Donald Trump Jr. https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1482029584992411658
To fully understand the hypocrisy and idiocy of today’s Democrat party remember that in the same week that they tried to eliminate the filibuster dems used said filibuster to go soft on Russia and enable them to get a pipeline and $$$. #AmericaLast
Byron York https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1482327278159908864
From @ggreenwald 'Senate Democrats Use the Jim Crow Filibuster to Protect the Kremlin.' The Cruz sanctions bill got 55 votes in the Senate but did not pass. Tyranny of the minority! Democracy at risk! Racist relic!
UNLIKE THE TRUMP SLURPERS ON THIS BLOG Some in GOP begin testing party's lockstep loyalty to Trump Associated Press JILL COLVIN January 16, 2022, 7:49 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party, holding a rally in Arizona on Saturday in which he castigated anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, including the state’s GOP governor, Doug Ducey.
But 2,000 miles to the east in Washington, there are small signs that some Republicans are tiring of the charade. Mike Rounds, the generally unassuming senator from South Dakota, was perhaps the boldest in acknowledging the reality that the election was in fact fair. Instead of being shunned, he was supported by his GOP colleagues, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Rounds later said the party needed to get “ louder ” in telling voters the truth about the 2020 campaign.
Meanwhile, top Republicans in Washington have engaged in a behind-the-scenes effort to encourage Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, one of Trump’s most vocal antagonists in the party, to run for a Senate seat. And on Saturday, Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican since 2010 to be sworn in as Virginia’s governor after running a campaign that kept Trump at arm's length.
Less than two months before the 2022 primary season begins, Trump remains the most popular figure among the voters who will decide which Republicans advance to the fall general election. But the recent dynamics bring new clarity to the debate that will likely animate the GOP all year: how closely candidates should align themselves with Trump and his election lie.
“I was very encouraged by the response from a number of different senators supportive of Sen. Rounds,” said former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been a rare Republican urging the party to move on from Trump and his election obsession.
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claims that the election was stolen. Elections officials and his own attorney general rejected the notion. Trump’s arguments have also been roundly dismissed by the courts, including judges appointed by the former president.
Still, dissent from Trump's election lie within the GOP remains rare. From Ohio to Georgia and Arizona, candidates running for Senate, governor and attorney general have fully embraced Trump’s falsehoods as they have tried to win over his endorsement, deflect his fury or win over his base. Those efforts were on full display in Arizona Saturday night as Trump-endorsed candidates falsely declared the election had been stolen and Trump the duly elected president.
In the short term, such positioning may help Republican candidates come out on top in primary fields that are often crowded. But there are concerns that it could hurt the party in the fall, especially among suburban voters who have become increasingly decisive in recent campaigns. The further to the right that Republicans go now, the easier it could become for their Democratic rivals to portray them as extreme in a general election.
And any time candidates spend looking backward is time not spent attacking President Joe Biden, who is seen as particularly vulnerable due to rising inflation and coronavirus cases.
“It’s one of those issues that’s quintessentially popular in a primary and unpopular in a general," said Chris DeRose, a Republican attorney and former clerk of the superior court in Arizona's Maricopa County.
He said candidates, who often privately acknowledge the election was fair, were clearly courting the former president by expressing skepticism about the 2020 election. IN OTHER WORDS, LYING.
“Donald Trump’s obviously the most sought-after endorsement among Republican candidates," he said. “That can make all the difference in a Republican primary.”
John Shimkus, a Republican and former Illinois congressman, said it was easy for “armchair quarterbacks” who aren’t on the ballot to judge candidates doing what they can to win their primaries.
“All the races are going to be fought by Trump and highlighted on Fox. So these candidates have to be very, very careful. They have to win the primary to win the general," he said.
The risk, however, is clear in Arizona's Senate race. In a year favoring Republicans, the state should be a relatively attainable pickup and some in the party are eager for Ducey to enter the race against Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly. But Trump's repeated attacks on Ducey, who has refused to back election conspiracies, could make it hard for him to succeed in a GOP primary.
Before his trip, Trump, who continues to tease another run for president in 2024, issued a statement that he would never endorse Ducey. And he continued to rail against him at the rally, which was dominated by his grievances over the election that was held more than 14 months ago.
“He’s a disaster,” said Trump. “Ducey has been a terrible, terrible representative of your state."
Whichever Republicans emerge on top in Arizona and other critical races will have to convince voters that they should participate in an election system Trump has spent years deriding as rigged.
Many Republicans still blame Trump for the party’s loss of Georgia's two Senate runoff elections in 2021, arguing he depressed turnout by undermining confidence in the voting system, denying them control of the Senate. (Trump has argued that further investigation is the only way to instill confidence in future elections.)
“Trump still has this outsized voice and influence and too many candidates fear his wrath,” said Charlie Dent, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and Trump critic. “We know Donald Trump will use his megaphone to condemn those who don’t buy his lies and his false narrative on the 2020 election. So these candidates are put in a bind: If they tell the truth, they run the risk of losing their primaries and incurring the wrath of Trump, and if they acquiesce and go along with this nonsense, they run the risk of alienating a lot of voters.”
Still, DeRose said he has no concern that the issue will depress turnout, despite what happened in Georgia.
