I have seen liberal after liberal attack state laws that ban CRT and other social political issues from being "taught" in school as "against free speech"
Liberals pretend to be against Government "censorship" of information when it comes to preventing teachers from teaching gender and sexual issues to 6 year olds. But when it comes to the Federal Government "literally" putting together a Government agency that is set up to determine what is and is not "misinformation" I am sure they are perfectly in favor of it.
After all the person leading the board is someone who is openly against free speech and is one of those who labeled the NY Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop to be a planted Russian disinformation. Nothing like putting a proven "fraud" as the head of an agency that is supposed to control our speech.
But liberals "will" be perfectly acceptable of a Government agency that will work hard to be more like Twitter was and less like Twitter will be. There is no question that this agency will be about political censorship and controlling anti-Biden and anti-Government speech. This is where countries like Nazi Germany and Stalin's or Putin's Russia go right before they becomes a dictatorship.
The Biden Administration states (from what we can tell very dishonestly) that this is something that was started in the previous Administration. But of course, like all things in attacking Trump, there is no actual evidence that such a board was announced, reported, funded, or anything of the sorts under Trump.
But had Donald Trump "actually" had the audacity to put together a Government agency to control the media reporting on his family and any negative reporting about his policies or any disagreement with the "experts" he has chosen on the subjects of the time, I am pretty sure the left would have gone bonkers. But when it is Biden doing the same thing...
Again... liberal cry about free speech... but what they really want is full control of speech. Their endless hypocrisy allows this to seem logical for them.
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The news media are working overtime trying to paint Gov Decantis as some sort of neocon cross between Ted Cruz, president Trump and Paul Wolfowitz. It's getting ridiculous.
Don't forget Biden already has sent his stormtroopers out to seize Project Veritas' computers and phones a year after Biden's niece had her diary stolen. Imagine if anyone else had done something like that. And don't forget Obama had Rosen spied on.
Hell Trump was spied on.
As were people like Stone who was descended on with fully armed frogmen and CNN cameras
We are probably one supreme court justice away from a total dictatorship.
and who knows what some threats justices are under.
Get them out of DC
We are now being run by a 96% controlled "party"
and don't you dare step out of line and be in the 4% around DC
We actually need to have separation of powers and separation of proximately from DC
Seriously this is the best Biden has.
Nina Jankowicz Called Herself the ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ on Tik-Tok"
The Three Socialist Stooges are dodging this debate.
Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan. Now Mr. Carlson’s on-air technique — gleefully courting blowback, then fashioning himself as his aggrieved viewers’ partner in victimhood — has helped position him, as much as anyone, to inherit the populist movement that grew up around Mr. Trump. At a moment when white backlash is the jet fuel of a Republican Party striving to return to power in Washington, he has become the pre-eminent champion of Americans who feel most threatened by the rising power of Black and brown citizens. To channel their fear into ratings, Mr. Carlson has adopted the rhetorical tropes and exotic fixations of white nationalists, who have watched gleefully from the fringes of public life as he popularizes their ideas. Mr. Carlson sometimes refers to “legacy Americans,” a dog-whistle term that, before he began using it on his show last fall, appeared almost exclusively in white nationalist outlets like The Daily Stormer, The New York Times found. He takes up story lines otherwise relegated to far-right or nativist websites like VDare: “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has featured a string of segments about the gruesome murders of white farmers in South Africa, which Mr. Carlson suggested were part of a concerted campaign by that country’s Black-led government. Last April, Mr. Carlson set off yet another uproar, borrowing from a racist conspiracy theory known as “the great replacement” to argue that Democrats were deliberately importing “more obedient voters from the third world” to “replace” the current electorate and keep themselves in power. But a Times analysis of 1,150 episodes of his show found that it was far from the first time Mr. Carlson had done so.
“Tucker is ultimately on our side,” Scott Greer, a former deputy editor at the Carlson-founded Daily Caller, who cut ties with the publication in 2018 after his past writings for a white nationalist site were unearthed, said on his podcast last spring. “He can get millions and millions of boomers to nod along with talking points that would have only been seen on VDare or American Renaissance a few years ago.”
It is purely designed to keep people from thinking for themselves.
