The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is scrutinizing one particular phrase from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) leaked calls with other top Republicans expressing concern that former President Trump would seek a pardon.
The taped recording with McCarthy, published by The New York Times, not only relays McCarthy’s assertion that Trump bore responsibility for the attack, but could also indicate his concern that some actions the former president took leading up to that day may be criminal.
“Now, this is one personal fear I have. I do not want to get into any conversation about [former Vice President Mike] Pence pardoning,” McCarthy says in the Jan. 10 recording as part of a broader conversation about Trump potentially resigning after the riot. Experts say the committee may want to zero in on that exchange, as the audio shows Republicans at the highest level may have been worried about the legality of Trump’s actions leading up to Jan. 6. “You would not want to be the middleman in a conversation about Trump being pardoned by Pence because [McCarthy] would be concerned about somebody saying he obstructed justice in some way,” said Jeff Robbins, a former U.S. attorney who also served as chief counsel for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
“There’s no need to have a personal fear about being involved in a pardon conversation unless there’s been some suggestion of a conversation about a pardon. And there’s no need to have a discussion about a pardon unless people within McCarthy’s sphere are having serious discussions about Trump’s culpability in a crime,” he added.
“And there’s no need for a pardon if all you’ve done is something that is immoral or unethical or optically bad. The need for a pardon exists when
The three states filed a lawsuit on April 3, two days after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its order directing an end to the policy in May. On Friday, they asked that the court issue a temporary restraining order to halt any early winding down of Title 42, saying it appeared that the federal government was “partially implementing the termination order already,” well ahead of May 23.
Judge Summerhays announced his intention to grant the motion during a virtual status conference on the case.
Since its introduction in March 2020, Title 42 has been invoked by officers along the southern border to expel migrants more than 1.8 million times — to Mexico or their home countries, including on flights — without allowing them to request asylum.
A number of Republican lawmakers, as well as an increasing number of Democrats, had been critical of the plan to eliminate the measure because of the predictions of chaos that would ensue along the border.
At the same time, progressive Democrats had pressured the Biden administration to scrap the policy, which they said was no longer justified for health reasons and was instead being used to limit immigration.
Swelling numbers of migrant encounters by the U.S. Border Patrol gave Republicans ammunition to attack the administration for failing to control unauthorized migration, even with the order in place.
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, on Friday filed a lawsuit against terminating Title 42, describing it as “the only” rule holding back a “devastating flood of illegal immigration.” He's a fringe lunatic.
Authorities encountered more than 221,000 migrants last month, the largest number in at least two decades. In March, officials turned people away under Title 42 half of the time.
Judge Summerhays, an appointee of President Donald J. Trump, whose administration initially adopted the public health order, also ordered the government to certify under oath that agencies had not taken any actions over the past month that could be “reasonably characterized” as carrying out the termination order ahead of May 23.
The public health policy was initially adopted in 2020 to slow the spread of Covid-19. Its effect has been to substantially reduce the number of undocumented migrants allowed to enter the United States, a key goal of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.
People like you used similar rhetoric during the late 18th century when Italian Catholic immigrants were flooding here, and of course the Chinese were trying to take jobs from white men on the railroad construction infrastructure.
The truth is, virtually every fucking day, somewhere in America, a criminal illegal beaner is bringing death or serious harm to an American citizen.
The flow of fentanyl across the southern border is at all time highs, as is the number of overdoses in our country. Rapes, drunken vehicular homicides, and outright murders like Mollie Tibbetts is happening somewhere in our nation EVERY FUCKING DAY.
And assholes like you and Joey Sprinkles claim they're all "asylum seekers."
A National Guardsman drowned trying to save one of these pieces of shit.
All so democrats can secure the votes for a permanent path to power.
Democrats are willing and eager to destroy our nation just so they can control it.
This is without question, one of the sickest and most fucked up things I've ever witnessed.
And without the complete and total destruction of the left, this shit never fucking ends.
Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen, try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
They just lost in France and Slovakia.
Democracies are succeeding because of Russian invasion of Ukraine πΊπ¦. People like rrb are losing control
People like you used similar rhetoric during the late 18th century when Italian Catholic immigrants were flooding here, and of course the Chinese were trying to take jobs from white men on the railroad construction infrastructure.
First of all it was the 19th century (1800's).
Second, those folks came here to WORK. Not rob, rape, pillage, murder, import and deal drugs and suck off Uncle Sugar's entitlement tit until their end of days.
There is no comparison and to make such a comparison is the height of intellectual dishonesty. Your fucking trademark, alky.
Immigrants to America were vetted for illnesses and an ability to support themselves. Flunking one or both categories got them sent back on the next ship.
Was there discrimination? Of course. There always has been at some level wherever humans have gathered to form a society anywhere on earth. But immigration to America was CONTROLLED, with the aforementioned gates in place to ensure we weren't getting the dregs of the fucking earth like we are today.
Of course all that changed in 1965 when Ted Kennedy had the bright idea that we suffer through today - unfettered immigration providing the demographics for a permanent democrat majority. And three years later the "Great Society" sealed that deal.
Which is exactly why these fresh new criminals need to be transported to DC, The Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, the Upper West Side, and everywhere else the leftist elites congregate and live. Let the assholes who approve of this shit live with this shit.
Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen, try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
Show your thievery, alky:
Robert Golob, the incoming prime minister, promises a departure from Jansa’s third term, which has mirrored many of the tendencies of former president Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen who try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
Elon Musk just bought the flagship of the leftist elite chattering class. And that leftist elite chattering class is losing their fucking shit like there's no tomorrow.
. “actually pay federal income tax.” PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact check organization, investigated Clinton’s claim and reported: “While there is no official figure, experts estimate that about half of all undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, if not more.”
In reality, the polar opposite is true. Federal government data shows that while roughly half of illegal immigrants file federal tax returns, the vast majority of them don’t pay any federal income taxes. Instead, they use these returns to claim refundable tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. In other words, illegal immigrants mainly use the federal income tax code to collect money from U.S. citizens.
Two illegal migrants who a now-missing Texas National Guard soldier tried to save from a river were involved in "illicit transnational narcotics trafficking," officials said Saturday as the search for the missing service member resumed.