“The Republican base is quite enthusiastic,” he said, predicting turnout on par with 2010, when Republicans made historic gains in the House. With soaring inflation, ongoing criticism over Biden's pullout from Afghanistan, he said, "Things aren’t going well in this country and I think you’re going to see this enormous blowback.”
Others disagreed. Barbara Comstock, a Trump critic and former GOP congresswoman from Virginia, warned Republicans risked nominating fringe candidates who would go on to lose in the general.
“Republicans feel like they’re going to win no matter who's on the ticket. And I don’t agree with that thesis," she said, pointing to Ohio, where Senate candidates have been trying to desperately out-Trump one another. “I think you really are taking a chance in blowing reliable races.”
Nonetheless, Trump remained fixated on the issue on Saturday in Florence, Arizona, a Republican stronghold about 70 miles southeast of Phoenix. It's the first of what aides say will be a brisker pace of Trump events in the coming months. Trump on Friday announced another rally later in January in Texas, where the March 1 primary formally ushers in the midterm campaign.
AND INCREASING PORTION OF THE GOP IS GETTING SICK OF TRUMP. ___
Associated Press writer Stephen Groves in Pierre, South Dakota, contributed to this report
THE LIAR Trump Holds First Rally of the Year AND CONTINUES LYING January 16, 2022 at 10:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Former President Donald Trump held his first political rally of the new year in Arizona on Friday, continuing to insist that he had won the 2020 election without evidence, the New York Post reports.
Said Trump: “Last year we had a rigged election and the proof is all over the place. We have a lot of proof and they know it’s proof. They always talk about the Big Lie — they’re the Big Lie.”
NO, YOU ARE.
He added: “The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.”
TRUMP GOT THAT RIGHT!. HIS LIE IS INDEED 'A LOT OF BULLSHIT'!
@RichardGrenell at the #SaveAmerica rally: "Gone is the day when we had a fight between Republicans and Democrats. It's a fight between Washington DC and the rest of America."
Biden Needs to Shift Focus of Midterms January 16, 2022 at 10:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Dan Balz: “Looking to November, absent a turnaround, the more the elections become a pure referendum on the president, the more his party will suffer. Biden’s opportunity could be to try to shift the focus, to prompt swing suburban voters to ask themselves whether a Republican Congress would return the country to the chaos of the Trump years, with House GOP leaders promising retribution if they take control and the party generally lacking a clear governing agenda.”
Dr. Benjamin Braddock https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1482188562451902475
Virginia’s new Attorney General has just fired the entire civil rights division in the AG office and announced that he will prosecute criminal cases in jurisdictions where Soros DAs decline to prosecute.
He is also the first PoC Attorney General in Virginia history!
Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders/directives include rescinding the Virginia vaccine mandate for state employees, rescinding the mask mandate for children in schools, ending crt in schools, and investigating wrongdoing in Loudoun County
Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI Dallas field office, said the hostage taker was thought to have been “singularly focused on one issue not specifically related to the Jewish community.”
Well genius, the fucking raghead took hostages at a synagogue on a fucking SATURDAY, so I think we can conclude that the target was JEWS. Stick with the false flag shit, you fucking moron. Real law enforcement of real crime is simply out of your reach.
Scott Johnson schizophrenia said every day since election night.
Last year we had a rigged election and the proof is all over the place. We have a lot of proof and they know it’s proof. They always talk about the Big Lie — they’re the Big Lie.
The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.
The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.
True, but it's YOUR bullshit, alky.
My team never believed it for a second. The phony 'lie' that is.
You want us to believe that the guy who was sequestered to a basement by his handlers and couldn't draw enough people to a rally to fill a handicapped rest room stall garnered 81 MILLION votes.
There's your big lie champ. And the harder you peddle it, the more we laugh at it.
"The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one. All the jobs that we have seen gained is recovered jobs that were lost. We're not yet producing new jobs," says economist @NelaRichardson on the labor market.
CDC | Data as of: January 15, 2022 4:53 PM ET. Posted: January 15, 2022 6:13 PM ET Skip Table State/Territory 7-Day Case Rate per 100,000 Rhode Island 3,134.3 New York City* 2,715.9 Delaware 2,393.2 New York (LoT) 2,236.5 Utah 2,130.4 California 2,130 Massachusetts 2,123.4 New Jersey 2,023.5 Colorado 1,985 Arkansas 1,966.7 South Carolina 1,934.6 Wisconsin 1,915.8 Florida 1,908.9 Louisiana 1,897.2
Trump's Electoral Forgery/FraudThe smoking guns are all around us
Charlie Sykes
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Happy Sunday! Before you get immersed in a day of playoff football, I’d like to urge you to think about the implications of this story:
In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump's allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost. The documents had no impact on the outcome of the election, but they are yet another example of how Team Trump tried to subvert the Electoral College -- a key line of inquiry for the January 6 committee.
The fake certificates were created by Trump allies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico, who sought to replace valid presidential electors from their states with a pro-Trump slate, according to documents obtained by American Oversight.
In other words, what we have here is attempted election fraud on a massive scale.
Some perspective: If an average voter lied on their registration forms or forged an absentee ballot, they would face criminal charges and a world of legal hurt.
But this case is far worse because the forged electoral certificates were coordinated, and part of a larger conspiracy to overturn the presidential election.
And the smoking guns are littered all around us.
