A new study has graded states by how well they handled the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent restrictions and lockdowns, showing a stark contrast between liberal and conservative states. The Committee To Unleash Prosperity study compared state performance on metrics including the economy, education, and mortality from the virus, and examined how states and their respective governments handled the pandemic response.
"Shutting down their economies and schools was by far the biggest mistake governors and state officials made during COVID, particularly in blue states," Steve Moore, co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, told Fox News Digital. "We hope the results of this study will persuade governors not to close schools and businesses the next time we have a new virus variant."
New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were among the worst in dealing with the coronavirus, performing "poorly on every measure," the report said. These states "had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states," the report added. States like Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota and Florida — all governed by Republicans — received the highest scores in the study, first through sixth, respectively. In fact, 13 of the top 15 states in the study are governed by Republicans.
Now this is not to say that liberals were not happy with being locked down, losing income, seeing their cities economically wrecked, and having their children learn way less. Liberals love to play the victim and Covid made them the ultimate victims. Covid alone made them victims. They could talk about people getting sick, hospitalizations, death. They could even blame conservatives, as they do for every thing. But if they could be even bigger victims by being forced to stay home, lose jobs, watch businesses go under, and have their children learn nothing, well than all the more power to their victimhood.
I know here in Washington many citizens believe Jay Inslee is the second coming of the lord based on his excessive lock down measures. In spite of no science to back it or no mandates even recommended you can still not get into many places here in Seattle without a vaccine card and a mask. Had to show my proof of vaccine and wear a mask to watch the Northwest Ballet a couple weeks ago here at a prestigious downtown theater. I still see people standing alone outside at a bus stop or driving alone in their cars wearing masks.
For a week or two after the mandates lifted, you still had most people wearing masks everywhere. That is slowly changing, but the people here are set on the concept of mandates, lockdowns, and mask wearing. I doubt they will ever believe differently. Covid was a medical crisis. Inslee turned it into an economic and social crisis as well and liberal will be forever grateful for all of that victimhood.
154 comments:
Great news from my home state
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.
Ravnsborg will at least temporarily be removed from office pending the historic Senate trial, where it takes a two-thirds majority to convict on impeachment charges.
Ravnsborg pleaded no contest last year to a pair of traffic misdemeanors in the crash, including making an illegal lane change. He has cast Joseph Boever’s death as a tragic accident.
On Monday night, he sent lawmakers a pair of defiant letters urging them to vote against impeachment.
“In a few hours, your vote will set a precedent for years to come,” Ravnsborg said in the first of two letters sent Monday night and obtained by the Argus Leader. “No state has ever impeached an elected official for a traffic accident.”
Faux news has taken your mind
THE TRIAD
Mayor Pete Should Replace Jen PsakiConflicts and upgrades.
Jonathan V. Last
43 min ago
1714
.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a daily press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House April 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
1. PSNBC
I’ll lay my cards on the table: I don’t like the idea of Jen Psaki going from the White House to broadcast news/opinion/whatever at NBC.
Let’s start with caveats:
Maybe this not-quite-confirmed rumor isn’t true.
It’s a free country and NBC can hire whomever they like.
Psaki has done a fine job as White House spox. Maybe she’ll be a good journalist.
All of that said, I don’t like the idea that political players can instantly be journalists1 any more than I like the idea of journalists who are secretly working as political players.2
But what really chafes me is Psaki remaining in her post as White House spokeswoman while being in some form of conversation with a media company about joining their team.
That’s bad.
Psaki cannot adequately serve the administration while simultaneously planning to land at one of the outlets covering the administration.
She should have declined to have any conversations about post-White House employment until she was out of the White House. And if she wanted to explore going to work for NBC, then at the very least she should have stepped aside as the public mouthpiece for the administration.
Continuing to be the voice of the administration while in talks with a media outlet for future employment is bad for Biden, bad for NBC, and bad for Psaki. I cannot understand how any of the parties involved thought this was a good idea.
But I come not to criticize Jen Psaki but to offer the Biden administration a solution:
Make Mayor Pete the new White House spokesman.
2. He Has All the Best Words
Pete Buttigieg is the single best communicator in Democratic politics right now. He’s smart, but clear-thinking. He’s quick on his feet. He has the Bill Clinton-esque power to discuss policy like a normal human. He’s likable. He’s tough, but non-threatening. He’s the nicest McKinsey star you’ve ever met.
What do Democrats need, more than anything, right now?
Someone to go out and explain what the Biden administration has done right. Every. Single. Day.
They need someone to stand up at press conferences and explain why the jobs numbers are good. How the war in Ukraine is progressing. What the president is doing to box in Putin. How the administration is addressing gas prices.
Joe Biden—God love him—is not that guy.
Mayor Pete is.
You ignored the death rates in Red states.
Trust in U.S. institutions has been declining for years, thanks to government scandals, economic dislocation, increased inequality and social media. Now, evidence is growing that the coronavirus pandemic is making the phenomenon much worse.
Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates
As Jonathan Haidt recently wrote in the Atlantic: “The right has been so committed to minimizing the risks of covid that it has turned the disease into one that preferentially kills Republicans. The progressive left is so committed to maximizing the dangers of covid that it often embraces an equally maximalist, one-size-fits-all strategy for vaccines, masks, and social distancing — even as they pertain to children.” The latter doesn’t kill people, but it has worsened isolation, polarization and Americans’ suspicion of the government.
Unsurprisingly, ABC News reports, “Unvaccinated Americans are several times more likely to be hospitalized and die and those living in rural areas, as well as conservatives and Republicans, were among the most hesitant to be vaccinated.” As a result, death rates in red states are more than 38 percent higher than in blue states. Red America blames government for closing schools and causing economic turmoil; blue America blames the unvaccinated for willfully risky behavior that has held back recovery from the pandemic.
Polling provides a portrait of a country that’s becoming even less trusting. Gallup reports: “In 2021, 39% of Americans had a great deal or fair amount of trust in the federal government to handle either domestic or international affairs. The international trust number is the lowest in Gallup’s history of asking the question. The domestic trust number is among the lowest. Similarly, Pew Research reports that 24% of Americans say they can trust the government to do what is right ‘just about always’ or ‘most of the time,’ near that organization’s historic lows.”
The phenomenon is happening in other Western democracies, too. More In Common, an international initiative committed to addressing polarization in democratic societies, found in a recent study of six European countries: “The long pandemic has left people feeling pessimistic, uncertain and distrustful. Social trust indicators have dropped since June 2020, many doubt that governments and the media are telling them the truth about covid, and large numbers say the pandemic has hurt their confidence in our ability to tackle future challenges.” Unvaccinated respondents experienced even higher levels of suspicion and distrust.
The data strongly suggest that we are emerging from the crisis with lower levels of trust than before. This might account for why Americans seem excessively grouchy and unwilling to credit government for the recovery thus far. And it almost certainly is connected to higher levels of depression and anxiety in our daily lives.
This is a problem for governance and for democracy. People with exceedingly low levels of trust are often disposed to favor authoritarian, right-wing parties; embrace conspiracy theories; and feel victimized by outsiders. So no one should be shocked, then, by the staying power of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or the rise of Marine Le Pen in France. Nor should anyone be surprised that former president Donald Trump and red-state governors remain a potent political force despite their atrocious records on covid. They feed on and stoke distrust. They are playing to their base’s anxiety that elites have failed and lied to them.
Democracy defenders would be foolish to ignore the lingering emotional and political effects of covid. (President Biden’s initiative on mental health may be the single most useful thing he has proposed.) Trying to argue with voters that things are looking better than they think they are would likely be futile. So how does one rationalize with and govern a society with low trust, getting lower with each crisis? Democracy in the United States and Europe might depend on solving that quandary.
Cumulative death rates in red states 30% higher
It has been nearly a year since the COVID-19 vaccines became available to every American adult last April, after initially being offered to health workers and older populations, when supplies were still limited.
However, vaccination rates differ markedly between states that voted for former President Donald Trump, compared to those that voted for President Joe Biden, paralleling the partisan lines that have divided the country.
Data sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the 10 states with the highest vaccination rates all voted for Biden in 2020, while nine of the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Trump. The lone exception was Georgia, which narrowly went for Biden by less than a quarter of a percentage point.
MORE: Return to pre-pandemic normalcy not yet on the horizon for many immunocompromised Americans
Further, cumulative death data from the C.D.C., from over the last 10 months, illustrates the implications of political polarization of the COVID-19 vaccines.
An ABC News analysis of federal data found that on average, the death rates in states that voted for Trump were more than 38% higher than in states that voted for Biden, post widespread vaccine availability.
In addition, in the 10 states with the lowest percentage of full vaccinations, death rates were almost twice as high as that of states with the highest vaccination rates, the analysis found.
Over the span of the last 10 months, in the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, where between 50 and 54.5% of the total population had been fully vaccinated, there was an average of 153 COVID-19-related deaths per 100,000 residents.
In contrast, during the same time period, the 10 states and jurisdictions with the highest vaccination rates, which all voted for Biden, there was an average of about 82.2 related deaths per 100,000 residents. In all 10 states, about 75% of residents had been fully vaccinated.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/red-blue-america-glaring-divide-covid-19-death/story?id=83649085
You ignored the death rates in Red states.
Wasn't my study Roger...
But they compared death rates by age, economic impacts, and educational issues. They didn't ignore "anything" here. They literally included everything associated with the lock downs, both good and bad.
What most liberal Governors did was focus 100% on death rates and 0% on economic and educational impact of their policies.