Survey Says: ‘The Dam Has Burst’ on Unhappiness in L.A. County A new UCLA study says the issues beleaguering county residents are public safety, education, and the increasing cost of everything
The Musk deal also recalls the Gilded Age, as my colleague Shira Ovide wrote: “The closest comparison to this might be the 19th-century newspaper barons like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and the fictional Charles Foster Kane, who used their papers to pursue their personal agendas, sensationalize world events and harass their enemies.”
After news broke yesterday about the Musk-Twitter agreement, I asked Andrew Ross Sorkin for his reaction to it. Andrew, as many readers know, has been covering finance and business leaders for the past two decades at The Times. He created and runs our DealBook newsletter.
Andrew’s response got me thinking about these larger questions of inequality, and I’m turning over the rest of today’s lead item to him. Below his thoughts about the Twitter deal, we include more Times coverage, as well as analysis from elsewhere.
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will reignite big questions about the influence of the billionaire class and the power of technology over our national discourse.
This month, Musk was complaining that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder, had too much power, arguing that the way Meta was structured, “Mark Zuckerberg the 14th” would someday be running it.
Now Musk will own Twitter outright as a private company. He will report to himself. So if he decides to allow Donald Trump back on the platform — which seems like the elephant in the room — it will be Musk’s choice and his choice alone. (Trump has claimed he will not return, because he wants to support his own social media platform.)
Washington is atwitter trying to understand Musk’s ideology. He is a self-styled libertarian without an ideology. But is not having an ideology an ideology unto itself?
Musk has said he wants more “free speech” and less moderation on Twitter. What will that mean in practice? More bullying? More lewd commentary and images? More misinformation?
Perhaps a window into Musk’s approach is a tweet he sent on Friday making fun of Bill Gates with a crude reference to anatomy, as a way to get even with Gates, who had admitted to betting against shares of Tesla.
Which raised this question: When conspiracy theorists falsely posted that Gates was paying to develop Covid vaccines to implant chips in people, Twitter down-ranked the content and added fact-check notices. If Musk were running Twitter then, would he have left those posts up to needle his nemesis?
The deal will give Musk enormous influence over politicians, celebrities and the media, with the ability to platform and de-platform them at will.
But some will have sway over him, too, in ways that could distort what the public sees on Twitter. For example, Twitter has no presence in China. Musk does: A huge chunk of Tesla’s growth is dependent on that country. What happens when Chinese officials tell him to remove content from Twitter that they find objectionable?
Back here in the U.S., Musk’s SpaceX business relies, in large part, on contracts with the Defense Department. His Tesla business is in discussions with the U.S. government about a national charging station infrastructure. His Boring Company, which digs tunnels, relies on governments for contracts. If a politician that controls the purse strings for any of Musk’s companies were to publish misinformation, would Musk remove it?
There are no answers to these questions just yet. But we will find out soon. Likely on Twitter.
Survey Says: ‘The Dam Has Burst’ on Unhappiness in L.A. County A new UCLA study says the issues beleaguering county residents are public safety, education, and the increasing cost of everything
This is an absolutely stunning development. LA County residents actually oppose having leftists turn their country into a 3rd-world, typhus infected, rat infested, human shit-slathered, shithole?
Outrageous.
Fucking bigots.
We need a re-education camp for folks who think like this.
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will reignite big questions about the influence of the billionaire class and the power of technology over our national discourse.
Huh.
No such 'big questions' were 'ignited' when Bezos bought the Washington Post.
How odd.
It's almost like there are a different set of rules for those who might lean to the right.
Finland has started teaching critical thinking skills and media literacy in its school system to combat, in part, the lies and misinformation that spill into their homes daily from Russian television stations on their border.
Given how Republicans are all-in on banning books and censoring teachers, though, it’s unlikely anything like that will happen any day soon here in the US.
For the time being, we’ll have to double down on pushing real information to deluded friends and family, using the “parental controls” on elderly parents’ TV to block Fox, and sharing progressive media and websites far and wide.
And doing everything we can to elect politicians who will tell the truth and hold democracy as a higher value than simple political power.
Because if the fake news wins and neofascist politicians like Trump again gain serious national power, America will be on a fast track down the same road as Russia.
Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth April 26, 2022 at 9:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
ProPublica has obtained “a trove of internal emails and other documentation that, taken together, tell the inside story of a group of people who propagated a number of the most pervasive theories about how the election was stolen, especially that voting machines were to blame, and helped move them from the far-right fringe to the center of the Republican Party.
“Those records, as well as interviews with key participants, show for the first time the extent to which leading advocates of the stolen-election theory touted evidence that they knew to be disproven or that had been credibly disputed or dismissed as dubious by operatives within their own camp. Some members of the coalition presented this mix of unreliable witnesses, unconfirmed rumor and suspect analyses as fact in published reports, talking points and court documents. In several cases, their assertions became the basis for Trump’s claims that the election had been rigged.”
Greg Sargent: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s texts show birth of Jan. 6 “antifa” lie.
THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING AND LIED ANYWAY.
Rick Perry Undone By His Own Text Messages April 26, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
Former Gov. Rick Perry (R) previously denied reports that he sent text messages to then-Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows with ideas for overturning Donald Trump’s defeat, the HuffPost reports.
But on Monday, CNN published a trove of 2,319 of Meadows’ previously undisclosed text exchanges with Trump allies… One of the texts, sent on Jan. 7 just hours before the election was certified in favor of Biden, read: ”We have the data driven program that can clearly show where the fraud was committed. This is the silver bullet. Pam Biondi has seen and agrees!! Rick Perry.”
New Details Show House GOP Role in Jan. 6 Planning April 26, 2022 at 8:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
New York Times: “It has been clear for more than a year that ultraconservative members of Congress were deeply involved in attempts to keep Mr. Trump in power: They joined baseless lawsuits, spread the lie of widespread election fraud and were among the 147 Republicans who voted on Jan. 6, 2021, against certifying President Biden’s victory in at least one state.”
“But in a court filing and in text messages obtained by CNN, new pieces of evidence have emerged in recent days fleshing out the degree of their involvement with the Trump White House in strategy sessions, at least one of which included discussions about encouraging Mr. Trump’s supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, despite warnings of potential violence. Some continued to push to try to keep Mr. Trump in office even after a mob of his supporters attacked the complex.”