Bill Kristol waves the red flag:
Bill Kristol @BillKristol
The forged electoral certificates show coordination across seven states. Those fake certificates were key to the plan of the Eastman memo and to the Jeffrey Clark DOJ draft letter to Georgia. The conspiracy involved fraud and force. At the head of the conspiracy: Donald Trump.
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This morning’s Wapo reports that the Biden DOJ “does not appear to be directly investigating the person whose desperate bid to stay in office motivated the mayhem — former president Donald Trump — either for potentially inciting a riot or for what some observers see as a related pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election.”
But attorney George Conway asks the key question: “how there could ������ have been a conspiracy or attempt by Trump or Eastman and others to "corruptly ... obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]" the electoral-vote count proceedings within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).
George Conway @gtconway3d
Makes you wonder how there could ������ have been a conspiracy or attempt by Trump or Eastman and others to "corruptly ... obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]" the electoral-vote count proceedings within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
Why the 7 forged certifications matter: Eastman memo: "Pence...announces because of the ongoing disputes...there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States...[So] there are 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels Trump re-elected.”
January 15th 2022
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Here’s the statute Conway is citing:
(c)Whoever corruptly—
(1)alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2)otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
**
Nota bene: The forgeries were not a side-show — they were an integral part of Trump’s attempt to overturn the election.
And the plan was widely known.
On December 10, 2020, a group of prominent “movement” conservatives signed an open letter call for swing states to “appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump.” They wrote:
There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president-elect.
Accordingly, state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan should exercise their plenary power under the Constitution and appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump. Similarly, both the House and Senate should accept only these clean Electoral College slates and object to and reject any competing slates in favor of Vice President Biden from these states.
Still 6 million more unemployed today then pre-pandemic.
Yep. And once you accept the fact that every narrative promoted by the left is a FALSE narrative, everything snaps into focus.
Until we fully recover from being 6 million jobs under water, every jobs report from now until we begin a net gain will basically be bullshit. It won't stop imbeciles like the alky from cheering it though.
The goat fucker continues to think that speaking for me makes his opinion correct.....Sorry sport, but you sure do make a rock look like a genius....>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Your hatred of the poor permeates your politics and support of the GOP! OTOH, since you are poor and can't afford to heat your home, just makes you a lazy fuck like the people you deplore!!!!!
“Looking to November, absent a turnaround, the more the elections become a pure referendum on the president, the more his party will suffer. Biden’s opportunity could be to try to shift the focus, to prompt swing suburban voters to ask themselves whether a Republican Congress would return the country to the chaos of the Trump years, with House GOP leaders promising retribution if they take control and the party generally lacking a clear governing agenda.”
I think most Americans would go back to the "chaos" of low unemployment, higher wages, growing GDP, and the occasional offensive late night tweet over the complete clown show we have today.
Does it really escape the fact that things were actually worse in 2021 than they were in 2020 or any other year in recent history? Do they not get that Biden approvals are literally as bad if not worse than Trump approvals, because at least with Trump you had a strong base following. There is no excitement over Biden, other than those who have him in their dead pools.
Yeah, I'll bet Americans would hate going back to the pre-covid days of GOP rule. The only true chaos was Democrats tripping over themselves making up excuses for their monthly impeachment charges.
Republicans have fear and conspiracy theories. They have no agenda.
Fox News host John Roberts forced Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to admit that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia elementary schools although he insisted that the philosophy is "present."
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, guest host John Roberts noted that Youngkin had kicked off his time in office by signing executive orders that ban the teaching of critical race theory.
"Critics of your position, including former President Obama say, look, critical race theory is not being taught in schools and that this was merely a trumped-up, phony culture war," Roberts said. "What do you say to that? And what does your executive order actually do in terms of critical race theory?"
"Anyone who thinks that the concepts that underpin critical race theory are not in our schools hasn't been in our schools," Youngkin said, speaking from an elementary school. "The curriculum has moved in a very opaque way that has hidden a lot of this from parents. And so we, in fact, are going to increase transparency so that parents can actually see what's being taught in schools."
"We're not going to teach our children to view everything through a lens of race," he said. "Yes, we will teach all history. The good and the bad. Because we can't know where we're going unless we know where we have come from. But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true."
Youngkin quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to underscore his point.
But Roberts pushed back.
"Is it your contention that critical race theory is being taught in Virginia public schools?" the Fox News host pressed.
"There's not a course called critical race theory," Youngkin admitted. "All the principles of critical race theory, the fundamental building blocks of actually accusing one group of being oppressors and another of being oppressed, of actually burdening children today for the sins of the past, for teaching our children to judge one another based on the color of their skin. Yes, that does exist in Virginia schools today. And that's why I have signed the executive orders yesterday to make sure that we get it out of our schools."
"Again, that's the contention of critics," Roberts pointed out, "that there are no courses on critical race theory that are being taught in Virginia public schools."
Fox News host John Roberts forced Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to admit that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia elementary schools although he insisted that the philosophy is "present."
Funny....the same logic can apply to the Big Lie......that trump philosphically won the election but did not have the votes!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
BTW........I answered a question with Because......has nothing to do with hating anyone but you, goat fucker....BTW.....where did you get 20 million heat with wood????? When you can't even prove an average family is 4 let alone 10's of millions......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sorry sport.....your gapping asshole has trumps dick stuck in it!!!!!! LOLOLOL
However, all of those counties also hold some advantages compared to the nation at large. They are all above the national average for vaccination rates and they all have a decent number of ICU beds available — Miami-Dade and Manhattan in particular.
