The Republican cited the need to protect the state "against what very well may be a Biden-induced recession" at the signing ceremony. The facility in question, in Pasco County, would have cost $35 million. The veto comes after the Rays published a call to end gun violence in the aftermath of the Texas and New York mass shootings, and a report from OutKick said it learned that the decision was indeed in response to the team "politicizing" the massacres.
Go Woke... you go broke! This was an expensive political posture for the Rays! I wonder if they believe it was worth it!
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Cool.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested former White House economic adviser Peter Navarro on Friday, acting on a referral from the Democrat-run House that held him in contempt for refusing to testify at the partisan January 6 Committee.
Interesting that nobody arrested Eric Holder when he was held in contempt of Congress...
Once again there are two sets of rules. One for Democrats and one for everyone else.
Yes, the Duel Standard of the legal system is clear.
Bidens dictatorship.
He has an advantage over Trump because he is a lot smarter than Trump.
The criminal contempt charge is the second issued to a high-level Trump. Navarro advisor in connection with the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Bannon, a former chief strategist for the former president, was indicted in November for similarly failing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
Bannon’s trial is currently set to start in July.
Prior to the criminal contempt charges against Bannon, it had been decades since such charges were filed. In the 1970s, two players involved in the Watergate scandal—G. Gordon Liddy and Richard Kleindienst—were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions before a House subcommittee. The last time criminal contempt of Congress charges were filed was in 1982, when former federal environmental official Rita Lavelle refused to answer questions about her removal as the head of a toxic waste disposal program at the Environmental Protection Agency. At the time, the agency was run by Anne Gorsuch Burford, mother of current Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Bannon, like Navarro, has claimed that Trump’s assertion of executive privilege bars him from appearing before the committee. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, has not yet issued a ruling on that issue.
Navarro is set to make his first court appearance Friday afternoon.
In March, the House committee investigating Jan. 6 argued that Navarro, along with Trump’s former social media director Daniel Scavino, should be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the committee’s subpoenas.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, which is set to hold public hearings starting next week, did not immediately respond to Law&Crime’s request for comment.
The public hearings will be available every where, even on Fox News.
Indeed, any movement conservative sealed in a time capsule circa 1984 and emerging today would recognize Mr. DeSantis as a more or less standard Sunbelt Republican — a fiscal conservative wooing people and businesses to his state based on a favorable economic climate who is also anti-elitist, socially conservative and eager to reform public schools.
None of this is new. What stands out as a true departure is Mr. DeSantis’s willingness to use government power in the culture war.
Sometimes this has involved areas, like public education, where the government has every right to set the rules. One such example is the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, more properly known as the Parental Rights in Education bill, which prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Another is the “Individual Freedom” bill, which, among other things, prohibits promotion of the concept that a person “must feel guilt, anguish or other forms of psychological distress because of actions, in which the individual played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex or national origin.”
Other times, Florida has pursued a laudable goal in a dubious manner. Its “Big Tech” bill seeks to keep social media companies from removing political candidates and other users from their platforms, but it has serious First Amendment conflicts and has been enjoined by a federal judge.
Then there’s the fight with Disney. The revocation of its special tax status is a frankly retaliatory act that also presents free-speech issues and could prove a legal and policy morass. That said, Disney got a truly extraordinary deal from the state that allowed it, in effect, to run its own city. The company never would have been granted this arrangement 55 years ago if its executives had told the state’s leaders, “And, by the way, eventually, the Walt Disney Company will adopt cutting edge left-wing causes as its own.”
The broader point of making an example of Disney is to send a message to other corporations that there could be downsides to letting themselves be pushed by progressive employees into making their institutions weapons in the culture wars, so that they conclude it’s best to stick to flying planes, selling soda, and so on.
How can a limited-government Tea Party Republican like Mr. DeSantis have become comfortable with this use of government? For that matter, how is it that so many Tea Party types moved so easily toward Trumpist populism?
The key, I think, is that for many people on the right, a libertarian-oriented politics was largely a way to register opposition to the mandarins who have an outsized influence on our public life. And it turns out that populism is an even more pungent way to register this opposition. Progressive domination of elite culture has now grown to include formerly neutral institutions like corporations and sports leagues. More conservatives are beginning to believe that the only countervailing institutional force is democratic political power as reflected in governor’s mansions, state legislatures and — likely beginning next year — Congress.