Trump Turns Up the Heat on Wisconsin Republicans April 26, 2022 at 8:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Former President Donald Trump again has the Wisconsin’s most powerful Republican in his crosshairs, seeking to intimidate Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) into continuing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election that has not produced evidence to support Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said Trump: “Anyone calling themselves a Republican in Wisconsin should support the continued investigation in Wisconsin without interference.”
He added: “I understand some RINOs have primary challengers in Wisconsin. I’m sure their primary opponents would get a huge bump in the polls if these RINOs interfere.”
Birx Was ‘Paralyzed’ By Trump’s Disinfectant Claim April 26, 2022 at 8:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Dr. Deborah Birx told ABC News that she had a resignation pact with other doctors on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team.
But she admitted to being caught frozen on camera when Trump spoke at a news conference about using injected disinfectant as a treatment for Covid-19.
Said Birx: “I just wanted it to be The Twilight Zone and it all go away. I could just see everything unraveling in that moment.”
She added: “This was a tragedy on many levels.”
Schumer Sees Fast Passage of Ukraine Military Aid April 26, 2022 at 8:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said he expected “swift, bipartisan” passage of another bill to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia once President Joe Biden submits a new funding request, Reuters reports.
Kemp Could Knock Out Perdue Without a Runoff April 26, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll in Georgia finds Gov. Brian Kemp (R) with a big lead over his Donald Trump-backed challenger, David Perdue (R), in the Republican primary, 53% to 27%.
That would put the governor above the majority-vote threshold needed to avoid a June runoff. Other challengers were in the single digits; an additional 15% were undecided.
Biden Announces First Pardons April 26, 2022 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“President Biden announced on Tuesday that he is pardoning three individuals and issuing 75 commutations, making the first use of his clemency powers in his administration,” Axios reports.
“The president campaigned on a promise to use his clemency power specifically for non-violent and drug crimes.”
“The 75 people whose sentences are being commuted served time for non-violent drug offenses. Many of these would have received less severe sentences if they had been charged after the First Step Act passed in 2018.”
Manchin Explores Energy, Climate Package With GOP April 26, 2022 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “is exploring an energy and climate package aimed at winning enough Republican support to skirt the partisan budget reconciliation process that has held hostage hundreds of billions of dollars in potential spending on related priorities,” Bloomberg reports.
I read it, and because it isn't just a few words, it will escape your minds.
ProPublica has obtained “a trove of internal emails and other documentation that, taken together, tell the inside story of a group of people who propagated a number of the most pervasive theories about how the election was stolen, especially that voting machines were to blame, and helped move them from the far-right fringe to the center of the Republican Party.”
“Those records, as well as interviews with key participants, show for the first time the extent to which leading advocates of the stolen-election theory touted evidence that they knew to be disproven or that had been credibly disputed or dismissed as dubious by operatives within their own camp. Some members of the coalition presented this mix of unreliable witnesses, unconfirmed rumor and suspect analyses as fact in published reports, talking points and court documents. In several cases, their assertions became the basis for Trump’s claims that the election had been rigged.”
Republicans Fear Trump Will Be Back on Twitter April 26, 2022 at 7:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
Playbook: “The news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter has thrown Washington into a tizzy over one major question: Will Donald Trump return to his old favorite social media platform and start tweeting again?”
“As it turns out, no one is more petrified of this than members of Trump’s own party.”
“On Monday night, in a series of calls and texts with several top GOP insiders, every single one of them told us that they hoped the former president stays the hell away from Twitter, lest he sink their chances at flipping the House and Senate. Some of his allies even think that a return to his old Twitter habits could damage his own brand ahead of a possible third presidential bid in 2024.”
Said one House GOP leadership aide: “If I’m a Democrat, I’d pray that Elon Musk puts Trump right back on Twitter. I don’t think it costs Republicans the House, but it certainly will elevate Trump’s opinions — and is going to put Republican candidates and members back having to answer for that.”
GOP Leaders Remain Shackled to Donald Trump April 26, 2022 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
Gerard Baker: “The fervent desire of much of the Republican Party’s top brass, its major donors, business leaders who urgently crave a Republican restoration, and many of the party’s most prominent supporters in the media and elsewhere, is for Mr. Trump to break the habits of a lifetime and go quietly away.”
“It is a desire expressed as fervently in private as it is assiduously and dexterously avoided in public. But the big lie of this duplicitous relationship requires them to utter multiple, smaller, cascading fictions.”
“With the exception of a few demented types in Congress and the media, they don’t believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump. They don’t think that the Jan. 6 riot was a legitimate act of protest or the work of federal agents provocateurs. They fear that a Trump-led Republican ticket presents them with a lose-lose proposition in 2024: Either he continues his well-established pattern of losing the party elections—the 2018 midterms, the 2020 general election, the 2021 Georgia senate runoffs—or he wins and condemns them to another, potentially even more chaotic four years of his distinctive leadership.”
Schumer Sees Fast Passage of Ukraine Military Aid April 26, 2022 at 8:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said he expected “swift, bipartisan” passage of another bill to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia once President Joe Biden submits a new funding request, Reuters reports.
Kemp Could Knock Out Perdue Without a Runoff April 26, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll in Georgia finds Gov. Brian Kemp (R) with a big lead over his Donald Trump-backed challenger, David Perdue (R), in the Republican primary, 53% to 27%.
That would put the governor above the majority-vote threshold needed to avoid a June runoff. Other challengers were in the single digits; an additional 15% were undecided.
Biden Announces First Pardons April 26, 2022 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“President Biden announced on Tuesday that he is pardoning three individuals and issuing 75 commutations, making the first use of his clemency powers in his administration,” Axios reports.
“The president campaigned on a promise to use his clemency power specifically for non-violent and drug crimes.”
“The 75 people whose sentences are being commuted served time for non-violent drug offenses. Many of these would have received less severe sentences if they had been charged after the First Step Act passed in 2018.”
Days before Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to press for Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election defeat by invoking martial law, new messages show.
The message – one of more than 2,000 texts turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating January 6 and first reported by CNN – shows that some of Trump’s most ardent allies on Capitol Hill were pressing for Trump to return himself to office even after the Capitol attack.
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“In our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law,” Greene texted on 17 January. “I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.”
The message about Trump potentially invoking martial law, earlier reported by CNN on Monday and confirmed by the Guardian, came a month after the idea had been raised in a heated Oval Office meeting a month before, where Trump considered ways to overturn the 2020 election.