So, in a sense, they have been exposed to the worst of omicron first, but they also have some built-in ways to combat it.
Other parts of the country still might be weeks away from their high point in the omicron surge, but they don’t hold those same advantages. Consider a scattering of rural counties.
Mayes County, Oklahoma, has a rate of only 477 new weekly cases per 100,000 population — less than a third of the national figure — but only 42 percent of its residents are fully vaccinated. In Clay County, Nebraska, the new weekly case rate in 467 per 100,000 and only 40 percent are fully vaccinated. In Lewis County, Tennessee, the figures are 440 per 100,000 and 35 percent vaccinated. In Big Horn County, Wyoming, it’s 204 and 37 percent. And in Stillwater County, Montana, it’s a rate of 176 per 100,000 and 41 percent vaccinated.
None of those counties have ICU beds in them and hundreds of rural counties are in the same boat.
As it often is with Covid, none of this certain. There are a lot of unknowns. How much of omicron’s “milder” symptoms are due to vaccination and how much are due to the nature of the variant? Could the more spread-out nature of rural places offer an additional defense against omicron?
But there are also some knowns here. Many of the nation’s rural counties have far lower vaccination rates than their urban counterparts. And if there is massive spread in rural communities, there simply are not a lot of rural hospitals to serve people, never mind ICU beds. Add in the fact that many rural communities tend to be home to older populations and the situation only looks more troubling.
Much of the hopes about omicron rest on the pattern it has shown in other countries — cases spike and then quickly fall off. That still may be the case in the United States, but for some communities it may not hold much comfort. The timing, size and impact of those spikes will likely vary dramatically with rural communities taking a hard hit in what could be a long hard winter.
The President has to provide reasonable support for the rural areas.
WASHINGTON (TND) — A leaked document appears to show the Virginia Department of Education encouraged public schools to "embrace" critical race theory (CRT) while Democrat Terry McAuliffe was governor.
McAuliffe, who is running for Virginia governor again this year, recently claimed critical race theory has "never been taught in Virginia," and criticized those concerned about critical race theory for promoting a divisive "dog-whistle."
The leaked document is a 2015 training program issued by the Virginia Department of Education.
As part of the program's “Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning Principles," public schools were encouraged to "embrace critical race theory," and "engage in race-conscious teaching and learning," according to the leaked presentation first reported by investigative journalist Christopher Rufo.
In addition, Va. Superintendent of Public Instruction James F. Lane sent a memo to all school districts in 2019 encouraging school leaders to read a book that calls critical race theory "an important analytic tool" for addressing "power and privilege."
...
The Virginia Department of Education currently cites critical race theory in its definition of "white supremacy" within the state's "Anti-Racism in Education" guidance. The curriculum also cites people like critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the book "How To Be An Antiracist."
I think maybe we should all be quite concerned about the possibility that not only Russia but China and even North Korea may perhaps now have hypersonic missiles that can fly five times(?) the speed of sound and are able to avoid interceptive defensive missiles.
And how could they have developed these capabilities during the presidencies of Carter, Reagan, W. Bush, Clinton, G. Bush, Obama, and Trump?
While we are viciously fighting each other politically, what are those opposing powers doing?
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Denny as I have established you as being against wood heat and against the poor.
How would you have 20 million Americans heat their homes affordably?
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1482029584992411658
To fully understand the hypocrisy and idiocy of today’s Democrat party remember that in the same week that they tried to eliminate the filibuster dems used said filibuster to go soft on Russia and enable them to get a pipeline and $$$. #AmericaLast
and try a "wag the dog" strategy with Russia
Can't make this shit up
Byron York
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1482327278159908864
From @ggreenwald 'Senate Democrats Use the Jim Crow Filibuster to Protect the Kremlin.' The Cruz sanctions bill got 55 votes in the Senate but did not pass. Tyranny of the minority! Democracy at risk! Racist relic!
smh
UNLIKE THE TRUMP SLURPERS ON THIS BLOG
Some in GOP begin testing party's lockstep loyalty to Trump
Associated Press
JILL COLVIN
January 16, 2022, 7:49 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party, holding a rally in Arizona on Saturday in which he castigated anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, including the state’s GOP governor, Doug Ducey.
But 2,000 miles to the east in Washington, there are small signs that some Republicans are tiring of the charade. Mike Rounds, the generally unassuming senator from South Dakota, was perhaps the boldest in acknowledging the reality that the election was in fact fair. Instead of being shunned, he was supported by his GOP colleagues, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Rounds later said the party needed to get “ louder ” in telling voters the truth about the 2020 campaign.
Meanwhile, top Republicans in Washington have engaged in a behind-the-scenes effort to encourage Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, one of Trump’s most vocal antagonists in the party, to run for a Senate seat. And on Saturday, Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican since 2010 to be sworn in as Virginia’s governor after running a campaign that kept Trump at arm's length.
Less than two months before the 2022 primary season begins, Trump remains the most popular figure among the voters who will decide which Republicans advance to the fall general election. But the recent dynamics bring new clarity to the debate that will likely animate the GOP all year: how closely candidates should align themselves with Trump and his election lie.
“I was very encouraged by the response from a number of different senators supportive of Sen. Rounds,” said former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been a rare Republican urging the party to move on from Trump and his election obsession.
