The tension was surfaced in a meeting early this month with House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), the second-highest ranking member of their caucus. Members pushed back when Hoyer, reflecting the continued view of House leadership, argued that breaking up the spending bill would mean abandoning the potentially transformative giant package, which he said still has a chance of passage.
“I don’t care,” Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) shot back, telling Hoyer that House Democrats should spend the year sending bills to the Senate with the hope that bipartisan deals could be reached on issues important to a broad range of voters. The meeting was described by two members on the call, who spoke anonymously to discuss private talks.
“What I don‘t want to do is have the Democratic caucus just beat their heads against the wall for months. We need a timeline here,” Wild, who held on to her seat by less than four points in 2020, said in an interview. “If there is still hope for Manchin to agree, we need to figure out when that’s going to be and what we are doing if he doesn’t meet that deadline because in the past, he hasn’t. What’s our next plan?”
The concept of Democrats pushing for portions of the BBB and Election bills have gained some traction lately. The trouble is that the top line issues at the tops of both of these bills are not the portions of the bill that the radical left really wants to see passed. Moreover, splitting them up with require the very transparency that Democrats are attempting to avoid by packaging them in extremely large bills.
Reality is that it would be counterproductive for Democrats to show each and every portion of the spending bill as a single line item, rather than a larger sum. The portions of the bill that can be adequately paid for without breaking the bank could be passed, but that of transparency could actually doom the most popular items for the far left (since those also happen to be the expensive portions). Once you pass the smaller, less sexy portions of the bill with bipartisan support, there would be no leverage to pass the things that the left "really want". Large tax credits or other lump payments to Americans (buying votes) are virtually impossible to pay for.
To the same degree the so called "Freedom to Vote" Election Bill has some portions that would be popular for both Republicans and Democrats. The fact that they are popular for both sides is proof that these portions are not anything that has a chance of uprooting our election process or undermining the rights of states to control their own elections and pass their own laws. But the stuff that really matters for the left are things that have no chance of garnering widespread support with Americans or getting to 60 votes. Splitting up the bill would require them to drop their desire to gut Voter ID laws, legalize ballot harvesting, or make it mandatory that states mail out ballots to people who have not requested them.
Maybe they can work across the aisle and pass things that "everyone wants". That would be democracy in action. The very bipartisanship that people want. But will the far left, can the far left be reasonable? I think they actually realize that this is their last chance in a while to push their unpopular liberal agenda. They will not let that go easily.
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I think they actually realize that this is their last chance in a while to push their unpopular liberal agenda. They will not let that go easily.
That's exactly what it is. These assholes (democrats) honestly bullshitted themselves into thinking they had a "mandate" with a 50/50 tie in the senate and the thinnest of razor thin majorities in the house. Hence H.R. 1 and their desire to codify voter fraud into federal law, combined with the 'sedition' J6 kangaroo court.
These assholes are like a caged and wounded wild animal - dangerous - and unpredictable.
James Carville: ‘Democrats whine too much… quit being a whiny party’
Once Republicans take over in November, we'll then get a heavy dose of the need to be bipartisan. Guaranteed.
Yep.
Keep insulting the Parents Socialist Dems.
""The purpose of public education in public schools is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught," the Michigan Democratic Party’s post continued. "It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public"
Reality is that it would be difficult for Republicans to vote against smaller, less expensive bills that are popular with the general public because they increase the quality of life.
The majoirty of the American public, including parents, want our children to be taught the truth about our nation and its history, including those portions of our history that were and are regrettable.
Only so can we hope to learn not to repeat those mistakes.
America wants Congress to fix the economy and inflation. They don't want all elections federalized. The socialist left wants that.
We "federalized" voting when we gave blacks and women the right to vote.
I am opposed to any state trying to reverse that.
How many kids have you had pedo?
STFU
The majoirty of the American public, including parents, want our children to be taught the truth about our nation and its history, including those portions of our history that were and are regrettable.
Says someone who doesn't appear to be a parent.
Just a lilly white liberal who thinks his opinion is so important that it must apply to other groups of people that he is not a part of.
He knows that parents want even though he has no kids in school.
He knows what black people "should" want even if they actually want the opposite.
What's it like to be a lilly white liberal who thinks he knows better what is good for everyone else? Does it make you feel more important to believe your opinions are more important than the opinions of those who are affected?
just curious, Reverend....
IRS issues fresh warning to Parents that took those advanced payouts against their child tax credit.
Those that took it, will have to pay or receive a much reduced tax refund.
Classic propaganda Scott and it worked on your mind Scott.
The end game here is to drive another wedge into the heart of the American populace.
And what better way to segregate people into their respective camps than to claim that one side winning literally means the end of the democracy?
Which is 100% correct.
Such a “threat” to the country can justify anything, after all. Including voter suppression legislation designed to be Constitutional.
Those very words were from
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/01/17/wapo-house-dem-moderates-rebel-want-bbb-and-voting-bills-dropped-n442086
"You must reconcile your advance payments with the amount of the credit your are eligible to receive on your 2021 income tax return — or your tax return processing could be delayed."
IRS is worried about how this will hurt the poorest families.
And what better way to segregate people into their respective camps than to claim that one side winning literally means the end of the democracy?
Precisely...
Which is why we both wonder why Democrats are screaming that the new voter ID laws or the inability to pass their bill to Federalize elections are akin to ending democracy.
All those propaganda gaslight attempts at convincing gullible Americans that there is a "slow coup" going on with all of these new laws and such...
I mean, we both agree that that is sooo wrong.
There is not an end to democracy, the new laws are not an end to democracy and they are not a "coup" to undermine Democracy.
Glad we agree.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies
Hurting the financial well being of the poor in America.
If elections are already federalized, then there's no need to make state election laws meaningless.
James is talking out his ass agsin6. No wonder he prefers to post the opinions of others.
Roger Amick said...
Those very words were from
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey
Typical of writers like Lil Schitty stretching to make a point while ignoring the trump claims that vaccines and the monoclonal treatments are reserved for blacks..........And not a word from the right!!!
Stoking the fears of white men who are worried about losing power!!!
INSIDER
Trump claims white people are discriminated against for COVID-19 treatment: 'If you're white you go right to the back of the line'
Alia Shoaib
Sun, January 16, 2022, 5:58 AM·3 min read
In this article:
45th President of the United States
E, Arizona.Mario Tama/Getty Images
Donald Trump said that white people are at the "back of the line" for COVID-19 treatments.
At an Arizona rally, Trump claimed the left is "denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies."
Some states have published guidance that non-white race is a risk factor for severe illness and death from COVID-19.
The conservative wing is tired of Trump.
Ann Coulter has claimed that Donald Trump is “done” and has told the New York Times to stop “obsessing” over the former president.
The conservative commentator - a one-time Mr Trump ally turned fierce critic - told the paper that she thinks his dominance in the Republican party is over.
