Republicans are registering formerly Democratic voters at four times the rate that Democrats are making the reverse conversion in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, a warning sign for Democrats as they try to keep control of the U.S. Congress.
The Republican gains in Pennsylvania, home to a critical U.S. Senate race, follow a pattern seen in other states that could have competitive contests in November's elections, as high levels of disapproval with President Joe Biden's handling of his job are helping narrow the long-held advantage held by Democrats in numbers of registered voters.
"I just got fed up and just felt like there has to be a better way," said Beth Jones, 48, a retired Philadelphia police officer who last month registered as a Republican, ending her three-decade affiliation with the Democratic Party.
Look the Democrats are a big giant smoking mess right now. They appear to have one thing on their agenda and it's feeding their Trump derangement syndrome and trying to keep the Capital riot in the news over 14 months later. Other than that, they are simply deflecting their failures and trying to pretend thing are not as bad as they are. They have no real plan other than what we hear from the Drunken Sailor portion of the Party who believes that a few trillions dollars in new debt is not much of an issue.
But at the top we have by far the least competent President we have seen since Carter and at least Carter could remember that he was President rather than Vice President. While it's one thing to "misspeak" every once in a while, it's totally another thing to be a complete failure at the job and then not be able to put two sentences together without having to have your "people" correct you or walk something back.
Pennsylvania is quite obviously a Battleground state and one where Trump appeared on Election night to have secured about a 200,000 vote victory (based on the calculations of various election sites) only to see that all slip away as Biden mysteriously picked up nearly two million votes (76%) from the mail in ballots. I doubt that will happen again with this sort of registration change and with the new scrutiny that will be put in place.
The questions isn't whether Joe Biden has hurt the Democratic brand, but the question is to what degree is he hurting it.
147 comments:
Joe promised that covid deaths would make for a "Winter Of Death"
He delivered and continues to deliver.
Biden promised to attack US Oil and gas industry.
He delivered, highest gas and oil prices.
Failed policies , raiding the APR, because ALT Energy is not Shovel Ready.
He is just making good on his full on Socialist Agenda.
Biden promised "food shortages".
Outstanding , no plan to fix it.
I love to be able to tell you all.
I TOLD YA SO.
"Opinion: It’s now clear that the Federal Reserve has made a huge monetary-policy error
Published: April 7, 2022 at 10:58 a.m. ET
By
Cullen Roche
The central bank took too long to raise interest rates. It’s now playing catchup."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in quarantine.
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill announced the speaker’s diagnosis in a statement on Thursday.
“After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill also wrote in a tweet.
“The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly,” he said.
The same thing happened to me recently
I strongly believe that the Republicans will win the house majority, but the Senate is in play for the Democrats.
Despite the fact that the economy has created a record number of jobs, too many people really on Fox News and Newsmax etc.
But if the Democrats hold the Senate its hard to predict what will happen ��.
Bidenomics has created zero jobs.
People have Un-retired because of Carter like Stagflation.
Lol
Nancy Pelosi and now all of a sudden so Has Roger.
Wish them the recovery they deserve.
Roger you predicted $3.00 gasoline.
I predicted in January 2021, gasoline would go to $4.00 to $5.00.
Which of US is more correct?
GETTYSBURG, Pa.—State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a leading Republican candidate for governor, recounted his long-running, unproven case for election fraud on Saturday.
Yet his claims seemed subdued compared to those of leading national election denier Mike Lindell, the My Pillow founder and another featured speaker.
Lindell repeatedly and falsely claimed the number of votes counted in the 2020 election in Pennsylvania exceeded the number of registered voters. Each time, he drew nothing but applause from the crowd of several hundred which nearly filled a conference room near Gettysburg.
For the record, Pennsylvania, with about 13 million people, had 9,090,962 registered voters at the time of the 2020 election, according to Ballotpedia. Pennsylvania voters cast 6,915,283 votes, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Mastriano, the first speaker of the event, portrayed himself as the lone member of Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled state Senate willing to fully pursue fraud claims.
He said “behind my back the swamp rose up” to thwart him, and lamented that he faces opposition from his Republican Senate colleagues in addition to Democrats and the news media.
Lindell, meanwhile, repeatedly accused even Fox News of being part of a corporate and media-driven conspiracy against investigating fraud claims, saying he had “evidence” of many thousands of votes stolen from former President Donald Trump even in Democrat-dominated states such as California.
Such was the tenor of the free “voter integrity conference” promoted by Mastriano and held in the heart of his district.
You believe the big lie because you have lost your mind
The same thing happened to me recently
Were you put on an IV drip of vodka and stool softener like Peloshee, alky?
Despite the fact that the economy has created a record number of jobs
And there it is. The LIE that you desperately need Americans to believe to have a chance in the mid-terms.
Jobs created = ZERO.
Jobs have been RESTORED. NONE have been "created."
RRB, Roger has been programmed.
Never mind actual facts.
Those who retired are being forced back into work as Bidenomics racked up 7.9% inflation in year one, nearly match the total inflation of 4 years of Pres. Trump.
It’s true, as Democrats keep reminding each other, that the picture can change; maybe by autumn we’ll be back to normal. Maybe inflation will ease.
But the more plausible gleam of hope for Democrats rests not with those factors, nor with shaper “messaging,” but with the opposition. In past midterms, Republicans have done serious damage to themselves by nominating candidates who lost eminently winnable elections.
Most notable was the 2010 Delaware Senate race, where Republican Mike Castle seemed headed for a coronation after having won 10 statewide races for governor and the at-large House seat. But with the backing of Tea Party forces, perennial candidate Christine O’Donnell beat Castle in the GOP primary. Her fall campaign, filled with charges that she had misrepresented her education and her finances, and highlighted by a comment that she had “dabbled in witchcraft,” sent her to a landslide defeat by Chris Coons. (Had Castle won that primary and that Senate seat, the Republicans would likely now control the U.S. Senate.)
It’s not the only state where zealous party members helped outliers upset more established candidates, only to lose in November. Think of Judge Roy Moore in Alabama, and reports of his former fondness for teenage girls; or Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Todd Akin in Missouri with their head-scratching notions about abortion. This year, the possibility of Republicans nominating credibly accused abusers in Georgia and Missouri, and a TV doctor with quackish tendencies in Pennsylvania offer Democrats tempting targets in those key states. Other Democrats hope bad memories of former President Donald Trump will give them a boost.
All this is thin gruel for a party facing headwinds as daunting as any in recent campaign seasons. And sometimes the terrain is simply too treacherous to navigate. Before Obama’s inaugural in early 2009, the transition team heard a briefing from their economic gurus explaining how slow and weak the recovery from the Great Recession would likely be. Said Obama adviser David Axelrod: “We’re gonna get our asses kicked in the midterms.” It would be wholly unsurprising if similar posterior concerns were overheard in the West Wing on a daily basis.
😃Maybe inflation will ease🤣
Roger what does "easing" look like?
6.5%?
"U.S. Natural Gas Price Jumps Above $6
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Apr 06, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
The U.S. benchmark natural gas price jumped above $6 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) on Wednesday, on the back of estimates that domestic production has dipped in recent days.
As of 8:20 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the Henry Hub May futures contract was rallying 4.99% at $6.323/ MMBtu. All the contracts through February 2023 were trading above $6/MMBtu, too."
BIDENOMICS attack on US Energy continues to deliver my predicted results.
If the Democrats frame it as a referendum on Trump, the Senate is in play.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said during an Axios NewsShapers interview with Jonathan Swan that he’d be obligated to support former President Trump despite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol if the GOP renominates him for president in 2024.
Why it matters: McConnell had not previously been pressed on the contradiction between his Senate floor comments in February of 2021 saying Trump was "morally responsible" for January 6th, followed two weeks later by saying he’d "absolutely" support Trump as nominee.
