More than half — 53% — of voters say they believe the Biden administration is intentionally letting gas prices increase to make Americans use less fossil fuels, according to a new poll by Convention of States Action and The Trafalgar Group. Just over 39.6% say they don’t believe it.
They poll asked 1,091 general election voters if they believe the administration is intentionally letting gas prices rise to make Americans use less fossil fuels:
There is some logic and some consensus that things could not possibly be this bad due to pure incompetence from our Administration. Some believe that at least some of this carnage is by design. It's an interesting argument, and one worth considering.
However, if you really look at it. Joe Biden has always been and incompetent boob and even his former boss called him a fuck up. Kamala Harris? Is there a reasonable quality about her that suggests she knows her own ass from a hole in the ground? Former Mayor of a medium sized city (Pete Buttigeig) who is our transportation security (in charge of fixing our supply chain issues) was literally MIA because he was on a record long paternity leave. That assumes that Pete would have the first clue as to what to do. Yellen has been a disaster as Secretary of Treasury and seemed to be one the last in the country to stop believing that inflation was "transitory".
So while there is an argument that nobody could be this bad without at least some of it being on purpose, I might argue that if any Administration was ever incompetent enough to pull this off, that this one is the Administration.
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Yes.
No one is this stupid and incompetent.
Panel Focuses on Discussions About Removing Trump
June 11, 2022 at 12:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments
New York Times:
“The reference by Ms. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 committee, to the 25th Amendment being under consideration by cabinet members was one of the most striking assertions in the panel’s two-hour hearing. In the first of six planned public hearings, the committee presented a detailed case against Mr. Trump and the rioters who stormed the Capitol and delayed the congressional certification of the Electoral College results.”
“The panel has signaled that it plans to use the discussions about the 25th Amendment to show not only the chaos that Mr. Trump set off by helping stoke the riot
but how little confidence those around him had in his ability to be president.”
They knew we needed a real president then and did not have one.
Bidenomics is too painful for the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT to debate.
Pete Buttigeig, 20 billion gallons of Ethanol must go into gas tanks.
Excellent, accelerating the cost of #2 yellow corn , which in case you don't know goes into every feed for every animal on my ranch.
Newsmax
Rallies for gun reform were held in Washington DC, New York, other US cities and around the world on Saturday, seeking to increase pressure on Congress to act following a spate of mass shootings.
In Washington, the son of an 86-year-old victim in the Buffalo supermarket shooting said: “Enough is enough. We will not go quietly into the night.”
Texas school police chief says he didn’t think he was in charge during shooting
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The March for Our Lives rallies came less than a month after 10 people were killed in the racist attack in Buffalo and 19 children and two teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Other mass shootings, widely defined as shootings in which four people or more excluding the shooter are hurt or killed, have also helped return the issue to center stage.
March for Our Lives was formed after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, in which 14 students and three adults were killed. Organisers estimated that a million people, mostly young, joined protests then.
The group helped force the Republican Florida government to enact reforms including raising the age to buy long guns, including AR-15-style rifles, from 18 to 21; enacting a three-day gap between purchase and access; allowing trained school staff to carry guns; and putting $400m into mental health services and school security.
Florida lawmakers also approved a “red flag law” that can deny firearms to individuals believed to pose a danger to themselves or others
A ROAD MAP FOR PROSECUTING TRUMP
June 11, 2022 at 12:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
New York Times:
“Several former prosecutors and veteran lawyers said afterward that the hearing offered
the makings of a credible criminal case for conspiracy to commit fraud or obstruction of the work of Congress.
“In presenting her summary of the evidence, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy) demonstrated that Mr. Trump was told repeatedly by his own advisers that he had lost the election yet repeatedly lied to the country by claiming it had been stolen.
"He pressured state and federal officials, members of Congress and even his own vice president to disregard vote tallies in key states.
"And he encouraged the mob led by extremist groups like the Proud Boys while making no serious effort to stop the attack once it began."
Bidenomics is too painful for the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT to debate.
The Justice system is protecting our country from crazy Republicans like DeSantis and DeSantis
A Texas judge on Friday blocked, at least for now, Governor Greg Abbott’s directive that child protective services investigate medical providers or parents over gender transition treatments for minors.
Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer issued a temporary restraining order at the request of the gay rights organization PFLAG, which sued Abbott and the state over his February mandate to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services.
