Saturday, July 30, 2022

Now that Hispanics are voting Republican...

The wall is not such a bad idea after all?

36 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year, according to four people with knowledge of the decision and internal records reviewed by The Washington Post.

In early February, after learning that the Secret Service’s text messages had been erased as part of a migration to new devices, staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data specialists help retrieve messages from their phones, according to two government whistleblowers who provided reports to Congress.

But later that month, Cuffari’s office decided it would not collect or review any agency phones, according to three people briefed on the decision

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The latest revelation comes as Democratic lawmakers have accused Cuffari’s office of failing to aggressively investigate the agency’s actions in response to the violent attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

Cuffari wrote a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees this month saying the Secret Service’s text messages from the time of the attack had been “erased.” But he did not immediately disclose that his office first discovered that deletion in December and failed to alert lawmakers or examine the phones. Nor did he alert Congress that other text messages were missing, including those of the two top Trump appointees running the Department of Homeland Security during the final days of the administration.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/29/homeland-inspector-general-texts/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Schedule F

In his speech on Tuesday, Trump said: “We need to make it much easier to fire rogue bureaucrats who are deliberately undermining democracy or, at a minimum, just want to keep their jobs. Congress should pass historic reforms empowering the president to ensure that any bureaucrat who is corrupt, incompetent or unnecessary for the job can be told – did you ever hear this? – ‘You’re fired. Get out. You’re fired.’ Have to do it. Deep state.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

While the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a rightwing thinktank, was happy to indulge the garrulous showman at its inaugural summit, it also maintained a cold-eyed focus on the future. Over two days Trump’s allies and alumni laid out a blueprint for a return to power and a second term more authoritarian, more extreme and more ruthless than the first.

The institute – evidently untroubled by the associations of the phrase “America First” with Nazi sympathisers who wanted to keep the US out of the second world war – has 150 staff, including nine former Trump administration cabinet officials and more than 50 former senior staff and officials. Familiar faces such as Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow and Mark Meadows were feted at the conference.

The AFPI is led by Brooke Rollins, a former domestic policy adviser in the White House, who boasted how the 15-month-old organisation put “boots on the ground” in 32 states on issues from “election integrity to school choice and patriotic education to health care transparency to taxes and spending to fatherhood initiatives to border security to big tech censorship”.

The institute has sued Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for alleged censorship, she added, while fighting Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates all the way to the supreme court and opposing his Build Back Better plan for climate and social spending.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/30/america-first-trumpism-beyond-trump

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Democrats showed rare unity, with the party’s woke wing heaping praise on the Manchin-negotiated energy and prescription drug bill. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), head of the Progressive Caucus, called it a “very, very major step forward.”

The episode is a key reminder that the supposed “polarization” in American politics is not symmetrical. Democrats, after a long struggle, are finally making a bid to hold the political center. They’ve reached near universal agreement on a bill that pays down debt, makes medicine cheaper, eliminates unfair tax breaks for the biggest corporations and the richest one-tenth of 1 percent, and implements an all-of-the-above energy policy that streamlines drilling permits while accelerating the switch to clean energy. And Republicans responded by voting against veterans and U.S. manufacturing.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Biden Savors Much-Needed Victories
July 30, 2022 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

New York Times:
“Even for a president who has become used to the highs and lows of governing, it was a moment to feel whipsawed.
Since taking office 18 months ago, Mr. Biden has celebrated successes like passage of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill
and slogged through crises like the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"Gas prices soared;
now they are coming down.
Unemployment is at record lows
even as there are signs of a looming recession.

“The president’s brand of politics is rooted in a slower era,
before Twitter,
and sometimes it can pay off to have the patience to wait for a deal to finally emerge.


"But now, with congressional elections coming up in a few months,
the challenge for Mr. Biden is to make sure his latest successes resonate with Americans who remain deeply skeptical about the future.

“The magnitude of the Senate deal was received like a splash of icy water across Washington,
which had all but written off the possibility that Mr. Biden’s far-reaching ambitions could be revived this year.”


The rest of the article is linked at politicalwire.com.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

We need to be careful, Roger, that you and I do not come across as bullies seeking to overly dominate this blog. But I can well sympathize with your posts above.

They are a clarion call to America to wake up the fact that we are facing a would be dictator who wants to tie our government to the desires of the wealthy kleptocrats who want to steal it for the benefit of themselves alone.

anonymous said...

