Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Why the left is desperate to find a crime to pin on Trump?

Trump team announces $122 million war chest
Former President Donald Trump's political organization has amassed $122 million in cash reserves, his team announced Monday. The war chest he has stockpiled is unprecedented for a former President and underscores his financial dominance in Republican politics more than a year after leaving the White House and during a critical midterm cycle.
Trump's various political arms raised more than $51 million during the second half of the year, according to a statement from Trump's Save America political action committee, which also claimed that he has contributed more than $1.35 million to his favored candidates and causes. "President Donald J. Trump has built a political organization that continues to capture and define the future of the Republican Party," his spokesman Taylor Budowich said in the statement. "There is no question that the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (MAGA!) wave is set to crash across the Midterms and carry forward all the way through 2024."
Earlier in the day, Trump's MAGA, Again! super PAC filed a report with the federal regulators showing that it has raised around $10 million during the final quarter of 2021. That haul included a $5.725 million transfer from MAGA Action, a now-defunct super PAC that had been run by Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. The committee spent $476,577 during the same period, the bulk of which went toward operational costs and polling conducted by former Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio. Its spending also included a combined $12,000 in event, catering, and transportation fees at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. The cash position touted by Trump's team Monday far exceeds the cash reserves of the Republican National Committee, which reported starting this year with $56.3 million remaining in the bank.

Let's face reality here folks. The feeble old man in the White House doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell if he had to face Trump in 2024. Polling shows Dementia Joe down by over 5 points on average and Biden would need to win the popular vote by close to 5 points to win the Electoral College. Even his best polling still shows him even or maybe a point or two ahead (not enough to win the electoral college vote). His worse polling shows him down double digits. In other words, Slow Joe is currently running 10 points behind Trump in terms of real numbers and possibly even more.

That is how bad of a President that Biden is and Trump and his 122 million are just sitting in the rear view mirror much closer than he looks! 

Not that I think that Biden is still going to be the nominee. I think he will decide to spend more time with his family or concentrate on other things and somebody else will step in. Unfortunately for Democrats Trump does even better in the polling against Harris or Clinton (whom are the two most talked about replacements).  Democrats need a better option. We'll see if they can find one.

 

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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

who not whom
subject (not object) follow by a linking verb

We shall see what things look like in three more long years.

Meanwhile,
Denmark Scraps Covid Restrictions
February 1, 2022 at 12:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 115 Comments

Denmark scrapped most pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country no longer considers Covid-19 “a socially critical disease,”
the AP reports.

“Officials say the reason for the Danish move is that while the omicron variant is surging in the country, it’s not placing a heavy burden on the health system and Denmark has a high vaccination rate.”
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Too bad we can't say that, thanks to Donald's influence on his fanatics.



Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

McConnell Opposes Shortening Sentences for Rioters
February 1, 2022 at 3:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) again broke sharply with former President Donald Trump, telling reporters he would not support any reduced sentences for those who pled guilty in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Axios reports.

Said McConnell:
“I would not be in favor in shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes.”
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Oh my! Donald's influence and the fear of him is declining in all the still rational portions of the GOP.

halfbaked said...

Very simple to most people because he has been staging a slow motion coup since he lost the election in November.

He is the most dangerous politician in American history.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Why is the left desperate to find a crime to pin on Trump?

A better question is:
Why do multitudinous crimes keep popping up that contradict Trump's every claim of innocence?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

He is the most dangerous politician in American history.

AS LEVEL HEADED REPUBLICANS ARE INCREASINGLY BEING MADE AWARE.

halfbaked said...

On topic. She should be the next Presidential candidate.

The Case for Tulsi Gabbard as President of the United States in 2024

I honestly hoped Tulsi would be able to change things — to improve and reform a badly outdated and broken system within the United States. She at least offered something genuinely new and original. She was a younger Democrat from an ethnic and religious minority who was not afraid to criticize her party, to go against their long-established party policies whenever she felt necessary, or even to engage with Republicans openly, however poorly that might be perceived by hardline Democrats, but neither was she hiding her progressive ideals in the slightest, nor was she willing to compromise on her integrity or her core principles.

She just criticized Biden on his nominee for the Supreme Court.

In many ways she is like the next Obama style candidate..





rrb said...

A better question is:

Why do multitudinous crimes keep popping up that contradict Trump's every claim of innocence?



An even BETTER, MUCH BETTER question is - why hasn't Trump been formally charged with even one, JUST ONE, of this mul-tee-tood of crimes, eh pederast???

LOL.

Anonymous said...

"Holocaust was “not about race".

Mmm,

rrb said...




"Biden chose Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex—not qualification. She's been a disaster." "Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same criteria. Identity politics is destroying our country."

- Tulsi Gabbard


I think he also chose the Cum-Allah because she can suck a golf ball through 100 feet of garden hose.




Anonymous said...

Racist add two new members, both Democrats.

Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.,.

Anonymous said...

I think he also chose the Cum-Allah because she can suck ... The crome off a truck bumper

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I said:
Why do multitudinous crimes keep popping up that contradict Trump's every claim of innocence?

rat (rrb) asked:
An even BETTER, MUCH BETTER question is - why hasn't Trump been formally charged with even one, JUST ONE, of this mul-tee-tood of crimes, eh pederast???

I answer:
Since a pederast is not available, I will answer:

The case/cases is/are building and building and building.

So when the dam breaks, LOOK OUT!!!

Anonymous said...

Roger said he dropped $13,000 on two tickets to this year's Super Bowl Game.

Enjoy the Game.

rrb said...




Mr. Trump’s overall war chest entering 2022 stood at $122 million — more than double the cash on hand of the Republican National Committee itself — as he continued to solicit his online supporters with the same pace and intensity of the heat of the campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/politics/trump-campaign-filing.html


Maybe the dumb fuck leftists who troll this blog will finally realize what I've been saying for months...

...Trump does not equal the GOP.

Trump drew 50,000 the other night.

The shitstains who call themselves congressional republicans couldn't fill a handicapped rest room stall.




halfbaked said...

This is a much bigger picture than this or anything else.


WASHINGTON — America’s gross national debt topped $30 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, an ominous fiscal milestone that underscores the fragile nature of the country’s long-term economic health as it grapples with soaring prices and the prospect of higher interest rates.

The breach of that threshold, which was revealed in new Treasury Department figures, arrived years earlier than previously projected as a result of trillions in federal spending that the United States has deployed to combat the pandemic. That $5 trillion, which funded expanded jobless benefits, financial support for small businesses and stimulus payments, was financed with borrowed money.

The borrowing binge, which many economists viewed as necessary to help the United States recover from the pandemic, has left the nation with a debt burden larger than the entire economy, surpassing levels of red ink not seen since World War II.

Some economists contend that the nation’s large debt load is not unhealthy given that the economy is growing, interest rates are low and investors are still willing to buy U.S. Treasury securities, which gives them safe assets to help manage their financial risk. Those securities allow the government to borrow money relatively cheaply and use it to invest in the economy.

Yet the figures come amid renewed concerns in Washington over the nation’s fiscal trajectory and its ballooning budget deficit, which is the gap between what the nation spends and the revenue it brings in. Those worries helped stall negotiations over President Biden’s $2 trillion safety net and climate spending proposal, with Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia citing “staggering debt” as a reason he could not support the legislation.

The lingering pandemic has slowed the momentum of the economic recovery, fueling inflation rates unseen since the early 1980s and raising the prospect of higher interest rates, which could add to America’s fiscal burden.

halfbaked said...

I have already read about it and it is a huge problem for everyone

rrb said...



So when the dam breaks, LOOK OUT!!!


Oh, right.

Walls... closing in or something.

The beginning...of the end... again, and they really, rally mean it this time.

Bombshells... so many bombshells I've lost count.

SDNY's Vance retired without charging Trump with a single CRIME.

NYS AG Laquishaniqua James is working on a CIVIL, not criminal case against Trump.

So yeah, pederast... we're "looking out" and have been looking out since Trump rode down the escalator that fateful day when he declared.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Oh f**k



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he does not support shortening the sentences of any of the people who have pleaded guilty to crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol. 

"I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes," McConnell told reporters when asked about former President Trump’s statement over the weekend that he would consider pardons for people who tried to stop the certification of President Biden's victory in the 2020 election.  


“The election of 2020 was decided Dec. 14 of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election. What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which has never happened before in our country.” 

rrb will want to lynch him too



C.H. Truth said...

Very simple to most people because he has been staging a slow motion coup since he lost the election in November.

Yes.... raising money is part of that illegal scheme to get elected President again. How dare he!

rrb said...



Mitch has become a hack like you alky. His Majority Leader status if the GOP takes the Senate is already in jeopardy and he knows it. So this was him blowing a kiss to the asses of the RINO's he needs to keep him in the big chair.

For someone who declares himself such a historical and political sage around here, you shouldn't need me to explain this most obvious maneuver to you.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/592323-mcconnell-breaks-with-trump-on-jan-6-pardons

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott nobody is saying that raising money is part of that illegal scheme to get elected President again is illegal


rrb said...


Yes.... raising money is part of that illegal scheme to get elected President again. How dare he!

But he's doing the slow motion coup so s l o w l y, the alky is the only one here with the sharp eye to see it.

I think it's the bananas. And the succotash. Carrots are good for the eyes.