Mr. DeSantis is the hottest thing in national Republican politics right now and he is doing everything to lay the groundwork, assuming he wins re-election this year, to run for president. It’s impossible to know how that will go — he could get blocked by Mr. Trump or not live up to the hype. What’s clear is that his synthesis of the old and new, and the resonance it has had with the rank and file, points to the Republican future.
Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
Rational conservative have a conscious mind
HERE IS WHY
THESE JAN 6 HEARINGS WILL BE
Unlike Anything In American History
June 3, 2022 at 3:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
John Avlon gives a preview of the January 6 committee’s public hearings scheduled for next week:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/06/03/amanpour-january-6-committee-public-hearing-preview-john-avlon.cnn
ALSO THIS,
NOW SUBMITTED
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
We in America are now in grave danger of losing our democracy, for there are those who want to end government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” only to replace it with government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and – exclusively – for the wealthy.
The legitimacy of our constitutional republic depends on the choices the American people make. “In our land, voters choose their leaders. In dictatorships, the leaders make that choice.”
That is the major difference between American democracy on the one hand, and the sort of autocractic, kleptocratic dictatorship that is now being favored by far too many on the political right.
Right wing extremists have been moving in that direction now for years, and have been getting quite good at misleading many of our people into thinking they are for the middle class and the public good, when actually they are interested only in solidifying the lucrative financial support they can get by satisfying the self-serving political greed of the ultra wealthy.
Donald Trump was so determined to hold on to office and stay in power that he attempted to overthrow the legitimate choice of our nation’s voters, and in seeking to do that, he criminally tried to exalt himself above the law and the Constitution.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, although under intense pressure to act, has steadfastly resisted being stampeded into prosecuting Trump. In his commitment to thoroughness, Garland has been carefully gathering evidence – evidence he promises he will scrupulously follow wherever it may lead as he strictly applies the law to Trump without fear or favor.
Soon we will be seeing the results of Garland’s investigations. We had better pay attention, for this could be our last chance to save American democracy.
James Boswell
Normal, IL
UNLIKE ANYTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Nope, Alky goes all Drama Queen.
DeSantis now at war with Disney and the Rays showing all how trump like he is by being a petty fascist that holds grudges!!!!!! More proof that all the GOP stands for is trolling for votes to maintain relevance....Yes he is smarter than trump, but that sure does not make him a king!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
No one cares about 1/06 or your stupid letter that 8 geriatrics might read, pedo
And Alky fucked up the thread again..everything is bold
This newfangled technology….
Cut and paste ruining a thread?
Anonymous Rich Lowry said...
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York once wrote. “The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
Given the state of play, conservatives have been learning to appreciate Moynihan’s liberal truth. If Florida’s culture-war initiatives succeed, the education establishment in the state will not mindlessly absorb the latest left-wing fad. Corporations will be warier of wading into hot-button social fights. In other words, the culture of these institutions will have changed for the better.
Even if Mr. DeSantis is willing to avail himself of this use of government power, it doesn’t mean that he’s abandoning his limited-government orientation. The libertarian Cato Institute ranks Florida the second-most free state in the country (after New Hampshire), and Mr. DeSantis has shown no inclination to change the tax, spending and regulatory policies that contribute to that status. On Covid, he has consistently emphasized the importance of individual autonomy.
Mr. DeSantis’s detractors are fond of saying that he’s worse than or more dangerous than Mr. Trump. If, by this, they mean that a President DeSantis would be more focused and disciplined in pursuing a conservative agenda than Mr. Trump was, they’re probably right. Otherwise, it is completely wrongheaded. Mr. DeSantis doesn’t have Mr. Trump’s failings. He’s sharp in his rejoinders to reporters, but never gratuitously insulting. He cares about facts and takes time to master them.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Interesting that nobody arrested Eric Holder when he was held in contempt of Congress...
Lil Schitty like the whole GOP litigating the past to maintain their tenuous hold on power and thinking women have no rights!!!
