Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term, according to a person familiar with his plans, giving President Biden a chance to reinforce the court’s liberal minority and make good on his campaign pledge to make history by nominating the first African American female justice.
This would mean that Breyer would have to (at best) sit on the bench for another six years or be replaced with a conservative. But hey, good thing that Biden is not a racist or sexist who would decide the best candidate based on gender and skin color! Nope, best available for him!
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From what I've read is that McConnell is not going to block her. Biden is not a lame duck President.
This is actually a great deal for the President and the Democrats, because, he hasn't passed much of his agenda, and the voters will not keep working about Afghanistan, and because the pandemic is finally ending.
It will also motivate the African American voters in November...
Breyer is going to finish the term, so it's entirely possible that Mitch doesn't agree to entertain a replacement until after the new year.
I wouldn't. Let's wait until the GOP has the majority and chairs the Judicial Committee.
But you actually acted like Thecoldheartedtruth when you said.
But hey, good thing that Biden is not a racist or sexist who would decide the best candidate based on gender and skin color! Nope, best available for him!
Unless you were being sarcastic!
Don't count your vipers before they hatch.
Three years from now things may be looking a lot different: Your worst nightmare--the despicable Trump years finally seen by huge numbers of Americans for what they really were.
...so it's entirely possible that Mitch doesn't agree to entertain a replacement until after the new year.
That would be an amount of hipocrisy too blatant even for one so unprincipled as Mitch to pull it off.
You don't know how long is his term!
How long is the term of a Supreme Court Justice? The Constitution states that Justices "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour." This means that the Justices hold office as long as they choose.
When he wants to retire
He’ll probably select Kamala Toe, to get rid of her worthless ass as veep
But hey, good thing that Biden is not a racist or sexist who would decide the best candidate based on gender and skin color! Nope, best available for him!
Brandon campaigned on nominating identity politics instead of qualifications if given the chance, so expect some inexperienced twat of color who hasn't a clue. The more "intersectional" boxes they check the better.
It's all you can expect from an asshole who graduated near the very bottom of his class at a second tier law school.
On the left virtue signaling trumps jurisprudence expertise every fucking time.
Kyrsten Sinema Would Be Defeated In Primary Landslide
January 26, 2022 at 5:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
A new Data for Progress poll in Arizona finds Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) would crush Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in a Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, 74% to 16%.
I hope things will start looking about as grim for Manchin in W Va.
The Court is, typically, in recess from late June/early July until the first Monday in October. But he can retire anytime he wants.
He is not going to let the Republicans block his replacement
Harris is not on the list
He is not going to let the Republicans block his replacement
How does he stop them if they want to, alky?
LOL.
He shits his clothes in the presence of the Pope, for chrissakes. The GOP can do what they want, unencumbered by Brandon.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
I hope things will start looking about as grim for Manchin in W Va.
Manchin's approval back home went UP by 7 points recently pederast, so go fuck yourself.
LOL:
Data for Progress is the think tank for the future of progressivism.
The Wall Street Journal has a list of the potential nominees.
Here are some potential candidates for his shortlist:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June after being confirmed by the Senate by a 53-44 vote, mostly along party lines.
Judge Jackson occupies the D.C. Circuit seat that had been long held by Merrick Garland before he became attorney general. Mr. Biden nominated her to the influential appellate court after she spent eight years as a federal trial judge in the nation’s capital. Her best-known case came when she ruled in 2019 that former White House counsel Don McGahn didn’t have absolute immunity from having to testify in a congressional investigation of then-President Donald Trump.
A Harvard Law School graduate and former clerk to Justice Breyer, Judge Jackson once represented indigent criminal defendants as a public defender and served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which sets sentencing guidelines for federal criminal cases.
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger
Justice Leondra R. Kruger, 45, has spent seven years as an associate justice on the California Supreme Court, nominated to the state’s highest bench by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014.
A former clerk to former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Justice Kruger earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she edited the Yale Law Journal. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College.
Before becoming a judge, Justice Kruger served in the Obama-era Justice Department, arguing a dozen cases in the Supreme Court as an assistant to the solicitor general and as an acting principal deputy solicitor general. The Los Angeles-area native spent time in the private sector as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP from 2004 to 2006.
U.S. District Judge Julianna Michelle Childs
Judge Julianna Michelle Childs, 55, has spent more than a decade as a federal judge in South Carolina, appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama. Earlier this month, Mr. Biden announced her nomination to the D.C. Circuit appeals court.
Before joining the federal bench, Judge Childs was a state court trial judge in South Carolina from 2006 to 2010. She previously practiced labor and employment law in Columbia, S.C., before joining the state government as a senior labor official and as a commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission.
Born in Detroit, Judge Childs is a 1991 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Judge Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi was previously a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder
Judge Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi joined the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago months ago. Mr. Biden nominated her last year, and the Senate confirmed her to the appeals court by a 53-40 vote. At the time of her nomination, she was a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and spent a decade earlier as a federal public defender, representing hundreds of clients accused of federal crimes ranging from fraud to gun charges.
Born in 1979 in Norfolk, Va., and the daughter of two judges, Judge Jackson-Akiwumi is a 2005 Yale Law School graduate and earned her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. She clerked for Judge Roger L. Gregory, the first Black judge on the Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Eunice Cheryl Lee joined the judiciary after spending her career as an indigent-defense lawyer.
Judge Eunice Cheryl Lee
Judge Eunice Cheryl Lee has served on a federal appeals court in New York since last year when she was appointed to the bench by Mr. Biden. The Senate confirmed her by a vote of 50-47 without support from any Republicans.
She joined the judiciary after spending her career as an indigent-defense lawyer, specializing in criminal appellate and post-conviction litigation in New York. “For the entirety of my legal career, my clients in both state and federal court have been poor and working-class people convicted of felony offenses,” she said in her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.
Born in 1970 on a U.S. Air Force base in Germany, Judge Lee went to Yale Law School and graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State University.
She clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge Eric L. Clay in Cincinnati and taught a criminal appellate defense clinic at New York University School of Law as an adjunct.
The news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring is still fresh. He won’t even officially retire until October, and the Biden administration will likely spend months vetting potential nominees.
But I can tell you right now, whoever Biden picks, they sexually assaulted me 25 years ago at a high school party. I can’t remember how I got there or how I got home. So far, the people I know who were present are telling me it didn’t happen. I may have changed my story a few times too. But, hey, look, you can trust me. I have no agenda.
I should also let you know that Biden’s nominee, whoever it is, might have a detailed calendar proving they weren’t at the party. Don’t believe it? Believe me!
I think I should be praised for my bravery in coming forward. I think the media must tell my story without questioning the details, and Time Magazine should profile me.
Just in case you think my memory is bad, you should know, I’m 100% certain it was… whoever Biden picks. There is zero chance I’ve mistaken them for someone else.
I feel so strongly that Biden’s nominee is too dangerous to be on the Supreme Court that I’d testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee… if I wasn’t afraid of flying.
I implore the U.S. Senate to listen to my story and give it the benefit of the doubt that similar accusations against other Supreme Court nominees have been given.
Alyssa Milano, I hope you’ll consider advocating on my behalf in public.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/01/26/bidens-supreme-court-pick-sexually-assaulted-me-25-years-ago-n1553363
All of them graduated from a Ivory league University.
Shipments of Russian crude to the US in 2021 averaged 202,000 b/d, the highest in 11 years, according to data from S&P Global Platts trade-flow analytics tool cFlow. Most of these imports consist of Russian export grades, such as Urals, ESPO Blend and Varandey.
