According to the poll, 72 percent of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction — essentially unchanged from the 71 percent who held this view in October’s NBC News poll. It marks just the sixth time in the poll’s history when 70 percent or more have said the nation is on the wrong track in back-to-back surveys. “In the three instances when this sustained dark outlook coincided with an election year, it foreshadowed bad news for the party in power — 1992, 2008 and 2016,” said Horwitt, the Democratic pollster.
On the economy, while job creation is up and the unemployment rate is down, 61 percent of respondents in the poll say their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living. That’s compared with 30 percent who say they’re staying about even and 7 percent who say their income is going up faster than the cost of living
On the state of the nation’s politics, 70 percent agree with the statement that America has become so polarized that it can no longer solve the major issues facing the country — and that those differences will only continue to grow.
There once was a time when Presidential approvals and direction of country numbers ran fairly close. Now you have partisans whom will admit that the country is going afoul, but don't want to blame their own leader. But direction of country might be as important (if not more important) to the fate of your midterm elections. If 70% of the country (or somewhere in the area) still sees the country heading backwards, they will take it out on the Party in charge.
More to the point, one of the main reasons why people voted for Biden was the hope that he would bring people together and bring us back to a place of normalcy. But going out and demanding your political opponents are akin to racists who were in favor of slavery, then both denying you said it while doubling down, all the while getting more and more angry over the concept of being questioned... really isn't helping.
This is on the Democrats. As much for overpromising how things would be if they were in charge as it is for not delivering even the things that they will argue are out of their control. You don't get to campaign on fixing something, and then get into power and blame circumstances out of your control for not following through.
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We have a plan to avoid this horror story President Biden!
Make Congress Great Again
Imagine a Republican majority electing former President Trump as speaker of the House. It could happen.
By...............
House Democrats can subpoena President Trump or they can yield back the balance of their time to Speaker Trump. They can carry on about January 6, 2021, until the midterms on November 8, 2022, or they can hold out until January 3, 2023, when the 117th Congress ends. If they choose humiliation over honor, they may lose twice on Election Day: first, at the polls; then, with the election of Donald Trump as speaker of the House.
To be second in the presidential line of succession, and sit next to Vice President Harris while Joe Biden stands (unassisted) and speaks before Congress; to preside while Biden stammers and wince as the president struggles to speak; to watch Biden lose face while refusing to cover his own; to do these things would be a coup for Trump and a win for the Republican Party.
Because the Constitution does not require that the speaker be an incumbent member of the House, Trump can take Nancy Pelosi’s gavel with a simple majority of 218 votes. He does not have to run for anything to ruin everything for the White House and congressional Democrats. And should Liz Cheney win reelection, she can join “the squad” and be a moderate among extremists, or resign her seat and be George P. Bush’s running mate in 2036.
A Trump speakership would also save history from those who continue to attack and revise it; who sit (for now) in judgment, in spite of having judged Trump wanting; who sit as bipartisan and unanimous supporters of the second impeachment of President Trump.
Trump would have the power to call the roll, and have the House clerk read the names of Thompson, Lofgren, Murphy, Luria, Aguilar, Raskin, and Schiff. He would have the right to pause, and have the clerk finish with Kinzinger and Cheney.
He would be remiss if he did not make a show of the farce of a trial against him.
House Republicans would be remiss if they elect Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) instead, because he is a political minority—a red in a deep blue state—with none of the energy or influence of Trump.
If Republicans choose to repeat history and suffer the tragedy of McCarthyism, not the tragedy of censure and collapse but the shame of infamy and irrelevance, they will be a majority without a mission.
If they revert to the ways of their former colleague, and adopt the means of another Wisconsin politician, if they choose to repeat the mistakes of Paul Ryan, they will be a majority without a mandate.
Better therefore to have a president in the House than a House in which Republicans cannot check the policies of the White House.
Better to inaugurate the 118th Congress with pomp and circumstance, glorying in the pageantry of power, with the protection of the Secret Service and the presence of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Best to see the peaceful transfer of power, as Nancy Pelosi watches Speaker Trump exercise power.
Seig Heil Mr Trump
To be second in the presidential line of succession, and sit next to Vice President Harris while Joe Biden stands (unassisted) and speaks before Congress; to preside while Biden stammers and wince as the president struggles to speak; to watch Biden lose face while refusing to cover his own; to do these things would be a coup for Trump and a win for the Republican Party.
S. Scott you schizophrenia victim will cheer and laugh at the alky
The problem is Scott, that this is very likely to happen. Because people like you have been brainwashed by Trump.
Sieg Heil
Exactly right.
"On the economy, while job creation is up and the unemployment rate is down, 61 percent of respondents in the poll say their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living"
Madam Amick doesn't understand.
STRAIGHT TALK FROM DR. FAUCI
Fauci optimistic omicron will peak in February
ABC News
January 23, 2022, 10:49 AM
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday he is "as confident as you can be" about the prospect of most states reaching a peak of omicron cases by mid-February.
"You never want to be overconfident when you're dealing with this virus," Fauci told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, adding that the COVID-19 virus has "surprised us in the past.
"Things are looking good. We don't want to get overconfident, but they look like they're going in the right direction right now," he said.
Fauci said there are states in the northeast and in the upper midwest where cases have already peaked and declined "rather sharply" but that cases are still rising in southern and western states.
"There may be a bit more pain and suffering with hospitalizations in those areas of the country that have not been fully vaccinated or have not gotten boosters," he warned.
When Raddatz asked "what should life look like" going forward and about the "long-term strategy" for dealing with future peaks and variants, Fauci said the hope is the level of infection will be below what he calls an "area of control."
"Control means you're not eliminating it, you're not eradicating it, but it gets down to such a low level, that it's essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with."
Fauci said the aspiration is that future variants won't "disrupt society" or "create a fear of severe outcomes that are broad" but that the country should still be "prepared for the worst-case scenario."
"We'd like it to get down to that level where it doesn't disrupt us in the sense of getting back to a degree of normality. That's the best-case scenario."
As the Biden administration begins to ship out free COVID-19 tests to Americans and provide free masks across the country, Fauci told Raddatz these kinds of protections could help keep future variants at a "lower level."
"What about the next booster shot?" Raddatz pressed, noting that it's now been five months since some Americans received their booster. "How soon should we get another one?"
"We don't know," Fauci responded, adding that it's unclear whether an additional booster shot will be recommended since scientists are still trying to determine how much protection is provided by the first booster. But, he said, it's "quite conceivable, and I hope it's true, that the third shot boost will give a much greater durability of protection.
"We may need to boost again, but before we make that decision, we want to determine what the durability is," Fauci added.
“Before we make that decision about yet again another boost, we want to determine clearly what the durability of protection is of that regular boost.”
REMEMBER WHEN CH WAS TELLING US CHILDREN WOULD NOT NEED TO GET PROTECTION AGAINST THE VIRUS?
Data released on Tuesday shows that nearly 1 million children tested positive for COVID-19 last week, according to new a weekly report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, and 28.8 million eligible children still remain completely unvaccinated.
Some schools in the U.S. are opting to remove mask mandates, and when asked by Raddatz if it is "safe to send your kids back to school without masks," Fauci stressed their importance, along with other mitigation efforts.
"You surround the children with people who are vaccinated. For the children who are eligible to be vaccinated, get them vaccinated. And provide in the school masks where you can have children protected, as well as ventilation to make sure that you can get a respiratory infection at its lowest level of infectivity. All of those things go together. And masking is a part of that."
Two things could reverse course.
One if the pandemic becomes the flu if the CEO of Phyzer said.
Two: instead of pushing for the BBB bill and instead of following a path to the left side as he tried and failed...
He needs to motivate moderate voters, remind them that the economy is growing rapidly despite inflation, and if the supply chain improves, and lower government spending, might get just enough support to avoid a landslide slaughter.
And if the House of representatives hearings are in public like during Watergate, and show the public how close he came to overturn the Constitution. The Republicans will look like accomplishments in treason.
Prediction for today.
The Los Angeles Rams will defeat The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and The Kansas City Chiefs will defeat the Buffalo Bills.
I want to see the Rams win the Super Bowl against the Kansas City in their hometown stadium!
Former Attorney General William Barr has talked to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the panel’s chair said on Sunday.
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said: “We’ve had conversations with the former attorney general already. We have talked to Department of Defense individuals.”
He might be the Jim Dean....of January 6th Insurrection investigation.
Could
Might
If
Yawn
Why didn't you post this?????
President Joe Biden woke up, Sunday morning, to his best polling news in quite some time. And it came from a rather unlikely source: Fox News.
The network’s new survey, out Sunday, gave the president a 47 percent job approval rating. According to FiveThirtyEight’s aggregation of all presidential approval polls, that number is several points higher than any other survey released in the past month, and more than five points higher than Biden’s current average of 41.9 percent. Forty-seven percent matches the number Biden received in the most recent Fox News poll, released last month.
FiveThirtyEight, which tracks the reliability of various pollsters, gives Fox News an A rating — making it one of the most credible in the field, according to the Nate Silver-founded site. So this number could be a sign that the tide is turning for the president.
Lol. Thst fox poll is a long list of bad news. Roger doung is best desperate spinning to pretend it's positive and nothing else.
Actually it has gone as I expected it would.
Fake news robotics according to kputz.
Fauci optimistic omicron will peak in February
"Things are looking good," he said on Sunday.
By
Justin Gomez
January 23, 2022, 11:49 AM ET
• 5 min read
Omicron surge 'going in right direction' with many states past peak: Dr. FauciMartha Raddatz interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci on "This Week."Pool via Reuters
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday he is "as confident as you can be" about the prospect of most states reaching a peak of omicron cases by mid-February.
"You never want to be overconfident when you're dealing with this virus," Fauci told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, adding that the COVID-19 virus has "surprised us in the past."
"Things are looking good. We don't want to get overconfident, but they look like they're going in the right direction right now," he said.
RCP Average1/3 - 1/2041.254.9-13.7
FOX News1/16 - 1/194752-5
Rasmussen1/18 - 1/204158-17
Reuters1/19 - 1/204352-9
YouGov1/15 - 1/184253-11
NBC News1/14 - 1/184454-10
Politico1/15 - 1/164056-16
Trafalgar1/12 - 1/153959-20
Quinnipiac1/7 - 1/103554-19
Gallup1/3 - 1/164056-16
"Things are looking good. We don't want to get overconfident, but they look like they're going in the right direction right now.
A month from now will look better than today.
Never ever said a thing , but, Madam Amick triggered.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Two things could reverse course.