When Hillary Clinton ran for the US presidency in 2016, she received sexist comments “on a constant basis” and her team had “no idea” how to deal with them, her former aide Huma Abedin has said.
Abedin, who worked closely with Clinton on her campaign, recalled that the former secretary of state was deluged with openly sexist remarks as well as unhelpful advice, or instructions to emulate male politicians.
Abedin said these started when Clinton sought the Democratic nomination in 2008 and continued when she ran for president in 2016, and “nothing changed over that period”, which took place before the #MeToo movement began in 2017.
Speaking to the Hay festival to promote her recent memoir, Both/And, Abedin said Clinton and her team would feel obliged to laugh off offensive remarks from conservative commentators such as the newsreader Tucker Carlson, who said: “When Hillary Clinton shows up on TV I inadvertently cross my legs.”
2024 Joe & The Hoe
🤣
Victim?
HILLARY ?
no one is that stupid.
Is everyone enjoying this Transformation New Bidenomics and the Green Economy?
Although the new right is not synonymous with Donald Trump, it has certainly built on his authoritarian worldview and the scorched intellectual earth he left behind after setting fire to the Republican party. Key figures associated with the new right have hitched themselves personally to Trump’s wagon, while others have bolstered his conspiracies about the 2020 election. Its ideas are gaining serious momentum now, attracting many young adherents and inspiring a rush of trend pieces in mainstream US media. JD Vance, a new right darling, has just won the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in Ohio. Tucker Carlson, a big Vance booster, has built one of the most racist and possibly most successful shows in the history of cable news, as the New York Times put it.
The worldview of the new right is not limited to the US. Many adherents see Hungary – where Viktor Orbán has eroded democratic institutions and LGBTQ rights while banning the teaching of gender studies and building fences at the border – as a model worthy of emulation (a big meeting of American conservatives took place there last month)
Even W Bush was smarter than idiot Biden
Thr B
The B in LGBTQ means there are two sexes
Is the Left Done with BLM?
American sure is, purely a criminal money laundering scheme.
Your story about a school was debunked by every
https://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-high-school-race-based-grading-fake-news-article-2022-6
And local newspapers you have lost your mind Scott
Law and Order
Former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children will spend seven hours apiece facing deposition for a federal lawsuit accusing them of promoting a pyramid scheme, a new court filing indicates.
“Plaintiffs provided to Defendants the following list of witnesses that Plaintiffs intend to depose, with time estimates within the Court’s guidance with respect to a 105-hour limit,” the 3-page letter to the court says.
According to the document filed on Friday, the former president, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump all face seven hours of questioning, for a total of 28 hours. Trump’s executive assistant Rhona Graff will also face seven hours of questioning; former White House senior adviser Hope Hicks will face three.
Initially filed anonymously in 2018, the lawsuit alleges that the Trump Corporation promoted a multi-level marketing scheme—better known as a pyramid scheme—through the company ACN Opportunity, LLC, which operates under the name American Communications Network. The four named plaintiffs, suing under a proposed class action, agreed to waive their anonymity last year in filing a second amended lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, ACN was a “get-rich-quick scheme” that burnished Trump and his family’s names for the purposes of “conn[ing] each of these victims into giving up hundreds or thousands of dollars” in alleged violation of various state laws. ACN had investors sign an arbitration agreement, but the Trumps did not.
The U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit denied the Trump family’s request to force the plaintiffs into arbitration, which likely would have resolved the matter secretly.
Instead, the case proceeded publicly in the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit there claims that the Trumps arranged for ACN to appear twice on The Celebrity Apprentice.
Though Friday’s letter doesn’t name any precise dates, the filing indicates that the depositions could take place soon.
“Defense counsel have confirmed that they will represent and produce all of the current and former Trump Organization employees, other than Ms. Hicks and Ms. Glosser, whom they expect, but have not yet confirmed, they will represent as well,” the letter states. “The parties have discussed the scheduling of these depositions and expect to take a significant number of them in June and July. The parties also have discussed a rough sequence, and have identified certain witnesses who can be deposed now and others whose depositions should be taken later, following production and receipt of certain additional documents and information. Defendants previously provided deposition dates for the witnesses, which dates have now lapsed, and expect to provide additional dates soon. The parties are optimistic that we will have a number of agreed-upon dates by the time of the conference scheduled for next week.”