Overall Russian crude and product shipments accounted for 11% of total US imports between January and October 2021, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration. Imports of Russian crude and products averaged 704,300 b/d in this period, EIA data showed. The US is now importing higher volumes from Russia than it is from key ally Saudi Arabia. . . .
The growing importance of Russia’s crude to US refiners underscores the challenge facing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in negotiations with his counterpart Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, set to resume next month, as the two sides attempt to resolve tensions over the buildup of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, as well as Moscow’s requests for security guarantees from NATO.
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/012122-russian-crude-exports-to-us-highlight-risks-to-ukraine-talks-for-biden
I'm old enough to remember when the US was energy independent.
Then we installed an imbecile in the white house because mean tweets.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
All of them graduated from a Ivory league University.
Ivory?
How RAY-CISS of you alky.
What we need is a black tranny who graduated from Howard U and landed in prison emerging with a teardrop prison tat below her eye.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity DIE is where it's at.
Bring us a genuine dumb fuck like the "Wise LatinX".
Jimmy Hitler Jr. Is as stupid as it sounds.
CNN said Breyer would remain on the nation’s highest court until the end of its current term and — if necessary — until “a replacement is confirmed.” NBC’s Pete Williams, however, reported that Breyer would retire at the end of the court’s current term — not immediately and not when a successor is nominated.
A formal announcement to the White House may come as early as Thursday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer later added.
The court’s 2021 term began on Oct. 4, 2021 and wraps up on Oct. 2, 2022.
The justice’s reported departure-to-come grants President Joe Biden months to nominate a justice of his choosing after Republicans aggressively filled judicial vacancies under the presidency of Donald Trump and blocked former President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland, who is now the attorney general of the United States. The retirement date — presuming it coincides with the conclusion of the term — also will occur more than two months before the critical Nov. 8, 2022 midterm elections.
Breyer’s reported decision to remain on the court through the conclusion of this term also gives the legally liberal justice the chance to express his legal views about hot-button social issues currently before the court, including the future of abortion access. However, his reported decision to step down from the bench also came quite early in the year when compared to similar announcements from other justices.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki almost immediately noted that few details had yet been provided to the Executive Branch.
“It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today,” she tweeted. “We have no additional details or information to share from” the White House.
Biden once pledged during a political debate to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
“I commit that if I’m elected President and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the Courts, I’ll appoint the first black woman to the Courts,” Biden said in March 2020. “It’s required that they have representation now. It’s long overdue.”
That campaign promise was criticized by law professor Jonathan Turley, who was the lone GOP impeachment witness during Trump’s first impeachment trial.
The Biden administration has also said that it would strongly consider candidates for the judiciary who were public defenders, civil rights attorneys, or who worked with indigent clients — backgrounds traditionally not represented in the federal judiciary — CNN noted.
Breyer has attempted to dismiss suggestions by liberals, progressives, and Democrats that he schedule his departure to coincide with the current Democratic Party majorities in both houses of congress. The Democrats control the House 222 to 212, with Rep. Devin Nunes’s former seat currently vacant. They also effectively but not definitively control the Senate. Though Republicans hold a numerical majority at 50 seats in the upper chamber, the Democrats hold 48 seats; the Senate’s two independents caucus with and frequently vote with the Democrats; and Vice President Kamala Harris issues a tie-breaking vote should any 50-50 split occur. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote, one of the narrowest in U.S. history.
Clarence Thomas, who is ten years younger than Breyer, is poised to become the high court’s oldest member. Thomas is 73.
Assuming Biden appoints a legally liberal justice to fill Breyer’s seat, the court’s current 6-3 conservative supermajority would remain intact.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, implored Biden to do just that.
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/stephen-breyer-will-reportedly-retire-at-end-of-supreme-court-term-83-year-old-justice-has-served-since-1994/?utm_source=mostpopular
“I commit that if I’m elected President and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the Courts, I’ll appoint the first black woman to the Courts,” Biden said in March 2020. “It’s required that they have representation now. It’s long overdue.”
Identity politics is only attractive to the most feeble minded among us.
Unless you were being sarcastic!
Biden has eliminated all non-blacks and males... so around 90% of the potential candidates are eliminated because they have the wrong skin color and have male genitalia?
What do you call it when someone demands you cannot be qualified for a job because of your skin color or gender, Roger?
I hope things will start looking about as grim for Manchin in W Va.
You realize that if Manchin is NOT the Democratic Candidate for Senate that this seat turns to GOP. No chance that anyone left of Manchin wins in West Virginia.
Education Envy.
"Roger AmickJanuary 26, 2022 at 4:59 PM
All of them graduated from a Ivory league University."
List the Universities that make up the "Ivory League"?
Until Obama was elected President, we never had a non white President.
Until the 20th century the Supreme Court justices were white men.
There is nothing wrong with choosing a Justice by their skin color and gender.
This is more evidence of you have lost your mind Scott.
Ivy league
Ivy League is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.[5][6][7][8][9]
Its members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
There is nothing wrong with choosing a Justice by their skin color and gender.
Okay... If you say so.
But choosing someone because of their skin color or gender is an illegal hiring practice anywhere else and would get anyone else doing it sued for all they are worth.
But it's okay when a lilly white liberal decides to throw a bone to a minority, huh?
The Supreme Court vacancy is the first time Senate Democrats will be able to confirm a nominee with a simple majority vote after Senate Republicans changed the chamber’s rules in 2017.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who voted for six of the current nine justices and supports Biden's judicial nominees more often than her Republican colleagues, said in an interview that she will keep her powder dry "until the hearings are held and until I get a chance to talk personally with the nominee and do my research on his or her record."
"At this point there’s lots of speculation, but we really don’t know who the nominee is going to be," she said
While a 50-50 Senate has never confirmed a Supreme Court nominee, other evenly or almost evenly divided Senates have. During the 47th Congress, from 1881-1883, the Senate confirmed four Supreme Court nominees. And in 1954, when the Senate had 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one independent, the chamber confirmed Earl Warren by voice vote. Those confirmations, however, came at a time when the Senate had independents who did not caucus with one party as frequently as today's independents.
Blogger rrb said...
Blogger Roger Amick said...
All of them graduated from a Ivory league University.
Ivory?
How RAY-CISS of you alky.
What we need is a black tranny who graduated from Howard U and landed in prison emerging with a teardrop prison tat below her eye.
I thought it ray-ciss because they went to an Ivory University and poachers and stuff
Ch has a problem of understanding why white Democratic candidates act.
Clyburn raised the issue with Biden on the night before the debate, and he expected that Biden would make the commitment during the debate. But as the debate unfolded at Charleston’s Gaillard Center concert hall, Clyburn “grew more and more frustrated,” according to an account presented by the journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in their book “Lucky.” “Why won’t he say it?” Clyburn asked himself.
At that point, the authors add, Clyburn — during a break in the debate — took the matter into his own hands and headed backstage to confront Biden.
“So Clyburn gets up from his seat in the debate hall in the audience, and he makes a beeline for the exit,” Allen said during an appearance on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast last March. When he found Biden, he unloaded, Allen added. “He says, ‘Look, I told you that I wanted you to say that you were going to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court. You haven’t done it yet. You’ve had a bunch of opportunities. Don’t you dare leave this stage without doing it.’”