People like DeSantis focused and balanced everything and came out of it in much better shape than most blue states.
btw.. Roger
Go back a couple of posts
Americans care about:
1 Economy
2) Inflation
3) Crime
4) Russia/Ukraine
5) Immigration
Covid and Covd deaths are no longer a priority, but people are feeling the fall out from all of those lockdowns and mandates. Unless things change drastically over the next few months, the Democrats will be punished for it in November.
They ruined their economy because they felt (wrongly) that it would save thousands of lives. But now that Covid is over, people are looking forward and looking at the economic and social impacts of these lockdowns and not in a good way.
But now that Covid is over, people are looking forward and looking at the economic and social impacts of these lockdowns and not in a good way.
Dr. Fauci is warning about a new Covid surge coming up in the fall and he's calling for a return to indoor masking. It's almost like they're planning to use Covid to steal another election
https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1513314425541136386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1513314425541136386%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F
Philly went back to a masking mandate because of 46 hospitalizations.
Idiots.
This is not unexpected
Republicans Want to Help Putin Break NATO
April 12, 2022 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Will Saletan: “Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which protects most of the continent against him. And in that longstanding campaign, Putin scored two significant victories this week.”
“One was in France, where Marine Le Pen, a Putin sympathizer, finished a close second to Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s French presidential election…”
“The other victory was in the United States, where 63 House Republicans, nearly a third of the GOP conference, voted against a resolution of support for NATO.”
“The House vote, taken on April 5, is a warning sign. Putin may be losing ground in Ukraine, but he’s gaining ground in the U.S. Congress. Three years ago, 22 House Republicans voted against pro-NATO legislation. That number has nearly tripled.
They like dictatorships because they have become a fascist party ��
You will deny it
WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - U.S. monthly consumer prices increased by the most in 16-1/2 years in March as Russia's war against Ukraine boosted the cost of gasoline to record highs, cementing the case for a 50 basis points interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month.
The acceleration in prices reported by the Labor Department on Tuesday culminated in annual inflation rising at its fastest pace since the end of 1981. But there is cautious hope that the worst of the post-pandemic inflation surge is behind.
Monthly underlying inflation pressures moderated as goods prices, excluding food and energy, dropped by the most in two years. Further declines in the so-called core goods prices are likely as demand shifts back to services amid the rolling back of COVID-19 restrictions on businesses.
Inflation Scott
Let us all take a moment to remember that New York’s response — which is graded here among the worst — was routinely being praised by the media and held up as a model for what the federal government should have been doing. The prominent voices in the Democrat fever-dream were talking about ways to insert then-Governor Andrew Cuomo in as their nominee to run for president. It was surreal.
Guess where things were going well though?
The study also affirms another obvious truth; states that scored the highest are the ones that didn’t embrace commie-style lockdowns. Nine states scored an “A” rating: Florida, Georgia, Utah, Iowa, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Vermont, and South Dakota, all of which except Colorado are governed by Republicans.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2022/04/12/the-morning-briefing-confirmed-blue-state-commies-had-the-worst-covid-policies-n1588837
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Inflation Scott
Scott.
Scott!
SCOTT!!!
POST THE GOOD INFLATION NEWS SCOTT!!!
SCOTT!!!
I'M HERE TO HELP YOU SCOTT!
YOU'RE A SICK MAN SCOTT!
SCOTT!!!
LISTEN TO ME SCOTT!!!
“The other victory was in the United States, where 63 House Republicans, nearly a third of the GOP conference, voted against a resolution of support for NATO.”
It was a non-binding resolution, alky.
Symbolic and meaningless.
That's why it was rejected.
Imbecile.
Oof:
‘It’s BAD’:
Chart comparing wages/inflation under Trump to wages/inflation under Biden shows just how BAD Sleepy Joe is really doing
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/12/its-bad-chart-comparing-wages-inflation-under-trump-to-wages-inflation-under-biden-shows-just-how-bad-sleepy-joe-is-really-doing/
It's strange, but China and Shanghai and other pace that have had massive, strictly enforced shutdowns are having difficult increases in covid cases. There are things about this virus we dod not yet understand. And it's neither plitical party's fault.
No, it was rejected because it WAS indeed symbolic and shows that's how stupid Republicans actually are.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Tucker Carlson should be taken out to a firing squad early tomorrow morning and shot without benefit of cigarette or blindfold.
As a betrayer of our country, our democracy, our Constitution, and to humanity all over the world.
I have not expressed myself strongly enough.
February 24, 2022 at 6:02 PM
found out he didn't delete it
and isn't Honest, decent, truthful Rev.
just a lying charlatan
who wishes death to people he disagrees with
How "godly" of him
Infowars on immigration.
Washington Post columnist suggested Monday that the magic solution to rampant inflation and supply chain impediments would be to allow more illegal immigrants into the country.
Catherine Rampell wrote a piece titled that “Democrats are missing the bigger immigration issue,” noting that “Democrats are terrified that a coming border surge might tank their midterm chances.”
She then went on to suggest that problems will occur not with “too many immigrants” but rather “too few.”
Rampell claims, without any evidence or authority, that inflation will start to recede if there are more migrants “who can fill critical labor-market shortages.”
She writes, “The United States is experiencing inflationary levels not seen in four decades. Americans are unhappy, and they are more than five times as likely to cite “inflation,” “cost of living” or the economy in general than immigration as the nation’s biggest problem. These economic concerns are, however, rooted at least partly in immigration policy.”
Rampell continues, “there remains huge demand among foreign-born workers to contribute to the U.S. economy,” adding “the many businesses that rely on these workers are losing critical staff, making inflation worse.”
She concludes that more immigration will only benefit Americans financially “and, by extension, Democrats’ political fortunes.”
Of course, the notion that supply chain problems are solely to blame for inflation is moronic.
As Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has repeatedly pointed out, inflation is a direct cause of the Federal Reserve being “behind the curve” on interest rates and the Biden Administration’s massive increase in spending, including the $1.9-trillion covid-relief legislation.
As we noted yesterday, Biden intends to scrap the Title 42 public health authority, which border officials have estimated will increase the number of immigrants traveling to the border three fold to 18,000 per day.
Appearing on CBS News, former DHS head Jeh Johnson warned that “Numbers at these levels are difficult to handle on the southern border,” adding “Communities on the southern border, catholic charities, the volunteers, difficult to absorb these types of numbers under almost any scenario.”
Arizona GOP Rep. Andy Biggs warned that numbers will be even higher than estimated, suggesting that 20,000 to 30,000 could surge the border every day if Title 42 is scrapped.
“I think this is a political ploy, it’s meant to happen. They campaigned on an open border,” Biggs stated, warning“If you think it’s bad now, the tsunami that’s coming is going to be overwhelming.”
___
Too many rapist and murders like �� �� ��
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Tucker Carlson should be taken out to a firing squad early tomorrow morning and shot without benefit of cigarette or blindfold.
As a betrayer of our country, our democracy, our Constitution, and to humanity all over the world.
I have not expressed myself strongly enough.
February 24, 2022 at 6:02 PM
Thanks for digging that up JFD. And that was not the only one.
The "pastor" pederast is a lying piece of shit.
Jim Crow is as bad as it was at the end of Reconstruction."
Using data and analysis from research partner the Brennan Center for Justice, the report highlights four main elements of "the plot to destroy" U.S. democracy: gerrymandering, voter suppression, election sabotage, and voter intimidation.
"Communities of color powered the country's growth over the last decade—accounting for nearly all population increase for the first time in history," the report notes. In order to counter what many right-wing white Americans view as this demographic threat, GOP-led legislatures rig electoral district maps to effectively disenfranchise people of color.
In North Carolina, people of color accounted for 90% of all population growth over the last decade. In Texas, the figure is 95%. "Yet communities of color in these states have seen decreased representation in Congress," the report states.
According to NUL, 19 states passed 34 voter suppression laws between January 1 and December 7, 2021 in what the paper describes as "the most significant legislative assault on voting rights since Reconstruction."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/12/democracy-under-siege-gop-war-black-voters-report
Final Numbers
Dow 30 34,220.36 -87.72(-0.26%)
Crude Oil 100.73 +6.44(+6.83%)
My math is telling me this wasn't a very good day
unless you are Putin or a Putin supporter
Very bad day for Americans
Can't forget , what never happened.
"Trump would have withdrawn from Europe in general and NATO." Roger
Where is the "defined the police" " reimagine policing " and BLM ?
In North Carolina, people of color accounted for 90% of all population growth over the last decade. In Texas, the figure is 95%. "Yet communities of color in these states have seen decreased representation in Congress," the report states.
This doesn't make any sense. Neither NC or Texas have lost seats in congress, their populations are actually increasing, so it's impossible that they've lost representation.
Ukraine said Putine Used Chemical weapons.
President Joe Biden said NATO would respond "in kind" if Russia uses weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine."We will respond if he uses it," Biden said,
Roger and James.
You were cheating the Dow this morning.
How about now?
"34,220.36 −87.72 (0.26%)today"
Roger told us he is in debt up to his green teeth
Dr. Fauci is warning about a new Covid surge coming up in the fall and he's calling for a return to indoor masking. It's almost like they're planning to use Covid to steal another election
I'd say that politically that would backfire and the GOP will be ready for "executive orders" and Judges have already ruled much of what happened in 2020 to be unconstitutional.
Doesn't mean that Democratic Governors will not attempt executive actions either way... according to liberals, they could be charged with a crime for "obstruction" of the law by trying to work around it.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Founded by Kudlow, Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore, who advised Herman Cain pretty well sums up what their bias is.......sadly a very opinionated report that confirmed what they wanted!!!!!!