C.H. Truth said...

Why do multitudinous crimes keep popping up that contradict Trump's every claim of innocence?

The case/cases is/are building and building and building.



Which is interesting, because we have a congressional investigation with no authority to charge him, we have a pseudo-Grand jury in Georgia that has no authority to indict, and the Southern District of New York has a civil investigation - which also is not designed to bring criminal charges.


So so there seems to be a lot of smoke here...


rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Scott nobody is saying that raising money is part of that illegal scheme to get elected President again is illegal



Well alky, all Trump is doing is what any other candidate in his position would be doing. Rallying and raising $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

It's only you afraid of the "slow motion coup" monster under his bed.

So forgive me if I remain convinced that you're mentally ill.

C.H. Truth said...

Scott nobody is saying that raising money is part of that illegal scheme to get elected President again is illegal.

Oh right...

It's those states using their power as legislators to pass the popular election security laws that their constituents want... that make up the backbone of the illegal scheme in question.

anonymous said...

So so there seems to be a lot of smoke here...

Which even for intellectually disabled like you, Lil Schitty......usually means fire!!!!!!

Sorry sport....but. Georgia has the ability to indict and if NY uncovers criminal activity they will indict not your wishful thinking !!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

C.H. Truth said...

I also understand Roger...

That having more people vote for the Republican candidates in their states and congressional districts in order to take control of Congress is another large part of the illegal scheme.

Those dastardly criminals!

rrb said...



Sorry sport....but. Georgia has the ability to indict and if NY uncovers criminal activity they will indict not your wishful thinking !!!!!!

They will, eh BWAA?

Will they be getting around to it sometime soon? We've been standing around waiting since 2016 and the alky has promised us on numerous occasions that THEY'VE REALLY GOT HIM THIS TIME!!!11!...

Yet we ain't seen shit.




C.H. Truth said...

Georgia has the ability to indict

Sure... just that those with the ability to indict don't have any active investigations or any grand juries sitting.

Just some local yahoos in "Fulton county" who assembled the pseudo-Grand jury that has no authority to do so. Because the liberals running "Fulton county" is going to convince Kemp and the other Republicans in charge to commit political suicide by following Fulton County recommendations on the subject.

halfbaked said...

Scott, smoke indicates there is a fire burning. The investigations take time.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — the Disqualification Clause — expressly bars any person from holding “any office, civil or military, under the United States” if he “engaged in insurrection” against the Constitution after previously swearing to uphold it “as an officer of the United States.” These terms definitely apply to Trump, and some Democrats are exploring the use of Section 3 against him.

The text is framed in exceptionally broad terms — prohibiting service in any of the states as well as the federal government. It does permit a candidate for future office to escape disqualification — but only by obtaining “a vote of two-thirds of each House.” These congressional supermajorities, however, are obviously beyond Trump’s grasp. Which means, once he announces his presidential campaign, it won’t be possible for him to avoid a confrontation with the 14th Amendment. Before he can run for the Republican nomination in the primaries, he must convince each state’s election authorities that Section 3 doesn’t bar him from the White House.

If he is convicted, he is not going to convince every state..

I still suspect that he will be the next Al Capone and die in prison for tax evasion.




rrb said...

Just some local yahoos in "Fulton county" who assembled the pseudo-Grand jury that has no authority to do so. Because the liberals running "Fulton county" is going to convince Kemp and the other Republicans in charge to commit political suicide by following Fulton County recommendations on the subject.


The liberals here amaze me. Their ability to play this out to a logical conclusion seems to be completely obscured by their thought that 'they really got him this time.' Again. That little Willis twat down in Fulton County GA has higher political aspirations, that much is obvious.

This ain't exactly game theory.

rrb said...


I still suspect that he will be the next Al Capone and die in prison for tax evasion.

Well, we're all familiar with YOUR predictions around here alky.

Here's a hint - the LAST thing they'll nail Trump on is tax evasion. The NYS Division of Taxation and Finance has been up his ass with a floodlight for fucking YEARS. If there was a comma or decimal point out of place they would've found it because they hate the guy more than you do.






anonymous said...

Sure... just that those with the ability to indict don't have any active investigations or any grand juries sitting.


BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Just making shit up to see what sticks asshole/?????? Suggest you use the google machine....the DA stated she is pursuing a criminal investigation on trump!!!!!! Keep digging asshole!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.

In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned.

rrb said...



Show your plagiarism alky -

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/01/biden-trump-constitutional-crisis-00003959


The text is framed in exceptionally broad terms — prohibiting service in any of the states as well as the federal government. It does permit a candidate for future office to escape disqualification — but only by obtaining “a vote of two-thirds of each House.” These congressional supermajorities, however, are obviously beyond Trump’s grasp. Which means, once he announces his presidential campaign, it won’t be possible for him to avoid a confrontation with the 14th Amendment. Before he can run for the Republican nomination in the primaries, he must convince each state’s election authorities that Section 3 doesn’t bar him from the White House.


rrb said...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.


Phony Fauci's portfolio manager: Cha CHING!!!

LOL.

anonymous said...

RRB,,, a tenth degree flaming asshole....Cha Ching!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

anonymous said...

Thanx for playing Lil Schitty


The top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a criminal investigation of a January phone call in which then-President Donald Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him enough votes to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.
District Attorney Fani Willis asked Raffensperger and other state officials to preserve documents related to Trump’s highly unusual call

rrb said...



Georgia Chairman of the Republican Party David Shafer posted this on his Twitter account as the news broke after they all got caught lying about the phone call.

DA Willis screwed up when she sent out her letter on January 20th. Willis says in her letter that she is “investigating the facts and circumstances relating directly to possible attempts to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 election.”

This opens up Willis and her office to investigate all of the claims of fraud in the county. Including the stuffing of ballots three times through election machines.



https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/boomerang-fulton-county-georgia-da-goes-trump-junk-charges-opens-office-investigations-fraud-accusations-fulton-county/

anonymous said...

It is really a sad day when a DA has to ask for protection from an ex president inclined to stoke violence at a rally.....The GOP slippers here like Lil Schitty will make shit up and defend the tyrant any way they can as Trump flouts the laws he was sworn to protect!!!!

https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/georgia-da-investigating-trump-asks-fbi-for-security-help/

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A Georgia district attorney investigating whether Donald Trump tried to interfere with the outcome of the 2020 election requested security help from the FBI after the former president lashed out against prosecutors probing him.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis voiced her concerns to the FBI in a Sunday letter after Trump railed against investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington at his Saturday night rally outside Houston.

Trump, according to Willis’ letter, said: “If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt.”

anonymous said...

l of the claims of fraud in the county. Including the stuffing of ballots three times through election machines.

PROVEN TO BE BULLSHIT. ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

rrb said...



LOL. A county DA trying to make a name for herself and using Trump to do it.

As you would say BWAA... BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!


anonymous said...

LOL. A county DA trying to make a name for herself and using Trump to do it.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! YOUR ASSHATTERRY IS MONUMENTAL AND REFLECTS YOUR ALTERED MENTAL STATE!!!!!!!

anonymous said...

THE NEW GOP MANTRA.....UPHOLDING THE LAW IS TRYING TO MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF WHILE BREAKING THE LAW IN TRUMPS NAME IS FINE.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rrb wants to lynch him because Trump said!


Trump blows up on the Jan. 6 committee and demands they investigate Mike Pence

Sarah K. Burris

February 01, 2022

Former President Donald Trump released a statement Tuesday continuing his attacks on the 2020 election that he continues to claim was stolen. This time, however, he turned his eyes toward his former vice president. If Republicans take back the House in November, Trump wants them to focus on investigating Mike Pence and why he refused to overturn the election.

"So pathetic to watch the Unselect Committee of political hacks, liars, and traitors work so feverishly to alter the Electoral College Act so that a Vice President cannot ensure the honest results of the election, when just one year ago they said that 'the Vice President has absolutely no right to ensure the true outcome or results of an election,'" Trump said through his spokesperson.

Trump claims that because Democrats want to put further election protections in place in the event someone wants to steal the election again, it means someone could have changed the election results on Jan. 6.

"The Vice President did have this right or, more pointedly, could have sent the votes back to various legislators for reassessment after so much fraud and irregularities were found," said Trump, who failed to find enough fraud and irregularities to get court action from his own appointed judges. "If it were sent back to the legislators, or if Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of Capitol security, had taken my recommendation and substantially increased security, there would have been no 'January 6' as we know it!"

WATCH: NYT reporter breaks down bombshell new revelations about Trump’s vote-stealing scheme

Trump's claim that proper security would have stopped Jan. 6 essentially admits that the violence was so powerful that it called for increased security. The National Guard was requested and approved by Trump ahead of Jan. 6 and they were largely in the area of the Ellipse, where Trump held his rally.

"District of Columbia officials knew of the planned protests and had requested some assistance when the 'First Amendment demonstrations' were planned for Jan. 5 and 6," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said in a call. "Based on this request, officials called up 340 National Guardsmen to help... At the same time, officials were collecting Guardsmen at traffic points and Metro stations and returning them to the D.C. Armory to refit for a crowd control mission, the secretary said. Their mission was to support D.C. Metropolitan Police and Capitol Hill Police."

