So this is new!
The missing comments "ARE" going into a spam folder. I am not sure exactly why these are being flagged, but I will be approving them and hopefully the system is smart enough to see that these are not spam even if they actually might be in come cases (eg:Roger).
105 comments:
Treason????
Exactly five years ago tomorrow then-President Donald Trump gave top Russian officials code word classified top secret intelligence, putting Israeli spies at risk, and celebrated his firing of FBI Director Jim Comey, all during a meeting inside the Oval Office. No American journalists were allowed to be present, but a photographer from Russian state media was.
TOLD you I was being deleted.
I was called a liar.
.
NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss noted the upcoming anniversary, and that today is the anniversary of Trump firing his FBI Director:
Included in the secret, "jovial," Oval Office meeting were Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Just two months before Trump welcomed the officials into the Oval, CNN reported: "Current and former US intelligence officials have described Kislyak as a top spy and recruiter of spies."
One day after the secret meeting, the Russian Embassy posted this photo of Donald Trump excitedly shaking Kislyak's hand in a near-embrace:
Ten days after firing Coney the world would learn that inside that secret Oval Office meeting Trump told the Russians: “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” as The New York Times reported.
“I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
IN OTHER NEWS: Alex Jones explodes at caller over 'damn' QAnon: 'I have to put up with the Q people all over the place!'
Block 🚫 ed
Donald Quisling Trump
Almost exactly five years ago he gave the Russians top secret to that lead to his first impeachment. He should have been convicted 5 years ago tomorrow.
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.
"Honest, decent, truthful Rev.May 9, 2022 at 5:31 PM
turn up wind power and sun and hydro to fill the gap.
IF TRUMP HADN'T NIXED IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, THEY'D NOW BE FAR MORE AVAILABLE"
Specifically which Programs?
NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan.
The Post’s extensive reporting, published in a sophisticated interactive series, found numerous problems and failures in political systems and security before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the newspaper’s own backyard.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
TOLD you I was being deleted.
I was called a liar.
No you were not being deleted
The software wasn't letting you post spam
either by being identified by IP address
or repeated posts
And YES you were lying when you said I was doing it to you
multiple times
what a lying POS "pastor"
FUCK, roger put everything in all bold again
great
in this instance you can even still see it
He is absolutely correct 👏
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday condemned protestors who gathered outside Supreme Court justices’ homes to protest a leaked draft opinion regarding the potential overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision.
“We’ve seen angry crowds assemble at judges’ private family homes. Activists published a map of their addresses. Law enforcement has had to install a security fence around the Supreme Court itself,” McConnell said from the Senate floor.
“Trying to scare federal judges into ruling a certain way is far outside the bounds of First Amendment speech or protest. It is an attempt to replace the rule of law with the rule of mobs,” he added.
McConnell also cited a federal law that forbids “pickets and parades” with the goal of influencing judges. He said the law could make the protestors’ actions illegal.
in this example...
the idiot even showed his open ended html
it is /b not _b
The comment editor should not allow that to post.
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
On Monday, The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — “an attempted coup,” as its first main account of the day unflinchingly described it — and the complex and still unspooling aftermath.
The prize, considered American journalism’s highest honor, recognizes the work of more than 100 journalists across The Post’s newsroom, many of whom contributed reporting from the Capitol grounds that day as well as others who investigated the security failures that contributed to the crisis, the human costs of the attack and the larger ramifications for the nation.<_b>
The comment editor should not allow that to post.
I tried to post just the html but it wouldn't let me
Does roger have special "privileges" ?
If so he shouldn't
and I'm glad I don't...
The Pulitzer Prize board also awarded a special citation in honor of journalists of Ukraine, “for their courage, endurance and commitment to truthful reporting during Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia.”
Pulitzer Prize
Isn't that the one they also won about the Russian Collusion Hoax ?
great "reporting" on that too
is propagating a hoax the criteria now ?
I incorrectly typed <_b> so what
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I incorrectly typed <_b> so what
Well it let me post that ???
but the "so what" is you fucked up the board roger
(that was me before, didn't think it would let me post)
you are the guy who is triggering the all bold or all italics
then blaming others
KansasDemocrat May 9, 2022 at 5:55 PM
"Honest, decent, truthful Rev.May 9, 2022 at 5:31 PM
turn up wind power and sun and hydro to fill the gap.
IF TRUMP HADN'T NIXED IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, THEY'D NOW BE FAR MORE AVAILABLE"
Specifically which Programs
I incorrectly typed <_b> so what
So it made every other comment in the thread bold type...
that is what!
I think when I tried to post roger's non-HTML close it just figured I was not posting anything and nothing posted
When I try and post something and don't close it the editor catches me
but not so for roger ???
and obviously the non-closed bold carried forward
very easy to see if you just look at the dates before the deletion.
The first one in bold (or italics) looks to be the offending party
guess I'll have to call myself detective going forward
ROFLMFAO !!!
Great ,the new press secretary lies.
2016 Election Stolen from Hillary.
Proving Lying is what Socialist do.
Andrew Sullivan is the key 🔑
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Inside Mark Meadows’s final push to keep Trump in power
The former congressman played a key role in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, according to his texts, congressional investigations and interviews
By Michael Kranish
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Behind closed doors in a civic center outside Atlanta, state officials were scouring thousands of mail-in ballots on Dec. 22, 2020, when an unexpected visitor showed up: Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
Joe Biden had won the electoral college one week earlier, but Meadows’s boss was still baselessly claiming he’d been robbed — and pointing specifically at Georgia.
After Georgia’s deputy secretary of state blocked Meadows from entering the room where officials were matching voter signatures, Meadows struck up a conversation with her office’s chief investigator, Frances Watson, and got her phone number. To Watson’s shock, the next day Trump called.
“Mark asked me to do it, he thinks you’re great,” Trump said, while falsely claiming he had won Georgia “by hundreds of thousands of votes.” Trump, according to audio of the call, added, “Whatever you can do Frances, it’s a great thing, an important thing for the country.”