“That families will be protected from invasive, unnecessary, and unnerving investigations by DFPS simply for helping their transgender children thrive and be themselves is a very good thing,” Brian Bond, PFLAG executive director, said in a statement.
Bidenomics is too painful for the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT to debate.
Nothing on topic from the brain trust of The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
AP
California has the highest average price, at $6.43, according to AAA. The lowest average is Mississippi, at $4.52.
While this is the first time breaking the $5 barrier, it’s still not a record when inflation is taken into account. Gas peaked at $4.11 a gallon in July 2008, which would be equal to about $5.40 a gallon today.
On The Bill Maher show they mentioned that the New York Times didn't put this on the front page because the target was not a liberal.
The man accused of targeting Justice Brett Kavanaugh this week but who called 911 to stop his own alleged plot admitted he needed “psychiatric help” and had “been hospitalized multiple times.” That’s according to recordings of the call released on Thursday.
He had a point.
Jewish Deplorable
https://gettr.com/post/p1dlz1b1ea5
Biden keeps on saying that MAGA goes against everything he stands for
He’s right. MAGA stands for Make America Great Again. Biden stands for destroying America bit by bit.
While this is the first time breaking the $5 barrier, it’s still not a record when inflation is taken into account. Gas peaked at $4.11 a gallon in July 2008, which would be equal to about $5.40 a gallon today.
Well there you go…
Idiot
When was the last time you were in a car much less drove one and filled it?
A decade?
Lol, exactly Cali
When was the last time you were in a car much less drove one and filled it?
Does Tesla make a hearse yet ?
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
The Justice system is protecting our country from crazy Republicans like DeSantis and DeSantis
Damn the 2024 ticket DeSantis/DeSantis
I’ll vote “R” for that instead of libertarian
Fuck you’re pitiful
$5.00 gasoline is on purpose.
Joe Biden Attacked US 🇺🇸 and key trading partner Canada 🇨🇦 Oil and Distilled products in Day #1.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT gave a standing ovation.
Dismantle the D.C. Company Town
It’s time that Americans faced up to the reality that their governing apparat is a corrupt, self-engorging Leviathan.
Gertrude Stein famously warned that it was important to know how far to go when going too far.
It pains me to admit that Democrats seem to have a far better sense of all that than do Republicans. Perhaps it’s because Democrats have a visceral appreciation of William Hazlitt’s observation that “those who lack delicacy hold us in their power.” The Democrats, that is to say, long ago became expert at the game of holding their opponents to standards that they themselves violate not just with impunity but with ostentatious glee.
The news last week that Michael Sussmann was found not guilty by a D.C. jury of his ideological peers was another thumb in the eye of the American so-called system of justice. Scary-looking super-cop John Durham had indicted Sussmann for the same thing that brought down Trump’s flash-in-the-pan National Security Advisor Mike Flynn—lying to the FBI—but no one who has been paying attention thought the two men would be treated the same way. Flynn was close to Donald Trump, therefore he must be considered a sacrificial beast, someone to be made an example of, a pariah. And so he was.
Sussmann, by contrast, was a covert employee of the Hillary Clinton campaign. He helped get the Russian Collusion Delusion going and lied to the FBI in the process. But he was on the side of the regime party, so, as Jonathan Turley observed as the Sussmann case unfolded, he was afforded every consideration while Flynn found himself ruined. In this tale of two trials, we got a textbook illustration of how you can deploy a two-tier system of justice in which, as George Orwell put it in Animal Farm: All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Sure, it’s a contradiction. It doesn’t, intellectually, make sense. It also violates every canon of justice, which depends upon a publicly acknowledged ideal of impartiality. But in the larger, more cynical realm of the Thrasymachean dispensation of American regime politics circa 2022, it is just what the doctor ordered. Washington, D.C., is a company town. The company is the regime, the deep state, populated by swamp creatures battening at the public trough and fueled by the rancid clichés of identity politics. I think Roger Simon was right when he observed that Sussmann’s exoneration marked “the end of American justice as we know it.” (Actually, it was just another plaque on the tombstone; “American justice” has been an oxymoron for years.)
Sussmann joins a long list of Hillary cronies and Department of Justice lackeys (but I repeat myself). In any just world Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, Kevin Clinesmith, Loretta Lynch, and indeed Hillary herself would be behind bars. But this is our world, not any just world.