It was the Capitol Police who spoke to the Guard and said that they wouldn't request the Guard at the Capitol, the Military Times reported. It's the reason that the chief of the Capitol Police resigned after Jan. 6

Former chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote in his book that Trump wanted the National Guard to protect his supporters from counter-protesters, who didn't show up on Jan. 6.

Trump's comments also claimed that the committee should investigate Pelosi to uncover why she failed to secure the Capitol, effectively admitting that his supporters warranted additional security. One main fear, however, is that if the armed National Guard was standing at the Capitol it could have led to a shootout, as so many members of Trump's crowd came to Washington with weapons.

Further problems were caused because of Washington, D.C.'s strange mix of government overlords. There's the DC city government, the Capitol and the federal park's service.

"The Capitol’s request for Guard back-up went beyond what Bowser had already gotten approved, so it needed a new sign-off," the Military Times explained.

If Trump said that there should have been National Guard troops at the Capitol, it would prove he knew that there was an imminent attack on the building ahead of time.


halfbaked said...

Even Powerline is a RINO

POSTED ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, DEMOCRACY, DONALD TRUMP, MIKE PENCE

TRUMP’S DISTURBING CLAIM THAT PENCE COULD “OVERTURN THE ELECTION”

This past weekend, Donald Trump claimed that Mike Pence, as vice president, had the power to change the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump said: “Unfortunately, [Pence] didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election.”

This claim is wrong and disturbing. It’s wrong because, as discussed below, once the states submit their slates of electors in compliance with state law and with no alternative slate authorized by an empowered state body, the vice president has no authority to reject the electors or otherwise “overturn” the outcome of the election.



rrb said...




I tend to ignore the 'raw story' fabulists, alky. I'm looking for analytics, facts.

So far, the path that Trump has taken has been a legal path, and the last time I checked hyperbolic rhetoric is not illegal.

If Trump said that there should have been National Guard troops at the Capitol, it would prove he knew that there was an imminent attack on the building ahead of time.

LOL. Trump offered and Peloshee refused. It proves nothing, and if the connections Ms. Raw Story are making to criminally implicate Trump, he has nothing to worry about.


So... what's on the menu at the Plastic Tablecloth Cafe tonight, alky?

Fish sticks, perhaps? Oh wait. Those would be on Friday.




rrb said...

and if the connections Ms. Raw Story are making to criminally implicate Trump are this flimsy, he has nothing to worry about.

anonymous said...

I tend to ignore the 'raw story' fabulists, alky. I'm looking for analytics, facts.


BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Then why do you ignore so many of them.....like vaccines work and trump lost?????? Could it be you keep falling for the fabulist bullshit of your party and leaders?????? LOLOLOLOL

halfbaked said...

The Witch Hunt is bad news for some Republicans.

Last spring, congressional Republicans made two fateful decisions.

First, in May, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to come out forcefully against an independent commission to study the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol, despite the fact that its creation had been part of a bipartisan deal in the House -- and 35 House Republicans had voted for it.

Second, in July, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy decided to pull all Republican members he had nominated for the House committee investigating January 6, following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rejection of the presence of GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana on the panel. (Two Republicans -- Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois -- are on the panel but were put there by Pelosi.)

Both moves were motivated by the same belief: That by opposing an independent commission and by refusing to keep any of their choices on the House committee, Republicans would successfully short-circuit the effectiveness and impact of the investigation before it got started. The idea being that without Republican participation the whole thing would look like a partisan witch hunt, with little practical damage, politically speaking, to the GOP.


But one of the most powerful Republicans has a soul.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he does not support shortening the sentences of any of the people who have pleaded guilty to crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol. 

"I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes," McConnell told reporters when asked about former President Trump’s statement over the weekend that he would consider pardons for people who tried to stop the certification of President Biden's victory in the 2020 election.  


“The election of 2020 was decided Dec. 14 of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election. What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which has never happened before in our country.” 

Anonymous said...

Remember how every Socialist Democrat here said "Trump is not my President".

Yet, I have never said Mr. Sunset Joe, is not my President.

Anonymous said...

Roger, since you paid out $13,000 for your 2 super bowl tickets , who is your plus one?
Fake GF
Or "5th Beatle"?

Caliphate4vr said...

Fish sticks, perhaps? Oh wait. Those would be on Friday.


LOL


Prepared by his “private chef”

The Gorton’s Fisherman

halfbaked said...

Mark Shipper is getting worse every day. Probably alzheimers disease, it's very difficult to watch him go away.


If things work out. I will send Ch a few pictures.

halfbaked said...

Bbq chicken legs and salad and watermelon.

Caliphate4vr said...

Damn I may not eat my blackened grouper, I got today at the Farmers Market I was allowed to visit on my own

Oh and fresh bruschetta the FL heirloom tomatoes dropped $2lb

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Attacks Spur Fixes to Bolster Electoral Count Law
February 1, 2022 at 6:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

“Donald Trump’s relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election have sparked fresh urgency in Congress — and in both parties — for changing the Electoral Count Act to ensure no one can undo a future presidential election,” the AP reports.

“Lawmakers are working furiously to update the 135-year-old law that was put in place in the aftermath of the Civil War and came perilously close to unraveling on Jan. 6, 2021. At that time, the defeated president urged his followers to ‘fight like hell’ over the election and pressured Vice President Mike Pence to ditch his ceremonial role presiding over the session and reject the results.”

Pence refused to perform the criminal act Trump asked him to perform -- refused, in Trump's own recent words, to "overthrow" the election.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Remember how every Socialist Democrat here said "Trump is not my President".

Yet, I have never said Mr. Sunset Joe, is not my President.
________

But you did say Obama "is a black monkey in the White House"
and you called his wife "a cheap Chicago whore."

halfbaked said...

Politically speaking distrust of scientific and yes Doctor Fauci is killing tens of millions of older adults who have been brainwashed by right wing media and yes Fox news.

U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries
By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor LutzFeb. 1, 2022

Two years into the pandemic, the coronavirus is killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations, a sobering distinction to bear as the country charts a course through the next stages of the pandemic.

Cumulative U.S. Covid-19 deaths per capita are highest among other large, high-income countries
Several countries had higher per capita Covid-19 deaths earlier in the pandemic, but the U.S. death toll now exceeds that of peer nations.





Sources: New York Times database of reports from state and local health agencies (U.S. deaths); The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (world deaths); World Bank (world populations); United States Census Bureau (U.S. population) Note: Countries shown are those with the highest gross national income per capita among countries with a population of more than 10 million people.

The ballooning death toll has defied the hopes of many Americans that the less severe Omicron variant would spare the United States the pain of past waves. Deaths have now surpassed the worst days of the autumn surge of the Delta variant, and are more than two-thirds as high as the record tolls of last winter, when vaccines were largely unavailable.

With American lawmakers desperate to turn the page on the pandemic, as some European leaders have already begun to, the number of dead has clouded a sense of optimism, even as Omicron cases recede. And it has laid bare weaknesses in the country’s response, scientists said.

“Death rates are so high in the States — eye-wateringly high,” said Devi Sridhar, head of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who has supported loosening coronavirus rules in parts of Britain. “The United States is lagging.”

Some of the reasons for America’s difficulties are well known. Despite having one of the world’s most powerful arsenals of vaccines, the country has failed to vaccinate as many people as other large, wealthy nations. Crucially, vaccination rates in older people also lag behind certain European nations.

The United States has fallen even further behind in administering booster shots, leaving large numbers of vulnerable people with fading protection as Omicron sweeps across the country.


History will definitely show people like you have killed thousands.

halfbaked said...

Ch thinks that investigations into a highly educated terrorist is against the first President since January 6th.

Stewart Rhodes is among the most recognizable leaders of the anti-government movement — and one of its most controversial.

As founder of the Oath Keepers, part of the self-styled militia segment of the far right, Rhodes projected himself as the commander of a private army willing to confront “tyrannical” federal authorities and defend the Constitution by any means necessary.

In reality, according to extensive interviews with his associates and extremism trackers, Rhodes is a couch-surfing propagandist whose thousands of recruits paid membership dues but mostly acted as “keyboard warriors,” disseminating violent rhetoric but rarely showing up in great numbers when Rhodes called.

The Oath Keepers contingent that participated in the U.S. Capitol attack was among the biggest showings researchers have seen from the group — about two dozen members or associates, including Rhodes, have been charged with conspiracy, and a handful more face other charges related to individual actions they allegedly took that day.

It was also a moment that would implode the organization and alienate Rhodes from other anti-government leaders. Oath Keepers members, including those charged in the Capitol attack, bristled at what they see as Rhodes’s pattern of calling on followers to rise up and then abandoning them when they faced legal consequences.

“He sets the stage for other people to very quickly make the decision for themselves to engage in criminal or violent behavior,” said Sam Jackson, an extremism scholar whose book “Oath Keepers” traces Rhodes’s path from Army paratrooper to Yale Law graduate to far-right figure…

Hampton Stall, an extremism researcher who monitors self-styled militia groups, said any future iteration of the Oath Keepers is likely to come from “an insurgency” that’s trying now to regroup into a movement that can endure beyond Rhodes.

“If there’s any sort of accountability that ever comes to him, it will have been after years of him basically telling people to take up arms and shoot people,” Stall said. “His role within the Oath Keepers environment is less about coordinating specifics and more about creating the fertile ideological soil for violence.”


