When I think of what is needed at this moment in history, my mind goes to the brisk factuality, the lack of emotionalism, of Oct. 22, 1962. John F. Kennedy from his desk in the Oval Office offering 18 minutes of fact and thought. “Good evening, my fellow citizens. This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island on Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. . . . Having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail.”
It was down to the bone, stark and completely compelling. The military response he explained was persuasive because it was based in fact and clearly put interpretation. He provided complicated information: “The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations.” You talk only to the intelligent this way; his listeners were aware of the compliment. He didn’t stoop to them but assumed they’d reach to him.
He wasn’t self-referential: He didn’t say “as I promised,” but “as promised,” because putting himself in the forefront would be vulgar. It was “this government,” not “my government.” He said, “This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word.” He was declaring the American position while putting the virtue of it on America, not himself.
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I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sirens were going on once an hour 😳
Stocks dropped Friday, on course for weekly losses, and bond yields stabilized as investors digested corporate earnings reports and prepared for tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve.
Losses in the three major U.S. indexes were broad-based, and widened as the day progressed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently down 2.3%, or about 800 points. The S&P 500 dropped 2.3%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 2.2%. All three indexes were down more than 1%.
The week’s steep rise in government-bond yields showed signs of steadying, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note recently at 2.903% after ending at 2.917% Thursday. Yields staged a climb earlier Friday before reversing course. Bond yields rise when prices decline.
Investors this week parsed first-quarter financial results from major companies in search of clues about the health of the economy, the consumer outlook and companies’ ability to cope with inflation. Of the companies that have reported so far, about 80% have beat analyst expectations, according to FactSet, which has helped provide some stability to the U.S. stock market.
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Some stocks fell substantially Friday after reporting results. Shares of HCA Healthcare dropped about 17%, on pace for its largest percent decrease since March 2020, after the hospital chain lowered its guidance for the year. The company said volume and revenue for the first quarter were offset by higher-than-expected inflationary pressures on labor costs.
Plus they are worried about the Fed might trigger a recession.
"The risk of the economy entering into a recession at some point over the next 12, 18, 24 months is very high, uncomfortably high. And I’d say rising," Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi
Upcoming primaries this spring and summer will help determine whether Republicans will have more "govern-ers" or more "bomb-throwers" in the next Congress.
For its part, Main Street is supporting two of its own members against primary challengers who argue that those members are not sufficiently pro-Trump. In West Virginia, they've endorsed Rep. David McKinley in his race against GOP Rep. Alex Mooney. Mooney, who's been endorsed by Trump, is attacking McKinley for supporting "Pelosi's January 6th anti-Trump witch hunt."
In Idaho, Main Street member Rep. Mike Simpson faces a challenge from Idaho Falls attorney Bryan Smith, who calls Simpson an "anti-Trump career politician." Both Simpson and McKinley voted to certify the 2020 election. McKinley drew Trump's ire for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
But, the primary that will give us our first test of the Freedom Caucus versus the Main Street caucus is taking place in early May in Ohio's newly drawn 9th CD. This one-time Democratic stronghold in Toledo, held for years by Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, is now GOP-leaning, giving Republicans their first chance in almost 40 years to pick up this northwestern Ohio district. The Main Street endorsed candidate, state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, calls herself a "pro-Trump conservative" who is "fueling the conservative comeback." Her opponent, Craig Riedel, wraps himself in the Trump mantle as well, and pledges to join "Ohio's Jim Jordan in the Freedom Caucus."
Regardless of how many seats the GOP picks up this fall, they won't actually be doing much "governing" in 2023. After all, a Democrat will still be in the White House. But, that doesn't mean that the GOP leadership can't outline a governing agenda. But, the ability to keep the focus on that governing agenda and style is determined as much by the followers as the leaders. Former Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan were unable to keep the party's extreme elements from dictating the pace and the focus of the conference. Will McCarthy be able to avoid their fate?
For her part, Chamberlain feels confident that the Main Street caucus will be adding a significant number of new members to its ranks. These members aren't the moderates that Main Street used to have 15 and 20 years ago. But, she argues, they will give leadership the support they need to keep the party focused on issues instead of in-fighting.
If the economy recovers in 2024, and if the Democrats find a good candidate, they can win the White House and the congress majorities.
Quote of the Day April 22, 2022 at 2:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
“This ain’t your father’s Republican Party… These guys are a different breed of cat. They’re not like what I served with for so many years.” — President Biden, quoted by MSNBC.
McConnell and McCarthy Are Craven Patsies for Trump April 22, 2022 at 2:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
John Cassidy: “Taken as a whole, the GOP is still in the same position it has been in for the past five and a half years: beholden to a narcissistic demagogue who has no respect for democracy or the law. In fact, the situation is even worse than it used to be, because the demagogue is now explicitly demanding that Republican candidates sign on to his Big Lie about 2020—a modern version of the ‘stab-in-the back’ conspiracy theory that helped undermine the Weimar Republic.
“In one sense, it’s fun to read yet another story confirming the utter spinelessness and cravenness of McConnell, McCarthy, et al. Ultimately, though, the joke is on us.”
HOPEFULLY, THE JOKE WILL ULTIMATELY BE ON THE GOP ALONE.
Exxon to Ban Pride Flags April 22, 2022 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
“Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to prohibit the LGBTQ-rights flag from being flown outside its offices during Pride month in June, prompting a furious backlash from Houston-based employees,” Bloomberg reports. (Anti gay is no longer popular.)
Michigan GOP Confronts Election Denialism April 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“Michigan Republicans will meet this weekend to decide which candidates to nominate for a number of key statewide positions, marking an early swing-state test of former President Donald Trump’s influence in the midterm elections,” NPR reports.
“It could also be the first time the GOP moves forward in a battleground state with an election-denying candidate to oversee voting as secretary of state.”
Trump Has a Message for the Club for Growth April 22, 2022 at 2:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
Donald Trump told Club for Growth President David McIntosh to “go f*** yourself” in a text message after McIntosh refused to switch his organization’s endorsement in the Ohio Senate race from Josh Mandel (R) to J.D. Vance (R), who Trump endorsed last week, the New York Times reports.
Trump’s Endorsement Upends Ohio Senate Race
Yahoo News: Ohio Republicans pick sides as primary battle for U.S. Senate race enters final stretch.
Back on TOPIC. James and Roger two scattered brains.
Gasoline will be over on average $4.50 plus this summer.
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"Instead of focusing on boosting the production of gasoline in the summer driving season, this year U.S. refiners will be looking to raise diesel and jet fuel runs, as the global market of distillates is very tight."
The higher profit is in refining diesel and Jet Fuel.
Bill Melugin https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1517536215389679617 BREAKING: Multiple sources tell me a Texas National Guard soldier has just drowned in the Rio Grande here in Eagle Pass while trying to save migrants in the water. Texas DPS confirms, and tells me a body has been recovered. I’m told a statement will be coming out soon. @FoxNews
(CNN Business)Bank of America is warning that high inflation poses a credible threat to the economic recovery that began just two years ago.