The vast majority of people don't agree with you on the insurrection on January 6th.
The Price of #2 Corn drives the price at the meat case.
Trump price per Bushel $3.98
Biden price per Bushel $7.56
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
If the Democrats frame it as a referendum on Trump, the Senate is in play.
ROFLMFAO !!!
The most popular politician of all the major ones currently
96 % approval withing republican party
what kind of drugs are they slipping into your stewed peas ?
Have you been following any of the recent local elections????
those not being reported on by state media ?
Of course not
* oh it's Thursday
stewed carrots and peas ?
President Biden’s 2023 budget calls for a range of policies that would boost opportunity and reduce poverty, improve health and well-being, and advance widely shared prosperity.
President Biden’s 2023 budget calls for a range of policies that would boost opportunity and reduce poverty, improve health and well-being, and advance widely shared prosperity.[1] It would fully pay for these policies — and also reduce the deficit by $1 trillion over the next decade — by requiring well-off households and profitable corporations to pay a fairer amount of taxes.
To evaluate the Administration’s policy priorities, this budget should be viewed in conjunction with the President’s 2022 budget. While Congress adopted two bills reflecting some of the major priorities in that budget — the infrastructure package enacted on a bipartisan basis in November 2021 and the 2022 appropriations bills — the budget’s climate and economic proposals remain under consideration, as do its revenue-raising proposals and prescription drug savings to offset their cost. The 2023 budget includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund as a placeholder for these investments and offsets, but because discussions with Congress are underway, it does not lay out another round of specific proposals in these areas.
Outside of the reserve fund, the budget proposes spending and revenue policies, including details for programs funded through the annual appropriations process. Like all budgets, it includes both new policies and policies the President proposed previously that have not been enacted but that the Administration continues to champion.
Reserve Fund for Policies Under Discussion in Congress
The Administration used the release of the 2023 budget as an opportunity to reiterate its commitment to an economic package that reduces costs for families, addresses climate change, and raises revenues to pay for these investments and shrink the deficit. The budget points to priorities proposed in the President’s previous budget and under discussion in the context of the economic package, including getting health coverage to people in states that have refused to expand Medicaid; helping families afford costs such as health care and prescription drugs, child care, elder care, and housing; expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for very low-paid workers without children; expanding the Child Tax Credit to help families with low incomes make ends meet at a time of rising costs; addressing climate change; and responsibly raising revenues on high-income households and profitable corporations.
Failure to enact a package with these provisions would have significant consequences. For example:
More than 2 million uninsured people would remain without a pathway to coverage because they live in one of 12 states that haven’t adopted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.Millions of people getting coverage through the ACA marketplace would see their premiums go up substantially when the current premium tax credit enhancements expire in December. Some might struggle but decide to pay the higher cost; others might forgo coverage and become uninsured.Some 27 million children in families with low or no income would receive less than the full Child Tax Credit, and an estimated 2 million children would remain in poverty due to their exclusion from the full $2,000 per child credit available under current law.Millions of families would fail to gain access to preschool or child care, undermining children’s future educational and employment prospects and parents’ employment opportunities and earnings.Hundreds of thousands of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, overcrowding, and eviction would not benefit from a proposed expansion of housing vouchers, which have proven highly effective at addressing those problems.Prescription drug prices wouldn’t be reduced for seniors, as Medicare would not be given the authority to negotiate prices with drug companies and no limits would be placed on annual increases in drug prices.A tax code distorted by two decades of regressive tax cuts, which have suppressed revenues and widened inequality while failing to deliver the faster economic growth their supporters promised, would remain in place.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/analysis-of-president-bidens-2023-budget
Nice cut n paste Roger.
Abbott is a fucking jackass
"Scapegoating migrants does nothing to keep our border communities safe."
The proposal is "yet another political stunt," said the Texas Democratic Party, which called it "time to stop treating humans as pawns and create real, humane policy."
The remarks were part of a chorus of criticism from immigrant rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers that erupted after Abbott announced his response to Biden's phase-out of border expulsions under a public health order known as Title 42.
Notably, his office stated that the bus transport would have to be voluntary, and flights would also be offered. Migrants choosing the travel would need to show that they'd been processed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a statement.
Reacting to the changes, Texas Monthly senior editor Jack Herrera tweeted: "I wonder if, between the time that Abbott initially claimed Texas would bus migrants to D.C. and this press release, someone mentioned to him that busing people across state lines against their will is felony kidnapping."
As the Associated Press further noted: "The latest orders further push the limits of a multibillion-dollar Texas border security mission that the two-term Republican governor, who is running for reelection in November, has made the cornerstone of his administration. Already, Texas has deployed thousands of troopers and National Guard members, installed new border barrier and arrested thousands of migrants on trespassing charges."
Critics of the latest announcement rejected Abbott's assertion that the policies were about protecting Texas communities, instead calling them a political stunt.
The Texas Civil Rights Project tweeted Wednesday that "if Gov. Abbott cared about border communities, he would be celebrating the end of Title 42" in addition to urging an end to Migrant Protection Protocols, a reference to the controversial policy also known as Remain in Mexico. He would also "welcome immigrants at ports of entry."
"Instead," said the group, "he's wasting taxpayer dollars on a campaign tactic to demonize immigrants."
That group's message was welcomed by the ACLU of Texas.
"Scapegoating migrants does nothing to keep our border communities safe," the group said. "The governor's priorities continue to be out of touch with what people in Texas need."
I read that Socialist Democrats don't like the proper tag of = Groomers
If the Democrats frame it as a referendum on Trump, the Senate is in play.
Pssst.... Roger.
Senile? Trump isn't President.
The referendum is on Biden and the Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress. Perhaps you missed that 2020 election while you and the 5th beatle hang out in your room playing grabass?
The confirmation vote is going on right now to appoint the first African American woman on The Supreme Court.
She will be confirmed ��.
ROFLMFAO !!!
The most popular politician of all the major ones currently
96 % approval withing republican party
what kind of drugs are they slipping into your stewed peas ?
The alky has a starring role in "Trump-back Mountain"
He just can't quit Trump.
LOL.
President Biden was elected President by over eleven million votes.
New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a New York court on Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt for allegedly failing to comply with a court order that he turn over certain documents for her investigation.
US Mortgages rates rise to historic 5%.
The democrats blocked a Black female for the high court long ago.
Nothing historic about the un-woman Brown.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) wants a judge to find former President Donald Trump in civil contempt to the tune of $10,000 per day for allegedly flouting a judge’s order to comply with her subpoena.
“This Court’s order was not an opening bid for a negotiation or an invitation for a new round of challenges to the subpoena,” the attorney general’s assistant Andrew Amer wrote in a 26-page memorandum on Thursday. “It was, rather, a court order entered after full briefing and argument during which Mr. Trump could have, but did not, raise any of the purported objections or assertions he has now raised.”
Earlier this year on Feb. 17, a Manhattan judge ordered Trump and two of his adult children—Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.—to sit for depositions and have the former president provide documents responsive to her subpoena. The Trumps appealed that decision, and the attorney general agreed to put their testimony on hold until that matter is adjudicated.
The Big Guy, is neck deep in this and drowning in cash.
"U.S. banks flagged over 150 suspicious financial transactions from Hunter and James Biden, according to CBS News on Wednesday.
The great number of wire transfers included “large” amounts of money tripped for further review by American banks, CBS News reported about the Biden family business operations."
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/new-york-attorney-general-wants-a-judge-to-order-a-10000-a-day-fine-against-donald-trump-for-flouting-subpoena/
The proposal is "yet another political stunt," said the Texas Democratic Party, which called it "time to stop treating humans as pawns and create real, humane policy."