There are some things that states are not allowed to decree if they deprive Americans of their constitutional right to vote. The Constitution gives states the right to conduct elections, but not in a way that deprives American citizens of their inalienable right to participate in self governance through their vote in federal elections.
Government of, by, and for the people.
Push discriminatory state voting laws in national or even state elections too far, and the Supreme Court will come down on you like a mighty mountain.
deprive Americans of their constitutional right to vote
Wanna link that up for me?
Just stay copying and pasting, you’re an imbecile
Why, in the last 12 days of his presidency, did Donald Trump suddenly become the authoritarian of liberal fantasies?
He sure wasn’t an authoritarian for the past four years — he was a spineless wonder.
When it came to the wall, bringing the troops home, ending hedge fund managers’ tax loopholes and other campaign promises, Trump backed down to everybody: district court judges, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, the de facto president Jared Kushner, trusted Goldman Sachs alumnus Gary Cohn, useless donors or any two people raising an objection.
OK, never mind. I didn’t know I’d have to get out of my chair. I’ll just lie and tell my supporters it’s already done.
But this time, it was finally about him.
For the items on Trump’s 2016 campaign agenda, he actually had solid arguments. On overturning the election, he has no argument at all.
The bulk of Trump’s rally speech last Wednesday consisted of the fanatically detailed claims of a paranoid about the election being stolen. The media, of course, have barely covered this part of the speech, since they’re determined to suppress all mentions of any oting-vay aud-fray.
Not to worry, media! I’m angrier after reading Trump’s full exegesis on the election than I was when you were hiding it from me.
He cited vote tallies in this and that county, the media’s use of “suppression polls,” constitutional provisions, the precise time of day votes came in, different states’ voting rules and practices, the numbers of felons, dead people and illegal aliens who allegedly voted in various states and on and on and on.
Do you think Trump has any idea how many illegal aliens are in the country right now?
None whatsoever. Trump knows more about the accuracy settings on signature verification machines in Clark County in Nevada than he does about DACA.
Charles McGee, brigadier general and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 102
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Associated Press
Monday, January 17, 2022 4:27AM
WASHINGTON -- Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died Sunday. He was 102.
McGee died in his sleep at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, said his son, Ron McGee.
After the U.S. entry into World War II, McGee left the University of Illinois to join an experimental program for Black soldiers seeking to train as pilots after the Army Air Corps was forced to admit African Americans. In October 1942 he was sent to the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama for flight training, according to his biography on the website of the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
"You could say that one of the things we were fighting for was equality," he told The Associated Press in a 1995 interview. "Equality of opportunity. We knew we had the same skills, or better."
McGee graduated from flight school in June 1943 and in early 1944 joined the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, known as the "Red Tails." He flew 136 missions as the group accompanied bombers over Europe.
More than 900 men trained at Tuskegee from 1940 to 1946. About 450 deployed overseas and 150 lost their lives in training or combat.
In recent years the Tuskegee Airmen have been the subject of books, movies and documentaries highlighting their courage in the air and the doubts they faced on the ground because of their race. In 2007 a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award from Congress, was issued to recognize their "unique military record that inspired revolutionary reform in the Armed Forces."
McGee remained in the Army Air Corps, later the U.S. Air Force, and served for 30 years. He flew low-level bombing and strafing missions during the Korean War and returned to combat again during the Vietnam War. The National Aviation Hall of Fame says his 409 aerial fighter combat missions in three wars remains a record.
He retired as a colonel in the Air Force in 1973, then earned a college degree in business administration and worked as a business executive. He was accorded an honorary commission promoting him to the one-star rank of brigadier general as he turned 100. Another event marked his centennial year: He flew a private jet between Frederick, Maryland, and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
In 2020, McGee drew a standing ovation from members of Congress when introduced by President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address.
In addition to encouraging young men and women to pursue careers in aviation, McGee was a source of information about the Tuskegee Airmen and offered a unique perspective on race relations of the era through the airmen's nonprofit educational organization.
"At the time of the war, the idea of an all African American flight squadron was radical and offensive to many," McGee wrote in an essay for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
"The prevailing opinion was that blacks did not possess the intelligence or courage to be military pilots. One general even wrote, 'The Negro type has not the proper reflexes to make a first-rate fighter pilot.' The Tuskegee Airmen certainly proved men like him wrong."
Charles Edward McGee was born Dec. 7, 1919, in Cleveland, the son of a minister who also worked as a teacher and social worker and was a military chaplain. He graduated from high school in Chicago in 1938.
Survivors include daughters Charlene McGee Smith and Yvonne McGee, 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild. His wife of more than 50 years, Frances, died in 1994.
A family statement described McGee as "a living legend known for his kind-hearted and humble nature, who saw positivity at every turn."
In tweets Sunday honoring McGee, both Vice President Kamala Harris and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called him an American hero.
"While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy, and his character. Rest in peace, General," Austin wrote.
In his Smithsonian essay, McGee wrote that he was often asked why the Tuskegee Airmen were so successful in combat.
"I would say it was because of our courage and perseverance," he wrote. "We dreamed of being pilots as boys but were told it was not possible. Through faith and determination we overcame enormous obstacles. This is a lesson that all young people need to hear."
He added: "I am most proud of my work as a Tuskegee Airman that helped bring down racial barriers and defeat the Nazis."
For four years, I’ve been told that Trump couldn’t keep his campaign promises because: No one has ever faced such historic resistance! It’s not his fault. Poor Trump!
Well, how hard was it to keep his promises compared to overturning a presidential election?
Now that we’ve gotten a bracing view of Trump’s skills as a demagogue, I just want to know: Why didn’t he ever use his powers for good? Why did he never hold a rally on the ellipse and ask his supporters to pressure their representatives to fund the wall? To repeal Section 230? To penalize outsourcing?
None of those proposals is insane.
Now that I think about it, they are the exact ideas that got Trump elected. Another plus: Asking his supporters to lobby for popular issues would not have ended with senators and House members fleeing for their lives.
Even as he was goading his most gullible supporters into criminal activity and — in one case — death, he still didn’t give a crap about them.
Trump was delighted by the mob he’d unleashed on the Capitol, but according to sources, appalled by how badly dressed they were. He “expressed disgust on aesthetic grounds over how ‘low class’ his supporters looked,” one Trump adviser told New York magazine, adding, “He doesn’t like low-class things.”
Why are the cameras showing only my overweight supporters? Where are the hot women?
Yes, these were the deplorables, the left-behind, working-class Americans hanging on by their fingernails, who had bet their last dollar on Trump. (While we’re on the subject, please drop the “coup” talk, media.
We’ve seen the pictures. These weren’t exactly Masters of the Universe types.)
Democrats despise them, and Trump uses them.
For four years, Trump screwed over these very working-class Americans while giving Sheldon Adelson, Wall Street and McConnell everything they wanted — sometimes things they didn’t even ask for!
At the same time, Trump said to the deplorables: Sorry, I guess we didn’t have time to get to the wall ...