As he hung up, Trump said, “Mark appreciates it.”
Meadows, 62, had taken the job as chief of staff on the principle that his most important task would be “to tell the most powerful man in the world when you believed he was wrong,” he wrote in his memoir, “The Chief’s Chief.”
But instead of echoing the administration’s own Justice Department to tell Trump that his claims of a stolen election were wrong, Meadows went to extraordinary lengths to push Trump’s false assertions — particularly during a crucial three-week period starting with his trip to Atlanta and culminating in the violent insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
A review of Meadows’s actions in that period by The Washington Post — based on interviews, depositions, text messages, emails, congressional documents, recently published memoirs by key players and other material — shows how Meadows played a pivotal role in advancing Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. In doing so, Meadows “repeatedly violated” legal guidance against trying to influence the Justice Department, according to a majority staff report of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Meadows granted those peddling theories about a stolen election direct access to the Oval Office and personally connected some with the president, according to congressional reports and interviews with former White House officials. He pressed the Justice Department to investigate spurious and debunked claims, including a bizarre theory that an Italian operation changed votes in the United States — an allegation a top Justice official called “pure insanity,” according to email correspondence released by congressional investigators. He also pushed the Justice Department, unsuccessfully, to try to invalidate the election results in six states through federal court action.
Now Meadows’s actions are at the center of probes by both the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the Justice Department, which is examining whether to press contempt-of-Congress charges against him and is conducting its own inquiry into the events surrounding the insurrection. North Carolina officials, meanwhile, are looking into whether Meadows himself potentially committed voter fraud by registering to vote in 2020 at a mobile home he reportedly never stayed in.
What Mark Meadows said about mail-in voter fraud in 2020
During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows suggested that widespread mail-in voting would lead to voter fraud. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post, Photo: Amanda Voisard/The Washington Post)
“Meadows was someone obviously central to the operations of the Trump White House and deeply implicated in Trump’s specific attempts to strip Biden of his electoral college victory after the election,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, said in a statement to The Post. “He was above all a loyal servant to Donald Trump regardless of the dictates of the law and the Constitution.”
A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
Some former White House officials also say Meadows bears responsibility for enabling Trump’s destructive push to stay in power.
“Anybody who participated in telling the president, 'We can take this back,’ has a role in all of this,” said former press secretary Stephanie Grisham in an interview. “He was allowing people to come into the White House who had this false information. … He was participating in these meetings that were causing the president to really believe in voter fraud.”
Meadows could not be reached for comment. In an April 30 speech urging Christians to vote, Meadows sounded emotional as he referenced his wife, Debra, in the audience and said “God is humbling us.” He did not mention the investigation of his actions
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
I incorrectly typed <_b> so what
So it made every other comment in the thread bold type...
that is what!
Geriatrics and that new fangled internet stuff, damn you whippersnappers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/inside-mark-meadowss-final-push-keep-trump-power/
He was the key 🔑 coup to steal the election results
7:37
Wasn't it NICE of Cali to call us (young) whippersnappers, Roger!
He used to say we are old!
(Or is he just too uninformed to know what "whippersnapper" really means?
That, I think.
;-)
Pederast that was you old geriatrics calling us whippersnappers
You fucking stupid old man
Go back to copy and pasting, you aren’t bright enough to think on your own
LMAO
REALIZING THEY HAVE NOW REALLY WALKED INTO IT
(THE DEEP DOO DOO, THAT IS)--
Republicans Splinter on How to Handle Post-Roe World
May 9, 2022 at 9:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“As Roe vs. Wade teeters,
Republicans are fractured about what to do next. The split may turn into a chasm if they take back full control of Washington in 2025,”
Politico reports.
*“Some in the GOP now acknowledge they may eventually pursue national abortion restrictions
should a majority of the Supreme Court follow through on its draft opinion overturning Roe, after spending several days trying to deflect by focusing on the document’s unauthorized disclosure.
*And there’s a range of opinions among Hill Republicans about what comes next:
*leave abortion policy to the states,
*pursue more modest restrictions,
*or go all-out to install a ban nationwide.”
CNN:
GOP dismisses talk of legislation to ban abortion after McConnell suggests
“it’s possible.”
oh, oh, did someone go too far?
See pedo, it’s actually you two geriatrics that have been screwing up the blog, because you don’t get this internet thing
Do I need to further explain????
LMAO
Crickets
Turley brings a hammer
From court packing to leaking to doxing: White House yields to a national rage addiction
In 1954, the left was targeted for its political views; today, it is the left which is calling for censorship, blacklisting and doxing. In such moments of reckless rage, presidents often have become calming voices, tempering extremist passions in their own parties. When they have failed to do so, history has judged them harshly, as in the case of President Eisenhower’s belated condemnation of Sen. McCarthy, something he reportedly regretted for the rest of his life.
President Biden has repeatedly shown that polls, not principles, guide his presidency. He showed integrity as a senator by denouncing court packing as a “bonehead … terrible, terrible” idea. However, he has stayed silent as today’s Democrats have pushed to pack the court with an instant liberal majority, a demand that increased this week. Biden long supported the Senate’s filibuster rule and said efforts to eliminate it would be “disastrous” — but when today’s mob formed, he flipped and denounced the filibuster as a “relic” of the Jim Crow era.
Even on abortion, Biden has shifted with the polls. He once opposed Roe v. Wade and supported an amendment that would negate the decision. At the time, he declared that “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.” Now President Biden has switched his position without really switching his logic. He recently declared that he supported Roe because “I’m just a child of God; I exist” and thus can decide what happens to his body. Accordingly, he denounced the Supreme Court’s draft opinion as “radical” and affirmed the right of a woman “to abort a child.“
Whether it is court leaking, packing, doxing or other tactics, many Democratic politicians and pundits continue to follow the mob rather than risk its ire.
A clerk for a conservative justice is the “leading theory” amid intense speculation about who released a draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito showing the court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg of NPR.