We have a "real, humane policy."
I personally know people who have followed that policy to the letter and are enjoying US citizenship.
You want to invade our country and break our laws?
Fuck you.
Our border control policy needs to include SHOOT TO KILL.
She has been confirmed
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as the first Black female Supreme Court justice.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
She has been confirmed
Awesome.
Pedophiles across America rejoice.
JUST IN: The Senate voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman Supreme Court justice, with all Democrats voting in favor of her confirmation.
Jackson's confirmation won't change the ideological balance of the court, but the confirmation marks a significant historic milestone for the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.
Jackson sits on DC's federal appellate court and will be sworn after Justice Stephen Breyer retires sometime in the summer.
This might help the Democrats
This might help the Democrats
How exactly alky?
When I first became president, I said that I would support Russian President Boris Yeltsin in his efforts to build a good economy and a functioning democracy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union—but I would also support an expansion of NATO to include former Warsaw Pact members and post-Soviet states. My policy was to work for the best while preparing for the worst. I was worried not about a Russian return to communism, but about a return to ultranationalism, replacing democracy and cooperation with aspirations to empire, like Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. I didn’t believe Yeltsin would do that, but who knew what would come after him?
If Russia stayed on a path toward democracy and cooperation, we would all be together in meeting the security challenges of our time: terrorism; ethnic, religious, and other tribal conflicts; and the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. If Russia chose to revert to ultranationalist imperialism, an enlarged NATO and a growing European Union would bolster the continent’s security. Near the end of my second term, in 1999, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO despite Russian opposition. The alliance gained 11 more members under subsequent administrations, again over Russian objections.
Lately, NATO expansion has been criticized in some quarters for provoking Russia and even laying the groundwork for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The expansion certainly was a consequential decision, one that I continue to believe was correct.
As United Nations ambassador and later secretary of state, my friend Madeleine Albright, who recently passed away, was an outspoken supporter of NATO expansion. So were Secretary of State Warren Christopher; National Security Adviser Tony Lake; his successor, Sandy Berger; and two others with firsthand experience in the area: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili, who was born in Poland to Georgian parents and came to the U.S. as a teenager, and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs while we were housemates at Oxford in 1969 and 1970.
RECOMMENDED READING
Why Some People Become Lifelong ReadersJOE PINSKER
How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife CrisisALISON GOPNIK
Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s ProductivityOLGA KHAZAN
At the time I proposed NATO expansion, however, there was a lot of respected opinion on the other side. The legendary diplomat George Kennan, famous for advocating for the policy of containment during the Cold War, argued that with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, NATO had outlived its usefulness. The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman said Russia would feel humiliated and cornered by an enlarged NATO, and when it recovered from the economic weakness of the last years of Communist rule, we would see a terrible reaction. Mike Mandelbaum, a respected authority on Russia, thought it was a mistake too, arguing that it wouldn’t promote democracy or capitalism.
I u
nderstood that renewed conflict was a possibility. But in my view, whether it happened depended less on NATO and more on whether Russia remained a democracy and how it defined its greatness in the 21st century. Would it build a modern economy based on its human talent in science, technology, and the arts, or seek to re-create a version of its 18th-century empire fueled by natural resources and characterized by a strong authoritarian government with a powerful military?
I did everything I could to help Russia make the right choice and become a great 21st-century democracy. My first trip outside the United States as president was to Vancouver to meet with Yeltsin and guarantee $1.6 billion for Russia so it could afford to bring its soldiers home from the Baltic states and provide for their housing. In 1994, Russia became the first country to join the Partnership for Peace, a program for practical bilateral cooperation, including joint training exercises between NATO and non-NATO European countries. That same year, the U.S. signed the Budapest Memorandum, along with Russia and the United Kingdom, which guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in return for Ukraine’s agreement to give up what was then the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Beginning in 1995, after the Dayton Accords ended the Bosnian War, we made an agreement to add Russian troops to the peacekeeping forces that NATO had on the ground in Bosnia. In 1997, we supported the NATO-Russia Founding Act, which gave Russia a voice but not a veto in NATO affairs, and supported Russia’s entry to the G7, making it the G8. In 1999, at the end of the Kosovo conflict, Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen reached an agreement with the Russian defense minister under which Russian troops could join UN-sanctioned NATO peacekeeping forces. Throughout it all, we left the door open for Russia’s eventual membership in NATO, something I made clear to Yeltsin and later confirmed to his successor, Vladimir Putin.
Tom Nichols: Only NATO can save Putin
In addition to all these efforts to involve Russia in NATO’s post–Cold War missions, Albright and our entire national-security team worked hard to promote positive bilateral relations. Vice President Al Gore co-chaired a commission with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to address issues of mutual interest. We agreed to destroy 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium each. We also agreed to pull Russian, European, and NATO conventional forces back from borders, though Putin declined to go ahead with the plan when he assumed the Russian presidency in 2000.
Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson
“The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to be elevated to the pinnacle of the judicial branch in what her supporters hailed as a needed step toward bringing new diversity and life experience to the court,”
the New York Times reports.
“Overcoming a concerted effort by conservative Republicans to derail her nomination, Judge Jackson was confirmed on a 53-47 vote, with three Republicans joining all 50 Democrats in backing her.”
T. Goddard comments:
The support of three Republican senators took the suspense out of the vote, but it was truly historic nonetheless.
""She has been confirmed"
She,,, nope. "It".
Nope,
"truly historic nonetheless".
Not even close.
This will help the Democrats..
rrb wants to know why.
_______
Because people like him referred to her as "a black vagina" (pussy) or worse.
Yet nobody from our side ever called Reagan's female nominee
"a white vagina" (pussy).
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
President Biden was elected President by over eleven million votes.
Obviously you can’t add either 81m-74m is 11m
Natural Gas, long said to be a clean fuel is skyrocketing in cost.
151.51% up in one year to a historic high of $6.27.
Coal is up 207%.
Math eludes him again.
"President Biden was elected President by over eleven million votes."
Historic first "it" is the first Groomer added to the USSC.
IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER
Top Prosecutor Says Trump Criminal Probe Is Ongoing
“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday that his office’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, his company and its leadership continues, despite the resignation earlier this year of two senior prosecutors,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The team working on the investigation was going through documents, interviewing witnesses and ‘exploring evidence not previously explored.’ He said while the law required secrecy during the investigation, he would tell the public when it had ended.”
SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.
SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK FORWARD TO
(IT COULD LEAD TO FIREWORKS):
Select Committee Weighs Calling Trump for Interview
“The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to broach its most consequential decision yet: Whether and when to call Donald Trump for an interview,”
Politico reports.
Said Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS): “We’ll be talking about the likelihood of a Trump interview in the not too distant future.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/bill-clinton-nato-expansion-ukraine/629499/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
As poverty further hit families already in the edge.
Biden's message to them
"There will be Food Shortages".
With exactly zero plan to make sure the shortages don't happen.
Biden gave a million acres and billions of dollars to "black only" wannabe farmers.
USDA has no mechanism to track those farms, farmers , their out puts or success.
I know, I asked.
Roger, you have put a Black woman in a state of such fear that she called the Police, had you kicked to the gutter and divorced you.
I own Roger. But I also own the dirt on the bottom of my shoes as well.
I never said...
Of course you didn't. You and I are decent people.
Obviously you can’t add either 81m-74m is 11m
LOL.
Poor alky.
Sucks at math, and all he has to contribute are plagiarisms.
Alky -
"Confirmation of pro-pedophile black vagina helps democrats because all democrats care about is identity politics and being soft on crime!"
yay.
She is not a pedophile like crazy racist rodent bastard
Katanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed!
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
She is not a pedophile like crazy racist rodent bastard
Learn to read, alky.