"'Inflation shock' worsening, 'rate shock' just beginning, 'recession shock' coming," Bank of America chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in a note to clients on Friday."
Redstate Enter the smoke-filled room of former President Donald Trump and longtime Michigan political backroom wizard John Yob for a rare glimpse into the inside game now unfolding before your very eyes.
Yob has two major clients this year: Perry Johnson, who is running for governor, and Matthew DePerno, running for state attorney general.
Trump is up to his eyeballs in trying to push DePerno past incumbent Democratic AG Dana Nessel, but first, he needs to get his candidate the nomination at a Republican party conclave slated for Saturday.
While the Trump campaign was asked to comment on what you are about to read, that request went out over a week ago and the sound of the crickets from down in Florida is deafening.
However, two Michigan sources claim this is what’s coming down, as we clear away the smoke so you can have a peak:
If Yob can line up enough votes to secure the AG nomination for Trump’s guy, DePerno, then Trump will endorse Yob’s guy for the GOP nomination for governor, Johnson.
It’s the classic case of “you scratch my back and I will scratch yours.”
So what? you rightfully ask.
I’m asking “say what?” and also adding a couple of other choice phrases that cannot be posted here.
Now, I’m not naive, I know how politics works and the role of political consultants. Those working on campaigns are supposed to put their candidates in the best position possible in every instance that they can. Of course, getting an endorsement from POTUS 45 is a huge feather in the cap, and will undoubtedly help the campaign. Yet, I have never heard of a deal being struck that hinges on endorsing one, and then if they win, you endorse another one that is being represented by the same consultant. This sounds like one of those cheesy, Billy Mays commercials where you buy one and get one free, that you used to see at 2 a.m. and chuckle at.
When I first read this, I immediately thought this was one of those goofy rumor stories that you always hear at bars near closing, when somebody’s talking just a little bit too loud for their own good. Yet, Skubik has been around the game for so long, and he is so well known and trusted; he does get told things that have some heat to them. He has two sources that believe this, and he felt comfortable enough to go ahead and print this. That makes me take a long pause and wonder.
Would Donald Trump be susceptible to making a goofy deal like this?
"According to Kelley Blue Book, the wait for Ford's electric pickup truck is extremely long. Consumers could wait as long as three years before receiving their F-150 Lightning if they were to order now. According to Electrek, there are over 200,000 reservations for the innovative electric pickup truck"
“This ain’t your father’s Republican Party… These guys are a different breed of cat. They’re not like what I served with for so many years.” — President Biden, quoted by MSNBC.
Sure... and Ocasio-Cortez and Omar are exactly like the old school Democrats!
Leave it to an F-N Democrat to tell us how the GOP has changed, but not acknowledge the drastic wild crazed manner in which the Democrats have lurched off the end of the earth... left of far left!!!
And like sheep, Democrats followed along, just like Nazi's followed Hitler! In fact the goose steppers are still not letting go of their hatred of Trump.
Biden made a 5,000-mile Earth Day round trip in AF1 to announce ‘climate friendly’ US military (and more WTF moments)
Today is Earth Day, and President Biden marked the occasion by hopping in Air Force One for an approximately 5,000-mile round trip flight to Seattle where he served up warnings about the existential threat caused by burning fossil fuels.
Three in five reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States since June 2021 could have been prevented by vaccination, according to a new analysis out Thursday.
With the U.S. approaching one million deaths from Covid-19, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) estimated that approximately 234,000 lives could have been saved with timely primary-series vaccination. These vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all U.S. adult coronavirus mortality since last summer and roughly a quarter of the more than 987,000 Covid-19 deaths that have occurred nationwide since the pandemic began.
Many older and higher-risk adults in the U.S. had access to free, safe, and highly effective Covid-19 vaccines by the start of last year, and doses were made widely available to all adults in the country by early May 2021. It follows that by last June, Americans 18 and older could have been fully inoculated, with a high degree of protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry, and rampant disinformation promoted by right-wing lawmakers and media outlets.
Although the share of unvaccinated adults in the U.S. has declined over time, an estimated 270,000 unvaccinated adults suffered mostly avoidable Covid-19 deaths from June 2021 to March 2022, according to KFF. A total of 389,000 U.S. adults died from Covid-19 during this time.
President Obama was correct when he said that the misinformed from people like you know who.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry
James Bopp, Jr., the lawyer representing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in today's hearing about whether she should be disqualified from running for reelection because of her actions regarding the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, may not be a household name to most but he previously has had a profound impact on American politics.
That's because Bopp was the lead attorney who argued before a federal three-judge panel in 2008 that the conservative non-profit Citizens United should be able to air "Hillary: The Movie" on television during the Democratic primary.
Two years after the lower court rejected that petition, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling and adopted many of Bopp's arguments, reversing 100 years of campaign-finance precedents and paved the way for virtually unlimited corporate campaign contributions.
As reported by Mother Jones, Bopp has made a career of trying to dismantle laws that limit high-dollar political contributions.
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"Even before Citizens United," Mother Jones writes, "he’d won a Supreme Court ruling striking down big chunks of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. He was instrumental in Bush v. Gore, and he successfully beat back a massive lawsuit from the FEC alleging that the Christian Coalition had illegally campaigned on behalf of candidates including Oliver North, Jesse Helms, and Newt Gingrich. And now he’s pursuing dozens of other cases that, if successful, could eliminate caps on political contributions, allow campaigns to hide their donors from public view, and kill public-financing laws across the nation."
Madison Cawthorn Photos Show Him Wearing Lingerie April 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
Photographs obtained by Politico “appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.
“Cawthorn was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity.”
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry, and rampant disinformation promoted by right-wing lawmakers and media outlets.
Horseshit.
I had to go to the heart of the fucking ghetto TWICE to get the shot(s).
And there was no disinformation peddled around here.
Every single time you guys royally fuck something up, the first thing you do is blame the right.
POLITICO could not independently verify the photos, which are screenshots of original images. They were provided to POLITICO by a person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign. A second person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign confirmed the origin of the photos. The date the photos were taken is unclear, though they appear to show Cawthorn sitting in a wheelchair, indicating the event happened after his accident. In the photos, he is wearing a distinctive pendant necklace that has appeared in other images and videos of Cawthorn. The photos have started to circulate among political rivals.
SEATTLE, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden marked Earth Day on Friday with a speech promoting a new effort to protect old-growth forests as he visits the lush but fire-prone Washington state.
The move comes as Biden has drawn fire from environmentalists for shifting his focus from climate change to boosting energy production amid high inflation and war in Europe. read more
The executive order signed by Biden on Friday will create the first-ever inventory of old-growth forests on federal lands and develop a plan to conserve them. It will also task diplomats with doing more to combat deforestation abroad, the White House said.