The parties are expected to return to court next week.
“We look forward to the conference scheduled for June 8, and are continuing to work collaboratively so that we can report concrete progress on all of these issues by that time,” the letter states.
It is signed by multiple attorneys for both parties, including Roberta Kaplan for the plaintiffs and Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba.
Upon further research on Hillary Clinton and Russia 🇷🇺 Sussmann
Bill Barr was giving Justice cover to the reckless allegations being made by Trump and his allies. Barr made sure the lies had a lengthy head start to leave lasting impressions before any corrective could be issued.
Barr made space for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to predict “one of the biggest political scandals in American history”; for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) to proclaim a scandal “bigger than Watergate”; for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to claim there was a “smoking gun found”; for Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) to declare “a threat to democracy itself”; and for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) to allege that Obama officials “were unmasking anyone and everyone so that they could leak information to a press that was willing to take that illegal information.”
Now we know Trump’s DOJ, in its own words, had “not found evidence” of inappropriate unmasking. And we see Durham’s claim of wrongdoing in the Russia probe ending in swift acquittal.
Barr, unmasked, now claims the federal jurors in Durham’s failed case violated their oaths by following political biases. “A D.C. jury,” he said, “is a very favorable jury for anyone named Clinton and the Clinton campaign. Those are the facts of life. … There are two standards of the law, and we have had to struggle with that.”
So, now, Barr is trying to discredit the centuries-old American jury system. It’s just one more “story” he tells to replace the rule of law with the reign of innuendo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/barr-unmasking-durham-probes-bogus/
Sorry Roger...
Nothing is debunked.
The school admits to the idea that missing class, not turning in assignments, and such are not going to affect anyone's grade.
They can pretend that is not about race... even after their internal documents say it was... all they want.
But a denial of "intention" is not debunking the story.
They are still going to "not" give anyone a zero for missing class or not turning in an assignment.
The story stands Roger!
I pity you...
Of course because you have been brain ðŸ§
But the prime time January 6th committee hearing is going to be nuclear!
DOJ declines to prosecute Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino for contempt of Congress: report
Matthew Chapman
June 03, 2022
On Friday, The New York Times reported that the Department of Justice has decided against charging former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Trump social media director Dan Scavino with contempt of Congress.
The reason appears to be that both of them have cooperated with the investigation to a greater degree than other Trump allies who were charged with contempt, chiefly former strategists Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
"'Based on the individual facts and circumstances of their alleged contempt, my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt as requested in the referral against Messrs. Meadows and Scavino,' Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Douglas N. Letter, the general counsel of the House, on Friday," reported Alan Feuer and Luke Broadwater. "'My office’s review of each of the contempt referrals arising from the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation is complete.'"
"Both Mr. Meadows and Mr. Scavino — who were deeply involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election — engaged in weeks of negotiations with the committee’s lawyers, and Mr. Meadows turned over more than 9,000 documents to the panel, before the House voted to charge them with contempt," noted the report. "By contrast, Mr. Navarro and his ally Stephen K. Bannon, who has also been charged with contempt, fought the committee’s subpoenas from Day 1 and never entered into negotiations."
"Asked for comment, Mr. Meadows’s lawyer, George J. Terwilliger III, said, 'The result speaks for itself,'" said the report. "A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Mr. Scavino declined to comment."
They worked out a deal to avoid prosecution
Finally we may see 👀 but nothing will change your mind..
Despite the opposition from several Trump allies, the Jan. 6 panel, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has managed to interview more than 1,000 witnesses about the insurrection in the past 11 months and is now preparing for a series of public hearings to begin next week. Lawmakers on the panel hope the half-dozen hearings will be a high-profile airing of the causes and consequences of the domestic attack on the U.S. government.
11 months 1,000 witnesses
Well there's your problem...
a guy turned over 9000 documents and they still charged him with contempt. Tells me that they still haven't found what their looking for!
But the Maryland Democrat is setting a high bar of anticipation amid comparisons between the January 6 committee's showpieces and Senate hearings that pried open the Watergate scandal that felled President Richard Nixon 50 years ago.
