The election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.
A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.
Instead, the DNC’s $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign’s $175,000 covered Fusion GPS’s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called “Russia hoax” that dogged Trump’s first term.
Remember when the TDS inflicted people demanded that Trump committed campaign finance laws over Stormy Daniels and other random things they didn't like? Well guess what? It turns out that just like it was Hillary Clinton (not Trump) who colluded with Russians in 2016, it was Hillary Clinton (not Trump) who broke the law regarding campaign finances.
Btw... before you get too excited about. The combined fines were a grand whopping total of $113,000. The idea that Trump would have been frogmarched out of the White House and sent to jail was always a joke. But it is the sort of thing that people with TDS get in their head when it comes to the bad orange man. He did something wrong and must go to jail?
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This is the greatest Lie.
The Curroption of us media and the so called US Intelligence agencies.
Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit March 30, 2022 at 8:02 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, according to two people familiar with the decision, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked as the U.S. and allies have imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices. The duration of the release hasn't been finalized but could last for several months. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the decision.
High oil prices have not coaxed more production, creating a challenge for Biden. The president has seen his popularity sink as inflation reached a 40-year high in February and the cost of petroleum and gasoline climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Crude oil on Wednesday traded at nearly $105 a barrel, up from about $60 a year ago."
Day # 1 Alky cheered Biden's action attacking American Energy Production.
Now, Biden raids the Oil Trump put in at low cost to cover up Biden's fuck up.
You can thank Trump.for the "float" and the Billions of dollars that will flow to the US Treasury.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the direction of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, the Department of Energy (DOE) will fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to its maximum capacity by purchasing 77 million barrels of American-made crude oil. Today, DOE announced a solicitation for the purchase of an initial 30 million barrels to begin filling the SPR. Solicitations for additional purchases will follow."
Roger,
How long is Joe going to raid it?
You really believe Redstate
Federal prosecutors have substantially widened their Jan. 6 investigation to examine the possible culpability of a broad range of figures involved in former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, people familiar with the inquiry said on Wednesday.
The investigation now encompasses the possible involvement of other government officials in Mr. Trump’s attempts to obstruct the certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory and the push by some Trump allies to promote slates of fake electors, they said.
Prosecutors are also asking about planning for the rallies that preceded the assault on the Capitol, including the rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6 of last year, just before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
The federal investigation initially focused largely on the rioters who had entered the Capitol, an effort that has led to more than 700 arrests. But the Justice Department appears to have moved into a new phase, seeking information about people more closely tied to Mr. Trump. This development comes amid growing political pressure on Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to move more aggressively on the case.
A grand jury sitting in Washington is investigating the rallies that preceded the storming of the Capitol, a person familiar with the matter said.
One of the subpoenas, which was reviewed by The New York Times, sought information about people “classified as VIP attendees” at Mr. Trump’s Jan. 6 rally.
It also sought information about members of the executive and legislative branches who had been involved in the “planning or execution of any rally or any attempt to obstruct, influence, impede or delay” the certification of the 2020 election.
And it asked about the effort by Trump supporters to put forward alternate slates of electors as Mr. Trump and his allies were seeking to challenge the certification of the Electoral College outcome by Congress on Jan. 6.
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Another person briefed on the grand jury investigation said at least one person involved in the logistics of the Jan. 6 rally had been asked to appear.
In pursuing Jan. 6 cases, prosecutors have been assembling evidence documenting how defendants have cited statements from Mr. Trump to explain why they stormed the Capitol. And prosecutors have cited in some cases a Twitter post from Mr. Trump weeks before Jan. 6 exhorting his followers to come to Washington, a call that motivated extremist groups in particular.
A grand jury is a big problem for Trump’s conduct
Far more important is that Vladimir Putin is increasingly dangerous period!
U.S. and U.K. officials say intelligence indicates Vladimir Putin has been "misinformed" about how badly the Russian military is performing in Ukraine, in part due to "yes-men" advisers who are "too afraid to tell him the truth."