SHE'S not a pedophile. She DEFENDS them and sentences them to virtually no jail time so they can molest again!
LOL.
God DAMN you are a dumb fuck.
Go brush your teeth.
Trump will be the second AL Capone and die in prison ��.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday that his office’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, his company and its leadership continues, despite the resignation earlier this year of two senior prosecutors.
The team working on the investigation was going through documents, interviewing witnesses and “exploring evidence not previously explored,” Mr. Bragg said in a statement. He said while the law required secrecy during the investigation, he would tell the public when it had ended.
“I pledge that the Office will publicly state the conclusion of our investigation—whether we conclude our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment,” said Mr. Bragg, a Democrat.
The statement was Mr. Bragg’s first public remarks since two senior prosecutors on the case resigned in February. Their resignations, plus an apparent lack of activity by the grand jury, put the future of the investigation in doubt.
Mr. Bragg said there was “no magic at all” to any previously reported dates and that New York has grand juries sitting all the time.
Questions surrounding the status of Trump investigation and controversy over a memo that outlined changes to how the office charges defendants have clouded the early months of the administration of Mr. Bragg.
In a resignation letter in February, one of the senior prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz, said that he believed Mr. Trump committed numerous felonies and the public interest warranted his prosecution. Mr. Pomerantz said that Cyrus Vance Jr., the former Manhattan district attorney, had directed the team to seek an indictment of Mr. Trump and other defendants. Mr. Bragg, who took office at the beginning of this year, then decided against bringing a criminal case, Mr. Pomerantz said.
In his statement, Mr. Bragg touted his experience with complex investigations, echoing remarks he had made on the campaign trail last year. He said that as a chief deputy at the New York attorney general’s office, he had overseen litigation against the Trump Foundation, the now-defunct Trump family charity.
“Prosecutors fulfilling their duties cannot and do not bring only cases that are ‘slam dunks,’” he said. “To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason—namely that justice demands it.”
Also on Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is leading a separate civil-fraud probe into the former president and his company, asked a judge to hold Mr. Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 a day for what she said was his failure to turn over documents.
The filing, in state court in New York, argued that Mr. Trump hadn’t complied with an agreement, which was approved by a judge, to respond to a subpoena for documents by March 31.
The criminal investigation, which began under Mr. Vance, led to the indictment of the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, on tax-fraud charges. The judge overseeing that case said it could go to trial this fall. Mr. Weisselberg and the Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty.
After that indictment, the investigation shifted to examining whether Mr. Trump and his company made misrepresentations to tax authorities, banks and insurers for financial gain. Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations and said the probe is politically motivated.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-criminal-probe-is-ongoing-top-manhattan-prosecutor-says-11649356200?st=y09osxy8ksfk9uo&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
You really don't understand how our justice system works. A defense attorney is obligated to provide reasonable doubt to the jury of his peers.
Defending a pedophile is not an easy task but the law requires full extent.
But your fucking stupid.
The Biden Crime Family Banking records are being ordered to be held by the Banks that laundered their pay for play money.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy faces plenty of threats: War in Ukraine, high grocery bills, spiking gasoline prices, splintered supply chains, the lingering pandemic and rising interest rates that slow growth.
The Biden White House is betting the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand these threats, but there are growing fears of a coming economic slump among voters and some Wall Street analysts.
The next few months will test whether President Joe Biden built a durable recovery full of jobs with last year’s $1.9 trillion relief package, or an economy overfed by government aid that could tip into a downturn. On the line for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections is whether voters see firsthand in their lives that inflation can be tamed and the economy can manage to run hot without overheating.
A judge has to follow the law even with people like you
At first it was "Transitory Inflation.
When that lied failed
Biden moved to
"Inflation is good" until it raised past 4% on its way to 7.9%.
After that failed
Biden moved to
"Putin's inflation"
That failed so now
"Systemic inflation " & "Food shortages".
With Natural gas skyrocketing the cost of generating electricity is going up .
Biden energy policies triggered it.
You really are turning into a rabid assclown Lil Schitty with bullshit like this in your inane header
where Trump appeared on Election night to have secured about a 200,000 vote victory (based on the calculations of various election sites) only to see that all slip away as Biden mysteriously picked up nearly two million votes (76%) from the mail in ballot
Gee, how'd the lawsuits go in Pa??????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! It appears to me you have lost your fucking mind!!!!!!!!!
With Natural gas skyrocketing the cost of generating electricity is going up .
Supply and demand working as it should....and you claim a degree from Loser KU. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
My old company doing what it does best.....protecting the US with cutting edge technology so no enemy can get the upper hand on our troops.....Unlike KU losers, this is what America is all about!!!!!!!! I sure am proud of my participation in building Joint STARS which is still guarding the skies....E2 D's and upgrading the center wing box of the A10!!!!!!! All important elements of today's defense and all started well before trump took credit for the services!!!!
Stephen Losey
Thu, April 7, 2022, 12:48 PM
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $108 million contract to buy items in advance that will be needed to build the B-21 Raider bomber, but might take a long time to acquire.
The contract to support the acquisition of long lead items needed to build the first lot of production B-21s, announced in a Wednesday release, is the service’s latest step toward fielding the next-generation stealth bomber.
Long lead items are components needed to manufacture a system like the B-21, but that take extra time to obtain from suppliers. If those items are not procured in advance, an entire program can be held up while the manufacturers wait for the critical parts to arrive. The military regularly provides advance procurement money on major programs to avoid that situation.
The Air Force is starting to ramp up preparations to add the B-21 to its fleet. Northrop Grumman now has at least six bombers in various stages of production at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
The party of no showing its true colors....as the usual morons of the right like gaetz, gosar, greene and boebart all still sucking trumps ass without missing a beat!!!!!! VWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! While rat and Lil Schitty all think the same of NATO being a useless outdated alliance with no purpose!!!!!
Charles R. Davis
Tue, April 5, 2022, 6:14 PM
The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution expressing support for NATO on Tuesday.
The resolution passed 362-63, with support from 143 Republicans and 219 Democrats.
Sixty-three members of the GOP caucus voted against the measure.
More than 60 Republicans on Tuesday voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.
Dumb fucking drunkard.
I'm referring to the pedophile cases she presided over and where she handed down LIGHT sentences.
Not defended.
You stupid motherfucker.
Geezus.
"light" is being generous
she sentenced to less than the minimum guideline
it's not that alky is bad at math, he can't even comprehend numbers
there must have been a decimal point he missed in that iq he brags about
maybe something like 13.0 instead of 130 or whatever
but at this point what difference does it make
Well the Supreme Court now has someone who isn't sure what a woman is. Though some are identifying her as the first black female.
I really wished Clarence Thomas would have identified as a "woman" for a day
would have blown up every lib in America
ROFLMFAO !!!
You can have your own opinion fucked up, but you cannot have your own facts......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
While court records show that Jackson did impose lighter sentences than federal guidelines suggested, Hawley's insinuation neglects critical context, including the fact that the senator himself has voted to confirm at least three federal judges who also engaged in the same practice.
MORE: Historic Senate hearings set on Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination
Federal appeals court Judges Joseph Bianco of the Second Circuit and Andrew Brasher of the Eleventh Circuit, both Trump appointees, had each previously sentenced defendants convicted of possessing child pornography to prison terms well below federal guidelines at the time they were confirmed with Hawley's support, an ABC review of court records found.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-check-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-child-porn/story?id=83565833
I don't like Anonymous' style, but he sure has got his fact straight.
As Jackson herself effectively explained during her testimony, there were good reasons why she and other approved judges handed down "lighter" sentences than the outdated federal guidelines suggested.
As Jackson herself effectively explained during her testimony, there were good reasons why she and other approved judges handed down "lighter" sentences than the outdated federal guidelines suggested.