Trump has promised that he will pardon them for any future violence against Democrats.

They are Trump's brown shirts.

halfbaked said...

Word error.

Ch thinks that investigations into a highly educated terrorist is against the first amendment rights since January 6th.

And of course the drug addicted black man demonstrations are just as bad as the Insurrectionact


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

"I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes," McConnell told reporters when asked about former President Trump’s statement over the weekend that he would consider pardons for people who tried to stop the certification of President Biden's victory in the 2020 election.


“The election of 2020 was decided Dec. 14 of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election.

"What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another,
which has never happened before in our country.”

--Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), Senate Minority Leader

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

U.S. Has FAR HIGHER Covid Death Rate
February 1, 2022 at 8:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 54 Comments

“Two years into the pandemic, the coronavirus is killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations, a sobering distinction to bear as the country charts a course through the next stages of the pandemic,” the New York Times reports.

“Some of the reasons for America’s difficulties are well known. Despite having one of the world’s most powerful arsenals of vaccines, the country has failed to vaccinate as many people as other large, wealthy nations. Crucially, vaccination rates in older people also lag behind certain European nations.

“The United States has fallen even further behind in administering booster shots, leaving large numbers of vulnerable people with fading protection as Omicron sweeps across the country.”
__________

Yes, and who will forever be held accountable for these outrageously high numbers of cases and deaths?

Trump and his sycophantic antiVax supporters.

Anonymous said...

Oh let's see, HERE is my list.


CHINA

halfbaked said...

Al Capone 2022!
The Wall Street Journal

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children argued Tuesday that the New York state attorney general’s office had targeted them unfairly in its civil-fraud investigation and subpoenaed information that could be improperly used in a separate criminal probe.

The arguments came in a dispute over subpoenas New York Attorney General Letitia James issued to Mr. Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. seeking their testimony and the former president’s personal and business documents for the civil-fraud probe into Mr. Trump and his company. Lawyers for the Trumps have asked a New York state judge to block the subpoenas or put them on hold until a parallel criminal investigation conducted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office has concluded.

Last month, in a filing in support of the subpoenas, Ms. James’s office said it had uncovered evidence that Mr. Trump and his company falsely valued assets and misrepresented values to financial institutions for economic benefit. Her office said it needed the testimony of Mr. Trump and two of his children to conclude the investigation.

The Trumps’ filing Tuesday didn’t directly address the attorney general’s allegations. Instead, the Trumps included several exhibits related to their claim that Ms. James is targeting them for political reasons, including a four-minute video compilation, timeline and spreadsheets containing statements Ms. James, a Democrat, has made about Mr. Trump, a Republican. In the video, she calls him an “illegitimate president” and says she believed he could be indicted on criminal charges. The Trumps’ lawyers asked the judge to hold an evidentiary hearing on their claims of selective prosecution.

“Ms. James has targeted these individuals and entities, not in secrecy but, rather, unabashedly and publicly without reservation and without expressing the slightest concern that her actions violate the most basic ethical and professional duties of prosecutors,” the lawyers wrote.

The attorney general called the arguments an attempt by Mr. Trump and his company to evade accountability. “Throughout the three years of this investigation, they have never questioned our legal authority until Donald J. Trump himself was subpoenaed to testify,” she said in a statement.

The Trump legal team also alleged the attorney general’s office was using civil subpoenas to obtain information that could be used in a criminal investigation conducted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Ms. James’s office has said two of her lawyers are working with Manhattan prosecutors on the criminal investigation.

Under New York law, witnesses who appear before a grand jury in connection with a criminal investigation are granted immunity, meaning they can’t be prosecuted for what they say during the proceeding. The attorney general’s office could use information gained in the civil probe to help the criminal probe, while bypassing the grand jury, the Trump lawyers argued.


The Grand Jury scares the shit out him.





Anonymous said...

James is a gutter dweller.

Anonymous said...

John Hopkins , the lock downs did nothing to stop covid.

Pravda American Dream said...

There is absolutely no comparison between the violence that terrorized the country throughout 2020 and the four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021; any Democrat or Republican who equates the two events should be tossed out of office. (Here’s looking at you, Governor Chris Sununu.)

And while top law enforcement officials fixate on the so-called “insurrection” they continue to downplay the murder and mayhem of 2020.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The details matter kputz.

researchers Steve Hanke, Jonas Herby, and Lars Jonung at Johns Hopkins.

“Overall, we conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,” they wrote.

They examined deaths early during the pandemic and determined that, by end of the lockdown period studied, on May 20, 2020, a total of 97,081 people had died of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

At least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,” 

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

A series of new remarks by Donald J. Trump about the aftermath of the 2020 election and new disclosures about his actions in trying to forestall its result — including discussing the use of the national security apparatus to seize voting machines — have stripped away any pretense that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, were anything but the culmination of the former president’s single-minded pursuit of retaining power.

Over the weekend, Mr. Trump also dangled, for the first time, that he could issue pardons to anyone facing charges for participating in the Jan. 6 attack if he is elected president again — the latest example of a yearslong flirtation with political violence.

And, ignoring what happened the last time he encouraged a mass demonstration, Mr. Trump urged his supporters to gather “in the biggest protests we have ever had” if prosecutors in New York and Atlanta moved further against him. Like the brownshirts in Germany!

I don't think that I am exaggerating this horror story. If somehow he gets elected President again, it will be the end of the Greatest Country in history. My father Ivan's greatest generation saved the world from facism and Communism.

We need to vote!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...


Ch, his own words mean that he charged with obstruction of justice, a felony, for impeding the certification of the presidential election results.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Yeah, It Was an Insurrection
February 1, 2022 at 10:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments

“A series of new remarks by Donald Trump about the aftermath of the 2020 election and new disclosures about his actions in trying to forestall its result — including discussing the use of the national security apparatus to seize voting machines — have stripped away any pretense that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, were anything but the culmination of the former president’s single-minded pursuit of retaining power,” the New York Times reports.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

It is said that before taking any action, President Eisenhower would always ask his staff and lawyers, "Is this legal?"

That question was ignored by President Nixon.

Trump ignored it too.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Jan. 6 committee should investigate Pence

On Tuesday, Trump seemed emboldened by his inaccurate belief that Pence could have simply overturned the Electoral College results, and issued a new statement pushing his case even further.

In the new statement, the former president suggested that the Jan. 6 committee should investigate “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval, in that it has now been shown that he clearly had the right to do so!”

Trump once again repeated the false claim that Pence “could have sent the votes back to various legislators for reassessment after so much fraud and irregularities were found,” arguing that “If it were sent back to the legislators,” the violent mob — which on Jan. 6 erected gallows and chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” — might never have stormed the Capitol.

It’s not likely that the Jan. 6 committee — which Trump derided in Tuesday’s statement as “political hacks, liars, and traitors” — will pursue this line of inquiry. However, the former president’s latest outbursts notably come amid reports that the House panel is making substantial inroads with Pence’s staff as it continues to pursue information about Trump’s activities leading up to and on Jan. 6. Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, testified before the committee last week, and Pence’s former chief counsel, Greg Jacob, met with the committee Tuesday.

Ch is a loyalist.

Myballs said...

Your memory skips right over Clinton, Obama and Biden. Curious.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Clinton was a lawyer and Obama is a lawyer.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The accelerating red-state offensive to censor what public-school students are taught about racism is emerging as a critical companion measure to proliferating race-based voter restrictions in many of the same states.

The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages in red states, even as many areas grow significantly more racially and culturally diverse. Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrow’s.

“This is the next wave of voters, so the indoctrination that we see occurring right now is planting the seeds for the control of that electorate as they become voters,” Janai Nelson, the associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, told me recently. “They are trying to manipulate power and exert their influence at both ends of the spectrum by limiting those who can cast ballots now, and by indoctrinating those who can cast ballots later.”

Proposals to limit how public K–12 schools—and even public colleges and universities—talk about race are exploding. They represent the latest battlefield between what I’ve called the Republican “coalition of restoration,” centered on the places and people most uneasy about the way America is changing, and the Democrats’ “coalition of transformation,” revolving around those most comfortable with these changes.



The bills are usually promoted as a response to “critical race theory,” but generally impose much broader prohibitions by barring educators from teaching that racism either has been or remains endemic in America. A law approved last year in Texas, for instance, prohibits schools from teaching that “slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to the authentic founding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In 2021, nine Republican-controlled states approved laws limiting the discussion of racism (and in many cases gender inequity), and four others imposed restrictions through the state’s board of education. This year, the pace “has clearly accelerated,” Jeffrey Sachs, a political scientist at Acadia University, in Nova Scotia, told me. Of the 122 state bills that Sachs has tracked for PEN America, a free-speech organization, since January 2021, more than half have been introduced just in the past three weeks as state legislatures have reconvened for this year’s session. So many proposals are surfacing so fast that Sachs said his “gut instinct” is that all 23 states where Republicans control both the governorship and the state legislature eventually “will see a [censorship] bill passed.”

Like the restrictions on voting, these moves to limit the discussion of race in public educational institutions are being promoted by influential conservative groups such as Heritage Action for America. And like their companion laws, these measures are advancing through red states on a virtually complete party-line basis. Of the bills Sachs has cataloged, “every single one is exclusively sponsored by Republicans,” he said.