House Majority Whip, Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., left, listens to the Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, at an event in North Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 26, 2020.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., listens to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden speak in North Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 26, 2020. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
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Biden took the message — or warning — from his most important political backer to heart. When the debate resumed, Biden delivered. “Everyone should be represented,” he said when asked about his personal motto and the biggest misconception about him. “The fact is, what we should be doing — we talked about the Supreme Court. I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court, to make sure we in fact get every representation.” And then he added: “Not a joke.”
Clyburn officially endorsed Biden the next morning — and Biden went on to a resounding triumph in the South Carolina primary, putting him back on the path to the nomination.
The commitment made in the heat of the political campaign — in order to placate a crucial political patron — now seems likely to kick in. Initial reports in the aftermath of Breyer’s announcement cite two leading contenders as the White House nominee to replace him: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (a Harvard-educated former federal assistant public defender who wrote a key opinion arguing that Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn had to testify to Congress) and California state Supreme Court judge Leondra Kruger (a former deputy U.S. solicitor general). Both are African American.
There is nothing certain in Supreme Court politics, but if either of them is appointed, they’ll have Clyburn — and his demands to a desperate candidate — to thank. And without naming any names, on Wednesday White House press secretary Jen Psaki reaffirmed the president's pledge to name a Black woman to the Court.
Clyburn got him elected President.
He better ask Manchin and Senima who they approve of. They won't want some raging liberal activist. And they won't base their judgment on racism or sexism.
When Trump Claimed that Obama was born in Kenya and he threw a bone to a minority of people like you Scott.
You deny that Trump is a racist.
Chinese virus charges endangered your wife.
The best legal on NBC reporter said..
First, barring some kind of dramatic change in the Senate's structure — a death, a resignation, a party switch, etc. — Republicans won't be able to block the president's choice, even if they want to. In early 2017, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell executed the so-called "nuclear option" and made it so that senators can confirm Supreme Court nominees by majority rule.
With this in mind, if the Senate Democratic conference sticks together, Biden's choice for the high court will almost certainly be confirmed.
Second, it's not unreasonable to wonder whether the Senate Democratic conference will, in fact, stick together, especially after Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema stood in the way of Democratic plans on voting rights and the Build Back Better agenda.
But as things stand, those assuming Biden's prospective nominee faces long odds probably have this backwards.
Steve Benen
But this Washington Post report rings true:
It still seems likely both will ultimately vote for whoever Biden nominates. Manchin and Sinema have both supported his lower court picks, including one that is high on Biden's short list for the high court: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. But their presence could also impact who gets picked in the first place. Biden has already promised he will nominate a Black woman, limiting the field of prospective justices.
Let's not forget that over the course of the last year, Manchin and Sinema have balked at exactly zero judicial nominees from the Biden White House. Literally, none.
What's more, while Sinema has taken inflexible positions on priorities such as tax breaks and preservation of the filibuster, she's made no public demands about the courts. Let's also not forget that the senator, facing unwelcome pressure from her own party in Arizona, has a strong incentive to back Biden's choice — especially if he nominates a judge she's already voted to confirm before — as a way to rebuild support among her own ostensible allies.
This is not to say the coming confirmation process will be effortless. If recent history is any guide, there will be plenty of drama, attack ads, and contentious questions during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.
Actually Roger...
There is a chance that the nomination could be blocked. The Judicial committee is 11-11 Democrat and GOP (based on the shared power agreement between Schumer and McConnell).
So they need a majority vote (or one GOP) to get any nomination out of committee. If the nominee cannot get out of committee then there can be no floor vote.
If he were to retire at the end of the term (October) there is no reason why the GOP would not wait to see what happens in November. If they win back the Senate, then those 11 committee members would hold firm and the nominee would be dead.
Anonymous Myballs said...
He better ask Manchin and Senima who they approve of. They won't want some raging liberal activist.
What else does he have?
It’s red meat time for lefties and I say, stand back and watch as they self immolate. Show the country who they are
Lindsay Graham usually votes for the dem nominee too
North Korea Fires more Missles.
Suddenly, the US Media doesn't care.
President Biden has many highly-qualified candidates to consider, but I hope he takes this opportunity to not only make good on his commitment to increase the Court’s racial diversity, but also his vision for professional diversity.
Ch thinks racial diversity is a racially motivated anti-white discrimination.
His Anglo Saxon DNA controls his mind and tribalism instincts.
The nomination doesn’t die, but it does get parked until a lawmaker—historically, the Leader of the party—brings it to the floor for four hours of debate.
A majority of the Senate—51 votes, typically—can then put debate about the issue on the calendar for the next day. But that’s the last easy part. When the potential pick comes to the floor again, it’s not as a nomination. At that point, it’s a motion to discharge, a cloture motion that requires 60 votes. In other words, 10 Republicans would have to resurrect the nomination of someone already blocked in the Judiciary Committee.
Given this is an election year and Republicans have historically shown they’re not willing to give Democrats any wins on the Supreme Court in such a politically charged environment, there’s a good chance that Biden’s nominee spends her summer waiting for invites that never come from GOP lawmakers asking her in for typically cordial and informal coffees.
So, yes, Biden may get to nominate a pick for the Supreme Court. But there’s no guarantee that the full Senate will take it up. After all, McConnell successfully rejected Merrick Garland’s nomination in 2016 and waited for Donald Trump to win the White House to install a replacement for Antonin Scalia. McConnell narrowly carved out selected history and dug his heels in that he wouldn’t bring Garland up for a vote. There was simply nothing Democrats could do about it.
And given the rules of the Senate as they stand, a resolute Republican Party can pull a sequel to the Garland nomination. Sure, the Democrats could try to change the power-sharing agreement, but as the debate on voting rights showed us in recent weeks, one hold-out voice among Democrats in favor of the filibuster can tank the plan with little consequence. Which means all of the odds-making about who might get the call from White House Counsel in the coming days, who might get tapped to sherpa the nomination through the Senate or even what this means for the next term are all likely for naught. Republicans, should they want to, can sink this nominee. And if history is predictive, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
https://time.com/6142711/joe-biden-supreme-court-nominee-mitch-mcconnell-stephen-breyer/
These craziest conspiracy theories I've ever read before American Greatness.
Democrats could have run a normal campaign for Joe Biden in 2020, persuading voters to vote for the man through campaign appearances and media ads touting his policy positions. But that would not have been politically expedient with a uniquely erratic, discombobulated, and cognitively challenged candidate as Joe Biden.
So the Left took a page out of their economics playbook, and used Mark Zuckerberg’s money to purchase access to key election offices in order to use them to manufacture votes for Joe Biden, each of which would cancel out the legitimate votes of Trump voters in areas where election offices were still operated according to the principle of administrative neutrality and ensuring that only legally valid votes were counted. Here is how it worked:
First, a series of lawsuits by activist lawyers such as Mark Elias—and executive branch use of “emergency police powers” due to COVID-19—radically changed the management of the 2020 election, resulting in different treatment for different kinds of ballots and voters within several states. Absentee ballots and urban voters were favored, in-person voting and any jurisdiction that was not heavily Democratic were not.
Then, the far Left election activists of CTCL arrived on the scene with hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s money, the vast majority of which was funneled into key urban election offices in swing states. But unlike normal campaign finance expenditures, big CTCL money had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, lobbying, or other expenses that are related to increasingly expensive modern elections.
It had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by Democratic Party activists, and using those offices as platforms to implement their preferred administrative practices, voting methods, data sharing agreements, and to launch intensive partisan media outreach campaigns.