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claims that the election was stolen. Elections officials and his own attorney general rejected the notion. Trump’s arguments have also been roundly dismissed by the courts, including judges appointed by the former president.
Still, dissent from Trump's election lie within the GOP remains rare. From Ohio to Georgia and Arizona, candidates running for Senate, governor and attorney general have fully embraced Trump’s falsehoods as they have tried to win over his endorsement, deflect his fury or win over his base. Those efforts were on full display in Arizona Saturday night as Trump-endorsed candidates falsely declared the election had been stolen and Trump the duly elected president.
In the short term, such positioning may help Republican candidates come out on top in primary fields that are often crowded. But there are concerns that it could hurt the party in the fall, especially among suburban voters who have become increasingly decisive in recent campaigns. The further to the right that Republicans go now, the easier it could become for their Democratic rivals to portray them as extreme in a general election.
And any time candidates spend looking backward is time not spent attacking President Joe Biden, who is seen as particularly vulnerable due to rising inflation and coronavirus cases.
“It’s one of those issues that’s quintessentially popular in a primary and unpopular in a general," said Chris DeRose, a Republican attorney and former clerk of the superior court in Arizona's Maricopa County.
He said candidates, who often privately acknowledge the election was fair, were clearly courting the former president by expressing skepticism about the 2020 election.
IN OTHER WORDS, LYING.
“Donald Trump’s obviously the most sought-after endorsement among Republican candidates," he said. “That can make all the difference in a Republican primary.”
John Shimkus, a Republican and former Illinois congressman, said it was easy for “armchair quarterbacks” who aren’t on the ballot to judge candidates doing what they can to win their primaries.
“All the races are going to be fought by Trump and highlighted on Fox. So these candidates have to be very, very careful. They have to win the primary to win the general," he said.
The risk, however, is clear in Arizona's Senate race. In a year favoring Republicans, the state should be a relatively attainable pickup and some in the party are eager for Ducey to enter the race against Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly. But Trump's repeated attacks on Ducey, who has refused to back election conspiracies, could make it hard for him to succeed in a GOP primary.
Before his trip, Trump, who continues to tease another run for president in 2024, issued a statement that he would never endorse Ducey. And he continued to rail against him at the rally, which was dominated by his grievances over the election that was held more than 14 months ago.
“He’s a disaster,” said Trump. “Ducey has been a terrible, terrible representative of your state."
Whichever Republicans emerge on top in Arizona and other critical races will have to convince voters that they should participate in an election system Trump has spent years deriding as rigged.
Many Republicans still blame Trump for the party’s loss of Georgia's two Senate runoff elections in 2021, arguing he depressed turnout by undermining confidence in the voting system, denying them control of the Senate. (Trump has argued that further investigation is the only way to instill confidence in future elections.)
“Trump still has this outsized voice and influence and too many candidates fear his wrath,” said Charlie Dent, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and Trump critic. “We know Donald Trump will use his megaphone to condemn those who don’t buy his lies and his false narrative on the 2020 election. So these candidates are put in a bind: If they tell the truth, they run the risk of losing their primaries and incurring the wrath of Trump, and if they acquiesce and go along with this nonsense, they run the risk of alienating a lot of voters.”
Still, DeRose said he has no concern that the issue will depress turnout, despite what happened in Georgia.
“The Republican base is quite enthusiastic,” he said, predicting turnout on par with 2010, when Republicans made historic gains in the House. With soaring inflation, ongoing criticism over Biden's pullout from Afghanistan, he said, "Things aren’t going well in this country and I think you’re going to see this enormous blowback.”
Others disagreed. Barbara Comstock, a Trump critic and former GOP congresswoman from Virginia, warned Republicans risked nominating fringe candidates who would go on to lose in the general.
“Republicans feel like they’re going to win no matter who's on the ticket. And I don’t agree with that thesis," she said, pointing to Ohio, where Senate candidates have been trying to desperately out-Trump one another. “I think you really are taking a chance in blowing reliable races.”
Nonetheless, Trump remained fixated on the issue on Saturday in Florence, Arizona, a Republican stronghold about 70 miles southeast of Phoenix. It's the first of what aides say will be a brisker pace of Trump events in the coming months. Trump on Friday announced another rally later in January in Texas, where the March 1 primary formally ushers in the midterm campaign.
AND INCREASING PORTION OF THE GOP IS GETTING SICK OF TRUMP.
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Associated Press writer Stephen Groves in Pierre, South Dakota, contributed to this report
Dan Scavino Jr.
FANTASTIC VIDEO"
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1482530723131105287
45 ARRIVES IN ARIZONA…
______________________
AMERICA is GETTING SICK OF THE ELEVEN PERCENTERS !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
THE LIAR
Trump Holds First Rally of the Year
AND CONTINUES LYING
January 16, 2022 at 10:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Former President Donald Trump held his first political rally of the new year in Arizona on Friday, continuing to insist that he had won the 2020 election without evidence, the New York Post reports.
Said Trump:
“Last year we had a rigged election and the proof is all over the place. We have a lot of proof and they know it’s proof. They always talk about the Big Lie — they’re the Big Lie.”
NO, YOU ARE.
He added:
“The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.”
TRUMP GOT THAT RIGHT!.