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"Our forests are our planet's lungs," he said, adding that the order would "strengthen our forests on federal lands and make them and the local economies they support more resilient in the face of wild fires."
The massive, sometimes ancient trees that dot the Western U.S. landscape absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, cutting the emissions that cause climate change and also make wildfires more likely.
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They're at risk. A single fire in 2020 in California killed more than 10% of the world's giant sequoia trees, National Park Service scientists concluded.
"Wildfires and extreme weather events are growing in frequency and ferocity, engulfing communities in the West and across the country and costing lives, homes, and money," the White House said in a fact sheet announcing the executive order.
The order follows the administration's decision to tap the nation's oil reserves to curb prices, plead with domestic producers to drill more, and encourage everyone from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia to Brazil to increase production, as energy prices have spiked in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry
Man oh man, Roger!
I got to agree... Biden sure fucked this up. A quarter million died because of his inadequate outreach. I guess be both blame Biden for this, huh?
The state of Florida has released four examples from textbooks it has rejected from its school system amid concerns over the promotion of Critical Race Theory and common core principles.
"Based on the volume of requests the Department has received for examples of problematic elements of the recently reviewed instructional materials, the following are examples provided to the department by the public and presented no conflict in sharing them," the Florida Department of Education wrote in a disclaimer along with screenshots from the rejected textbooks. "These examples do not represent an exhaustive list of input received by the Department. The Department is continuing to give publishers the opportunity to remediate all deficiencies identified during the review to ensure the broadest selection of high quality instructional materials are available to the school districts and Florida’s students."
In one of the screenshots, the text describes the Implicit Association Test which measures levels of "racial prejudice" while displaying a graph suggesting conservatives are more inclined to be racially biased.
Florida Department of Education screenshot
"What? Me? Racist?" another screenshot from a textbook reads while also discussing the Implicit Association Test.
Florida Department of Education screenshot
Two other screenshots encourage students to "build proficiency with social awareness" and engage in "social and emotional learning."
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The Florida Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
Florida's Department of Education rejected 41% of mathematics textbooks submitted for use in the state's public schools last week, citing critical race theory and other issues with the texts.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has led a push to reform education standards and practices in the state. Florida called for textbook submissions from publishers in 2021 in accordance with a 2019 executive order from DeSantis aimed at eliminating Common Core standards in the state. The textbooks rejected "were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics."
"It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students," DeSantis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law."
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report
DeSantis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough censorship of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law."
In one of the screenshots, the text describes the Implicit Association Test which measures levels of "racial prejudice" while displaying a graph suggesting conservatives are more inclined to be racially biased.
That sounds like political prejudice to me!
I wonder out loud where you find scientific evidence that proves what a conservative actually is, who is considered conservative, what is and is not racism, and who is a so called "racist".
I bet it involves just a little bit of unscientific "opinion"...
WHICH HAS NO F-N PLACE IN SCHOOL!!!
Roger... you can teach your kids to be loser liberals so they end up in a lockdown facility when they are 70 if you so choose. But if a teacher is trying to teach my kid how to view politics, then they will have a serious discussion with me and it won't be pretty.
GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught in a bald-faced lie on Thursday night after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow played a leaked audio clip showing the top Republican once said he’d recommend President Trump resign.
First, a book titled, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns claimed McCarthy told Liz Cheney on a January 10, 2021 phone call that he would advise President Trump to resign before his term ended.
After this claim went public on Thursday, McCarthy refuted the allegations, writing, “The New York Times’ reporting on me is totally false and wrong. It comes as no surprise that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda.”
Later Thursday night, MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow played audio of McCarthy telling anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney he would in fact recommend President Trump resign ahead of being impeached.
“The only discussion I would have with him [Trump] is that I think this [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you [Trump] should resign,” McCarthy told Cheney.
Sleepy Joe Biden mentioned the controversy on Friday, using the leaked audiotape as an attack on the unity of the Republican Party.
This is solid proof for any Republican voters who were on the fence about McCarthy.
The top GOP politician is anti-Trump and has been riding on Trump’s populist wave while privately turning his back on the 45th President.
Having retired "transitory inflation " for "Systemic inflation ".
"So, the outlook is uncertain. As you know, the Fed is taking steps to bring inflation down, but I think we will have to put up with high inflation for a while longer." Dumb Cow Yellen
Maybe the WOKE should be more focused on their schools Failing. Graduation Rates Kansas High School or Higher: 91.00% Florida High School or Higher: 88.00%
The U.S. economy grew at a moderate pace in early spring as Covid-19 cases declined and high inflation rippled throughout the U.S. economy, and the Ukraine war created new economic uncertainty, the Federal Reserve said in a report.
“Outlooks for future growth were clouded by the uncertainty created by recent geopolitical developments and rising prices,” the Fed said on Wednesday in its periodic compilation of business anecdotes from around the country, known as the Beige Book. The report contained details about the latest effects of high inflation, supply-chain bottlenecks and the strong demand for workers.
The report, which included information gathered through April 11, said the tight labor market continued to fuel strong wage growth. Workers cited inflation as a reason for seeking higher wages. An employee in the food services sector told the Fed that the relatively low pay in their company was “a primary driver in recent unionization efforts.”
Businesses in the services sector reported strong demand. Tourism businesses in the Southeast said spring-break activity was booming this year, while companies on the West Coast said professional events and conventions were making a slow return.
“There’s a shift going on now of consumer spending moving back toward services and leisure,” said Charles Gascon, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “The hospitality and services side of the economy seems to be much more optimistic than the goods side.”
The President gets blamed, despite he isn't directly in control.
More than 50% of adults say they've already cut back on dining out and will consider reducing that further if inflation continues to surge, according to the CNBC
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The United States has disclosed details of its latest military aid package to be used by Ukraine’s forces in the country’s east after Russian forces this week launched a full-scale offensive in the region.
The new $800m assistance package includes a new unmanned aerial weapons system, or drone, dubbed the Phoenix Ghost.
For Joe Biden, the vote by Florida Republicans on Thursday to strip Disney of its self-governing powers was a step too far.
“Christ, they’re going after Mickey Mouse,” the president exclaimed at a fundraiser in Oregon, in apparent disbelief that state governor Ron DeSantis’s culture wars had reached the gates of the Magic Kingdom.
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The move, Biden asserted, reflected his belief that the “far right has taken over the party”.
By voting to penalize Florida’s largest private employer, lawmakers followed DeSantis’s wishes in securing revenge on a company he brands as “woke” for its opposition to his “don’t say gay” law.
DeSantis is a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He has pushed his legislature on several rightwing laws in recent weeks, including a 15-week abortion ban, stripping Black voters of congressional representation and preventing discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity issues in schools.