Why it matters: The Western allies have repeatedly declassified and publicized sensitive intelligence about Russia as a tool to undermine Putin's strategy. The latest example comes as Russia claims to be pulling back from its offensive near Kyiv, which ended in failure thanks to a stiff Ukrainian resistance.
What they're saying: "[I]t increasingly looks like Putin has massively misjudged the situation," Jeremy Fleming, the head of the U.K.'s GCHQ spy service, said in a major speech in Australia Wednesday.
"We’ve seen Russian soldiers — short of weapons and morale — refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft," Fleming claimed."And even though we believe Putin’s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what’s going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime," he added.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield confirmed to reporters: "We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership."
Releasing this information "contributes to an understanding that this has been a strategic failure for Russia," Bedingfield said when asked why the U.S. was declassifying this intelligence now.
Between the lines: There is probably "no bigger insult" than calling Putin, a former KGB officer, "misinformed" about the state of his own military, notes Russia expert Dmitri Alperovitch.
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If he watches television, and sees this, they are psychologically attacking him.
And while every speaker to date has been a member of the House, this isn’t legally required; a majority of the House may in fact choose whoever they want as speaker and thereby make that person first in line for the presidency.
Hard-line GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene recently underscored what this might mean in practice when they suggested that the House might select Trump as speaker if Republicans were to retake the majority in 2022. But the scary truth is that, if Republicans also win a House majority in 2024, they would not have to stop there. A Republican House majority could at that point not only elect Trump as speaker but refuse to participate in the joint session to count electoral votes, thereby preventing the selection of a president-elect or vice president-elect. This would leave the presidency vacant come Jan. 20 — a vacancy that Speaker Trump would then fill by operation of the Presidential Succession Act. And while this appointment would be temporary, Trump would remain there so long as the same House majority refused to finalize the electoral vote count and determine the actual winner.
Mike Pence rolls out new policy plan that puts more distance between him and Trump
Timothy Evans
March 31, 2022
In yet another sign that Mike Pence is running for the White House in 2024 - and distancing himself from Donald Trump - the former vice president plans to release a policy platform today that projects him as the future of the Republican party.
While not mentioning the former president by name, Pence said on a Wednesday afternoon conference call with POLITICO and several other news outlets, where he previewed his policy agenda, “Elections are about the future, and frankly the opposition would love nothing more for conservatives to talk about the past or to talk of the mess they’ve made of the president.”
“And I think by relentlessly focusing on the future we can stop the radical left, we can turn this country around, we can win the Congress and state houses back in 2022, and we can win back America in 2024 and beyond,” he added.
In contrast to Trump, Pence's 19-page platform also takes a stand against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump referred to Putin as a “genius” for invading Ukraine, but in Pence's view “Russia harms American interests by threatening American allies,” and that “Putin undermines freedom and democracy at home and abroad.”
Pence’s agenda references a need for election reform, calling for mandatory voter identification, a prohibition on in-person voting more than 10 days before an election and says mail-in voting should be “rare.” But it makes no mention of the 2020 race, which Trump continues to say was rigged against him.
Also on the Wednesday call was Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff, who said of Pence, “He strongly believes it’s important to have a forward-looking agenda for the American people and not look backward."
He would be a much safer choice than Trump or DeSantis.
If we’re going to create transparently idiotic, partisan standards on the fly, they should be applied to everyone in government. If Clarence Thomas has an ethical obligation to recuse himself from all cases related to the January 6 riots because his wife had opinions on the matter, it’s clear that the president has a moral responsibility to step back from any more decisions concerning Ukraine and China.
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Now that the New York Times and Washington Post have both authenticated the Hunter Biden emails — a story that was suppressed by the media and tech conglomerates on the flimsiest of pretexts to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election — it’s what’s right for democracy. That’s how this works, right?
The Biden case is worse because Hunter, under criminal investigation, implicates his father as fiscal beneficiary in his dealings with corrupt Eastern European energy interests and the ChiComs. It’s plausible that Hunter, and Tony Bobulinski, might have been lying about the “Big Guy.” And the president has previously said he knew absolutely nothing about Hunter’s influence peddling.