HIS LIE IS INDEED 'A LOT OF BULLSHIT'!
Newsmax
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1482535392456982531
@RichardGrenell at the #SaveAmerica rally: "Gone is the day when we had a fight between Republicans and Democrats. It's a fight between Washington DC and the rest of America."
What a speech and rally !!!
Trump is back
America cheers
Biden Needs to Shift Focus of Midterms
January 16, 2022 at 10:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Dan Balz:
“Looking to November, absent a turnaround, the more the elections become a pure referendum on the president, the more his party will suffer. Biden’s opportunity could be to try to shift the focus, to prompt swing suburban voters to ask themselves whether a Republican Congress would return the country to the chaos of the Trump years, with House GOP leaders promising retribution if they take control and the party generally lacking a clear governing agenda.”
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend
THE LIAR
the POS "pastor" should also add "eleven percenter" to his moniker
and leave off everything before "reverend"
ain't that the truth
ROFLMFAO !!!
Dr. Benjamin Braddock
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1482188562451902475
Virginia’s new Attorney General has just fired the entire civil rights division in the AG office and announced that he will prosecute criminal cases in jurisdictions where Soros DAs decline to prosecute.
He is also the first PoC Attorney General in Virginia history!
should happen to all Soros DAs across the country
America is coming back !!!
Greg Price
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1482431100005801985
Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders/directives include rescinding the Virginia vaccine mandate for state employees, rescinding the mask mandate for children in schools, ending crt in schools, and investigating wrongdoing in Loudoun County
Extremely popular actions !!!
America is back !!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Put a meaning to your term James.
"TRUMP SLURPERS".
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1482143692567764992
Joe Biden is so unpopular that Stacey Abrams didnt even show up to his voting event in Atlanta... and they had free snacks.
This is our FBI:
Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI Dallas field office, said the hostage taker was thought to have been “singularly focused on one issue not specifically related to the Jewish community.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/swat-team-involved-incident-synagogue-colleyville-texas-rcna12376
Well genius, the fucking raghead took hostages at a synagogue on a fucking SATURDAY, so I think we can conclude that the target was JEWS. Stick with the false flag shit, you fucking moron. Real law enforcement of real crime is simply out of your reach.
Scott Johnson schizophrenia said every day since election night.
Last year we had a rigged election and the proof is all over the place. We have a lot of proof and they know it’s proof. They always talk about the Big Lie — they’re the Big Lie.
The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.
The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is.
True, but it's YOUR bullshit, alky.
My team never believed it for a second. The phony 'lie' that is.
You want us to believe that the guy who was sequestered to a basement by his handlers and couldn't draw enough people to a rally to fill a handicapped rest room stall garnered 81 MILLION votes.
There's your big lie champ. And the harder you peddle it, the more we laugh at it.
There were more people in line at a single porta potty at Trump's rally than Joe Biden could draw on a good day.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1482663313771315205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1482663313771315205%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F
Oh shock the pederast is spamming shit no one reads
James also doesn't debate or answer questions
True, but it's YOUR bullshit, alky.
You still maintain trump lost because of voter fraud without a shred of evidence......God you people are collectively a bunch of dumb shits!!!!!!!!
Roger for 5 years you believe Putin help Trump Defeat Hillary, do you still believe it?
Welcome back Denny.
Continuing or debate.
Denny as I have established you as being against wood heat and against the poor.
How would you have 20 million Americans heat their homes affordably?
"The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one. All the jobs that we have seen gained is recovered jobs that were lost. We're not yet producing new jobs," says economist
@NelaRichardson on the labor market.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1481266929306374148
RRB, true .
You know that your are talking we'll over the heads of the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
Still 6 million more unemployed today then pre-pandemic.
Hey Denny! About Florida? Why do you continue to lie?
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fcases-updates%2Fcases-in-us.html#cases_casesper100klast7days
CDC | Data as of: January 15, 2022 4:53 PM ET. Posted: January 15, 2022 6:13 PM ET
Skip Table
State/Territory 7-Day Case Rate per 100,000
Rhode Island 3,134.3
New York City* 2,715.9
Delaware 2,393.2
New York (LoT) 2,236.5
Utah 2,130.4
California 2,130
Massachusetts 2,123.4
New Jersey 2,023.5
Colorado 1,985
Arkansas 1,966.7
South Carolina 1,934.6
Wisconsin 1,915.8
Florida 1,908.9
Louisiana 1,897.2
MORNING SHOTS
Trump's Electoral Forgery/FraudThe smoking guns are all around us
Charlie Sykes
1 hr ago
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Happy Sunday! Before you get immersed in a day of playoff football, I’d like to urge you to think about the implications of this story:
In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump's allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost. The documents had no impact on the outcome of the election, but they are yet another example of how Team Trump tried to subvert the Electoral College -- a key line of inquiry for the January 6 committee.
The fake certificates were created by Trump allies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico, who sought to replace valid presidential electors from their states with a pro-Trump slate, according to documents obtained by American Oversight.
In other words, what we have here is attempted election fraud on a massive scale.
Some perspective: If an average voter lied on their registration forms or forged an absentee ballot, they would face criminal charges and a world of legal hurt.
But this case is far worse because the forged electoral certificates were coordinated, and part of a larger conspiracy to overturn the presidential election.
And the smoking guns are littered all around us.