On Friday, the governor signed the anti-Disney law as well as a measure banning critical race theory in schools and the controversial new electoral map. Voting rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute and the Equal Ground Education Fund filed suit against the new electoral map, in state court in Tallahassee.
“This is not your father’s Republican party,” Biden said at the fundraiser in Oregon.
Opening up a new front in the nation's culture wars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revoked Walt Disney's self-governing authority in apparent retaliation for opposing the state's new "Don't Say Gay" law.
DeSantis signed a bill Friday that will cancel special privileges granted to Disney decades ago to govern the land surrounding its Disney World theme park. The new law, set to take effect in June 2023, will cost Disney tens of millions of dollars a year.
The weeks-long public feud has upended the once cozy relationship between Florida and Disney. It's also just the latest salvo in the political right’s battle against “wokeness.”
Britain, a similar game is afoot. The country’s right-wing tabloids, which routinely rage about the supposed leftist disposition of public institutions, are up in arms over “woke” activists questioning the legacy of figures like Winston Churchill or staining the story of the British Empire with inconvenient — and curiously little-discussed — facts about the depravity of colonial rule.
In advance of Jan. 6, 2021, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was warned about the threat of violence that day as supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mass on the Capitol, according to new testimony released late on Friday by the House committee investigating the insurrection. One of Meadows’s top aides, Cassidy Hutchinson, told congressional investigators that she recalled Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who also held the role of a political adviser at the White House, “coming in and saying that we had intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th. And Mr. Meadows said: All right. Let’s talk about it.” Hutchinson added that, “I’m not sure if he — what he did with that information internally.” The new details came in a filing arguing that a federal court should reject Meadows’s claims of executive privilege and compel him to appear before the House Jan. 6 committee, which is continuing to build a case that Trump knowingly misled his followers about the election, and pressured Pence to break the law in the weeks and hours before the assault. In the motion, the committee outlines seven “discrete categories of information” it seeks to question Meadows about and argued that his claims of executive privilege should not preclude him from testifying about these categories. Those categories include testimony and documents relating to communications with members of Congress; the plan to replace acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen with Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark; efforts by Trump to “direct, persuade or pressure then Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally refuse to count electoral votes on January 6th"; and activity in the White House “immediately before and during the events of January 6th.” The committee laid out new examples of warnings Meadows received ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, along with a deepened understanding of his involvement with planning and coordinating efforts to disrupt the counting of electoral votes in Congress. Perhaps the most significant new piece of evidence presented by the committee is testimony from Hutchinson, who told investigators that her boss was informed “before the January 6th proceeding about the potential for violence that day,” according to the filing. Hutchinson told investigators: “I know that there were concerns brought forward to Mr. Meadows. I don’t know — I don’t want to speculate whether or not they perceived them as genuine concerns, but I know that people had brought information forward to him that had indicated that there could be violence on the 6th.” Investigators also have found evidence that Meadows repeatedly communicated with GOP Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) before and on Jan. 6, 2021. Hutchinson identified Perry, Jordan, and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) as the leading proponents in Congress “who were raising the idea of the Vice President doing anything other than just counting electoral votes on January the 6th.” Asked by investigators if Perry supported the idea of sending people to the U.S. Capitol on that day, Hutchinson replied that he did but that members present on a planning call ahead of Jan. 6 were “more inclined to go with White House guidance.” Hutchinson also recounted a Dec. 21, 2020, strategy meeting at the White House ahead of the electoral certification attended by Jordan, Greene and Reps. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Other GOP members dialed into the meeting, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. “They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States, more along the lines of the [John] Eastman theory,” Hutchinson said of the meeting, referring to a legal theory advanced by Eastman, a conservative attorney.
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BIDEN'S plan is working.
"Apr 2, 2021 — “It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism"
She said what he should say.
When I think of what is needed at this moment in history, my mind goes to the brisk factuality, the lack of emotionalism, of Oct. 22, 1962. John F. Kennedy from his desk in the Oval Office offering 18 minutes of fact and thought. “Good evening, my fellow citizens. This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island on Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. . . . Having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail.”
It was down to the bone, stark and completely compelling. The military response he explained was persuasive because it was based in fact and clearly put interpretation. He provided complicated information: “The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations.” You talk only to the intelligent this way; his listeners were aware of the compliment. He didn’t stoop to them but assumed they’d reach to him.
He wasn’t self-referential: He didn’t say “as I promised,” but “as promised,” because putting himself in the forefront would be vulgar. It was “this government,” not “my government.” He said, “This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word.” He was declaring the American position while putting the virtue of it on America, not himself.
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I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sirens were going on once an hour 😳
We lived 15 miles from Ellsworth AFB.
B 52 bombers were flying over head.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-presentation-problem-speech-old-age-ukraine-russia-nuclear-missile-test-covid-crisis-cuba-missile-crisis-kennedy-approval-rating-2024-presidential-election-11650576755?st=kzvihj2z4ua51zy&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Back in Topic,
BIDEN'S plan is working.
"Apr 2, 2021 — “It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism"
Now longer do James and Deeply in unsecured Debt Roger talk of "The Great Biden Economy "
January 19th, 2021 I told you all this was coming based on Biden's Promises if his basement campaign.
The key was his attack on The U.S. Oil and Gas industry, he gave away Our Economic Advantage.
Wsj
Stocks dropped Friday, on course for weekly losses, and bond yields stabilized as investors digested corporate earnings reports and prepared for tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve.
Losses in the three major U.S. indexes were broad-based, and widened as the day progressed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently down 2.3%, or about 800 points. The S&P 500 dropped 2.3%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 2.2%. All three indexes were down more than 1%.
The week’s steep rise in government-bond yields showed signs of steadying, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note recently at 2.903% after ending at 2.917% Thursday. Yields staged a climb earlier Friday before reversing course. Bond yields rise when prices decline.
Investors this week parsed first-quarter financial results from major companies in search of clues about the health of the economy, the consumer outlook and companies’ ability to cope with inflation. Of the companies that have reported so far, about 80% have beat analyst expectations, according to FactSet, which has helped provide some stability to the U.S. stock market.
April 12April 222.602.652.702.752.802.852.902.953.00%
Some stocks fell substantially Friday after reporting results. Shares of HCA Healthcare dropped about 17%, on pace for its largest percent decrease since March 2020, after the hospital chain lowered its guidance for the year. The company said volume and revenue for the first quarter were offset by higher-than-expected inflationary pressures on labor costs.
Plus they are worried about the Fed might trigger a recession.
Stupid Alky , you dumb Son of a Whore.
The US is already in Biden's Recession.
Food prices have only begun to climb.
I just paid my yearly fertilizer bill, 34% higher then last year, for the exact same amount on the same exact acreage.
Just wait until the crops being planted and grown come to market .
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"The risk of the economy entering into a recession at some point over the next 12, 18, 24 months is very high, uncomfortably high. And I’d say rising," Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi
This had crossed my mind.