Meadows did not appear to respond to Greene’s text. But the messages Trump’s top White House aide was receiving shows the extraordinary ideas swirling around Trump after he and his operatives were unable to stop the certification of Biden’s election win on January 6.
Looming Ground Battle Is Crucial Phase in Ukraine April 26, 2022 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
Washington Post: “U.S. military officials assess that a crucial, and perhaps decisive, phase of the Ukraine war is shaping up in the eastern part of the country, where Russian troops may surround Ukrainian forces in hopes of pummeling them in an epic, long-distance ground battle reminiscent of the last century.”
“New U.S. shipments of heavy artillery and counter-artillery radar, tactical drones, armored vehicles and other equipment are being rushed to Ukraine before tens of thousands of troops, amounting to up to half of the Ukrainian army, are caught in what is known as a ‘double envelopment’ maneuver that would bring them under simultaneous attack from two sides.”
GOOD! SOME SAY HE HAS CANCER.
Putin Appears Unsteady During Church Service April 26, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“New footage of Vladimir Putin appearing unsteady, fidgeting and biting his lips during an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow on Sunday has added to suspicions that the Russian leader is seriously ill,” the New York Post reports.
Russia Warns Ukraine Against Provoking WWIII April 26, 2022 at 6:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive, the AP reports.
Days before Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to press for Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election defeat by invoking martial law, new messages show.
What law/criminal statute did she break by sending that text, alky???
Guess the Gospel According to Goddard waterboy wants to avoid talking about how the Washington Post got caught deliberately trying to take down a president
Bobby Burack https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1518780097372823554
Past week: — Elon Musk bought Twitter — Shaun King deleted Twitter — Jon Stewart found out nobody likes his show — CNN+ died — Rogan announced 2M new subscribers — Jemele Hill failed again —Bomani failed again —Judge struck down travel mask mandate —Spotify dropped Michelle Obama
hell if bots are dropped Joe will have almost no followers
Very few ever ever watch his videos
and then most are people mining for his flubs
and youtube had to disable thumbs down reviews of them
Russia Pounds Eastern Ukraine April 26, 2022 at 9:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“Russia pounded eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as the U.S. defense secretary promised to ‘keep moving heaven and earth’ to get Kyiv the weapons it needs to repel the new offensive even as Moscow warned such support risked widening the war,” the AP reports.
New York Times: “The United States marshaled allies on Tuesday to pledge more military support to Ukraine, accelerating the drive to deter Russia’s offensive and degrade its war machine, as Moscow accused the West of pursuing a proxy war and ignoring the ‘considerable’ risk that it could spiral into a nuclear conflict.”
UndeadFOIA https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1518810749589757953 Pages of communications from Fusion GPS to reporters show reporters actively participating.
https://docdro.id/GYBo5Xm
Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke This is absolutely wild. Page after page of corporate media stenographers actively colluding with Clinton campaign operatives to frame innocent Americans like Carter Page and Sergei Millian. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, ABC, Atlantic, Slate.
Putin Appears Unsteady During Church Service April 26, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“New footage of Vladimir Putin appearing unsteady, fidgeting and biting his lips during an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow on Sunday has added to suspicions that the Russian leader is seriously ill,” the New York Post reports.
Remember that one time that Trump picked up a glass with two hands and the liberal world went nuts? Sort of reminds me of this...
Vladimir Putin is losing it because he was fidgety in church (I mean who isn't). But our President forgets his name, his wife needs to remind him when to wave, and he has to be handled by the Easter Bunny. And our media doesn't blink twice. Perfectly fine...
p picked up a glass with two hands and the liberal world went nuts
Or yesterdays inability to pronounce the name of his new media out let.....sounded like a total drunk!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!1 Funny how you have peddled that Biden is not capable of leading because of his age sorry sport, but your thin skin is most amusing when trump fucks up!!!!! LOLOPLOLO
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is scrutinizing one particular phrase from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) leaked calls with other top Republicans expressing concern that former President Trump would seek a pardon.
The taped recording with McCarthy, published by The New York Times, not only relays McCarthy’s assertion that Trump bore responsibility for the attack, but could also indicate his concern that some actions the former president took leading up to that day may be criminal.
“Now, this is one personal fear I have. I do not want to get into any conversation about [former Vice President Mike] Pence pardoning,” McCarthy says in the Jan. 10 recording as part of a broader conversation about Trump potentially resigning after the riot.
Experts say the committee may want to zero in on that exchange, as the audio shows Republicans at the highest level may have been worried about the legality of Trump’s actions leading up to Jan. 6.
“You would not want to be the middleman in a conversation about Trump being pardoned by Pence because [McCarthy] would be concerned about somebody saying he obstructed justice in some way,” said Jeff Robbins, a former U.S. attorney who also served as chief counsel for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
“There’s no need to have a personal fear about being involved in a pardon conversation unless there’s been some suggestion of a conversation about a pardon. And there’s no need to have a discussion about a pardon unless people within McCarthy’s sphere are having serious discussions about Trump’s culpability in a crime,” he added.
“And there’s no need for a pardon if all you’ve done is something that is immoral or unethical or optically bad. The need for a pardon exists when
https://thehill.com/news/house/3463004-mccarthy-warns-of-impeachment-for-biden-border-official/
The three states filed a lawsuit on April 3, two days after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its order directing an end to the policy in May. On Friday, they asked that the court issue a temporary restraining order to halt any early winding down of Title 42, saying it appeared that the federal government was “partially implementing the termination order already,” well ahead of May 23.
Judge Summerhays announced his intention to grant the motion during a virtual status conference on the case.
Since its introduction in March 2020, Title 42 has been invoked by officers along the southern border to expel migrants more than 1.8 million times — to Mexico or their home countries, including on flights — without allowing them to request asylum.
A number of Republican lawmakers, as well as an increasing number of Democrats, had been critical of the plan to eliminate the measure because of the predictions of chaos that would ensue along the border.
At the same time, progressive Democrats had pressured the Biden administration to scrap the policy, which they said was no longer justified for health reasons and was instead being used to limit immigration.
Swelling numbers of migrant encounters by the U.S. Border Patrol gave Republicans ammunition to attack the administration for failing to control unauthorized migration, even with the order in place.