DeSantis doesn’t have an accurate idea of what critical race theory is and argue that his motives are to suppress an accurate account of Black history.
You actually believe that teaching the complete history of our nation is propaganda. They will repress information about the collapse of the reconciliation that lead to segregation and voting suppression. We didn't reverse it until the 60s when the voting rights act, and legal segregation in cities like New York , where Trump’s father owned segregated apartment buildings.
It is simply a white supremacist philosophy. Carefully crafted to avoid being overturned by the Supreme Court.
People who know what happened in the past, generally support voting rights laws and other laws like Obamacare.
You really want to return to the 50s world.
Critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism functioned in America’s past.
With the exception of the Dixycrats of the southern states, member of both parties voted for the Civil rights law and voting rights act.
You really believe that you are being replaced with people of color and sexual orientation.
The Dow Jones has an interesting article.
As Elon Musk’s crusade against Twitter Inc. escalated from a war of words to a full-on takeover, he was egged on behind the scenes by a mix of voices—from fellow billionaires to internet trolls—with their own beefs with the social-media platform.
In Mr. Musk, a serial entrepreneur with a hard Twitter habit, these men found a vessel for pent-up animosity over the company’s content moderation and management. One of them had a very personal stake: Twitter’s co-founder and former Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, who resigned last year under pressure from his board, was whispering in Mr. Musk’s ear that Twitter should be a private company, people familiar with the matter say.
Now that Twitter’s board has accepted Mr. Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer, the Tesla Inc. CEO and world’s richest person is positioned to act on years of grievance and mold the platform in his own maverick image.
Mr. Musk declined to be interviewed, and it isn’t clear whether he took any of their advice to heart or merely followed his own gut. Likewise, he has been cagey about his plans for the platform should he complete the deal, beyond his oft-stated feelings that speech on Twitter—which he has said he views as the town square of the digital age—should be unfettered so long as it doesn’t violate the law.
People who have spoken to him and his team recently say Mr. Musk remains dismayed that former President Donald Trump is still barred from the platform.
If Mr. Musk, as he has signaled, moves toward a true Twitter free-for-all, it could unleash other even more schismatic personalities. The right-wing provocateur Charles C. Johnson, banned in 2015 for tweets asking for fundraising for “taking out” a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, has already seized on the chance for clemency.
When Mr. Johnson saw Mr. Musk’s offer to buy the company, he texted Mr. Musk’s point man on the deal, Jared Birchall, head of the billionaire’s personal investment office.
“When do I get my Twitter account back?” Mr. Johnson asked.
“Hopefully soon,” Mr. Birchall responded.
In an interview, Mr. Johnson said that, while he does want to regain his account, he doesn’t plan to return to regular tweeting, noting: “I’m over Twitter.”
Leaning libertarian
Before and during Mr. Musk’s breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian-leaning activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved. This group includes the so-called PayPal mafia—former executives at the online payments company who include Mr. Musk, the investor Peter Thiel and entrepreneur David Sacks—as well as ancillary figures like the venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor who once served on the auto maker’s board; and Mr. Musk’s brother, Kimbal, a Tesla board member, according to people familiar with the matter.
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My view on libertarianism is very dangerous. It would have zero tolerance for regulations of any kind..
It would lead back to the 18th century before even TDR.
One more important piece.
Ron DeSantis is the governor of Florida, a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and quite possibly the most dangerous figure in American politics.
While it’s hard to imagine any politician wresting that title away from Donald Trump, DeSantis brings something to the table that Trump lacks — his ability to translate political vindictiveness, cruelty and demagoguery into policy results.
While it’s hard to imagine any politician wresting that title away from Donald Trump, DeSantis brings something to the table that Trump lacks. HE IS VERY INTELLIGENT BUT
Over the past several weeks in Florida, DeSantis has shown what a politician unmoored from fundamental democratic principles — and intent on waging political warfare — can achieve. It could become a model for Republicans across the country, expanding Trumpism into alarming new territory.
DeSantis’ latest move this week was signing legislation that would create a new security office to investigate allegations of voter fraud. The bill would also levy significant new penalties for violations of state election law, including fines of up to $50,000 for failing to submit voter registration forms within two weeks.