Hi Denny
Hope you are well.
Biden inflation
8.5%
Trump in 4 year = 7.7%
It's strange, but China and Shanghai and other pace that have had massive, strictly enforced shutdowns are having difficult increases in covid cases. There are things about this virus we dod not yet understand. And it's neither plitical party's fault.
Not all that strange when you take into account that lockdowns and mask mandates are new, never tested, and just flat out didn't work. Moreover, when we were told to wear paper masks that prior to Covid had a warning that stated they were not for medical use or that they did not prevent the spread of viruses... logic would have probably concluded that they would not help much.
But I agree with you Reverend...
after nearly two years of you blaming Republicans it turns out that it really wasn't the Republicans' fault. But the economic fallout from the lock downs and the educational lapses due to lack of in school learning can be blamed on those who insisted on untested draconian measures...
and probably on those "cheerleaders" who posted everyday about how this was a problem because of Republicans.
I'd say that politically that would backfire and the GOP will be ready for "executive orders" and Judges have already ruled much of what happened in 2020 to be unconstitutional.
You would think, but I don't think the left cares. They have made clear that they're capable of anything, willing to do anything, and nothing will prevent them from achieving their goal.
Look at the border. We're looking at 20,000 criminal aliens per DAY, and no one cares. Ballot harvesting and stuffing ballot boxes from coast to coast? Sure. That's fair game.
Nothing is off the table with these folks. They are that evil. And ruthless. And without a fucking care in the world because they know that no matter what they do, the law will never apply to them.
Republicans Want to Help Putin Break NATO
April 12, 2022 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 125 Comments
Will Saletan:
“Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which protects most of the continent against him. And in that longstanding campaign, Putin scored two significant victories this week.”
“One was in France, where Marine Le Pen, a Putin sympathizer, finished a close second to Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s French presidential election…”
“The other victory was in the United States, where 63 House Republicans, nearly a third of the GOP conference, voted against a resolution of support for NATO.”
“The House vote, taken on April 5, is a warning sign. Putin may be losing ground in Ukraine, but he’s gaining ground in the U.S. Congress. Three years ago, 22 House Republicans voted against pro-NATO legislation. That number has nearly tripled.”
Maybe I SHOULD reconsider and be FOR executing all Republican Neo Nazi White Supremacist traitors to America.
In an attempt to save his ass.
"
In an exception to the Clean Air Act, Biden will allow E15 gas to be sold this summer"
Hurting the Environment.
It's strange, but China and Shanghai and other pace that have had massive,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And the US is heading for a rapid rise in increases also......as evidenced by the DC sports outbreak with all those luminaries testing positive with mostly mild symtoms.....a tribute to the efficacy of the vax keeping people from getting ill....the rest of your diatribe Lil Schitty easpecially your opinion that masks don't work is highly amusing and naive!!!
when we were told to wear paper masks that prior to Covid had a warning that stated
All masks work to some degree except you are to obstinate to accept that....Oh well.....can't fix stupid!!!!
"America can be described in one word, ifrgsrdsatsy, Himalaya " Biden
Hurting the Environment.
And car engines...
Won't be putting that in my 2011 Crosstour, much less my Porsche.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And the US is heading for a rapid rise in increases also......as evidenced by the DC sports outbreak with all those luminaries testing positive with mostly mild symtoms.....a tribute to the efficacy of the vax keeping people from getting ill....the rest of your diatribe Lil Schitty easpecially your opinion that masks don't work is highly amusing and naive!!!
You do realize that you are quoting the Reverend?
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
It's strange, but China and Shanghai and other pace that have had massive, strictly enforced shutdowns are having difficult increases in covid cases. There are things about this virus we dod not yet understand. And it's neither plitical party's fault.
April 12, 2022 at 2:33 PM Delete
Did you really mean to make fun of him?
Nothing but ethonal free goes in my Trucks, atv's, chainsaws.
Biden dropping environmental regs to save himself.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Hurting the Environment.
And car engines...
Won't be putting that in my 2011 Crosstour, much less my Porsche.
I believe it costs more energy to process to 15% than it’s worth. The water separates after 2 months rather 3 w/10%, lower gas mileage. And I won’t put that shit in EITHER my 2008 or 2021 Lexus ES 350s
Capitol Rioter Says [He Thought] Trump ‘Authorized’ Capitol Attack
April 12, 2022 at 5:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump ‘authorized’ the Jan. 6 assault on the building by convincing ‘vulnerable’ people like his client that the election was stolen,” NBC News reports.
Roger Stone Ally Urged Protesters to ‘Descend on Capitol’
April 12, 2022 at 5:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
“One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger Stone, joined a conference call with a group of President Donald Trump’s supporters and made an urgent plea,” the New York Times reports.
“After assuring his listeners that the 2020 election had been stolen, Mr. Sullivan told them that they had to go to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day that Congress was to meet to finalize the electoral count — and ‘descend on the Capitol.'”
“While Mr. Sullivan claimed that he was ‘not inciting violence or any kind of riots,’ he urged those on the call to make their presence felt at the Capitol in a way that would intimidate members of Congress, telling the group that they had to ensure that lawmakers inside the building ‘understand that people are breathing down their necks.'”
Well, Ch, after people of your ilk have succeeded in convincing a lot of Americans that it is now safe not to mask, or distance, or get vaccinated, or take a booster shot -- when covid cases start to rise, perhaps even among school children, and perhaps even death rates also rise,
we'll see who gets blamed for it.
Hey pedo how are those crops going to get harvested and put into the ground in Ukraine in order to be shipped through Poland 🇵🇱?
Asking for a friend
Joe, has been releasing oil from The SPR to lower oil prices.
Is it working?
Maybe Cali's friend would like to educate him/herself:
Inside a Ukrainian village where farmers stay for the wheat harvest
With country at war, uncertainty facing Yakovlivka is shared across the country by farmers
Published: April 11, 2022 13:28
Reuters
YAKOVLIVKA, Ukraine: The wheat has been sown for the coming season but nobody in Yakovlivka, a small farming village outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, knows if it will be harvested.
A week after Russian forces launched their attacks on February 24, the village was bombed. The head of the village administration said four people were killed and 11, including children, were wounded in the attack.
“We were sitting in our cellar for four hours and read the Lord’s Prayer. We wrapped the kids into blankets and just couldn’t fall asleep until three or four in the morning,” said Nina Bonderenko, who works on her cousin’s farm.
Villagers said the attack may have been aimed at a unit of Ukrainian soldiers camping temporarily in the village school, although apart from some broken windows, the building was undamaged by the blasts.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the villagers’ account of the bombing.
Russia has denied targetting civilians in what it calls a “special operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” its neighbour. Ukraine and its allies dismiss that as a baseless pretext for war.
Since the village was bombed, residents say all certainty has been lost.
“We have planted all the wheat. But will we be able to grow anything and harvest it under the current circumstances?” said Vadim Aleksandrovich, director of “Granary of Sloboda” - a farming company that emerged from a former Soviet-era collective farm.
“Only God knows. We are doing our best.” With the country at war, the uncertainty facing Yakovlivka is shared across the country by farmers who produce the grain that has historically made Ukraine, the world’s fifth biggest wheat exporter, one of the great breadbaskets of the world.
Danger in the Fields
Last season, Granary of Sloboda’s harvest amounted to 3,000 tonnes of wheat, 3,000 tonnes of sunflower and 1,000 tons of corn.
But at the moment, 80% of the firm’s 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) are not accessible because of mines or combat operations, Aleksandrovich said.
Only the fields immediately around Yakovlikva village can be reached relatively safely and there is heavy fighting around the firm’s seed storage facility at its base in Izyum, some 140 km (85 miles) away, he said.
Before farm workers can go out to the fields, they call emergency services to find out if the area is safe. When rockets land in the fields, explosives disposal services remove any projectiles.
“The situation is very tense, and it is unclear what will happen to us,” Aleksandrovich said. “We don’t even know what will happen in one hour.”
Despite the uncertainty, most of the villagers have remained, refusing to join a national exodus that has seen around a quarter of the country’s population of 44 million flee their homes.
Of 533 permanent residents before the war, 380 have stayed, with refugees from outside boosting the population to 436, according to local authorities.
Although the village shop has closed, people have started to patch up the damaged houses that can still be repaired.
“I thought I could live my last days in peace and then this,” said 66-year-old Vera Babenko, picking a bowl out from under a pile of rubble by her now door-less refrigerator.
She said a bomb landed just beside her house, about 200 metres (yards) from the school the attack was apparently supposed to hit but she said she had no plans to leave.
Caliphate4vrApril 12, 2022 at 4:49 PM
Hey pedo how are those crops going to get harvested and put into the ground in Ukraine in order to be shipped through Poland ����?
Asking for a friend"
Come on Farmer James, tell us.
Apparently Ukrainian farmers are staying, hoping to harvest their crops somehow.
But you are of course rootin for Putin and Russia against them and against Ukraine.
Proving Cali's point.
"YAKOVLIVKA, Ukraine: The wheat has been sown for the coming season but nobody in Yakovlivka, a small farming village outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, knows if it will be harvested."
LOL
I'm no farmer, but I told you.
James, you could stop lying.
It might help you on judgement day.
"Hope" is not how modern farming is done.
Proving my point:
Cali and KansasDem really are rootin for Putin against the Ukrainian farmers.