And here’s some salt to rub in the wound. Peter Navarro, a former Trump economic advisor, was held in contempt of Congress because he refused to hand over documents to the Kangaroo Court, er . . . the Democrat-controlled January 6 inquisition. Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s self-declared “wingman” and Attorney General was also held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents. But not to worry. As CNN reported soon after the affront, “The White House and the Justice Department made clear Friday what had been expected all along: Attorney General Eric Holder will not face criminal prosecution under the contempt of Congress citation passed by the U.S. House.”.
OMG do you have any idea how huge this will be come November, suburban women will abandon the dementia addled in droves
National sriracha sauce shortage may lead to spiceless summer for some
Huy Fong Foods, Inc. warns of an impending hot sauce shortage due to poor chili crops — production halted
LOL
One day before a mob of Donald Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol to disrupt the transfer of presidential power, then-Vice President Mike Pence’s top lawyer dashed off a fateful memo.
In the three-page document, attorney Greg Jacob concluded that if Pence were to embrace Trump’s demand that he single-handedly block or delay the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, he would be breaking multiple provisions of the Electoral Count Act, the law that has governed the transfer of power since 1887.
Such a move, Jacob concluded, would assuredly fail in court. Or worse, he said, the courts would refuse to get involved and leave America in an unprecedented political crisis.
In that case, he said in the memo obtained by POLITICO and published for the first time, “the Vice President would likely find himself in an isolated standoff against both houses of Congress … with no neutral arbiter available to break the impasse.”
Jacob is scheduled to testify publicly Thursday to the Jan. 6 select committee about Pence’s decision to resist Trump’s pressure campaign. The panel declined to comment on Jacob’s memo.
The memo informed Pence’s ultimate decision to rebuff pressure from Trump to reverse the outcome of the election. Pence announced his decision the next day, when he traveled to the Capitol to preside over the Jan. 6 meeting of the House and Senate. His decision, in a letter that closely tracked Jacob’s memo, inflamed a crowd of thousands of Trump supporters that the president had called to Washington to protest his defeat.
Within an hour of Pence’s announcement, hundreds of members of that mob would bludgeon their way past police lines and into the Capitol itself, sending the vice president and members of Congress fleeing for safety. Some members of that mob chanted, “Hang Mike Pence.”
The Jan. 6 select committee has had Jacob’s memo for months. It’s an important element of the panel’s view that Trump criminally conspired to overturn the election, when his legal challenges had all failed. Pence’s team firmly believed that embracing Trump’s push to block Joe Biden’s presidency would require numerous violations of the Electoral Count Act, a position they had relayed to both Trump and attorney John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who developed Trump’s fringe legal strategy to remain in power.
Jacob’s memo, titled “Analysis of Professor Eastman’s Proposals,” is dated Jan. 5. But Jacob told the select committee in February he drafted most of it a day earlier in response to an intense first-time meeting with Eastman.
A federal judge has agreed that Eastman’s strategy likely veered into criminal territory. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter ruled in March that Eastman’s legal theories were outcome-driven and unsupported — he dubbed it “a coup in search of a legal theory” — and that effort to obstruct the counting of electoral votes likely amounted to a criminal conspiracy with Trump.
In his memo, Jacob said Eastman acknowledged his proposal would require Pence to violate the Electoral Count Act in four ways. They included rejecting the law’s requirements that 1) Pence count all electoral votes from states in alphabetical order, resolving any disputes before moving on to the next state; 2) Pence call for any objections from lawmakers after introducing each state’s slate of electors; 3) lawmakers be permitted to consider competing slates of electors; and 4) the session of Congress cannot be adjourned once it starts and must conclude within five days.
“Eastman’s proposal, by contrast, contemplate[s] an extended recess of the joint session to allow State legislatures to investigate the election and to vote on which slate of electors to certify,” Jacob noted.
Eastman spent the final weeks before Jan. 6 agitating for Republican-controlled legislatures in a handful of states won by Biden to appoint their own competing slate of electors. In that scenario, Eastman posited, Pence would be required to consider these “dueling” slates. But no state legislature agreed to follow Eastman’s advice. Instead, pro-Trump activists met and sent their own uncertified slates of electors to Congress, but without the blessing or backing of any legislature or governor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/11/pence-trump-jan-6-lawyer-memo-00038996
Eastman and Trump had been working to get Pence to send it back to the states.
They may have found the case for an investigation and possibly an indictment.