CTCL provided money, infrastructure and personnel to transform those offices into platforms for aggressively promoting no-ID universal mail-in voting, target likely Democratic voters with a door-to-door get out the vote effort conducted by local election officials, and increasing staffing with paid partisan activists.
What resulted was an election in which important election offices in states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were focused less on running a free and fair election, and more on registering Democratic voters, encouraging Democratic voters to apply for absentee ballots, harvesting Democratic absentee ballots, curing and correcting flawed Democratic absentee ballots, and counting Democratic absentee ballots.
In Wisconsin, for example, over 65,000 valid Trump votes in the 66 Wisconsin Counties that did not receive substantial CTCL money were “suppressed” and canceled by manufactured votes in the six CTCL counties. In Texas, it was about 200,000 votes, which was not enough to shift the state blue in 2020, but would have been enough to enable Beto O’Rourke to beat Ted Cruz in the 2018 Texas Senate Race. In Georgia and Pennsylvania, the numbers were likely much higher.
The point is that when people voted for Donald Trump in jurisdictions where election offices were neutral, the quantitative impact on these voters of manufactured votes by CTCL funded election offices was exactly the same as if they had been turned away from the polls by Democratic activists who demanded to see a Democratic Party registration card before they were allowed to enter their polling place.
Manufactured, illegitimate votes suppress legitimate votes in exactly the same way that money manufactured by the government suppresses the purchasing power of people who made their money through the legitimate means of trade and commerce.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/25/democrats-in-2020-wrote-the-book-on-voter-suppression-and-election-subversion/
The promoters and teachers of critical race theory are not just dividing classmates over race or distorting the intentions of America’s founders. They are stirring up racial hate, which the Democratic National Committee, the mainstream media and our (mis) educators have been politically exploiting for decades.
It’s a lot worse than just making students in the same schoolroom distrust one another. Those doing the inciting seem to loathe those they are attacking and often vent against them with intense fury. Ron Dreher has offered for our assessment a YouTube video produced by Tom Curry, a white professor of CRT at Texas A & M. In this shocking video, Curry tells us whites are racially uneducable and then suggests that many of them may have to be eliminated. Brittney Cooper, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at Rutgers University, put the matter succinctly in a reference to white people during a critical race forum on October 28: “We’ve got to take the motherf—kers out.”
Statements calling for human extermination come easily to the woke Left’s lips or iPhone. In 2018, former New York Times writer Sarah Jeong tweeted “Cancel White People.” Expressing this unkind sentiment not only did nothing to short-circuit her hiring at the Times, Vox editor Ezra Klein rushed to Jeong’s defense and explained that her form of expression was appropriate for describing the “dominant power structure and culture.” (Jeong left the Times after about a year.) Presumably when Hitler expressed comparable loathing for Jews, he too was just characterizing a “power structure.”
I doubt that the haters whom I have quoted are really intent on killing all white people. They are certainly not interested in wiping out the ones in gated communities, least of all those who flaunt Black Lives Matter signs and whose offspring attend Ivy League institutions. It’s the other whites they would like to destroy.
Democrats Have Been United on Biden’s Judicial Picks
January 27, 2022 at 6:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Nathanial Rakich: “The Senate has been remarkably efficient at passing President Biden’s judicial nominees so far: During the first year of his presidency, 42 of Biden’s district-court and appeals-court nominees have been confirmed — more than any president since John F. Kennedy.”
“And crucially, Democrats have been united behind those nominees. The next time a Democratic senator votes no on one of Biden’s judicial picks, it will be the first time. That means that even Manchin and Sinema have 100 percent track records of supporting Biden’s judicial nominees.”
Ch thinks racial diversity is a racially motivated anti-white discrimination.
No alky.
It's simply plain old discrimination, straight up. Anti EVERYONE not black and female.
Slow Joe is telling the American people that it is entirely acceptable to discriminate on the basis of race and gender.
So I'm going to take him at his word, and accept the fact that only black women will be considered. No Asians, no Native Americans, no Hispanics, no Caucasians, no Men, no Trans, and the list goes on and on.
And based upon the Kavanaugh confirmation, it can be assumed with 100% certainty that ANY nominee is to be an alcoholic sexual predator.
See how this works alky?
Rules for Radicals #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
January 27, 2022
Is the second American Civil War nearing its conclusion?
By Utter Nonsense
The truth is that the Second American Civil War is...almost over. Unlike the first one, the Democrats appear to be a near lock to win.
Leftists, through a combination of brilliant projectionist strategy and callously evil use of their political opponents' naĆÆvetĆ©, decency, and tolerance, have transformed America's institutions. They have weaponized them and used them against their less aggressive fellow citizens. In the process, they have transformed Americans, their beliefs and expectations, too. Much like the Chinese Communist Party, they own nearly all the levers of influence and power, exercising an iron grip on the education establishment, the mass media, Big Tech, Wall Street, corporate boardrooms, the health care industry, and Hollywood — and now the CIA, FBI, Defense Department, and ironically named Department of Justice (DOJ). This in addition to effectively controlling all three branches of the U.S. government.
They are using this power to obliterate the democratic representative republic our Founders built, even as they loudly and incessantly claim they are trying to "save our democracy." They are attempting a final push now, one in which they intend to grant the District of Columbia (meaning themselves) two senators, eliminate the filibuster (meaning the ability of the minority party to have any say in governance), pack the Supreme Court (meaning they are chagrinned that this is the one body that they don't fully control at present), and nationalize elections by banning the requirement of identification in every state (meaning they can steal every election going forward...in perpetuity).
Always the busy bees (and bodies), they also are continually replacing American citizens with illegal aliens flooding across the southern border, which they leave wide open for this very purpose. Then they grant these illegal invaders favors that American citizens do not receive.
Ever since Justice Stephen Bryer announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, the President has been feverishly sifting through binders full of black women in search of the next great SCOTUS nominee.
The Babylon Bee has received an exclusive look at Biden's list of potential SCOTUS nominees. Surprisingly, they're not all black women.
DISCLAIMER: The following list of names and comments are taken verbatim from Biden's list and do not reflect the views of The Babylon Bee.
Queen Latifa: She's black, female, and sassy! That's a win-win-win scenario.
Michelle Obama: Barack will kill me if I don't nominate her.
Rachel Dolezal: A woman who is also black.
Whoopi Goldberg: She was a nun. That'll help me look Catholic! Actually– maybe we can just replace the whole court with The View. Gotta' ask Jill.
Aunt Jemima: I can't believe they fired that poor woman. The Pearl Mining Company just wants to keep her in chains!
Mrs. Butterworth: She's probably black. I can't tell.
Peter Dinklage: He could use a boost.
Xi Jinping: We already have a good working relationship.
Greta Thunberg: Our court would be well served by this infallible child of light. She's black, right?
Hunter Biden: He should fit right in. This may be the easiest nominee to push through. Gotta' tell Jill.
Donald Trump: The only way to keep him from running for President.
Vladimir Putin: The only way to keep him from invading Ukraine.
Kamala Harris: The only way to keep her from killing me. Plus, she's black! (Editor's Note: The word 'black' was circled three times)
Noticeably absent from the list is former Obama appointee, Merrick Garland. Sources confirm he doesn't tick any intersectional boxes which makes him a major liability.
https://babylonbee.com/news/exclusive-the-babylon-bee-has-obtained-bidens-list-of-possible-scotus-nominees
https://babylonbee.com/
God dayum you are a fucking asshole!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! That is about as funny as your hanging hemorrhoids!!!!!!