I have been a village pastor long enough to know that farming involves a LOT of hoping.
Well, Ch, after people of your ilk have succeeded in convincing a lot of Americans that it is now safe not to mask, or distance, or get vaccinated, or take a booster shot -- when covid cases start to rise, perhaps even among school children, and perhaps even death rates also rise,
we'll see who gets blamed for it.
Nobody cares anymore, Reverend.
According to he Administration, Covid is over.
Moreover... most people (maybe not you) now understand that the massive lockdowns and mask mandates and such never worked. They will not respond well if liberal politicians try to reinstate policies that are proven failures and damage the economy and cause other damages.
Again... as pointed out to Roger.
Covid is not even a top five concern right now. Everything that is the concern could be pretty easily tied to Covid restrictions (not Covid itself). So if those "restrictions" come back when people are concerned about the economy, inflation, crime, etc....
then they will know "exactly" who to blame.
The bottom line problem for you on this issue, Reverend.
And many other liberals like you...
You are in denial about the realities that these draconian measures did not work and caused more harm than good. Since you do not accept that fact as fact, then it is impossible for you to understand what the rest of the population is feeling right now.
So yeah... Covid comes back in the fall and Blue State Governors and Democrats across the country start to call for the restrictions and mandates again....
It will be a fucking blood bath... against them in November.
You actually told us nothing.
No one ever thought you are/were a farmer, it was clear from your posts.
I never pretended to be a farmer.
But with a modicum of "research" (simple googling), I was easily able to answer Cali's question.
But now I will stop communicating with you, KanDIM, because I have even less respect for you than for all of the others here.
And that's a LOT of disrespect.
Won't be putting that in my 2011 Crosstour, much less my Porsche.
Filled up the Mustang GT with 93 octane ETHANOL-FREE go-go juice this afternoon.
And that's all it will ever see.
Hey alky, what are you driving this spring?
Get some new tennis balls for the walker?
LOL.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
I never pretended to be a farmer.
No, you chose to pretend to be a 'pastor' instead.
Ch, if some strain of Covid comes roaring back, perhaps even a fatality-causing strain of it, we'll see who followed the best procedures and gave the best advice all along.
You can be sure it won't be Trump or you and any of your ilk.
rrb is right down there with KanDim.
He'll be glad to know that.
According to he Administration, Covid is over.
HORSE SHIT YOU FRIGGING LYING SACK OF SHIT!!!!!! Only assholes like you Lil Schitty are making that claim....sorry sport, but take your head out of your child wife's ass!!!!!!
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
LOL
I'm no farmer, but I told you.
Pedo this has little to do with farming, it’s the infrastructure, fuel supplies, logistics and the ability to do anything and you assured everyone today, when you thought in your own (never good), that those crops would be that soon rot in the field and the summer won’t be planted, would go through Ukraine.
My original point from earlier is what will Europe do when they get hungry, still stands and all you’ve done is proven beyond a doubt, you’re fucking stupid
Yep
Careful guys. else the "pastor" will be calling for you be taken out to a firing squad early tomorrow morning and shot without benefit of cigarette or blindfold.
Wouldn't be the first time
He definitely practices a different kind of "religion"
And it fuels his hate filled "heart"
hopefully children will keep out of his path
and his grasp
Now this is a more factual take in the Ukraining Harvest.
"Harvest of Some Ukrainian Crops Could Fall by Half, as Its Grain Export Projections Reduced FurtherApril 9, 2022"
Pedo this has little to do with farming
He obviously knows about as much about farming as his one-time favored presidential candidate Bloomberg.
Another of those democrat multi-billionaires running a media powerhouse.
a FAKE NEWS powerhouse
Looks like my systematic purchase by my wife and I of I-bonds will continue .
May rate looks to come in around 9 % for the next 6 months.
Government cost of debt is sky rocketing.
Cali, Ukrainian farmers are HOPING somehow to harvest and transport their crops. I'm pulling for them.
You and your ilk, KanDem, rrb, F Daddy, and other such ilk on your level -- apparently including Ch
-- should be too.
Ch, if some strain of Covid comes roaring back, perhaps even a fatality-causing strain of it, we'll see who followed the best procedures and gave the best advice all along.
Like I said Reverend...
You are in denial and people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
But the reality is quite simple. Covid is a coronavirus (a cold) and like most coronaviruses it will likely come back in the fall in one form or the other.
But here is the funny thing.
If I told you that wearing brown shoes and purple socks would keep you safe from Covid and you didn't believe me. How many people would have to die before you decided to believe me and start to wear brown shoes and purple socks?
The answer should be that you will never wear brown shoes and purple socks as a means to protect yourself from Covid, because you don't believe it works. It shouldn't matter to you if nobody dies or 50% of the population dies. The shoe/sock combination is either going to help or it isn't.
But somehow you believe that people will cling back to the failures of lockdowns and mask mandates the second people start to die, even though there is more than enough evidence to show it won't help?
To some degree you are admitting your own fears will overcome science and common sense and you ACTUALLY believe that people will flock to Democrats once again if people start dying again?
Perhaps slow Joe had not really stopped Covid in it's tracks after all?
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-us-inflation-reaches-highest-rate-since-1981-as-conflict-pushes-up-energy-prices-12588602
Ever notice how it takes Ch so long to say so little?
I wonder why those countries that are experiencing surprising new outbreaks of covid are -- not wearing brown shoes or purple socks -- but reinstating lockdowns, masks, vaccinations, boosters, etc.
Could it be because scientists and medical experts are still telling us those measures may help.
So I just learned how farm from James.
"Hope"
Wow, that is how it is done.
Another Regular middle west Republican is not fucking crazy ��
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) “went on record in front of around 80 people in Waukon to say he does not support repealing a landmark healthcare reform law that brought coverage to more than 230,000 Iowa residents,” Iowa Starting Line reports.
Said Grassley: “I’m saying I would not—we’re not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
The Dems will be very wise TO RUN ON THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT in the midterms and in the next prez election.
James Skool of Farming .
"“Anybody, even people in this room can be a farmer,” Bloomberg told a group of University of Oxford students in a 2016 video that recently surfaced. “It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”
Scott and rrb will go ��♀️ �� ♥️ �� �� �� ��♀️ crazy ��
court filing)
National civil rights organizations have sued Alabama’s attorney general and other top officials over a new law that criminalizes medical care for transgender youth.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the Transgender Law Center filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of two Alabama families who say that Alabama’s S.B. 184, signed into law on Friday by the state’s Republican governor Kay Ivey, will be devastating to the mental and physical health of their children, who are transgender.
The law makes it a felony to provide gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender-reassignment surgery, to children up to 18 years old. Medical professionals convicted under the law face up to 10 years in prison.
The legislation also prohibits school officials, including teachers, principals, nurses and counselors in both public and private schools, to “encourage or coerce a minor” to hide from their parents or guardians the feeling that “the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex,” and makes it a violation for the official to withhold “information related to a minor’s perception that his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with his or her sex.”
China has been aggressively buying, storing Grain from any and every source.
They have unlimited wealth to do so.
No other country has the cash reserves to compete.
Cali, Ukrainian farmers are HOPING somehow to harvest and transport their crops.
Hope in one hand and shit in the other.
Just admit you opened your ignorant mouth, yet again, and you’re spitting teeth .
Oh what do you think this will do to inflation????
Never mind you’re incapable of answering without copy and pasting, it’ll be fucking stupid if you go extemporaneous
Biden policy
"Americans will see food shortages"
Link to that article, Roger, please.
Biden “genocide”.
Ok, so he is putting Americans on the ground, in the skies and the seas to stop it
Or
Getting ice cream?
Cali's upset because I so easily answered him.
You're welcome!
:-)
US President Joe Biden has said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is committing “genocide” in Ukraine, where concerns are mounting over the killing of civilians and the prospects of a new Russian offensive in the country’s east.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Iowa, where he announced a plan to curb rising gas prices in the United States, Biden said: “Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank – none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away.”
KEEP READINGlist of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Pressure mounts on Berlin as Kyiv snubs German presidentlist 2 of 3Kyiv says it captured Ukrainian pro-Russia politicianlist 3 of 3Chemical weapons watchdog ‘concerned’ by Mariupol reportsend of list
This is the first time that the US president, who previously said he believed Putin was a “war criminal”, has used the word “genocide” to describe events in Ukraine.
Biden later stood by his characterisation, saying Putin “is trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian”.
“I called it genocide because it has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian and the evidence is mounting,” Biden said as he prepared to board Air Force One to return to Washington from Iowa.
“We’ll let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies, but it sure seems that way to me,” he said.
Biden’s comments come less than a week after Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking a train station in the eastern town of Kramatorsk, killing more than 50 people, and as images of bodies on the streets of towns near Kyiv continue to draw global condemnation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/12/russian-president-putin-top-ally-in-ukraine-arrested-kyiv-says-liveblog
Reverend...
You just suggested that the country that has implemented the most draconian of lock down measures (China) is suddenly experiencing a massive uptick in Covid cases.
I don't think you actually appreciate what the American public is saying on the subject (or not saying).
This is simple.
People are worried about the economy, about inflation, about gas prices, and crime, and their schools, about immigration, about the sorts of everyday kitchen table issues that have nothing do with going back to lockdowns.
Doesn't matter what some "experts" say. Experts like Fauci are generally mocked and ridiculed for being wrong. Sure, are there some who will follow? Sure.
But why is it Reverend...
to answer your question with a question as you like to do..