One if the pandemic becomes the flu if the CEO of Phyzer said.
Ima leave it
FOX news polling was @ 47% last month too. They have been a consistent outlier.
That being said, the disappovals went up a point to 52% meaning it was a worse polling result than the last FOX news poll.
Cali and Johnson.
Roger doesn't know how to read , analysis is a foreign concept to him.
A YEAR later and the Economy is seen by most Americans are hurting them.
Biden promised a "Winter of Death".
I remember how after George W. Bush let himself get led by the nose by Cheney into invading Iraq, his poll numbers plunged and a majority of Americans were convinced the country was "headed in the wrong direction," AND YET HE GOT REELECTED.
When Madam Amick predicted sub $3.00 gas , the price was $3.19 Nationally.
Today the National average is $3.32.
THE HILL
Despite Senate setbacks, the fight for voting rights is far from over
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the Senate’s failure to overcome a Republican filibuster of voting rights bills last week is a major disappointment to the Americans who make up the large and growing movement to protect democracy. This was a win for politicians who are so intent on keeping their grip on power that they are willing to restrict the ability of other Americans to participate in the most fundamental right of citizenship.
But while the success of the Republicans’ filibuster may have marked the end of the legislative road for the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in this Congress, it will not be the end of the story.
“We will win this fight,” Sen. Cory Booker said on the Senate floor last week. “I don’t know how long it will take, but that will be determined by how dedicated we are to the principles of this democracy.”
Voting rights advocates are students of history. We are keenly aware that there are setbacks with every monumental movement for change, and that those setbacks do not prevent forward progress. We know that filibusters blocked anti-lynching legislation for decades. We know that filibusters blocked civil rights laws for years. The equality and democracy movement persisted. And we will do so again.
Over the past year, a vibrant and expanding coalition activated Americans to demand the passage of new voter protections. Millions of people called Congress and the White House; thousands participated in marches and protests and vigils; hundreds were arrested demanding that our elected leaders demonstrate the same level of courage and commitment to their constituents.
Let’s be clear.
This struggle was not about bragging rights for national politicians or organizations. The real victims of the voting rights filibuster are the people targeted by wave after wave of voting restrictions put in place by Republicans since the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act — Black and brown voters, students, people with disabilities. It is voters who are forced to decide whether they can take time away from their job or family to spend hours in a voting line. It is voters singled out by voter ID laws like the one in Texas, where a gun license is acceptable but a student ID is not.
This will not stand. Voting rights advocates can work with members of Congress to advance specific and wildly popular provisions of the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act, such as expanding early voting and making Election Day a federal holiday.
We also need to decide a course of action on reforming the Electoral Count Act. Until now, reforming the ECA has been floated by those who wanted to deflect attention and energy from the more important and comprehensive legislation. It must not now become a substitute for more far-reaching action, either. But it could be one useful step that we should weigh.
Most of America does not see the shitty voting bill as a priority. They want Schumer to drop it and focus on crime, border security, covid and inflation
At the same time, we will turn our attention to voters. The antidote to massive voter suppression is massive voter registration and mobilization. We will help voters understand and OVERCOME new barriers that have been put in place in their states.
Of course, the ultimate solution to the filibuster blockade is to replace senators who defend voter suppression with senators who will defend democracy. Given the realities of a Republican caucus that voted in lockstep to prevent voting rights from even getting a vote, that will mean working to elect more Democratic senators.
What makes this possible is the breadth and energy of the pro-democracy movement. Organizations with a diverse set of primary issues have come to understand that their ability to make change goes hand in hand with protecting democracy. We have brought this conversation into the broader culture through the voices of religious leaders, entertainers and even professional sports figures.
We will keep the faith. We will keep fighting. Because when we fight together, we can win.
--Ben Jealous,
currently president of People For the American Way in Washington, D.C. and is the former national president & CEO of the NAACP.
Ensuring free and fair elections is still not voter suppression.
Myballs said...
Most of America does not see the shitty voting bill as a priority. They want Schumer to drop it and focus on crime, border security, covid and inflation.
MOST OF AMERICA IS DETERMINED NOT TO LET DISHONEST REPUBLICANS PULL A TRUMP AND TRY TO RIG THE NEXT ELECTION WHILE ACCUSING FAIR MINDED ELECTION OFFICIALS, INCLUDING REPUBLICANS, OF DOING THAT.
Except it's the dems trying to rig the next election. You don't get to invent your own facts.
USA TODAY
Opinion
Joe Biden has had a rocky year in office. But, folks, this is only the first quarter.
Paul Brandus
Sunday, January 23, 2022
There’s not enough space here to describe in detail the rough first years of presidents.
In modern times, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton stumbled out of the gate, and Donald Trump -- don’t get me started.
Perhaps the worst first year, though, was President Herbert Hoover’s. In October 1929, just seven months into his presidency, Black Thursday, the stock market crash that's seen as the beginning of the Great Depression, occurred. And for good measure, much of the West Wing and Oval Office was destroyed in a Christmas Eve fire. It was a metaphor for the rest of Hoover’s disastrous one term.
But the first year doesn't dictate the entire term.
In the end you’re graded not on how you start but how you finish. A 2021 survey of historians by C-SPAN (I was honored to participate) ranks Kennedy the eighth-best president, Reagan ninth and Clinton 19th. But Hoover and Trump never recovered and are ranked 36th and 41st, respectively.
And what of Joe Biden? The 10 categories upon which he will ultimately be measured – here they are, as applied to our top-rated president, Abraham Lincoln – suggest that at this point, he is on track to be considered, in my view, perhaps in the high 20s. This could improve, or it could deteriorate, over the next three years. We’re only at the end of the first quarter, folks.
Let me discuss, briefly, three things that affect Biden’s standing. The conditions he inherited, the mistakes he has made, and the expectations that we Americans tend to have of our presidents.
What Biden inherited
For decades, Gallup has been asking Americans if they are “satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time.” It hasn’t been above 50% since January 2004. President Barack Obama inherited a satisfaction level of 13%. It was 26% when Trump came in, but 11% when he left. In the last year it has crawled back to 21%.
America, in this still young 21st-century, has been a gloomy land. Biden inherited a badly-divided country, with each side snarling at, distrusting and demonizing the other. After a year of pleading for Republicans to meet him halfway, he has fallen into the muck himself, e.g., last week’s nasty “Jefferson Davis-George Wallace” speech in Georgia. His frustration has boiled over. Who can blame him?
Biden's mistakes
The president’s biggest mistake has surprised me. He hasn’t spent enough time talking up last year’s economic achievements. “America’s economy improved more in Joe Biden's first 12 months than any president during the past 50 years,” Bloomberg reported last month, “notwithstanding the contrary media narrative contributing to dour public opinion." It backed up the claim with data showing that: “No first-year president going back to Carter comes close to matching the current White House occupant’s No. 1 or No. 2 ranking in each of 10 key measures.”
Jobs, wages, economic growth and more, the data is frankly mind-blowing. Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki mentioned “the biggest year of job growth in American history,” adding it was the “direct result of actions taken by President Biden and Democrats in Congress, including the American Rescue Plan, the vaccination effort it helped fund and now the bipartisan infrastructure law.” They should be shouting this from the rooftops each day.
But it may be too late, because the narrative – and TV images – has shifted to 7% inflation and empty grocery shelves. Yes, jobs are plentiful, people are getting raises. But where’s the milk, eggs and meat? This sort of in-your-face stuff is what’s top of mind with voters now.
These issues are intertwined. When the pandemic ends, shortages, which are fueling inflation, will ease. But the pandemic rolls on because millions of Americans refuse to get vaccinated (though more than 200 million have been). But it’s Biden’s fault that the pandemic endures? It’s maddening.
What we can't blame on Biden
And what of our expectations? Everyone knew that Republicans would obstruct Biden at every turn. And he came into office with Democrats losing ground in the House, and winning fewer Senate seats than projected. Officially they have 50, but considering West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, they really don’t.
A shift of just 44,000 votes in three states would have kept Trump in the White House. A divided country is the stuff of incrementalism, not mandates. Which explains why the “Build Back Better” bill, loaded with everything but the kitchen sink, hasn’t gone anywhere. Look for Biden to recalibrate and pass a slimmed down BBB in 2022.
An “unbeatable” economy.
A huge infrastructure bill.
Over 200 million Americans fully vaccinated –
and, incidentally, 1.1 million lives saved.
Biden can point to several major accomplishments as his first year in office comes to an end. But inflation is raging, Republicans may take back the House and Senate in November, and Russia, China and other adversaries are testing him. As challenging as year one has been, the president’s troubles could soon multiply. History is watching.
________
Paul Brandus is the founder and White House bureau chief of West Wing Reports and a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors.
That's the kind of truth I bring here. Biden's course is difficult, but not impossible.
Myballs said...
Except it's the dems trying to rig the next election. You don't get to invent your own facts.
BETTER, NEITHER YOU NOR TRUMP GET TO PRETEND THE BIG LIE.
Better? I think not.
. You don't get to invent your own facts.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! From the party of NO and LIES and ALTERNATE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CBS focus group of voters are very unhappy at paying for groceries almost 2X what they paid last year. They don't give a damn about the voting bill or filibuster. They want Biden to go back to being the moderate that ran for president.
EXCLUSIVE: PA Secretary of State’s “High-Minded Talk of Election Security and Dark Conspiracies Hides a Low-Minded Political Power Play” – PA Senate President Pro Tempore Corman and Senator Dush Ask Court to End Stay on PA Election Investigation into the valid investigation into Fulton County, Pennsylvania’s voting machines they have been hiding for months now
The corrupt Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jacob Corman, III, and Senator Cris Dush ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to end the corrupt PA Secretary of State’s (SoS’s) emergency application to stay. Their arguments are very solid.
We’ve reported on the proposed investigation into Fulton County, Pennsylvania’s voting machines that have been halted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court due to a request from the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and Dominion Voting Machines. These two entities then provided a nearly 700-page document with their reasons for why the Fulton County investigation should be stopped.
Today we received word that the Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jacob Corman, III, and Senator Cris Dush ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to end the corrupt PA Secretary of State’s (SoS’s) emergency application to stay.
The deep staters are everywhere
Something we're not hearing from the news media. A proud LGTBQ female U.S. Senator independently votes her conscience and beliefs and democrats bash, smear criticize censure and punish her for it. Th8s is what democrats have become.
CBS focus group of voters are very unhappy at paying for groceries almost 2X what they paid last year.