So obviously, when it came to launching a mad plan with zero chance of success solely to benefit himself, Trump turned to the weakest members of society, the very people whom he had used to get elected and then betrayed. (Trump’s best buddy, Benjamin Netanyahu, congratulated Joe Biden seconds after he was declared the winner.)
In his rally speech, Trump vowed he’d march to the Capitol with them. Go fight that guy! I’ll be right behind you. After the rally, of course, he immediately repaired to the White House, where he could enjoy a nice lunch and watch the poor saps on TV.
Trump sees other humans only in terms of what they can do for him.
He will ask for favor after favor after favor, no matter how humiliating or burdensome, but the moment someone says “no,” will viciously attack him. Ask Jeff Sessions.
Thus, Trump came up with the manifestly insane idea that his vice president, Mike Pence, should refuse to certify the electoral votes. “All Vice President Pence has to do,” Trump said at the rally, “is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people.” It’s even good for me, too!
On and on he went: “So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do, and I hope he doesn’t listen to the RINOs and the stupid people that he’s listening to.”
The vice president, not being a lunatic, had already declined Trump’s very special offer — limited time only! — earlier that morning. Trump was setting up his supporters to be furious with Pence when they got to the Capitol and realized he had not awarded the election to Trump.
At 2:24 p.m., as Trump watched the mob streaming through the Capitol, he tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution ...” Whereupon, some in the crowd began chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
Trump never called to find out if Pence and his family were safe.
For 48 hours, Trump didn’t lower the White House flag to half-mast in honor of Brian Sicknick, the Trump-supporting Capitol Hill Police officer who died from injuries suffered during the siege. The guy could at least have worn a decent shirt. Nor did he call Sicknick’s family. Pence did.
Sometimes you get the feeling Trump’s not really thinking about other people.
The reason Trump was a lazy, feckless coward for the past four years was that, once it got him elected, he didn’t see how the MAGA agenda did anything for him. And the reason he became a whirling dervish of demagogic activity last week was that it was all about him.
https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/most-disloyal-man-in-history-finally-finds-cause-worth-fighting-for/article_84af180e-5757-11eb-8736-3fe27ac24ec1.html
Ann Coulter
My soon to be 103 year old father greatly admired the Tuskegee Airmen. A southerner from NC, his whole way of looking at things changed when he saw "colored" pilots protecting his B-17 during most of his 51 missions.
(Sometimes they had to fly without such protection when clouds were too thick for it. Then their only protection was "cloud cover."
The Airmen were famous for always meeting the bombers where they were supposed to and again when they emerged fromt the dangerous flak zone (where neither friendly not enemy fighter planes would go.)
You will be surprised to see who wrote this.
At 2:24 p.m., as Trump watched the mob streaming through the Capitol, he tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution ...” Whereupon, some in the crowd began chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
Trump never called to find out if Pence and his family were safe.
For 48 hours, Trump didn’t lower the White House flag to half-mast in honor of Brian Sicknick, the Trump-supporting Capitol Hill Police officer who died from injuries suffered during the siege. The guy could at least have worn a decent shirt. Nor did he call Sicknick’s family. Pence did.
Sometimes you get the feeling Trump’s not really thinking about other people.
The reason Trump was a lazy, feckless coward for the past four years was that, once it got him elected, he didn’t see how the MAGA agenda did anything for him. And the reason he became a whirling dervish of demagogic activity last week was that it was all about him.
https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/most-disloyal-man-in-history-finally-finds-cause-worth-fighting-for/article_84af180e-5757-11eb-8736-3fe27ac24ec1.html
Ann Coulter
The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. B-17s and other bombers were shot down by enemy flak over bomb drop zones, but not by enemy fighters.
Fifteenth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–
Section 2
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The end game here is to drive another wedge into the heart of the American populace.
And what better way to segregate people into their respective camps than to claim that one side winning literally means the end of the democracy? Like calling Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers
Which is 100% correct.
Such a “threat” to the country can justify anything, after all. Including voter suppression legislation designed to be Constitutional.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/01/17/wapo-house-dem-moderates-rebel-want-bbb-and-voting-bills-dropped-n442086
Voters want free and fair elections. They don't want the federal government taking every election over from every state. The same federal government that is calling pare st school board meetings domestic terrorists.
The 19 Amendment
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
You let states deny blacks or women or any legitimate citizen of the United States the right to vote or pass unduly harsh laws designed to prohibit that right or make it exceedingly difficult to practice, and you will get a taste of what real Constitutional government in this land really is like.
The Supreme Court will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
5 minutes earlier you had that as 15th amendment. Lol.
Voters don't want democrats taking away free and fair elections.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–
Pedo I hate to break the news to you, that’s not a constitutional right to vote, it’s a constitutional right to be treated equal.
You failed agin
Wanna try again?
Anonymous Myballs said...
5 minutes earlier you had that as 15th amendment. Lol.
Voters don't want democrats taking away free and fair elections.
And he hasn’t come up with a single Constitutional right to vote, because it ain’t there
No citizen is being denied their right to vote. It's a bogus charge, just like Russia, the dossier, etc.
The Supreme Court will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
10th amendment says your full of shit.
SPEAKING OF BOGUS CHARGES--
MEDIAite Scoop:
Lara Logan Dropped By UTA Over Fauci Nazi Doctor Comments
By Aidan McLaughlinJan 17th, 2022, 5:38 pm
Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent who as of late has earned a reputation for pushing conspiracy theories at Fox News, has been dropped by talent agency UTA over controversial comments she made about Dr. Anthony Fauci.
UTA chief communications officer Seth Oster confirmed to Mediaite that the agency cut ties with Logan several weeks ago.
The veteran journalist was dropped after she sparked controversy by comparing the top U.S. infectious diseases expert to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele on Fox News.
“What you see on Dr. Fauci – this is what people say to me: that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Joseph Mengele. Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the second World War and in the concentration camps,” Logan told Fox host Pete Hegseth.
A UTA insider confirmed to Mediaite that Logan was let go over her “highly offensive” and “unacceptable” comments, which sparked outrage within the agency.
Logan was never employed by Fox News, but hosted a show on the network’s streaming platform Fox Nation (Lara Logan Has No Agenda), and appeared regularly on the cable network as an unpaid guest.
That is, until she compared Fauci to Auschwitz’s Angel of Death.
After that comment, which Logan made on Fox News Primetime on Nov. 29, she disappeared from the air at Fox News, and hasn’t been booked since.
The network has remained publicly quiet on Logan’s fate, amid outrage and calls for her firing. Logan herself apparently remains in the dark regarding her standing at the network.
“I don’t really know,” she said when asked about her standing with Fox in a recent interview reported by the Daily Beast.
“I’m not on their payroll,” she added. “So I, you know, I’m not in communication with them.”
Logan’s Mengele remark isn’t the first time the once-revered journalist made bizarre claims on Fox News.