These hearings will cover events that took place 17 months ago in a moment that, though horrific, is beginning to fade in the public consciousness. So much has happened since then -- the war in Ukraine, new waves of Covid-19 and a spike in the cost of living and gasoline -- that it may be tough to get viewers to focus, not to mention the series of deadly mass shootings occupying airwaves and Congress' attention. Add in the power of the conservative media machine, which can ignore or skew the findings of the committee, and Republicans who have worked overtime to discredit it, and there are reasons to question just how impactful the hearings will be.
In many ways, the committee will be trying to do the impossible: Shock open-minded Americans with new details of a presidency that included two impeachments and confounded credulity almost every day.
Still, despite the multiple crises competing for voters' attention, the hearings mark an important moment in American national life. Nothing is more fundamental to solving the nation's challenges than the survival of its democracy. And there were clear signs on Thursday that the committee plans to build a case that the ex-President and some key lieutenants still represent a clear and present danger to the republic should he go ahead and run for the presidency again and win in 2024.
Bidenomics
East Coast Diesel fuel shortages.
No.matter the price, pumps are going dry.
Watergate legends Woodward and Bernstein explain why Trump is worse than Nixon ahead of J6 public hearings
Bob Brigham
June 03, 2022
CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday re-united three of the key figures from the Watergate scandal that resulted in President Richard Nixon resigning from office in disgrace.
Cooper interviewed former White House counsel John Dean alongside journalists Robert Woodward and John Berstein, the authors of the 1974 book All the President's Men, which was turned into a hit 1976 movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
Cooper asked Bernstein about the indictment of former Trump aide Peter Navarro.
"Well, I think it's a big deal in that it indicates the defiance of all of the people around Donald Trump to tell the story of what happened and especially the story of attempting to keep Joe Biden from succeeding to the presidency," Bernstein said.
"So what we have is really a seditious president of the United States trying to foment insurrection to keep his successor from taking office, staging a coup — the president of the United States," he explained. "And what the Jan. 6th committee is doing, I think from Bob's reporting, my reporting, is establishing a timeline that will show definitively how Donald Trump, his lawyers, and those closest to him attempted to stage this coup so there would be no real election of the president of the United States and Trump would continue to be in office."
Woodward offered his analysis.
"It is a crime to subvert the lawful function of government," he noted. "It is not ambiguous. It goes back 100 years, Chief Justice Taft of all people, saying that this is exactly the sort of trickery and deceit that is a crime," he said. "And, you know, the section is 371 of the criminal code. We have, in hand, all the evidence and the Justice Department realizes this, as does the Jan. 6th committee, to show that this was an organized conspiracy to subvert democracy. Can't say it anymore directly."
Beinstein said Trump is worse than Nixon.
"We are in a situation that we have never been in as residents in the United States, even under Richard Nixon," Bernstein said. "Richard Nixon got on a helicopter and agreed, because he knew he had to resign, got on the helicopter and left town. Donald Trump did something no president has ever done, he said 'I'm going to stay here behind this desk, I am not going to admit that I lost the election, I am going to stay here and remain the president of the United States past the point where Joe Biden, the elected president of the United States, was supposed to take office."
"This is a conspiracy led by a president of the United States such as we have never seen. That is why it is a seditious act," he explained. "That is why Trump is a seditious president in addition to what Bob is saying, being a criminal president."
"So we're in territory here that we have never seen. And even more remarkable is that the Republican Party, unlike with Richard Nixon, which helped push Richard Nixon out of office and forced him to resign, this Republican Party today is supporting Donald Trump, supporting his insurrection, trying to undermine the Jan. 6th committee," he said. "So we now have, instead of a real democratic, lower case system, in which the institutions of government try to come up with the truth about what happened, as in Watergate. We now have one of the political parties dedicated to suppressing the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_eWSTA_so
U.S. finds no evidence flaws in Dominion voting machines were ever exploited
BY NICOLE SGANGA
JUNE 3, 2022 / 7:10 PM / CBS NEWS
The U.S. found no evidence that flaws in Dominion voting machines were ever exploited, including in the 2020 election, according to a new bulletin released Friday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
"While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be mitigated as soon as possible, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections," the advisory reads.