The incident I mentioned yesterday that the goat fucker thought was BS!!!! Just another reason the GOP is heading tor the dust bin of history as idiots like scott adams spreads more lies about the walls.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!


https://www.yahoo.com/news/callous-gop-fist-bump-holding-060155743.html
Sen Ted Cruz ) was captured on video fist-bumping Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) shortly after Republicans managed on Thursday to block the PACT Act that would allow soldiers, sailors and airmen exposed to pits of smoldering waste in combat zones to be covered by the Veterans Affairs health care system for linked illnesses. Many are suffering from cancer.

The country is soooooo much better than this fat assed loud mouth from texas!!!!!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Watchdog Halted Plan to Recover Secret Service Texts
July 30, 2022 at 12:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments

“The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year,” the Washington Post reports.

“In early February, after learning that the Secret Service’s text messages had been erased as part of a migration to new devices, staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data specialists help retrieve messages from their phones, according to two government whistleblowers who provided reports to Congress.

“But later that month, Cuffari’s office decided it would not collect or review any agency phones.”
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THAT is REALLY damning.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ch, what do you say about these latest revelations? Got any defense for the decision not to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts?

And why, contrary to law, were they deleted in the first place?

I'd love to see you dance around THAT.

anonymous said...


Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
We need to be careful, Roger, that you and I do not come across as bullies

Funny that you say that Rev.....the complaints that are being registered by the disenfranchised GOP members whose #1 trait is to complain about every imaginable issue which is you posting too much!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! What a sorry group of immoral idiots who have nothing to do but worry about what you post....espeically egoists like the short mushroom picture salesman whose whole contribution to society is rooting for UGA football......Oh well can't fix stupid that deeply ingrained!!!1

anonymous said...

7 AM
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
We need to be careful, Roger, that you and I do not come across as bullies

Yep Rev....the intellectually disabled slurpers here are most amusing posting that you post too much and take the time to write that they don't read them......the short salesman is the biggest offender declaring not to read something than post about it!!!! Sure seems to me he reads them!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!! Keep up the good work as all is not lost as the country is slowly waking from its trump stupor!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Powerline Scott Johnson.

Thursday’s call took place amid uncertainty over whether first son Hunter Biden still holds a 10% stake in a Chinese investment firm that’s controlled in part by state-owned entities. The company, BHR Partners, was formed 12 days after Hunter Biden joined his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, aboard Air Force Two for a 2013 trip to Beijing.

Online business records suggest the first son still holds the 10% stake in BHR and the White House has provided no transparency about his alleged divestment. [White House press secretary Karine] Jean-Pierre referred a question about Hunter Biden’s ownership status to the first son’s legal team, which claimed in November he no longer held the stake.

The Biden-Xi call also happened less than a day after The Post reported that a Hunter Biden associate, James Gilliar, referred to Joe Biden at least twice as the “big guy” — a term that relates to a different Biden family business venture in China, with energy company CEFC.

CEFC paid Hunter Biden and first brother Jim Biden $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018, the Washington Post reported this year. Joe Biden allegedly was due to receive a 10% equity stake in a corporate entity established with CEFC.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski says that he spoke with Joe Biden in May 2017 about the CEFC joint venture and a May 13, 2017, email written by Gilliar said that the “big guy” would get 10%. Bobulinski previously alleged that the president was the “big guy,” a claim confirmed by Gilliar’s latest message.


I further assess with a high degree of certainty that Xi believes he has the upper hand with Biden and his clown car administration.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is very disturbing. Why is he dishonoring the mother of three of his children?

“Ivana Trump was laid to rest at her former husband’s golf course in New Jersey where white flowers and a plaque marked the freshly buried grave,” 

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If you sit back and think about this? Why are they afraid of teaching the good and bad of our democracy? It is not going to turn you gay!

Just weeks after Oklahoma’s governor called for a special audit of Tulsa Public Schools (TPS), the State Board of Education voted to downgrade the district’s accreditation status for violating a law that restricts teachings on race and gender.

In a 4-2 vote on Thursday, the board based its decision to downgrade to “accreditation with warning” in response to a complaint stating a mandatory training session for teachers violated state law 1775.



A teacher filed the complaint with the state after she claimed training videos she was required to watch “…specifically shame white people for past offenses in history, and state that all are implicitly racially biased by nature.”

This is the first penalty enforced against a district for violating HB 1775, according to the Oklahoman.