Mediaite’s Jackson Richman provided a useful roundup back in November:
Logan’s absurd conspiracies include *claiming that the coronavirus vaccine is “not really a vaccine.”
*She has claimed those who criticize of Biden and support U.S. troops are at risk of being jailed by the FBI. *She has suggested that China, Iran and possibly Russia are funding the far-left movement Antifa.
*She has said that “bioweapons specialists and intel agents” told her allowing migrants into the country is a “typical” way to launch a “virus attack.”
Logan did not respond to requests for comment.
With crucial help from Manchin and Sinema, Roberts’s triumph now appears complete. And that could trigger a decade of struggle over access to the ballot, unmatched since the days of Jim Crow segregation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/manchin-sinema-filibuster-voting-rights/621271/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Senate Democrats Push Ahead on Voting Rights
January 17, 2022 at 5:20 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 214 Comments
“Senate Democrats plan to press ahead this week with an effort to push new voting rights protections through Congress, in an all but doomed attempt to enact a key piece of President Biden’s agenda that has been undercut by members of his own party,” the New York Times reports.
How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision.
A nationwide standard of voting rights now seems like a pipe dream.
The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states. It also marks a resounding triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts in his four-decade quest to roll back the federal government’s role in protecting voter rights.
Change the Constitution Alky.
There is a process to eliminate the states, but YOU have to have intestinal fortitude to do it.
Quit whining
If they don't get the voting rights act passed,
A nationwide standard of voting rights now seems like a pipe dream.
Our system gives the states jurisdiction over almost everything.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/manchin-sinema-filibuster-voting-rights/621271/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
It should be called the no more free and fair elections bill.
And when moderates and conservatives agree, only a narrow minded liberal woyld call it a conservative vision.
from the Atlantic article (8:17)
“There’s no consistent explanation that can account for Roberts’s rulings in election-law cases other than just a partisan motive,” Stephanopoulos, echoing the view of many critics, told me.
“Intervene when it’s restrictions on money in politics;
don’t intervene when it’s partisan gerrymandering
or voting restrictions.
Intervene again when it’s Congress trying to do something about racial vote suppression
or racial vote dilution.
Sometimes mention the Framers,
sometimes don’t mention the Framers.
It’s anything goes
as long as the final outcome is the preferred partisan outcome.”
The federal government has jurisdiction over voting rights. But you don't understand how it actually works.
Roberts is a Federalist scholar..
Read the article
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/manchin-sinema-filibuster-voting-rights/621271/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The Atlantic article is indeed grim.
Lincoln would be deeply ashamed of today's Republican party.
. It also marks a resounding triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts in his four-decade quest to roll back the federal government’s role in protecting voter rights.
Roberts as much as anyone set in motion the events that have led to this week’s climactic Senate confrontation over voting legislation. In a series of rulings over the past 15 years, the Supreme Court, often in decisions written by Roberts himself, has consistently weakened federal oversight of voter protections and struck down federal regulations meant to reduce the influence of money in politics. Almost all of those decisions have unfolded on a strict party-line basis, with the Republican-appointed justices outvoting those appointed by Democrats.
Those decisions have had an enormous practical impact on the rules for American elections. But many voting-rights advocates say that the rulings have been equally important in sending a signal to Republican-controlled states that the Supreme Court majority is unlikely to stand in their way if they impose new restrictions on voting or extreme partisan gerrymanders in congressional and state legislative districts.
It's a philosophical issue on the scope of the Federal government system that has been in question since the founding fathers feared an too powerful federal government. Remember we broke away from The British empire.
Lincoln would be deeply ashamed of today's Republican party.
The man that didn’t give a damn about slaves in the state he was born in?
Nor those slaves in Slow Joe’s state of Delaware
Today, I believe we are seeing a new segregation and discrimination beginning, wrongfully forced upon unvaccinated Americans by the tyrants of the Democrat Party.
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James lied, said it was "zero shot down".
US world war 2 museum:
"The most common of the false claims about the Tuskegee Airmen is the claim that on their bomber escort missions, they “never lost a bomber” to enemy fighters. At least 27 bombers under Tuskegee Airmen escort were shot down by enemy airplanes.Jul 14, 2020"
https://www.nationalww2museum.org
James , stop lying.
You said they didn't lose any bombers, they did.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org
Biden came to office through concerted, non-stop electoral legerdemain. Everyone knows this, and more and more people are coming to admit it. There are still scattered Twitter dwarfs, like Japanese soldiers decades after 1945, skirling about the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. But what’s gradually coming into focus is the awful truth that the real “Big Lie” was that Joe Biden won the election fair and square. That narrative is unraveling strand by strand. The outstanding question is whether the country will be able to survive three more years of a deep state conspiracy presided over by an angry, incompetent, and increasingly senile puppet.
CORONAVIRUSPoll Finds Close To Half Of Democratic Voters Want COVID Internment Camps For The Unvaccinated
Majority want unvaxxed locked in their homes, close to half want people jailed for questioning jabs
A national poll has found that forty-five percent of likely Democratic voters would be ok with the government “requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.”
The figure was registered by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute, which also found that a MAJORITY “Fifty-nine percent of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.”
The survey also found that 48 percent of Democratic voters “think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.”
Given that the benchmark for ‘questioning’ the efficacy of vaccines appears to now be saying anything other than what the government tells you, a lot of people would be facing criminal charges.
The survey found some other crazy suggestions with a startling percentage of Democrat voters in agreement.
Rasmussen notes “Forty-seven percent of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The pollster added that “Twenty-nine percent of Democratic voters would support temporarily removing parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine.”
There’s no mass formation psychosis though. That’s a conspiracy theory.
The notion of COVID camps may seem far fetched, but as previously noted, it was discussed in a COVID-19 planning document called Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings and was originally published on the CDC’s official website on July 26, 2020.
COVID quarantine camps are also in operation in Australia.
I'm interested in taking a course in Critical Race Theory, can someone tell me where such a subject is being taught??
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I'm interested in taking a course in Critical Race Theory, can someone tell me where such a subject is being taught??
https://criticalrace.org/schools/?state=california
And that's just Mexifornia, alky.
You're welcome.
Our system gives the states jurisdiction over almost everything.
Not really, but I'm glad you think so. And there's good reason for it alky. So when a state like yours - CA - or mine - NY - is utterly destroyed by leftist idiocy, us normals can pack our shit and leave, as I'm prepared to do upon the passage of my last aged relative.
Eliminating this incentive and this ability is nothing more than the equal distribution of misery. Something inherent to socialism.
https://criticalrace.org/schools/?state=california
You really need help asshole....did you actually read anything about It or just threw some shit to see what stuck?????
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Mediaite’s Jackson Richman provided a useful roundup back in November:
Logan’s absurd conspiracies include *claiming that the coronavirus vaccine is “not really a vaccine.”
Fact Check: TRUE. Those who have received the shots have been inoculated, not vaccinated. Vaccines prevent contraction and transmission. Inoculations do not.