Experts agree that many schools are discussing issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation more explicitly than in the past, a trend that genuinely raises questions for some parents without a strong ideological agenda. But Ruthanne Buck, a senior adviser to the Campaign for Our Shared Future, a nonprofit group recently formed to fight the state restrictions, told me that conservatives pushing these bills have effectively performed a kind of bait and switch. With parents across the ideological and racial spectrum uniformly frustrated by the uncertainty and strains of schooling during the pandemic, she said, Republicans have successfully marketed their proposals as a way of amplifying parents’ voices. Yet the bills’ practical impact is very different. “You have a disconnect between what is being messaged by politicians as parental voice and what is being put into policy, which is actually just stripping schools of meaningful content and good practice,” she said.

Buck believes that more organized resistance to these classroom restrictions “is coming,” but so far the battle has been strikingly one-sided. Civil-rights groups haven’t invested in these fights in the states as heavily as they have in the battle against voting restrictions. President Joe Biden’s administration has not directly opposed or even spotlighted these red-state initiatives either. The only major congressional proposals around curriculum issues have come from Republicans who want to ban the use of federal money to fund the teaching of the same concepts on race and gender that the state GOP laws are targeting.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Here's the way to stop Trump's presidential bid -- but should we try?
Or would it lead to more division and chaos?
Feb 2
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution — known as the “Disqualification Clause” — expressly bars anyone from holding “any office, civil or military, under the United States” who “engaged in insurrection” against the Constitution after previously swearing to uphold it “as an officer of the United States.”

The former guy has made it clear he intends to run for president in 2024. (Trump’s political operation just reported having $122 million in the bank, more than double the cash on hand of the Republican National Committee.)

It would seem that the Disqualification Clause extends to Trump. Consider just the last few days:


On Sunday, Trump virtually admitted his effort to overturn the outcome of the election. “Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome,” he wrote, “and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!"

Yesterday Trump released a statement calling for Pence to be investigated for not rejecting electoral votes that went to Biden.

On Monday, it was reported that Trump had prepared two executive orders to enable his loyalists to seize voting machines after the 2020 election-- one authorizing the Pentagon to seize the machines, the other authorizing the Department of Homeland Security to seize them. (The New York Times also reports that, according to people with firsthand knowledge, Trump was directly involved in the plans.)

And, of course, Trump’s attempted coup continues – as he riles up crowds with his Big Lie, urges states to suppress votes, encourages loyalists to run for secretary of state and other pivotal election-related positions in state government, and even hints at more violence if he’s prosecuted.

So how exactly can the Constitution’s Disqualification Clause be used to stop Trump’s rerun for President? A lawsuit filed in January in North Carolina shows the way. A group of registered voters there have invoked the 14th Amendment to disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running again for a seat in the House in 2022, based on his support for the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

True, these North Carolina voters are relying on a provision of North Carolina law that allows them to raise a “reasonable suspicion” that a would-be candidate is legally unqualified for the office he is seeking, and then shifts the burden of proof to the candidate.

But all states require their election authorities to make some sort of evidence-based decision about whether candidates are eligible to run for a particular office — including for President. And all states are bound by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Anonymous said...

The Details of the John Hopkins Study go unchallenged.
"
A Johns Hopkins University literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on mortality stemming from the Chinese coronavirus found that “lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”

anonymous said...


The Details of the John Hopkins Study go unchallenged.


While your stupid ass life is a challenge to society!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

anonymous said...

I bet our KU flunky will be surprised with this little snippet of information......Inflation is also soaring in Europe!!!!!! How can that be????? I bet the goat fucker will blame it on Biden's US policy rather than the actual reasons.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Euro zone inflation unexpectedly hits new record high
Wed, February 2, 2022, 5:00 AM
FRANKFURT, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and adding to already copious doubts that price pressures are as benign and temporary as the European Central Bank still expects.

Inflation in the 19-country euro zone accelerated to 5.1% in January from 5% in December, well ahead of expectations for a drop to 4.4%, the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat said on Wednesday.

Soaring energy prices continued to drive inflation but food prices also surged, while services and industrial goods inflation remained uncomfortably high.

At 5.1%, price growth is more than twice the ECB's 2% target but the central bank, which holds a policy meeting on Thursday, has for months shrugged off the data, arguing that temporary factors are behind the rise and inflation will abate on its own.

Stay ahead of the market
But the ECB's track record in forecasting inflation is mixed and it was forced several times last year to sharply raise its projections.

While the U.S. Federal Reserve has abandoned the narrative that inflation is "transitory," the ECB has stuck with this assessment, arguing that wage growth, a precondition of durable inflation, is still muted and underlying price growth is weak.

Although core inflation slowed, it remained above the ECB's target and also beat market expectations by a wide margin.

Anonymous said...

That John Hopkins Study, wow, exactly the opposite of what the Biden Administration has mandated.

anonymous said...

And the goat fucker posting out his ass as usual !!!!!!!!! BWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Funny how easily manipulated you are....plus gullible......LOLOLOLOL

Anonymous said...

In the first quarter, the economy may not show any gain at all and possibly show a loss in GDP"

Is this why the little Wendy's girl was concerned about Bidenomics?

halfbaked said...

Even the conservative American Greatness is not a Trump supporter who hates Mike Pence, they see as a traitor..

February 2, 2022

Why Donald Trump Should NOT Be the Republican Nominee

By Ted Noel

Before you throw a MAGA hat or a Let’s Go Brandon flag at me, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. If he is the nominee in 2024, I’ll vote for him again. But when we consider him in the context of the next election, we must employ the retrospectoscope, as I did months ago. After all, hindsight is 20/20. And, as Santayana said, “He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it.”

Donald Trump promised to Drain the Swamp. Instead, he drowned in the Swamp. While he got a lot done, he thought that hiring “experts” and trimming around the edges would be enough. Instead, the ooze flowed in from every direction, stifling every attempt to actually get big things done.

Trump was even sabotaged by those closest to him. 45 was properly upset when VP Pence announced that his role on January 6 was merely ceremonial. Yet he had my analysis of the Constitution passed on to him by Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, which would have had him properly pass the election back to six contested states for their Legislatures to review. This was bolstered by an opinion letter from a past Inspector General of the Department of Defense (who happened to quote my AT piece). Yet Pence stabbed the President in the back without so much as a “by your leave.”

VP Pence was far worse than this single event. Scott Atlas, M.D., repeatedly points out a serious flaw in Pence’s behavior.

As Chair of the COVID response committee within the White House, Pence politely listened to Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci simply declare that some particular action should be taken. Dr. Atlas would then present a stack of studies showing that the proposed plan was exactly the wrong thing to do. The VP would then thank everyone and follow the completely unscientific plans of Fauci and Birx.

Trump railed at this damaging behavior but didn’t call his own hand-picked expert in for a consultation. That would have revealed to him the evil in action, and he would have had a chance to shut it down. Instead, Pence, the consummate politician, allowed two incompetent virologists to hijack America and destroy the MAGA presidency.

It is this urge to call in experts, as he did with the Wollman Skating Rink, that makes Donald Trump a poor selection to Drain the Swamp. The Donald is simply too trusting, and it bit him in the unmentionables. Rather than a competent business manager, we need an assassin in the White House. You simply cannot be polite when the task at hand calls for explosives rather than scalpels.

I’ve stated before that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis should be our candidate, and I am still of that opinion. Florida has its own Swamp (not the Everglades!), and DeSantis has proven himself adept at navigating it. Cato ranks Florida as “#2 overall” in freedom in the US, and hundreds of thousands of refugees from socialism come here every year, turning Florida red.


rrb said...

It would seem that the Disqualification Clause extends to Trump.


And it's your only hope of beating him in 2024. Getting him disqualified.

LOL. Now THERE'S a winning strategery alky. If you can't beat him, kneecap him.

The left is the Tonya Harding of American politics.

Myballs said...

And yet, the laws of legality were unknown to them.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Washington’s NFL team is now known as the Commanders.

The new name unveiled Wednesday comes 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans and under fresh pressure from sponsors. The organization committed to avoiding Native American imagery in its rebrand after being called the Washington Football Team the past two seasons.

“As an organization, we are excited to rally and rise together as one under our new identity while paying homage to our local roots and what it means to represent the nation’s capital,” owner Dan Snyder said. “As we kick off our 90th season, it is important for our organization and fans to pay tribute to our past traditions, history, legacy and the greats that came before us. We continue to honor and represent the Burgundy and Gold while forging a pathway to a new era in Washington.”

anonymous said...


And it's your only hope of beating him in 2024. Getting him disqualified.

He will do that all by himself as the facts slowly emerge and indictments are filed!!!!!!

anonymous said...

Seems many others disagree with the goat fuckers morose GDP forecast......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Goldman now expects annualized real GDP growth in the first quarter of 0.5% versus it's previous estimate of 2.0%, as spending on virus-sensitive services declined sharply since early December, the bank said. But the rebound from Omicron is likely to be swift, Goldman said.

rrb said...



He will do that all by himself as the facts slowly emerge and indictments are filed!!!!!!

LOL.

I've only been hearing this line of bullshit since 2016.

You really got him THIS time BWAA.

halfbaked said...

Pete Williams
The Justice Department could pursue criminal charges related to the filing of Electoral College votes for Donald Trump from states that actually voted for Joe Biden in 2020, according to several experts on election law.