Upcoming primaries this spring and summer will help determine whether Republicans will have more "govern-ers" or more "bomb-throwers" in the next Congress.
For its part, Main Street is supporting two of its own members against primary challengers who argue that those members are not sufficiently pro-Trump. In West Virginia, they've endorsed Rep. David McKinley in his race against GOP Rep. Alex Mooney. Mooney, who's been endorsed by Trump, is attacking McKinley for supporting "Pelosi's January 6th anti-Trump witch hunt."
In Idaho, Main Street member Rep. Mike Simpson faces a challenge from Idaho Falls attorney Bryan Smith, who calls Simpson an "anti-Trump career politician." Both Simpson and McKinley voted to certify the 2020 election. McKinley drew Trump's ire for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
But, the primary that will give us our first test of the Freedom Caucus versus the Main Street caucus is taking place in early May in Ohio's newly drawn 9th CD. This one-time Democratic stronghold in Toledo, held for years by Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, is now GOP-leaning, giving Republicans their first chance in almost 40 years to pick up this northwestern Ohio district. The Main Street endorsed candidate, state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, calls herself a "pro-Trump conservative" who is "fueling the conservative comeback." Her opponent, Craig Riedel, wraps himself in the Trump mantle as well, and pledges to join "Ohio's Jim Jordan in the Freedom Caucus."
Regardless of how many seats the GOP picks up this fall, they won't actually be doing much "governing" in 2023. After all, a Democrat will still be in the White House. But, that doesn't mean that the GOP leadership can't outline a governing agenda. But, the ability to keep the focus on that governing agenda and style is determined as much by the followers as the leaders. Former Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan were unable to keep the party's extreme elements from dictating the pace and the focus of the conference. Will McCarthy be able to avoid their fate?
For her part, Chamberlain feels confident that the Main Street caucus will be adding a significant number of new members to its ranks. These members aren't the moderates that Main Street used to have 15 and 20 years ago. But, she argues, they will give leadership the support they need to keep the party focused on issues instead of in-fighting.
If the economy recovers in 2024, and if the Democrats find a good candidate, they can win the White House and the congress majorities.
Quote of the Day
April 22, 2022 at 2:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
“This ain’t your father’s Republican Party… These guys are a different breed of cat. They’re not like what I served with for so many years.”
— President Biden, quoted by MSNBC.
McConnell and McCarthy Are Craven Patsies for Trump
April 22, 2022 at 2:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
John Cassidy:
“Taken as a whole, the GOP is still in the same position it has been in for the past five and a half years:
beholden to a narcissistic demagogue who has no respect for democracy or the law. In fact, the situation is even worse than it used to be, because the demagogue is now explicitly demanding that Republican candidates sign on to his Big Lie about 2020—a modern version of the ‘stab-in-the back’ conspiracy theory that helped undermine the Weimar Republic.
“In one sense, it’s fun to read yet another story confirming the utter spinelessness and cravenness of McConnell, McCarthy, et al.
Ultimately, though, the joke is on us.”
HOPEFULLY, THE JOKE WILL ULTIMATELY BE ON THE GOP ALONE.
Exxon to Ban Pride Flags
April 22, 2022 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
“Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to prohibit the LGBTQ-rights flag from being flown outside its offices during Pride month in June, prompting a furious backlash from Houston-based employees,” Bloomberg reports.
(Anti gay is no longer popular.)
Michigan GOP Confronts Election Denialism
April 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“Michigan Republicans will meet this weekend to decide which candidates to nominate for a number of key statewide positions, marking an early swing-state test of former President Donald Trump’s influence in the midterm elections,”
NPR reports.
“It could also be the first time the GOP moves forward in a battleground state with an election-denying candidate to oversee voting as secretary of state.”
Trump Has a Message for the Club for Growth
April 22, 2022 at 2:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
Donald Trump told Club for Growth President David McIntosh to “go f*** yourself” in a text message after McIntosh refused to switch his organization’s endorsement in the Ohio Senate race from Josh Mandel (R) to J.D. Vance (R), who Trump endorsed last week,
the New York Times reports.
Trump’s Endorsement Upends Ohio Senate Race
Yahoo News: Ohio Republicans pick sides as primary battle for U.S. Senate race enters final stretch.
https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/dont-call-them-moderates-call-them-govern-ers
Hitler blamed Germany's WWI defeat on the Jews.
Trump tries to blame his election defeat on the Democrats.
How low can it go?
ten minutes to go, down over 900.
At least Twitter is up today.
And Biden is going back to Delaware tonight for another weekend off
Did he explain why the US is supplying over 90 % of the Ukraine military aid recently?
Where's NATO ?
Back on TOPIC.
James and Roger two scattered brains.
Gasoline will be over on average $4.50 plus this summer.
Oil Price . Com
"Instead of focusing on boosting the production of gasoline in the summer driving season, this year U.S. refiners will be looking to raise diesel and jet fuel runs, as the global market of distillates is very tight."
The higher profit is in refining diesel and Jet Fuel.
Good move for the Investment Class Capitalists.
Bill Melugin
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1517536215389679617
BREAKING: Multiple sources tell me a Texas National Guard soldier has just drowned in the Rio Grande here in Eagle Pass while trying to save migrants in the water. Texas DPS confirms, and tells me a body has been recovered. I’m told a statement will be coming out soon. @FoxNews
Has Biden EVER visited the border yet?
or Harris ?
doesn't care ?
Market Watch . Com
☺How to prepare your finances for another recession: ‘We think a hard landing will ultimately be unavoidable’😎
(CNN Business)Bank of America is warning that high inflation poses a credible threat to the economic recovery that began just two years ago.
"'Inflation shock' worsening, 'rate shock' just beginning, 'recession shock' coming," Bank of America chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in a note to clients on Friday."
"Now longer do James and Deeply in unsecured Debt Roger talk of "The Great Biden Economy "
This subject is too painful for them to debate.
The faces of your party
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1517600767665840128?t=y9087sier69xn13jhkfT2A&s=19
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1517600767665840128?t=y9087sier69xn13jhkfT2A&s=19
Redstate
Enter the smoke-filled room of former President Donald Trump and longtime Michigan political backroom wizard John Yob for a rare glimpse into the inside game now unfolding before your very eyes.
Yob has two major clients this year: Perry Johnson, who is running for governor, and Matthew DePerno, running for state attorney general.
Trump is up to his eyeballs in trying to push DePerno past incumbent Democratic AG Dana Nessel, but first, he needs to get his candidate the nomination at a Republican party conclave slated for Saturday.
While the Trump campaign was asked to comment on what you are about to read, that request went out over a week ago and the sound of the crickets from down in Florida is deafening.