JUST A FOCUS GROUP.......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Is your head stuck up trumps fat white ass?????? Of course it is Biden's fault not doing anything about farm issues!!!!!!! Maybe he should block all beaners from coming in and picking farms and let white boys like you do it!!!!!!!! YEP those hidden agenda's in Pa need more voter suppression laws and the national guard to confiscate voter machines!!!!
I remember how after George W. Bush let himself get led by the nose by Cheney into invading Iraq, his poll numbers plunged and a majority of Americans were convinced the country was "headed in the wrong direction," AND YET HE GOT REELECTED.
Many of us started on the Yahoo "Soars" board... which a Yahoo article about George W Bush soaring in the polls after 9-11 and invading Iraq. He actually was over 90% at one time (which was the topic of the yahoo story). We kept that story up on the Yahoo boards for years.
According to Gallup - GWB first term approval averaged 62%.
They didn't fall till well into his second term.
Try again, Reverend. Maybe you can teach us more about economics, since you are such an expert.
The basic desire for democratic liberties, including access to honest and fact-based journalism, can never be extinguished, and it is never too late to renew the demand that these rights be granted in full.
Attacks on Press Freedom in Democracies
In some of the most influential democracies in the world, large segments of the population are no longer receiving unbiased news and information. This is not because journalists are being thrown in jail, as might occur in authoritarian settings. Instead, the media have fallen prey to more nuanced efforts to throttle their independence. Common methods include government-backed ownership changes, regulatory and financial pressure, and public denunciations of honest journalists. Governments have also offered proactive support to friendly outlets through measures such as lucrative state contracts, favorable regulatory decisions, and preferential access to state information. The goal is to make the press serve those in power rather than the public.
The problem has arisen in tandem with right-wing populism, which has undermined basic freedoms in many democratic countries. Populist leaders present themselves as the defenders of an aggrieved majority against liberal elites and ethnic minorities whose loyalties they question, and argue that the interests of the nation—as they define it—should override democratic principles like press freedom, transparency, and open debate.
Among Free countries in Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report, 19 percent (16 countries) have endured a reduction in their press freedom scores over the past five years. This is consistent with a key finding of Freedom in the World—that democracies in general are undergoing a decline in political rights and civil liberties. It has become painfully apparent that a free press can never be taken for granted, even when democratic rule has been in place for decades.
Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary and Aleksandar Vučić’s administration in Serbia have had great success in snuffing out critical journalism, blazing a trail for populist forces elsewhere. Both leaders have consolidated media ownership in the hands of their cronies, ensuring that the outlets with the widest reach support the government and smear its perceived opponents. In Hungary, where the process has advanced much further, nearly 80 percent of the media are owned by government allies. *
Cultivation of progovernment media is spreading to neighboring states. The leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, until recently part of that country’s ruling coalition, was caught on video attempting to collude with Russians to purchase the largest national newspaper and infuse its coverage with partisan bias. Score declines linked to economic manipulation of media—including cases in which the government directs advertising to friendly outlets or encourages business allies to buy those that are critical—were more common across Europe over the past five years than in other parts of the world. Such tactics of influence and interference are a relatively recent phenomenon on the continent, which has generally displayed strong support for press freedom since the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago.
In Israel, one of the few democracies in the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly excoriated investigative reporters and now faces corruption charges for allegedly offering regulatory favors to two major media firms in exchange for positive coverage. Although Netanyahu has resisted efforts to formally indict and try him on these charges, the evidence suggests that the prime minister was willing to sacrifice press freedom in order to maintain political power. Many voters apparently accepted this tradeoff in the April 2019 elections, putting Netanyahu’s party and its allies in a position to form a new ruling coalition.
India, the world’s most populous democracy, is also sending signals that holding the government accountable is not part of the press’s responsibility. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has supported campaigns to discourage speech that is “antinational,” and government-aligned thugs have raided critical journalists’ homes and offices. The media have become widely flattering of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who won reelection last month, amid allegations that the government issues directives on how the press should cover his activities and intimidates journalists who push back. The government has also been selective in the allocation of television licenses, effectively excluding unfriendly outlets from the airwaves.
In perhaps the most concerning development of recent years, press freedom has come under unusual pressure in the United States, the world’s leading democratic power. Although key news organizations remain strong and continue to produce vigorous reporting on those in office, President Donald Trump’s continual vilification of the press has seriously exacerbated an ongoing erosion of public confidence in the mainstream media. Among other steps, the president has repeatedly threatened to strengthen libel laws, revoke the licenses of certain broadcasters, and damage media owners’ other business interests. The US constitution provides robust protections against such actions, but President Trump’s public stance on press freedom has had a tangible impact on the global landscape. Journalists around the world now have less reason to believe that Washington will come to their aid if their basic rights are violated.
Ask Frank Luntz about focus groups dumbass.
Biden said 2022 Elections are illegitimate.
Period.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-and-media/2019/media-freedom-downward-spiral
I have been saying this horror story since he rolled down the escalator and again said that Obama was born in Kenya Africa.
We are at the worst crisis in history.
Democracies are fragile because of the freedom of speech.
The only way to avoid losing the American dream is to expose it and get people to vote against it of this generation..
If the Republicans succeed in Jim Crow 2.0 the next election is not valid anymore.
Because of people like you Scott
Jim Crow 2.0 is a fantasy. Nothing more.
Recommendations
The following recommendations for policymakers in democratic nations will help ensure the sustainability of independent media worldwide:
Ensure that their actions do not excuse or inspire violations of press freedom. Democratic nations have a particularly important role to play in maintaining media freedom. Words matter, and when US officials verbally attack the press or fail to swiftly and vigorously condemn acts of repression such as Khashoggi’s murder, it sends a signal to undemocratic leaders around the world that assaults on the press and crimes against journalists are permissible.Take strong and immediate action against any violations of media freedom globally through press statements, phone calls, meetings, letters, and the imposition of targeted sanctions on perpetrators. This includes speaking out against violence against journalists and authorities’ failure to identify and prosecute attackers, restrictions on media access, blocking of websites, and censorship on particular topics.Stand up publicly for the value of a free press, and support civic education that will inform the next generation. Press freedom is one of the most fundamental pillars of American democracy, and constitutional protections in the United States are stronger than in any other country in the world. Citizens could easily forget this amid media mudslinging and incendiary commentary. Political leaders and teachers should reiterate the extent to which we all benefit from professional journalists who hold those in power to account.Ensure that foreign policy and assistance prioritizes support for democratic principles, including media freedom, as the foundation of national security and economic prosperity. The goal of foreign assistance is to bring recipient countries to the point that they no longer need it. In that sense, it is shortsighted for donor governments to invest funding overseas without shoring up press freedom. National security and economic prosperity are strongest in nations where democratic rights are protected, and a free press is a key watchdog of democracy. Foreign aid specifically focused on bolstering independent media by providing technical training and emergency assistance is especially needed given the threats journalists currently face. Countries that have experienced recent expansions in press freedom, such as Angola, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Ecuador, are particularly vulnerable to backsliding and require special focus.Support social media as an alternative outlet for free expression in repressive environments. Innovative alternatives to state-controlled media regularly spring up on social media, including recently in Venezuela, Armenia, and Sudan. Related technology can be used to circumvent censorship and keep reporters anonymous where needed. Donor agencies should provide funding for technology that increases journalistic freedom.
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Because of people like you Scott
And the 250 million Americans who agree with me regarding voter ID and other election laws. 75% of Americans are racists asswipes who want Jim Crow, slavery, and summary execution of minorities....
Either that or you are one of the shrinking minority of Americans who talk the old senile President at his word when he TELLS YOU about laws you have never even read for yourself.
You don't know shit about history.
Madam Amick just confirmed Biden's statement.
"Biden said 2022 Elections are illegitimate."
Ending our Republic is the goal of Biden
I know a heluva lot more than you. I am 100% certain of this.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Ask Frank Luntz about focus groups dumbass.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Another fatassed R just like you!!!! Sad you again missed my point, asshole...
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Soars started during his administration.
George Bush is a great guy who was a terrible President.
If we could play a game of history, I would kick your ass
I can confirm this.
"MyballsJanuary 23, 2022 at 4:36 PM
I know a heluva lot more than you. I am 100% certain of this,"
Bush was so terrible that he won a 2nd term comfortably.
It's not conservative vs liberal. It's freedom or authoritarian dictatorship
Like free and fair elections vs a federal takeover of them
Bush also precident over the worse economic crisis since The Great Depression.
And started the longest war in history in Afghanistan
The States have jurisdiction over the election systems, but the federal reserve has the authority to regulate it like the civil rights era and the racial discrimination laws
I'm not an absolution on sate regulations.
The 15th amendment is to much power?
Civil rights legislation. ???
Voting rights act that allowed black people to vote??
And started the longest war in history in Afghanistan
Alky, history
Absolutist
You people believe this
. Bill Gates. The éminence grise behind the whole disaster, and damn proud of it. Gates has wielded the obscene wealth of his Foundation as a cudgel, hijacking effective control of the World Health Organization's policy and messaging.
Furthermore, he partnered with Anthony Fauci to promote and produce the perverse fear-mongering infectious disease war games such as MARS 2017, SPARS 2017, and Clade X. His goal: To condition government agencies, the legacy media, and the medical establishment to the inevitability of just this sort of pandemic, and the need for the totalitarian measures and forced vaccination programs that have since come to pass. Pure evil.
Alky, history
Don't you have a bottle of vodka to finish?????/. BTW....what is wrong with Rogers statement?????? It certainly was America's longest war....is that a problem for you feeble mind???????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I'm watching the football game and don't doubt Tom Brady!
Read the 10th amendment too you horse's ass.
It's tied
Hey LA, everyone in the ATL see’s you
The 15th amendment granted the federal government to regulate
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.
The Rams won
Republicans have been writing laws that get around this in order to get Jim Crow laws passed by Republicans.
Although African-American men technically had their voting rights protected, in practice, this victory was short-lived. Local and state governments found ways to weaken the amendment to prevent African Americans from voting. Disenfranchisement is the word used to describe laws passed to prevent people from voting and obtaining rights other citizens have.
The actions to prevent African Americans from exercising their civil rights became known as “Jim Crow” laws. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are poll taxes (a fee required to vote—generally not applied to white voters), literacy tests (the Mississippi test asked applicants to copy a portion of the state constitution at the white administrator's discretion), or owning property as a condition of voting. Jim Crow laws were enforced by election boards or by groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, who intimidated African Americans with violence if they voted or wished to do so. The southern region of the United States made little or no effort to protect the voting rights of African Americans guaranteed by the Constitution.
The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights. However, it was not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress that the majority of African Americans would be truly free to register and vote in large numbers.
