to protect Ukraine's border while completely neglecting our own.
Fucking brilliant.
Alky,
If the very best you can come up with is to call me 'Hitler,' I very much doubt that you were smart enough to be able figure out how to block anyone, let alone me.
Anyway, I have a question -
A while ago you posted a pic of you and some people in a restaurant. I think it was around the holidays...
You never indicated which adult was Char-Lee.
LOL.
Is David French's wife still banging her minister? A while back I heard they were an item...
I give Brandon a lot of credit for consistency.
He's abandoning Americans in Ukraine just like he did in Afghanistan. At least he has that part of his job down pat.
Perhaps he could go for his own trifecta. What other nation can he fuck up and leave Americans behind to DIE?
C'mon man, think! He only needs one more.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
Consumer Confidence drops
Biden Administration to Brief Lawmakers of Ukraine
January 25, 2022 at 7:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments
Punchbowl News: “The Biden administration will hold two classified briefings today for congressional leadership aides and committee staff on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, with the Russian military buildup continuing on that embattled nation’s eastern border.“
“Administration officials are working on briefings for all members of the House and Senate, but that will have to wait until Congress returns next week.”
China Denies Xi Asked Putin Not to Invade During Olympics
January 25, 2022 at 8:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
“China on Monday dismissed a report suggesting President Xi Jinping may have asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games,” the South China Morning Post reports.
Germany Stands Firm on Denying Ukraine Arms
January 25, 2022 at 8:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments
“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held firm on a refusal to supply weapons to Ukraine, brushing off criticism that the stance undermines efforts to deter Russia from an incursion,” Bloomberg reports.
“Europe’s largest economy has a long-standing policy against exporting weapons to conflict zones and will stick to it.”
U.S. Considers ‘Potent’ Export Controls Against Russia
January 25, 2022 at 11:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
“The U.S. is prepared to impose sanctions and export controls on critical sectors of the Russian economy if Russian President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
The GOP......party of slime and sore fucking losers!!!!!!!!
orida Congresswoman Gets Sworn In to Seat After Winning Special Election By a Landslide, But Republican Opponent Still Won’t Concede
Nyam Daniel
Mon, January 24, 2022, 8:30 AM
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was sworn in as the first Black woman to represent the predominantly Democratic 20th District in Florida on Tuesday, but her Republican opponent she defeated by a landslide the week before, still has not conceded the race.
Cherfilus-McCormick won the special election for the 20th District on Jan. 11, securing 78.7 percent of the vote over Jason Mariner’s 19.6 percent. However, Mariner won’t concede the election and has filed a lawsuit alleging ballot issues.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (left), Jason Mariner (right) Credit: Wiki Commons/Video screenshot
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (left), Jason Mariner (right) Credit: Wiki Commons/Video screenshot
Mariner pointed to media bias in election coverage the day after his defeat.
“People are supposed to have a fair shake at choosing governance,” Mariner told reporters in a video posted on his campaign Facebook page. “That didn’t get that in this race because the media was so slanted and biased.”
Cherfilus-McCormick fills the seat left vacant by the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, who had held the seat since 2013. Hastings died of pancreatic cancer in April. Cherfilus-McCormick will serve the rest of Hastings’ term for the district that cover parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
Despite losing the election, Mariner posted a video the following day with a trio of Black voters vocalizing their support for him.
“I’ve just begun to fight. Rock-N-Roll, America,” Mariner wrote in the caption.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorses J.D. Vance
January 25, 2022 at 10:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) endorsed J.D. Vance’s Senate bid in Ohio on Tuesday, giving the Hillbilly Elegy author and venture capitalist the backing of one of the far-right’s most prominent elected officials, The Hill reports.
Vance on Twitter: “Honored to have Marjorie’s endorsement. We’re going to win this thing and take the country back from the scumbags.“
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Takes one to know one.
Kamala Harris Visits Wisconsin
January 25, 2022 at 10:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
“Vice President Kamala Harris landed here for a few hours on Monday and Democrats exhaled,” NBC News reports.
“They saw a visit from the vice president in January as not just a sign the Biden administration is taking Wisconsin seriously as it recalibrates its messaging before the midterm elections, but say that the cause Harris took up — replacing lead pipes to provide clean drinking water — is a serious issue that disproportionately affects the Black city residents Democrats struggled to engage in the 2020 presidential race.”
“Those are precisely the voters Democrats need to win over to expand support in this Midwestern battleground state where Biden beat Donald Trump by just more than 20,000 votes.”
Most Find Biden Likable
January 25, 2022 at 9:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments
A new Gallup poll finds that
60% of Americans think President Biden is likable and
59% think he is intelligent.
Pritzker Wants to Limit Paid Sick Leave to the Vaccinated
January 25, 2022 at 9:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 151 Comments
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) vetoed legislation that would have guaranteed Covid-19-related sick leave for school employees, while signaling support for a “compromise” plan that would limit compensation to only those who are fully vaccinated, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Platform to Use AI Censors
January 25, 2022 at 9:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
Former President Donald Trump’s forthcoming Truth Social calls itself a “free speech platform” but will use AI censors to moderate posts to keep it “family-friendly,” Fox Business reports.
Meanwhile, Axios reports that Truth Social “is reaching out to internet influencers asking them to “reserve their spots” for when it launches in February or March.”
Trump Lawyer Plead the Fifth Nearly 150 Times
January 25, 2022 at 9:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments
A federal judge is forcing conservative lawyer John Eastman, who worked for Donald Trump before the January 6 insurrection, to respond to a House select committee subpoena for his emails — “setting congressional investigators up to receive access to information they’ve wanted for months but had not been able to get,” CNN reports.
“Eastman previously refused to provide information to the House when it subpoenaed him directly for testimony and documents. He had claimed his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as a response to nearly 150 questions and to his document subpoena.”
Gallego Meets with Sinema Donors About Senate Run GOOD!
January 25, 2022 at 8:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) seems awfully serious about launching a primary challenge to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Punchbowl News reports.
Gallego went to New York over the weekend to meet with some of Sinema’s donors about a possible Senate run in 2024. GOOD!
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