A Historic Moment
January 27, 2022 at 7:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
Punchbowl News:
“Biden presided over Breyer’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994, and now he will name Breyer’s replacement.
“This has never happened before in U.S. history. Not even by Martin Van Buren, who was Judiciary Committee chair way back in the 1820s and then later became the 8th president.”
Senate Democrats to Move Quickly to Replace Breyer
January 27, 2022 at 7:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
Politico:
“Democrats are eyeing a timeline similar to what Republicans used to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett, which was about a month between her nomination and confirmation. The tight timeline doesn’t reflect an overall rush.
“Aides have said Democrats may consider confirming his replacement before this SCOTUS term is over, but delay the succession until after Breyer leaves his seat vacant.”
Punchbowl News:
“And let’s clear up something here – Republicans can’t block a Supreme Court nomination in the Judiciary Committee or on the floor as long as all 50 Senate Democrats stick together and back Biden’s nominee. Democrats don’t need Republicans to hold a confirmation hearing in the Judiciary Committee, and they don’t need them to vote in committee in order to advance a nomination.”
Democrats Have Been United on Biden’s Judicial Picks
January 27, 2022 at 6:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments
Nathanial Rakich: “The Senate has been remarkably efficient at passing President Biden’s judicial nominees so far: During the first year of his presidency, 42 of Biden’s district-court and appeals-court nominees have been confirmed — more than any president since John F. Kennedy.
“And crucially, Democrats have been united behind those nominees. The next time a Democratic senator votes no on one of Biden’s judicial picks, it will be the first time. That means that even Manchin and Sinema have 100 percent track records of supporting Biden’s judicial nominees.”
Omicron Is Finally Burning Out
January 27, 2022 at 7:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“After a frenetic few weeks when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus seemed to infect everyone, including the vaccinated and boosted, the United States is finally seeing encouraging signs,” the New York Times reports.
“As cases decline in some parts of the country, many have begun to hope that this surge is the last big battle with the virus — that because of its unique characteristics, the Omicron variant will usher Americans out of the pandemic.”
Axios:
“Most of that decline is being driven by continued improvement on the East Coast, particularly in and around New York, Washington, D.C., and New England.”
Oath Keepers Leader Had ‘Escape Tunnels’
January 27, 2022 at 7:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“When a federal judge ordered Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes to remain jailed pending his trial for conspiracy charges on Wednesday, they cited testimony by Rhodes’s estranged wife, who alleged that he installed ‘elaborate escape tunnels’ in his backyard,” the Daily Beast reports.
Tasha Adams shared her photos on Twitter:
“Folks if you ever feel tempted to rent a backhoe and dig escape tunnels in the backyard of your rental house, keep in mind it may come back to haunt you if you later attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.”
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Kremlin Says It’s Not Likely U.S. Will Meet Demands
January 27, 2022 at 6:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
“The Kremlin warned on Thursday that there was ‘not much cause for optimism’ that the West would satisfy Russia’s demands in the showdown over Ukraine, but said that President Vladimir Putin would take his time to study the written responses that the United States and NATO submitted a day earlier before deciding how to proceed,” the New York Times reports.
AREN'T YOU GLAD WE NOW HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO STANDS UP TO PUTIN?
Bomb cyclone set to blitz Boston with blizzard conditions"
34,564 House holds are ready as the heat with wood.
Others are ready to as they heat: coal or coke. 2,371 households.
Another one bites the dust of misinformation!!!!Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar·Senior Editor
Wed, January 26, 2022, 4:14 PM
Fox News host Dan Bongino is no longer welcome on YouTube. The company confirmed to The Hill that Bongino is now permanently banned from its video platform, after he attempted to evade a prior suspension related to COVID-19 misinformation. The conservative commentator apparently published a video on his main channel while another channel was suspended, thereby violating YouTube's Terms of Service. Bongino's two channels have been removed from the service, and he won't be able to make any future channels, YouTube representatives told The Hill.
Covid cases are declining but deaths are increasing nationally in America.
Reason?
UNVACCINATED and UNBOOSTED holdouts are dying.
Hi James, how ya doing?
RRB be safe.
"
Winter storm watches issued as Nor'easter looms for New England and mid-Atlantic. Get the forecast.
WINTER WEATHER
Bomb cyclone set to blitz Boston with blizzard conditions
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Major nor'easter to strike Northeast with heavy snow
In addition to unloading feet of snow, the storm will wallop areas from the mid-Atlantic to New England with strong winds.
A still-developing winter storm is set to become a major nor’easter that will bombard New England with heavy snow and blizzard conditions this weekend. Winter storm watches were issued for portions of eastern Massachusetts, eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island on Wednesday in anticipation of some of the worst conditions from the storm. The watches will go into effect at 12 a.m. on Saturday.
Areas farther south in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England will not escape the storm, as several inches of snow and major travel disruptions are expected. Due to this, winter storm watches were issued early on Thursday morning for eastern portions of North Carolina and Virginia, central and southern New Jersey, all of Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, New York City, Long Island and southern Connecticut. With the storm moving from south to north, these watches go into effect slightly earlier, at 7 p.m. on Friday.
"The area that we think will be hit the hardest and will be at risk for closures will be central and eastern Long Island to New England,” AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said.
AccuWeather forecasters were growing more confident on Wednesday that southern New England will face the most significant impacts and that snow totals could reach or exceed a foot."
Germany Offers 5,000 Helmets to Ukraine
January 27, 2022 at 8:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Germany has provoked outrage in some quarters after it offered to supply 5,000 military helmets to Ukraine to help it defend itself against a possible Russian invasion,” CNBC reports.
“About 100,000 Russian troops are believed to be on the border with Ukraine. While countries like the U.S. and U.K. have sent military hardware to Ukraine, Germany has been conspicuously reluctant to send equipment.”
WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, GERMANY WILL STAND WITH NATO AGAINST RUSSIA, EVEN IF IT COSTS THEM.
AFTER TRUMP, AMERICA AND HER ALLIES ARE UNITED AGAIN.
ALSO GOOD:
Record Number Signed Up for Affordable Care Act
January 27, 2022 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“About 14.5 million Americans have signed up to get health coverage this year through Affordable Care Act insurance marketplaces, eclipsing the previous record enrollment by nearly 2 million,” the Washington Post reports.
LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY, OBAMACARE IS HERE TO STAY.
SUCK IT UP, REPUGS!
KansasDemocrat said...
RRB be safe.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Going to be a coastal event jag off.......another example of you having no ability to read or think!!!!!!!
34,564 House holds are ready as the heat with wood.
And one idiot thinks wood is a good source of home fuel......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
The GOP’s Anti-Vaccine Wing Is Too Big to Fail
January 27, 2022 at 8:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
Jonathan Chait:
“When an ideological extreme faction with unpopular views emerges, it becomes a threat to the party that hosts it.
At first, the party’s incentive is to banish the extremists, lest their toxic ideas taint the party’s brand with the broader electorate. But if the radical faction’s growth is not arrested, the calculus changes, and barring the doors can no longer work. It forms a large enough part of the base that the party can’t afford to alienate its members. The crank wing becomes too big to fail.
“I believe the anti-vaccine movement is reaching that point in the Republican Party.
The movement’s position is akin to the tea party in 2009, or the birther movement a few years later — perhaps (this is a rough estimate) smaller than the former but larger than the latter.
The cause has too many adherents, who supply too much energy, for the party to risk alienating.”