However, two Michigan sources claim this is what’s coming down, as we clear away the smoke so you can have a peak:
If Yob can line up enough votes to secure the AG nomination for Trump’s guy, DePerno, then Trump will endorse Yob’s guy for the GOP nomination for governor, Johnson.
It’s the classic case of “you scratch my back and I will scratch yours.”
So what? you rightfully ask.
I’m asking “say what?” and also adding a couple of other choice phrases that cannot be posted here.
Now, I’m not naive, I know how politics works and the role of political consultants. Those working on campaigns are supposed to put their candidates in the best position possible in every instance that they can. Of course, getting an endorsement from POTUS 45 is a huge feather in the cap, and will undoubtedly help the campaign. Yet, I have never heard of a deal being struck that hinges on endorsing one, and then if they win, you endorse another one that is being represented by the same consultant. This sounds like one of those cheesy, Billy Mays commercials where you buy one and get one free, that you used to see at 2 a.m. and chuckle at.
When I first read this, I immediately thought this was one of those goofy rumor stories that you always hear at bars near closing, when somebody’s talking just a little bit too loud for their own good. Yet, Skubik has been around the game for so long, and he is so well known and trusted; he does get told things that have some heat to them. He has two sources that believe this, and he felt comfortable enough to go ahead and print this. That makes me take a long pause and wonder.
Would Donald Trump be susceptible to making a goofy deal like this?
This subject is too painful for them to debate.
The facts are Biden's Recession is here.
It is killing 401k, 457b, 529 college savings, the heart of the middle income .
IF only Joe had a plan.
James and Roger' s cheerleading is funny, uniformed and girlie.
Biden Bombed the US energy Sector.
This was a tragic policy shift.
Dow
33,811.40 -2,773.66 (-7.58%)year to date
Madam Faggot Buttigeg said go buy a EV.
"According to Kelley Blue Book, the wait for Ford's electric pickup truck is extremely long. Consumers could wait as long as three years before receiving their F-150 Lightning if they were to order now. According to Electrek, there are over 200,000 reservations for the innovative electric pickup truck"
Ok
“This ain’t your father’s Republican Party… These guys are a different breed of cat. They’re not like what I served with for so many years.”
— President Biden, quoted by MSNBC.
Sure... and Ocasio-Cortez and Omar are exactly like the old school Democrats!
Leave it to an F-N Democrat to tell us how the GOP has changed, but not acknowledge the drastic wild crazed manner in which the Democrats have lurched off the end of the earth... left of far left!!!
Hitler blamed Germany's WWI defeat on the Jews.
And Hillary blamed the Russians!
And like sheep, Democrats followed along, just like Nazi's followed Hitler! In fact the goose steppers are still not letting go of their hatred of Trump.
Captain Dumb Fuck Strikes Again:
Biden made a 5,000-mile Earth Day round trip in AF1 to announce ‘climate friendly’ US military (and more WTF moments)
Today is Earth Day, and President Biden marked the occasion by hopping in Air Force One for an approximately 5,000-mile round trip flight to Seattle where he served up warnings about the existential threat caused by burning fossil fuels.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/22/biden-made-a-5000-mile-earth-day-round-trip-in-af1-to-announce-climate-friendly-us-military-and-more-wtf-moments/
Three in five reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States since June 2021 could have been prevented by vaccination, according to a new analysis out Thursday.
With the U.S. approaching one million deaths from Covid-19, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) estimated that approximately 234,000 lives could have been saved with timely primary-series vaccination. These vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all U.S. adult coronavirus mortality since last summer and roughly a quarter of the more than 987,000 Covid-19 deaths that have occurred nationwide since the pandemic began.
Many older and higher-risk adults in the U.S. had access to free, safe, and highly effective Covid-19 vaccines by the start of last year, and doses were made widely available to all adults in the country by early May 2021. It follows that by last June, Americans 18 and older could have been fully inoculated, with a high degree of protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry, and rampant disinformation promoted by right-wing lawmakers and media outlets.
Although the share of unvaccinated adults in the U.S. has declined over time, an estimated 270,000 unvaccinated adults suffered mostly avoidable Covid-19 deaths from June 2021 to March 2022, according to KFF. A total of 389,000 U.S. adults died from Covid-19 during this time.
President Obama was correct when he said that the misinformed from people like you know who.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/22/vaccination-could-have-prevented-3-5-us-covid-deaths-june-2021-analysis
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry
The JAB IS FUCKING FREE, you demented old man
Talking about the Biden Economy is just to painful for James and Alky .
James Bopp, Jr., the lawyer representing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in today's hearing about whether she should be disqualified from running for reelection because of her actions regarding the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, may not be a household name to most but he previously has had a profound impact on American politics.
That's because Bopp was the lead attorney who argued before a federal three-judge panel in 2008 that the conservative non-profit Citizens United should be able to air "Hillary: The Movie" on television during the Democratic primary.
Two years after the lower court rejected that petition, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling and adopted many of Bopp's arguments, reversing 100 years of campaign-finance precedents and paved the way for virtually unlimited corporate campaign contributions.
As reported by Mother Jones, Bopp has made a career of trying to dismantle laws that limit high-dollar political contributions.
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"Even before Citizens United," Mother Jones writes, "he’d won a Supreme Court ruling striking down big chunks of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. He was instrumental in Bush v. Gore, and he successfully beat back a massive lawsuit from the FEC alleging that the Christian Coalition had illegally campaigned on behalf of candidates including Oliver North, Jesse Helms, and Newt Gingrich. And now he’s pursuing dozens of other cases that, if successful, could eliminate caps on political contributions, allow campaigns to hide their donors from public view, and kill public-financing laws across the nation."
Look at how belittling The Stupid Son of a Whore is towards
"inadequate outreach to low-income populations."
You don't think they know about Covid?
Madison Cawthorn Photos Show Him Wearing Lingerie
April 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
Photographs obtained by Politico “appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.
“Cawthorn was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity.”
President Obama was correct when he said that the misinformed from people like you know who.
Oh, you mean the 2013 LIE OF THE FUCKING YEAR winner, alky?
Baghdad Barry knew how to "misinform" like a fucking BOSS.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Madison Cawthorn Photos Show Him Wearing Lingerie
Well pederast, there's our new FBI Director, eh?
5:01 (mine)https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286
How sweet.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry, and rampant disinformation promoted by right-wing lawmakers and media outlets.
Horseshit.
I had to go to the heart of the fucking ghetto TWICE to get the shot(s).
And there was no disinformation peddled around here.
Every single time you guys royally fuck something up, the first thing you do is blame the right.
Embrace the suck of your failures, pederast.
To be perfectly clear.
Fuck you punk.Roger.
Don't blame the Federal reserve for Biden's failures.
Not so fast, pederast...