Totenberg said on ABC’s “This Week” that the prevailing theory is that a conservative clerk released the decision in an attempt to lock in the five justices who voted to support overturning Roe as Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly attempts to pull his colleagues toward a more moderate position.
“That has never, ever occurred before,” Totenberg said of the leak. “That could only, in all likelihood, have come from a justice — that I think is less likely — or perhaps one of the clerks.”
“The only one that makes sense is it came from somebody who was afraid that this majority might not hold,” she added.
Politico leaked Alito’s draft opinion on Monday, spurring protests across the nation as liberals raised fears of abortion rights being overturned for the first time since 1973.
Roberts condemned the leak and ordered an investigation into who was behind the move, which he called “a singular and egregious breach” of trust.
Republicans have decried the leak as an injustice and suggested it is a political attack from an outraged liberal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it a “stunning breach” and “an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on Sunday theorized on Fox News that the leak was “almost certainly one of the 12 law clerks that are clerking for the three liberal justices”
“I’m confident we don’t have a master criminal working at the court. I think there are going to be electronic records,” Cruz said on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Experts told The Hill they are divided on whether it was a liberal or conservative law clerk, each of whom could have had their own motives. But nearly everyone has agreed a sitting Supreme Court justice would not leak the draft opinion.
https://news.yahoo.com/npr-reporter-says-leading-theory-223912817.html
VDH
The Exasperated American
large majority of Americans now have no confidence in Joe Biden and his administration, which often polls below 40 percent, with negatives nearing 60 percent.
Despite the 15-month catastrophe of his regime, the level of his own unpopularity remains understandable but still remarkable. After all, in 2020 voters already knew well of his cognitive deficits and the radicalism of his agenda. They saw both clearly starting in 2019 and during the 2020 Democratic primaries, the primary debates, and the general election.
So what did Biden’s voters imagine would happen when a cognitively challenged president, controlled by hard-Left subordinates, entered office—other than what he has done?
Now, as then, the media is fused to the progressive agenda and does—and did—its best to turn a non-compos mentis Biden into a bite-your-lip centrist empath in the Bill Clinton “I feel your pain” mode.
The American people know that on every occasion their president speaks, he will slur his words at best. At worst, he will have little idea where he is, where he has been, or what he is supposed to be saying or doing. When he is momentarily cognizant, he is at his meanest, or he simply makes things up.
Our new normal of a mentally incapacitated president is not entirely new in American history—Woodrow Wilson was an invalid during the last months of his presidency. But Wilson’s condition was well hidden. Quite novel is the idea that the American people know the man in the White House is cognitively disabled and simply expect him to confirm that bleak diagnosis each time he opens his mouth.
If Donald Trump exaggerated, Biden flat out lies daily. His most recent untruth was his assertion that the MAGA movement represents “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history.” Biden cannot really believe that roughly half the country is now more dangerous than Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Weathermen, the American Nazi Party, the American Communist Party, and the Ku Klux Klan. And this comes from the mythically moderate “good old Joe from Scranton”?
The bullied people also know the Biden problem has no remedy. The 25th Amendment that Democrats and the Left raised nonstop in efforts to remove Trump—from the Rosenstein-McCabe wear-a-wire embarrassment and former Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee’s congressional tomfoolery to the incessant Montreal Cognitive Assessment demands—won’t apply to Biden.
RTWT
I guess my chew toy, ran away
AGAIN!!!
KansasDemocrat May 9, 2022 at 5:55 PM
"Honest, decent, truthful Rev.May 9, 2022 at 5:31 PM
turn up wind power and sun and hydro to fill the gap.
IF TRUMP HADN'T NIXED IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, THEY'D NOW BE FAR MORE AVAILABLE"
Specifically which Programs
Cali,James attempted at insulting you blew up in his face.
Joe Biden has failed.
COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
71,742 MAY 08 2022
42,015 MAY 08 2021
DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
607 MAY 08 2022
607 MAY 08 2021
DRUDGE REPORT
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Cali,James attempted at insulting you blew up in his face.
It never goes well for him. But still, Its like matching wits with the unarmed*
*attribution still unknown
Globalism
George Soros Operative Appointed As Biden’s Ministry of Truth Co-Chairby Jamie White
May 9th 2022, 12:26 pm
Jennifer Daskal named Principal Deputy General Counsel of Joe Biden's "Disinformation Governance Board."
Joe Biden’s new Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” has appointed a radical George Soros operative as its co-chair.
The Ministry of Truth’s new Principal Deputy General Counsel Jennifer Daskal has deep ties to the Hungarian billionaire globalist.
First, Daskal served as a fellow of Soros’ Open Society Foundation (OSF), where she was tasked with “working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders.”
Daskal also worked as senior counterterrorism counsel for anti-free speech organization Human Rights Watch, which received over $32 million from Soros between 2000 and 2014.
Human Rights Watch recently condemned Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter over his aim to make the social media platform a haven for free speech.
Finally, Daskal was also the founding editor of the Soros-funded Just Security blog, which the OSF gave $675,000 to between 2017 and 2019.
Daskal’s involvement in the Disinformation Governance Board was revealed by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a congressional hearing last week.
Soros’ OSF has been a key player in pushing for censorship on social media platforms under the guise of policing “hate speech.”
OSF-linked groups even recently called for advertisers to reconsider doing business with Twitter after Musk claimed he would restore free speech on the site.
Daskal will be working in tandem with Trump-Russia collusion hoaxer and anti-free speech buffoon Nina Jankowicz, who falsely claimed the authenticated Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
Jankowicz, the Disinformation Board chief, even recently asserted that the Senate report outlining Hunter Biden’s questionable involvement with Ukraine energy company Burisma Holdings was “disinformation.”
Though DHS chief Mayorkas insisted that the Disinformation Board won’t have “operational authority” to police free speech, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last week noted that the federal government can’t even agree on what defines disinformation.
“You know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government,” Paul told Mayorkas during a congressional hearing. “Are you familiar with [former Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara? The Pentagon Papers? Are you familiar with George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction? Are you familiar with Iran-Contra? Think of all the debates and disputes we’ve had over the last 50 years in our country. We worked them out by debating them.”