That even here in Seattle, the bluest of the blue.. it only took about a month before about 75% of the people took off their masks and are now back to normal and only about 25% (at best) are still walking around with masks and running away from the unmasked like they were lepers?
Even here... in the bluest of blue... the vast majority are not wearing masks when not told to. If they believed that they worked (as some do) then they would still be wearing them voluntarily.
WATCH: Biden explains why he's now accusing Putin of 'genocide' in Ukraine
Brad Reed
April 12, 2022
President Joe Biden on Tuesday raised eyebrows when he referred to Russia's actions in Ukraine as a "genocide," and he subsequently made it clear to reporters that it was not a slip of the tongue.
As reported by CNN's Natasha Bertrand, Biden subsequently explained to reporters why he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine should be considered an attempted genocide.
"It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out even the idea of being Ukrainian," Biden said. "And the evidence is mounting... We’ll let the lawyers decide internationally if it qualifies [as genocide], but it sure seems that way to me."
Biden has steadily ramped up accusations against Putin since the start of the war, as last month he accused the Russian president of committing war crimes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Biden for labeling Putin's actions genocide.
"True words of a true leader, POTUS," he wrote on Twitter. "Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities."
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-putin-genocide/
Trump called him a genius
But dementia Joe has ice cream
Concerns over how Vladimir Putin might respond to Western sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine has focused attention on Europe’s reliance on Russian energy. As Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the Center on Global Energy Policy has noted, the European Union depends on Russian gas for 45% of its imports and around 40% of its consumption.
However, of equal if not greater importance is the massive impact of the Russian-Ukrainian War on the global availability of food.
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council on March 29, David Beasley, executive director of the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP), stated that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned the country “from the breadbasket of the world to breadlines,” a situation which will “have global context impact beyond anything we've seen since World War Two."…..
Prior to the war, the International Food Policy Research Institute estimated that Russian and Ukrainian exports, together, accounted for 12% of all food calories traded in the world, including almost 30% of all wheat exports, 20% of all corn exports and over 80% of all sunflower oil.
But in March, the Ukrainian Cabinet banned all exports of wheat, oats, millet, buckwheat, and cattle to keep them for internal use and closed its ports for shipping. And stiff sanctions have blocked Russia’s wheat trade with Europe and much of the rest of the world, although it is still being sold to the large market in China.
This reduction in the availability of cereal grains (and seed oils) will affect some parts of the world more than others. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, 26 countries, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, rely on Ukraine and Russia for more than half of their annual wheat imports.
Hey pedo you’re for higher gas prices, that’s nothing compared to what’s about to happen to food.
EXPLAINER: Why US inflation is so high, and when it may ease
By PAUL WISEMANtoday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another month, another four-decade high for inflation.
For the 12 months that ended in March, consumer prices rocketed 8.5%. That was the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981, far surpassing February’s mark of 7.9%, itself a 40-year high.
Even if you toss out food and energy prices — which are notoriously volatile and have driven much of the price spike — so-called core inflation jumped 6.5% in the past 12 months. That was also the sharpest such jump in four decades.
Consumers have felt the squeeze in everyday routines. Gasoline is up an average of 48% in the past year. Airline tickets are up 24%, men’s suits nearly 15%, bacon 18%.
The Federal Reserve never anticipated inflation this severe or persistent. Back in December 2020, the Fed’s policymakers had forecast that consumer inflation would stay below their 2% annual target and end 2021 at around 1.8%.
Yet after having been merely an afterthought for decades, high inflation reasserted itself last year with brutal speed. In February 2021, the government’s consumer price index was running just 1.7% above its level a year earlier. From there, the year-over-year increases accelerated — 2.6% in March, 4.2% in April, 5% in May, 5.4% in June.
COVID-19
COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total
By October, the figure was 6.2%, by November 6.8%, by December 7%.
For months, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and some others characterized higher consumer prices as merely “transitory” — the result, mainly, of shipping delays and temporary shortages of supplies and workers as the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession much faster than anyone had anticipated. Now, most economists expect inflation to remain elevated well into next year, with demand outstripping supplies in numerous areas of the economy.
So the Fed has radically changed course. Last month, it raised its benchmark short-term rate by a quarter-point and is expected to keep raising it, probably aggressively, well into 2023. In doing so, the Fed is moving decisively away from the ultra-low rates that helped revive the economy from the recession but also helped fuel surging consumer prices.
The Fed is making a high-risk bet that it can slow the economy enough to rein in inflation without weakening it so much as to trigger a recession. The overall economy is healthy, with a robust job market and extremely low unemployment. But many economists say they worry that the Fed’s steady credit tightening will cause an economic downturn.
____
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Cali's upset because I so easily answered him.
You're welcome!
Pedo I’m not upset, you’re dumber than a brick, I was getting dinner ready and took shower.
LMAO
Still waiting on how crops that will rot and won’t get planted can be shipped through Poland pederast.
That was your declaration.
I’ll wait
WHAT’S CAUSED THE SPIKE IN INFLATION?
Good news — mostly. When the pandemic paralyzed the economy in the spring of 2020 and lockdowns kicked in, businesses closed or cut hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution, employers slashed a breathtaking 22 million jobs. Economic output plunged at a record-shattering 31% annual rate in 2020′s April-June quarter.
But instead of sinking into a prolonged downturn, the economy staged an unexpectedly rousing recovery, fueled by vast infusions of government aid and emergency intervention by the Fed, which slashed rates, among other things. By spring of last year, the rollout of vaccines had emboldened consumers to return to restaurants, bars, shops, airports and entertainment venues.
Suddenly, businesses had to scramble to meet demand. They couldn’t hire fast enough to fill job openings or buy enough supplies to meet customer orders. As business roared back, ports and freight yards couldn’t handle the traffic. Global supply chains seized up.
With demand up and supplies down, costs jumped. And companies found that they could pass along those higher costs in the form of higher prices to consumers, many of whom had managed to pile up savings during the pandemic.
Critics blamed, in part, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households, for overheating an economy that was already sizzling on its own. Many others argued that the Fed kept rates near zero far too long, lending fuel to runaway spending and inflated prices in stocks, homes and other assets.
____
HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
Elevated consumer price inflation could endure as long as companies struggle to keep up with consumers’ demand for goods and services. A recovering job market — employers added a record 6.7 million jobs last year and are adding 560,000 a month so far this year — means that Americans as a whole can continue to splurge on everything from lawn furniture to electronics.
Many economists foresee inflation staying well above the Fed’s 2% annual target this year. But relief from higher prices might be coming. Jammed-up supply chains are beginning to show some signs of improvement, at least in some industries. The Fed’s pivot away from easy-money policies toward an anti-inflationary policy could eventually reduce consumer demand. There will be no repeat of last year’s COVID relief checks from Washington. Inflation itself is eroding purchasing power and might force some consumers to shave spending.
At the same time, new COVID variants could cloud the outlook — either by causing outbreaks that force factories and ports to close and disrupt supply chains even more or by keeping people home and reducing demand for goods.
___
HOW ARE HIGHER PRICES AFFECTING CONSUMERS?
The strong job market is boosting workers’ pay, though not enough to offset higher prices. The Labor Department says that after accounting for higher consumer prices, hourly earnings for private-sector employees fell 2.7% last month from a year earlier, the 12th straight such drop.
There are exceptions: After-inflation wages rose 8% for hotel workers and 4% for restaurant and bar employees in March from a year earlier.
Partisan politics, in the meantime, is influencing the way Americans view the inflation threat. With a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say that inflation is having a negative effect on their personal finances, according to surveys of consumer sentiment conducted by the University of Michigan.
AP Isn't propaganda like Fox News or RED STATE@@@@?????@@__LMAO LMAO LMAO LOL 🤣 😂 😆
Blame Trump? Jury hears that defense at Capitol riot trial
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mentions of Donald Trump have been rare at the first few trials for people charged with storming the U.S. Capitol, but that changed Tuesday: The latest Capitol riot defendant to go on trial is blaming his actions on the former president and his false claims about a stolen election.
Dustin Byron Thompson, an Ohio man charged with stealing a coat rack from the Capitol, doesn’t deny that he joined the mob on Jan. 6, 2021. But his lawyer vowed to show that Trump abused his power to “authorize” the attack.
Describing Trump as a man without scruples or integrity, defense attorney Samuel Shamansky said the former president engaged in a “sinister” plot to encourage Thompson and other supporters to “do his dirty work.”
“It’s Donald Trump himself spewing the lies and using his position to authorize this assault,” Shamansky told jurors Tuesday during the trial’s opening statements.
When I'm not walking around I read different stories and find interesting stories like this
Remember when kputz said he is smarter than me about this????
Many economists foresee inflation staying well above the Fed’s 2% annual target this year. But relief from higher prices might be coming. Jammed-up supply chains are beginning to show some signs of improvement, at least in some industries.
AP Isn't propaganda like Fox News
No it's leftist propaganda...
The consumer sentiment is at historical lows, the market (which you plugged earlier today) actually fell off into another losing session and we are back down to 34,220 in the Dow which is no higher than it was a year ago.
The approvals of the President continue to dump and the GOP is actually ahead in the Generic ballot (which rarely happens even in years they win).
Anyone providing a "rosy outlook" for things or blames partisanship on low consumer sentiment isn't just proving propaganda, they are providing total bullshit.
Giuliani Unlocks Phones for Prosecutors
April 12, 2022 at 7:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Federal prosecutors may soon reach a charging decision regarding Rudy Giuliani’s foreign lobbying efforts involving Ukraine, after he helped investigators unlock several electronic devices that were seized by the FBI,“ CNN reports.