IOW, YOU ARE STUCK IN THE TRUMP BOX AND YOU CAN'T GET OUT.
AND IT WILL HURT YOUR DOWN THE LINE, THANK GOODNESS.
2 % of all.American Households heat with Clean , renewable wood heat.
It takes work and a real skill set, but I can tell ya, it is worth it.
Freedom!!!
REPUGS DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT, BUT
The U.S. Economy Saw Robust Growth in Late 2021
January 27, 2022 at 8:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Economic growth accelerated to a 6.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter. But it appears to have lost momentum because of Omicron and supply shortages,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
CNBC:
“The report reflected an overall solid period for the economy after output had slowed considerably over the summer. Supply chain issues tied to the pandemic coupled with robust demand spurred by unprecedented stimulus from Congress and the Federal Reserve led to imbalances across the economic spectrum.”
SO A BIG, BIG REBOUND IS COMING?
The U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021, the fastest full-year clip since 1984, roaring back in the pandemic’s second year despite two new virus variants that rocked the United States.
The growth was uneven, with a burst of government spending helping propel a fast start, even as a surge in new cases and deaths in the second half of the year created new pressures. The economy grew 6.9 percent from October to December, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday, a sharp acceleration from the 2.3 percent it grew in the previous quarter.
The economic growth created a record 6.4 million jobs in 2021 — but also brought with it a host of complications, helping fuel the highest inflation in 40 years and creating supply chain snarls as consumers hungry for products overwhelmed the global delivery system. To beat back rising prices, the Federal Reserve is now shifting its strategy and preparing for multiple interest rate hikes this year, convinced it has given enough support to help the labor market and now must keep the economy from overheating even further.
The U.S. economy grew at a much better than expected pace to end 2021 though the acceleration likely tailed off as the omicron spread put a damper on hiring and further hindered the global supply chain.
Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced during the October-through-December period, increased at a 6.9% annualized pace, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a gain of 5.5%. The increase was well above the unrevised 2.3% growth in the third quarter.
Gains came from increases in private inventory assessment, strong consumer activity as reflected in personal consumption expenditures, exports and business spending as measured by nonresidential fixed investment.
Across-the-board decreases in the pace of government spending subtracted from GDP, as did imports, which are measured as a drag on output.
The quarter brought an end to a 2021 that saw a 5.7% increase in annualized GDP, the strongest pace since 1984 as the U.S. tried to pull away from the unprecedented drop in activity during the early days of the Covid pandemic.
In other economic news Thursday, jobless claims totaled 260,000 for the week ended Jan. 22, slightly less than the 265,000 estimate and a decline of 30,000 from the previous week.
Also, orders for long-lasting goods declined 0.9% for December, worse than the estimate for a 0.6% drop. Orders for durables hit their lowest point since April 2020, reflecting an end-of-year slowdown as omicron cases skyrocketed.
The GDP report, though, reflected an overall solid period for the economy after output had slowed considerably over the summer. Supply chain issues tied to the pandemic coupled with robust demand spurred by unprecedented stimulus from Congress and the Federal Reserve led to imbalances across the economic spectrum.
Consumer activity, which accounts for more than two-thirds of GDP, rose 3.3% for the quarter. Gross private domestic investment, a gauge of business spending, soared 32%.
GDP grew at a 6.9% pace to close out 2021, stronger than expected despite omicron spread
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/gdp-grew-at-a-6point9percent-pace-to-close-out-2021-stronger-than-expected-despite-omicron-spread.html?__source=androidappshare
KansasDim is weeping.
After declining through most of 2021, the number of new claims reached the lowest point in five decades by December. More recently, claims had moved higher as the Omicron variant began to ratchet up the number of Covid-19 cases throughout the country, causing some workers to call in sick, businesses to temporarily shut down and schools to pivot to online learning.
There are no more welfare queens kputz
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB be safe.
Thanks KD. It's no biggie. Most of it is expected to be coastal, east of me, but we could still pick up a foot or so.
Couple the economic recovery and the new Supreme Court nominee hearings. The Democratic party has a path towards success in November than before because.
It's the economy stupid!
GDP grew at a 6.9% pace to close out 2021, stronger than expected despite omicron spread
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/gdp-grew-at-a-6point9percent-pace-to-close-out-2021-stronger-than-expected-despite-omicron-spread.html?__source=androidappshare
The Economy grew, that is great news.
I want all Americans to enjoy the prosperity my Family has enjoyed for four generations.
James, really, grow up.
It is enlightening how when the Economy goes well , it brings out Jane and Alky.
Good, maybe they can learn from us that know .
The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan's presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020's brief but devastating coronavirus recession.
The nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — expanded 5.7% in 2021. It was the strongest calendar-year growth since a 7.2% surge in 1984 after a previous recession. The economy ended the year by growing at a solid 6.9% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Remember in 2009, Obama inherited the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression!
Sleepy Joe Biden has exceeded even President Ronald Reagan's recovery.
The U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021, the fastest full-year clip since
Unexpected good news which the idiots like the goat fucker will cast as terrible !!!!!!! Can't fix his kind of stupid!!!!!! Maybe will put a damper on the wild market swings of the past couple of days.....but I won't hold my breath!!!!
Scroll back up to restore default view.
Yahoo Finance
US jobless claims trend down as Omicron disruptions begin to ease
Alexandra Semenova
Alexandra Semenova·Reporter
Thu, January 27, 2022, 8:31 AM
First-time unemployment filings ticked lower for the first time in four weeks after notching a three-month high in the previous reading, suggesting some of the Omicron-related disruptions that have recently weighed on the labor market's recovery may be easing.
The Labor Department released its weekly jobless claims report at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:
Maybe the goat fucker can get off his old white ass and find a job~!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Kill a tree for christ!!!!!!!
New jobless claims 260,000.
Ouch
Worse is this sharp rise of 60,000 Americans.
"Continuing jobless claims Jan. 151.68 million"
Roger, why did the Federal Reserve "take their gloves off", they did exactly nada about rates yesterday.
Breyer Hands Biden the Chance to Unite Democrats
January 27, 2022 at 9:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Jonathan Bernstein:
“The odds are that the process of choosing a successor to Breyer will go well for the president. Vetting judicial nominees has been a strength for this White House, which has been nominating judges and getting them confirmed at near-record numbers and without significant controversy. The change of topic in the national media from the omicron wave and inflation — and from Biden’s low approval numbers — will be welcome as far as it goes, although that part of it won’t last long.
“More helpful will be the opportunity to add a new accomplishment for the president to talk about and for Democratic party actors and Democratic voters to be happy about. Biden’s pick for the court is likely to be one that the party will unite behind, which will be a nice change for party actors, including the president, from the internal squabbling that has marked the last few months in Congress, and especially in the Senate.”
Today is not a good overall economic picture as the far less learned attempted to paint wearing their rose colored glasses.
Sharply down over 3 %, from last month.
Couple it with the desasterous drop in Consumer confidence report.
Durable goods orders Dec.-0.9%
Worse is this sharp rise of 60,000 Americans.
Worse is the predictable goat fucking unemployed loser posting more gibberish than rat!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Must suck to be stuck at home with no future.....LOLOLOLOOLOL!!!!
Biden said he would unite all Americans.
Jane, lowers expectations, again.
"Biden the Chance to Unite Democrats"
Joe should appoint a Constitutionalist Centrist "Unity" nominee.
The Facts are not changed.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
A full look at the entire economy is prudent.
