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[lucky420]

Ted is losing it again.

Ted Cruz Slams 'Government Propaganda' After Sesame Street's Big Bird Gets Vaccine

https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-slams ... ne-1646733

Ted Cruz will always be fat Wolverine to me

[some seeing eye]

Nevada Democrats Can't Get Along

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/0 ... ces-519919

[BBadger]

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Soon they'll be conversing in pig Latin.

[lucky420]

Nevada Democrats Can't Get Along

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/0 ... ces-519919

The Nevada republicans are eating themselves as well

[Simon of the Playa]

Those officials showed a “willful disregard for the law,” the report signed by Special Counsel Henry Kerner said.

At least 13 officials who served under former President Donald Trump broke the rules by promoting Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign while also performing their civic government duties. The OSC report cited specific violations from Trump’s former aides, including adviser Stephen Miller, chief of staff Mark Meadows, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and White House counsel Kellyanne Conway.

https://truthout.org/articles/13-trump- ... fice-says/

[Simon of the Playa]

Speaking on a virtual panel for the RE:WIRED conference Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex said: "Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 when I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged."

He added: "That email was sent the day before and then it happened, and I haven't heard from him since."

The prince said he has not met Dorsey in person. Twitter declined to comment when contacted by CNBC.

The Capitol building was stormed by a group of Donald Trump supporters. In the weeks prior to the Capitol riot, there were calls for violence against Congress and the police on social media.

Harry criticized Twitter and Facebook for allowing misinformation to spread on their platforms, adding that the scale of the problem is terrifying and no one is safe from it. It's ruining lives and destroying families, he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/10/prince- ... -riot.html

[Simon of the Playa]

"Upton says that he’s gotten several death threats and over 1,000 calls to his office since Greene shared his number on Twitter and encouraged her followers to contact the members of Congress. In response to hearing about the voicemail, the Georgia lawmaker dubiously claimed not to condone death threats before posting Upton’s phone number on Twitter for a second time, appearing to encourage her followers to send even more death threats."

https://truthout.org/articles/republica ... e-he-says/

[Simon of the Playa]

"But, there might be something much more significant in those documents. One of the most important, and thus far unanswered, questions about the insurrection is not what role Trump and those around him played. We all saw Trump encourage the marchers to go to the Capitol, and subpoenas have been issued for several people in his circle. The more important question that the public should be hoping gets answered, and where the political stakes are much higher, is the extent to which the other members of the GOP were involved in the insurrection."

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/politics- ... n-rcna5399

[Simon of the Playa]

The two pieces of legislation "should not have any real material impact on inflation", William Foster, vice president and senior credit officer (Sovereign Risk) at Moody's Investors Service, told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclus ... 021-11-17/

[Simon of the Playa]

Dear GOP...

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[Simon of the Playa]

Indeed, censuring Gosar should have been an easy vote for Republicans. He is a problematic colleague: he has embraced white nationalist and neo-Nazi culture, and six of his nine siblings have cut ads urging voters not to support him. (He retorted that they are “leftists” of whom “Stalin would be proud.”) One of his brothers said on television today: "My brother is unhinged. He needs to be more than censured. He needs to be expelled. And if it is determined that criminal charges need to be filed, then they need to be filed."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... er-17-2021

[Simon of the Playa]

"But it felt tonight as if the dynamic in the House has changed. The Republicans are now openly embracing Trump and his one-man rule. But their support for Gosar yesterday appears to have created a breach. Democrats are no longer trying to reason with the Republicans and are instead treating them with derision. That is, psychologically at least, a much more dominant position than they held recently."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... er-18-2021

[lucky420]

Glad to hear the dems are snapping out of it some

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

"Yesterday, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency, Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov, told Military Times that he expects Russia to attack his country in late January or early February. Russia has placed more than 92,000 troops at its border with Ukraine.

In a visit to Washington, D.C., where he met with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, took a broader view of the mounting tensions in central and eastern Europe. Russian president Vladimir Putin “is testing the unity of the European Union, he is testing the unity of NATO allies, he is testing our society, Ukrainians, he is testing Poland, the Baltic countries,” Reznikov said.

Indeed, although U.S. and European officials for weeks have been warning Putin to pull back from the Ukraine border, he has escalated his rhetoric against Ukraine, claiming that Russians and Ukrainians represent “one people—a single whole.” At the same time, he has backed a rising authoritarian in Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko. Putin has established a joint military base in Belarus and backed Lukashenko’s use of Middle Eastern migrants to destabilize nearby Poland. Poland is a member of both the European Union and NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which joined the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations together in 1949 to oppose first the USSR and then, after the USSR crumbled, the rising threat of Russia.

What we have here is a proxy battle over the future of liberal democracy—government based on individual rights, civil liberties, free enterprise, and consent of the governed."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... er-21-2021

[Simon of the Playa]

"Everything happening right now is the skinhead's dream of the 1990s coming true," Picciolini told me. "Donald Trump's ideas are not new, but he has made people in influential positions comfortable in expressing racism. In a relatively short time, we've gone from not talking about these things, even if they were always there, to no longer feeling shame about it. Tucker Carlson, other right-wing pundits, congressional representatives like Paul Gosar and Mo Brooks, are saying exactly what I was saying when I was a Nazi. They are using softer terms, but the message is the same."

https://www.rawstory.com/neo-nazis-2655840279/

[thnkfl]

I don't recall seeing mention of it here but I highly recommend a voice of sanity: "Politics Girl". Find her on YouTube.