“Giuliani has also offered to appear for a separate interview to prove he has nothing to hide, renewing a proposal that federal prosecutors have previously rebuffed.”
Oh look Kim is feeling his oats with a dementia patient leading us. Russia, the Talibs now Denny’s doppelgänger in NorK
Kim Jong Un BLOWS UP tourist golf resort intended to build ties with South Korea in latest sign the tyrant is heading for confrontation
Every two bit dictator is now using Putin’s crib notes.
November can’t get here quick enough
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Giuliani Unlocks Phones for Prosecutors
April 12, 2022 at 7:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
No one gives a shit pedo and another pitiful c/p diversion, how are rotting crops and those that won’t be planted going to somehow make their way to Poland?
You’re basically dumb as dirt and can only rely on others thoughts to post.
Gezz
The chair of a Virginia electoral board stepped down Monday after pressure from fellow Republicans, including the state’s governor, following a resurfaced racist Facebook screed against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré posted in early 2021. The Republican Party of Hampton first called for his resignation Friday.
The post targeted Austin, the first Black defense secretary, after he had ordered a Defense Department-wide stand down to discuss violent extremist ideology in the military. It also targeted Honoré, who is Black. House Speaker Navy Pelosi appointed him to conduct a review of the Capitol’s security infrastructure, interagency processes and command and control following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by supporters of President Donald Trump.
David Dietrich, an electoral board member from Hampton, Virginia, called them the n-word and called for “a good public lynching.”
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Remember when kputz said he is smarter than me about this????
Yes Alky we do and he still is. You still haven’t factored in the costs of fuel to run the run tractors, the fuel to run the irrigation, to ship the commodities, fertilizer and the fact there won’t be any food coming from Ukraine, India and China are closing food exports.
This is going to be epically ugly and none of it happed on bad Orange man’s watch
Carter is giggling his off and the new Ronnie is coming from 3000 miles away in Florida. DeSantis
Do they put the precut nanners in your jello, and take the red pills tonight, Econ is way above you
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes
Thanks Cali.
Roger is always drowning in his lack of understanding.
This is going to be amazing to watch.
: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses during a break at a Dallas Fed conference on technology in Dallas
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should quickly get interest rates up to a level where borrowing costs will no longer be stimulating the economy, and should raise them further if high inflation proves persistent, Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said on Tuesday.
"How far we will need to raise rates, in fact, won’t be clear until we get closer to our destination, but rest assured we will do what we must to address this recent bout of above-target inflation," Barkin
COVID-19 deaths rose in 2021 — to more than 415,000, up from 351,000 the year before — as new coronavirus variants emerged and an unexpectedly large numbers of Americans refused to get vaccinated or were hesitant to wear masks, experts said.
You have no shame
Feb 23 , 2022 day before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ruble value = 0.012 USD
Today , After Sanctions
Russian Ruble Value = 0.012 USD
Roger and James said, the ruble had been crushed.
You have no shame
Stay inside Alky quiver in place.
No one is stopping you, unless che’ du’plastque is ready to roll you and the demented Beatle out, for higher rents..
LMAO
DO THOSE WALLS JUST KEEP CLOSING RIGHT ON IN?
Top Trump White House Lawyers to Testify
April 12, 2022 at 8:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 168 Comments
“Two of Donald Trump’s top White House lawyers are slated to speak with the Jan. 6 select committee Wednesday,” Politico reports.
“Pat Cipollone, Trump’s White House counsel, and his deputy Patrick Philbin, are expected to speak informally with the panel, a potential precursor to more formal transcribed testimony later. Cipollone and Philbin did not respond to requests for comment."
It's not just that they have no shame or concern for others, Roger, which is certainly bad enough.
It's that they no longer have even a modicum of common sense.
The Trump KOOl-AID has pickled their brains.
I'm finding out that the Ukrainians will not be attempting to export their wheat through either Poland or anywhere else. The Russian invasion has so severely reduced the fine crop they were expecting that they have outlawed all exportation of wheat.
They will be using it to keep their own people from starving.
So far the only Ukrainians who have been starving have been those cut off by the Russians in Mariupol and other such cities.
While the Troothers here cheer them on and keep Rootin for Pootin.
I don't know where Cali got the idea that they are going to let the wheat rot in the fields.
Maybe he can explain that...
Report raises alarm on ‘insidious’ effort to undermine US democracy
State legislatures using gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation and intimidation to make voting more difficult
Maya Yang in New York
Wed 13 Apr 2022 02.00 EDT
An “insidious and coordinated” effort between lawmakers and extremist groups is under way to undermine American democracy, according to a new report.
On Tuesday, the nonpartisan civil rights organization National Urban League released the annual report in its analysis series The State of Black America. The report, called Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy, outlines the “conspiracy and the urgent case for a national mobilization to protect and defend our most sacred constitutional rights.
It focuses on four main tactics that it says are used in this effort: gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation and intimidation.
In 2021 alone, 20 states have leveraged census data to redraw congressional maps, it noted. The new maps proposed by Republican state lawmakers “are no more than modern-day gerrymandering that strips voting power away from communities with Black and brown voters”, the report said.
It also listed 34 laws passed in 19 states between January 1 and December 7 2021 that make it more difficult for people to vote.
In addition to shortening the window to apply and deliver mail ballots, those laws limit absentee voting lists, restrict assistance in returning a voter’s mail ballot, reduce the availability of mail ballot drop boxes, and increase barriers for voters with disabilities, among other restrictions.
“The burden of these laws – strict photo ID requirements, the elimination or restriction of Sunday voting, voting by mail and early voting, and the closing of polling locations – overwhelmingly falls on Black voters,” Marc Morial, president and CEO of NUL, said in the report.
Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the United States has seen a steady rise in disenfranchisement practices giving one party an edge over the other. But never before has the nation seen such an insidious and coordinated campaign to obliterate the very principle of ‘one person, one vote’ from the political process.”
According to the report, state legislatures in 18 states carried over at least 152 restrictive bills from the 2021 legislative season. Additionally, in states that allow lawmakers to “pre-file” bills ahead of the next legislative season, at least 96 bills in 12 states would make it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots.
The report also laid out steps that have been taken to sabotage elections, including discrediting the vote and outright aiming to establish one-party rule, as demonstrated by the Stop the Steal movement.
It also notes an uptick in intimidation of election officials since 2020, with one in six local election officials saying they have personally experienced threats, and a quarter concerned about being assaulted because of their role.
Additionally, the report found that election workers are resigning and retiring at alarming rates, with one in five saying that they are “very” or “somewhat” unlikely to continue serving through 2024.
It cites a poll conducted by the strategic research and consulting firm Benenson Strategy Group in which an overwhelming majority of Black Americans said they believe strongly in the power of their vote to make a difference when it comes to social and racial justice, police violence and economic opportunity.
However, nearly as many agree that elected officials are not doing enough to protect their voting rights and are in fact “doing more to limit voting rights than to protect them”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/insidious-effort-to-undermine-us-democracy-report
A coordinated right-wing effort to entrench Republican power by dismantling voting rights and disenfranchising voters of color poses an existential threat to American democracy, according to the National Urban League's annual State of Black America report published Tuesday.
"For generations, politicians have used these tactics—voter suppression, gerrymandering, intimidation, and misinformation—to exclude voters of color."
The NUL's 2022 report—entitled Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy—details how Republican federal and state lawmakers are working "in concert" with political operatives and violent extremists "to disenfranchise, delude, manipulate, and intimidate American voters and establish a one-party rule."
NUL president and CEO Marc H. Morial writes in the report's executive summary that "since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the United States has seen a steady rise in disenfranchisement practices giving one party an edge over the other."
Morial jumps from that era to the more recent elections of former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
"The current anti-democratic wave began to rise after the 2008 election when Black voting rates matched white voting rates for the first time and helped propel Barack Obama to the White House," he continues. "It crested in 2013 when the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act's preclearance provision. And it broke against 'the Big Lie,' the relentless campaign to sow doubt about the 2020 presidential campaign and illegitimately declare Donald Trump the winner."
Using data and analysis from research partner the Brennan Center for Justice, the report highlights four main elements of "the plot to destroy" U.S. democracy: gerrymandering, voter suppression, election sabotage, and voter intimidation.
"Communities of color powered the country's growth over the last decade—accounting for nearly all population increase for the first time in history," the report notes. In order to counter what many right-wing white Americans view as this demographic threat, GOP-led legislatures rig electoral district maps to effectively disenfranchise people of color.
In North Carolina, people of color accounted for 90% of all population growth over the last decade. In Texas, the figure is 95%. "Yet communities of color in these states have seen decreased representation in Congress," the report states.
According to NUL, 19 states passed 34 voter suppression laws between January 1 and December 7, 2021 in what the paper describes as "the most significant legislative assault on voting rights since Reconstruction."
This year "is already shaping up to be another assault on voting rights as state legislatures in 18 states carried over at least 152 restrictive bills from the 2021 legislative sessions," the paper notes.
Morial writes that "the burden of these laws—strict photo ID requirements, the elimination or restriction of Sunday voting, voting by mail and early voting, and the closing of polling locations—overwhelmingly falls on Black voters."
"We must pass legislation that strengthens voting rights and puts the checks in place to maintain the integrity of our electoral process."
"For generations," he adds, "politicians have used these tactics—voter suppression, gerrymandering, intimidation, and misinformation—to exclude voters of color."
