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Post by onelasttime on Jan 17, 2023 21:49:41 GMT
Can anyone imagine her understanding what is being discussed at an economic forum?
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 19, 2023 0:32:28 GMT
At some point folks need to understand the only people Republicans like are the rich and large corporations who give their campaigns a lot of money. So they have no problem sticking it to the middle class and the poor so they can continue to cut the taxes of the rich & big corporations.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 19, 2023 2:56:22 GMT
She needs to be taken down a peg or two.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 19, 2023 2:58:04 GMT
Yeah she showed true leadership and he proves over and over again what a loser he is.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 20, 2023 19:53:03 GMT
Two years of this shit while nothing meaningful that will help the American People will get done. Thank you voters for creating this soon to be āclusterfuckā.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 20, 2023 19:56:02 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 20, 2023 20:45:56 GMT
Let's investigate TFG has raked in multimillions from MBS/LIV golf in the last two years .. A human rights organization founded by slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi is calling on Congress and the Justice Department to investigate former President Donald Trump's business deals with a controversial golf company owned by the Saudi Arabian government and controlled by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman. Nonprofit Democracy for the Arab World Now said LIV Golf, a tournament franchise and PGA Golf rival, paid Trump-owned golf resorts "unknown millions of dollars" to host events. Recent court proceedings revealed that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund -- chaired by bin Salman -- owns 93% of LIV Golf, and pays "100 percent of the costs associated with the events." "The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman actually owns almost all of LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers," said DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson in a Sunday statement. "If Trump or his agents discussed any deals with LIV Golf or PIF while Trump was still in office, a criminal investigation would also be in order because federal law strictly prohibits this sort of business dealing by sitting federal officials with foreign governments." DAWN pointed to previous PIF investments in Trump-adjacent business dealings which have drawn scrutiny over potential ethics law violations -- including PIF's $2 billion investment in Affinity Partners, the hedge fund owned by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and a $1 billion PIF investment in a private equity fund owned by former Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. "The Justice Department and Congress have a responsibility to investigate exactly when and to whom and under what terms Trump has obtained unknown millions from Saudi government coffers controlled by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, which may well violate even our existing, weak ethics laws," said Whitson. "Given that Trump is also planning to run again for president, his business ties to Mohamed bin Salman are a national security emergency."www.rawstory.com/human-rights-group-court-proceedings-reveal-mbs-paid-trump-millions-in-the-past-two-years/
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 20, 2023 22:07:33 GMT
Isnāt that what trump & the Republicans in Congress did for the last 6 years? Yes, yes they did.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 20, 2023 22:08:59 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 20, 2023 23:06:21 GMT
No prosecutor discusses ongoing cases. Or they shouldn't!
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 23, 2023 18:18:38 GMT
Without being too dramatic as I read this I find I canāt help being afraid of what this new crop of Republicans are going to do to this country. And none of its good.
From The Bulwark..
By Jill Lawrence
āWhat the āWeaponizationā Committee Is Really Afterā
āItās a drug theyāre going to put out on the street for conservative media and conservative voters.ā
āThe defeat of election deniers running for important statewide offices last fall suggested a nation edging away from seven years of Trumpism. But that trend will be tested in the next two years, with supercharged Republicans newly empowered to spout conspiracies, grievances, whataboutism, and lies from official, high-profile platforms.
The House Oversight Committeeās crammed investigations menu is perilous for President Joe Biden, from the Afghanistan withdrawal, the Southern border, and Hunter Bidenās activities to the recently discovered classified documents at Bidenās residences and a think tank once associated with him.
But beyond the political risk for Biden and his legacy, there is a larger danger for the countryāspecifically the Judiciary Committeeās new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government led by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Jordan has long complained about the supposed persecution of conservatives by the FBI and other agencies. Now heās claimed broad powers to do something about itāincluding mucking around in open investigations.
Is the government really picking on conservatives? Or, hear me out, did a defeated, twice-impeached president and some of his conservative allies maybe do something unconstitutional or illegal in trying to overturn the 2020 election by lying, scheming and attacking the Capitol? Or moving hundreds of top secret documents to Mar-a-Lago and then (unlike Biden) stonewalling for months to forestall handing them over? Maybe these things deserve federal attention. Right?
The tragedy is that, when it comes to Jim Jordanās investigations, facts may not matter. What will matter, painfully so, is how shoveling paranoia and distortion into the news stream will further undermine trust in the U.S. government, its integrity, its motives, and its elections.
These fears are not overblown, says David Jolly, a former two-term congressman from Florida who left the GOP in 2018 and is now a political independent. Jolly co-chairs Facts First USA, a bipartisan rapid-response group founded by Democratic activist David Brock.
āComing off Donald Trumpās stolen election fake narrative and the violent insurrection of January 6th, this subcommittee will stoke a toxic mix of insurrection themes. It will provide justification for Americans to feel they are under threat from their government,ā Jolly said in a phone interview. The message to Second Amendment conservatives is that āyou have a right to your weapons because one day the governmentās going to come for you,ā he added. āIt gets into themes that are destabilizing.ā
From my liberal standpoint, itās hard to take conservative whining seriously. America has been structurally rigged since birth in favor of states that are sparsely populated, mostly with white people. Two senators apiece, whether a state has over 39 million people or under 600,000. Popular presidential votes that donāt count: Losers who can wināand they have, twice since 2000 alone. A Supreme Court far more conservative than the nation that must abide by its rulings gutting abortion rights, voting rights, gun safety laws, and political contribution limits.