And the best part? Some of those who received the ultra-light sentences went on to re-offend.
Brilliant.
We are installing a groomer on the USSC.
Minutes after Kentanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, Senator Ted Cruz warned that the confirmation of a qualified nominee set “a dangerous precedent.”
“Make no mistake, Judge Jackson has been confirmed for the flimsiest of reasons—that she is qualified,” Cruz said. “Now that one qualified nominee has been confirmed, we can expect more of the same.”
Sha’Carri Richardson on the Meaning of Time in Running and in Life
“Mark my words, Joe Biden and his cabal of Democratic cronies are ready to pack the Court with other qualified nominees,” he added. “The slippery slope started today.”
Recalling confirmation hearings of yesteryear, Cruz waxed nostalgic for an era “before the tyranny of the qualified seized control.”
“There was a time in America when a Supreme Court nominee could be confirmed because he liked beer and cried about calendars,” he said. “Those days, sadly, appear to be over.”
Borowitz.
If only he were funny.
? Some of those who received the ultra-light sentences went on to re-offend.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Gotta link for that opinion????
RRB look at this.
She thinks US is helpless.
Secretary of Energy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=un5N690N3MY
Instead of addressing our real problems, Democrats may try to frighten their base into showing up with scare stories about Trump.
What are Democrats going to scare people with? A return to low inflation, strong wage growth, peace in Europe, and two-dollar gas?
It isn’t difficult to imagine a whole lot of Democrats thinking that they could deal with the return of mean tweets if it meant a return to some kind of normalcy on almost everything else.
But what else have they got to run on?
On every single issue that matters most, Democrats are so deep underwater that they’d all die of the bends if they came back up too quickly.
But they’ve got to try something, so “DONALD TRUMP WILL EAT YOUR BALLOTS AND YOUR TRANS BABIES!” will have to do, I suppose.
That flapping sound you’re hearing is numerous top-level Democrats desperately flailing at reality.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/04/07/bogeyman-trump-is-under-the-bed-democrats-possible-dark-midterms-strategy-n1587913
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/04/07/bogeyman-
GEE, that doesn't support what you claimed about those sentenced by brown......I wonder why?????
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB look at this.
She thinks US is helpless.
Secretary of Energy.
Recently when asked how much oil the US consumes daily she did not know.
The Secretary of Energy did not know. If there's one number she should have committed to memory it's that one, and she didn't have the first fucking clue.
Every Biden voter should be tarred, feathered, and lashed to a lamp post in the public square for a minimum of 72 hours.
I just filled up my Tundra.
$93.00
The pump was slathered in Biden "I did that!" stickers. They're not even trying to scrape them off anymore. I didn't bother to add one even though I carry several with me all the time.
NYC crime up 30+ percent.
Is this the reimaged police policy at work?
"Recently when asked how much oil the US consumes daily she did not know."
Yep, she doesn't have a clue .
Poor, poor babies...
April 7 (Reuters) - News of Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter (TWTR.N) has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm's ability to moderate content, company insiders told Reuters.
...
Despite Twitter's reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions, four Twitter employees who spoke with Reuters said they were concerned about Musk's ability to influence the company's policies on abusive users and harmful content.
With Musk on the board, the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse, and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-arrival-stirs-fears-among-some-twitter-employees-2022-04-07/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
Go cry more kiddies. Then commit suicide.
Fun stuff
Federal Reserve rates to take rates to 3.5% by the end of this year.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
NYC crime up 30+ percent.
Is this the reimaged police policy at work?
Pretty much.
NYC's new mayor is as dumb a fuck as the old.
Rather than fight crime he's busy putting up "GAY, GAY, GAY" billboards in Florida.
Genius.
Elon Musk is having a great time with his money.
Gay, ok.
Like a Gay would leave low crime, low taxes and great weather to move to NYC.
God Thank you for stupid people.
"Risks of recession were already increasing’ before Fed tightening
Ihsaan Fanusie
April 7, 2022, 1:50 pm.
No shit.
I TOLD YA SO.
"Risks of recession were already increasing’ before Fed tightening
Recession is real and it's here. But the MSM/DNC steno pool is loathe to report on it because they must protect the imbecile.
Bidenomics is a flaming dumpster on the railroad tracks.
He is joke.
US likely to see a surge of Covid-19 in the fall, Fauci says
By Naomi Thomas, CNN"
Federal Reserve rates to take rates to 3.5% by the end of this year.
Funny now you are complaining about rates again......the same BS you denied saying yesterday......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You really make rocks look smart....
Denise, what happen to your Biden "Best Economy Ever" ?
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
I don't like Anonymous' style, but he sure has got his fact straight.
As Jackson herself effectively explained during her testimony, there were good reasons why she and other approved judges handed down "lighter" sentences than the outdated federal guidelines suggested.
It's not outdated guidelines. It's the existing guidelines
It's not outdated until it's changed. How much pedophilia would you consider ok to be acceptable and not follow "outdated" guidelines?
Libs just don't like following existing law
and it doesn't matter if more than one are not following the law
Libs apparently consider themselves above the law or exempt from the law
and it is a disaster for America
Mortgage rates as of 04/05/2022:
30-yr fixed 5.472%
30-yr fixed FHA 5.004%
30-yr fixed VA 5.209%
2.74% on 12/10/2021
Nice.
This will fuck the housing market right up. But hey, we got black vagina!
Whee.
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1512048661810851849
If social media "fact checkers" weren't just a phony operation for the left, EVERY POST calling the Florida bill the "don't say gay bill" would be labeled false and misleading.
and they should be banned for spreading misinformation
banana republic
1984
How much pedophilia would you consider ok to be acceptable and not follow "outdated" guidelines?
You're asking a pederast for chrissakes.
LOL.
It's the existing guidelines
Which are fucked up.....something you should understand intimately......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Funny, calling guidelines law just shows all how fucking stupid you truly are!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
* banned to be "consistent" and "equitable"
The spike in home mortgage interest rates is just the tip of the spear as The Feckless Federal Reserve finally dials up the Rates.
These rates have killed Rogers home buying goal.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
I see VERY lo iq is still on the receiving end
ROFLMFAO !!!
30-yr fixed VA 5.209%
2.74% on 12/10/2021
Complaining again like a useless pile of shit.....complaining earlier that the Feds were not doing enough.....MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
How much pedophilia would you consider ok to be acceptable and not follow "outdated" guidelines?
James is a Groomer.
Statement of facts are not complaints.
Is the "Transitory Inflation " phase over?
Complaining again like a useless pile of shit.....complaining earlier that the Feds were not doing enough.....MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!!!!!!
Complaining? Nope. Just stating a fact. And you're too fucking stupid to realize that.
The Fed has just BEGUN to raise rates. This is not a 'one and done' thing BWAA. And this is why we're headed straight into a miserable recession fueled by 40 year record inflation.
Our economy is fucked six ways from Sunday. There's no way we pull out of this in time to save the dems in the midterms and there's no way we pull out of this by the end of Biden's term. This inflation and this recession is DURABLE.
Get comfortable BWAA. This ride is going to be long and it's going to fucking SUCK.
Max
https://twitter.com/MaxNordau/status/1510616873045749763
If a 40-year-old propositions a 13-year-old for sex, and the 13-year-old says yes, it’s still a crime because 13-year-olds are not capable of informed consent.
If a 40-year-old proposes that a 13-year-old take hormone blockers and undergo surgery to remove sex organs…
and when VERY lo iq got propositioned by anyone he just bends over and says
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
But your fucking stupid.
Hey Reverend...
you going to chastise Roger?
a) bad language
b) name calling
c) using your incorrectly
You have as much power to control things as I do... maybe Rog will listen to you if you so choose to become the "leader" of the liberals!