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, on Friday filed a lawsuit against terminating Title 42, describing it as “the only” rule holding back a “devastating flood of illegal immigration.” He's a fringe lunatic.
Authorities encountered more than 221,000 migrants last month, the largest number in at least two decades. In March, officials turned people away under Title 42 half of the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/us/title-42-migrants-biden-border.html
You really getting worse every night.
Judge Summerhays, an appointee of President Donald J. Trump, whose administration initially adopted the public health order, also ordered the government to certify under oath that agencies had not taken any actions over the past month that could be “reasonably characterized” as carrying out the termination order ahead of May 23.
The public health policy was initially adopted in 2020 to slow the spread of Covid-19. Its effect has been to substantially reduce the number of undocumented migrants allowed to enter the United States, a key goal of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.
You really are a white supremacist.
People like you used similar rhetoric during the late 18th century when Italian Catholic immigrants were flooding here, and of course the Chinese were trying to take jobs from white men on the railroad construction infrastructure.
The truth is, virtually every fucking day, somewhere in America, a criminal illegal beaner is bringing death or serious harm to an American citizen.
The flow of fentanyl across the southern border is at all time highs, as is the number of overdoses in our country. Rapes, drunken vehicular homicides, and outright murders like Mollie Tibbetts is happening somewhere in our nation EVERY FUCKING DAY.
And assholes like you and Joey Sprinkles claim they're all "asylum seekers."
A National Guardsman drowned trying to save one of these pieces of shit.
All so democrats can secure the votes for a permanent path to power.
Democrats are willing and eager to destroy our nation just so they can control it.
This is without question, one of the sickest and most fucked up things I've ever witnessed.
And without the complete and total destruction of the left, this shit never fucking ends.
The flow of fentanyl across the southern border is at all time high originating FROM CHINA......Your favorite country rat!!!!!!!
Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen, try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
They just lost in France and Slovakia.
Democracies are succeeding because of Russian invasion of Ukraine πΊπ¦. People like rrb are losing control
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
People like you used similar rhetoric during the late 18th century when Italian Catholic immigrants were flooding here, and of course the Chinese were trying to take jobs from white men on the railroad construction infrastructure.
First of all it was the 19th century (1800's).
Second, those folks came here to WORK. Not rob, rape, pillage, murder, import and deal drugs and suck off Uncle Sugar's entitlement tit until their end of days.
There is no comparison and to make such a comparison is the height of intellectual dishonesty. Your fucking trademark, alky.
Immigrants to America were vetted for illnesses and an ability to support themselves. Flunking one or both categories got them sent back on the next ship.
Was there discrimination? Of course. There always has been at some level wherever humans have gathered to form a society anywhere on earth. But immigration to America was CONTROLLED, with the aforementioned gates in place to ensure we weren't getting the dregs of the fucking earth like we are today.
Of course all that changed in 1965 when Ted Kennedy had the bright idea that we suffer through today - unfettered immigration providing the demographics for a permanent democrat majority. And three years later the "Great Society" sealed that deal.
Which is exactly why these fresh new criminals need to be transported to DC, The Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, the Upper West Side, and everywhere else the leftist elites congregate and live. Let the assholes who approve of this shit live with this shit.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen, try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
Show your thievery, alky:
Robert Golob, the incoming prime minister, promises a departure from Jansa’s third term, which has mirrored many of the tendencies of former president Donald Trump and other would-be strongmen who try to seize authoritarian control over working democracies by attacking media critical of their leadership.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/25/slovenia-election-janez-jansa-robert-golob-liberal-democracy/
Without plagiarism you have nothing to 'say' alky.
People like rrb are losing control
Really alky?
Elon Musk just bought the flagship of the leftist elite chattering class. And that leftist elite chattering class is losing their fucking shit like there's no tomorrow.
People 'like me' are just getting warmed up alky.
NOVEMBER is coming...
For the wantonly stupid rat......
. “actually pay federal income tax.” PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact check organization, investigated Clinton’s claim and reported: “While there is no official figure, experts estimate that about half of all undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, if not more.”
In reality, the polar opposite is true. Federal government data shows that while roughly half of illegal immigrants file federal tax returns, the vast majority of them don’t pay any federal income taxes. Instead, they use these returns to claim refundable tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. In other words, illegal immigrants mainly use the federal income tax code to collect money from U.S. citizens.
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes
experts estimate
Who are these 'experts' and how did they arrive at their 'estimate' BWAA?
Politi-'fact's bias is very well documented. So I won't be taking their word for anything anytime soon.
Thanks for playing though.
Two illegal migrants who a now-missing Texas National Guard soldier tried to save from a river were involved in "illicit transnational narcotics trafficking," officials said Saturday as the search for the missing service member resumed.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-migrants-national-guard-soldier-drug-trafficking-officials
Brilliant.
President Klain is not pleased...
Elon Musk bought Twitter like an hour ago and Psaki announced the White House is already looking into reforming section 230.
Are you paying attention yet?
https://twitter.com/RedWingGrips/status/1518688209961639937
Survey Says: ‘The Dam Has Burst’ on Unhappiness in L.A. County
A new UCLA study says the issues beleaguering county residents are public safety, education, and the increasing cost of everything
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/survey-says-the-dam-has-burst-on-unhappiness-in-l-a-county/
When ultra-liberal UCLA comes to this conclusion you know it's actually worse.
Explains roger's unhappiness
He's living in a Democrat shithole, once a destination city before it turned blue.
with a tv
and wifi
and roommate
sad
The Musk deal also recalls the Gilded Age, as my colleague Shira Ovide wrote: “The closest comparison to this might be the 19th-century newspaper barons like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and the fictional Charles Foster Kane, who used their papers to pursue their personal agendas, sensationalize world events and harass their enemies.”
After news broke yesterday about the Musk-Twitter agreement, I asked Andrew Ross Sorkin for his reaction to it. Andrew, as many readers know, has been covering finance and business leaders for the past two decades at The Times. He created and runs our DealBook newsletter.
Andrew’s response got me thinking about these larger questions of inequality, and I’m turning over the rest of today’s lead item to him. Below his thoughts about the Twitter deal, we include more Times coverage, as well as analysis from elsewhere.
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will reignite big questions about the influence of the billionaire class and the power of technology over our national discourse.