Now House conservatives are going after the same federal government that has allowed them such disproportionate power.
The weaponization subcommittee was an element in negotiations that helped Kevin McCarthy win the speakership. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), who didnāt vote for McCarthy until the twelfth of fifteen ballots, summed up the victory:
Note that Bishop, like others talking about this new subcommittee, invokes the mid-1970s committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), that examined allegations of intelligence abuses unearthed during the Senate Watergate investigation of President Richard Nixon. The panel had a lower-key leader, a bipartisan mission, and a much tamer formal titleāthe Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
But the results of its āthoughtful and careful investigative workā (in the words of the Senate Historical Office) were explosive: The Church committee identified āa wide range of intelligence abuses by federal agenciesā under presidents of both parties in the Cold War period, and covert activities to discredit targets including anti-Vietnam War protesters and Martin Luther King Jr.
Our era is far more polarized and performative, and Jordan is one of its leading men. Former Republican Speaker John Boehner has described him as āa legislative terrorist,ā and former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed him as a member of the House January 6th Committee because he was an election objector close to Trump.
Another reason for alarm is the weaponization panelās charge to dig into āongoing criminal investigations.ā This last-minute addition to its portfolio covers, for example, federal probes of the Capitol insurrection, Trumpās role in it, his many attempts to nullify the 2020 election, the hundreds of sensitive and top-secret documents he took to Mar-a-Lago in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, and the August 2021 FBI search that came after fourteen months of requests and a subpoena for the documents.
Itās galling that conservatives complain about all this as if the conduct were normal and the investigations abusive. As if Trump had done nothing wrong. As if the GOP itself had never āweaponizedā the government (with its endless Benghazi investigation that McCarthy gloated had lowered Hillary Clintonās poll numbers, for instance, or Trump-era Attorney General William Barrās preemptive whitewash of the deeply damaging Mueller Report). As if the new panel itselfāapproved 222-211 on straight party linesāwere not, as Amanda Carpenter writes, itself weaponizing the House.
Even if the Justice Department refuses to grant a single request for information about open investigations, Jordanās anti-government offensive is frightening. As Jolly put it, āItās about stoking the flames of government suspicion. Itās a drug theyāre going to put out on the street for conservative media and conservative voters.ā
And itās a threat to all of us, especially given the historically close 2022 midterms in a historically divided nation. Jacob Rubashkin of Inside Elections writes that Republicans won their House majority by 6,670 votes in five races. And CNN analyst Harry Enten notes that neither party holds more than 52 percent of Senate seats, House seats, or governorshipsāwhich he says hasnāt happened since 1914, the first time all Senate elections were held by popular vote.
By 2024, most voters could be so scared or fed up that theyāll hand the GOP a massive defeat at the polls. But itās also possible that more Americans will buy what Republicans are selling. It wouldnāt take too many more of them to create a genuine red wave, forcing America to stay on a path that leads ever further away from truth, trust, and a healthy democracy.ā
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 23, 2023 19:12:41 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 24, 2023 2:28:37 GMT
Oh for heaven sakesā¦
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 24, 2023 2:40:04 GMT
It gets better!!
Someone stole his shoes off his feet at 5th Ave and 55th street NYC in broad daylight (3pm). his watch and a bag. .something else I forget..
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 24, 2023 23:12:55 GMT
McCarthy is such a twit that I would love to be a fly on the wall for those negotiations.
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Post by Gem Girl on Jan 25, 2023 1:31:13 GMT
It gets better!! Someone stole his shoes off his feet at 5th Ave and 55th street NYC in broad daylight (3pm)..something else I forget.. I sincerely wish that somebody would get that man some help.
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Post by Gem Girl on Jan 25, 2023 1:32:59 GMT
McCarthy is such a twit that I would love to be a fly on the wall for those negotiations. Does Mitch get to task him that way? At any rate, it's already clear that McCarthy can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag, so why?
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 2:58:29 GMT
Today McCarthy rejected the request for Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to stay on the House Intelligence Committee.
It was expected because Republicans in the House are seeking revenge for what they perceive as slights against them.
But what really got me was this fool used the terms āgenuine honesty and credibilityā & āregains the trust of the American peopleā as what the Republicans are seeking.
Seriously?
For all practical purposes this fool has made a big conspiracy spreader who was actively involved in the events of January 6, 2021 as his second in command.
And he claims the Republicans are seeking āgenuine honesty and credibility ā to āregain the trust of the American peopleā?
These people and those who buy their shit are crazier then loons.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 3:02:51 GMT
But it gets betterā¦.
The Republicans have created two subcommittees of Republicans only to āinvestigateā the FBI & DOJ and one to investigate COVID which means they are coming after Dr Fauci.
And look who is one these Republican only committees. The wackos of the Republican Party.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 3:30:09 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 4:39:14 GMT
Such a jokeā¦
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 5:00:31 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 5:27:31 GMT
In his tweet McCarthy uses the terms āgenuine honestyā and ācredibilityā but assigns two of the biggest liars to committees. Verifiable liars.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 15:34:43 GMT
I read this morning that she wants to be dumpster donās running mate. Imagine that duo running the country.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 15:41:06 GMT
Wow they canāt seem to get their conspiracy theories straight can they.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 15:43:08 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 15:45:24 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 15:51:25 GMT
Good lord these guys have really gone off the deep end this morning.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 16:15:25 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 25, 2023 16:26:01 GMT
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