Yet:
Hunter accompanied his dad on an Air Force Two flight to China in 2013. What did the vice president think his son was doing there? Hunter’s associates also reportedly facilitated Joe’s meeting with Chinese officials and favored billionaires in Beijing when he was vice president.Obama officials openly worried about Hunter’s corrupt relationships. Did they not mention this to the vice president?In 2018, Joe Biden bragged that as vice president he threatened Ukraine’s then-president Poroshenko with the withdrawal of U.S. aid if he didn’t fire state prosecutor Victor Shokin. Did Biden know at the time that Shokin was investigating Burisma, the oil company that was paying his son more than $50,000 a month? Did he ever talk to his son about Shokin?The verified emails contain a correspondence from an executive with the oil company thanking Hunter for brokering a meeting between himself and Joe Biden while he was still vice president. Did he take that meeting? If so, did they talk about Hunter’s work? If not, what did he talk about with the executive?
The biggest question the press should be asking is: Did Joe ever benefit from any of Hunter’s dealings? The answer might still be “no.” There is, after all, no hard evidence to say otherwise (and we’re probably never going to find out). However, on a number of occasions during the past five years, I can recall reading deeply reported profiles regarding the businesses of the previous president’s children. Journalists and pundits, quite understandably, wondered if the president himself had been aware of their dealings. But, really, the Thomas Standard now states that it doesn’t matter if Joe was aware of Hunter’s claims or not. He must recuse for the sake of the country. Otherwise, he should be impeached.
Appears that trump added ZERO to the SPR!!!!!!
Highest inventory - The SPR was filled to its then 727 million barrel authorized storage capacity on December 27, 2009; the inventory of 726.6 million barrels was the highest ever held in the SPR.
Seems to me, very little oil was pumped in during trumps regime....
The U.S. Department of Energy is suspending its plans to buy crude for the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the requested $3 billion in funding for the project was left out of the $2 trillion stimulus package.
“Given the current uncertainty related to adequate Congressional Appropriations for crude oil purchases associated with the March 19, 2020 solicitation, the Department is withdrawing the solicitation,” an amendment filed Wednesday said.
President Donald Trump first called for oil to be purchased for the SPR on March 13.
Goops another GOP myth comes crashing down.....I wonder if Lil Schitty will admit his mistake supporting this BS?????
Eamon Barrett
Thu, March 31, 2022, 3:11 AM
When doctors and scientists scoured for a cure to COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, initial studies suggested a number of potential cures that turned out to be bogus. But few dubious solutions have had the staying power of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat large farmyard animals.
Ivermectin has been promoted as an “alternative” COVID cure by the likes of podcast host Joe Rogan—who has supported the horse deworming drug over COVID vaccines, even using it himself—and doctors have prescribed the treatment to COVID patients. In small doses, ivermectin can be prescribed to treat head lice or other parasites in humans, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the drug as a COVID treatment.
In the U.S., ivermectin prescriptions soared to 88,000 per week last August, from a baseline of 3,600, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a warning against using the drug. The CDC said its poison control center had witnessed a fivefold increase in calls related to ivermectin overdoses and adverse effects.
Maybe that madness is coming to an end as, on Wednesday, a largescale scientific study showed that ivermectin has “no significant effects” in treating COVID.
The so-called TOGETHER study, conducted in Brazil, is the largest clinical trial into the effects of ivermectin on COVID to date and generally supports the findings of smaller studies, which have also found no significant benefit to ivermectin treatment.
So much losing in Bidenomics.
"Trucker on diesel prices: 'We're going to have a lot of bankruptcies'
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You really believe Redstate
Detail the lies for us alky.
Dennis Said
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The SPR was filled to its then 727 million barrel authorized storage capacity on December 27, 2009"
Ok, cool, then.
Obama made a withdrawal in 2011.
Trump filled it.