You don't want enough to them to vote against Republicans.
The Rams won
Well those of us with the ability to DVR games just got it ruined.
Thanks asshole!
Was still watching the game idiot.
Roger hates free and fair elections
I support both free and fair eelections .. fair access to vote.
The Republicans are carefully designing unfair rules designed to reduce turnout among minorities.
That is false. For example, the new GA law dems are calling racist, it has a longer mail in period than NY and DE. And in it, anyone can request a mail ballot. That's not tge case in NY and DE. You need a reason there.
So, you're talking out your ass again.
Holly shit
WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials.
The move would signal a major pivot for the Biden administration, which up until recently was taking a restrained stance on Ukraine, out of fear of provoking Russia into invading. But as President Vladimir V. Putin has ramped up his threatening actions toward Ukraine, and talks between American and Russian officials have failed to discourage him, the administration is now moving away from its do-not-provoke strategy.
In a meeting on Saturday at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, senior Pentagon officials presented Mr. Biden with several options that would shift American military assets much closer to Mr. Putin’s doorstep, the administration officials said. The options include sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about internal deliberations.
Mr. Biden is expected to make a decision as early as this week, they said. He is weighing the buildup as Russia has escalated its menacing posture against Ukraine, including massing more than 100,000 troops and weaponry on the border and stationing Russian forces in Belarus. On Saturday, Britain accused Moscow of developing plans to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine.
“Even as we’re engaged in diplomacy, we are very much focused on building up defense, building up deterrence,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “NATO itself will continue to be reinforced in a significant way if Russia commits renewed acts of aggression. All of that is on the table.”
So far, none of the military options being considered include deploying additional American troops to Ukraine itself, and Mr. Biden has made clear that he is loath to enter another conflict following America’s painful exit from Afghanistan last summer after 20 years.
But after years of tiptoeing around the question of how much military support to provide to Ukraine, for fear of provoking Russia, Biden officials have recently warned that the United States could throw its weight behind a Ukrainian insurgency should Mr. Putin invade Ukraine.
And the deployment of thousands of additional American troops to NATO’s eastern flank, which includes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Biden administration officials said, is exactly the scenario that Mr. Putin has wanted to avoid, as he has seen the western military alliance creep closer and closer to Russia’s own border.
Trump kept the U.S. out of war. Biden gets us in one.
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics https://nyti.ms/3KEkDgy
Putin has been planning this from the first day.
He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union empire....
Of course he has. He knew who the new president would be.
The world is watching a weak president, fresh off his Afghanistan embarrassment, now being pushed around ovet Ukraine.
No one wants him for a second term.
LET US TAKE A LOOK AT THE "WEAK" PRESIDENT THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
U.S. Orders Diplomats’ Families Out of Ukraine
January 23, 2022 at 8:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
The State Department ordered the departure of all family members of U.S. Embassy personnel serving in Kyiv on Sunday, citing the “threat of Russian military action,” the Washington Post reports.
Biden Mulls Deploying Thousands of Troops to Baltics
January 23, 2022 at 8:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
“President Biden is considering deploying
*several thousand U.S. troops,
*as well as warships
*and aircraft,
to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe,
an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine,“ the New York Times reports.
“The move would signal a major pivot for the Biden administration, which up until recently was taking a restrained stance on Ukraine, out of fear of provoking Russia into invading. But as President Vladimir V. Putin has ramped up his threatening actions toward Ukraine, and talks between American and Russian officials have failed to discourage him, the administration is now moving away from its do-not-provoke strategy.”
WEAK?
AND THE WALLS KEEP CLOSING IN ON TRUMP
Barr Already Spoke to House Select Committee
January 23, 2022 at 8:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“Former attorney general William Barr has spoken with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, a further indication that several former Trump administration officials are cooperating with the panel even as others are fighting efforts to compel their testimony,”
the Washington Post reports.
THE MORE WE LEARN FROM IMPORTANT FORMER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAlS, THE WORSE TRUMP AND THOSE STILL REFUSING TO TESTIFY WILL LOOK.
This Chiefs Bills game is an All Time Classic ..one for the ages
Because ballsless supports the tenth amendment rights, without any changes, if he had all the rights not altered by the 15th amendment rights he could be a slave owner.
Roger is so God damn stupid, he thinks slavery and voting is equivalent. What a pathetic old fool.
Yes, Roger is dazed and confused.
Let the overtime rules debate begin. Should both teams get to possess the ball?
Yes,
West Virginia’s Canaan Valley plummets to minus-31, setting record low for region"
Great that so many heat with wood.
THIS SMELLS
Top January 6 Investigator Fired From Other Job
January 23, 2022 at 10:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“The top staff investigator on the House committee scrutinizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has been fired by the state’s new Republican attorney general from his position as the top lawyer for the University of Virginia, from which he was on leave while working on the congressional inquiry,” the New York Times reports.
“The office of the attorney general, Jason S. Miyares, said the firing of the investigator, Timothy J. Heaphy, was not related to the Jan. 6 investigation, but the move prompted an outcry from Democrats in the state, who accused him of taking the highly unusual action as a partisan move to further former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to undermine the committee’s work.”
Biden Briefed on Possible Responses to Ukraine Invasion
January 23, 2022 at 10:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
“Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin briefed President Joe Biden on Saturday about U.S. options for responding if Russia invades Ukraine as well as options for U.S. military movements in advance of an invasion,” NBC News reports.
Putin’s Dream Of New, Globe-Spanning Russian Navy May Turn On Ukraine Invasion
Craig Hooper
Senior Contributor
Aerospace & Defense
It is easy to dismiss Vladimir Putin’s effort to retake Ukraine as an abstract effort to reconstitute the Soviet Union. But at a more concrete level, Ukrainian industries hold the key to Russia’s future military relevance. Successful Russian annexation of the Ukrainian defense industrial base would allow Putin to fulfill his dream of building a large “blue water” Navy.
A resounding battlefield win gives Russia the opportunity to back Putin’s dangerous tools of “nihilistic deterrence” with a big buildup in conventional strength. But it won’t just be re-arming at home. An invasion will juice Russian military exports. A brutal Ukrainian land-grab boosts the reputation of Russia’s military gear, generating foreign sales interest and potentially supplementing Russia’s technological spoils with an additional economic boost.
Put bluntly, a Russian invasion of the Ukraine is about recovering lost military prowess. It is, in effect, one of the last, best bets Putin can make to win back Russia’s lost military glory.
Russia’s Navy Runs On Ukrainian Engines
Since 2014, Ukraine’s arms embargo has kneecapped Russia’s military. At sea, the Russian Navy has struggled, unable to field surface units without Ukrainian engines. Lacking foreign help, the Russian surface navy—already weakened by decades of underfunding—would, sometime in the 2020s, entirely collapse.
Deprived of Ukrainian gas turbine engines, Putin’s longstanding efforts to be seen as a second father of the Russian Navy—on par with Peter the Great—came apart. After the Crimean annexation, Russia might have been hurt by France’s refusal to continue building four Mistral class amphibious assault vessels for Russia, but the lack of Ukrainian engines has been catastrophic for the Russian Navy and upon Russia’s reputation as a leading maritime arms dealer. The costs have been pretty clear—after Putin’s first foray into Ukraine, big naval deals with India, Vietnam and others have either been delayed or collapsed.
Ever since Russia began gobbling up Ukraine, Russia has only able to build small surface units. The lack of engines have been fatal to virtually everyone else. Efforts to build the 2,200 ton modified Steregushchiy class (Project 20385) class and the 4,000 ton Admiral Grigorovich class (Project 11356) frigates were delayed, while a Russian project to field between twenty to thirty copies of the 5,400-ton Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) guided missile frigates was frozen in place. With new domestically built engines slow to arrive (and efforts to acquire foreign know-how failing), Russia’s inability to build smaller-sized naval units has subsequently rolled through Russia’s naval shipbuilding infrastructure, delaying even larger and more ambitious “blue water” projects.
An invasion of Ukraine could result in the navy Putin wants.
It may be too late to save Ukraine, but India, Turkey, Poland and other emerging industrialized players can still make every possible effort to relocate key Ukrainian engineers and other hard-to-replace pieces of Ukraine’s military industrial base outside of threatened areas. Just as Russia, in World War II, moved key factories east of the Ural Mountains, interested parties could still move to put key industrial components well out of reach of Putin’s armies. Put another way, Putin does not need to be the only country that benefits from Ukraine’s likely loss.
A successful invasion of Ukraine would reverses one of Putin’s bigger miscalculations. The West’s failure to spell out the real defense consequences of Putin’s 2014 Crimean adventurism was a mistake. The West was far too cautious in making the case directly to Russia’s military and economic power-centers.
Polite, sotto voce observations of Russia’s ongoing naval and aerospace problems, coupled by quiet “let’s not ruffle any feathers” rollbacks of Russian naval-inspired economic espionage in Norway, the U.S. and elsewhere have done nothing. Instead, these events could have been thrown in Russia’s face as more evidence of Putin’s problems, helping to cut into Putin’s power-base while confirming the value of a Western sanction-based strategy. But, rather than point out Putin’s real failures, the West has taken every opportunity to cower at Putin’s provocations, and, so doing, has allowed Putin to cultivate the perception of concrete military progress while ceding Putin every possible geopolitical advantage.
If the anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine is allowed to stand, waved away by tired European and Western democracies as a non-vital interest, Russia will promptly put Ukraine’s military-industrial capabilities to work, complicating both European and American security for years to come. And it won’t stop there; even China, eagerly anticipating future opportunities to assimilate the “ethnic Asians” of Russia’s sparsely populated east, will need to recalibrate.
NATO’s shipbuilders may also feel the pinch as well. Along with China, the U.K., Spain, the Netherlands and others have filled in for missing Russian naval offerings, providing ships or engine solutions that Russia was unable to provide. With Russia back in the business of selling naval surface ships, Europeans will face a lot more unwelcome low-cost competition from Russia’s state-backed naval shipbuilders.
We are all worse for Vladimir Putin’s presence in the global arena. Rather than becoming a modern version of Peter the Great, Vladimir Putin is following the tired Leonid Brezhnev playbook, focused upon building up Russian military forces for another round of pointless energy-sapping confrontations. Like Brezhnev, Putin seems set to wield power through his dotage and likely to hold power into the grave. For the rest of the world, a Russia led—again—by a peevish and power-hungry old man offers a sobering prospect. An increasingly embittered Russia, emboldened by nihilistic deterrence and supported, in a few years, by a modernized and globe-spanning Russian navy, running on Ukrainian-built engines, should concern everybody.