*She has claimed those who criticize of Biden and support U.S. troops are at risk of being jailed by the FBI.
I can see where she would arrive at this conclusion seeing as how the J6 revelers have been treated and how the FBI had conducted their false flag operation on J6.
*She has suggested that China, Iran and possibly Russia are funding the far-left movement Antifa.
Completely logical. China/Iran/Russia hate the US. So does Antifa.
*She has said that “bioweapons specialists and intel agents” told her allowing migrants into the country is a “typical” way to launch a “virus attack.”
Sure it is. And much less dramatic than exploding a bioweapon in a crowded urban area. Brandon Shitpants has allowed 2 MILLION illegals to invade our nation SO FAR. Times four, that's 8 MILLION illegals, all potential carriers of the virus since they are not required to be screened or vaccinated. Can anyone think of a BETTER way to seed the US with a steady stream of virus carriers? I can't. It's brilliant.
Logan is over the target. Hence the actions taken to silence her.
Oh, and her comments re: Fauci = Mengele?
Spot on.
Mengele conducted his experiments on individuals, pairs (twins) and small groups.
Fauci is conducting his experiments on HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS.
did you actually read anything about It or just threw some shit to see what stuck?????
I read Professor Jacobson all the time BWAA. He cares enough about the issue to track and build a database of K-12 & Higher Ed institutions that peddle CRT bullshit.
Alky wants to attend some classes, so I helped him out.
Jacobson has also filed a lawsuit against my idiot governor which I wholeheartedly approve:
The federal lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Albany by William A. Jacobson, a clinical professor of law and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell. His federal complaint argues the policy directive for the antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatments, which have been in short supply but can be used to lessen the risk of severe health complications from COVID-19, is "patently unconstitutional" because it uses racial preferences in determining whether someone qualifies to receive them.
"Using a patient’s skin color or ethnicity as a basis for deciding who should receive lifesaving medical treatment is appalling," states the lawsuit, which was filed against acting state Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett. "And directing medical professionals to award or deny medical care based on immutable characteristics such as skin color, without regard to the actual health condition of the individual who is seeking these antiviral treatments, is nothing more than an attempt to establish a racial hierarchy in the provision of life-saving medicine."
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Cornell-law-professor-files-challenge-of-New-16782309.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-spotlight
Jacobson's on top of this shit, BWAA. And he intends to remain a thorn in the side of assholes like you who advocate this nonsense.
Black athletes are greeted in China by a crowd using the "N" word
Enjoy your Martin Luther King day...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1483091855847788544
Temporary slide?
For Mr. Biden and his party, the key question is whether his rapid slide in popularity in the second half of 2021 was the temporary result of the messy process of getting things done in a closely divided Washington, or a descent to levels of popularity that will remain a drag on his party.
In any case, there is a long way to go before the election, and ample time in today’s sped-up political environment for the landscape to change. In the end, Democrats will want the election to be about the things they have done to help the country get through the pandemic, and to help working Americans pull ahead on daily challenges. Republicans will want to focus voters’ minds on immigration, crime and a messy withdrawal from Afghanistan that they will portray as a kind of metaphor for disappointing Democratic leadership.
Yet that late 2021 Wall Street Journal poll showed that, as is often the case, the economy tops all other issues among voters as they head into the election year. Voters in both parties, and across racial and demographic lines, said economic issues topped their priority list.
The problem for Democrats is that voters enter the year not just concerned about the economy, but pessimistic about it as well. Almost half said they expected it to get worse over the next year, while just 30% said they expected it to get better. Inflation concerns are driving the pessimism; 52% said they expect inflation to get worse in 2022.
As a result, leading economic indicators may also prove to be leading political indicators this year.
Mr. Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal,
Roger UC Berkley teaches the CRT class.
https://gspp.berkeley.edu › critical-r...
PP 290 Critical Race Theory and Practice | Courses
Jul 16, 2021 — Students will read, analyze, and discuss CRT scholarship; hear from racial justice leaders in the movements for CRT and liberation
In the end, Democrats will want the election to be about the things they have done to help the country get through the pandemic, and to help working Americans pull ahead on daily challenges.
LMAO.
Which is exactly why they're FUCKED, alky. With over 25 resignations SO FAR.
The reality is that the democrats have done NOTHING to help the country get through the pandemic, have made things exponentially WORSE for working Americans seeking to pull ahead on daily challenges.
If democrats really want the mid-terms to be about these things, they're staring at the very real and likely prospect of annihilation.
And yet, eith voters concerned with the economy and inflation, every democrat in Washington continues to ignore it, trying to ram through their shitty agenda.
Roger is always so spectacularly wrong.
All he said is that, it's not over yet.
Roger posted gas would be under $3 BY now , because of Brandon tapping the Strategic Oil Supply.
Today it is $3.31
Liar
"Honest, decent, truth telling ReverendJanuary 17, 2022 at 7:31 PM
The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. "
Yes, they did. History against eludes you.
More fun would be to see The Los Angeles Rams, meet Buffalo or Kansas City, in the next Super Bowl Sunday.
Up next is a trip Sunday to Tampa Bay to play Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. Win there and there’s a good chance Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay awaits. And that’s just to get to the Super Bowl.
“It's just the next step in the journey,” Stafford said. “[Brady is] an outstanding player, he’s been doing it for a long, long time. They have a great football team. I’m not playing against [Brady], one on one, but I understand he’s a great player and he’s going to get his team into the end zone. So I have to do my part.”
The "Super" wild-card weekend wasn’t worth much – just two of the six games were decided by one score and the average margin of victory was 17.2. What’s left, though, is no joke. Saturday features San Francisco at Green Bay and Cincinnati at Tennessee. Sunday is the main event, Rams at Bucs, Buffalo at Kansas City. This is when legends are made and Hall of Fames are earned, the best of the best.
That means Stafford will need to be one of them. This is what he wanted. This is what he always wanted. Stafford doesn’t make much noise off the field, he’s rarely on social media and mostly keeps to his family (four kids).
The competitiveness has always been there. He was a Texas high school legend who chose to head to Georgia and take on the SEC. As the No. 1 overall draft pick, he vowed to change the long-standing misfortunes of the Lions.
He wasn’t always successful, but he played hurt, he played hard, he cared. It wasn’t all the organization. Stafford could have been better, of course. But a player of his caliber should have broken through long ago.
Now is when he can prove it. Odell Beckham Jr. has returned to form (both catching a touchdown and throwing for 40 yards Monday). Cooper Kupp had a quiet night by his standards (5-61, one touchdown) but he’ll be a handful against the Bucs. Sony Michel and Cam Akers combined for 113 yards rushing. The defense held the Cards to 0-for-9 on third down and just 3.4 yards per play.
“What a team win,” Stafford said. “Our defense played outstanding. Our special teams had huge plays to set up our defense for scores. Our offense did enough to put enough points on the board to win it. Just proud to be a part of this team.”