TPS issued a blistering response to the state board’s decision and said the schools “are teaching our children an accurate – and at times painful, difficult, and uncomfortable – history about our shared human experience,” according to the statement.

Oklahoma’s HB 1775, which does not include the term “critical race theory,” is intended to stop discrimination, according to the bill. If any educator teaches that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex” or that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,” they could be suspended or have their license removed, according to the law.





Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/crt-tulsa-school-accreditation-status-downgrade-reaj/index.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If this was available during the first impeachment hearings, he could have been convicted by Republicans.

https://wapo.st/3SaEIyV

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Every constitution,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in a 1789 letter to James Madison, “naturally expires at the end of 19 years.” Two centuries after its expiration date, citizens of the United States are suffering the consequences of a constitution drafted by 55 men who owned hundreds of human slaves, thousands of acres in landed estates, and millions of dollars in inherited wealth. Fundamental rights denied, foundational institutions paralyzed and existential crises ignored: these are side-effects of a legal framework that has not been meaningfully amended in over a half-century.

The US is not alone. Scores of constitutions around the world were written by dictators, colonizers and military occupiers to enshrine institutions that are undemocratic by design and unfit to cope with crises like a rapidly heating planet. In some cases, like the UK, the constitution was never actually written at all, setting the political system on a precarious foundation of norms and conventions that leaders like Boris Johnson have proven all too eager to discard. When a cross-party committee convened in 2013 to review the UK’s constitutional chaos, its recommendation was nothing short of radical: that the government should consider “preparations for a UK-wide constitutional convention”.

But while both the US and the UK remain trapped in constitutional deadlock, the Republic of Chile has just concluded its own nationwide convention to replace the 1980 decree by the dictator Augusto Pinochet and his military government. The product of the convention is a visionary document that would not only update, expand and advance Chileans’ basic rights – to health, housing, abortion, decent work and a habitable planet – but also set a new standard for democratic renewal in the 21st century.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/chile-updating-constitution-us-should-follow

Myballsinthewoodsagain said...

14 of 20 posts here are by Roger. 70%. He must have something wrong mentally to keep doing this.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Imo is that most important to Hispanics is abortion because they are mostly Catholic.

But calling them rapist and murder has cost them more Republican voters.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It keeps my mind working.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I notice Ch did not give any sort of answer to my 7:39.

MEANWHILE,
Hot Mic Captured Gaetz Assuring Stone of Pardon
July 30, 2022 at 11:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As Roger Stone prepared to stand trial in 2019, complaining he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to incriminate Donald Trump, a close ally of the president repeatedly assured Stone that ‘the boss’ would likely grant him clemency if he were convicted, a recording shows,” the Washington Post reports.

“At an event at a Trump property that October, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) predicted that Stone would be found guilty at his trial in Washington the following month but would not ‘do a day’ in prison. Gaetz was apparently unaware they were being recorded by documentary filmmakers following Stone, who special counsel Robert Mueller had charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation.”

Said Gaetz:
“The boss still has a very favorable view of you… said it directly.”

He added: “I don’t think the big guy can let you go down for this.”
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Yahoo News July 10, 2020
Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence before three-year prison term was to begin.
President Trump on Friday commuted the three-year prison sentence for Republican operative Roger Stone, who was to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of obstruction, witness tampering and lying to Congress.
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If Trump is found guilty of witness tampering, who will pardon him?

C.H. Truth said...

Ch, what do you say about these latest revelations? Got any defense for the decision not to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts?


Well it is simple Reverend...

The only reason that the text-message-gate is being pushed is to cover for the fact that the "Get Trump" commission and their hearings have been shooting blanks.

They have continued to fail to find actual evidence of anything other what everyone already knew. Most of new stuff is hearsay and much of the hearsay is disputed or debunked.

They said they would show a link between Trump and the Proud boys Oath keepers. They didn't.

They said they would provide smoking gun evidence that would prove Trump was in on some sort of plot. They didn't.

Pretty much across the board they have shot blanks.


As Scott Adams has correctly pointed out... their entire argument has fallen down to the point where it is literally just that "Trump" should "have done more".



The missing text messages from people who had ZERO responsibility for Capitol ground security (their detail is the White House and POTUS) is red herring. It is a diversion. An excuse. As every conspiracy does when it falls apart... the lack of real evidence is proof of a cover up!



btw... for all the hand wringing over this... nobody has once suggested what the SS text messages would actually show us? How would SS text messages prove Trump was behind some nefarious plot or show us anything of substance here.