I provide the facts .
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
It is enlightening how when the Economy goes well , it brings out Jane and Alky.
The alky is the only person I've even known to gaslight HIMSELF.
LOL.
CNBC: "The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2juUOCGJmE
As usual, fighting inflation is a balancing act. But
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan's presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020's brief but devastating coronavirus recession.
The nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — expanded 5.7% in 2021. It was the strongest calendar-year growth since a 7.2% surge in 1984 after a previous recession. The economy ended the year by growing at an unexpectedly brisk 6.9% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Squeezed by inflation and still gripped by COVID-19 caseloads, the economy is expected to slow this year. Many economists have been downgrading their forecasts for the current January-March quarter, reflecting the impact of the omicron variant. For all of 2022, the International Monetary Fund has forecast that the the nation’s GDP growth will slow to 4%.
Many U.S. businesses, especially restaurants, bars, hotels and entertainment venues, remain under pressure from the omicron variant, which has kept millions of people hunkered down at home to avoid crowds. Consumer spending, the primary driver of the economy, may be further held back this year by the loss of government aid to households, which nurtured activity in 2020 and 2021 but has mainly expired.
What’s more, the Federal Reserve made clear Wednesday that it plans to raise interest rates multiple times this year to battle the hottest inflation in nearly four decades. Those rate increases will make borrowing more expensive and perhaps slow the economic growth this year. But it will not go back to the previous administration's disastrous policies.
Spectacularly wrong on purpose by using his own posts .
"Sleepy Joe Biden has exceeded even President Ronald Reagan's recovery.
Yet , Alky posted.
BIDEN = 5.7 % rise
Reagan = 7.2 % rise
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The goat fucker running out of things to do now trying fact checking......whatta fucking unemployed loser as the economy recovers in spite of him praying it does not......LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
Kputz's rambling remarks about the economy are fucking stupid trolling
https://www.factsarefirst.com/comparison/ronald-reagan/joe-biden
REAGAN VS. BIDEN GDP PERFORMANCE
How does Reagan compare to Biden with respect to GDP Growth? We share the facts on cumulative and annualized GDP growth. Cumulatively Reagan is at 0.45% compared to Biden at 2.06% a difference of -1.61%
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! At you goat fucking loser!!!!
The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan's presidency.
Since since since kputz
Does not mean it was bigger than before.
The last three Democratic Presidents inherited economic crisis, from Republicans.
Clinton, Obama and again Sleepy Joe Biden
CNBC: "The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one.
Sorry assshole rat......It was not CNBC claim, but an opinion of a guest.....Nice try.....you lose again!!!!!!!!
President Joe Biden and his team often claim that their administration is breaking all sorts of records for job growth, such as creating 6.4 million jobs during his first year in office. The only problem with that boast is that many experts say it’s not quite accurate. On Wednesday, ADP’s chief economist Nela Richardson told CNBC that the United States hasn’t produced any new jobs since 2019. In a separate story, The Daily Wire’s Morning Wire podcast broke down the economy more in depth.
“The economy, and this is an important point, hasn’t added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one. All the jobs that we have seen gained are recovered jobs that were lost,” Richardson said. “We’re not yet producing new jobs, in fact, we’re still about nearly 4 million jobs short, so these wage gains are coming on top of a shrinking workforce, and it’s not being fueled by productivity enhancements.”
WSJ says
U.S. stocks opened higher as economic growth data came in stronger than expected, and investors parsed more earnings from major companies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 280 points, or 0.8%, shortly after the opening bell. The S&P 500 added 1.1% and the Nasdaq Composite also rose 1.1%.
The economy grew at an annualized rate of 6.9% last quarter, the biggest one-year jump since 1984. Economists had forecasted 5.5% growth, propelled by consumer spending, business investment and efforts to rebuild inventories.
Sorry assshole rat......It was not CNBC claim, but an opinion of a guest.....Nice try.....you lose again!!!!!!!!
Imbecile.
I never said it was a CNBC claim.
Also, the woman - an analyst - who made the claim is black, so your racism and sexism against her is duly noted.
I never said it was a CNBC claim.
Really.....you have trouble with facts....
CNBC: "The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one."
Your post asshole.......it certainly appears that was your intent.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! Keep digging, it is fun shoving your own words up your ass!!!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Kputz's rambling remarks about the economy are fucking stupid trolling
KD has a degree in economics from KU.
You're a drunken wife beater who drank himself to a liver transplant and who is now confined to a nursing home.
I think I'll follow KD's guidance instead of your alcoholic plagiarisms, thanks.
BWAA, CNBC was the source of the video.
You're so fucking stupid you're making the alky look bright. And he's 'alky stupid' so where does that leave you?
LOL.
Keep digging BWAA
KD has a degree in economics from KU.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Sure he does....I guess you really are a gullible fool!!!!!!!!
BWAA, CNBC was the source of the video.
You're so fucking stupid you're making the alky look bright
To which I said it was an opinion of the guest and not CNBC!!!! Thanx for confirming!!!!!!.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry sport....keep fucking digging....LOLOLOLOL
“I’m thinking back on the nomination of what would’ve been another first, which is the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown. And she was filibustered by none other than Joe Biden. So, this idea of appointing a black woman to the judiciary, he voted three times against confirming her just to be a U.S. circuit judge. I mean, this wasn’t even to the Supreme Court. So, race and gender, they only count if you’re thought to be a committed judicial activist, judicial leftist.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/26/ingraham-biden-opposed-and-filibustered-janice-rogers-browns-nomination-race-and-gender-only-count-if-you-have-left-wing-beliefs/
Even better than before they have a case of treason.
Trump 'was working to organize a coup' -- and DOJ knows about it: Jan. 6 investigator
Travis Gettys
January 27, 2022
The House select committee has evidence showing that Donald Trump was plotting a "coup against democracy" -- and congressional investigators say the Justice Department should, too.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the committee, told CNN that House investigators had uncovered evidence that Trump's plot was even more wide-ranging than his public statements of support before and after the Jan. 6 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters marched away from his "Stop the Steal" rally and into the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers certified Joe Biden's election win.
“We have filled in a lot more evidence that he wasn’t just inciting an insurrection, he was working to organize a coup against the democracy," Raskin said. "I can’t imagine that the Department of Justice would not have evidence at this point to that effect.”
Legal expert Daniel Goldman, who served as House impeachment counsel alongside Raskin during Trump's first impeachment, agreed that federal investigators would not need a prompt from Congress to charge the former president with criminal violations related to the riot.
"This is exactly right from Rep. Raskin," Goldman tweeted. "There should be no need for a referral from the states or from Congress in order for [the Department of Justice] to investigate a clear effort to overturn the election results through fraudulent means (and, ultimately, by force on Jan. 6)."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/26/ingraham-
Gee asshole.......It sure looks like CNBC followed by " and a statement " does not denote a video, but what CNBC said....Just like the bullshit you posted from the still dead breitbart!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Keep digging since YOU ARE NEVER WRONG!!!!!!!
A college degree from Kansas doesn't mean shit.
I have known many people with college degrees who are not very bright. Passing tests is not proof of intelligence...
Very sad the GOP has turned into the snoop on others party....something the goat fucker lives for
NBC News
'We are seeing a new level of despair': Latinas decry impact of Texas abortion law
Suzanne Gamboa
Wed, January 26, 2022, 6:58 AM
A woman who went to Planned Parenthood’s El Paso Health Center in Texas seeking an abortion early this month told the center’s workers she had been raped. They turned her down.