It’s an important element of the panel’s view that Trump criminally conspired to overturn the election, when his legal challenges had all failed. Pence’s team firmly believed that embracing Trump’s push to block Joe Biden’s presidency would require numerous violations of the Electoral Count Act.
Just stop. We've seen you say this s hundred times. It's way past old. We get it. You hate Trump too. Enough already.
Plus it shows how hard Mike Pence fought to save the Constitution.
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Pence-world’s final takedown of Trump bid to remain in power revealed in lawyer's memo
Top adviser told the then-vice president that the courts would likely not support him if he gave in to Trump's pressure to delay certifying electoral votes on Jan. 6.
Enough already?
No, it's never too much to point out overt criminality on the part of Trump.
And crass Republican complicity.
If a prosecution went forward, Biden might face a decision of his own: whether it’s in the national interest for him to use his pardon power, as President Gerald Ford did in the case of President Richard Nixon.
If my understanding of the law, is if he accepts the pardon, he is still a felon because he is admitting guilt. He can't run for President ever again
Calling sometimes criminals doesn't make it so.
Right hillary?
Plus I have been working to find out how bad it was.
Attorney John Eastman, who worked with former President Donald Trump on his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has to turn over more than 150 documents to the House January 6 Committee by Wednesday, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday—including an email that the judge said contains evidence of a possible crime.
That or Georgia when he asked for 11,
000 votes and tax evasion
Her lawyer was found not guilty
Attorney John Eastman, who worked with former President Donald Trump on his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has to turn over more than 150 documents to the House January 6 Committee by Wednesday, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday—including an email that the judge said contains evidence of a possible crime.
Crazy old people locked down.
Pitiful
Alky what’s it like to be warehoused.
Pedo you still wearing 17 masks?
LOL
By a jury of her donors. Nothing to see here.
The deep state courts! Lmao 🤣
Oh Roger...
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump and bad orange man Trump....
Can you talk or even think about anything else?
Obviously not!
The laughing idiot.
We know the jury makeup.
Biden inherited a nation in tumult, plagued by disease and division and still reeling from the bloody insurrection at the US Capitol. In his inaugural address, he said the country faced a “historic moment of crisis and challenge” and identified four national trials that he vowed to confront: the pandemic, the ensuing economic downturn, racial injustice and climate change.
Though his administration has made varying degrees of progress on each, those issues remain unresolved while the list of unforeseen challenges demanding the president’s attention grows ever longer.
Inflation has surged to its highest level in nearly four decades, leaving American families struggling to afford the basic necessities like groceries, gas and rent. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the liberal world order, while pushing the cost of food and fuel even higher..
With the exception of the Ukrainian war, most of it he can't actually do much...
We have the most inept president in history. There's a reason why minorities and young voters are done with democrats.
Josh Marshall
June 11, 2022 4:41 p.m.
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There are many things that came out of the first Jan 6th hearing. We’ll talk more about them going forward and we’ll see these points unfolded, I assume, in subsequent hearings. But one point already came through pretty clearly and well and that is the integral role of the two fascist paramilitaries, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
Many accounts treat these two groups as a particularly radical fringe at the events in DC that day. They came prepped for violence and even brought of firepower to DC, even though a lot of it was held in reserve as rapid reaction forces that were supposed to be deployed later. In contrast most of the people who stormed the Capitol weren’t armed and didn’t even go into the day knowing the plan was to storm the Capitol. The general point is yes both groups were there. But they didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Whatever the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were up to it was different from what the great mass of the crowd was doing.
But this doesn’t capture what happened.
Many of the people in that crowd did come to DC on January 6th to get freaky and to overturn an election. Trump told them to come and they came. But it was these two fascist paramilitaries, working at the behest of the White House and in communication with people around the President, who had the specific plan and executed it. The presentation made clear that it was these groups, operating in an organized, paramilitary fashion, who marched up to the gates, broke through them and then broke into the Capitol building itself. Once the lines were breached and the chants started basically everyone else followed along.
My point isn’t the rest of the people were innocent or just caught up in the moment or doing something they didn’t want to do. Far from it. The clubs and truncheons and body armor all make that clear enough. They were there to get rowdy. But even a mob hyped for violence usually needs some direction. When do you go in exactly? Where do you breach the lines? You need an organized group – under some real level of command and control – to lead the way. And these two groups did just that.
NYT brand new ✨️
He had means, motive and opportunity. But did Donald J. Trump commit a crime?