Now Biden is going to raid it.
Now Biden is going to raid it.
And supply us with approx. 2.4 days of consumption.
Whee.
Real Twat of Genius:
“We also recognize just as it has been in the United States for Jamaica one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that has been economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic. So to that end we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in Covid recovery, um, by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to I believe what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but of the economy.”
How does a request or even a payment for information become "collusion with the Russians"?
Redstate is nuts
Joe Biden's Newest Plan to Combat High Gas Prices Is a Mix of Pointless Idiocy and Communism.
Welcome back to the 1950s
In a huge win for the president and an end to spring suspense, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson can count on at least one vote from a Senate Republican for her confirmation. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told The New York Times in a Tuesday interview and a Wednesday statement that she will back Jackson to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who will retire this summer.
“I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court,” Collins said.
Whether other Republicans join the Maine moderate remains unclear. All Senate Democrats are expected to vote to confirm Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the high court, as the Senate Judiciary Committee speeds ahead with a planned vote next week. In her statement, Collins criticized the contemporary Supreme Court confirmation process as “broken” by what she called the “disturbing trend” of bowing to politics and ideology, rejecting deference to presidents, and an underemphasis on nominees’ experience, qualifications and integrity. What is being lost, to the detriment of the nation, Collins said, is “confidence in the independence and integrity of the judiciary.”
Collins, and GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) backed Jackson for previous judicial positions, but Graham has all but said he will be a no for the high court, and Murkowski, who is seeking reelection and faces a primary contest, appears to be on the fence.
Separately in the Senate (and less upbeat for Democrats), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) defended Justice Clarence Thomas, who is being urged by the left to recuse himself from any future decisions involving the Jan. 6 Capitol attack because his wife, Ginni Thomas, lobbied the White House after Biden’s election victory to try to keep former President Trump in office. McConnell described the criticism of the justice as “clumsy bullying from the political branches” (The Hill).
Biden is under fire from his left for trying to increase defense spending next year when money for social and environmental programs favored by liberals remains in limbo. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) may yearn to boost the nondefense side of the federal ledger, but Biden is worried about a high-stakes war in Ukraine and U.S. commitments to NATO, midterm elections and related advice to move to the political center, reports The Hill’s Alexander Bolton.
What’s behind sky-high inflation and rising gas prices? Republicans and independents think Biden’s policies are to blame. But Democrats, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll, point to the war in Ukraine and international sanctions as well as the pricing policies of oil companies. Several energy company chief executives will testify next week to House committees about disparities between rising gasoline prices at the pump and petroleum prices on the world market, which have eased from earlier peaks (The Hill).
The president today will speak about pump prices and may describe his decision to release up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a technique to try to temporarily depress prices (The Associated Press). The reserve exists to address supply shortages and disruptions; drawdowns are not frequent.
On Day #1 Biden attacked the USA Oil producers.... the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Cheered.
Now that high gas prices are systemic, the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT cheer for more availability.
IMO, the only way to adjust the disparity between labor and corporate profits is to dramatically increase unionization among manufacturing and other business.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Redstate is nuts
What did they get wrong about the story CH posted about alky?
Please be specific.
Taking from the SPR is a stupid move.
What Joe must do is hit reset, delete his EO that crushed US Energy independence and get Anwar open and finish Keystone XL.
Fixed, Will he, nope he is a coward .
The fair dust and Unicorn Fart Energy is not going to do its part , not yet, IF ever.
rrb
A very conservative and very good writer doesn't agree with you.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself a gifted and courageous leader who, logically, we should support and supply. But he is not an archangel pitted against evil Russian 18-year-old conscripts or necessarily the moral superior to Russian pianists and tourists.
Millions of impoverished Russians had no say about Putin’s savage misadventure in Ukraine.
That Ukraine is morally in the right and certainly deserves Western help does not mean that all Russians should be demonized or an often-corrupt Ukrainian government that just suspended its opposition parties should be deified.