Why Was Ghislaine Maxwell Doing Fundraisers For Disney in 1985?
Sometimes one picture is worth a thousand boycotts
Emerald Robinson
Photos of convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell hosting an event called “Happy Family Disney Day” in 1985 have surfaced on the Internet today. It’s the ultimate PR nightmare.
It’s going to be very hard for Disney to claim that it’s not a pro-pedophile organization when it literally took donations from the world’s most infamous (still) living pedophile and “groomer to the stars.”
Creepy, isn’t it?
...
But, wait, there’s more. In 2019, Project Veritas broke a major story: a TV reporter named Amy Robach was caught on tape talking about how her network ABC News had killed her story on Jeffrey Epstein.
Who owned ABC News? Disney.
And, finally, what if I told you that Disney owned and operated a cruise line for families in the Caribbean? And what if I told you that those cruise ships offered a snorkeling trip for adults and kids to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island for years?
full article and pictures:
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/why-was-ghislaine-maxwell-doing-fundraisers?s=r
well they got their justice on the Supreme Court
The March 29 LNP highlights a quote from former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (now a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor) that repeats the same tired lie about voter fraud: “We know dead people have been voting in Pennsylvania all our lives. Now they don’t even have to leave the cemetery to vote. They can mail in their ballots” (“YouTube yanks Pa. GOP governor forum,” The Philadelphia Inquirer).
I appreciate gallows humor as much as the next person, but must we be confronted with the Big Lie yet again?
The U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr — no friend to the left — incurred then-President Donald Trump’s wrath by refusing to sign on to the notion that widespread fraud either existed or could have materially affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Every time we read of “election integrity’” being tossed around by the current Pennsylvania GOP, we would do well to remember that this is a completely made-up canard, designed, in my view, to thwart those who have difficulty getting to the polls on Election Day from having their voices heard. The Big Lie is just that, a lie.
I can appreciate the pain and heartache of having to relinquish this falsehood — even when humorously phrased — but adults require evidence to believe that something actually exists. Would that the same could be said about our would-be elected leaders.
Joel Eigen
US Postal Service Refuses to Release Investigative Report on Whistleblower Truck Driver Who Hauled 288,000 Suspicious Ballots Across State Lines Before 2020 Election
Pennsylvania Attorney Tom King says that the United States Postal Service refuses to provide the report from its investigation of the semi-trailer full of ballots that went missing before the 2020 Election in the state.
In addition, the PA Supreme Court has yet to rule on election cases involving Dominion machines used in Fulton County Pennsylvania.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-exclusive-us-postal-service-withholding-investigative-report-whistleblower-truck-driver-hauled-288000-suspicious-ballots-across-state-lines-2020-election/
Pennsylvania also had observers locked out, windows covered to hide what was going on and a ton of other shenanigans
If this was the most secure election ever whoever said that must have a 13.0 iq
tops
banana republic
Anonymous Patriot
FEEL GOOD VIDEO:
https://gab.com/0331Online/posts/108089160615298446
When they try to snatch a child in front of you at gun point
Russian Spokesman Admits to ‘Significant’ Loss of Troops
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman
has admitted a “significant” loss of Russian troops since the invasion of Ukraine began, telling Sky News their deaths are a “tragedy.”
But he denied that Russia had anything to do with the atrocities in Bucha.
google:
"View from the Kremlin:
An interview with Putin's spokeman."
It is a recorded voice interview in good English.
Biden sees zero poll bounce from Ukraine war.
Devastating
James, you spoke about the jib numbers, inacreataely.
But, my question is this.
Why do people work, mainly for money, right?
I JUST SAW THIS:
Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of using 'mobile crematoriums' in Mariupol
What is genocide and has the legal threshold been crossed in Ukraine?
____
In one of the creepiest allegations to emerge from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin is being accused by Ukrainian officials of using "mobile crematoriums" to incinerate dead civilians in a deliberate effort to cover-up alleged war crimes in the hard-hit city of Mariupol.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko made the charge this week, saying he heard eyewitness accounts of Russian soldiers driving around Mariupol with crematoriums on lorries and collecting bodies of civilians while at the same time barring the International Committee of the Red Cross from entering the city with humanitarian aid.
"The world has not seen the scale of the tragedy in Mariupol since the existence of Nazis concentration camps," Boychenko said on Tuesday. "The Russians have turned our entire city into a death camp. Unfortunately, the creepy analogy is getting more and more confirmation."
In a statement released on its Facebook account, the Mariupol City Council said, "witnesses have seen evidence Russia is operating mobile crematoria in Mariupol, burning the bodies of dead civilians and covering up evidence of war crimes."
The statement added "this is why Russia is not in a hurry" to let the ICRC and other human rights watch groups into Mariupol to rescue civilians still trapped there.
Boychenko and the city council said the portable human furnaces showed up in Mariupol after reports of alleged atrocities at the hands of Russian troops emerged in Bucha, a suburb of the capital city Kyiv. Ukrainian officials reported that at least 410 civilians were killed in Bucha, including many found with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head.
Boychenko said his once-thriving port city of 400,000 people has been completely decimated by bombing raids and estimated that around 5,000 people there have been killed.
U.S. defense officials told ABC News they have not confirmed the allegations that Russia is using mobile crematoriums to hide evidence of war crimes.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, told ABC News on Thursday that he is not surprised by the reports.
Moulton, a former Marine and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that during a 2015 fact-finding mission in Ukraine that he went on with other House members, "credible sources" informed him that the Russian Army was using mobile crematoriums on its own soldiers in the Russian occupied Crimea, Ukraine. He said the sources told him Russia was using the devices to cover up the number of its soldiers killed in Crimea.
"We heard this from a variety of sources over there, enough that I was confident in the veracity of the information," Moulton said. "None of that has changed. That is absolutely what was going on back then and I'm now hearing reports, unsurprisingly, that it's happening again."
Moulton said he has no reason to discount reports from Ukrainian officials that Russia is using the incinerators to hide new war crimes.
"The bottom line is this is nothing new for the Russian Army and Vladimir Putin," Moulton said.
This satellite image shows shows damage to an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warehouse in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 28, 2022.
In an interview with Turkish media this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged that Russian soldiers were "cleaning up" before allowing aid workers into the heavily bombed Mariupol.
Pressure has been mounting from the international community to bring war crimes against Putin and other Russian officials. The international criminal court in The Hague has launched an investigation into the atrocities allegedly committed against Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops since the invasion started on Feb. 24.
A report released Thursday by Amnesty International claims Russian forces have committed numerous war crimes throughout Ukraine. The organization said its crisis response investigators interviewed more than 20 people from villages and towns near Kyiv and many claimed to have witnessed civilian executions.
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday voted to pass a resolution to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council in response to Russian forces' alleged killings of civilians in Ukraine.
"I'm not sure who needs more proof that Russia is committing war crimes," Moulton told ABC News. "They're trying to cover their tracks."
Russia has denied committing atrocities and targeting civilians.
GOP Attacks Make it Easier for Democrats to Raise Money
Greg Sargent:
“The Democratic Governors Association, which oversees Democratic gubernatorial campaigns, is set to announce that it raised over $23 million in the first quarter of 2022, a record, people with knowledge of the numbers tell us. Over 30 percent of the donors were new givers.
“Several people who raise money for DGA told us GOP attacks on democracy on the state level, and the idea that Democratic governors might represent a firewall against them, has made it easier to haul in funds for Democratic gubernatorial candidates.”
link at politicalwire.com
The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
White House condemns Alabama law that prevents genital mutilation of minors, saying the state has been "put on notice."