This month, Musk was complaining that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder, had too much power, arguing that the way Meta was structured, “Mark Zuckerberg the 14th” would someday be running it.
Now Musk will own Twitter outright as a private company. He will report to himself. So if he decides to allow Donald Trump back on the platform — which seems like the elephant in the room — it will be Musk’s choice and his choice alone. (Trump has claimed he will not return, because he wants to support his own social media platform.)
Washington is atwitter trying to understand Musk’s ideology. He is a self-styled libertarian without an ideology. But is not having an ideology an ideology unto itself?
Musk has said he wants more “free speech” and less moderation on Twitter. What will that mean in practice? More bullying? More lewd commentary and images? More misinformation?
Perhaps a window into Musk’s approach is a tweet he sent on Friday making fun of Bill Gates with a crude reference to anatomy, as a way to get even with Gates, who had admitted to betting against shares of Tesla.
Which raised this question: When conspiracy theorists falsely posted that Gates was paying to develop Covid vaccines to implant chips in people, Twitter down-ranked the content and added fact-check notices. If Musk were running Twitter then, would he have left those posts up to needle his nemesis?
The deal will give Musk enormous influence over politicians, celebrities and the media, with the ability to platform and de-platform them at will.
But some will have sway over him, too, in ways that could distort what the public sees on Twitter. For example, Twitter has no presence in China. Musk does: A huge chunk of Tesla’s growth is dependent on that country. What happens when Chinese officials tell him to remove content from Twitter that they find objectionable?
Back here in the U.S., Musk’s SpaceX business relies, in large part, on contracts with the Defense Department. His Tesla business is in discussions with the U.S. government about a national charging station infrastructure. His Boring Company, which digs tunnels, relies on governments for contracts. If a politician that controls the purse strings for any of Musk’s companies were to publish misinformation, would Musk remove it?
There are no answers to these questions just yet. But we will find out soon. Likely on Twitter.
Joe Biden is like FOR.
The Courts continue to Rule against Joe, like they did FOR.
Saving my Republic .
Survey Says: ‘The Dam Has Burst’ on Unhappiness in L.A. County
A new UCLA study says the issues beleaguering county residents are public safety, education, and the increasing cost of everything
This is an absolutely stunning development. LA County residents actually oppose having leftists turn their country into a 3rd-world, typhus infected, rat infested, human shit-slathered, shithole?
Outrageous.
Fucking bigots.
We need a re-education camp for folks who think like this.
rrb sounds like the Dixycrats in the 60s.
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will reignite big questions about the influence of the billionaire class and the power of technology over our national discourse.
Huh.
No such 'big questions' were 'ignited' when Bezos bought the Washington Post.
How odd.
It's almost like there are a different set of rules for those who might lean to the right.
Hypocrisy. Bedrock. Liberalism.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
rrb sounds like the Dixycrats in the 60s.
It's 'Dixiecrats' alky.
And you forgot your other favorite DEMOCRAT - George Wallace.
Finland has started teaching critical thinking skills and media literacy in its school system to combat, in part, the lies and misinformation that spill into their homes daily from Russian television stations on their border.
Given how Republicans are all-in on banning books and censoring teachers, though, it’s unlikely anything like that will happen any day soon here in the US.
For the time being, we’ll have to double down on pushing real information to deluded friends and family, using the “parental controls” on elderly parents’ TV to block Fox, and sharing progressive media and websites far and wide.
And doing everything we can to elect politicians who will tell the truth and hold democracy as a higher value than simple political power.
Because if the fake news wins and neofascist politicians like Trump again gain serious national power, America will be on a fast track down the same road as Russia.
https://www.rawstory.com/fake-news/
Thom Hartmann. Scaling the heights of RAW STORY!!!11! after his smashing success on RUSSIA TV.
Techno Fog
EMAILS:
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1518796986287284225
We're reviewing juicy Fusion GPS e-mails with the Press.
Washington Post reporter stated a colleague's Moscow source said Fusion GPS allegations were "bullshit"
They would later push Fusion GPS false information.
Hello @thamburger we have receipts
The Washington Post deliberately pushing Misinformation
To take down a president
Stunning
but not unexpected
WANT A WHOLE LOT OF EVEN BETTER NEWS?
Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth
April 26, 2022 at 9:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
ProPublica has obtained “a trove of internal emails and other documentation that, taken together, tell the inside story of a group of people who propagated a number of the most pervasive theories about how the election was stolen, especially that voting machines were to blame, and helped move them from the far-right fringe to the center of the Republican Party.
“Those records, as well as interviews with key participants, show for the first time the extent to which leading advocates of the stolen-election theory touted evidence that they knew to be disproven or that had been credibly disputed or dismissed as dubious by operatives within their own camp. Some members of the coalition presented this mix of unreliable witnesses, unconfirmed rumor and suspect analyses as fact in published reports, talking points and court documents. In several cases, their assertions became the basis for Trump’s claims that the election had been rigged.”
Greg Sargent: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s texts show birth of Jan. 6 “antifa” lie.
THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING AND LIED ANYWAY.
Rick Perry Undone By His Own Text Messages
April 26, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
Former Gov. Rick Perry (R) previously denied reports that he sent text messages to then-Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows with ideas for overturning Donald Trump’s defeat, the HuffPost reports.
But on Monday, CNN published a trove of 2,319 of Meadows’ previously undisclosed text exchanges with Trump allies… One of the texts, sent on Jan. 7 just hours before the election was certified in favor of Biden, read: ”We have the data driven program that can clearly show where the fraud was committed. This is the silver bullet. Pam Biondi has seen and agrees!! Rick Perry.”
New Details Show House GOP Role in Jan. 6 Planning
April 26, 2022 at 8:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
New York Times: “It has been clear for more than a year that ultraconservative members of Congress were deeply involved in attempts to keep Mr. Trump in power: They joined baseless lawsuits, spread the lie of widespread election fraud and were among the 147 Republicans who voted on Jan. 6, 2021, against certifying President Biden’s victory in at least one state.”
“But in a court filing and in text messages obtained by CNN, new pieces of evidence have emerged in recent days fleshing out the degree of their involvement with the Trump White House in strategy sessions, at least one of which included discussions about encouraging Mr. Trump’s supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, despite warnings of potential violence. Some continued to push to try to keep Mr. Trump in office even after a mob of his supporters attacked the complex.”