Certificates purporting to be from Trump electors were sent to Washington by Republicans in seven political battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But because Biden won the popular vote in those winner-take-all states, only electoral votes for him could officially be submitted and counted.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Looks like they really got him this time... :P

anonymous said...


I've only been hearing this line of bullshit since 2016.

Be patient grasshopper....good things come to those who wait!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Ukraine issue is getting worse

WASHINGTON—President Biden is directing the Pentagon to deploy more than 3,000 American troops to bolster the defense of European allies in the first major movement of U.S. forces in Russia’s military standoff with Ukraine, U.S. officials said.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump's unscripted speeches may have indicted himself.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Historically Black Colleges Targeted by Bomb Threats
February 2, 2022 at 7:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments

“At least 16 historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S. said they received bomb threats Tuesday, disrupting classes or causing them to be canceled,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“So far, no bombs have been found.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Biden Orders 3,000 Troops to Bolster European Allies
February 2, 2022 at 9:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden is directing the Pentagon to deploy more than 3,000 American troops to bolster the defense of European allies in the first major movement of U.S. forces in Russia’s military standoff with Ukraine,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Mr. Biden is sending roughly 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Poland and Germany this week and also repositioning about 1,000 troops that are part of a Germany-based infantry Stryker squadron to Romania, on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastern flank closest to Russia.”
________

I say that's a good move. Putin's bluff is being called. We and our NATO allies are holding united and firm.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Does F daddy have Covid?

rrb said...

The Justice Department could pursue criminal charges...

... may have indicted himself.


Could, may, might, perhaps... those walls just might be maybe closing in if the right bombshell lands at the right time and this just could be, maybe, the beginning of what looks like the end, but might not be because we're just not sure, which is why the NYS AG is pursuing a CIVIL, NOT CRIMINAL case while Cyrus Vance has retired in frustration without charging Trump with anything because SHUT UP.


Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first, boys.

LMAO.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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S&P 500 gains for a fourth day as investors buy the January tech dip, Nasdaq jumps led by Alphabet
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Wall Street pointed toward higher open amid tech earnings
The Nasdaq Composite jumped on Wednesday as the technology-focused average looked to extend its gains for a fourth day with help from Alphabet.

The index rose 0.8%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched 43 points, or 0.1%, higher, and the S&P 500 gained 0.5%.


Tech stocks, which led the market sell-off in January, have been key drivers of the three-day rebound as investors refocused their attention on earnings season, after big tech names continued reporting strong quarterly results and forward guidance.

Google-parent Alphabet pushed the Nasdaq higher Wednesday with a 10% jump in its shares. The company reported a quarterly beat on the top and bottom lines and announced a 20-for-1 stock split, indicating the company might soon be included on the Dow Jones Industrial Average as well.

Chip stock Advanced Micro Devices also gained 14.5% on strong earnings and guidance.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms, which is scheduled to report earnings after the closing bell, added 2.8%. Amazon climbed 2.5%.

“Technology companies were some of the hardest hit in January, as investors feared higher interest rates would expose their lofty valuations and raise their operating costs,” said Jeff Kilburg, chief investment officer at Sanctuary Wealth. “After a dramatic pullback in the tech sector, investors bargain hunted some tech names that had been battered all January.”

Elsewhere, General Motors shares rose 2.6% after the automaker reported earnings that beat estimates and raised its 2022 forecast, though revenue came up light.

On the down side, PayPal tanked 17% after hours, after issuing disappointing guidance. Starbucks dipped 2.7% following its results.

On the economic front, private payroll data fell by 301,000 for the month of January, which was down from December’s growth of 807,000 private payrolls, ADP reported Wednesday. Economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting 200,000 private jobs were added in January.

“The market has strung together a few solid up days,” said Jim Paulsen, Leuthold Group chief investment strategist. “This strong showing is causing more investors to wonder if the correction is over and raising concerns that they could miss out on a nice post-correction rally.”

Earnings season continues on Wednesday with key reporting from Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, and Qualcomm. AbbVie, D.R. Horton and T-Mobile also report earnings on Wednesday.

So far this earnings season, more than 36% of the S&P 500 has reported and more than 78% have topped Wall Street’s expectations.

“While the earnings season began with some disappointments last week, it has become more solid in recent days,” added Paulsen.

The major averages are coming off of a volatile month, mainly spurred by a pivot in the Federal Reserve. However, some Fed members have have offered reassuring commentary that they do not want their pending rate hikes to disturb the financial markets and that few see any appetite for a 50 basis point hike.

Anonymous said...

As I said earlier
"Is this why the little Wendy's girl was concerned about Bidenomics"


"ADP employment report. -301,000"

Myballs said...

Trump family filed a lawsuit against NY AG James for breaking multiple state laws in her pursuit of Trump.

The crumbling walls are in the democrats glass houses.

Anonymous said...

As I posted early and unchallenged and then confirmed.

"In the first quarter, the economy may not show any gain at all and possibly show a loss in GDP"

Is this why the little Wendy's girl was concerned about Bidenomics?"

Yes, she was.

Bidenomics Build Back Broker has failed Americans.
"Goldman now expects annualized real GDP growth in the first quarter of 0.5% versus it's previous estimate of 2.0%.."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Right now I am glad that Biden is the President right now because

President Biden is dispatching additional U.S. military personnel to Eastern Europe at the recommendation of the Pentagon, and about 3,000 service members are expected to deploy in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The deployments of U.S. troops from Germany and Fort Bragg, N.C., are temporary moves intended to reassure NATO allies, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a formal Pentagon announcement. The moves reflect concerns that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine, and other service members could also be ordered to go and remain on a heightened alert status, the officials said.
At Biden’s direction and following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recommendation, the Defense Department “will reposition certain Europe-based units further east, forward deploy additional U.S.-based units to Europe, and maintain the heightened state of readiness of response forces” to meet American commitments, a senior administration official said in Washington. “These forces are not going to fight in Ukraine. They are not permanent moves. They respond to current conditions.”
Roughly 1,000 service members who are already based in Germany are moving to Romania, and roughly 2,000 are moving from Fort Bragg to Germany and Poland, officials said.
In ordering the deployments, the United States is seeking to strike a balance between reassuring NATO allies who desire an additional U.S. military presence and not wanting to exacerbate an already delicate situation.

rrb said...

So our "leaders" went apeshit and scared the fuck out of everyone because of a common cold variant, which leads to this:


Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron slams labor market, ADP says

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/adp-jobs-report-january-2022.html


Brilliant.

rrb said...



So GS drops their GDP estimate by 1.5%, and the BWAA thinks this is a good thing.

LOL.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I'm glad that Biden is the President right now

Several thousand troops will be sent to NATO member nations in Eastern Europe to reassure allies anxious over tensions surrounding Ukraine. The U.S. has said it will not deploy troops to Ukraine in the event of conflict there.

Here’s what you need to know:
U.S. troops will be deployed to NATO allies in Eastern Europe.
Putin accuses the United States of trying to goad Russia into starting a conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. sends a high-ranking security official to help NATO brace for Russian cyberattacks.

rrb said...



Since 1916 and the First World War, United States foreign policy has been dominated by Eurocentrism. Following the Second World War, America has been the military protector of Western Europe for 73 years through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.

Now the time has come to disband NATO and tell the countries of Europe, in particular Germany, that they are on their own, as this nation must focus on its ever-growing domestic problems and the global threat of Communist China.


The United States should have begun the process of severing military commitments with Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. After all, protecting Europe and thus the United States against Soviet aggression was the primary purpose of NATO. But an irrational fear of a non-existent nation and its former satellites still persists and has been conferred on its much smaller and less formidable successor, Russia. Together with the compulsive need to defend a prosperous continent these two pillars still form the basis of American military planning and international policy.

The divorce process should have been accelerated in 1993 when the anti-democratic European Union comprising 27 European countries and unified economic, social, and security policies came into being. The combined population of these nations is 33% larger and their overall annual Gross National Product is second only to the United States. Since 1993 Europe has been more than capable of defending itself.


https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/its_time_for_america_to_leave_nato_and_for_europe_to_resolve_their_internal_disputes.html


Europe enjoys their socialist luxuries at OUR expense.

That shit needs to stop NOW.


rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

I'm glad that Biden is the President right now



Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the Biden administration was to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the United States in its 20-year war against the Taliban.

Why it matters: Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan's capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation.

Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute.

While the word "immediately" peppers the document, it's clear officials were still scrambling to finalize their plans — on the afternoon of Aug. 14.
For example, they'd just decided they needed to notify local Afghan staff "to begin to register their interest in relocation to the United States," the document says.

And they were still determining which countries could serve as transit points for evacuees.

The big picture: President Biden was determined to end the country's involvement in its longest war, and last April he announced his plans to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021.



https://www.axios.com/leaked-document-reveals-bidens-afghan-failures-c27d790c-3a50-4734-8543-7db710898bb2.html

rrb said...




So a democrat senator had a stroke. My question is - how could anyone tell?

Anonymous said...

As I posted early and unchallenged and then confirmed.

"In the first quarter, the economy may not show any gain at all and possibly show a loss in GDP"

Is this why the little Wendy's girl was concerned about Bidenomics?"

Yes, she was.