Sean Davis
If you’re mad that you can’t castrate a child, you’re probably a groomer.
and a democrat
link at twitter.com
Law*Crime
Just as Trump appeared to be in his greatest legal peril, Bragg’s criminal investigation seemed to unravel. Two of the district attorney’s leaders noisily left just weeks before April, the month the special grand jury investigating him would see its term expire.
Bragg argued he was not bound by that clock.
“As anyone who has worked on criminal cases in New York knows, New York County has grand juries sitting all the time,” he wrote. “There is no magic at all to any previously reported dates. The team working on this investigation is comprised of dedicated, experienced career prosecutors. They are going through documents, interviewing witnesses, and exploring evidence not previously explored.”
The statement did not explain why Bragg decided to speak publicly at this time, but the Democratic district attorney has faced stinging criticism about his reported reluctance to prosecute Trump in a deep-blue Manhattan Island.
“I Pledge This Office Will Publicly State the Conclusion”
Bragg said that his Chief of the Investigation Division Susan Hoffinger now leads the Trump investigation, and he touted his own background as a former state and federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
“I went wherever the facts took me, prosecuting two mayors, a city council member, an FBI agent, a former Senate Majority Leader, a District Attorney, and business executives,” Bragg said, adding that he also served as chief deputy inside the attorney general’s office when it shut down the Trump Foundation.
Grand jury matters are secret as a matter of law, and Bragg said that he cannot satisfy public appetite for more disclosure.
“Doing so can create problems for cases and investigations, the individuals involved, and the criminal justice system,” he said. “It can affect witness testimony or even lead to witness tampering. Unauthorized public disclosures also potentially can affect a defendant’s right to a fair trial.”
“While the law constrains me from commenting further at this time, I pledge that the Office will publicly state the conclusion of our investigation – whether we conclude our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment,” he added.
When reports emerged indicating that Bragg was reluctant to move forward with the Trump case, some legal experts noted that convicting him of tax fraud would not be easy. In the civil probe, AG James alleged that Trump may have used “fraudulent or misleading” asset valuations on six properties to obtain tax benefits, and his former accounting firm no longer stands by them. Some of the alleged discrepancies appear startling: The former president inflated the size of his Trump Tower triplex by three times and valued rent-stabilized units more than 66-fold, the attorney general has said.
Establishing criminal intent, however, could prove trickier: Weisselberg is known to be staunchly loyal to the former president, and he has fought to dismiss the case rather than cooperate with the government. Trump famously does not send text messages or emails, leaving little in the way of a paper trail in a case that would largely hinge upon criminal intent. That would leave Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen as the key witness against his former boss, and a seasoned defense attorney would likely bring up Cohen’s conviction for lying under oath during cross examination, among others.
Perhaps nodding to such critics, Bragg said that prosecutors cannot only bring cases that are “slam dunks.”
“To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason – namely that justice demands it,” he wrote.
For a long time I thought that his shadie business practices would get him convicted as a felonious tax evader..
thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile
So basically the Biden admin made up the chemical weapons “intel” on Russia that if you doubted you were labeled a Putin apologist.
link at twitter.com
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/manhattan-da-breaks-silence-after-sudden-resignations-of-prosecutors-on-trump-investigation/
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Bloomberg Economics expects Russia will earn about $320 billion from energy exports this year, up by more than a third from 2021.
link at twitter.com
Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly
NEW: Jan. 6 defendant Shawn Witzemann's plea agreement hearing, which had been scheduled for next week, has been converted to a status conference. Looks like the plea deal is off.
This follows Judge Trevor McFadden's decision yesterday to acquit Jan. 6 defendant Matthew Martin.
the "insurrection" narrative is crumbling
link at twitter.com
I have carefully planning this for decades. They finally figured it out, but I will finally fix it.
Obama's bloodless coup
By Lynne Lechter
Isn't the Democrat Party the party of empathy, love, and inclusion? Oh, wait — that's what they say, not exactly what they do.
No putsch here. Oh, no — this Svengali is way too cool to actually show his fangs as he destroys his former vice president, Joe Biden. Forgetting also that Joe Biden was the man who made him. Or perhaps that's it! Obama just can't forgive Joe's racist past and assumed white privilege.
But have you ever watched any politician, or ex-president, no less, more narcissistic than Obama's televised bloodless coup at the White House? Clearly, the overthrow was devised, written, directed, and implemented by the former president. His sycophants couldn't betray and abandon President Biden fast enough.
Obviously, the Democrats don't believe that hapless Joe is destroying America fast enough. And clearly, Obama has messaged that being a puppet master is not a proper second act for a past president of his Machiavellian genius. No more behind-the-scenes act for him.
Twitter video screen grab.
Our first lady, Jill Biden, is the spouse from the dark side. She allowed this circus sideshow to travel, succeed, and expose her husband's weakness as he allowed the extreme left to accelerate America's decline. Just where was she as her husband was deliberately humiliated, abandoned, and destroyed?
Joe Biden is a fairly mean girl himself. And one covered in lies and corruption. But Obama accomplished the impossible. He created sympathy for Biden.
And just who was the self-certified genius, with a double-digit I.Q., who cooked up this nightmare? Watching the spectacle replayed on nighttime news, one was transported to high school. There was Obama — the true mean girl — and Harris, the tittering girl who only wanted the prom king.
While Ukraine suffers unspeakable horrors, and Putin plots his next geographic victim, as North Korea rattles its nuclear threats, as America's inner cities continue to decline with crime on every level rising, along with overt virulent anti-Semitism, with inflation out of control, an invasion at the border, and an energy policy that is truly insane, we are governed by sadists and sycophants too devoid of decency, humility, street sense, and vision to see the cause and effect of their destructive behavior.
The primaries are almost upon us, and it is utterly mandatory that we select strong Republican candidates. The candidates who have the best chance of winning in November. It is time to accept a Republican with whom one agrees some of the time, over a Democrat with whom one agrees none of the time.
Obama's ugly display of contempt at the White House is uncharted territory. Who knows what the Democrats are plotting?
Rich Lowry is a lifetime conservative activist.
Republican support for Trump was less a sign of the ascendency of a George McGovern-style “come home, America” isolationism in the GOP than of a Jacksonian tendency — less concerned with spreading our ideals, but clear-eyed about our enemies.
At the end of the day, the neo-isolationists are fighting the last war. They warn of a return of the belligerent mood that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. But if 20 years ago the U.S. launched a large-scale military intervention without adequately calculating the risks or understanding the political and culture contours of the country it would occupy, it is the Russians, not the Ukrainians, Europeans or us, who are now replicating that mistake.
Giving the Ukrainians Javelin missiles is a far cry from taking over a large Middle Eastern country with no clear exit plan.
The restrainers want to believe that we are on the verge of a dangerous escalation in Ukraine. While there have been prominent voices who have called for a no-fly zone that would constitute such an escalation, Biden has been resolutely against it and the balance of opinion on left and right is opposed as well. Absent a truly game-changing event on the ground in Ukraine, it is not a viable option.
What we are talking about, realistically, is ramping up material support to the Ukrainians and further sanctions on the Russians. Both should be undertaken with care, but neither is tantamount to starting World War III.
As Jacob Heilbrunn noted in a dispatch from an “emergency” conference held by restrainers in Washington last week, their preferred policy approach is basically to allow the Ukrainians to get conquered by the Russians as soon as possible for their own good — that way, the Russians will stop bombing their cities to rubble.
The citizens of Bucha might find this a very odd form of solicitude. One can only imagine what the restrainer advice would have been to the Greek city-states resisting the advances of the Persian Empire in the 5th century B.C., to the Carthaginians during the Punic Wars, or to the Russians during Napoleon’s invasion.
For people who style themselves realists, this point of view displays a profound lack of awareness of how motivated people feel, even when badly outgunned, to defend their culture and their homeland when an invader seeks to dismember their territory or impose foreign rule.