Fifth, the Russian military abroad. The Russian army is historically unbeatable on its home soil. Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler all wrecked their once indomitable militaries once they crossed into Russia.
But the expeditionary armies of a multiethnic, disparate Russia have never done well abroad in major foreign invasions against determined enemies.
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Moscow faced a series of embarrassing and utter defeats in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
The czar’s 1914 invasion of German East Prussia ended in catastrophe. Russia invaded Poland and lost the Polish war of 1919-1921.
Stalin’s attack on tiny Finland in 1939 soon turned into a bloody quagmire. The decade-long invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ended in defeat.
Given these past realities, Ukraine can defeat Putin’s expeditionary army if the United States and its NATO allies increase aid, do not embrace no-fly zones or other provocative trajectories to World War III, cease crazy talk of killing or removing Putin, stop whipping up hatred of all things Russian, and remember that history was never on Putin’s side when he invaded Ukraine.
He didn't give Biden any praise but he agreed with most of his efforts
About Victor Davis Hanson
On Day #1 Ass🤡 Biden attacked the USA Oil producers.
Now, to attempt to save his sorry ass he is stealing oil to sell to try to lower gas prices.
Thanks to Trump Joe can raid the Oil we need to Run this Economy.
Restore Trump Energy Policies Joe, do at least one thing right in your failed Presidentcy.
For a man who vows to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has surely focused a great deal of attention on the dramatic events of 1938, and has seen fit to closely mimic the actions of Germany’s dead, unlamented füehrer in that very fateful year.
Mr. Putin has clearly embraced Hitler’s tactics towards both Austria and Czechoslovakia, using them as a template for his struggle to claw back for Mother Russia what he has always viewed as rightfully hers.
Over the course of his rule, Putin has shown himself to be nearly as ruthless in pursuit of his political aims as Adolf Hitler, caring little for the carnage or civilian suffering produced by his aggressive actions in various parts of the world. But it’s useful to remember that Hitler swallowed Austria and Czechoslovakia by sheer pressure alone, cynical though it was. At least in these initial conquests of his soon war-provoking reign, Hitler’s calculations and assessments of Germany’s relative strengths, and more importantly his opponents’ exploitable weaknesses, proved more accurate than Putin’s during this current conflict.
In his dreams of reassembling a portion of Tsarist Russia’s staggering vastness, Mr. Putin has mistakenly concluded that the deep and longstanding ties between the two peoples that loomed so large in his imagination would persuade the Ukrainians to desist from opposing Russian forces too strenuously. While he certainly didn’t expect a rapturous welcome in the way old newsreels depict triumphant German troops being greeted with joyous smiles and Nazi salutes as they entered Vienna in March 1938, Putin (and most of the rest of the world) failed to foresee the dogged, determined and unexpectedly skilled resistance the Ukrainians have consistently put forth. His imaginings somehow could not grasp that the collective memories of the Ukrainian people constituted something more akin to a nightmare than a dream; horrible visions of the deaths of more millions than history could precisely count due to starvation and summary execution as the Bolsheviks brutally consolidated their hold on power in the late 1920s and early '30s --- something that ought to be more fully considered by those outsiders astounded by the resoluteness of Ukrainian opposition.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_unrequited_emanschlussem.html
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
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A very conservative and very good writer doesn't agree with you.
That's nice alky.
That's the difference between you and I. You march in complete lockstep with every fucking leftist hack on the planet.
I will often disagree with VDH and others, even though I have a lot of respect for them and hold them in high esteem.
YOU require leftist hacks do your thinking for you 100% of the time. Which explains your addiction to plagiarism, and your complete inability to contribute anything around here other than a copy/paste of work you've stolen from others.
Biden always shorting the USA.
His so called energy plan only covers 1/3 of the Oil lost from Russia.
He really should get the Windmill crowd and Solar Panel people to turn up to full their energy generation.
The Biden/Harris team has failed Americans at everything.
:"Consumer goods and services cost Americans 6.4 percent more than a year prior in February, the latest data from the U.S. government showed on Thursday.