Bidenomics Build Back Broker has failed Americans.
"Goldman now expects annualized real GDP growth in the first quarter of 0.5% versus it's previous estimate of 2.0%.."

Anonymous said...

A 75% drop in GDP , Goldman

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Kputz's home state has a lot of allies


Fourth Kansas Lawmaker Arrested for DUI

February 2, 2022 at 10:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Kansas state Rep. Suzi Carlson (R) was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and briefly booked into jail, the Wichita Eagle reports.

She is the fourth state legislator arrested on the charge in the past year


Anonymous said...

Roger, can't debate Bidenomics Build Back Broker.

Anonymous said...

Roger said he dropped $13,000 on two tickets to this year's Super Bowl Game.

Enjoy the Game.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Heller Says Most Republicans Think Biden Is Illegitimate
February 2, 2022 at 10:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), who is running for Nevada governor, told the Las Vegas Review Journal that most Nevadans think Joe Biden is an illegitimate president and that he agrees with them.

His campaign later clarified that he meant to say most Republicans in the state think Biden is an illegitimate president.

But Heller wouldn’t say what he discussed when he met with Donald Trump a few weeks ago: “That’s personal. I don’t kiss and tell when it comes to Trump.”

UGGGGGH! KISS TRUMP?

Anonymous said...

Bidenomics is in real trouble.

As gas gets even further away from "under $3.00 per gallon"

Current Avg. $3.40
Yesterday. $3.37
Year Ago . $2.36

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump's confession shows why we must abolish the Electoral College and throw him in jail

Thom Hartmann

February 02, 2022

So Donald Trump is now telling us that having Mike Pence overturn the electoral college result would have been “perfectly legal. ”He’s dead wrong, both factually and conceptually, and his admission should lead him straight to a jail cell.

The electoral college wasn’t put in place so that a president and vice president could randomly choose to extend their own power forever. If anything, it was the opposite.

America’s Founders and Framers thought they could use the Electoral College to prevent somebody like Donald Trump from ever becoming president. Unfortunately, they were wrong, and now we’re paying the price.

Given how the Electoral College hasn’t protected us from getting a president beholden to a (or multiple) foreign power(s) as president, it’s time to do away with it.

Most people have a pretty limited understanding of the Electoral College, but they know that it works against the democratic notion of the public electing its chief executive. There are organizations and a smattering of political figures who say as much. Recent polling indicates this, too.

READ: Maddow's bombshell: MSNBC host reveals suspicious link between Republicans’ ‘forged’ election documents

What is not as well understood is the history of why it was chosen as the way to select a president.

It’s often said that the Electoral College was brought into being to perpetuate or protect the institution of slavery, and, indeed, during the first half-century of America, it gave the slave states several presidents who wouldn’t have been otherwise elected.

This is because there’s one elector in the College for every member of the House and Senate (and three for the District of Columbia). When the three-fifths compromise was in effect (until just after the Civil War), slave states had more members in the House of Representatives than the size of their voting public “deserved.”

This is why when Madison proposed the Electoral College, the Framers seized on it as a compromise/solution after weeks of drawn-out and often angry debate on how to select a president.



rrb said...

Roger Amick said...

Fourth Kansas Lawmaker Arrested for DUI


The alky is just jealous and bitter that he can't drive at all anymore...

...drunk like he used to, OR sober.

LOL.

Anonymous said...

Runaway Cowardly Roger, go get your 1/4 th cut for you (*can't be around sharp objects).

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Stacey Abrams Sets Blistering Fundraising Pace
February 2, 2022 at 10:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

Stacey Abrams (D) raised more than $9.2 million since entering the race for Georgia governor in December, setting a blistering fundraising pace that eclipsed Gov. Brian Kemp (R), the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.


Trump Slams Lindsey Graham as a ‘RINO’
February 2, 2022 at 9:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

Former President Donald Trump ripped Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of his staunchest supporters, telling Newsmax that the senator is a “RINO” for saying that pardoning the Capitol rioters would be “inappropriate.”

Said Trump:
“Lindsey’s a nice guy, but he’s a RINO. Lindsey’s wrong… Lindsey Graham doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
__

IOW, IF YOU'RE NOT 100% IN FOR TRUMP, YOUR'RE A RINO.

CH IS 100% IN, SO HE'S NOT A RINO.
HE'S A KOOK.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

But, according to the Framers of the Constitution themselves, the real reason for the Electoral College was to prevent a foreign power from placing their stooge in the White House.

Today we’re horrified by the idea that Donald Trump may actually be putting first the interests of foreign governments, and that money and other efforts from multiple foreign entities may have helped him get elected.

It’s shocking, something we never even really took seriously when, for example, the movie “Manchurian Candidate” came out back in the day. What a cute idea for a movie, we thought; that could never happen here.

But this was actually a big deal for the founding generation. One of the first questions of any candidate for president during that era was, “Is he beholden in any way to any other government?”

At the time of the Declaration of Independence, it’s estimated that nearly two-thirds of all citizens of the American colonies favored remaining a British colony (Jimmy Carter’s novel The Hornet’s Nest is a great resource); there were spies and British loyalists everywhere, and Spain had staked out their claim to the region around Florida while the French were colonizing what is now Canada and Louisiana. Foreign powers had us boxed in.


Anonymous said...

who will forever be held accountable for these outrageously high numbers of cases and deaths?" Swearing Jane


Answer: China

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In 1775, the year the Revolutionary War unofficially started, virtually all of the colonists had familial, friendship or business acquaintances with people whose loyalty was suspect or who were openly opposed to American independence.

It was rumored that Ben Franklin was working as a spy for British intelligence (and, it turns out, evidence shows he was, only against France when he lived in Paris). Federalists, in particular, were wary of Franklin’s “internationalist” sentiments.

Jefferson was living in France when the Constitution was being written, and his political enemies were, even then (it got much louder around the election of 1800), whispering that he had, at best, mixed loyalties. In response, he felt the need to protest to Elbridge Gerry that, “The first object of my heart is my own country. In that is embarked my family, my fortune, and my own existence.”

When John Adams famously defended British soldiers who, during an anti-British riot on March 5, 1770, shot and killed Crispus Attucks and four others, he was widely condemned for being too pro-British, an issue that recurred in 1798 when, as president, Adams pushed the Alien and Sedition laws through Congress over Vice President Thomas Jefferson’s loud objections. British Spy Gilbert Barkley wrote to his spymasters in London that Quakers and many other Americans considered Adams an enemy to his country (Geoffrey Seed, "A British Spy in Philadelphia," PMHB, 85:21–22 [Jan. 1961]).

When Adams blew up the XYZ Affair and nearly went to war with France that year, it was rumored among his political opponents that he was only doing it to solidify his “manly” and “patriotic” credentials. Historian and author John Ferling in his book A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic notes that Adams’ anti-British rhetoric worked at changing the perception of him: “By mid-1798 he was proclaimed for his ‘manly fortitude,’ ‘manly spirited’ actions, and ‘manly independence.’”

And after the Revolutionary War, the nation was abuzz about one of that war’s most decorated soldiers, Benedict Arnold, once considered a shoo-in for high elected office, selling out to the British in exchange for money and a title.

So it fell to a fatherless man born in Bermuda to explain to Americans that the main purpose of the Electoral College was to make sure that no agent of a foreign government would ever become president.

Back then, America was so spread out it would be difficult for most citizen/voters to get to know a presidential candidate well enough to spot a spy or traitor, Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 68. Therefore, the electors — having no other governmental duty, obligation, or responsibility — would be sure to catch one if it was tried.

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Trump's confession shows why we must abolish the Electoral College and throw him in jail

Thom Hartmann



Thom Hartmann, alky?

LOL.

He's a Putin stooge from RT television, formerly known as 'Russia Today.'

LOL.

Anonymous said...

"Fourth Kansas Lawmaker Arrested for DUI" Cowardly Halfbaked

The Drunk Arrested before this gal was a Democrat.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

“The most deadly adversaries” of America, Hamilton wrote, would probably “make their approaches [to seizing control of the USA] from more than one quarter, chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.”

Influencing public opinion or owning a senator was nothing compared to having their man in the White House. As Hamilton wrote, “How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy [presidency] of the Union?”

But, Hamilton wrote, the Framers of the Constitution “have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.”

The system they set up to protect the White House from being occupied by an agent of a foreign government was straightforward, Hamilton bragged. The choice of president would not “depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes.”

Instead, the Electoral College would be made up of “persons [selected] for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment.”

The electors would be apolitical because it would be illegal for a senator or House member to become one, Hamilton wrote:

“And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors.”


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Rather than average but uninformed voters, and excluding members of Congress who may be subject to bribery or foreign influences, the electors would select a man for president who was brave of heart and pure of soul.

“The process of election [by the electoral college] affords a moral certainty,” Hamilton wrote, “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

Indeed, while a knave or rogue or traitor may fool enough people to even ascend to the office of mayor of a major city or governor of a state, the Electoral College would ferret out such a traitor.

Hamilton wrote, “Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence” of the men in the Electoral College who would select him as president “of the whole Union. . .”

Hamilton’s pride in the system that he himself had helped build was hard for him to suppress. He wrote, “It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue.”

Unfortunately, things haven’t worked out that way.