Meanwhile, government bureaucrats like FDA chief Dr. Robert Califf absurdly claim with no evidence that disinformation is the “leading cause of death” in the United States.
Will the Disinformation Board set him straight or just continue to let this blatantly false assertion disseminate?
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The Ministry Of Totalitarianism
An assault upon the First Amendment continues below.
Companies that published '1619 Project' joins in award for Republican who tried to get it removed from schools
Sarah K. Burris
May 10, 2022
Publishing houses are coming under fire after a group of them named Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) as a "distinguished public servant" in an event where they warned there is a war against books.
The American Association of Publishers is a board of publishers like the Hachette Book Group, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., John Wiley and Sons, Books, Tayor and Francis Group, the Disney Publishing Group, Scholastic, Pearson, Teacher Created Materials Inc, Penguin Random House, Princeton University Press, Simon and Schuster, University of Chicago Press, Chronicle Books, HarperCollins Publishers, the American Psychological Association, and McGraw Hill.
Some of the publishers on the list have authors whose books made it to the American Library Association's list of "book titles that were banned, challenged, or restricted." Yet, Sen. Tillis is among those leaders who fought for that same philosophy.
Scholastic is well-known as a children's book leader, but it joined with Random House (also on the list) in the production of the "1619 Project," which Tillis has targeted.
"Random House Children’s Books announced plans to publish four 1619 Project books for young readers—one young adult, one middle-grade, and two picture books. Upfront, a newsletter that the New York Times produces for schools with the publisher Scholastic, used the 1619 label on an article about 1960s student activism for civil rights and desegregation, linking that to 'the Climate March to demand action on global warming, and March for Our Lives to call for an end to gun violence" reported Education Next in their Spring 2022 issue.
According to Sen. Tillis, The New York Time Magazine’s "1619 Project" and critical race theory have no place in America’s classrooms. “This is why I have significant concerns with the Department of Education’s recent effort to reorient the bipartisan American History and Civics Education programs away from their intended purposes toward a politicized and divisive agenda. These proposed changes include implementing new federal grant priority for projects using The New York Time Magazine’s '1619 Project' and Critical Race Theory (CRT).”
He introduced a bill that would slash any federal funding to programs using the "1619 Project," then the publishers of the project gave him an award.
AAP president and CEO Maria A. Pallante made it clear that their industry was under attack by the book bans in schools.
“As we all know, across the country, thousands of books are being questioned with a scrutiny that’s newly chilling,” she said, “from novels to math books. This is not to say that parents and communities don’t have a say in public education, as the law is clear that they do. But that roll has constitutional limits. It does not extend to capricious actions that cross the line and amount to censorship. In fact, the line is important.”
The organization said that they liked Tillis because he supports copyright law
https://www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-award-publishers-1619/
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
An assault upon the First Amendment continues below.
You idiot. This is not an assault on the first amendment. It's an assault on a book full of fucking lies written by a racist fabulist with a Bozo the clown hairdo seeking a grift.
Immediately upon it's release the 1619 project was criticized by dozens of historians. It's a fucking fable, much like Zinn's 'History of the United States.'
Every narrative promoted by the left is a FALSE narrative, and the 1619 rag is not exception.
Another example of Trump acting like a spoiled child and stomping his feet....Sure wish these tell all writers would have revealed this behavior in real time instead of waiting to be paid!!!!!!!! How you slurpers can support this GOP is beyond me!!!!!
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Trump's former Pentagon chief claims Trump wanted to punish former top military commanders who criticized him.
Mark Esper writes that Trump wanted to court-martial retired Adm. William McRaven and retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Esper says Trump's ire was spun up by stories in publications like Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump wanted to take the extraordinary step of reactivating retired US Navy Adm. William McRaven so that he could court-martial the former Navy SEAL commander for criticizing him, Trump's former Pentagon chief claims in his new book.
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper writes that he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley had to talk then-President Trump out of a plan to recall both retired US Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and McRaven to active duty as a way to open the two former senior military officers up to court-martial proceedings.
"Doing this 'will backfire on you, Mr. President,' we said," Esper wrote of a May 2020 meeting in his book "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times," which is out today.
Trump told Esper and Milley that McRaven and McChrystal were "so disloyal" because of what they were doing and had said about him. Esper writes that Trump was "spun up" by media stories in Breitbart alleging that McChrystal was advising Democrats on how to use artificial intelligence to "track down and counter Trump supporters."
From Turley
Even if protests at justices’ homes are constitutionally protected, that does not make them right, any more than the lawful Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 were right.
Fuck him.....the court is now completely politicized with activism the name of the game.....They should be made painfully aware that their majority decision is truly not that according to polls about abortion......They want to push their ideology down everyones throat by quoting middle age common law as a basis of today's decision.....Sorry sport, but Alito's convoluted logic is not only flawed, it is sooooooo catholic and forcing women to live a life decided by old white men!!!!!!!!
MAYBE WE NEED TO START GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DISCUSSING HERE.
On possible nuclear strike, Russia says: it's all in our military doctrine
Reuters
May 10, 2022, 8:20 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Asked if Russia would rule out a preemptive tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday that a decision on the possible use of nuclear weapons was clearly set out in Russia's military doctrine, RIA reported.
"We have a military doctrine - everything is written there," Alexander Grushko was quoted by state news agency RIA as saying.
Russia's official military deployment principles
*allow for the use of nuclear weapons if they - or other types of weapons of mass destruction - are used against it,
*or if the Russian state faces an existential threat from conventional weapons.
The decision to use Russia's vast nuclear arsenal, the biggest in the world, rests with the Russian president, currently Vladimir Putin.
Russia's invasion has killed thousands of people, displaced nearly 10 million, and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States - by far the world's biggest nuclear powers.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said on Saturday that Putin believes he cannot afford to lose in Ukraine and cautioned that the West could not ignore the risk of the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Moscow.
"We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for a deployment or even use of tactical nuclear weapons," Burns said.