They’ll need it all in Tampa. “We’re going to need all guns on deck,” linebacker Von Miller said.
Stafford will be seeking playoff victory No. 2. Brady is looking for playoff victory No. 36 en route to Super Bowl No. 8. That's fine. This is what he has been working for and dreaming of for a long, long time.
“[The media] can stop asking about [first playoff victory],” McVay said. “Good to get that out of the way. He’s our leader. We wouldn’t be here without him.”
“Here” is the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. Uncharted territory for Stafford. What he can do now, and how far he can lead these Rams, will help define everything.
At least, at last, the chance is here.
You guys would lose your effing minds.
Not my words kputz.
Mr. Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal
Roger, why is gasoline at $3.31 a gallon, far above your stated $3.00 ?
Tickets cost $5,000+
What a Coward.
"Not my words kputz." Alky
So, to be clear , you cut n paste thoughts you can't on your own debate?
Roger, your faith is Socialism is being rewarded, punishing the poor.
"WTI Crude 83.82. +2.07%"
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Not my words kputz.
They never ARE, alky.
All he said was that it is The Political Wild Cards of 2022
Gerald Seib: “For Mr. Biden and his party, the key question is whether his rapid slide in popularity in the second half of 2021 was the temporary result of the messy process of getting things done in a closely divided Washington, or a descent to levels of popularity that will remain a drag on his party.”
“In any case, there is a long way to go before the election, and ample time in today’s sped-up political environment for the landscape to change. In the end, Democrats will want the election to be about the things they have done to help the country get through the pandemic, and to help working Americans pull ahead on daily challenges.
Republicans will want to focus voters’ minds on immigration, crime and a messy withdrawal from Afghanistan that they will portray as a kind of metaphor for disappointing Democratic leadership.”
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Biden has to become optimistic, instead of inciting anger at Republicans.
The infighting in the Republican party is not helping them.
And watch them self destruct.
Here you go rrb. Olinski and Obama were the errectionists .
A Mostly Peaceful Insurrection
We are now living Barack Obama’s “fundamentally transformed America.” And we got here by way of a mostly peaceful insurrection that actually happened in early November 2020, not January 6, 2021.
By Albin Sadar
January 17, 2022
“Insurrection! Insurrection! Insurrection!”
Not unlike the cry of “Russia! Russia! Russia!” that haunted President Donald Trump throughout the four years of his presidency, the new rallying cry for the Democrats leading into the 2022 election (and beyond, no doubt) is the charge that those who continue to support President Trump—and pretty much anyone who doesn’t strongly, vocally condemn him—will be labeled an insurrectionist. And naturally anyone running for office who might gain the backing of Trump will be tagged with the same scarlet letter “I” and vilified incessantly via every facet at the disposal of the mainstream media.
But why did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., get so blown out of proportion in the first place? Why has the current “official” investigation, much ballyhooed by members of Congress, turned out to be several ounces shy of a “nothing burger”?
Could it be that Saul Alinsky, in his famous list of Rules for Radicals (as well as tactics employed by Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels), gives us a clue?
Post it 90 times alky. It doesn't make Seib right.
Include the Alinsky quote, alky -
Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate people against evidence of your own guilt.
The left has this down to a fucking science.
So my kyler murray and Lamar Jackson are in the pro bowl but Josh Allen isn't. Maybe we should federalize that voting too.
Roger Amick said...
Here you go rrb. Olinski and Obama were the errectionists .
butt buddies in paradise ?
WOW, week must have started really bad for Biden,
Another avalanche of Goddard by the POS "pastor" and alky is posting volumes of text
Without any comprehension
Well, multi-billionaires who own propaganda outlets like the Atlantic and Washington Post are thriving due to Covid and Chinese slave labor/genocide.
Who would have thought that sort of thing could happen twice in a lifetime?
and democrats cheer
and quote from them
China Won’t Sell Olympics Tickets to the Public
January 18, 2022 at 9:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
“China had already barred foreign spectators from attending the Winter Games that begin in Beijing in less than a month. On Monday, it announced that most Chinese people won’t be able to attend either,” the New York Times reports.
“Citing the evolving threat from the coronavirus pandemic, the Beijing 2022 organizing committee announced that it was ending ticket sales to the events ‘to ensure the safety of all participants and spectators.'”
“The decision came less than two days after health authorities reported Beijing’s first case of the Omicron variant and ordered an immediate lockdown and mass testing in one of the capital’s neighborhoods.”
THEY DON'T PLAy AROUND AND ACT STUPID LIKE WE DO IN AMERICA.
IN AN OUTRIGHT EXAMPLE OF STUPIDITY AND INCONSIDERATION, FOR SOTOMAYOR'S MEDICAL CONDITION,
Gorsuch Refused Request from Chief Justice to Wear Mask
January 18, 2022 at 8:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
NPR:
“Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up.
“They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.
“Gorsuch, from the beginning of his tenure, has proved a prickly justice, not exactly beloved even by his conservative soulmates on the court.”
Ex-Trump Aides Strategize to Stop Him
January 18, 2022 at 8:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
“Around three dozen former Trump administration officials,
disillusioned with their former boss and concerned about his impact on the GOP and the nation,
held a conference call last Monday to discuss efforts to fend off his efforts to, in their view, erode the democratic process,”
CNN reports.
“The only items the group seemed to agree upon in its first meeting, however, were that they’re not sure what their way forward should be, and that they are way behind the efforts of former President Donald Trump and his allies to set the stage for 2022, 2024, and beyond.”
Most interesting is that former White House chief of staff John Kelly was on the call.
WHEN PEOPLE CLOSE TO A PERSON HATE HIM, THAT SAYS VOLUMES.
Scott Adams
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1479802479311134722
I think it's accurate to call #Jan6 an "insurrection."
Unfortunately, the protesters at the capitol were not able to stop the insurrection and the vote was certified.
or as roger calls them errectionists
AND NOW FROM THE NUTTIEST OF THE NUTS BRIGADE---
QAnon Followers Say Trump Used ‘Body Double’ at Rally
January 17, 2022 at 9:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 183 Comments
QAnon followers claim Donald Trump was not at his rally in Arizona on Saturday, but that the person they saw was actually a “body double” or even John F. Kennedy in disguise, Newsweek reports.
Vice News:
“Having spent the last two-and-a-half months holed up in Dallas awaiting the reappearance of John F. Kennedy and his son, a group of two dozen or so QAnon followers, led by an antisemitic guru called Michael Protzman, made the 1,000 mile trip to hear Trump speaking at his first major rally of 2022.
“Ahead of the rally, Protzman, or Negative48 as he’s known to his followers, predicted the event would feature some major revelations.
While most QAnon followers criticized Trump for talking about returning in 2024 rather than trying to overturn the 2020 election result, Protzman told his followers that something huge happened in the desert on Saturday night.”
YOU REALLY CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
Disclose.tv
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1482084740496863239
JUST IN - Downing Street staff held "wine-time Fridays" throughout the pandemic. Boris Johnson regularly witnessed the gatherings, attended a "handful."