In a statement Friday, CISA Director Jen Easterly wrote, "Over the past week, we've been working with election officials on information regarding vulnerabilities affecting certain versions of Dominion Voting Systems' software." She continued, "Today, we are releasing this information publicly
I firmly believe that the Republican version of “the future” is “Trumpism without Trump” — anticipating the next generation of leadership, and DeSantis, age 43, fits the bill.
Trumpism being peace and prosperity, I agree.
One more time is the most dangerous situation in our history, by the Republican Party under Trumism.
Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.
The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.
“Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger,” said Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, stressing the importance of obtaining official designations as poll workers in a meeting with GOP activists in Wayne County last Nov. 6. It is one of a series of recordings of GOP meetings between summer of 2021 and May of this year obtained by POLITICO.
Backing up those front-line workers, “it’s going to be an army,” Seifried promised at an Oct. 5 training session. “We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?”
Seifried also said the RNC will hold “workshops” and equip poll workers with a hotline and website developed by Zendesk, a software support company used by online retailers, which will allow them to live-chat with party attorneys on Election Day. In a May 2022 training session, he said he’d achieved a goal set last winter: More than 5,600 individuals had signed up to be poll workers and, several days ago, he submitted an initial list of more than 850 names to the Detroit clerk.
Democrat Janice Winfrey, who serves as the clerk, would be bound to pick names from the list submitted by the party under a local law intended to ensure bipartisan representation and an unbiased team of precinct workers.
Separately, POLITICO obtained Zoom tapings of Tim Griffin, legal counsel to The Amistad Project, a self-described election-integrity group that Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani once portrayed as a “partner” in the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election, meeting with activists from multiple states and discussing plans for identifying friendly district attorneys who could stage real-time interventions in local election disputes.
On the recording, Griffin speaks of building a nationwide network of district attorney allies and how to create a legal “trap” for Winfrey.
“Remember, guys, we’re trying to build out a nationwide district attorney network. Your local district attorney, as we always say, is more powerful than your congressman,” Griffin said during a Sept. 21 meeting. “They’re the ones that can seat a grand jury. They’re the ones that can start an investigation, issue subpoenas, make sure that records are retained, etc.,” he said.
POLITICO obtained about a dozen recordings from people who were invited to listen to the meetings. Seifried referred POLITICO’s requests for comment to the RNC. Griffin, through the Thomas More Society, which runs Amistad, did not return repeated calls and texts to spokesperson Tom Ciesielka.
A spokesperson for the RNC said the party is attempting to rectify an imbalance in favor of Democratic election workers in large urban areas, particularly Detroit, a city that votes reliably Democratic by more than 90 percent. Just 170 of more than 5,400 Detroit election officials were Republicans in 2020, according to the RNC.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758
The slow motion coup is still underway.
After the former Trump White House aide who on Friday morning was arrested, handcuffed, and indicted on contempt of Congress charges, appeared outside a federal courthouse after his arraignment Friday afternoon and urged people to buy his book.
Defiant, disrespectful, and disheveled, Navarro called the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack a “kangaroo committee.”
He then pivoted, declaring, “I need everybody in America to buy [my] book on Amazon today. That is for two reasons: One, that’s going to be my legal defense fund – these people are coming at me hard – and number two, that book is about why we need to take back the House of Representatives from the kangaroos on Capitol Hill.”
Lmao 🤣
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
One more time is the most dangerous situation in our history, by the Republican Party under Trumism.
And this is why you will never be allowed to have the door code to freedom.
If there’s one thing Joe Biden has learned during his half-century in Washington, it’s that there are no consequences to lying his ass off. It got him where he is today, and he’s not about to stop now.
No matter how stupid he sounds:
[BIDEN: “Since I took office, families are carrying less debt, their average savings are up…more Americans feel financially comfortable…”]
Whew!
You can lie to people about a lot of things, but a bank statement is a statement of fact. You can’t convince Americans they’re doing better financially than they really are. Your lies won’t put gas in their tanks or food in their children’s bellies. You just sound like a dick.