Because of the three-fifths compromise that gave more electors to the slave states than their voting population would indicate, the Electoral College handed the White House to four Virginia slaveholders among our first five presidents. Since that compromise has been eliminated, it continues to wreak mischief in putting George W. Bush and Donald Trump into office.

Hamilton never envisioned a day when a man so entangled in financial affairs with foreign governments as is Donald Trump could even be seriously considered, because, in his mind, the electors would carefully investigate the candidate. That hasn’t happened in over a century, so, by his standards, the electors totally failed in their job in the 2016 election.

The Electoral College was a compromise designed to keep the president above political considerations, and sold to the public as a way to prevent an agent (witting or unwitting) of a foreign power from becoming president. It has failed on both counts.

And it was never intended to allow the vice president to manipulate it in a way that reverses the outcome of a free and fair election.

Through the arc of time since her founding, America has constantly — albeit in fits and starts — expanded democracy. From expanding the vote to include racial minorities and women, to amending the Constitution to allow for citizens to vote for U.S. senators rather than having them appointed by often-corrupted state legislatures, average citizens of all races and genders have been brought into the decisions around who will lead us.

But in the past two decades, the Electoral College has brought us two presidents (George W. Bush, who lost the popular vote by 500,000 and Trump, who lost by 3,000,000) who were rejected by a majority of Americans. This is fundamentally undemocratic.

It’s time to take another step forward in fine-tuning our republic and abolish the Electoral College.

But first, now that he has openly confessed to trying to manipulate the electoral college system to change America from a democracy into a dictatorship, it’s important that we clear the record about the college’s history and put Donald Trump in prison.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Key Impeachment Witness Sues Donald Trump
February 2, 2022 at 10:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

“Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman has sued Donald Trump and several of his allies, including his son Don Jr., over what he describes as a conspiracy to shut him up ahead of his testimony in the former president’s first impeachment trial,” the Daily Beast reports.

The lawsuit describes Trump’s actions as an “intentional, concerted campaign of unlawful intimidation and retaliation against a sitting Director of the National Security Council and decorated military officer.”

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

But, according to the Framers of the Constitution themselves, the real reason for the Electoral College was to prevent a foreign power from placing their stooge in the White House.



It didn't work. Biden is in and China has him bought and fucking paid for for the bargain price of $31 MILLION.


Anonymous said...


Roger AmickFebruary 2, 2022 at 9:41 AM

In 1775, the year the Revolutionary War unofficially started" halkbakedondrugs

Actual facts on the US Founding "The 1619 Project"



anonymous said...

Actual facts on the US Founding "The 1619 Project"


You must be smoking some fine goat shit asshlole!!!!!!

anonymous said...


It didn't work. Biden is in and China has him bought and fucking paid for for the bargain price of $31 MILLION.


BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! This is what stupidity and alcohol can do to a mind.....LOO<O<OLOLO!!!

Anonymous said...

Actual facts on the US Founding "The 1619 Project"

The typical uninformed doesn't know the FACTS about the USA.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Pravda

Anonymous said...

Actual facts on the US Founding "The 1619 Project"

Oddly
Roger called it "Pravda"

Doopie is also a non-believer said those that believe are on drugs.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

A lot of Republicans from my home state are not fucking crazy like Noem is.


Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday praised former acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli for rebuffing a request from former President Trump to seize voting machines following the 2020 presidential election.

Thune said he was relieved that Cuccinelli and other officials pushed back against Trump's effort to seize voting machines in an attempt to change the outcome of the election, which President Biden won by 74 electoral votes and more than 7 million votes nationwide.

"I'm just glad that there were people in the right places and that the system worked," he said. "People who had positions of responsibility held their ground even when being asked to do things that they knew they shouldn't do. Things may have bent a little bit, but they didn't break."

Thune made his comments when asked about a story published by The New York Times reporting that Trump wanted his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states. The report cited three people "familiar with the matter."

anonymous said...

And the goat fucker keeps proving he is a KU failure.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! And yes.....drugs fry minds like yours.....LOLOLOL!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CRT is not being taught.

You are one of the ignorant people that support Trump.

Caliphate4vr said...

Lt Col Sausage is suing Trump

LMAO

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said Wednesday that he is resigning, effective immediately.

Zucker said in a memo, "As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo's tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years. I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn't. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today."

Zucker did not name his colleague in the memo, but the relationship is with Allison Gollust, the chief marketing officer for CNN. Gollust is remaining at CNN.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

STICK WITH BIDEN, DEMOCRATS!
HERE'S WHY:

Why Democrats Can’t Run from Biden

February 2, 2022 at 11:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

Dan Pfeiffer:
“By seeking out distance from Biden, Democrats will get all of the downsides and none of the upsides of the President. Hypothetically, let’s say that some of the candidates following this terrible advice manage to appear on stage with Joe Biden for the whole campaign. What do these political ‘gurus’ think will happen? Will the Republicans give up trying to tie them to Biden? Are these consultants aware that photoshop exists and that even if their candidate never appears in a photo with Biden the GOP can still put them together in a campaign ad?

“While the President’s numbers are down with Democrats, he still has the approval of approximately 80 percent of Democrats in most polls. His approval rating among Republicans is in the single digits. Among Independents, it’s typically in the 30s. Democrats are unlikely to outperform Biden among Republicans. To win, they need to do better among Independents, but criticizing and weakening a President who eight in ten of our most reliable voters support is a terrible way to achieve our goal.

WIN WITH BIDEN, DEMOCRATS!
OR WITH WHOEVER WE DEMS RUN!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, even Mitch McConnell wants to get rid of Trump! Will you ever regain sanity?




McConnell 'wants the dirty truth told' about Jan. 6 because 'he wants Trump out of the GOP': Morning Joe

Travis Gettys

February 02, 2022

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) came out in opposition to leniency for U.S. Capitol rioters, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said that showed he wanted Donald Trump purged from the Republican Party.

The Kentucky Republican said he would not shorten the sentences for any of the insurrectionists who pleaded guilty to crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack, after Trump pledged to pardon some or all of them if re-elected, and the "Morning Joe" host said McConnell's position on the riot has been consistent.

"It's one thing that time and again,Mitch has been unambiguous about," Scarborough said. "That is that people that committed crimes on Jan. 6 should be punished, that Jan. 6 was an atrocity, and whatever Donald Trump is saying about Jan. 6 is not true. Again, he wants to empower the Jan. 6 commission -- which, of course, he was against, bipartisan commission, which was a mistake. [Sen. Joe] Manchin thinks it was a mistake, a lot of people do, but he's certainly gotten behind this one."

"He wants the dirty truth told about Donald Trump because I think he wants Trump out of the party as much as, well, a lot of people," Scarborough added. "As much as [Rep.] Liz Cheney or some others."





Anonymous said...

Actual facts on the US Founding "The 1619 Project"

Oddly
Roger called it "Pravda"

Doopie is also a non-believer said those that believe are on drugs.

Anonymous said...

Feb 24, 2020 — The New York Times 1619 Project, which examines the impact of slavery throughout U.S. history"

Ok,

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Adolf Trump

https://fb.watch/aWuBI6RafH/

Anonymous said...

Today is a great God given day .
What a gift.
Heavy snow and high winds.
Love living in Kansas.

Anonymous said...

Cowardly undereducated Alky.

Bidenomics have failed.

Anonymous said...

Biden "I will stop covid"

The average number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. over the past week has climbed above 2,600, according to a New York Times tracker, now higher than the peak surge in the fall when the delta variant was the dominant variant and close to the peak last winter, before vaccines were available.

"Deaths are up 36% from two weeks ago and show no signs of plateauing, the tracker shows. If current death rates persists, the U.S. may see 900,000 fatalities from COVID by mid-February."

Anonymous said...

Alky, you are always so freaking ass wrong.
"
oger AmickFebruary 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM

CRT is not being taught."


"Kansas City Public Schools said it has approved curriculum containing so-called critical race theory. "

rrb said...


"Kansas City Public Schools said it has approved curriculum containing so-called critical race theory. "

Hispanic Students Were Forced To Learn Critical Race Theory. They Hated It.

Kali Fontanilla discovered that not only was CRT being taught in the classroom—her minority students were failing it.


https://reason.com/2022/01/31/critical-race-theory-taught-in-classroom-california/

Anonymous said...

RRB,
A question.
Have you ever know of a grown man as fatally stupid as Roger Amick?

rrb said...

Blogger KansasDemocrat said...

RRB,
A question.
Have you ever know of a grown man as fatally stupid as Roger Amick?


Not personally, but they're obviously out there. The alky excels at denial. Saying CRT is not being taught anywhere while it demonstrably IS.

The alky resides at the intersection of psychological projection and this -

The invincible ignorance fallacy... also known as argument by pigheadedness, is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given.


Anonymous said...

Exactly right RRB.

Anonymous said...

Biden in his first week of being installed as President cancelled USA energy independence.

Americans are being crushed by his policies.

"The benchmark U.S. natural gas price surged by more than 10 percent early on Wednesday as frigid weather and below-freezing temperatures in many parts of the United States stoked demand for heating and electricity."

Crank up.the solar power .

rrb said...


Crank up.the solar power .


Most of my neighbors have it. We're averaging around one day of sun every eight days or so. So it's obviously making a major contribution to their electricity consumption. And a bonus - the guy who lives across the street had a problem with his solar transformer that almost burned his fucking house down. Good thing he was home at the time.