Trump Turns Up the Heat on Wisconsin Republicans
April 26, 2022 at 8:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Former President Donald Trump again has the Wisconsin’s most powerful Republican in his crosshairs, seeking to intimidate Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) into continuing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election that has not produced evidence to support Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said Trump: “Anyone calling themselves a Republican in Wisconsin should support the continued investigation in Wisconsin without interference.”
He added: “I understand some RINOs have primary challengers in Wisconsin. I’m sure their primary opponents would get a huge bump in the polls if these RINOs interfere.”
Birx Was ‘Paralyzed’ By Trump’s Disinfectant Claim
April 26, 2022 at 8:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Dr. Deborah Birx told ABC News that she had a resignation pact with other doctors on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team.
But she admitted to being caught frozen on camera when Trump spoke at a news conference about using injected disinfectant as a treatment for Covid-19.
Said Birx: “I just wanted it to be The Twilight Zone and it all go away. I could just see everything unraveling in that moment.”
She added: “This was a tragedy on many levels.”
Schumer Sees Fast Passage of Ukraine Military Aid
April 26, 2022 at 8:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said he expected “swift, bipartisan” passage of another bill to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia once President Joe Biden submits a new funding request, Reuters reports.
Kemp Could Knock Out Perdue Without a Runoff
April 26, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll in Georgia finds Gov. Brian Kemp (R) with a big lead over his Donald Trump-backed challenger, David Perdue (R), in the Republican primary, 53% to 27%.
That would put the governor above the majority-vote threshold needed to avoid a June runoff. Other challengers were in the single digits; an additional 15% were undecided.
Biden Announces First Pardons
April 26, 2022 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“President Biden announced on Tuesday that he is pardoning three individuals and issuing 75 commutations, making the first use of his clemency powers in his administration,” Axios reports.
“The president campaigned on a promise to use his clemency power specifically for non-violent and drug crimes.”
“The 75 people whose sentences are being commuted served time for non-violent drug offenses. Many of these would have received less severe sentences if they had been charged after the First Step Act passed in 2018.”
Manchin Explores Energy, Climate Package With GOP
April 26, 2022 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “is exploring an energy and climate package aimed at winning enough Republican support to skirt the partisan budget reconciliation process that has held hostage hundreds of billions of dollars in potential spending on related priorities,” Bloomberg reports.
Twitter ownership to Elon Musk is fun to watch because of the Leftist reaction.
The alky and the pederast:
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I read it, and because it isn't just a few words, it will escape your minds.
ProPublica has obtained “a trove of internal emails and other documentation that, taken together, tell the inside story of a group of people who propagated a number of the most pervasive theories about how the election was stolen, especially that voting machines were to blame, and helped move them from the far-right fringe to the center of the Republican Party.”
“Those records, as well as interviews with key participants, show for the first time the extent to which leading advocates of the stolen-election theory touted evidence that they knew to be disproven or that had been credibly disputed or dismissed as dubious by operatives within their own camp. Some members of the coalition presented this mix of unreliable witnesses, unconfirmed rumor and suspect analyses as fact in published reports, talking points and court documents. In several cases, their assertions became the basis for Trump’s claims that the election had been rigged.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/big-lie-trump-stolen-election-inside-creation
YES!
MORE TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
PLEASE!
Republicans Fear Trump Will Be Back on Twitter
April 26, 2022 at 7:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
Playbook: “The news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter has thrown Washington into a tizzy over one major question: Will Donald Trump return to his old favorite social media platform and start tweeting again?”
“As it turns out, no one is more petrified of this than members of Trump’s own party.”
“On Monday night, in a series of calls and texts with several top GOP insiders, every single one of them told us that they hoped the former president stays the hell away from Twitter, lest he sink their chances at flipping the House and Senate. Some of his allies even think that a return to his old Twitter habits could damage his own brand ahead of a possible third presidential bid in 2024.”
Said one House GOP leadership aide: “If I’m a Democrat, I’d pray that Elon Musk puts Trump right back on Twitter. I don’t think it costs Republicans the House, but it certainly will elevate Trump’s opinions — and is going to put Republican candidates and members back having to answer for that.”
GOP Leaders Remain Shackled to Donald Trump
April 26, 2022 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
Gerard Baker: “The fervent desire of much of the Republican Party’s top brass, its major donors, business leaders who urgently crave a Republican restoration, and many of the party’s most prominent supporters in the media and elsewhere, is for Mr. Trump to break the habits of a lifetime and go quietly away.”
“It is a desire expressed as fervently in private as it is assiduously and dexterously avoided in public. But the big lie of this duplicitous relationship requires them to utter multiple, smaller, cascading fictions.”
“With the exception of a few demented types in Congress and the media, they don’t believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump. They don’t think that the Jan. 6 riot was a legitimate act of protest or the work of federal agents provocateurs. They fear that a Trump-led Republican ticket presents them with a lose-lose proposition in 2024: Either he continues his well-established pattern of losing the party elections—the 2018 midterms, the 2020 general election, the 2021 Georgia senate runoffs—or he wins and condemns them to another, potentially even more chaotic four years of his distinctive leadership.”
Schumer Sees Fast Passage of Ukraine Military Aid
April 26, 2022 at 8:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said he expected “swift, bipartisan” passage of another bill to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia once President Joe Biden submits a new funding request, Reuters reports.
Kemp Could Knock Out Perdue Without a Runoff
April 26, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll in Georgia finds Gov. Brian Kemp (R) with a big lead over his Donald Trump-backed challenger, David Perdue (R), in the Republican primary, 53% to 27%.
That would put the governor above the majority-vote threshold needed to avoid a June runoff. Other challengers were in the single digits; an additional 15% were undecided.
Biden Announces First Pardons
April 26, 2022 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“President Biden announced on Tuesday that he is pardoning three individuals and issuing 75 commutations, making the first use of his clemency powers in his administration,” Axios reports.
“The president campaigned on a promise to use his clemency power specifically for non-violent and drug crimes.”
“The 75 people whose sentences are being commuted served time for non-violent drug offenses. Many of these would have received less severe sentences if they had been charged after the First Step Act passed in 2018.”
Days before Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to press for Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election defeat by invoking martial law, new messages show.