🍾 staff bought a fridge to store wine, Prosecco & beer.
Lockdowns for thee
parties for me
sounds like all the other Elites
Obama getting ready for another bash at his lavish vacation home ?
with masked servants of course
John - Psst, I know the motive - Cardillo
@johncardillo
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1482690318273294341
The same FBI that declared MAGA hats a NatSec threat wants you to believe that a Pakistani Muslim terrorist who took hostages in an attempt to leverage them for the release of imprisoned Muslim terrorist randomly targeted a synagogue and it had nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
well the outrage was so loud they were forced to change their explanation
corrupt FBI
Hunter smiles
as does the big guy who they still haven't been able to figure out who that is.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1482867641199075333
The suppression of early treatment options to help push covid vaccines is a crime against humanity.
Well after a year in office Biden/Fauci are finally getting to widespread access to rapid tests. You can order them tomorrow.
What a SNAFU
I hope they come with Biden's face on them
Remind people what a dog faced pony soldier looks like
and late to battle
Ralph Northam Pardons Democrat State Senator Jailed For Underage Sex Crimes in His Final Act as Virginia Governor
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/ralph-northam-pardons-democrat-state-senator-jailed-underage-sex-crimes-final-act-virginia-governor/
What a slimy democrat
typical
Disclose.tv
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1483035632498786310
NEW - World's 10 richest men doubled their wealth from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion during the pandemic, according to a new Oxfam report.
and the liberals here constantly quote from them
and ignore their crimes against humanity
The world's RICHEST men are Good
common billionaires are bad (well at least the ones who are Republicans)
Animal Farm
Joe Biden's America
Liar
"Honest, decent, truth telling ReverendJanuary 17, 2022 at 7:31 PM
The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. "
Yes, they did. History against eludes you
As uneven as Omicron’s impacts have been across the planet, experts agreed it could have been worse. Imagine a lineage that has Omicron’s vaccine-evasion and extreme transmissibility and also attacks the lungs like Delta does. “We can say we dodged a bullet,” Stephanie James, the head of a COVID testing lab at Regis University in Colorado, told The Daily Beast.
The world is lucky that, pretty much everywhere, there’s been a decoupling between Omicron cases and deaths. To a great extent, people get to decide how wide that decoupling is. You can’t choose your country’s median age, but you can choose to get vaccinated.
The more people who get vaccinated, the greater the gap between case-rates and death-rates. Vaccinate almost everyone in your city, state, region, or country, and chances are you’ll sail right through the Omicron surge with very few serious consequences.
and the liberals here constantly quote from them
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And all you do is quote from the bullshit of TWITTER!!!!!!!!
It works like Viagra for rrb
White House plots public reset as Biden falls through his own ass
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/white-house-plots-public-reset-biden-s-agenda-flails-n1287619?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Roger, care to retract your "$3.00 gas price prediction?
Let's Go Brandon
WTI Crude 83.82. +2.07%"
Ready for ever higher gas prices
VERY lo iq:
state media good
independent journalism bad
...
well guess what the world is changing
and state media is scared shitless
with all their elite buddies
Moderate Adult Republican Leaders are bucking the crazymutherfucker Trump
Former Trump administration officials hold call to strategize against former boss' efforts in 2022 and 2024
By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
Updated 2 hours ago Jan 18, 2022
(CNN) - Around three dozen former Trump administration officials, disillusioned with their former boss and concerned about his impact on the GOP and the nation, held a conference call last Monday to discuss efforts to fend off his efforts to, in their view, erode the democratic process, several participants told CNN.
The only items the group seemed to agree upon in its first meeting, however, were that they're not sure what their way forward should be, and that they are way behind the efforts of former President Donald Trump and his allies to set the stage for 2022, 2024, and beyond.
The highest-ranking participant was former White House chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who told CNN that because of a prior commitment he was only able to "monitor" about 10 minutes of the call, which lasted about an hour.
Other participants included former Trump White House communications directors Alyssa Farah Griffin (now a CNN political commentator) and Anthony Scaramucci, former Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Pence Olivia Troye, former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann, and former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs, among others. Stephanie Grisham, who first publicly discussed this group a couple of weeks ago on CNN's "New Day," was not on the call because she was sick with Covid-19, though she told CNN she is engaged with the group.
None of the names CNN has learned were involved with the call were particularly surprising; from Kelly to Farah to former national security adviser John Bolton, all have spoken publicly in one degree or another about their concerns about Trump's leadership and fitness for the office. But one participant said that what struck many about the call was the sight of "a lot of faces I had not seen speaking publicly about why Trump is dangerous. People who had not previously spoken out who were now willing to speak out and share their perspective."
Because the first meeting was held according to Chatham House Rules -- the tradition at the British policy institute under which no attendee can publicly disclose the name of any others -- the names of other participants remain unknown as of now.
Miles Taylor, the former DHS chief of staff who became a leading anti-Trump voice after writing an op-ed and book as "Anonymous," helped lead the call and described participants as "overflowing with ideas" on how to be most effective. They ranged from "shining a light" on Trump's corporate contributors to targeting for defeat in the primary or general election each individual Trump has endorsed for state and local races, although Kelly is reluctant to do anything that involves specifically endorsing any candidate.
"We're still trying to figure out what it is" that we want to do, one participant told CNN. "Outcomes are key." This individual said there was unanimity on the call, from those who spoke, that "this cannot just be a professional trolling operation, putting out ads like the Lincoln group." The Lincoln Project was a group of so-called never-Trump GOP consultants who banded together to oppose the 45th President's reelection, often running ads in the Washington, DC, area targeted to Trump.
Taylor concurred. "We all agreed passionately that letters and statements don't mean anything," he told CNN. "The two operative words are 'electoral effects.' How can we have tangible electoral effects against the extremist candidates that have been endorsed by Trump?"
If this unofficial group -- which has no name, membership, or specific goals as of now -- hopes to have any impact, it needs to act quickly. From coast to coast, Trump is actively supporting candidates who support his lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and are seeking to replace both Democrats and conservative Republicans who followed the law, the US Constitution, and the facts regarding the election.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, for example, is facing a Trump-endorsed primary challenger in GOP Rep. Jody Hice, a proponent of the former President's falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. Trump endorsees could enjoy his fundraising support, attention from the media spotlight he can shine on them, and a chorus of praise from those in conservative media who are often more allegiant to Trump and his supporters than to facts.
Bolton, who left the White House in September 2019 and became a harsh critic of Trump's fitness for office, was not on the call, he told CNN. But Bolton's top aide, Sarah Tinsley, joined to share some of the polling information the John Bolton super PAC has been collecting that suggest Trump's hold on the GOP is weakening. Tinsley presented four slides from a pending release, the super PAC's fourth such poll, suggesting Trump's influence is declining in terms of the power of his endorsement and his influence in candidate recruitment. Tinsley said the polling shows Trump's favorability is declining with registered Republicans and right-leaning independents. (The data seems to contradict public polling such as a November 2021 Marquette University Law School poll in which 60% of Republicans say they would like Trump to run for president in 2024, and 73% say they see him favorably.)