Craig Hooper
I offer blunt, uncompromising guidance on national security solutions, bringing complex security issues and oft-neglected defense.
Fuck off pederast
LANCASTER, Ohio -- U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil former assistant wrestling coach, has once again chosen the dark side by failing to cooperate with the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. He is following the path he blazed when he emphatically denied knowledge of the late Dr. Richard Strauss’ sexual abuse of hundreds of students at Ohio State, despite accusations by numerous athletes who claimed Jordan must have known about but turned a blind eye to the perversion.
Jordan claims the Select Committee isn’t conducting a “fair-minded and objective inquiry” into the insurrection. The congressman who forwarded messages to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows detailing what USA Today reports were “obscure legal theories proposing that former Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election” has little ground on which to stand when it comes to objectivity. He’s been silent about Republican efforts to whitewash the attempted coup as being carried out by “patriots,” although that characterization is far from the truth.
Most Americans would agree that patriots wouldn’t storm the U.S. Capitol to obstruct a presidential certification, beat police officers, threaten the vice president and members of Congress while damaging federal property and leaving people, including police officers, dead or injured. Most would agree that calling people whose goal was to undermine democracy “patriots” is not only a misnomer, but an insult to those who actually defended the Constitution and our democracy on that January day.
Cleveland.com’s Sabrina Eaton reports that Jordan says he was “present in the House chamber performing my official duties pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and federal law” at the time of the insurrection. But, he fails to mention that he amplified then-President Donald Trump’s false claim of election fraud. And Jordan ignores the fact that Trump set the stage to challenge the 2020 election results when he raised the specter of electoral fraud by repeatedly asserting during the 2016 presidential campaign that the only way he could lose to Hillary Clinton was if the 2016 election was rigged. He merely resurrected the claim when he lost to Joe Biden.
Whether Jordan, who admitted talking to Trump on Jan. 6, played more of a role in the planning and execution of the plot to overturn the election in Trump’s favor may be hidden in records held by the National Archives that Trump unsuccessfully tried to keep secret. According to a court filing from a National Archives official, the records in question include White House call logs, handwritten notes concerning Jan. 6 from the files of Jordan’s fellow Freedom Caucus member Meadows, as well as a “draft executive order on the topic of election security,” The Washington Post reported last October.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Trump on Wednesday, allowing release of the Jan. 6 documents.
It would be natural for the Select Committee to assume that Jordan’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation is due to his tacit approval of, or active involvement with, the insurrectionists’ actions. His contempt for the truth has been on display ever since he denied knowledge of the sex abuse his wrestlers endured during his tenure at Ohio State. Jordan can once again choose loyalty to the truth or continue being a sycophant loyal to Donald Trump -- but he can’t be both.
The sad reality is he is not likely to change his stripes and quit stonewalling the investigation out of loyalty to American democracy.
TAMPA, Fla. —
The Rams were bent over at the knees, wheezing, gasping, choking.
The greatest quarterback in history was swaggering down the field, charging, swinging, steaming.
A lingering Gulf Coast chill had suddenly become a raucous inferno, thousands of flag-waving fans at Raymond James Stadium roaring and pleading as if refusing to let the defending champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers !
Then with two lofty throws, Matthew Stafford put them down. And with two nimble catches, Cooper Kupp kept them down. And with the simple swing of a right foot in the final ticks of a great escape, Matt Gay knocked them out.
On a once-sunny Sunday darkened by rolling clouds and angry pirates, the Rams recovered from a blown 24-point lead to beat Tom Brady and the Buccaneers on Gay’s last-second 30-yard field goal, earning a 30-27 NFC divisional-round playoff win.
Long pause. Deep breath.
Bring on the — are you kidding me? — San Francisco 49ers.
Despite the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department should announce that it will use every tool it still has to enforce the Constitution’s guarantees of equal voting rights. Congress should increase funding for this work.
If some of the cases get to the Supreme Court, good: Let the conservatives on this court either stop trying to push us back to the late 19th century or prove beyond doubt how hostile they are to democracy — and how urgent it is for Congress to act.
Congress should try to pass whatever pieces of the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act it can. On any issue that touches on funding for easier voting access, the Senate should avoid the filibuster by using the reconciliation process.
Reforming the 1887 Electoral Count Act is necessary, though no substitute for voting rights. Republicans who support reform of the law should be pressed to merge it with the John Lewis bill. At minimum a revised law should block states from politicizing election boards and strengthen federal penalties against intimidating voters and election officials.
In the states, organizers need to do all they can to block further suppression and subversion measures and, where possible, use the referendum process to undo some of the damage.
Fighting voter suppression in this fall’s election will be work-intensive and expensive, so activists should concentrate their efforts. The times call for a Georgia Summer project — akin to the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi — and flood the state with resources through Election Day and beyond.
Georgia Republicans have enacted some of the worst election laws in the nation and two of the most forceful Democratic champions of voting rights, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, will be on the ballot. Other states that might be focal points: Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin and Texas. All have key races and voting challenges.
Short-term defeats can contain the seeds of future victories, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), one of the Senate’s most effective voting rights advocates, pointed to two “silver linings” of forcing even a disappointing showdown on the voting bills.
First, she said in an interview, one of the most passionate floor debates in many years underscored the depth of “the assault on democracy going on” and demonstrated how damaging to voters seemingly obscure changes to state election laws can be.
Second, it exposed the hypocrisy of claims that the filibuster was sacrosanct when it has, in fact, been altered again and again. “Why are we accepting the fact that tax cuts and [the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice] Amy Coney Barrett and repeal of regulations can get through with 51 votes, but a voting package for every voter in America, to make it easy for them to vote, needs 60?” she asked. The debate, she said, put “a big spotlight on all the shenanigans that have gone on for a long, long time.”
The last book the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote bore the title “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” This era’s answer to his question must be to fight the chaos created when a democracy based on equal citizenship is sabotaged.
It's still timely necessary to get the 2020 election right.
When almost 60% of the American people feel as if the man who is both the leader of the country and the head of the federal government is illegitimate, what are they supposed to do?
There’s nothing to be done we’re told… Not true. The election can be overturned. Not that I imagine there’s sufficient internal fortitude among Republicans to do so but, ideally, they should make the attempt. But how?
The Constitution doesn’t address anything remotely close to reversing a fraudulently achieved election. That’s true, but then it also says nothing about the right to abortion, the government providing welfare payments to citizens (or non-citizens), government control of healthcare, the imposition of CAFÉ standards, or collective bargaining rules. Indeed, there is much that goes on in government that is not in the Constitution. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson worried that the Constitution did not give him the power to make the Louisiana Purchase, but today all or part of 15 states exist because of it.
Like John Marshall’s judicial review doctrine, which you won’t find anywhere in the Constitution, things don’t exist until they do. In this case, in states where fraud is proven or where voting laws were enacted unconstitutionally, the legislatures should withdraw their Electoral College votes and recast them based on accurate and lawful counting of the votes.
It’s true there’s no existing Constitutional mechanism to facilitate that remedy, and the likelihood of a Democrat-controlled Congress doing anything to further it is less likely than a healthy college student dying of COVID, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. It should, and it should be driven by those states where fraud so clearly occurred and tipped the election; essentially ground zero for the coup: Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all five of which have nominally GOP legislatures.
Yes slurpers, the global problem with inflation is all Bidens's fault!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Economy
Prices are rising all over the world, and leaders see no quick fix
Current bout of inflation marks end of era as countries grapple with uneven recoveries
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Shoppers walk along the Gran Via in Madrid on Oct. 7, 2021. The inflation rate in Spain last year reached its fastest annual pace in decades. (Paul Hanna/Bloomberg News)
By David J. Lynch
Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EST
It probably isn’t much consolation for Americans struggling with the highest inflation in 40 years, but they are not alone.
In the European Union, prices are rising faster than at any time since the euro currency was introduced. The annual inflation rate in the United Kingdom hit 5.4 percent in December, the highest figure there in nearly 30 years. Canada’s consumer prices are rising twice as fast as before the pandemic.
Even in Japan, where prices have been depressed almost continuously since the collapse of the late 1980s real estate bubble, the central bank in recent days revised upward its assessment of inflation risks for the first time in eight years. Among major economies, only China has a lower inflation rate today than in early 2020.
Four ways Americans are feeling inflation
Around the world, soaring prices are emerging as a feature of the pandemic-era recovery, prompting some central banks to pivot to inflation fighting.
The new focus caps an era since the 2008 financial crisis that saw global forces — such as the rise of cross-border supply chains and a decline in workers’ bargaining power — keep inflation subdued.
As factories around the world revive at different speeds, a mismatch between the goods that are being produced and those that customers want to buy is helping drive prices higher. Longer-term trends, such as increased protectionism, rising Chinese wages and the adjustment to a low-carbon economy, will put upward pressure on prices in the years ahead, according to research by the BlackRock Investment Institute.
“We’ve come through a period where global forces were clearly disinflationary. We’re entering a period, in the near term at least, where they are more likely to push inflation up rather than down,” said Eric Winograd, senior economist with AllianceBernstein in New York.
Why do people post crap from American stinker without attribution???? What a sorry sack of shit thinks that way!!!!!!!
It should, and it should be driven by those states where fraud so clearly occurred and tipped the election; essentially ground zero for the coup: Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all five of which have nominally GOP legislatures.
anuary 24, 2022
It's Still Timely And Necessary To Get The 2020 Election Right
By Vince Coyner
A solid majority of Americans know that the 2020 election was fraudulent. That’s a big problem for a country with a representative government, one in which the leaders are supposed to represent the will of the people. We’re a nation of laws ostensibly flowing from a Constitution that sets out explicit limitations on the federal government’s powers and protects a variety of citizens’ rights upon which said government cannot infringe. To the degree that a significant majority of citizens feel that the leader of this government was not constitutionally elected, that’s a problem.
More from the same POS Stinker Opinion.....more conspiracy that the election was fraudulent and should be voided!!!!! What a pile of BULLSHIT you slurpers embrace like trumps fat white ass!!!!! Gee....supporting 1-6 with words!!!!!
There’s nothing to be done we’re told… Not true. The election can be overturned. Not that I imagine there’s sufficient internal fortitude among Republicans to do so but, ideally, they should make the attempt. But how?
he Constitution doesn’t address anything remotely close to reversing a fraudulently achieved election. That’s true, but then it also says nothing about the right to abortion, the government providing welfare payments to citizens (or non-citizens), government control of healthcare, the imposition of CAFÉ standards, or collective bargaining rules. Indeed, there is much that goes on in government that is not in the Constitution. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson worried that the Constitution did not give him the power to make the Louisiana Purchase, but today all or part of 15 states exist because of it.