The personal consumption expenditure price index rose by more than expected and indicated that inflation accelerated from the six percent annual rate in January. This was the fastest rate of price increases since 1982."
The $5,000 New Biden Tax.
"President Joe Biden’s 40-year-high inflation will cost American households on average an extra $5,200 in 2022, or $433 per month, according to Bloomberg."
Trump filled it.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Dennis also posted that
The U.S. Department of Energy is suspending its plans to buy crude for the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the requested $3 billion in funding for the project was left out of the $2 trillion stimulus package.
“Given the current uncertainty related to adequate Congressional Appropriations for crude oil purchases associated with the March 19, 2020 solicitation, the Department is withdrawing the solicitation,” an amendment filed Wednesday said.
President Donald Trump first called for oil to be purchased for the SPR on March 13
YOU DO MAKE A BOX OF ROCKS LOOK SMART.....TRUMP PUT ZERO INTO THE RESERVE.....THE 3 BILLION HE ASKED FOR WAS LEFT OUT OF THE STIMULUS PACKAGE!!!!!!
Sorry sport, but I took you to the wood shed again!!!!!!!
Biden inflation newest numbers high , yes, unexpectedly.
Congressional redistricting — the process of redrawing the nation’s 435 congressional districts to reflect the results of the 2020 census — is not quite finished, but it’s getting darn close. Only four states (Florida, Maryland, Missouri and New Hampshire) have yet to approve new maps (though the maps in several states are currently being challenged in court, so some states that have approved new maps could see those maps overturned — as happened in Maryland just last week).
So while some of the specific numbers will change, we now have a good sense of what the big-picture takeaway from this redistricting cycle will be. No matter which way you slice it, Democrats have gained blue seats from the mapmaking process, making the House playing field between the two parties more balanced than it has been in decades.
538
The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering
By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena MejÃa
MAR. 31, 2022, AT 6:00 AM
Congressional redistricting — the process of redrawing the nation’s 435 congressional districts to reflect the results of the 2020 census — is not quite finished, but it’s getting darn close. Only four states (Florida, Maryland, Missouri and New Hampshire) have yet to approve new maps (though the maps in several states are currently being challenged in court, so some states that have approved new maps could see those maps overturned — as happened in Maryland just last week).
So while some of the specific numbers will change, we now have a good sense of what the big-picture takeaway from this redistricting cycle will be. No matter which way you slice it, Democrats have gained blue seats from the mapmaking process, making the House playing field between the two parties more balanced than it has been in decades. But that doesn’t mean the 2022 congressional map should be considered “fair.”
As the maps stand on March 30 at 5 p.m. Eastern, 175 congressional districts have a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean
Partisan lean is the average margin difference between how a state or district votes and how the country votes overall. This version of partisan lean, meant to be used for congressional and gubernatorial elections, is calculated as 50 percent the state or district’s lean relative to the nation in the most recent presidential election, 25 percent its relative lean in the second-most-recent presidential election and 25 percent a custom state-legislative lean.
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That’s a net increase of 11 Democratic-leaning seats from the old maps. Meanwhile, the number of Republican-leaning seats has decreased by six, as has the number of highly competitive seats.
Of course, that’s just the partisan lean of the districts. To get a sense for how these changes will affect the race for control of the chamber, you need to factor in which party currently controls each seat (not to mention the national political environment, but put that aside for a moment). Still, Democrats are likely to gain seats from redistricting in 2022 even after you consider that they already hold a lot of those newly blue-leaning seats. By my calculations, redistricting alone should net Democrats about two more seats in the House next year,
Here’s how I arrived at that number: Between seven and nine Republican-held districts have been redrawn to favor Democrats (two in California, one in Illinois, one in Michigan, three in New York and potentially one each in New Mexico and Ohio), while between six and eight Democratic-held districts have been redrawn to favor Republicans (two in Arizona, one in Georgia, one in Michigan, one in Ohio, one in Tennessee and potentially one each in Kansas and New Jersey). That’s a net gain of one seat for Democrats, give or take. But Democrats also gained one seat on net from reapportionment: Oregon, North Carolina and Texas each added one new blue seat, while California and Ohio each lost one.