Bill Kristol waves the red flag:
Bill Kristol @BillKristol
The forged electoral certificates show coordination across seven states. Those fake certificates were key to the plan of the Eastman memo and to the Jeffrey Clark DOJ draft letter to Georgia. The conspiracy involved fraud and force. At the head of the conspiracy: Donald Trump.
January 15th 2022
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This morning’s Wapo reports that the Biden DOJ “does not appear to be directly investigating the person whose desperate bid to stay in office motivated the mayhem — former president Donald Trump — either for potentially inciting a riot or for what some observers see as a related pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election.”
But attorney George Conway asks the key question: “how there could ������ have been a conspiracy or attempt by Trump or Eastman and others to "corruptly ... obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]" the electoral-vote count proceedings within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).
George Conway @gtconway3d
Makes you wonder how there could ������ have been a conspiracy or attempt by Trump or Eastman and others to "corruptly ... obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]" the electoral-vote count proceedings within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
Why the 7 forged certifications matter: Eastman memo: "Pence...announces because of the ongoing disputes...there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States...[So] there are 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels Trump re-elected.”
January 15th 2022
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Here’s the statute Conway is citing:
(c)Whoever corruptly—
(1)alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2)otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
**
Nota bene: The forgeries were not a side-show — they were an integral part of Trump’s attempt to overturn the election.
And the plan was widely known.
On December 10, 2020, a group of prominent “movement” conservatives signed an open letter call for swing states to “appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump.” They wrote:
There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president-elect.
Accordingly, state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan should exercise their plenary power under the Constitution and appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump. Similarly, both the House and Senate should accept only these clean Electoral College slates and object to and reject any competing slates in favor of Vice President Biden from these states.
Still 6 million more unemployed today then pre-pandemic.
Yep. And once you accept the fact that every narrative promoted by the left is a FALSE narrative, everything snaps into focus.
Until we fully recover from being 6 million jobs under water, every jobs report from now until we begin a net gain will basically be bullshit. It won't stop imbeciles like the alky from cheering it though.
Roger for 5 years you believe Putin help Trump Defeat Hillary, do you still believe it?
Sykes, Kristol, and Conway -
The Three Musketeers of the pre-pubescent ass-rapists at the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association.
The goat fucker continues to think that speaking for me makes his opinion correct.....Sorry sport, but you sure do make a rock look like a genius....>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Your hatred of the poor permeates your politics and support of the GOP! OTOH, since you are poor and can't afford to heat your home, just makes you a lazy fuck like the people you deplore!!!!!
“Looking to November, absent a turnaround, the more the elections become a pure referendum on the president, the more his party will suffer. Biden’s opportunity could be to try to shift the focus, to prompt swing suburban voters to ask themselves whether a Republican Congress would return the country to the chaos of the Trump years, with House GOP leaders promising retribution if they take control and the party generally lacking a clear governing agenda.”
I think most Americans would go back to the "chaos" of low unemployment, higher wages, growing GDP, and the occasional offensive late night tweet over the complete clown show we have today.
Does it really escape the fact that things were actually worse in 2021 than they were in 2020 or any other year in recent history? Do they not get that Biden approvals are literally as bad if not worse than Trump approvals, because at least with Trump you had a strong base following. There is no excitement over Biden, other than those who have him in their dead pools.
Yeah, I'll bet Americans would hate going back to the pre-covid days of GOP rule. The only true chaos was Democrats tripping over themselves making up excuses for their monthly impeachment charges.
Roger is a faithful water carrier of Biden's.
Both don't u understand economics.
RRB, did Roger send a wedding invite to you?. I haven't got mine yet, July 2022 is coming fast.
Denny, I don't speak for you, ever.
Your post where you said you hate the poor is there for all to read.
You don't like wood heat, ok. So don't use it. Your choice.
But, for the poor who, if you had your way and forced them to stop using it, how do you propose the heat their home, affordably?
Republicans have fear and conspiracy theories. They have no agenda.
Fox News host John Roberts forced Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to admit that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia elementary schools although he insisted that the philosophy is "present."
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, guest host John Roberts noted that Youngkin had kicked off his time in office by signing executive orders that ban the teaching of critical race theory.
"Critics of your position, including former President Obama say, look, critical race theory is not being taught in schools and that this was merely a trumped-up, phony culture war," Roberts said. "What do you say to that? And what does your executive order actually do in terms of critical race theory?"
"Anyone who thinks that the concepts that underpin critical race theory are not in our schools hasn't been in our schools," Youngkin said, speaking from an elementary school. "The curriculum has moved in a very opaque way that has hidden a lot of this from parents. And so we, in fact, are going to increase transparency so that parents can actually see what's being taught in schools."
"We're not going to teach our children to view everything through a lens of race," he said. "Yes, we will teach all history. The good and the bad. Because we can't know where we're going unless we know where we have come from. But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true."
Youngkin quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to underscore his point.
But Roberts pushed back.
"Is it your contention that critical race theory is being taught in Virginia public schools?" the Fox News host pressed.
"There's not a course called critical race theory," Youngkin admitted. "All the principles of critical race theory, the fundamental building blocks of actually accusing one group of being oppressors and another of being oppressed, of actually burdening children today for the sins of the past, for teaching our children to judge one another based on the color of their skin. Yes, that does exist in Virginia schools today. And that's why I have signed the executive orders yesterday to make sure that we get it out of our schools."