Referring to the attempt by Trump supporters to subvert the 2020 presidential election on the baseless claim that it was "stolen," NUL asserts that "the Stop the Steal movement isn't a slogan or a fad. Instead, it's a calculated push to delegitimize the voices and votes of people of color across this country."
The paper lays out a four-point plan for sabotaging elections: First, discredit the vote. Then, introduce new outcomes through conspiracy-driven "audits." Next, "block the ballot box" by empowering partisan officials to reject or overturn election results. Finally, establish one-party rule.
"We must pass legislation that strengthens voting rights and puts the checks in place to maintain the integrity of our electoral process," the report asserts. "Otherwise, states may allow bad actors to take office and rewrite history with racist rhetoric, lies, and dangerous conspiracy theories."
NUL also highlights the intimidation faced by election officials, who "are facing violent threats for carrying out their duties and upholding the legitimacy of the 2020 election. These threats reached an alarming level in 2020 and continued in 2021."
According to the publication, one in four local election officials fear being assaulted on the job, while one in six have personally experienced abuse, such as "threats of violence against them and their family members, including elderly parents and children."
Meanwhile, the paper points out, "in at least 17 states, legislators introduced bills that increase partisan power to control or punish officials. Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, and Texas considered bills aimed at coercing election officials through the threat of criminal and civil penalties. Florida, Georgia, and Texas introduced bills that would empower partisan poll watchers at the expense of election workers."
"These bills have the double-pronged effect of threatening election officials and increasing the risk of partisan sabotage of election outcomes," the report says.
Morial warns that "never before has the nation seen such an insidious and coordinated campaign to obliterate the very principle of 'one person, one vote' from the political process."
"It is an astonishing reversal of a two-century moral arc that has bent, if slowly and unevenly, toward universal suffrage," he adds.
For our right wing losers who are too fucking lazy to research, only opine and repeat the BS they hear on fox!!!!!
FACT:In terms of fossil energy, each gallon of ethanol produced from corn today delivers one third or more energy than is used to produce it. Ethanol has a positive energy balance – that is, the energy content of ethanol is greater than the fossil energy used to produce it – and this balance is constantly improving with new technologies.
nol require more energy to make than it yields?
Myth No. 1: Ethanol requires more energy to make than it yields. False. Argonne National Laboratory research has shown that corn ethanol delivers a positive energy balance of 8.8 megajoules per liter.
Argonne National Laboratory research has shown that corn ethanol delivers a positive energy balance of 8.8 megajoules per liter. The energy balance from second-generation biofuels using cellulosic sources is up to six times better, according to a study published in Biomass and Bioenergy Journal.
Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.
"There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel," says David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell. "These strategies are not sustainable."
Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Berkeley, conducted a detailed analysis of the energy input-yield ratios of producing ethanol from corn, switch grass and wood biomass as well as for producing biodiesel from soybean and sunflower plants. Their report is published in Natural Resources Research (Vol. 14:1, 65-76).
In terms of energy output compared with energy input for ethanol production, the study found that:
corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced;
switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and
wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
In terms of energy output compared with the energy input for biodiesel production, the study found that:
soybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and
sunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
In assessing inputs, the researchers considered such factors as the energy used in producing the crop (including production of pesticides and fertilizer, running farm machinery and irrigating, grinding and transporting the crop) and in fermenting/distilling the ethanol from the water mix. Although additional costs are incurred, such as federal and state subsidies that are passed on to consumers and the costs associated with environmental pollution or degradation, these figures were not included in the analysis.
"The United State desperately needs a liquid fuel replacement for oil in the near future," says Pimentel, "but producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is going down the wrong road, because you use more energy to produce these fuels than you get out from the combustion of these products."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/ethanol-biodiesel-corn-and-other-crops-not-worth-energy#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20energy%20output,than%20the%20fuel%20produced%3B%20and
Nice try BWAA.
World Surpasses 500 Million Covid Cases
April 13, 2022 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
The world has now seen 500 million documented Covid cases, per the Johns Hopkins tracker.
A Historical Shift for Northern Ireland
April 13, 2022 at 7:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“Northern Irish politics are on the brink of an inflection point on May 5 if the latest polling proves correct, ending a century in which the largest party in Northern Irish politics has come from the unionist community,” The Guardian reports.
“Instead Sinn Féin, a party that campaigns for a united Ireland, seems likely to win a historic victory.”
Russia Has Yet to Slow a Western Arms Express
April 13, 2022 at 7:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
“Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching, potentially decisive, battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region,” the AP reports.
“Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express.”
Meanwhile Ch and his ilk are rooting for the Russians.
BWAAAAAAAA!!!! At you..... and I thought the discussion was corn......not every other bio fuel you are pawning off.....LOLOLOLOLOL
Argonne National Laboratory research has shown that corn ethanol delivers a positive energy balance of 8.8 megajoules per liter. The energy balance from second-generation biofuels using cellulosic sources is up to six times better, according to a study published in Biomass and Bioenergy Journal.
Sorry sport but the overwhelming data shows corn has a positive energy production versus 2 assholes in UC berekly saying otherwise!!!!!
Biden Calls Russian Atrocities in Ukraine ‘Genocide’
April 13, 2022 at 6:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
President Joe Biden for the first time labeled Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine genocide, Politico reports.
Said Biden: “Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away.”
He later added: “It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being Ukrainian. The evidence is mounting. It looks different than last week.”
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky responded:
“True words of a true leader.”
Why no, he's just a doddering old fool, according to certain traitors who post here.
"WE COULD STILL SCREW UP,"
MOSCOW MITCH WARNS:
How Republicans Could Still Screw Up the Midterms
April 13, 2022 at 6:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said the political atmosphere is good for Republicans heading into the midterms but warned that the party could bungle its chances if “unacceptable” candidates win their primaries but go on to lose in November,
The Hill reports.
Said McConnell:
“From an atmospheric point of view, it’s a perfect storm of problems for the Democrats. How could you screw this up? It’s actually possible. And we’ve had some experience with that in the past.”
He added:
“In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election. So you can’t nominate somebody who’s just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. We had that experience in 2010 and 2012."
SIMPLE TRANSLATION:
"DONALD TRUMP COULD STILL SINK US.
Blogger anonymous said...
BWAAAAAAAA!!!! At you..... and I thought the discussion was corn......not every other bio fuel you are pawning off.....LOLOLOLOLOL
Argonne National Laboratory research has shown that corn ethanol delivers a positive energy balance of 8.8 megajoules per liter.
corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced
corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced
corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced
HERE'S WHY AMERICA, LIKE RUSSIA, IS ALREADY BEING RULED BY A WEALTHY AUTOCRACY, A CRIMINAL MINDED OLIGARCHY OF THE RICH.
_________
America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed
April 13, 2022 at 8:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
ProPublica
reveals, for the first time ever, who makes the most income in America —and what taxes they pay.
To make it into the top 400, you needed to earn $110 million per year on average.
A typical American making $40,000 would have to work for 2,750 years to make what the lowest-earning person in this group made in one.
__________
THE STUDY CONCLUDES:
'It’s even more striking when you compare ordinary Americans with the very wealthiest Americans, as opposed to just those with the highest incomes.
As we showed last year, the richest avoid income when they can. Then they pay very little in tax when it’s measured against their growing wealth. The top 25 wealthiest Americans got $401 billion richer from 2014 to 2018, but paid just $13.6 billion in federal income taxes, a “true tax rate,” as we called it, of 3.4%.
Even the conventional income tax rate for this top 25 is remarkably low: 16%.
Over time, the gap between those at the top and ordinary Americans has gotten wider. This is evident when looking at both wealth and income.
'Wealth and Income at the Top Exploded, While the Typical American’s Were Stagnant
Since it began, the idea behind the progressive income tax was to make the rich pay their “fair share” and narrow this gap. A century later, however, our data shows that aspiration has been undermined.'
______
AND THE GOP WANTS TO INCREASE THE WEALTH GAP BY ALLOWING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN MORE DISHONEST CORRUPTION.
Greed and envy. The hallmark of a 'true' man of the cloth.
LOL.
Good job pederast. You reveal yourself to be a fraud with virtually every post.
Rat (rrb) claims that all who point out the greed and envy of the super rich are themselves guilty of greed and envy.
Jesus said,
"Woe to you who are rich" (Luke 6:24a).
"It is easier for a camel to go thrugh the eye of needle than for a rich person to get into the Kingdom of God."
"A person's life does not consist in the abundance of his or her possessions."
______
Was that greed and envy?
The Party of Lunatics
Her theories, her blatant embrace of anti-Muslim bigotry and white Christian nationalism, and her aggression against political opponents. The latest escalation came last week, when she smeared her Republican colleagues in the Senate, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, as “pro-pedophile” after they voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US supreme court; Democrats, she added, “are the party of pedophiles.”
Biden needs to start goingafter large corporations if he wants to win again | Robert Reich
There is a calculating quality to Greene’s polemics. Last fall, for instance, she recorded a campaign video in which she used a military-grade sniper rifle to blow up a car that had the word “socialism” written on it, promising to do the same to the “Democrats’ socialist agenda.” It was over-exaggerated campaign nonsense. But Greene knew the unsubtle insinuation of using violence against a political opponent would demand attention.
The fact that Greene’s antics are so clearly designed to keep herself in the spotlight has prompted calls for the media and commentators to stop paying attention to her rather than be complicit in the amplification of far-right propaganda. And if what’s on display here were just the extremist behavior of a fringe figure, it would indeed be best to simply ignore her. This, however, isn’t just Greene’s extremism – it is increasingly that of the Republican party itself. Greene and the many provocateurs like her are not just rightwing trolls, but elected officials in good standing with their party. Ignoring them won’t work, nor will making fun of them: These people are in positions of influence, fully intent on using their power.