Never mind that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Florida, or that a judge recently struck down many of the provisions of DeSantis’ earlier “election fraud” law. What we are left with is a series of bills based on a broader Republican pattern of voter intimidation against voters likely to support Democratic candidates.
Your view is that of an uniformed dumbass.
"My view on libertarianism is very dangerous. It would have zero tolerance for regulations of any kind.."
Wholly uninformed.
Alky this is what happens in America when liberals are in charge
We've really lost something with today's impersonal and bland owner's manuals. They don't tell you how to do the actual maintenance work anymore. They want the dealer's technicians to do that, not you. In the old days, as an owner, you were a sort of partner with the manufacturer. Maybe the carmakers think we're really stupid and if they suggest we do some work ourselves, we'll not only do it wrong, we'll do damage and then try to sue them.
It was very different years ago when the manufacturers counted on owners to be part of the maintenance crew. Ford's reference book was designed to fit in the glove compartment, so you'd always have it with you. "This book is written in everyday language," it states on the first page. "We hope that you will take the few minutes required to read it, which, after all, has been written for you."…
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The typical new-car manual has such important information as, "Warning! Do not drink the liquid contents of the battery." Or, "Caution! Always check with dealer before putting air in the tires." Checking the tire pressure is given the same amount of importance as if you were taking off a cylinder head. I've even seen one manual that instructs the owner to increase tire pressure by 2 psi if there's one suitcase in the trunk.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT have yet to address the Thread Topic.
The actual Webster definition
libertarianism:a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens."
Sound right., We need more of it. Less Biden Socialism.
I've even seen one manual that instructs the owner to increase tire pressure by 2 psi if there's one suitcase in the trunk.
I think the libs want to know and are to afraid to ask:
What should you do if there's 2 suitcases in the trunk ?
Should this be for every tire or just the one closest to the suitcase?
Should they use organic air ?
Will this contribute to climate change ?
Stop spamming the damn board Roger
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
It is purely designed to keep people from thinking for themselves.
Says the drunk locked down in a looney bin who sits here all day posting plagiarisms because...
...he cannot think for himself.
Nice op/ed plagiarized from MSDNC alky.
It seems that every single allegation they lob against DeSantis is merely a projection of what the left is currently engaged in today.
And did you think that mentally ill teachers grooming kindergartners to be trans wouldn't be met with any push back? What's next from you clowns? Level 3 sex offenders running day care centers?
And a Ministry of Truth? Really?
It doesn't get more authoritarian than that.
Fear DeSantis alky. And Tucker Carlson too. You guys have finally gone too far. And November is coming...
Private dinner
Over dinner in a private dining room at a local restaurant, Mr. Musk didn’t show much interest in talking about Twitter, one attendee said. Instead, he asked those at the table to share their theories about the meaning of life.
The next day, Mr. Musk disclosed that he was seeking to take over Twitter.
Since then, further requests have publicly rolled Mr. Musk’s way, including from the halls of Congress. Sen. Josh Hawley, (R., Mo.), this week congratulated Mr. Musk on his catch and urged him to investigate the company’s decisions to suspend users and to downrank stories about a laptop belonging to President Biden’s son. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R., Ga.), whose personal account was banned for repeating Covid-19 misinformation, said she would apply for reinstatement.
Mr. Musk is now engaged in a crusade about a reinstatement of a different sort. On Wednesday, he wrote, presumably in jest, that he would buy the Coca-Cola Co. in order to restore cocaine to its formula. On Thursday, he repeated the joke, tagging Coke’s official account this time.
MyballsApril 30, 2022 at 12:40 PM
Stop spamming the damn board Roger"
He can't stop, he have zero self control.
He post this shit on his Twitter and Facebook too
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-shadow-crew-who-encouraged-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-tesla-jack-dorsey-11651260119?st=vrtyoslyxr929za&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Roger , you changed your view.
First CRT, was not in US Schools.
Now you say it is.
The rapidly growing non-profit is carrying the most radical elements of modern US conservatism to the mainstream.
Christopher Rhodes
Lecturer in Government at Harvard University and lecturer in Social Sciences at Boston University.