Biden also gave a gun-control speech yesterday, apparently. He’s about as popular as a COVID particle with Hitler’s face, and he thinks he’s gonna grab up all the guns? Good luck, old man. That’ll go over almost as well as making poor people pay for rich people’s college educations. Which is yet another incredibly stupid thing Biden is trying to do.
If the Democrats had any sense, they’d learn from Biden’s mistakes. This is what happens when you run a presidential administration based on whatever’s trending on Twitter. But if they had any sense, they wouldn’t have nominated an octogenarian who’s even worse than his predecessor.
At least they’ve given up pretending to care about the Constitution:
[Democrat Rep. David Cicilline: “spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights”]
Now there’s a bumper sticker!
The Democratic Party: Spare Us the Bullshit About Constitutional Rights
https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/friday-grab-bag-dca?s=r
Watergate legends Woodward and Bernstein explain why Trump is worse than Nixon ahead of J6 public hearings
No one but a demented old man, locked down in an insane asylum
Most Americans are concerned we Herbert Hoover ll as president
Watergate legends Woodward and Bernstein
Both of these fucking assholes have worn out their welcome trading on their 'fame' from 50 years ago.
Especially Bernstein. He belongs locked down in the alky's psychiatric hospital.
Fabrications, conspiracy theories and outright lies are becoming commonplace from from people who like you. I hope you can get better — and know who you were before!
Alky, you’re the ONLY one here that isn’t in control of their OWN medications
Ruminate on that for a while
Roger, beach day with the new Wife?
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) recently admitted that while many Republicans were in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump, many “didn’t have the guts” to do so.
And?
Roger, does your new wife, when does she move in with you?
Unless he distances himself from Trump, the Democrats will gain a seat.
June 3 (Reuters) - Former hedge fund executive David McCormick conceded to wellness celebrity Mehmet Oz on Friday in the Republican primary race for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, following a recount and securing another Donald Trump-endorsed candidate in a critical midterm election.
Oz, who will square off against Democrat John Fetterman in the Nov. 8 midterm election to replace retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey, won by a margin of 916 votes, according to Edison Research.
The US ‘Has the Most Mass Shootings’—and Other Bogus Gun Research
One reason is sloppy reporting by lazy media.
Last year, they claimed that there were school shootings at “hundreds of schools.” It was “an almost daily occurrence” in the U.S., some said.
This was nonsense. NPR reporters looked into the 235 shootings reported by the U.S. Department of Education and were only able to confirm 11 of them.
It turned out that schools were added to the list merely because someone at a school heard there may have been a shooting. Good for NPR for checking out the Education Department’s claims.
Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (and the father of one of my producers), spends much of his time researching gun use and correcting shoddy studies.
A few years ago, much of the media claimed that the U.S. has “the most mass shootings of any country in the world.” Then-President Barack Obama added it’s “a pattern now … that has no parallel anywhere else … .”
CNN and the Los Angeles Times wrote about “Why the U.S. Has the Most Mass Shootings.” (“The United States has more guns.”)
But the U.S. doesn’t have the most mass shootings, says Lott. It’s a myth created by University of Alabama associate professor Adam Lankford, a myth repeated by anti-gun media in hundreds of news stories.
“Lankford claimed that since 1966, there were 90 mass public shooters in the United States, more than any other country,” says Lott. “Lankford claimed ‘complete data’ were available from 171 countries.”
But how could that be? Many governments don’t collect such data, and even fewer have information from before the days of the internet.
A shooting in say, India, would likely be reported only in local newspapers, in a local dialect. How would Lankford ever find out about it? How did he collect his information? What languages did he search in?
He won’t say.
“That’s academic malpractice,” says Lott in my video about the controversy.
I’m not surprised that Lankford didn’t reply to Lott’s emails. Lott is known as pro-gun. (He wrote the book “More Guns, Less Crime.”) But Lankford also won’t explain his data to me, The Washington Post, or even his fellow gun control advocates.
When Lott’s research center checked the data, using Lankford’s own definition of a mass shooting—“four or more people killed”—the center found 3,000 shootings around the world. Lankford claimed there were only 202.
Lankford said he excludes “sponsored terrorism,” but does not define what he means by that. To be safe, Lott removed terrorism cases from his data. He still found 709 shootings—more than triple the number Lankford reported.