He cautioned, though, that "the stakes are very high for Putin's Russia."
NUCLEAR STRIKE?
A decree signed by Putin on June 2, 2020, said Russia views its nuclear weapons as "exclusively a means of deterrence".
It repeats the phraseology of the military doctrine but adds details about four circumstances under which a nuclear strike would be ordered. These include reliable information of a ballistic missile attack on Russia and an enemy's attack "on critical state or military installations of the Russian Federation, the incapacitation of which would lead to the disruption of a response by nuclear forces."
Putin, who has repeatedly expressed resentment over the way the West treated Russia after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, says Ukraine has been used by the United States to threaten Russia.
He justified his Feb. 24 order for a special military operation by saying Ukraine had persecuted Russian speakers and the United States was keen to enlarge the NATO military alliance in a way that would endanger Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden casts Putin's invasion of Ukraine as a fight in a much broader global battle between democracy and autocracy. He has also called Putin a war criminal and has said the former KGB spy cannot remain in power.
Ukraine dismisses Russian claims that it persecuted Russian speakers and says it is fighting for its survival. Russia denies Ukrainian and Western accusations that its forces committed war crimes.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
Caliphate4vr said...
See pedo, it’s actually you two geriatrics that have been screwing up the blog, because you don’t get this internet thing
Do I need to further explain????
LMAO
actually it's three
one remains "anonymous"
ROFLMFAO !!!
AGAIN, AS I SAID, THERE IS REASON FOR REAL CONCERN:
Biden Concerned That Putin Has No Way Out
May 10, 2022 at 8:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no exit strategy for the Ukraine war – and that is a problem for the West, USA Today reports.
He said Putin is a very calculating man who “doesn’t have a way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”
Jesse Kelly
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1523828951386406912
If I lose any more money in the stock market I’m gonna have to run for Congress so I’ll know when to buy and sell.
Politicians should not be allowed to trade in any stocks
or become filthy rich afterwards like Gore.
While Pelosi is now worth only $150 million or so Gore is worth at least twice that
And the Obamas are flying by both of them
who knows how much the Clintons have amassed
Battling the Big Lie
May 10, 2022 at 7:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
Out next month:
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media
Are Destroying America
by Dan Pfeiffer.
“How the right-wing built a massive, billionaire-funded disinformation machine powerful enough to bend reality and nearly steal the 2020 election.”
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
WHY SUDDENLY MOVE FROM THE BIG LIE
TO THE SIMPLE TRUTH?
One America News Admits 2020 Election Was Fair
May 10, 2022 at 9:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“The right-wing One America News Network admitted in a Monday legal statement that there was no widespread voter fraud by Georgia election officials in the 2020 presidential election after having extensively pushed the groundless claim,”
Insider reports.
NBC News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will outline his efforts to fight inflation and lower consumer prices in a speech from the White House on Tuesday, addressing a top concern of voters ahead of the midterms.
Biden will summarize the steps his administration has taken, as well as proposed, to try to alleviate the issue, the White House said, and will contrast his agenda with the proposals of Republicans, who have made the economy a top line of attack against Democrats as primary season begins.
The president will discuss the rising gas prices that have been stoked in part by Russia's war in Ukraine — what he has called "Putin's price hike" — and his effort to lower them by releasing 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the White House said. As gasoline prices have reached record numbers.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1524008131168280577
Goss Graves, just named one of the most powerful people in DC, has a history of inflammatory comments about Trump and his supporters incl white women. Her husband is threatening people with life in prison on seditious conspiracy charges. Wtf is she doing?
Maybe its time for someone to publish her and her Hubbys address
People are getting passionate
How did the White House phrase that ?
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1523837273778925569
Esper, along with Barr and Milley, should’ve been fired on the spot when they tried (successfully) to convince Trump not to deploy troops to quell violence related to Floyd riots. They weren’t. The list of subversives who Trump didn’t fire is long—and damaging.
And now former AG Holder under Obama is advocating for sedition and bypassing the constitution
Trumps biggest problem was loyalty to his hires and giving them slack.
And not really grasping how entrenched the swamp really was
Today,
President Biden will seek to address one of his biggest political liabilities — inflation — by laying out steps his administration is taking to address it while also claiming Republicans have no plans and would pursue policies that hurt the middle class, as well as seniors and the poor. Biden is not expected to unveil new policy in his remarks from the White House but will try to reframe the issue with midterm elections looming..
Most people are far more concerned about inflation than The Supreme Court draft decision !
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
NBC News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will outline his efforts to fight inflation
That thing he said was transitory.
And that no serious economist was worried about.
Just a Republican talking point ?
Then something caused by Putin
And Americans were going to have to accept the pain ?
Now he's going to lecture us about it
Guess he didn't realize his state media and big tech couldn't hide that too
Please don't fuck up this blog today roger
You and the "pastor" are on quite a streak
of course you were unaware of the truth while blaming others
that is apparently in liberals DNA
always playing the victim while actually being the cause and unaware of the truth
OAN forced to clear the names of Georgia election officials it smeared as part of lawsuit settlement.
As part of a legal settlement with Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of vote tampering in the 2020 presidential election, far-right conservative cable network OAN has issued an apology and admitted that there was “no widespread voter fraud” that denied Donald Trump a second term in office.
According to the Daily Beast's William Villaincouirt, the mea culpa was delivered in a pre-recorded 30-second segment broadcast on Monday.
The year 2022 has not been kind to the San Diego-based conservative outlet which previously saw its profile raised when the former president touted their reporting after he had a falling out with Fox News.
OAN saw its reach seriously diminished when it was dropped by some providers including DirecTV in April. At that time, the New York Post reported, "The cable channel had a good run during the Donald Trump presidency, where it shamelessly promoted the 45th president’s agenda. Trump, in turn, appeared on OAN and promoted it on social media. The conspiracy-pushing outlet remains the target of lawsuits filed by two voting-technologies companies seeking billions of dollars in damages over OAN’s coverage of alleged voting- machine irregularities."