Blogger anonymous said...
Why do people post crap from American stinker without attribution????
That would be a question for the alky BWAA, because he's the one doing it, and he does it 50 fucking times per day. If it's not American Thinker it's American Greatness.
He's ill BWAA. Severely mentally ill.
because he's the one doing it,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Now you are a detective, asshole/??????? Don't you have anything productive to do?????? Even sadder is you subscribe to the Stinker's opinion with out a shred of evidence or fact!!!!
BWAA, the alky's just not that clever and never has been. One need not be a detective to acknowledge that all he does is slather this blog with spam 24/7/365. Often under some fucktarded alias or as 'anonymous.'
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Gas rose 2 cents nationally.
Alky prediction in sub $3.00 gas an other epic spectacular fail.
Vermont has the highest state-wide percentage of wood use with 11.8%
Took you 2 fucking weeks goat fucker.... a new display of your fucking inept stupidity!!!!!
BWAA, the alky's just not that clever and never has been.
And you are????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You are as predictable as the goat fucker is stupid!!!!!!!
I have driven you crazy and decade.
I have a plan to have my own independence day in July.
When you see her
You will go crazy more than ever before" Alky
Roger has an active life.
Hi double wide Dopie.
Hope you have the day I wish for you.
Another reason the GOP is the party of retribution emulating trump!!!!! Sad everything is now political instead of reality!!!!
Rebecca Falconer
Mon, January 24, 2022, 12:38 AM
The lead investigator for the Jan. 6 House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has been fired from his position as the University of Virginia's counsel by the state's new Republican attorney general, per the Washington Post.
Why it matters: Democrats say the removal of Tim Heaphy from his post after some three years while he's on leave from the university to investigate the insurrection is likely "retribution" for the House probe — an accusation strongly denied by the office of state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R).
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Both Heaphy and counsel Brian Walther, who was also fired from his George Mason University post by Miyares this week, are Democrats, according to WashPost.
Yes, but: Victoria LaCivita, a spokesperson for Miyares, told AP Sunday that Heaphy's removal from the university post had "nothing" to do with his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack nor his position with the panel.
LaCivita told WashPost it's "common" for a new attorney general to appoint counsel "that shares its 'philosophy and legal approach.'"
The big picture: Former President Trump and his Republican allies have claimed that the investigation by Jan. 6 House panel, which includes Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), into the insurrection is a Democratic "witch hunt."
What they're saying: Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) told WashPost she's "very concerned" that someone in a position in a university as Heaphy was "would be fired for political reasons."
Hope you have the day I wish for you.
BWAAAAAAAA!!! And I hope your hemorrhoids aren't bleeding too bad today!!!!!!!
ELEVEN PERCENTERS in 2016 - Trump is a madman who will start WW3
ELEVEN PERCENTERS in 2022 - Fantastic that Biden is "tough" so he will start WW3
all while cashing in on his $31 million from China
what a multi-tasker
we are fucked
KYIV — NATO said on Monday that some member countries were putting their forces on standby and sending additional ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe to reassure allies in the region, as Britain joined the United States in ordering families of diplomats out of Ukraine, citing “the growing threat from Russia.”
The moves signaled rising fears of a potential Russian military intervention in Ukraine, as well as increasing concerns about the Kremlin flexing its muscles further afield. Russian troops and equipment are pouring into neighboring Belarus for planned exercises next month that U.S. officials fear are not only directed at Ukraine, but also intended to intimidate NATO countries on Belarus’s western border like Poland and the Baltic countries.
U.S. intelligence officials have said they do not believe President Vladimir V. Putin has made a decision to invade Ukraine, and Russian diplomats have repeatedly said there are no plans to do so.
But with a month’s negotiations between Moscow and Washington at an apparent impasse, Russia and the West increasingly seem to be talking past one another. Even as the White House prepares written responses to Russia’s demands on limiting NATO’s footprint in Europe, the Biden Administration is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Joe Biden's schedule today ...
Noon ... wake up.
1 pm ... gaffe, incoherent babbling, get a booster.
2 pm ... destroy the economy.
3 pm ... cause more inflation.
4 pm ... shutdown our gas and oil industry.
5 pm ... start WWIII.
6 pm ... lid.
looks like Joe has some time left to learn to "paint"
No more US Blood shed in defense of Europe.
Period.
This is stupid of Biden.
Donald Trump Jr.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1485601158718652417
This Russia/Ukraine mess is a direct result of Biden’s weakness. Everyone knows it. Nobody pulled this nonsense with Trump in the WH. But I have to say, I wish Dems & their media pals cared as much about our southern border as they apparently do about Ukraine’s eastern border.
What ? America has a border ?
This doesn't surprise me.
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen has claimed that the former president instructed him to make sure that his son Don. Jr. would go to prison instead of his daughter Ivanka if they were indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
So the Bidens only scammed 31M. Amateurs. Bill and Hillary pulled in 10X that much.
But let's ignore all that and investigate the Trump family obsessively.
The Republicans and Democrats are not isolationist like kputz.
Madam Amick just confirmed Biden's statement.
"Biden said 2022 Elections are illegitimate."
Ending our Republic is the goal of Biden
This Russia/Ukraine mess is a direct result of Biden’s weakness.
Don Jr is as credible as you, fucked up!!!!!!
Roger, you have a son, right?
You going to have it join up today?
Myballs said...
So the Bidens only scammed 31M. Amateurs. Bill and Hillary pulled in 10X that much.
But let's ignore all that and investigate the Trump family obsessively.
Roger Stone
https://gab.com/RogerJStoneJr/posts/107676146550360692
Jeffrey Epstein's Child sex procurer Ghislaine Maxwell's environmental non-profit Terra Mar was completely funded by the CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE- Which of course you will see reported nowhere . I reported this in my book "the Clintons' War on Women" in 2015
you are right. No presidential family was as corrupt as the Clintons
But the Bidens are trying
A Divided Europe Confronts Russia on Ukraine
January 24, 2022 at 6:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
Washington Post: “An increasingly anxious Europe is waking up to the threat posed by Russia’s military buildup on the borders of Ukraine, but deep divisions among and within European nations stand in the way of a unified Western response.”
“NATO and European Union officials have repeatedly stressed that the continent stands firm in its desire to prevent a Russian assault on Ukraine and in its willingness to inflict punishment on Russia if an invasion is launched.”
“But there is no unanimity on how best to go about deterring Russia or what measures to take in the event of an attack on Ukraine.”
Associated Press: “NATO said Monday that it’s putting extra forces on standby and sending more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe as Russia continues its troop build-up near Ukraine.”
Putin Would Burst Xi’s Olympic Dream with War
January 24, 2022 at 6:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
Bloomberg: “As the US and Europe mount increasingly frantic efforts to deter Russia from any invasion of Ukraine, it’s Chinese President Xi Jinping who may have the biggest influence on Mr Vladimir Putin’s timetable.”
“The Russian President has said he will join Mr Xi at the opening ceremony on Feb 4 of the Beijing Winter Olympics, where the Chinese leader has lavished billions of dollars to showcase his nation’s superpower status to the world.”
“The last thing Mr Xi needs is for Mr Putin to overshadow China’s big moment by triggering a global security crisis with the US and Europe.”
* may explain why Ghislaine had an aisle seat at Chelsea's wedding
* and why Epstein committed "suicide"
Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It
January 24, 2022 at 9:11 am EST By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments
Fiona Hill: “As I have seen over two decades of observing Mr. Putin, and analyzing his moves, his actions are purposeful and his choice of this moment to throw down the gauntlet in Ukraine and Europe is very intentional. He has a personal obsession with history and anniversaries. December 2021 marked the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when Russia lost its dominant position in Europe. Mr. Putin wants to give the United States a taste of the same bitter medicine Russia had to swallow in the 1990s.”
“He believes that the United States is currently in the same predicament as Russia was after the Soviet collapse: grievously weakened at home and in retreat abroad. He also thinks NATO is nothing more than an extension of the United States. Russian officials and commentators routinely deny any agency or independent strategic thought to other NATO members. So, when it comes to the alliance, all Moscow’s moves are directed against Washington.”
CNBC: If war is coming, the West must decide how far it will go to defend Ukraine against Russia.
Europe May Be Headed Towards End of Pandemic
January 24, 2022 at 6:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments
The WHO said the Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a “new phase” and could bring it to an end in Europe, AFP reports.
The New York Times says the comments echoed the optimism of other leading public health officials around the world, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser for the coronavirus.
Wall Street Journal: Omicron slows Europe’s economy but supply chain strains ease.
Affirmative action is in danger.
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 already on the agenda.
The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. A decision against the schools could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions.
GET YOUR UMBRELLAS'S
HERE WE GO
By Taegan Goddard
By Taegan Goddard
By Taegan Goddard
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etc
the water boy found his true calling
ROFLMFAO !!!
DESPERATE,
Trump Team Backs January 6 Legal Defense Fund
January 24, 2022 at 7:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
Former President Donald Trump’s team has been involved in discussions about a legal defense fund created to support aides targeted by the House panel investigating January 6, CNN reports.
Why the Fed Might Want to Jolt the Markets
January 24, 2022 at 7:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
“So far, financial markets are cooperating nicely with the Federal Reserve’s efforts to restrain inflation. They’re doing the Fed’s work for it by creating tighter financial conditions, in a distinctly non-panicky way,” Axios reports.
“But as the central bank’s policymakers meet this week, an underlying question they face is whether the adjustment is happening too slowly.”
Gingrich Floats Jail Time for January 6 Committee
January 24, 2022 at 7:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Newt Gingrich told Fox News that lawmakers serving on the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection May end up in prison.
Said Gingrich: “I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down. The wolves are gonna find out they’re now sheep, and they’re the ones who are, in fact, I think, going to face a real risk of going to jail for the kind of laws that they’re breaking.”
Playbook: “We’re not sure exactly what Gingrich is referring to. Congress doesn’t have the power to jail people — unless Republicans plan to use the ‘inherent contempt’ power, which hasn’t been used in about 100 years and is reserved for enforcing subpoenas. More likely Gingrich’s remark is aimed at intimidation. Either way, it shows how the committee is getting under the GOP’s skin.”
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) tweets: “This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels.”
* let's see is the grammar/spelling nazi is lurking
ROFLMFAO !!!
* oh, he's still carrying water
ROFLMFAO !!!
New Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump
January 24, 2022 at 8:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Rolling Stone:
“This scheme to subvert the election outcome in Arizona is laid out in newly released emails… Sent in early December 2020, the emails cover a critical moment when the post-election push by Trump and Republican allies to find fraud and overturn the presidential election was in full swing.
“The emails show how a group of fringe election sleuths pressed state legislators on a plan to disrupt the 2020 election certification and potentially change the vote count in a battleground state that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency. The emails also reveal that several Trump advisers, including campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis and legal adviser Bernie Kerik, were included in the discussion.”
THE WALLS KEEP CLOSING IN.
MEANWHILE, GOOD NEWS:
Democrats Make Surprising Inroads In Redistricting
January 24, 2022 at 8:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
“Democrats braced for disaster when state legislatures began redrawing congressional maps, fearing that Republican dominance of statehouses would tilt power away from them for the next decade,” the AP reports.
“But as the redistricting process reaches its final stages, that anxiety is beginning to ease.”
“For Democrats, the worst case scenario of losing well over a dozen seats in the U.S. House appears unlikely to happen. After some aggressive map drawing of their own in states with Democratic legislatures, some Democrats predict the typical congressional district will shift from leaning to the right of the national vote to matching it, ending a distortion that gave the GOP a built-in advantage over the past five House elections.”
Arizona Republicans Propose Major Election Changes
January 24, 2022 at 8:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
“Arizona Republicans have put forth two dozen bills this month that would significantly change the state’s electoral processes after the GOP’s unorthodox review of millions of ballots affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory and turned up no proof of fraud,” NBC News reports.
“Proposals introduced in the state House or the Senate would add an additional layer to the state’s voter ID requirement, such as fingerprints, and stipulate the hand counting of all ballots by default. Other legislation would require that paper ballots be printed with holograms and watermarks.”
Related from HuffPost: “Arizona’s Republican State Senate, which hired the discredited Cyber Ninjas company to carry out a vote audit of Maricopa County, is now desperately seeking the company’s hidden public records to comply with a court order.”
House Republicans Tout Funding They Voted Against
January 24, 2022 at 8:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
ABC News covers the “growing group of Republicans celebrating new initiatives they originally opposed on the floor.”
RNC Research
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1484208648133873667
REPORTER: "Have you heard the Ukrainian president's comments that 'there are no minor incursions'?"
BIDEN: ........................................
WOW, Biden's handlers were very anxious not to let Biden answer,
and Biden was so scared he could only sheepishly point a finger for the "reporters" to leave
He can't answer to the American people
looks like someone took him to the woodshed
TAEGAN GODDARD SURE DOES GET UNDER F DADDY'S SKIN !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
WOW, Biden's handlers were very anxious not to let Biden answer,
and Biden was so scared he could only sheepishly point a finger for the "reporters" to leave
He can't answer to the American people
looks like someone took him to the woodshed
It's "Weekend at Biden's" with Psucky propping him up on one side and the Klain Klown Kar propping him up on the other.
FINDING FRAUD is not a plot to overturn the election
It is what it says it is
and every honest person knows that
The court system can save our country
In the year since Joe Biden was sworn into office, there has been no shortage of stories about efforts by Republican state legislatures to keep that from happening again. Dozens of those legislative bodies have been churning out legislation to restrict voting and gerrymander House districts.
The main line of defense against the restrictive voting laws crumbled on Jan. 19, just as Biden completed his first year in office. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), enthusiasts of the vote-killing filibuster, joined with a solid wall of Republicans to stop legislation that would keep federal elections open and honest.
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Redress through the federal courts has largely been stymied by an increasingly partisan U.S. Supreme Court. Even before President Trump’s three appointees donned their robes, the chief justice and two of his Republican-appointed colleagues, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, made it clear that they did not support broad voting rights. Nor did they seem interested in the corrosive impact that partisan gerrymandering has on the concept that everyone’s vote should count equally. With their politics-tinged decisions filtering down through the federal court system, overcoming undemocratic voting practices there has been rendered difficult.
Before giving up, those interested in free and fair elections should turn to their state high courts for help. While that may not work in states where supreme courts have been thoroughly politicized, it has worked remarkably well in states where the judiciary firmly believes in the rule of law. Consider deep red Idaho.
The Idaho Legislature has never liked that voters can get around it by using an initiative or referendum to pass or repeal legislation. In their 2021 session, GOP legislators passed a bill to make it virtually impossible to use these people-power measures. Leery that federal courts would provide relief, two Idaho groups brought suit in the Idaho Supreme Court, challenging the bill under the Idaho Constitution.
It should be disclosed that most members of the Court are initially appointed through a merit-based process. They are remarkably apolitical and dedicated to following the letter of the law. Another item of disclosure is that I helped form one of the groups challenging the bill but did not take a public role in litigating the case.
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The Idaho Supreme Court determined that the bill was clearly unconstitutional in an air-tight opinion based solely upon Idaho law. The right to initiate or veto laws was equated to the right of individuals to vote in elections. The Court held both to be fundamental rights that the Legislature could not infringe upon without strong and convincing justification.
Other state supreme courts, even in purple or slightly red states, have relied upon their state constitutions to invalidate restrictive voting laws and gerrymandered maps. State constitutional provisions have often been overlooked in the past, but state courts have seemed more inclined to honor them in recent years. That can only happen when they are used as the basis for relief in voting litigation.
Last July, the New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down a complicated registration statute, apparently targeted at college students, on grounds that it violated the New Hampshire Constitution. The Court said, “it unreasonably burdens the right to vote.” It may well have been upheld in federal court under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
The Ohio Supreme Court has just stricken maps redrawing boundaries for both state and congressional legislative districts, finding that they violate that state’s constitution. Although Republicans had a vote advantage over Democrats of about 54 percent to 46 percent over the last decade for legislative seats, the GOP would have gotten about two-thirds of the state legislative seats under the stricken plan. The congressional map was equally lopsided.
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
TAEGAN GODDARD SURE DOES GET UNDER F DADDY'S SKIN !!!
Not really but idiots like you sometimes do as well as raving maniacs on street corners
ROFLMFAO !!!
Joe Biden's America
James using the word "Fucking".
Slow Joe is leaving Americans to DIE.
From Covid and from conflict.
Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire: “Probably he’ll get everyone out. I mean, it’s not like there are still Americans stuck in Afghanistan or something.”
John Cooper, Heritage Foundation: “Russia has been massing for weeks, and now the Biden administration is telling Americans stuck in #Ukraine that there’s nothing they can do to get them out. This administration is criminally incompetent.”
Monica Crowley, former Trump official: “Biden/Harris still cool with abandoning Americans in war zones.”
Karol Markowicz, New York Post: “We’re just going to make leaving Americans in war zones an ongoing thing, huh. I remember, in my 20s, arguing with someone that one of the great benefits of being an American was that no matter what, and no matter where, my country was going to come get me. Whoops.”
Nate Madden, GOP comms: “Holy crap. It’s August all over again.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-over-reports-he-cant-evacuate-u-s-citizens-out-of-ukraine-criminally-incompetent
Inflation keeping house prices high, even with rising mortgage rates"
This would be horrible IF it stops Roger from buying his dream home in Lake Bonney, Washington.
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said..
After some aggressive map drawing of their own in states with Democratic legislatures
when Republicans do this the left screams GERRYMANDERING
thanks for clearing that up
ROFLMFAO !!!
Dow today
−723.21 (2.11%)today
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies losing
Clint Ehrlich
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1484161639737806851
My segment last night on @TuckerCarlson is having a bigger impact than I ever imagined.
It's causing pro-war pundits and politicians to lose their minds!
Let's catalog their meltdowns. A thread...
Scott Adams
This thread is hilarious if you like seeing people triggered into cognitive dissonance.
Look for the tells: Mind-reading, general insults, bringing in unrelated topics, hallucinating facts.
He's been here looking at roger
ROFLMFAO !!!
KansasDemocrat said...
Dow today
−723.21 (2.11%)today
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies losing
ouch
it does look like a dark gloomy winter or whatever Biden promised
And the NASDAQ is DOWN by 400+
Embrace the SUCK.
rrb said...
Slow Joe is leaving Americans to DIE.
From Covid and from conflict.
It's amazing how state media is not reporting on the Americans left behind in Afghanistan
Even when private groups manage to get some out
Almost like they don't like reporting on news
just narratives
What is Biden's plan to stop the economic/financial meltdown.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
What is Biden's plan to stop the economic/financial meltdown.
To get inflation higher than his approval rating.
Justices Reject McCarthy’s Challenge to Proxy Voting
January 24, 2022 at 10:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a GOP lawsuit challenging proxy voting rules set up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in response to the pandemic,” USA Today reports.
“The decision to not hear the case lets stand a federal appeals court ruling that said courts are barred from reviewing the internal rules of the House of Representatives.”
Oath Keepers’ Founder Expected In Court
January 24, 2022 at 10:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments
“Federal prosecutors are set to make their case Monday to keep jailed pending trial the man they say masterminded a conspiracy to take over the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the intention of keeping then-President Donald Trump in power,” Politico reports.
"Winter of Death" Biden
Promise made, Promise Kept
UK fully open
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies
Embraces "ESG Scoring".
Karma!
Sarah Palin has tested positive for Covid, and is unvaccinated, a federal judge told a courtroom Monday just as a civil defamation trial involving the one-time-Alaska governor and the New York Times was set to begin, CNBC reports.
Palin said last month that she will get a Covid-19 vaccine “over my dead body.“
Classic democrat bait and switch...
A recent bill meant to facilitate NASA raising money by leasing out underused facilities went in a most unexpected direction: expanding the right to vote.
The NASA property bill was transformed into the "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" under the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives, seeking to undercut Republican opposition to expanding the franchise.
The act includes provisions such as turning election day into a federal holiday, allowing same-day voter registration, expanding early voting and mail voting and allowing more types of non-photographic ID for voting, according to Business Insider.
The House passed the bill on Thursday (Jan. 13) by a 220 to 203 vote, with each representative voting along party lines, according to SpaceNews.
But in the meantime, NASA is still without the ability to enter specific types of leases to generate revenue. NASA's authority to do so lapsed on Dec. 31, which means the agency cannot establish new agreements with companies, government agencies or educational institutions to lease unused space.
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), ranking member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that oversees NASA activities, said he was unhappy with moving the bill from its original focus to allow the agency to enter enhanced use leases.
"Good policy doesn’t require secrecy and schemes. This is no way to govern," Lucas said in an e-mail statement to constituents, claiming that the House had only 12 hours to vote on the matter after 735 pages were tacked on the bill.