Published On 27 Apr 202227 Apr 2022
Protesters hold placards at a Moms for Liberty rally at the Pennsylvania State Capitol [Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]
It sounds like the plot of an over-the-top action movie or a political satire: mothers joining local school boards across the country are actually part of a radical network infiltrating government from the bottom up, determined to take power, punish their opponents and eventually rule with an iron fist. But this seemingly outlandish plot is actually a disturbingly accurate description of Moms for Liberty, a rapidly growing non-profit that has its members pressuring local school boards to ban LGBTQ and race-related materials, remove COVID-19 restrictions and adopt other conservative measures.
In a political climate marked by violent insurrection, unhinged conspiracy theories, voting restrictions, anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ censorship and denials of basic history and science, a group of mothers attending local school board meetings seems like the least threatening thing coming out of the current conservative movement. Yet the veneer of respectability and benevolence that comes with the image of “concerned mothers” is in fact a thin veil for a broader and more sinister movement. Moms for Liberty is an offshoot of the far-right movement that has come to dominate modern American conservatism, with its tactics representing a dangerous shift in strategy for this movement.
With a name that sounds righteous to the group’s supporters and Orwellian to its detractors, Moms for Liberty’s beginnings were fairly innocuous. The organisation was founded by Tina Descovich, Tiffany Justice and Bridget Ziegler – three women who had been members of local school boards in Florida. Initially, the group focused on opposing mask mandates in Florida public schools. But as membership grew in Florida and spread to other states, Moms for Liberty quickly grew into a federation of local chapters throughout the country fighting a wider array of culture wars-inspired issues. The group has pushed for bans on critical race theory – prohibitions that have been broadly interpreted to essentially ban discussions of racism – and LGBTQ-friendly content.
The group’s leaders proudly tout their close relationship with the Republican Party. Rising stars of the party – including governors Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, and Ron DeSantis of Florida – make a show of their close ties with and the virulent support they receive from Moms for Liberty. The group has launched several political action committees and has indicated a desire to move beyond school board elections to endorsing political candidates more generally.
As Moms for Liberty expands in membership and influence, its agenda has become more comprehensive and aggressive as well. Members of the group aggressively advocated for the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill that passed in Florida. A quick perusal of the group’s official Twitter accounts shows it promising to “fight against forced masking” in schools, harkening back to the organisation’s original rally cry. But the page is also filled with posts or retweets condemning “transgender indoctrination,” linking LGBTQ-inclusivity to paedophilia and calling for jail time and fines for teachers who teach critical race theory, social-emotional learning and other concepts that have become distorted and demonised by the right.
Indeed, as mask mandates – the group’s original mobilising issue – have largely been dropped, racial and LGBTQ issues are increasingly becoming the group’s main areas of focus. A new tactic, for example, has been to equate gender and sexuality-related content in schools with “grooming” children for sexual abuse and exploitation. Co-founder Justice dismisses criticism of such inflammatory language. “If anyone says that they don’t like that label,” she says of the unsubstantiated grooming accusations, “then I say stop messing with our kids.”
Such increasingly radical stances place Moms for Liberty alongside other right-wing movements that were once fringe but have become mainstream within the Republican Party. In a sign of synergy between these various extreme-right movements, one prominent Moms for Liberty member who was appointed by DeSantis to the Florida Board of Education has demonstrated support for the QAnon conspiracy theory and the Capitol Hill insurrection.
one prominent Moms for Liberty member who was appointed by DeSantis to the Florida Board of Education has demonstrated support for the QAnon conspiracy theory and the Capitol Hill insurrection.
DeSantis is the most dangerous politician ever. Even worse than Trump
Even he is not worried about it
The Bright Side of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
April 30, 2022 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
“Some Twitter power users, including journalists and politicians, are apoplectic about Elon Musk’s planned takeover of the platform. But there are plenty of optimists, in tech and among the general public, who believe Musk could make Twitter better,” Axios reports.
“With the deal expected to close later this year, what happens on the platform and to the platform will likely shape both the 2022 midterms and the next presidential election.”
New York Times: How Twitter’s board went from fighting Elon Musk to accepting him
My own words ballsless..
It is purely designed to keep people from thinking for themselves. It is not being taught!
DeSantis doesn’t have an accurate idea of what critical race theory is and argue that his motives are to suppress an accurate account of Black history.