It turns out that not only did the U.S. not have the most frequent mass shootings, it was No. 62 on the list, lower than places like Norway, Finland, and Switzerland.
There was also no relationship between the rate of gun ownership in different countries and the rate of mass shootings.
The big Box Stores can absorb the cost of higher goods anymore..
"Inflation is coming for middle-class households as higher prices hit big-box stores."
East Coast diesel is in short supply no matter the highest ever price.
Michael Berry
@MichaelBerrySho
Prison inmate member of Mexican Mafia escapes prison. Kills an adult and 4 children. Haven’t had a single person tell me how this upsets them, or ask how we can fix it, as they did with #Uvalde. Media manipulation controls all news & emotions in America.
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David Crain, a friend of the Collins family, fought back tears when describing the four boys who were murdered in Leon County. He said the news of their deaths has been devastating and the community has suffered an "unfillable" loss.
READ: https://khou.com/article/news/crime/tomball-isd-family-killed-in-centerville-texas/285-ad1274ed-db15-4c2e-b2d0-54948156479c
VIDEO:
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Maybe Joe will fly out, right ?
that open border is a good thing
keeps fentanyl prices low for Hunter
and child trafficking and sex workers flowing
and a bunch of housing needs and additional taxes to be paid for actual American citizens
the Democrat party must not just be defeated
It must be destroyed
and put in its place in the dustbin off history
along with those who supported it
It turns out that not only did the U.S. not have the most frequent mass shootings, it was No. 62 on the list, lower than places like Norway, Finland, and Switzerland.
There was also no relationship between the rate of gun ownership in different countries and the rate of mass shootings.
Careful. Joe will sic his goon squad on you
you represent America's biggest problem according to Joe
people who oppose him
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#FJBiden
what the hell ?
Did the person who fakes "trending" on Twitter quit ?
or as he is referred to internally - "the algorithm"
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/03/if-joe-biden-cared-about-gun-laws-hunter-biden-would-already-be-in-jail/
TRUMP 47
The only area where FJB seems to be succeeding is breaking the backs of the middle class.
Sticker price shock at the gas pump may finally be breaking the back of the U.S. consumer, new data shows.
Current U.S. gasoline consumption levels are running 3% lower than a year ago and have been declining at a 3-5% clip the past seven weeks, according to researchers at DataTrek (chart below). DataTrek noted that these declines were not the case prior to April 2022, suggesting that pain at the pump is affecting consumer behavior.
"Given that commuting is the single most common reason Americans drive, we would have thought gas consumption would still be showing positive comps to last year," DataTrek writes. "Office occupancy was barely 20% at this point last year and is double that now (43%). Lower gasoline consumption is therefore a troubling sign about overall consumer spending patterns."
Inflation — hitting necessities such as food, fuel, and housing — seems to be weighing on the minds of Americans: The University of Michigan's final consumer sentiment measure fell to 58.4 in May, down from 59.1 earlier in the month, marking the lowest level in more than 10 years.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-prices-health-of-consumers-111315404.html
I just filled up the Mustang. The anger, resentment and disgust among the other patrons at the station was palpable. Never before have I seen strangers at a gas station strike up conversations with other patrons... all of them pissed off at this complete avoidable situation. My "I Did That!" Biden stickers were a big hit as I passed them out to everyone there.
November is coming...
But Trump
Bidenomics is intended to break the middle Income earner RRB.
You know that, as middle Income earners have less disposable income, this recession will deepen.
The cost of the crops just planted and being planted have the added economic weight of High Fertilizer, High Diesel and in some places more expensive water.
The cost of the crops just planted and being planted have the added economic weight of High Fertilizer, High Diesel and in some places more expensive water.
I'll be interested to see what happens to commodity prices - specifically corn and beans - at harvest since that will be right around the mid-terms.
The destruction of the democrat party needs to be total and complete with not one left standing. Only then do we have a chance of getting this country back on track. Democrats are evil and must be destroyed at all costs and by any means necessary.
Commodity price will rise.
There is no room for any error this year.
1/2 of the USA is in a major drought.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Look at this shit.
Americans a assured less per acre yields.
"Rain makes Grain"
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