POLITICO could not independently verify the photos, which are screenshots of original images. They were provided to POLITICO by a person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign. A second person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign confirmed the origin of the photos. The date the photos were taken is unclear, though they appear to show Cawthorn sitting in a wheelchair, indicating the event happened after his accident. In the photos, he is wearing a distinctive pendant necklace that has appeared in other images and videos of Cawthorn. The photos have started to circulate among political rivals.
Yawn.
"Madison Cawthorn Photos Show Him Wearing Lingerie"
Why is this a concern of Pink.James?
Jealousy?
Alky, you couldn't kick anyone's ass. You can't even cut up your own food for fuck's sake.
Biden's answer for his failed policies , drain SPR and Send more money to The failed USDA to Pay for food .
Roger has always been a cowardly milktoast boi.
He is "tough" on wife #2 a small black woman.
"Wife #3" is safe, Because she lives with Trump in Rogers pickled brain.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
5:01 (mine)https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286
https://images.app.goo.gl/FDfRABbtk5Zy5sp98
James looking for prepubescent boys
"Fed Chair Powell says a double-size rate hike is 'on the table' in May, making mortgages, car loans, and credit-card interest even more pricey"
50 basis points is on Deck.
This should have been done 12 months ago , when I first suggested it.
SEATTLE, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden marked Earth Day on Friday with a speech promoting a new effort to protect old-growth forests as he visits the lush but fire-prone Washington state.
The move comes as Biden has drawn fire from environmentalists for shifting his focus from climate change to boosting energy production amid high inflation and war in Europe. read more
The executive order signed by Biden on Friday will create the first-ever inventory of old-growth forests on federal lands and develop a plan to conserve them. It will also task diplomats with doing more to combat deforestation abroad, the White House said.
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"Our forests are our planet's lungs," he said, adding that the order would "strengthen our forests on federal lands and make them and the local economies they support more resilient in the face of wild fires."
The massive, sometimes ancient trees that dot the Western U.S. landscape absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, cutting the emissions that cause climate change and also make wildfires more likely.
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They're at risk. A single fire in 2020 in California killed more than 10% of the world's giant sequoia trees, National Park Service scientists concluded.
"Wildfires and extreme weather events are growing in frequency and ferocity, engulfing communities in the West and across the country and costing lives, homes, and money," the White House said in a fact sheet announcing the executive order.
The order follows the administration's decision to tap the nation's oil reserves to curb prices, plead with domestic producers to drill more, and encourage everyone from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia to Brazil to increase production, as energy prices have spiked in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, 40% remained unvaccinated due in part to inadequate outreach to low-income populations, widespread mistrust of the nation's for-profit healthcare industry
Man oh man, Roger!
I got to agree... Biden sure fucked this up. A quarter million died because of his inadequate outreach. I guess be both blame Biden for this, huh?
False News Fox Lmao
The state of Florida has released four examples from textbooks it has rejected from its school system amid concerns over the promotion of Critical Race Theory and common core principles.
"Based on the volume of requests the Department has received for examples of problematic elements of the recently reviewed instructional materials, the following are examples provided to the department by the public and presented no conflict in sharing them," the Florida Department of Education wrote in a disclaimer along with screenshots from the rejected textbooks. "These examples do not represent an exhaustive list of input received by the Department. The Department is continuing to give publishers the opportunity to remediate all deficiencies identified during the review to ensure the broadest selection of high quality instructional materials are available to the school districts and Florida’s students."
In one of the screenshots, the text describes the Implicit Association Test which measures levels of "racial prejudice" while displaying a graph suggesting conservatives are more inclined to be racially biased.
Florida Department of Education screenshot
"What? Me? Racist?" another screenshot from a textbook reads while also discussing the Implicit Association Test.
Florida Department of Education screenshot
Two other screenshots encourage students to "build proficiency with social awareness" and engage in "social and emotional learning."
Florida Department of Education screenshot
The Florida Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
Florida's Department of Education rejected 41% of mathematics textbooks submitted for use in the state's public schools last week, citing critical race theory and other issues with the texts.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has led a push to reform education standards and practices in the state. Florida called for textbook submissions from publishers in 2021 in accordance with a 2019 executive order from DeSantis aimed at eliminating Common Core standards in the state. The textbooks rejected "were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics."
"It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students," DeSantis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law."
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report
Lmao 🤣
DeSantis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough censorship of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law."
Low income and rural areas don't get enough injections.
But you call it socialism
"Food Shortages " Biden
I have never in my lifetime had a President say those words with zero plan to correct it.
Biden promised a "Winter of Death "
He delivered as the US is about to cross over the 1,000,000 dead
In one of the screenshots, the text describes the Implicit Association Test which measures levels of "racial prejudice" while displaying a graph suggesting conservatives are more inclined to be racially biased.
That sounds like political prejudice to me!
I wonder out loud where you find scientific evidence that proves what a conservative actually is, who is considered conservative, what is and is not racism, and who is a so called "racist".
I bet it involves just a little bit of unscientific "opinion"...
WHICH HAS NO F-N PLACE IN SCHOOL!!!
Roger... you can teach your kids to be loser liberals so they end up in a lockdown facility when they are 70 if you so choose. But if a teacher is trying to teach my kid how to view politics, then they will have a serious discussion with me and it won't be pretty.
Low income and rural areas don't get enough injections.
That is an administrative failure?
Who is in charge of this shit? They should all be fired!!!
Wouldn't you agree?
Infowars Lmao
GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught in a bald-faced lie on Thursday night after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow played a leaked audio clip showing the top Republican once said he’d recommend President Trump resign.
First, a book titled, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns claimed McCarthy told Liz Cheney on a January 10, 2021 phone call that he would advise President Trump to resign before his term ended.
After this claim went public on Thursday, McCarthy refuted the allegations, writing, “The New York Times’ reporting on me is totally false and wrong. It comes as no surprise that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda.”
Later Thursday night, MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow played audio of McCarthy telling anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney he would in fact recommend President Trump resign ahead of being impeached.
“The only discussion I would have with him [Trump] is that I think this [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you [Trump] should resign,” McCarthy told Cheney.
Sleepy Joe Biden mentioned the controversy on Friday, using the leaked audiotape as an attack on the unity of the Republican Party.
This is solid proof for any Republican voters who were on the fence about McCarthy.
The top GOP politician is anti-Trump and has been riding on Trump’s populist wave while privately turning his back on the 45th President.
On Topic
Having retired "transitory inflation " for "Systemic inflation ".
"So, the outlook is uncertain. As you know, the Fed is taking steps to bring inflation down, but I think we will have to put up with high inflation for a while longer." Dumb Cow Yellen
Maybe the WOKE should be more focused on their schools Failing.
Graduation Rates
Kansas
High School or Higher: 91.00%
Florida
High School or Higher: 88.00%
California
High School or Higher: 83.00%
The WSJ shows some good news 🙌.
The U.S. economy grew at a moderate pace in early spring as Covid-19 cases declined and high inflation rippled throughout the U.S. economy, and the Ukraine war created new economic uncertainty, the Federal Reserve said in a report.