You actually believe that teaching the complete history of our nation is propaganda. They will repress information about the collapse of the reconciliation that lead to segregation and voting suppression. We didn't reverse it until the 60s when the voting rights act, and legal segregation in cities like New York , where Trump’s father owned segregated apartment buildings.
It is simply a white supremacist philosophy. Carefully crafted to avoid being overturned by the Supreme Court.
People who know what happened in the past, generally support voting rights laws and other laws like Obamacare.
You really want to return to the 50s world.
Critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism functioned in America’s past.
With the exception of the Dixycrats of the southern states, member of both parties voted for the Civil rights law and voting rights act.
You really believe that you are being replaced with people of color and sexual orientation.
CRT is not being taught. It is a code word to trigger your heart
Within the GOP, Donald Trump has supplanted the legacies of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln. 2022 is less about advocating limited government and more about culture wars, hating the libs and denouncing the war in Ukraine and cheering for Putin. rrb and even ch
My ball less wonder posted
The news media are working overtime trying to paint Gov Decants as some sort of neocon cross between
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! He is just trolling his core with topics that make assholes like the trump slurpers cum all over themselves!!!!!! Funny how you right wing assholes were all for free speech when it corporations were donating massive amounts of money and now think corps have no right to speak out against stupid policy.....your hypocrisy is boundless!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
Spot on opinion about the GOP foibles with the big lie.....something I have been saying about this for weeks with the current war between the nut job righties and normal members coming to a head!!!! A great show with the D's being the big winners!!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/30/sundaytake-midterms-2020-gop/
2020 lives on in Wisconsin and Michigan. Will it hurt the GOP this fall?
By Dan Balz
Michigan GOP divided over election falsehoods
I don't recognize this Republican Party 🤔
Republicans are weaponizing antitrust in culture war — Democrats shouldn’t let them
BY ADAM KOVACEVICH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 04/28/22 01:00 PM ET
Fox News host Laura Ingraham recently devoted a segment of her show to push the matter, stating that companies need to “stay in their lane,” specifically calling on the antitrust division of a future Republican Department of Justice to look into which American companies need to be “broken up” for opposing anti-LGBTQ laws.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) recently said in a now-deleted tweet that “antitrust is the best way to smash woke capital.”
In short, it seems Republicans are now transparently piggybacking on Democratic antitrust proposals as a means of punishing companies which speak out against discrimination. For the GOP, these statements betray a clear lack of understanding of how antitrust policy is an economic tool meant to increase competition for the benefit of consumers. For Democrats, it’s a dangerous statement of legislative intent that should be disavowed.
rrb will love it 😀
Major injuries and deaths from trying to cross the wall at the Mexican border surged after the Trump administration built a bigger structure, a new report shows.
Driving the news: The number of patients arriving at the UC San Diego Medical Center's trauma ward increased more than five times since 2019 — when the border wall's height was raised to 30-feet along much of the border in California, — compared with the period before, UC San Diego physicians found.
Deaths resulting from falls rose from zero before 2019 to 16 after, according to the research letter published in the medical journal JAMA Surgery.There were 67 fall admissions from the border wall between 2016 and 2018, compared with 375 between 2019 and 2021."Most of these patients had significant brain and facial injuries or complex fractures of the extremities or spine, with many requiring intensive care and staged operative reconstructions," the physicians wrote.Most of the patients lacked health insurance and were ineligible for rehabilitation programs or physical therapy, "further lengthening prolonged hospital stays," the physicians wrote.
The big picture: Former President Trump vowed when he took office to build a wall along the southern border.
His endeavor resulted in new 30-foot tall barriers, with miles of double-layer steel fencing. The administration built larger barriers in the San Diego area than anywhere else along the border, the Washington Post reports.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they do not tally deaths and injuries resulting from such falls, the Post notes.
What they're saying: "Once you go over 20 feet, and up to 30 feet, the chance of severe injury and death are higher," Jay Doucet, chief of the trauma division at UC San Diego Health, told the Post.
"We’re seeing injuries we didn’t see before: pelvic fractures, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries and a lot of open fractures when the bone comes through the skin."
The bottom line is that the Republicans don't have an agenda, except to win power and the cultural war they are using to reverse the last decades changes. Voting Rights and underneath it is a plan to reduce turnout, to keep white people in power.