We are witnessing the finaldays of reproductive freedom in America | Moira Donegan.
In any (small-d) democratic party, Greene’s extremism should be disqualifying. In today’s Republican party, she’s not being expelled, she’s being elevated. Greene is undoubtedly one of the rightwing stars in the country, and that’s not just a media phenomenon. Republican candidates crave her endorsement. Democrats stripped her of her committee assignments against the vote of nearly all of Greene’s Republican colleagues; if the Republicans capture the House in November, she’ll probably get those assignments back.
It is true that occasionally, Greene’s most egregious actions have led to some measure of symbolic distancing from Republican leadership. After she spoke at the white supremacist America First Political Action Conference (Afpac) in February, where she was enthusiastically introduced and embraced by the well-known far-right activist and Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes, minority leader Kevin McCarthy gave her a good talking to – but no serious consequences followed.
Overall, Greene’s position within the Republican party seems secure. That’s partly because the Republican leadership is surely aware that most of the energy and activism in conservatism is in the far-right wing that stands behind Greene. In fact, Greene is the poster child of a rising group of rightwing radicals: in Congress, she likes to present herself and like-minded allies such as representatives Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz as the future of the Republican party, and they aren’t shy about their intention to purge whatever vestiges of “moderate” conservatism might still exist within the Republican party.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/extremists-like-marjorie-taylor-greene-are-the-future-of-the-republican-party
Proof
rrbApril 13, 2022 at 7:40 AM
Greed and envy. The hallmark of a 'true' man of the cloth.
LOL.
Good job pederast. You reveal yourself to be a fraud with virtually every post
Aimee Terese
https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1514230946324959233
Robert Reich is a real sleazeball. This is a great takedown of his 1997 book covering his years in Bill Clinton's administration, in which he repeatedly fabricates events that simply didn't happen.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1997/05/robert-reich-quote-doctor.html
His stripes certainly have not changed.
But other than confined mental patients who pays attention to him ?
Jon Nicosia
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1514015313691561993
SOURCE: Chris Wallace is "having daily breakdowns" over the "miserable launch" of @CNNplus. Wants a "CNN show or is threatening to walk" they go on. "He is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing"
Glenn Greenwald
Imagine leaving your extremely influential perch as host of Fox's Sunday news program in order to go to a CNN streaming service where you know that every time you speak, fewer than 10,000 people are listening. Small YouTubers are embarrassed by those numbers.
I left Wallace off the list of obvious leftists who worked/work at Fox
Funny you can't find the opposite on CNN MSNBC etc
Context, pederast. Context.
LUKE 12:15
Jesus only had a problem with wealth if a man let it define him before all else, including God.
You criticize the wealthy at every turn, coveting all they have, and demand a portion of it. All while dismissing whatever philanthropic endeavors they may have accomplished.
You remind me of the nurses union who felt compelled to protest a NYC hospital because one of the Koch Bros. had just donated a multi-million dollar wing.
You despise all who have more than you and you covet what they have.
Nothing could be less Christian in my opinion. And this is why I will always consider you a fucking fraud.
* left Shephard Smith off too, and I suspect Cavuto is more left than right, definitely a never-Trumper
Maybe someone can provide a list of real righties on CNN and MSNBC ?
Well no response will be accurate
You despise all who have more than you and you covet what they have.
Nothing could be less Christian in my opinion. And this is why I will always consider you a fucking fraud.
Hell he supposedly can't even remember when he recently called for someone to be executed without a blindfold nor a trial
How "Christian" for a "man of the cloth" which he regularly brings up
A charlatan is what he actually is
and a fucking fraud
But he enjoys that or he wouldn't spend so much time here as well as waterboying
From his Gospel According to Goddard
Nothing in the world of Tucker Carlson and Ch. makes sense, because it doesn’t have to.
There was never any credibility to Carlson’s or Ch's supposed offense at fielding questions about his vaccination status. Untold numbers of his fellow citizens, after all, have treated vaccinations as quasi-public events, tweeting and Instagramming their shots. Many of those who oppose the vaccines, likewise, have felt empowered to make their case in public.
Over the past two years, Carlson has feasted on covid as a prime-time calling card, flyspecking national and municipal responses to the pandemic. Along the way, he has provided support to the anti-vax movement. In May 2021, for instance, Carlson hijacked federal data to promote fear about people dying after taking a vaccine. He also claimed, baselessly, that there were “unresolved concerns about their long term effects on some people including their effects on female fertility.” The truth here is that vaccination does not reduce the chance of conception, though covid infection in males could reduce their fertility. As someone who obsesses over falling sperm counts, Carlson might be expected to seize upon that finding.
But no. Remember — there’s no worldview guiding Carlson’s rantings on any subject, be it covid or racism or testosterone. Carlson himself confessed as much at a 2019 conference: “The temptation in my politics — and my politics are evolving, although I don’t even have politics, I just have reactions to things, as you can tell.”
Correct. He and Ch reacted to conservative distrust of the vaccines by hyping and deepening that distrust. He reacted to questions from mainstream media reps — those soulless elites! — by stiffing them with preposterous attitude. And he responded to the crowd at Awaken by giving them a helping of anti-establishment covid ideology.
Tucker Carlson
VIDEO:
https://gettr.com/post/p14sm5k3c99
The lockdown in Shanghai tonight is by all accounts more brutal and far-reaching than what we saw in Wuhan two years ago.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6303652642001...
Twitter has "locked" him but workarounds have taken place
Censorship and state media are losing
The video of the cat slaughter near the end of this 5 minute clip was heart wrenching
And a different video of locked in residents in high rises screaming into the night in protest and desperation was chilling
That is what true authoritarianism looks like
And where Biden is steering America to
Chilling video of Shanghai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBJj_UwkSyc
an Evil government
doing real genocide
apparently acceptable to the left
Project Veritas announced today that Apple and Google came forward and provided documents showing that President Biden’s Department of Justice issued nine secret subpoenas to them for multiple Project Veritas journalists’ private information.
(video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdvcUFki_Sc )
The subpoenas and warrants even extended to the journalists’ security detail.
Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:
Apple and Google have come forward to disclose that between November 2020 and March 2021, the Department of Justice issued nine secret subpoenas and warrants to them for the private information of Project Veritas journalists.
Documents show the Department of Justice compelled Apple and Google not to disclose that they were providing the individuals’ private data to the government.
In the case of Google, the DOJ accessed individuals’ payment information, MAC address and browsing history, in addition to other personal information.
Project Veritas’ attorneys filed a motion outlining how the DOJ’s seizures violated the Privacy Protection Act and the Fourth Amendment, in addition to the First Amendment and Common Law Reporter’s Privilege.
The Justice Department’s spying campaign represents the latest example of governmental misconduct in, what appears to be, a politically motivated investigation.
President Biden’s Department of Justice has placed its crosshairs squarely on Project Veritas’ newsgathering activities pertaining to apparent allegations against then-candidate, Joe Biden, which were made by his daughter, Ashley Biden, in her diary.
As Americans, we can only hope that the First Amendment prevails in this case and Project Veritas emerges victorious.
James O'Keefe
Biden Crime Family
and stormtroopers
Correct. He and Ch reacted to conservative distrust of the vaccines by hyping and deepening that distrust.
Nice WaPo plagiarism alky.
No one had to hype the distrust.
The distrust was a direct result of the LIES told to sell it.
It was not a vaccine. It was an inoculation. HUGE difference.
The inoculation did not prevent a person from contracting or transmitting Covid.
Side effects that came to light - up to and including killing people - were buried and/or dismissed.
The lies that were told about the "vaccination" shitshow were legion. Stop transferring the blame to others that belongs squarely with lying assholes like Fauci, Biden, and YOU.
an Evil government
doing real genocide
apparently acceptable to the left
The NY Times' Tom Freidman adores the Xi regime and wishes the US to be just like China.
LMAO:
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC told the European Union on Monday that current and future sanctions on Russia could create one of the worst ever oil supply shocks and it would be impossible to replace those volumes, and signalled it would not pump more.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-meets-opec-amid-calls-101406072.html
LMAO BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Shocking that rat is fucking stupid enough to think an oil shortage is funny!!!!! God help us!!!!!!!
The NY Times' Tom Freidman adores the Xi regime and wishes the US to be just like China.
YOU GET DUMBER BY THE POST!!!!!!!!!
Suggest you read his shit before making idiotic comments!!!!!!
Producer prices rose 11.2% from a year ago in March, the biggest gain on record
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/producer-price-index-march-2022-.html
Rat it’s a shame that Tom Friedman op/Ed generator domain is gone
It's even a bigger shame shorty that you know that!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!! How's the traffic in ATL today????? Gotta suck to have to work and put up with traffic there!!!!
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Rat it’s a shame that Tom Friedman op/Ed generator domain is gone
That thing was a hoot.
Someone should come up with an 'alky random plagiarism copy/paste generator.'
Source 80% of his shit from "RAW STORY!!!11!"
LOL.
Actually fatty I don’t mind
But it’s gotta suck to be you fat and miserable
Nice PPI number
Highest ever in History.
God gave us Oil to use as oil and food to use as food.
Where did this become a confusing concept for the leftist here?
Joe Biden inflation is going higher. Producer Price Index up
11.2% from a year ago
Post a Comment