“Outlooks for future growth were clouded by the uncertainty created by recent geopolitical developments and rising prices,” the Fed said on Wednesday in its periodic compilation of business anecdotes from around the country, known as the Beige Book. The report contained details about the latest effects of high inflation, supply-chain bottlenecks and the strong demand for workers.
The report, which included information gathered through April 11, said the tight labor market continued to fuel strong wage growth. Workers cited inflation as a reason for seeking higher wages. An employee in the food services sector told the Fed that the relatively low pay in their company was “a primary driver in recent unionization efforts.”
Businesses in the services sector reported strong demand. Tourism businesses in the Southeast said spring-break activity was booming this year, while companies on the West Coast said professional events and conventions were making a slow return.
“There’s a shift going on now of consumer spending moving back toward services and leisure,” said Charles Gascon, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “The hospitality and services side of the economy seems to be much more optimistic than the goods side.”
The President gets blamed, despite he isn't directly in control.
Really, so for the first Time in US History in the Modern Era , This President is powerless to effect positive change.
Duly noted
For future use against the Stupid Fuck Alky.
More than 50% of adults say they've already cut back on dining out and will consider reducing that further if inflation continues to surge, according to the CNBC
Biden gets 3 Pinocchios for saying 'congressional Republicans' want middle class tax hikeThe claim 'just barely' missed getting four Pinocchios"
The President gets blamed, despite he isn't directly in control.
You got that right, he’s not even in control of his bowels
Censorship
DeSantis Punishes Disney Over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law
Legal Censorship
Hey Alky why doesn’t Universal Studios get the same “favored nation status”?
Idiot
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The United States has disclosed details of its latest military aid package to be used by Ukraine’s forces in the country’s east after Russian forces this week launched a full-scale offensive in the region.
The new $800m assistance package includes a new unmanned aerial weapons system, or drone, dubbed the Phoenix Ghost.
Dow Tumbles Nearly 1,000 Points as Stocks Extend SelloffS&P, Nasdaq turn in weekly losses; yield on 10-year Treasury note hovers near multiyear high
Netflix
Drained of $100 million by Obamas.
For Joe Biden, the vote by Florida Republicans on Thursday to strip Disney of its self-governing powers was a step too far.
“Christ, they’re going after Mickey Mouse,” the president exclaimed at a fundraiser in Oregon, in apparent disbelief that state governor Ron DeSantis’s culture wars had reached the gates of the Magic Kingdom.
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Prosecutor drops all chargesagainst Pamela Moses, jailed over voting error
The move, Biden asserted, reflected his belief that the “far right has taken over the party”.
By voting to penalize Florida’s largest private employer, lawmakers followed DeSantis’s wishes in securing revenge on a company he brands as “woke” for its opposition to his “don’t say gay” law.
DeSantis is a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He has pushed his legislature on several rightwing laws in recent weeks, including a 15-week abortion ban, stripping Black voters of congressional representation and preventing discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity issues in schools.
On Friday, the governor signed the anti-Disney law as well as a measure banning critical race theory in schools and the controversial new electoral map. Voting rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute and the Equal Ground Education Fund filed suit against the new electoral map, in state court in Tallahassee.
“This is not your father’s Republican party,” Biden said at the fundraiser in Oregon.
He's the craziest 😳 😅
Opening up a new front in the nation's culture wars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revoked Walt Disney's self-governing authority in apparent retaliation for opposing the state's new "Don't Say Gay" law.
DeSantis signed a bill Friday that will cancel special privileges granted to Disney decades ago to govern the land surrounding its Disney World theme park. The new law, set to take effect in June 2023, will cost Disney tens of millions of dollars a year.
The weeks-long public feud has upended the once cozy relationship between Florida and Disney. It's also just the latest salvo in the political right’s battle against “wokeness.”
Britain, a similar game is afoot. The country’s right-wing tabloids, which routinely rage about the supposed leftist disposition of public institutions, are up in arms over “woke” activists questioning the legacy of figures like Winston Churchill or staining the story of the British Empire with inconvenient — and curiously little-discussed — facts about the depravity of colonial rule.
In advance of Jan. 6, 2021, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was warned about the threat of violence that day as supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mass on the Capitol, according to new testimony released late on Friday by the House committee investigating the insurrection.
One of Meadows’s top aides, Cassidy Hutchinson, told congressional investigators that she recalled Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who also held the role of a political adviser at the White House, “coming in and saying that we had intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th. And Mr. Meadows said: All right. Let’s talk about it.”
Hutchinson added that, “I’m not sure if he — what he did with that information internally.”
The new details came in a filing arguing that a federal court should reject Meadows’s claims of executive privilege and compel him to appear before the House Jan. 6 committee, which is continuing to build a case that Trump knowingly misled his followers about the election, and pressured Pence to break the law in the weeks and hours before the assault.
In the motion, the committee outlines seven “discrete categories of information” it seeks to question Meadows about and argued that his claims of executive privilege should not preclude him from testifying about these categories.
Those categories include testimony and documents relating to communications with members of Congress; the plan to replace acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen with Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark; efforts by Trump to “direct, persuade or pressure then Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally refuse to count electoral votes on January 6th"; and activity in the White House “immediately before and during the events of January 6th.”
The committee laid out new examples of warnings Meadows received ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, along with a deepened understanding of his involvement with planning and coordinating efforts to disrupt the counting of electoral votes in Congress.
Perhaps the most significant new piece of evidence presented by the committee is testimony from Hutchinson, who told investigators that her boss was informed “before the January 6th proceeding about the potential for violence that day,” according to the filing.
Hutchinson told investigators: “I know that there were concerns brought forward to Mr. Meadows. I don’t know — I don’t want to speculate whether or not they perceived them as genuine concerns, but I know that people had brought information forward to him that had indicated that there could be violence on the 6th.”
Investigators also have found evidence that Meadows repeatedly communicated with GOP Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) before and on Jan. 6, 2021. Hutchinson identified Perry, Jordan, and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) as the leading proponents in Congress “who were raising the idea of the Vice President doing anything other than just counting electoral votes on January the 6th.”
Asked by investigators if Perry supported the idea of sending people to the U.S. Capitol on that day, Hutchinson replied that he did but that members present on a planning call ahead of Jan. 6 were “more inclined to go with White House guidance.”
Hutchinson also recounted a Dec. 21, 2020, strategy meeting at the White House ahead of the electoral certification attended by Jordan, Greene and Reps. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Other GOP members dialed into the meeting, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.
“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States, more along the lines of the [John] Eastman theory,” Hutchinson said of the meeting, referring to a legal theory advanced by Eastman, a conservative attorney.
😃Biden/Harris🤣
The Great Rejection 2024
Disney will now "Pay their fair Share"
Democrats reject their own standard.
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