Electing the first African American President has triggered it. Remember when Republicans suppoted civil rights and anti discrimination rights?
They are gone 😢
You guys believe that she is a scam artist.
Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe and the US as the Disinformation Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Bloomsbury/IBTauris), a New Statesman 2020 book of the year. Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and others. She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions and is a frequent television and radio commentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs.
Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Information Resilience and Zinc Network's Open Information Partnership, and regularly briefs and advises Members of Congress and representatives of allied governments. She received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
Right wing nutcase
FEATURED
Biden’s Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz: Online Mockery of Kamala Harris a Threat to Democracy and National Security
ByAmerican Faith
11 hours ago
President Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice President Kamala Harris and other women in public life was a threat to national security.
“Platforms and governments aren’t doing enough,” she wrote on social media. “It’s time to act. Our national security and democracy are at stake.”
The Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the new Disinformation Governance Board led by Jankowicz on Wednesday.
Jankowicz argued that Congress should create new laws to block mockery of women online, citing the volume of “gender disinformation” used to criticize Harris.
school went off without warning on Wednesday. “We were completely taken aback,” she said. Unless the gas starts flowing again soon, she said, “we’ll have no choice but to close our doors until it does”.
The school, in Mieścisko, a village in western Poland, was in one of about 10 administrative districts in which homes, health centres, kindergartens and local businesses – as well as thousands of residents – lost heating after Moscow halted gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria at 8am on Wednesday. The affected area was relatively small, and unusual in that it was solely dependent on Russia for gas. But it was seen as an indication as to what could happen on a wider scale if Moscow turned off supplies to countries far more dependent than Poland which, while it gets 40% of its gas needs from Russia, only uses gas for 9% of its energy requirements.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, complained of a “direct attack”, accusing Russia of “putting a pistol to our heads”, but said Poland would “manage so that the Polish people will not feel any change”, and urging Poles in a televised address: “please don’t be afraid”.
How worried should Europe be as Russia starts cutting off gas supplies?
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But in Mieścisko at least, the fear was palpable. The phones of the mayor’s office were ringing constantly as residents called in to say they had been, as one local woman told Polish TV, “shut down by Putin”.
The Kremlin said it had halted supplies because of Warsaw and Sofia’s failure to respond to its demand to pay for gas in roubles. The two EU members, which are among the most vocal supporters of a swift withdrawal from Russian gas, said they would not give in to blackmail and that the provocative step was one they could handle.
Conservatives are off the rail 🚈
conservatives have been banned by Twitter. They were de-platformed for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election. Twitter and Facebook quickly became the faces of un-American Big Tech censorship and indoctrinating users. YouTube also shut down conservatives or minimized their audiences.
This is a funny 😁
https://americanfaith.com/reich-cites-kaepernick-in-claim-that-conservatives-are-free-speech-hypocrites/
Roger....
You actually believe that teaching students that all white people are racist and all minorities are victims is part of Math, Science, History, and English.
Why would you believe that?
A retired federal judge appointmented by George W Bush agrees with what I have been saying since January 6th.
Editor's Note: (J. Michael Luttig, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, formerly served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years. He advised Vice President Mike Pence on January 6. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. )
(CNN)Nearly a year and a half later, surprisingly few understand what January 6 was all about.
Fewer still understand why former President Donald Trump and Republicans persist in their long-disproven claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Much less why they are obsessed about making the 2024 race a referendum on the "stolen" election of 2020, which even they know was not stolen.
J. Michael Luttig
January 6 was never about a stolen election or even about actual voting fraud. It was always and only about an election that Trump lost fair and square, under legislatively promulgated election rules in a handful of swing states that he and other Republicans contend were unlawfully changed by state election officials and state courts to expand the right and opportunity to vote, largely in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Republicans' mystifying claim to this day that Trump did, or would have, received more votes than Joe Biden in 2020 were it not for actual voting fraud, is but the shiny object that Republicans have tauntingly and disingenuously dangled before the American public for almost a year and a half now to distract attention from their far more ambitious objective.
That objective is not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That's constitutionally impossible. Trump's and the Republicans' far more ambitious objective is to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan they failed in executing in 2020 and to overturn the 2024 election if Trump or his anointed successor loses again in the next quadrennial contest.