Those conspiracy rumors reported as facts by the network's hosts, are at the root of the latest settlement.
According to the Beast, the new segment "notes that an investigation by state officials into unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud made by ex-President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani turned up nothing."
"The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct,” a narrator states in the OAN statement.
“A legal matter with this network and the two election workers has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement,” the segment's narrator continues.
"Freeman and her daughter, Moss, say they were harassed online and in person after baseless rumors began circulating online, due in part to content published by the conspiracy website The Gateway Pundit, which the pair also sued," Vallaincourt added.
https://www.rawstory.com/oan-lawsuit/
Breaking911
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1523879960074768386
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issues ‘call to arms’ to LGBTQ+ community after SCOTUS leak
If that is not inciting violence what is ?
What is her address ?
isn't that the norm now ?
OK, so rogers all cap article didn't trigger another blog breakdown
phew.
But I guess it's just a matter of time
Amazing he can destroy the blog but still can't figure out how to directly include the link in whatever he is posting
or to just summarize it or limit it to a paragraph or two.
Way too tough for mental midgets I guess
and he's probably shouting while he's posting
poor bunky has to put up with it
If that is not inciting violence what is ?
Telling women to fuck themselves a la Alitio's writ....
Amazing he can destroy the blog but still can't figure out how to directly include
Amazing you posting all the bullshit from twitter you still can't find your ass in the dark!!!!!!
Some highlights: of people who worked for the former President
Former Trump Defense Secretary James Mattis: “When I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else, that’s when I quit.”
Former Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: NBC News reported Tillerson called Trump a “moron” after a July 2017 meeting, a charge Tillerson has never denied. In an interview with Foreign Policy conducted before the January 6 riot, Tillerson said:
“His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this…We’re in a worse place today than we were before he came in, and I didn’t think that was possible.”
Former Chief of Staff John Kelly: The retired four-star Maine general who served as Trump’s second Chief of Staff. On Jan. 7, 2021, Kelly said he supported using the Twenty-fifth Amendment to remove Trump from office. Kelly said:
“I think that the Cabinet should meet and have a discussion. I don't think that it'll happen, but I think the Cabinet should meet and discuss this because the behavior yesterday and in the weeks and months before that has just been outrageous from the President. . . . What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds.”
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton:
https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/do-you-think-trump-was-a-danger-to?s=r
Scott Adams
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1524012190654554112
If Putin were president of America, would he be a Democrat or Republican?
- Calls opponents Nazis
- Censors speech
- Universal healthcare
- Creates fake news
- Favors abortion (Russia has a high rate)
- Jails protestors
- Strict background checks for gun buyers
Well Hunter has already accepted "contributions" from Putin's Moscow friends
maybe even sold them a few "paintings"
Guess if Putin made it official things would quickly calm down
I enjoy triggering the stupid fucking daddy 👨
His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this…We’re in a worse place today than we were before he came in, and I didn’t think that was possible.”
At least he knows his own name, unlike dementia Joe
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1524011020833984512
Today under Build Back Better, America is running out of baby formula. Congrats!
damn Putin
or Trump
Remember Biden will always take responsibility for what happens under his watch
He promised that
or as he said "unlike Trump"
Putin’s Puppets Admit Their Army Has Been a Total Embarrassment
CRYING SHAME
Julia Davis
In his speech preceding the Victory Day celebrations across Russia on Sunday, President Vladimir Putin continued to promote the idea that his troops in Ukraine are fighting “to liberate their native land from the Nazi filth with confidence that, as in 1945, victory will be ours.” His portrayal of Ukrainians as Nazis rings so hollow that propagandists on state television have been struggling to justify the so-called “special military operation.” The description itself was meant to portray a nearly painless blitzkrieg, akin to the annexation of Crimea. Instead, it has turned into an ongoing bloody massacre and a slew of crippling sanctions.
Russia was so unprepared for this turn of events, both militarily and economically, that even the most pro-Kremlin propagandists have been forced to acknowledge the grim reality of a pariah state fighting a war of aggression.
During Friday’s broadcast of state TV show The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, military analyst Konstantin Sivkov argued that Russia’s “current economic market system is unfit to meet the needs of our Armed Forces and of the entire country under these conditions.” Instead, he pushed for what he described as “military socialism,” a set of wartime rules and regulations that would move all strategic resources–including land and factories–under the direct control of the government to better fund the war.
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I enjoy triggering the stupid fucking daddy
ROFLMFAO !!!
only would be funnier if you posted that in the middle of the night
still no link within your article alky (I think that's roger's preferred pronoun)
nor any attempt to compress
way too tough for you ?
or are you day dreaming of me still?
ROFLMFAO !!!
F Daddy SAID:
Esper, along with Barr and Milley, should’ve been fired on the spot when they tried (successfully) to convince Trump not to deploy troops to quell violence related to Floyd riots. They weren’t. The list of subversives who Trump didn’t fire is long—and damaging.
And now former AG Holder under Obama is advocating for sedition and bypassing the constitution
Trumps biggest problem was loyalty to his hires and giving them slack.
And not really grasping how entrenched the swamp really was
______
DECENCY replies:
No, his biggest problem was demanding that his "hires" have loyalty to him rather than to the Constitution.
I suppose you would say he made a big mistake when he listened to his "hires" and didn't start shooting protesters in the legs.
Ben Shapiro
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1523992172328099842
Is it now sufficient for political leaders to state that they are for peaceful protest, even when protests are possible/likely to lead to violence? Just asking, because it seems when Trump did it on January 6, the media blamed him for violence, but when Psaki does it, it's fine.
My bigger question is where is the Virginia governor during all this ?
A lot of what is happening is in his state
and he's a Republican
Joe is demented and Garland is attacking only Republicans but there is no excuse for Youngkin
F DADDY SAID:
Esper, along with Barr and Milley, should’ve been fired on the spot when they tried (successfully) to convince Trump not to deploy troops to quell violence related to Floyd riots. They weren’t. The list of subversives who Trump didn’t fire is long—and damaging.