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I got this number by taking the roughly one seat Republicans are losing to Democrats on net from redistricting (see previous footnote), and combining it with the two or three net seats Republicans have lost in reapportionment: Population trends added one red seat in Montana, one in Texas and potentially one in Colorado, but they also subtracted one from Illinois, one from Michigan, one from New York, one from Pennsylvania and one from West Virginia.
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You really believe Redstate
How about NBC News, The Hill, WaPo, USA and everyone else that is reporting it Roger? You think it's fake news because Red State created a post about it?
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Excellent plagiarized post alky.
You're obviously out flexing your DOS muscles this morning.
I read some good news about Biden energy plan.
He is reversing his EO.
Restoring Trump policies and "ramping up production".
Opec & Russia increase oil exporting.
Increasing oil supply by new extraction and pumping.
Biden, plan Rob Peter.
How about NBC News, The Hill, WaPo, USA and everyone else that is reporting it
Funny seems that NBC, Wa Po Abc are mute on the subject and a quick google search showed the NY Post, AP and Sputnick headline the story......sorry sport but the facts again do not support your narrative!!!!
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anonymousMarch 31, 2022 at 10:11 AM
Too funny..."
"AP) — An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, with sharply higher prices for food, gasoline and other necessities squeezing Americans’ finances.
The figure reported Thursday by the Commerce Department was the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982. Excluding volatile prices for food and energy, so-called core inflation increased 5.4% in February "
Funny seems that NBC, Wa Po Abc are mute on the subject and a quick google search showed the NY Post, AP and Sputnick headline the story......sorry sport but the facts again do not support your narrative!!!!
FEC fines Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC over Trump-Russia dossier research
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/index.html
Democrats Agree to Pay $113,000 to Settle Campaign Spending Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/politics/hillary-clinton-democrats-campaign-spending.html
DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93
Clinton campaign, DNC fined over improper spending disclosure tied to Steele dossier, conservative group says
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/clinton-campaign-dnc-fined-improper-spending-disclosure-tied-steele-do-rcna22324
Federal campaign watchdog fines DNC, Clinton campaign over dossier spending disclosure
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/dnc-clinton-campaign-fine-dossier-spending-disclosure-00021910
FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/fec-dnc-clinton-campaign/
DNC, Clinton Campaign Agree to Steele Dossier Funding Fine
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-03-30/dnc-clinton-campaign-agree-to-steele-dossier-funding-fine
You're a liar and an imbecile BWAA.
F Daddy (whose very self designation is disgusting) SAYS:
"There is no 5 year old in the world that is explicitly gay, lesbian, transgender or heterosexual.
"Small children do not think about sex and sexuality unless they have been groomed to do so by an adult.
"These are the facts."
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No, they are not. What I am about to say is far more factual:
We have learned the difficult way that children who are born with sexual organs that are not entirely clear as to whether they were "intended" by nature to be either male or female should not be surgically operated on by a doctor until they themselves have become old enough to have a say concerning their gender preference.
But most of us, including myself, never had to make a decision as to whether we are male or female, or to which gender we were and are attracted.
All that was decided for us.
For example, I never had to think or worry for a moment about whether I was attracted to little boys or little girls. From a very early age I was attracted to girls, even when I didn't want to admit that I was. Even in the third grade I was strongly attracted to a little blonde, blue-eyed girl in the second grade, though for some reason I didn't want anyone to know it. (I think I was embarrassed by it.)
That was not a decision I made for myself; it was made for me. It was in my make up. It was how I was "wired."
But not everyone is fortunate enough to be like that, and we should have understanding and compassion for them, and support them in whatever may for them be some difficult life decisions they have to make regarding gender and sexual preferences.
I think that reflects what Jesus would advocate were he among us today, and reflects the best in the tradition of understanding and compassion out of which he came.
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