The message – one of more than 2,000 texts turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating January 6 and first reported by CNN – shows that some of Trump’s most ardent allies on Capitol Hill were pressing for Trump to return himself to office even after the Capitol attack.
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“In our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law,” Greene texted on 17 January. “I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.”
The message about Trump potentially invoking martial law, earlier reported by CNN on Monday and confirmed by the Guardian, came a month after the idea had been raised in a heated Oval Office meeting a month before, where Trump considered ways to overturn the 2020 election.
Meadows did not appear to respond to Greene’s text. But the messages Trump’s top White House aide was receiving shows the extraordinary ideas swirling around Trump after he and his operatives were unable to stop the certification of Biden’s election win on January 6.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/25/marjorie-greene-texts-jan-6-antifa-lie/
Looming Ground Battle Is Crucial Phase in Ukraine
April 26, 2022 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
Washington Post: “U.S. military officials assess that a crucial, and perhaps decisive, phase of the Ukraine war is shaping up in the eastern part of the country, where Russian troops may surround Ukrainian forces in hopes of pummeling them in an epic, long-distance ground battle reminiscent of the last century.”
“New U.S. shipments of heavy artillery and counter-artillery radar, tactical drones, armored vehicles and other equipment are being rushed to Ukraine before tens of thousands of troops, amounting to up to half of the Ukrainian army, are caught in what is known as a ‘double envelopment’ maneuver that would bring them under simultaneous attack from two sides.”
GOOD! SOME SAY HE HAS CANCER.
Putin Appears Unsteady During Church Service
April 26, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“New footage of Vladimir Putin appearing unsteady, fidgeting and biting his lips during an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow on Sunday has added to suspicions that the Russian leader is seriously ill,” the New York Post reports.
Russia Warns Ukraine Against Provoking WWIII
April 26, 2022 at 6:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive, the AP reports.
BOSH!
James have you notice Biden's inflation?
Yet you want trillions more in spending, you truly are dumber the Roger .
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Days before Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to press for Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election defeat by invoking martial law, new messages show.
What law/criminal statute did she break by sending that text, alky???
Any idea?
Ask any lawyer, rrb.
rrb said...
The alky and the pederast:
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Guess the Gospel According to Goddard waterboy wants to avoid talking about how the Washington Post got caught deliberately trying to take down a president
along with their big tech and state media peers
they enjoy being led by the nose
rrb doesn't remember that George Wallace ran as an independent.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1518729059794051072
Twitter has been operating a multi-billion dollar in-kind donation to Democrats. It's over.
Well if it goes through it will be over.
But it still leaves the rest of big tech and state media
but they are dependent on solidarity of thought and the dam may burst
1984 may be fiction again
https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3463424-kemp-holds-wide-lead-in-georgia-governor-race-poll/
Bobby Burack
https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1518780097372823554
Past week:
— Elon Musk bought Twitter
— Shaun King deleted Twitter
— Jon Stewart found out nobody likes his show
— CNN+ died
— Rogan announced 2M new subscribers
— Jemele Hill failed again
—Bomani failed again
—Judge struck down travel mask mandate
—Spotify dropped Michelle Obama
hell if bots are dropped Joe will have almost no followers
Very few ever ever watch his videos
and then most are people mining for his flubs
and youtube had to disable thumbs down reviews of them
FAKE NEWS, fake followers, fake 81 million votes
Russia Pounds Eastern Ukraine
April 26, 2022 at 9:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“Russia pounded eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as the U.S. defense secretary promised to ‘keep moving heaven and earth’ to get Kyiv the weapons it needs to repel the new offensive even as Moscow warned such support risked widening the war,” the AP reports.
New York Times: “The United States marshaled allies on Tuesday to pledge more military support to Ukraine, accelerating the drive to deter Russia’s offensive and degrade its war machine, as Moscow accused the West of pursuing a proxy war and ignoring the ‘considerable’ risk that it could spiral into a nuclear conflict.”
fake 81 million votes
Proof F Daddy has a kool-aid drenched mind.
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1518884500054450177
After being stagnate for over a year, I got 10,000 new followers yesterday.
Something’s happening already.
Freedom
organic growth of conservatives is going to explode
once Musk actually takes over
hopefully before the 2022 election
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
fake 81 million votes
someone is in a fake news bubble if they don't realize this
have you watched 2,000 mules yet?
obviously not
Ian Miles Cheong
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1518766670327988226
Is anyone else noticing a massive uptick in followers?
I'm guessing some internal Twitter people are now being emboldened to unleash conservatives.
Or their radical libs are desperately trying to cover their tracks
Maybe now election interference videos and stories will finally get out
the regime is terrified
Kevin Kiley
https://twitter.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1518786251008077824
100K followers before the June 7 election suddenly seems more attainable.
Freedom
VIDEO:
What Twitter has been doing for the past 5 years (or longer)
https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1518783714167304199
he accidently told the truth
Learn your history alky -
Wallace sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Ask any lawyer, rrb.
I'm asking the alky, and now YOU pederast.
What laws did MTG break???
UndeadFOIA
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1518810749589757953
Pages of communications from Fusion GPS to reporters show reporters actively participating.
https://docdro.id/GYBo5Xm
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
This is absolutely wild. Page after page of corporate media stenographers actively colluding with Clinton campaign operatives to frame innocent Americans like Carter Page and Sergei Millian. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, ABC, Atlantic, Slate.
However much you hate the media, it's not enough.
FAKE NEWS
election interference
1984
Putin Appears Unsteady During Church Service
April 26, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“New footage of Vladimir Putin appearing unsteady, fidgeting and biting his lips during an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow on Sunday has added to suspicions that the Russian leader is seriously ill,” the New York Post reports.
Remember that one time that Trump picked up a glass with two hands and the liberal world went nuts? Sort of reminds me of this...
Vladimir Putin is losing it because he was fidgety in church (I mean who isn't). But our President forgets his name, his wife needs to remind him when to wave, and he has to be handled by the Easter Bunny. And our media doesn't blink twice. Perfectly fine...
We have a very odd US media.
p picked up a glass with two hands and the liberal world went nuts
Or yesterdays inability to pronounce the name of his new media out let.....sounded like a total drunk!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!1 Funny how you have peddled that Biden is not capable of leading because of his age sorry sport, but your thin skin is most amusing when trump fucks up!!!!! LOLOPLOLO
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