A House committee explicitly declared that he did by conspiring to overturn an election. The attorney general, however, has not weighed in. And a jury of his peers may never hear the case.
The first prime-time hearing into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol this past week confronted the fundamental question that has haunted Mr. Trump, the 45th president, ever since he left office: Should he be prosecuted in a criminal court for his relentless efforts to defy the will of the voters and hang on to power?
For two hours on Thursday night, the House committee investigating the Capitol attack detailed what it called Mr. Trump’s “illegal” and “unconstitutional” seven-part plan to prevent the transfer of power. The panel invoked the Justice Department, citing charges of seditious conspiracy filed against some of the attackers, and seemed to be laying out a road map for Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to their central target.
Bidenomics is too painful for the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT to debate.
Several former prosecutors and veteran lawyers said afterward that the hearing offered the makings of a credible criminal case for conspiracy to commit fraud or obstruction of the work of Congress.
In presenting her summary of the evidence, Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and the committee’s vice chairwoman, demonstrated that Mr. Trump was told repeatedly by his own advisers that he had lost the election yet repeatedly lied to the country by claiming it had been stolen. He pressured state and federal officials, members of Congress and even his own vice president to disregard vote tallies in key states. And he encouraged the mob led by extremist groups like the Proud Boys while making no serious effort to stop the attack once it began.
“I think the committee, especially Liz Cheney, outlined a powerful criminal case against the former president,” said Neal K. Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama.
A crime requires two things — a bad act and criminal intent,” Mr. Katyal said. By citing testimony by Mr. Trump’s own attorney general, a lawyer for his campaign and others who told him that he had lost and then documenting his failure to act once supporters stormed the Capitol, Mr. Katyal said, the panel addressed both of those requirements.
A congressional hearing, however, is not a court of law, and because there was no one there to defend Mr. Trump, witnesses were not cross-examined and evidence was not tested. The committee offered just a selection of the more than 1,000 interviews it has conducted and the more than 140,000 documents it has collected. But it remains to be seen what contrary or mitigating information may be contained in the vast research it has not released yet.
Mr. Trump’s allies have dismissed the hearings as a partisan effort to damage him before the 2024 election when he may run for president again. And legal defenders argued that the facts presented by the panel did not support the conclusions that it drew.
Have a great evening 😀
Roger said this was in Biden's inauguration speech.
"the ensuing economic downturn"
Please give us the verbatim line where he says those exact words.
Pro choice activists have posted where Justice Barrett's children go to school.
AG Garland will do nothing about it . And Roger will cheer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/january-6-committee-trump-republicans-dishonor/661251/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The writer worked for George W Bush and other former Republican president
You won't read it
Roger said this was in Biden's inauguration speech.
"the ensuing economic downturn"
Please give us the verbatim line where he says those exact words.
Come on Roger , be right one time.
Show us where in Biden's inauguration speech he said what you said he did.
Federal Reserve eyeing a 75 basis point raise in interest rate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/january-6-committee-trump-republicans-dishonor/661251/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Free link
For all of the pressure that the House committee has put on the Justice Department to act, it has resisted sharing information. In April, the department asked the committee for transcripts of witness interviews, but the panel has not agreed to turn over the documents because its work is continuing.
Although critics have faulted Mr. Garland, attorneys general do not generally drive the day-to-day work of investigations. Mr. Garland is briefed nearly every day on the inquiry’s progress, but it is being led by Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney in Washington, who is working with national security and criminal division officials. Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general, broadly oversees the investigation.
“Whether fair or not, Garland’s tenure will be defined by whether or not he indicts Trump,” Mr. Miller said. “The Justice Department may not indict Trump. Prosecutors may not believe they have the evidence to secure a conviction. But that will now be interpreted as a choice by Garland, not as a reality that was forced upon him by the facts of the investigation.”
NO ONE BUT THE INSTITUTIONALIZED CARE
None you deranged pathetic old man
Biden inherited a nation in tumult, plagued by disease and division and still reeling from the bloody insurrection at the US Capitol. In his inaugural address, he said the country faced a “historic moment of crisis and challenge” and identified four national trials that he vowed to confront: the pandemic, the ensuing economic downturn, racial injustice and climate change.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/joe-biden-entered-faces-daunting-crises
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/joe-biden-entered-faces-daunting-crises
Roger , yes i know your opinion came from the Guardian.
And that is not at all what i asked you.
You can't post what i asked , because it is not in Biden's inauguration speech.
You don't know anything.
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