The last presidential election was a dry run for the next.
From long before Election Day 2020, Trump and Republicans planned to overturn the presidential election by exploiting the Electors and Elections Clauses of the Constitution, the Electoral College, the Electoral Count Act of 1877, and the 12th Amendment, if Trump lost the popular and Electoral College vote.
The cornerstone of the plan was to have the Supreme Court embrace the little known "independent state legislature" doctrine, which, in turn, would pave the way for exploitation of the Electoral College process and the Electoral Count Act, and finally for Vice President Mike Pence to reject enough swing state electoral votes to overturn the election using Pence's ceremonial power under the 12th Amendment and award the presidency to Donald Trump.
The independent state legislature doctrine says that, under the Elections and the Electors Clauses of the Constitution, state legislatures possess plenary and exclusive power over the conduct of federal presidential elections and the selection of state presidential electors. Not even a state supreme court, let alone other state elections officials, can alter the legislatively written election rules or interfere with the appointment of state electors by the legislatures, under this theory.
The Supreme Court has never decided whether to embrace the independent state legislature doctrine. But then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in separate concurring opinions said they would embrace that doctrine in Bush v. Gore, 20 years earlier, and Republicans had every reason to believe there were at least five votes on the Supreme Court for the doctrine in November 2020, with Amy Coney Barrett having just been confirmed in the eleventh hour before the election.
Opinion: McCarthy and McConnell's U-turn on Trump shows extent of GOP's partisan rot
Trump and the Republicans began executing this first stage of their plan months before November 3, by challenging as violative of the independent state legislature doctrine election rules relating to early- and late-voting, extensions of voting days and times, mail-in ballots, and other election law changes that Republicans contended had been unlawfully altered by state officials and state courts in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Michigan.
These cases eventually wound their way to the Supreme Court in the fall of 2020, and by December, the Supreme Court had decided all of these cases, but only by orders, either disallowing federal court intervention to change an election rule that had been promulgated by a state legislature, allowing legislatively promulgated rules to be changed by state officials and state courts, or deadlocking 4-4, because Justice Barrett was not sworn in until after those cases were briefed and ready for decision by the Court. In none of these cases did the Supreme Court decide the all-important independent state legislature doctrine.
https://americanfaith.com/reich-cites-kaepernick-in-claim-that-conservatives-are-free-speech-hypocrites/
Colin Kaepernick was a below average quarterback who fit into almost nobody's system, was not a team player, and was said to be poison in the locker room. He lost his job because of that, not because of his kneeling...
All that being said, freedom of speech doesn't stop at the guy kneeling. The fans also have the right to their freedom of speech to say that they didn't like it... and they made that point with their wallets, making sure that the NFL started losing viewership and revenue after they embrace that sort of behavior.
The NFL had to decide...
Are the fans and the success of the league more or less important than the spoiled rotten football players who wanted to throw their tantrum during their employment.
If I made political statement at the beginning of each Incident I was tasked to resolve... I would be fired. It wouldn't be censorship of speech, It would be common fucking workplace sense.
Thwarted by the Supreme Court's indecision on that doctrine, Trump and the Republicans turned their efforts to the second stage of their plan, exploitation of the Electoral College and the Electoral Count Act.
The Electoral College is the process by which Americans choose their presidents, a process that can lead to the election as president of a candidate who does not receive a majority of votes cast by the American voters. Republicans have grown increasingly wary of the Electoral College with the new census and political demographics of the nation's shifting population.
The Electoral Count Act empowers Congress to decide the presidency in a host of circumstances where Congress determines that state electoral votes were not "regularly given" by electors who were "lawfully certified," terms that are undefined and ambiguous. In this second stage of the plan, the Republicans needed to generate state-certified alternative slates of electors from swing states where Biden won the popular vote who would cast their electoral votes for Trump instead. Congress would then count the votes of these alternative electoral slates on January 6, rather than the votes of the certified electoral slates for Biden, and Trump would be declared the reelected president.
The Republicans' plan failed at this stage when they were unable to secure a single legitimate, alternative slate of electors from any state because the various state officials refused to officially certify these Trump-urged slates.