Even if that trend were true, the difficult question for the group going forward is what to do. One individual on the call said he'd be happy never even mentioning Trump's name in whatever their efforts end up being; he wanted to focus on a commitment to democracy.
Kelly has given speeches avoiding Trump as a general subject, though it's impossible to ignore the context when he discusses the need for the American people "to look harder at who we elect," as he told Scaramucci during a public discussion in June 2020. "I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter. What is their character like? What are their ethics?"
Putting such imperatives into practice will likely be easier said than done.
There are other challenges: the politics of individual members of the group run today's conservative gamut politically, from vaguely centrist to paleo-conservative. Moreover some of the participants have criticized each other in previous years. When Taylor finally outed himself in October 2020 as the anonymous "senior administration official" of the New York Times op-ed, for example, Farah tweeted, "I rolled my eyes so hard I nearly tipped backwards."
But Troye said there was "something powerful about the fact that not everyone on this call was friends. Whatever history there has been, they put that aside."
Another question for this group will also be how much -- if at all -- to challenge efforts to make it harder to vote enacted by GOP-led state legislatures -- measures inspired at least in part by Trump's election lies but also supported by Republicans who have dismissed those lies, like Raffensperger.
The group is talking about holding another call later this week.
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THE WOULD BE DICTATORSHIP OF THE RIGHT:
Inmates Say They Were Given Ivermectin Without Consent
January 18, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
A group of men detained at an Arkansas jail say that the facility’s medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin last year, without their consent, to treat COVID-19, while telling them the pills were “vitamins,” CBS News reports.
THERE ARE STILL SOME BRAINS LEFT ON THE SUPREME COURT:
Justices Refuse to Block Mask Mandate on Airplanes
January 18, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to block a federal mask mandate for air travel, The Hill reports.
WANT STRAIGHT TALK FOR A CHANGE?
The ‘Good News, Bad News’ of the Coronavirus
January 18, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
“As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc, an expert panel at the World Economic Forum delivered a mix of good news and bad news on Monday: More variants will emerge, but vaccine production is accelerating and research is progressing toward a combined shot that may be able to attack these different variants,” Stat reports.
Other participants included former Trump White House communications directors Alyssa Farah Griffin (now a CNN political commentator) and Anthony Scaramucci, former Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Pence Olivia Troye, former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann, and former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs, among others. Stephanie Grisham, who first publicly discussed this group a couple of weeks ago on CNN's "New Day," was not on the call because she was sick with Covid-19, though she told CNN she is engaged with the group.
Quite the cavalcade of stars ya got there, alky.
LOL.
And that crackerjack reporting by CNN. Thank God they haven't lost the contrived airport audiences yet, eh?
Trump is no guarantee for the 2024 gop nomination. Gop has many very good potential candidates.
Personally, I would like to move forward. Eith both parties. I'm not interested in Trump vs Hillary again. Trump had some very effective policies. But too much drama for me.
And I would prefer anyone over Hillary. Anyone.
Disclose.tv
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1483023169678192644
NOW - Klaus Schwab opens World Economic Forum's virtual "Davos Agenda" and introduces China's Xi Jinping.
Germany and China
2 countries with a history of genocide and slave labor
Leading off the World Economic Forum
China will probably blame the US for Covid
after all Fauci was the one who funded it
James , you were cheering the wealth created by a booming Biden stock market.
Very odd of you.
The World is changing!
Mayor Eric Garcetti has picked Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department, his office confirmed Tuesday.
If confirmed by the City Council, Crowley would become the first woman to lead the city’s fire agency.
Garcetti, in a statement, said there is “no one better equipped to lead the LAFD at this moment than Kristin.”
“Throughout her distinguished career, Kristin Crowley has proven her brilliance, determination and bravery on the job again and again,” Garcetti said. “She’s also shown this city her heart, with her tireless commitment to helping students access life-changing educational opportunities.”
Crowley’s current title is acting administrative operations chief deputy and fire marshal.
Garcetti’s support for Crowley is widely seen as an effort to address female firefighters’ complaints of harassment at the agency.
I agree 100%
Even Bolton!!!!!!!!, who left the White House in September 2019 and became a harsh critic of Trump's fitness for office, was not on the call, he told CNN. But Bolton's top aide, Sarah Tinsley, joined to share some of the polling information the John Bolton super PAC has been collecting that suggest Trump's hold on the GOP is weakening.
She is not hot.
Lately, with all the negative political news and the present terrible situation of our country and the world, I've been feeling a need for a pickup.
(And who doesn't nowadays.)
I've been looking at the multitudinous videos of Karolina Protsenko.
Here are two of her more recent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMl2HgQ7v28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6KhhOpOzk
AND ON a more serious level, another reason not to despair (perhaps):
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers?language=en
Why Sununu Decided Against Senate Bid
January 18, 2022 at 10:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) told the Washington Examiner that was on the verge of running for Senate and but then he talked it over with Republican senators.
Said Sununu: “They were all, for the most part, content with the speed at which they weren’t doing anything. It was very clear that we just have to hold the line for two years. OK, so I’m just going to be a roadblock for two years. That’s not what I do.”
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Proof that the DO NOTHING Republicans are worse than the CAN GET NOTHING DONE Democrats.
At least the Dems are TRYING to help our middle class.
And that, let us hope, may yet pay off and we can put the scourge of Trumpism forever behind us.
Soledad Ursua
Welcome to CALIFORNIA VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/SoledadUrsua/status/1483149190528004097
Welcome to the Venice-zuela Library, courtesy of Comrade Bonin!
@mikebonin
I guess Governor Newsom and Mayor Garcetti will ask you to please be quiet.
You are in a library zone
At once beautiful Venicde neach
right next to roger if he ever gets out
May be his next stop ?
I won't go into the other option
* Venice Beach (don't want to upset the spelling Nazi)
Tudor Dixon
FANTASTIC VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TudorDixon/status/1483179258876817409
We now know Gretchen Whitmer’s admin underreported long term care virus deaths by 42%…worse than Andrew Cuomo!
Michigan families deserve answers and Whitmer's victims deserve justice. She will continue to hide and dodge and won’t deliver it.
I will.
Funny how the FBI and Garland have missed all this. Guess they were unaware Michigan even existed.
And now Biden has nominated the individual who oversaw all this to a promotion in his administration.
Like she said he needs to come back to Michigan immediately and answer questions
Hopefully under oath.
But we know about "justice" under Biden
Banana Republic
Proof that the DO NOTHING Republicans are worse than the CAN GET NOTHING DONE Democrats.
Oh, but they are doing something pederast. They're blocking the left's agenda. That's worth it's weight in gold.
LOL.
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