Perhaps when you can explain that to me...

I will stop wondering where the depths of your gullibility goes.


Since you never "answer questions" (only ask them) - I will just assume you do not have an answer and continue to look for that low point.

Anonymous said...

Socialist Democrats ran the economy head on into the ditch.
Can't reverse it by November.

Anonymous said...

Wow, sorry I interupted
The James and Roger Hate Festival.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ch's "answer" is a non answer.

And I'd say those "blanks" are shots being heard loud and clear by
the DOJ.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

As for Ch's thread article,
it's a lot more complicated
than that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-fill-border-wall-gaps-yuma-arizona-rcna40567

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Another question, Scott.
If, as you suggest, the text messages were so harmless,
why the late decision not to restore them?
As at 7:35?

C.H. Truth said...

If you sit back and think about this? Why are they afraid of teaching the good and bad of our democracy? It is not going to turn you gay!


Both Roger and the Reverend would be old enough to remember Masters and Johnson and their studies on sexuality. Unlike how it is done today (where we just ask people and take their word for it) the M&J studies used actual physical science.

They hooked people up to the same sort of lie detector equipment that obviously was modified to include physical arousal and such. They showed various pictures of various sexual acts to get a feel about what sexually aroused (turned on) the population.

If you believe like I do... that sexual orientation and even certain sexual deviations are inherited (rather than learned) - then this study would clarify much of that. I mean either we are attracted to one sex or the other then we will have an involuntary sexual reaction to images and videos of things that turn us on.

You may say you do not find a 12 year old girl sexually attractive because it would be socially bad to say you do. But if you are turned on by a 12 year old in a swim suit then the M&J study would prove that out. You would get sexually aroused.


What they found ironically is that there are more sexual deviants (pedaphiles, sexual sadist, etc) then there were just gay or bi-sexual. In fact they found that less than 2% of men were aroused by images and videos of other men... and about 3% of women were aroused by other women. Men were generally exclusively straight or gay, while women tended to be more bi-sexual than full on lesbian. Coincidently studies of many other mammals and primates show a similar 2-3 percent going homosexual tendencies as people have always argued that homosexuality happens in the animal kingdom as well.


So if we believe that this is how people are created and this is not learned. And we believe that the sexual DNA of people exists and is not altered by some "school or institution" to makes us another way...


Then it begs the question... why do almost 20 percent of children under the age of 21 identify as "alternate lifestyles" if physically only 2-3 percent of the population has these tendencies as measured scientifically?

It seems to be that this "could" be seen as a measure of how much we have glorified the LGBTQ+ movement to the point where straight kids now want to be a part of it... and just "identify" that way even if they are physically straight?

Anyone care to disagree?

anonymous said...



The missing text messages from people who had ZERO responsibility for Capitol ground security (their detail is the White House and POTUS) is red herring. It is a diversion. An excuse. As every conspiracy does when it falls apart

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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! Sure Lil Schitty//////The absurdity of that statement just proves how fucked up you truly are.!!!!!! Trump ate hamburgers while DC burned and did NOTHING!!!!! You making excuses for his fat assed ineptitude speaks volumes for your retardation and refusal to accept facts.....like trump lost!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

C.H. Truth said...

I gave a simple answer Reverend.

The only one that is true.

The text messages are red herring.


You could at least try to tell me I am wrong by explaining what it is you believe would be "in" these text messages? After all... The SS does not use text messages in any official means of communication for their jobs. They would basically be personal texts...

If you cannot even suggest what it is that the committee is looking for?

Not even give us a clue what might be incriminating?


Then I think that proves my point about it being red herring and an excuse for why the committee is failing badly!




So either way Reverend!

I don't need to respond again.

You won't provide an answer (because there is not one).

This is why I have stopped debating with you...

anonymous said...


Anyone care to disagree?

BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! That you just proved you have lost your fucking mind with that post????????/ Not a chance and such a stretch even you should be embarrassed, but because you now have all the trump tendencies will never admit you fucked up!!!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

You "debated" me by asking a question. I did the same.

I would hope that we may eventually find out
1) Why the text messages were deleted
2) Why "staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data specialists help retrieve messages from their phones" yet later "Cuffari's office decided it would not collect or review any agency phones" (7:35).
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Why not? Sounds suspicious to me.