And now former AG Holder under Obama is advocating for sedition and bypassing the constitution
Trumps biggest problem was loyalty to his hires and giving them slack.
And not really grasping how entrenched the swamp really was
__________
DECENCY SAYS:
No Trump's biggest problem was demanding that his 'hires' have loyalty to him rather than to the Constitution.
I suppose you would say he should not have listened to his
'hires' when they told him he couldn't start shooting protesters in the legs.
_____
[I'm being deleted again by a coward.]
F DADDY SAID:
Esper, along with Barr and Milley, should’ve been fired on the spot when they tried (successfully) to convince Trump not to deploy troops to quell violence related to Floyd riots. They weren’t. The list of subversives who Trump didn’t fire is long—and damaging.
And now former AG Holder under Obama is advocating for sedition and bypassing the constitution
Trumps biggest problem was loyalty to his hires and giving them slack.
And not really grasping how entrenched the swamp really was
__________
DECENCY SAYS:
No Trump's biggest problem was demanding that his 'hires' have loyalty to him rather than to the Constitution.
I suppose you would say he should not have listened to his
'hires' when they told him he couldn't start shooting protesters in the legs.
_____
[I'm being deleted again by a coward.]
F DADDY SAID:
Esper, along with Barr and Milley, should’ve been fired on the spot when they tried (successfully) to convince Trump not to deploy troops to quell violence related to Floyd riots. They weren’t. The list of subversives who Trump didn’t fire is long—and damaging.
And now former AG Holder under Obama is advocating for sedition and bypassing the constitution
Trumps biggest problem was loyalty to his hires and giving them slack.
And not really grasping how entrenched the swamp really was
__________
DECENCY SAYS:
No Trump's biggest problem was demanding that his 'hires' have loyalty to him rather than to the Constitution.
I suppose you would say he should not have listened to his
'hires' when they told him he couldn't start shooting protesters in the legs.
_____
[I'm being deleted again by a coward.]
Oh god the pedo is spamming again and blaming others
Stupid old man
Ch admitted it was happening.
I suppose you would say he should not have listened to his
'hires' when they told him he couldn't start shooting protesters in the legs.
crickets crickets crickets
It’s happening because you old geezers are spamming you mental midget
I put 9:11 up one time and it got deleted.
That was not spamming.
Then by putting it up rapidly three times, I got it to stay.
Then I, the author, removed the first two.
Caliphate4vr said...
Oh god the pedo is spamming again and blaming others
Stupid old man
He can't grasp what spam is and how he is triggering his posts to be directed to a spam folder by the Google blogger software. CHT even posted the actual picture of that at the start of this thread but the "pastor" continues to lie and blame others.
As for the lie about Trump shooting protestors in the leg read Trumps statement
if the "pastor" is capable of even finding it on his own
I'm guessing not
He's totally reliant on Goddard and the "pastor's" failed memory
ROFLMFAO !!!
I'm not interested in what you have to say Cali. You are so filled with hate you can't even see straight.
I post about issues. Too many of the rest of you spend most of your time ridiculing and disparaging and lying about others.
Exemplum gratia:
calling themn pedos or pederasts.
Obviously Google has identified the "pastor's" IP address as a source of spam and more careful scrutiny
That part is definitely working
Once it is put in the spam folder CHT has to release it
He said he would but I'm sure he's not breathlessly waiting for the next Goddard post from the pastor identified as spam to arrive
ROFLMFAO !!!
the fucking lying "pastor" is incapable of taking responsibility of his own actions
* for his own actions
The Hill
Esper: Trump asked about shooting protesters ‘in the legs or something’ after George Floyd death
Kelsey Carolan
May 2, 2022
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that former President Trump asked authorities if they could shoot protesters in the legs amid the demonstrations that filled the streets of Washington following the murder of George Floyd.
“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper says Trump said.
Esper’s revelation from his new memoir “A Sacred Oath” — first seen by Axios — uncovers more details about their rocky relationship during the nationwide racial protests in 2020, as Esper publicly opposed Trump’s threat to deploy active-duty troops.
At the time, Esper said the deployment of active-duty forces should only be used as a “matter of last resort,” countering Trump’s depiction of the protests being a dire situation. The Defense Department did move 1,600 troops to bases near Washington, but not in the District of Columbia itself.
“I had to figure out a way to walk Trump back without creating the mess I was trying to avoid,” Esper wrote in his book, describing Trump as “red faced and complaining loudly about the protests under way in Washington, D.C.”
Esper’s comments follow similar ones made by Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender for his book that Trump called for law enforcement to handle protesters and “crack their skulls.”
When Esper publicly broke with Trump on the treatment of protesters in June of 2020, other Republicans, like Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), John Thune (S.D) and Mike Braun (Ind.), agreed with the move and supported the former Defense secretary publicly.
Trump fired Esper immediately following the 2020 presidential election, replacing him with Christopher Miller. In what seemed like an intentional slight to Trump in a letter addressed to him, Esper did not thank his former boss and said he tried to keep politics out of the Pentagon.
Esper’s book has received the Pentagon’s stamp of approval and others who reviewed it say they also witnessed what Trump said, according to Axios.
GLAD TO SHOW YOU THE TRUTH and HOW I AM ONLY INTERESTED IN TRUTH.
--Honest, decent, truthful pastor
Non partisan news
Putin 'will turn to more drastic means' to achieve objectives in Ukraine, says US spy chief
Julian Borger
More from Avril Haines, the US director of national intelligence, who said that the Ukraine war is becoming a war of attrition with no end in sight.
Haines said:
Putin most likely judges that Russia has a greater ability and willingness to endure challenges than his adversaries and he is probably counting on US and EU resolve to weaken as food shortages, inflation and energy prices get worse. Moreover, as both Russia and Ukraine believe they can continue to make progress militarily, we do not see a viable negotiating path forward at least in the short term.