She was too far along into her pregnancy under the state's new abortion law, Miranda Aguirre, the health center's manager, told NBC News. Had the staff performed the abortion, the clinic would have run afoul of the law, risking a potential lawsuit.
Miranda Aguirre is the manager of Planned Parenthood of El Paso. (Planned Parenthood El Paso Health Center)
Miranda Aguirre is the manager of Planned Parenthood of El Paso. (Planned Parenthood El Paso Health Center)
The Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8, doesn’t make exceptions for women and girls who were raped.
Anyone who successfully sues an abortion provider in the state for allegedly breaking the new law can be awarded $10,000 by a court.
Passing tests is not proof of intelligence..
Rat and the goat fucker are prime examples of that tenet!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Passing tests is not proof of intelligence..
Rat and the goat fucker are prime examples of that tenet!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Maybe this slime ball and admired by rat....will soon get what he richly deserves.....I won't hold my breath but the GOP will have another cross to bear come mid terms.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
INSIDER
A witness has corroborated the claim that Rep. Matt Gaetz was told in 2017 he'd had sex with a minor, report says
Kelsey Vlamis,Sonam Sheth
Wed, January 26, 2022, 10:09 PM
matt gaetz newsmax
Rep. Matt Gaetz.Getty
A witness told prosecutors that Matt Gaetz was aware he'd had sex with a minor, per The Daily Beast.
Joe Ellicott said he was in the room when Joel Greenberg informed Gaetz in a phone call in 2017.
Ellicott struck a plea deal and is among several people cooperating in the sex-crimes probe into Gaetz.
A witness has confirmed to federal prosecutors that Rep. Matt Gaetz was informed in 2017 that he'd had sex with a minor, sources told The Daily Beast.
In a letter obtained by The Daily Beast in April of last year, Gaetz's associate Joel Greenberg said he discovered a girl he and the congressman had engaged in "sexual activities" with was 17 at the time.
"Immediately I called the congressman and warned him to stay clear of this person and informed him she was underage," Greenberg wrote, according to the outlet. He added Gaetz was "equally shocked and disturbed by this revelation" and that "there was no further contact with this individual until after her 18th birthday."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
A college degree from Kansas doesn't mean shit.
I have known many people with college degrees who are not very bright. Passing tests is not proof of intelligence...
Well make up your mind, alky. You gargle the balls of every leftists asshat with a CV full of academic credentials, never missing a chance to highlight them as if you actually worship them.
Tell us more about your 1591 SAT score. Or was that your IQ? Or your nuclear submarine military test? Forgive me for not being able to keep up with your bullshit that so clearly illustrates your lack of self-esteem. The rest of us can't keep up with it either.
Oh, and you were close enough to Neil Young once to sniff his farts. Wow. Quite an accomplishment.
59 Republicans Behind Fake Electors Could Face Prison
January 27, 2022 at 10:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
“Dozens of local and state Republican leaders who showed their loyalty to Donald Trump by casting fake electoral votes for him a year ago may now face prison time in return for that devotion,” the HuffPost reports.
“Because as the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, starts to look into the origins of the scheme to send ‘alternate’ ballots to Congress from states narrowly won by Joe Biden, the 59 ersatz Trump electors who claimed to be “duly elected and qualified” could face federal charges ranging from election fraud to mail fraud, in addition to a range of state-level charges.”
Well make up your mind, alky. You gargle the balls of every leftists
Well our Ag School drop out blows more gibberish and stupidity out his old white ass!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! As you continue to swallow trumps manhood with gusto!!!!!!
Logical explanation escapes them
Breyer’s retirement gives Biden a fresh opportunity for a badly needed victory
By Dan Balz
January 27 at 6:34 AM PST
His plate overflowing with troubles and his political standing significantly weakened, the last thing President Biden might have wanted now was another challenge, another distraction, another big battle to contest. The pending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, however, could be just the kind of diversion the president would welcome.
The news that Breyer plans to retire comes as Biden is intently focused on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine that is fully testing his foreign policy experience and strategic capabilities. The president is struggling against a pandemic that is still not tamed and whose recent spread has forced the administration to defend itself against criticism that it was ill-prepared for yet another variant. Inflation has hit a 40-year high. His major domestic priorities, the Build Back Better bill and voting rights legislation, have hit a wall in the Senate, deflating his base. His poor job approval ratings have rattled Democrats looking toward November’s midterm elections.
With so much swirling around Biden, Breyer’s retirement could provide a modest circuit breaker for a president who badly needs something to rally his party — to draw clear contrasts with the Republicans, rather than continuing to be hamstrung by a focus on Democratic infighting. And if he is successful getting his eventual nominee confirmed, he would have a much-needed victory in Congress. All that assumes that he will find a nominee around whom all elements of his party can unite and who can command 50 votes in a divided Senate.
If Biden fulfills his pledge to nominate an African American woman and thereby make history on the court, he could go a long way to patching up relations with Black voters — a critically important constituency for Democrats, one that has been disappointed at the lack of progress on voting rights and what it views as Biden’s other still-unfulfilled promises.
A Supreme Court victory for Biden would not wipe away the concerns that many voters have about his leadership. The tense standoff over Ukraine between the United States and its European allies on one side and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the other still stands as a critical and possibly defining moment of Biden’s presidency. For Americans exhausted by the pandemic, controlling the spread of the virus and easing restrictions that have gone on far longer than anyone had feared remain a paramount issue. The president hasn’t yet found a strategy on voting rights.
But putting his imprint on the court, however modest, and using the confirmation process to articulate his and his party’s values, could help alter the terms of debate in the run-up to the November elections..
Plus Sleepy Joe Biden has exceeded since President Ronald Reagan's recovery.
The house and Senate majorities might remain Democratic.
"KD has a degree in economics from KU.
You're a drunken wife beater who drank himself to a liver transplant and who is now confined to a nursing home.
I think I'll follow KD's guidance instead of your alcoholic plagiarisms, thanks."
Thank RRB.
"Passing tests is not proof of intelligence..." Alky
RRB , skool Alky , again.
Roger has education envy.
You're a drunken wife beater who drank himself to a liver transplan
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Our unemployed and lying sack of shit projecting like an old cunt he dreams to be!!!!!!!! The jack off kings sucking each other off!!!!!!
Biden Leads Both Trump and DeSantis In Wisconsin
January 27, 2022 at 12:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
A new Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and former President Donald Trump run equally well against President Biden in hypothetical 2024 matchups, although Biden leads both Republicans.
In a head-to-head matchup,
DeSantis is supported by 33%,
while Biden is supported by 41%.
A substantial 18% say they would support someone else,
and 8% say they would not vote.
In a Trump versus Biden rematch,
Trump receives 33%
to Biden’s 43%,
with 16% preferring someone else
and 6% saying they would not vote.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
59 Republicans Behind Fake Electors Could Face Prison
January 27, 2022 at 10:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
“Dozens of local and state Republican leaders who showed their loyalty to Donald Trump by casting fake electoral votes for him a year ago may now face prison time in return for that devotion,” the HuffPost reports.
What's a fake electoral vote? You can have a faithless elector. But if a person is appointed an elector then his vote is as legitimate as anybody else's. Most states don't criminally prosecute their faithless electors. They wouldn't get any volunteers.
CNN
š¤£Ukrainian official tells CNN Biden's call with Ukrainian President 'did not go well' but White House disputes account
By Matthew Chance and Jeremy Herb, CNN
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