[lucky420]

I don't recall seeing mention of it here but I highly recommend a voice of sanity: "Politics Girl". Find her on YouTube.
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[some seeing eye]

More Bundy Weird

https://www.bigcountrynewsconnection.co ... 11c31.html

[Simon of the Playa]

putin is going to set europe on fire.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/0 ... ive-523760

[Simon of the Playa]

“They lied,” the Washington Post’s Paul Waldman wrote about the testimony of the Republican-appointed justices in their confirmation hearings. In those hearings, they indicated that they saw the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision protecting the right to abortion as settled law, no matter what their own personal preferences might be. “They lied to Congress and to the country…. It was all a lie, a scam, a con,” Waldman wrote, “the assurances that they were blank slates committed to ‘originalism’ and ‘textualism,’ that they wouldn’t ‘legislate from the bench,’ that they have no agenda but merely a ‘judicial philosophy.’”

Also in the Washington Post, Dr. Melissa Murray, a New York University law professor who clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, noted that Sotomayor recognized that her colleagues were “embracing a cataclysmic reordering of the reproductive rights landscape.”

Seeing what her colleagues were going to do, Sotomayor turned to “the American people themselves…suggesting that the court need not have the last word on abortion.” She was, Murray said, “alerting the people to the imminent threat to abortion rights in the hopes that, hearing her alarm, we might mobilize. Not with a Jan. 6–style insurrection but with the sort of grass-roots energy that once fueled the civil rights movement and other progressive social causes.” “The court will not save our rights,” Murray wrote, “But maybe we can save them ourselves.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ber-5-2021

[lucky420]

Women’s March should be lit this year. I was reading something about how the decision won’t come til June, wonder if the wrong decision (overturn) will hurt republicans chances next summer/fall

[some seeing eye]

Yikes!

The Supreme Court May Elevate the Second Amendment Above the First

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... trine.html

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case which dismissed the challenge to the NY State handgun law, which is similar to 7 other states. By accepting the case, the justices decided among themselves they would consider overturning the law.

SCOTUS Blog believes the ruling may be narrow rather than the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association expansive claims Slate fears.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/11/majo ... ow-ruling/

[Simon of the Playa]

"The once-grand Republican Party has been captured by the right wing. It has lined up behind former president Donald Trump and his cronies, its true believers refusing to accept that a majority of Americans turned Trump out of office in 2020 and replaced him with a Democrat, President Joe Biden. They insist that it is not possible for a Democrat to have been legitimately elected and blame “voter fraud” for the result, although repeated recounts and inspections have proved the vote counts were accurate.

Some Republican lawmakers evidently believe the Big Lie that Trump won in 2020; others are going along with it out of opportunism or fear, but they are not speaking out to counter the lies poisoning our democracy. Even after January 6, when insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol and threatened the lives of our top lawmakers, 147 Republicans voted to challenge the election results. Now, 68% of Republicans think that Democrats “stole” the 2020 election.

Now, Republican lawmakers are silent as Republican-dominated legislatures in 19 states have passed 33 laws to make it harder for Black and Brown Americans, as well as others expected to back Democrats, to vote. Some of those states have taken the power to certify official votes away from nonpartisan officials and given it to Republicans. Had these laws been in place in 2020, Trump would almost certainly still be in office.

As we learn more about the events of January 6, it is clear that the former president and his inner circle corrupted the Department of Justice and possibly other parts of the government, launching a coup that came perilously close to success. And, as Barton Gellman details this week in The Atlantic, they are arranging the mechanics of our democracy to make sure that next time, they won’t fail. They will put in place an autocracy in which a powerful leader and his chosen loyalists make the rules under which the rest of us must live.

Will we permit the destruction of American democracy on our watch?"

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ber-7-2021

[DVD Burner]

Simon of the Playa ?

I tried to tell yall.

I did my best.

To try to tell you

What was up.

Years ago. Did I KNOT?


READ IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

OK?


Then talk to me.

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/two-a ... ence-28819

[Simon of the Playa]

no tony.


i dont read garbage from extremely questionable web sites.


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trt-world/

sorry.


i dont have time for turkish rabbit or weasel holes.

[Simon of the Playa]

A report out Sunday that recommends that Trump administration chief of staff Mark Meadows be held in contempt of Congress alleges that he said National Guard troops would keep President Donald Trump’s supporters safe Jan. 6.

In bullet points listing urgent questions for Meadows, the report by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot cites an email he is alleged to have sent Jan. 5 about the security of Trump supporters who would hit the streets the next day.

The recipient of the email is not identified.

“Mr. Meadows sent an email to an individual about the events on January 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to 'protect pro Trump people' and that many more would be available on standby,” it said.

An attorney for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The claim adds a different angle to the government response to the Jan. 6 violence. Despite widespread forecasts of potential unrest, Capitol Police appeared to be overwhelmed by the incursion, and the National Guard was slow to respond.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... m-rcna8530

[Simon of the Playa]

fuck you, rupert murdoch and sons...


https://www.businessinsider.com/delawar ... it-2021-12

[Simon of the Playa]

more is coming...

[Simon of the Playa]

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