"What's more," he said, "by stripping this NASA bill and replacing it with an attempt to impose federal control of elections, they have killed our only vehicle to extend NASA's authority to lease out underutilized property and save taxpayer money."
https://www.space.com/nasa-leasing-bill-voting-rights-legislation
Sarah Palin Tests Positive for Covid at Start of Trial
January 24, 2022 at 10:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments
Sarah Palin has tested positive for Covid, and is unvaccinated, a federal judge told a courtroom Monday just as a civil defamation trial involving the one-time-Alaska governor and the New York Times was set to begin, CNBC reports.
Palin said last month that she will get a Covid-19 vaccine “over my dead body."
Better not say that too loud, Sarah. ;-)
Roger you got a contract on your new home?
Given you are flush with cash.
Look at how sick these two low life liberals are that Sarah has Covid.
The new GOP is nationalist, populist, and increasingly fascist.
Rick Wilson issues a chilling warning about ‘the new GOP’
Rick Wilson warned that Newt Gingrich's "fascist" threats pose a genuine threat to democracy and the rule of law.
The former speaker of the House threatened jail time for House select committee members during a Fox News interview over the weekend, and Wilson, a former Republican strategist, explained that Gingrich's comments revealed the "authoritarian" nature of the current GOP.
"We've been warning you all along that this election isn't about [Build Back Better] or prescription drugs or guns or climate or anything else in the policy domain," Wilson tweeted. "It's about the emergent authoritarian state shambling its way toward the end of small-d democratic politics."
Wilson predicted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would shove House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) aside if Republicans win back the majority, and he would turn the House of Representatives into a Nazi-style weapon against Democrats or anyone else who opposes Donald Trump.
"Speaker Jordan (and no, Kevin, he didn't take your deal and he is going to shank you) and the MAGAe will comprise a clear majority of the GOP caucus in 2022 and they are Trump's political vergeltungswaffe," Wilson tweeted, referring to German rocket artillery used during World War II. "They don't care about policy. They care about power."
Ch can't wait until Republicans would immediately move to impeach President Joe Biden and hold endless hearings on Hunter Biden's laptop, Black Lives Matter and Antifa to "terrorize" their political opponents, Wilson said, and they would use their power to "investigate" Trump's election lies and undermine faith in democracy.
"Because if the election of 2020 is illegitimate to their base, anything goes," Wilson tweeted. "I warned in 2019 that they'd mainstream political violence because the acquisition and retention of political power is the only ideological underpinning."
They would also use their regulatory power to punish corporations that don't serve their interests, especially social media companies, and Wilson said those threats would work.
"" he tweeted.
"Yes, they'll try to put their opponents in jail," Wilson concluded. "Yes, they'll use the full power of the state to do what they can't do at the ballot box. Stop thinking this is about anything else but alloyed fascism."
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-speaker-of-the-house/
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Look at how sick these two low life liberals are that Sarah has Covid.
It's why I'm serious when I say that leftists want us dead. They really do. They have no compassion, they have no heart and they have no soul. They get off on the misery and death of their enemies, and everyone that doesn't march lockstep with their leftist ideology is their enemy.
Your side endangers lives by nixing vaccinations and then gets sick and we're supposed to feel real, real sorry for them, eh?
Biden’s Second Year Won’t Be About Bipartisanship
January 24, 2022 at 11:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
“President Biden made bipartisanship the backbone of his 2020 campaign, but with this year set to be dominated by the midterm elections, he is pivoting away from work with Republicans,” The Hill reports.
GOOD! THEY HAVEN'T DESERVED IT.
“The president, who has adopted a stronger tone with the GOP since the start of the year, said in no uncertain terms this week that the Republican Party had changed, even since he was vice president.
“It is a party that is unrecognizable to him, he said at a press conference earlier this week, drawing lines of division between the two parties.”
Look at how sick these two low life liberals are that Sarah has Covid.
She's a dumbs just like you goat fucking idiot!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I wonder what the goat fuckers root cellar is worth......??????
IN A NUTSHELL
Republicans want to destroy democracy
and replace it with unalloyed fascism.
Madam Pastor is anti-God.
Proves it everyday here.
All you need to know about Covid vaccine failure in one chart
This chart tracks the number of patients hospitalized for Covid in Denmark since vaccines became available in December 2020. Denmark is one of the world’s most highly vaccinated countries. Roughly 95 percent of Danes over 12 are vaccinated, and almost two-thirds are boosted. Denmark is also going through an unprecedented Omicron outbreak (more to come on that very soon).
The chart breaks down the hospitalizations by vaccine status. Dark blue is fully vaccinated, light blue is unvaccinated. Yes, the unvaccinated make up more than their share of the population. We know this.
But remember: IN LIBERAL, SUPER-HIGHLY VACCINATED COUNTRIES LIKE DENMARK, VACCINE HESITANCY IS NOT A THING. NOT IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY. The unvaccinated elderly are unvaccinated largely because they cannot be. Being unvaccinated is a MARKER for sickness. Of course the unvaccinated are disproportionately likely to be hospitalized for Covid.
So ignore the three-card monte game public health authorities and the media have played since the summer, when it became clear the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission. Forget relative rate ratios.
Look instead at the WHOLE chart, how the trend of hospitalizations has changed over the last 13 months. Human biology is the same everywhere. In the spring and summer, the vaccines worked. Cases fell almost to zero. A miracle of biotechnology.
But the miracle - the dubious miracle of vaccine-generated spike protein antibodies - did not last.
By September, vaccine protection was waning. The dark blue line (vaccinated) grew thicker relative to the light blue line, though that failure was masked by a general decline in cases after the summer wave.
Then, in mid-October (2021-week 41), a new wave began. The vaccines did nothing to stop it. Once Omicron hit hospitalizations accelerated exponentially.
Now Denmark - 95 percent adult vaccinated, 65 percent boosted Denmark - HAS MORE COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS NOW THAN IT DID BEFORE A SINGLE DANE RECEIVED A SINGLE MRNA VACCINE. AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE VACCINATED. Even boosters have done nothing to reverse the trend. The dark blue line now is about to pass the peak of the light blue line from last year.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/all-you-need-to-know-about-covid
He makes a great point.
A lot of those dying from "Covid" and unvaccinated are those hospitalized and can't be vaccinated.
And are actually dying WITH Covid and not FROM Covid
and not "Republicans" as the POS "pastor" cheers for
and the "vaccines" are not working as vaccines should
Where is Fauci and the CDC on all this? Would be very important data to collect during a pandemic.
Of course all their data supports a narrative and not science.
except political science
it's their only science
All you need to know about Covid vaccine failure in one chart
And all you need to know how fucked up fucked is .......is to read the bullshit that vaccines don't work.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! In the US......95% of current hospital patients are un vaxed with that % at risk to die..... go post you drivel on the freepers site.....the are all dumb fucks like you!!!!
THE BIG LIAR:
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend (with the lying moniker)
What a POS water carrying "pastor"
and that is no lie Boswell
the truth hurts
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
Your side endangers lives by nixing vaccinations and then gets sick and we're supposed to feel real, real sorry for them, eh?
A LIE. Told by a pathological LIAR who fancies himself a man of God.
"Nixing" mandates is accurate. Nixing vaccines is a LIE.
You owe the existence of the vaccines to a man you despise, you hate, you wish dead, and a man you FEAR so much you must disqualify him from running again because you know you cannot beat him at the ballot box. You brought this country to its knees because of sheer hatred for one man.
https://time.com/6138566/pandemic-of-unvaccinated/
ROFLMFAO !!!
A LIE. Told by a pathological LIAR who fancies himself a man of God.
"Nixing" mandates is accurate. Nixing vaccines is a LIE.
You owe the existence of the vaccines to a man you despise, you hate, you wish dead, and a man you FEAR so much you must disqualify him from running again because you know you cannot beat him at the ballot box. You brought this country to its knees because of sheer hatred for one man.
Boswell is a man of GODdard, not a man of God
and he continuously proves it here
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
The UK , ended all restriction.
In 90 Days the Federal reserve has gone from " Transitory Inflation" this.
"The Federal Open Market Committee meets this week to decide the path for its tightening of monetary policy as it looks to contain soaring inflation.CNBC
"he [James] continuously proves it here" James f'ing Daddy
James swears like a Sailor.
"The Federal Open Market Committee meets this week to decide the path for its tightening of monetary policy as it looks to contain soaring inflation.CNBC
Slow Joe's "path" is to blow several more TRILLIONS of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Please Pass the Bidenomics Build Back Broker Bill.
No more excuses.
Natural immunity was more effective than vaccines alone against delta variant, CDC study shows"
Shocking goat fucker.....that idea has been floated for months!!!!!! And again.....what does it prove other than you are a dumb fucking loser??????????
From an earlier study from Johns Hopkins concerning your relevation of stupidity goat fucker..
Johns Hopkins has conducted a large study on natural immunity that shows antibody levels against COVID-19 coronavirus stay higher for a longer time in people who were infected by the virus and then were fully vaccinated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines compared with those who only got immunized. (The results of the study were published in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association on Nov. 1, 2021.)
The data show that one month after they got their second shot, participants who had had COVID-19 more than 90 days before their first shot had adjusted antibody levels higher than those who had been exposed to the coronavirus more recently than 90 days. Three months after the second coronavirus vaccine, the antibody levels were even higher: 13% higher than those who were exposed to the virus less than or equal to the 90-day mark.
IN A NUTSHELL
The current Republicans wants to destroy democracy, and replace it with unalloyed fascism.
Even George W Bush was a great guy and a real Republican conservative Republican.
But from the day after he rolled down the escalator, the Republican party has become an increasingly clear unalloyed fascist regime. No longer a political party, but a separationist regime. It would consist mostly of the Louisiana purchase. Except for Washington,Oregon and Colorado. But maybe even Florida.
The current Republicans wants to destroy democracy, and replace it with unalloyed fascism.
So fascism without any alloy metal in it?
I find it amazing that the Party who has control of the White House, Senate, House and are going nuts trying to get rid of the filibuster so then can literally overrule very popular new state laws that they do not like with a tie break vote from the Vice President... basically attempting to shut out all Republicans at the Federal and State level and replacing everything with a 50+1 rule of law entirely based on the Democratic Party and their 40% approval President, 20% approval Congress.
are calling the other side fascists for wanting the separation of powers and by blocking them from becoming all powerful.
You cannot make this shit up, folks!
Crazies like Roger literally believe this.
Even odder is that their attempts to take over the Federal Government and then work to overrule State Governments with their 50-50 "Majority" and unpopular President is being blocked by members of their own Party.
But it is still the GOP trying to be facists.
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