"Again, that's the contention of critics," Roberts pointed out, "that there are no courses on critical race theory that are being taught in Virginia public schools."
Fox News host John Roberts forced Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to admit that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia elementary schools although he insisted that the philosophy is "present."
Funny....the same logic can apply to the Big Lie......that trump philosphically won the election but did not have the votes!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
sasDemocrat said...
Denny, I don't speak for you, ever.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! That's all you do goat fucker!!!!! Sure can't fix your idiocy goat fucker, but your opinion is most amusing!!!!!!
Agenda .
Get America working Again.
Biden has at least 6 million able bodied Americans not working.
Roger your predictions are legendary in how wrong they are.
Your Biden Build Back Broker policies have failed
I see your white flag Denny.
BTW........I answered a question with Because......has nothing to do with hating anyone but you, goat fucker....BTW.....where did you get 20 million heat with wood????? When you can't even prove an average family is 4 let alone 10's of millions......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sorry sport.....your gapping asshole has trumps dick stuck in it!!!!!! LOLOLOL
However, all of those counties also hold some advantages compared to the nation at large. They are all above the national average for vaccination rates and they all have a decent number of ICU beds available — Miami-Dade and Manhattan in particular.
So, in a sense, they have been exposed to the worst of omicron first, but they also have some built-in ways to combat it.
Other parts of the country still might be weeks away from their high point in the omicron surge, but they don’t hold those same advantages. Consider a scattering of rural counties.
Mayes County, Oklahoma, has a rate of only 477 new weekly cases per 100,000 population — less than a third of the national figure — but only 42 percent of its residents are fully vaccinated. In Clay County, Nebraska, the new weekly case rate in 467 per 100,000 and only 40 percent are fully vaccinated. In Lewis County, Tennessee, the figures are 440 per 100,000 and 35 percent vaccinated. In Big Horn County, Wyoming, it’s 204 and 37 percent. And in Stillwater County, Montana, it’s a rate of 176 per 100,000 and 41 percent vaccinated.
None of those counties have ICU beds in them and hundreds of rural counties are in the same boat.
As it often is with Covid, none of this certain. There are a lot of unknowns. How much of omicron’s “milder” symptoms are due to vaccination and how much are due to the nature of the variant? Could the more spread-out nature of rural places offer an additional defense against omicron?
But there are also some knowns here. Many of the nation’s rural counties have far lower vaccination rates than their urban counterparts. And if there is massive spread in rural communities, there simply are not a lot of rural hospitals to serve people, never mind ICU beds. Add in the fact that many rural communities tend to be home to older populations and the situation only looks more troubling.
Much of the hopes about omicron rest on the pattern it has shown in other countries — cases spike and then quickly fall off. That still may be the case in the United States, but for some communities it may not hold much comfort. The timing, size and impact of those spikes will likely vary dramatically with rural communities taking a hard hit in what could be a long hard winter.
The President has to provide reasonable support for the rural areas.
I saw it on Meet the press
Denny, I don't speak for you, ever.
Your post where you said you hate the poor is there for all to read.
You don't like wood heat, ok. So don't use it. Your choice.
But, for the poor who, if you had your way and forced them to stop using it, how do you propose the heat their home, affordably?
I await your answer/solution.
Roger, when exactly does Biden's Build Back Broker policies get us back to pre-pandemic levels.
6 million short as of today.
So I grant you a Mulligans on your prior failed predictions.
RRB, did Roger send a wedding invite to you?
Nope. I haven't heard from the wife-beater's lawyer yet either.
LOL.
Alky lies are so easily disproven -
WASHINGTON (TND) — A leaked document appears to show the Virginia Department of Education encouraged public schools to "embrace" critical race theory (CRT) while Democrat Terry McAuliffe was governor.
McAuliffe, who is running for Virginia governor again this year, recently claimed critical race theory has "never been taught in Virginia," and criticized those concerned about critical race theory for promoting a divisive "dog-whistle."
The leaked document is a 2015 training program issued by the Virginia Department of Education.
As part of the program's “Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning Principles," public schools were encouraged to "embrace critical race theory," and "engage in race-conscious teaching and learning," according to the leaked presentation first reported by investigative journalist Christopher Rufo.
In addition, Va. Superintendent of Public Instruction James F. Lane sent a memo to all school districts in 2019 encouraging school leaders to read a book that calls critical race theory "an important analytic tool" for addressing "power and privilege."
...
The Virginia Department of Education currently cites critical race theory in its definition of "white supremacy" within the state's "Anti-Racism in Education" guidance. The curriculum also cites people like critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the book "How To Be An Antiracist."
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/documents-reveal-mcauliffe-pushed-virginia-schools-to-teach-critical-race-theory
And here are the actual docs from the VA Dept. of Education:
https://christopherrufo.com/mcaullifes-crt-lie/
I think maybe we should all be quite concerned about the possibility that not only Russia but China and even North Korea may perhaps now have hypersonic missiles that can fly five times(?) the speed of sound and are able to avoid interceptive defensive missiles.
And how could they have developed these capabilities during the presidencies of Carter, Reagan, W. Bush, Clinton, G. Bush, Obama, and Trump?
While we are viciously fighting each other politically, what are those opposing powers doing?
China Russia and NorKs
As always the pederast comes out behind the autocratic regimes
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