The uncertain nature of the battle which is developing into a war of attrition, combined with the reality that Putin faces a mismatch between his ambitions and Russia’s current conventional military capabilities, likely means the next few months could see us moving along a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory.
The current trend increases the likelihood that President Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production, or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve his objectives as the conflict drags on, or if he perceives Russia is losing in Ukraine.
The most likely flashpoint for escalation in the coming weeks is around increasing Russian attempts to intimidate western security assistance, retaliation for western economic sanctions or threats to the regime at home.
Updated at 10.42 EDT
Revend James, it's unfortunate that the only somewhat rational conservative here is Ch.
Cali and rrb are angry irrational people and kputz is just dumb 😑
I post about issues. Too many of the rest of you spend most of your time ridiculing and disparaging and lying about others.
You don’t do but cut and paste pedo
Same for the Alky
a post is a post is a post
Here are several:
hA Mark Esper Says He Wouldn’t Vote for Trump Again
May 10, 2022 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper told MSNBC that he wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump if he ran again for president in 2024.
Confidence in the Supreme Court Has Collapsed
May 10, 2022 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans’ confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court has collapsed over the last 20 months — a period that began with former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans installing a 6-3 conservative majority ahead of the 2020 election.
GOP Politicians Are Pro-Forced Birth
May 10, 2022 at 10:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
Catherine Rampell:
“Republican politicians working to overturn Roe v. Wade say they are pro-life and antiabortion. In fact, they are neither. What they are is pro-forced birth.
“This distinction is about more than semantics. These officials have drawn a clear line, as evidenced by policies they’ve adopted in conjunction with their opposition to Roe. GOP-led states are making choices, today, that increase the chances of unplanned pregnancies and, therefore, demand for abortions; their choices also limit access to health care and other critical programs for new moms, endangering the lives and welfare of mothers and their children.”
WOMEN WILL NOT BE PLEASED.
The GOP Split on Abortion
May 10, 2022 at 10:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
Axios:
“Republicans are deeply split on their abortion strategy, with top officials
pushing restraint, even silence,
while activist GOP candidates demand an all-out campaign for a national ban and harsher penalties…”
“The takeaway:
One thing is certain about modern politics:
Rarely does moderation or restraint prevail — especially on cultural, religious or identity issues.
In fact, one truism of modern conservatism is:
The more the establishment pushes something, the more the base recoils.”
Exchange of the Day
May 10, 2022 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper was interviewed by Brett Baier on Fox News:
BAIER: Do you think Donald Trump was a threat to democracy?
ESPER: I think that given the events of January 6th, given how he has undermined the election results,
he incited people to come to D.C.,
stirred them that morning, and
failed to call them off.
To me, that threatens our democracy.”
BAIER: So, yes?
ESPER: What else can you conclude, Bret?
DUH!
U.S. to Increase Pressure on the Taliban
May 10, 2022 at 9:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan’s Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions restricting the rights of women and girls if the hardline group shows no sign of rescinding the actions on its own,” Reuters reports.
IT'S ALREADY GETTING STRONG PUSH BACK FROM AFGHANI WOMEN
Quote of the Day
May 10, 2022 at 9:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“To let the administration simply off the hook, given all that they’ve done, all that I think we’re gonna hear that they did — that’s very dangerous for our nation.”
— Former Attorney General Eric Holder, quoted by MSNBC, on the Trump administration.
Scott I know it probably won't change your mind about Trump but you should consider it 😉
Gen. Mark Milley 'this close' to quitting over Trump demand for troops to shoot protesters: book
Travis Gettys
May 10, 2022
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nearly quit on the spot over former President Donald Trump's order to use military troops to violently crack down on protests over the police murder of George Floyd.
Former defense secretary Mark Esper, in his new book A Sacred Oath, revealed Trump's request to Milley for "10,000 troops" to put down the demonstrations -- or possibly even shoot protesters -- and the general was "shaken" by the former president's suggestions, reported CNN.
"After receiving this phone call, Milley informed Esper of the conversation," the network reported. "Milley's face, Esper said, was 'ashen,' as he relayed the conversation with Trump."
Trump called both officials to the White House the following day for a meeting about the protests, and while Esper does not describe what they said, he described the discussion as "loud, contentious, and unreal."
Milley told Epser afterward that he was "this close" to resigning on the spot, the former defense secretary wrote.
Esper told CNN on Monday that he considered resigning, as well, but remained on the job out of fear that Trump would replace him with someone who would carry out his impulsive orders.
The Chairman of the Joint Chief is the second in command of our armed forces. Resignation is the only thing he can do. Whether you agree with his policies you and hundreds of thousands can keep the country safe from Trump.
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Spam is spam is spam
Sorry Roger...
When exactly did Trump order troops to shoot protesters?
That seemed to escape the reality of the situation.
Here is a hint...
You will never, ever, ever, never ever, ever never, not once, not ever, ever, never...
ever...
never...
Change my mind about Trump by bringing up crap that DID NOT actually happen.
How long will it take you to get that through the thick skull of yours?
Either something happened or it didn't happen.
Either we had troops under order to shoot protesters...
or we didn't.
Pretty simple.
Stick to what actually happened.
CH SAID:
Sorry Roger...
When exactly did Trump order troops to shoot protesters?
That seemed to escape the reality of the situation.
Here is a hint...
You will never, ever, ever, never ever, ever never, not once, not ever, ever, never...
ever...
never...
Change my mind about Trump by bringing up crap that DID NOT actually happen.
How long will it take you to get that through the thick skull of yours?
Either something happened or it didn't happen.
Either we had troops under order to shoot protesters...
or we didn't.
Pretty simple.
Stick to what actually happened.
________
Here's what actually happened, Ch:
TRUMP WANTED AUTHORITIES TO SHOOT PROTESTERS AND ASKED IF IT COULD BE DONE:
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that former President Trump asked authorities if they could shoot protesters in the legs amid the demonstrations that filled the streets of Washington following the murder of George Floyd.
“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper says Trump said.
THAT REALLY HAPPENED, CH. AND MANY PEOPLE HEARD IT.
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