It also implicitly asks the American public to ignore who is the aggressor and who is the defender, ignore who hates the West and who wants to join it, ignore who is doing the indiscriminate shelling and who is getting shelled, ignore who is led by a democratically elected leader of inspiring bravery and who is led by a venal autocrat who poisons and jails his opponents, ignore who gave up their nukes decades ago and who is making nuclear threats, and ignore, by the way, who has been winning against the odds and whose vaunted military machine has been repeatedly embarrassed.
That’s much too much to ask, and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that there have been so few Republican takers.
Don't be an isolationist because Putin would remain free to renew the Soviet Union
Obama sharing a glass of wine with Putin while President.
Instant classic.
Let me recommend you this application to watch all sports: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dofusports.nfl.nba.ncaaf.mlb.nhl
Biden lied, Russia did not plan on using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Russian military has committed war crimes in Ukraine, Amnesty International report claims
Yahoo News
New testimony published Thursday by the human rights group Amnesty International details various accounts of Russian forces “extrajudicially” executing Ukrainian civilians and repeatedly engaging in “unlawful violence” across the Kyiv region of Ukraine, including the city of Bucha — where evidence of torture and beheadings has been uncovered in recent weeks.
The organization said it has obtained evidence of at least four separate unprovoked deadly attacks in different Ukrainian cities that it hopes can be used to prosecute Russia for war crimes.
In one instance, a 46-year-old woman who lived with her husband, 10-year-old daughter and mother-in-law in the village of Bohdanivka described how Russian soldiers forced their way into their home in early March and asked her husband if he had any cigarettes. When the husband said he did not, a soldier shot him in the arm. Another proceeded to shoot the man in the head. According to the man’s wife, he didn’t die immediately. Instead, she and her family were forced to watch as he endured a slow death.
Another harrowing story included in Amnesty International’s report involved an 18-year-old woman in the village of Vorzel who had been staying with her parents in the cellar of their home for more than a week when Russian forces arrived in the town in early March. Her parents had just left the cellar to retrieve food when the teen heard gunshots. It was only after Russian tanks passed that she peeked over a neighbor’s fence to see her parents lying in the street face down, their bodies marked with bullet holes.
“Testimonies show that unarmed civilians in Ukraine are being killed in their homes and streets in acts of unspeakable cruelty and shocking brutality,” Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, said in the report, adding, “The intentional killing of civilians is a human rights violation and a war crime. These deaths must be thoroughly investigated, and those responsible must be prosecuted, including up the chain of command.”
According to the United Nations, the willful killing and/or torture of civilians constitutes a war crime. But the punishment for such acts remains unclear.
While calls for penalties against Russia for alleged war crimes have intensified in recent weeks, there is growing dispute about whether punishment could be enforced. Some have argued that seeking penalties for alleged war crimes could have the effect of making Russian President Vladimir Putin even more dangerous.
“It is also possible that international efforts seeking to hold leaders responsible for human rights crimes could backfire,” Joseph Wright, a political science professor at Penn State, and Abel Escribà-Folch, a political and social science professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, wrote for the Conversation. “Leaders who face the prospect of punishment once a conflict ends have an incentive to prolong the fighting. And a leader who presides over atrocities has a strong incentive to avoid leaving office, even if that means using increasingly brutal methods — and committing more atrocities — to remain in power.”
Even as financial sanctions against Russia continue to mount, with President Biden on Wednesday implementing new penalties, critics question whether they have succeeded in deterring Putin from continuing his war.
“As someone who was there, it doesn't seem that sanctions, at least right now, are having any impact on the Russian invasion,” Mills said.
An arm and a shoe in a mass grave in Bucha on Thursday.
On Thursday, Der Spiegel magazine reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence service had intercepted radio conversations between Russian soldiers talking about killing civilians in Bucha. In at least two separate conversations, Russian troops spoke of interrogating Ukrainian soldiers and civilians before shooting them, according to the Washington Post.
The growing evidence of Russian war crimes demands that the world take action, Amnesty International said.
“In addition to justice, we want policymakers in all countries to take war crimes seriously,” Mills said. “We want the world to know what is happening. … That's obviously our goal.”
8:07 What an incredible bunch of bosh.
Oh. I see...
Rat (rrb) posted it.
Finland's NATO application could be imminent
Zachary Basu
Axios on facebook
Axios on twitter
Axios on linkedin
Axios on email
Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Photos: Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images
Public support and political momentum for Finland joining NATO has reached an all-time high as a result of the war in Ukraine, raising the very real possibility that the alliance's borders with Russia could extend by more than 830 miles in a matter of months.
Why it matters: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced a reckoning in European capitals over defense spending and security policy. If Finland joins NATO, it would represent the biggest transformation of Europe's security architecture in years.
State of play: The Finnish government is expected to submit a report to parliament on the changed security environment by the end of this month, kicking off a debate and eventually a recommendation on applying for NATO membership.
60% of Finns now support joining NATO, according to a survey conducted last month — a 34-point jump from last fall, and the highest level since polling on the issue began in 1998.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this week he expects "all 30 allies to welcome" both Sweden and Finland to the alliance if the Nordic neighbors decide to apply, suggesting the process for membership would move rapidly.
What they're saying: "I think Finns at the moment are driven by what I call rational fear," former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb told Axios in an interview.
"You have to balance between realism and idealism. Realism is that you have a strong standing military as we have, and idealism is to try to cooperate with a big neighbor," Stubb said."There has been this bona fide attempt to forge a functioning relationship with Russia, and now that people see that that is impossible — especially under [President Vladimir] Putin — they've changed their opinion."
Driving the news: Stubb told Axios he believes the government could decide to apply to NATO as soon as May — a stunning timeline given where public opinion was only a few months ago.
"I'm not saying it'll happen on Russian Victory Day (May 9), but it's coming pretty soon," Stubb quipped.Some Finnish lawmakers are pushing for an application before the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June.
The big picture: Finland maintains a formidable military with 280,000 troops and 900,000 reservists, and has been deepening its cooperation with NATO for years.
Incorporating Finland into NATO would bring important capabilities and "strategic depth" to the "particularly exposed" Baltic region, says Ian Lesser, executive director of the German Marshall Fund's Brussels office."Finland is a tough nut to crack. It would be and has been in the past, and Russians of course remember that," Lesser added, referring to the 1939-1940 Winter War in which invading Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties
Trump deflects blame for Jan. 6 silence, says he wanted to march to Capitol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/07/trump-interview-jan6/
He's not sane.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
8:07 What an incredible bunch of bosh.
Oh. I see...
Rat (rrb) posted it.
Wrong again, oh rapist of pre-pubescent boys.
That would be the alky's handiwork with one of him many cowardly aliases.
Wrong again, oh rapist of pre-pubescent boys.
That would be the alky's handiwork with one of him many cowardly aliases.
We've got the trifecta of ignorance here
VERY lo iq, the "pastor" and alky
and they can't even figure out who is who
ROFLMFAO !!!
"VERY lo iq, the "pastor" and alky"
Aka The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
GROOMER James,
"
The growing evidence of Russian war crimes demands that the world take action, Amnesty International said."
what Military roll do you see for the US?
NEWEST REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE TO WOMEN:
EVEN IF YOU BECOME PREGNANT BY BEING RAPED, YOU CANNOT HAVE AN ABORTION.
Rape Exceptions to Abortion Bans Fall Out of Favor
“As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest,”
the Los Angeles Times reports.
“It was a veneer of acceptance embraced by every GOP president from Reagan to Trump, and even the strongest abortion foes, that a woman should not be required to carry a rapist’s child. Not anymore.”
LINK at politicalwire.com.
Post a Comment