Thwarted by the Supreme Court in the first stage, foiled by their inability to come up with alternative state electoral slates in the second stage, and with time running out, Trump and the Republicans began executing the final option in their plan, which was to scare up illegitimate alternative electoral slates in various swing states to be transmitted to Congress. Whereupon, on January 6, Vice President Pence would count only the votes of the illegitimate electors from the swing states, and not the votes of the legitimate, certified electors that were cast for Biden, and declare Donald Trump's reelection as President of the United States.
The entire house of cards collapsed at noon on January 6, when Pence refused to go along with the ill-conceived plan, correctly concluding that under the 12th Amendment he had no power to reject the votes that had been cast by the duly certified electors or to delay the count to give Republicans even more time to whip up alternative electoral slates.
Pence declared Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States at 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, January 7, roughly 14 hours after rioters stormed the US Capitol, disrupting the Joint Session and preventing Congress from counting the Electoral College votes for president until late that night and into the following day, after the statutorily designated day for counting those votes.
Trump and his allies and supporters in Congress and the states began readying their failed 2020 plan to overturn the 2024 presidential election later that very same day and they have been unabashedly readying that plan ever since, in plain view to the American public. Today, they are already a long way toward recapturing the White House in 2024, whether Trump or another Republican candidate wins the election or not
Democrats or Republicans
https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-luttig-republican-dry-run-overturn-2020-election-2024-trump-2022-4
You don't give a fuck
John Michael Luttig (born June 13, 1954) is an American lawyer and a former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
J. Michael Luttig
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitIn office
August 2, 1991 – May 10, 2006Appointed byGeorge H. W. BushPreceded bySeat establishedSucceeded byG. Steven AgeeUnited States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal CounselIn office
1990–1991PresidentGeorge H. W. BushPreceded byWilliam BarrSucceeded byTimothy FlaniganPersonal detailsBorn
John Michael Luttig
June 13, 1954 (age 67)
Tyler, Texas, U.S.Political partyRepublicanEducationWashington and Lee University (BA)
University of Virginia (JD)
Mike Pence saved the world from Trump.
No Roger...
It's not that people don't "give a fuck". Just that most of us don't believe the paranoid nonsense that you do.
Biden is going to lose if he runs in 2024. Most likely any Democrat that runs will lose and they will lose against pretty much any Republican (Trump and DeSantis included).
And it won't be a conspiracy.
Elon Musk is dismayed that former president Donald Trump is still barred from Twitter, people who recently spoke to the tech mogul told the WSJ.
Ever since Tesla and SpaceX's CEO made an offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, which the company's board accepted on April 25, banned individuals have already asked when they would get their accounts back.
Trump, however, said in an interview with Fox News that he won't be returning to Twitter. Instead, he would join his own new social network, TRUTH social.
He said: "I hope Elon buys Twitter because he'll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH."
"The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter," Trump added.
Trump was banned from the platform in January 2021, after a mob of his supporters attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election by storming the US capitol. His tweets had repeatedly violated Twitter's rules against spreading disinformation, instigating violence, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, spreading false information about the disease.
Both the former president and Musk have written many controversial tweets during their time on the platform.
Musk believes he can fix Twitter and dubbed himself a "free speech absolutist." But as Insider's Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert reported, he has previously threatened to sue bloggers for critical coverage and fired employees for disagreeing with him.
Insider reached out to Trump's post-presidential office but did not immediately receive a response.
Trump told Fox News: "We're taking in millions of people, and what we're finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter."
He added: "Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can."
The paranoid nonsense from.
John Michael Luttig (born June 13, 1954) is an American lawyer and a former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
J. Michael Luttig
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitIn office
August 2, 1991 – May 10, 2006Appointed byGeorge H. W. Bush
Indy is right about you
I used the information from a lawyer appointed by Soars Bush
If the Democrat candidate wins the election and the Electoral vote.
They could do this. Republicans could give the right to Republicans legislatures and choose alternative electoral slates in various swing states to be transmitted to Congress. Whereupon, on January 6, Vice President Pence would count only the votes of the illegitimate electors from the swing states, and not the votes of the legitimate, certified electors that were cast for the Democratic candidate, and declare Donald or DeSantis as President of the United States.
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