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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 24, 2020 23:30:34 GMT
Remember Rep Duncan Hunter from CA? The guy who threw his wife under the bus saying SHE was the one who misspent the campaign funds, well she got 8 months at home! The wife of former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) was sentenced to eight months of home confinement on Monday after admitting to participating in a conspiracy to illegally use the congressman's campaign money for personal use. Margaret Hunter, 45, the former campaign manager for 43-year-old Duncan Hunter, was sentenced on the lower end of the eight- to 14-month range after she helped the prosecution with its case against her husband, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The sentence was determined under the terms of the plea bargain she made with the Department of Justice in June 2019. The sentencing comes after both Hunters pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to convert more than $150,000 in campaign money for personal purposes. The former California representative was sentenced in March to 11 months in federal prison and three years probation. His sentencing is scheduled to start in January after it was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Union-Tribune. ** thehill.com/homenews/news/513452-wife-of-former-rep-duncan-hunter-sentenced-to-8-months-home-confinement Remember the party of family values.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2020 19:39:28 GMT
70 Days.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 26, 2020 1:52:20 GMT
Any thing he wanted to do to obstruct non-citizens!! The court had different ideas!! A federal court has struck down a Pentagon policy requiring immigrant troops to serve for six months to a year before they are eligible for expedited citizenship.In a ruling Tuesday, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with arguments that the minimum service requirement is “arbitrary and capricious” and violates the Administrative Procedure Act. “The United States has a long history of allowing noncitizens to serve in its military and providing those who serve with an expedited path to citizenship,” wrote U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle, a Clinton appointee. “But in recent years, despite its need for noncitizen enlistees to fill its ranks, the Department of Defense ... had placed obstacles in that path to citizenship.” Asked for comment, the Pentagon referred The Hill to the Justice Department, which did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. At issue is a 2017 Pentagon policy that requires immigrant troops to serve for a minimum amount of time before being eligible for expedited citizenship. ** more at link: thehill.com/policy/defense/513634-federal-court-strikes-down-pentagons-minimum-service-requirement-for-expedited
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 26, 2020 3:46:01 GMT
#BeBest nepotism!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 12:55:58 GMT
The Lincoln Project..
”69 days until the election.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 17:01:40 GMT
Paul Waldman - Washington Post...
“The Trump children are here to feed your grievance and resentment”
”Before the Republican convention began, party chair Ronna McDaniel promised “an aspirational and uplifting tone.” And some speakers certainly have described the paradise America will turn into should President Trump be given a second term.
But much more, the convention has been a showcase of grievance, anger and resentment. And the most enthusiastic purveyors of this, oddly enough, have been those who have the least cause to be aggrieved about anything: Trump’s own children.
This has long been a core part of Republican politics, especially around race. Minorities are taking your jobs, killing your children, and living off welfare, generations of voters have been told; the only answer was to elect the party whose highest priority is cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations. In 2016, Trump told that same story, but this time the villains were immigrants.
But in this election the GOP has found a different avenue to promote that resentment and anger. Liberals, they say, are silencing you, making you a victim of “cancel culture.”
And the Trump children are here to tell you that the thought police are coming for you.
“The Democrats want an America where your thoughts and opinions are censored when they do not align with their own,” said Eric Trump on Tuesday night. “To the voiceless, shamed, censored, and canceled, my father will fight for you.” Me: Gee how often have we heard that on this board?
Joining the de-silencing and un-canceling was Eric’s sister Tiffany, who exposed the dark forces tampering with Americans’ minds. “This manipulation of what information we receive impedes our freedoms. Rather than allowing Americans the right to form our own beliefs, this misinformation system keeps people mentally enslaved to the ideas they deem correct,” she said.
“Ask yourselves, why are we prevented from seeing certain information?" Tiffany Trump continued. "Why is one viewpoint promoted while others are hidden? The answer is control, because division and controversy breed profit.”
So we’re all forced to adhere to one set of beliefs, because the media want division and controversy. See if you can spot the logical problem there. “If you care about living your life without restraints, about rebelling against those who would suppress your voice,” Tiffany concluded, you must vote for her father.
Tuesday’s presentation also featured Nick Sandmann, the young man who became famous after a confrontation on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Sandmann described how his voice had been snuffed out: “I learned what was happening to me had a name. It was called being canceled, as in annulled, as in revoked, as in made void. Canceled is what’s happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left.”
So Sandmann explained how he had been silenced while addressing a national televised audience, as every silenced person does.
The night before, Donald Trump Jr. sounded the same notes: “Joe Biden and the radical left are now coming for our freedom of speech. They want to bully us into submission. If they get their way, it will no longer be the silent majority. It will be the silenced majority.”
There’s a reality underneath these complaints, even if it’s not quite the one Republicans portray. Liberals do indeed have the lion’s share of cultural power in America, particularly in the entertainment industry and academia. They use that power to express their values, in ways many conservatives find unpleasant. For instance, you can see gay couples on TV now.
As American society has become more inclusive, certain groups have felt their loss of cultural hegemony as a kind of oppression, as though, to take just one example, if everyone isn’t forced to honor Christian holidays in all public spaces to the exclusion of every other religion, that means Christians are being persecuted.
When society changes in ways that undermine your position — if you hear people speaking a language other than yours, or people challenge ideas you took for granted, or someone tells you that the way you talk about other people is harmful — it can be alienating and distressing.
At the same time, conservatives have most of the political power in America today, power they possess despite the fact that they are in the minority. In two of the last five presidential elections their nominee has won despite getting fewer votes than the Democrat, and they control the Senate despite Democratic senators winning many more votes and representing many more people. The system is built to give outsize weight to them and the places they live.
That fact does not assuage Republicans’ feelings of resentment over their lack of cultural dominance. And just as they equate any exercise of authority by a duly elected Democrat with “tyranny,” they’ve convinced themselves that being criticized for something they do or say is the same thing as being censored and canceled.
This is all right out of the rhetoric of Fox News and conservative talk radio, where tales of oppressed conservatives are a part of every day’s menu, meant to keep the audience enraged and fearful.
To be clear, I’m not saying that there aren’t, shall we say, excesses of censoriousness in our contemporary debates. But for a group of people constantly wailing that they’ve been silenced, Republicans are awfully loud.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 19:16:47 GMT
Thanks to trump a characteristic that I think every person should have if they want to be president is the ability to know right from wrong.
Max Boot - Washington Post..
“Why Trump so often says the quiet part out loud”
”Politics at its highest level has always been a realm of healthy egos — and of personal ambitions cloaked as public needs. Yet even the most driven politicians usually recognize the need to serve — or at least appear to serve — some cause greater than their own self-interest. There are few profiles in courage, but even politicians who act out of sheer expediency are usually troubled by occasional pangs of guilt.
President Trump is therefore a unique, or at least very unusual, specimen of homo politicus. He shows no sign of being aware of any interest that he should serve other than his own. Doing the right thing, for him, is simply doing whatever he thinks will benefit him the most. As Trump’s sister Maryanne Trump Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by her niece, Mary L. Trump, “He has no principles. … Donald is out for Donald, period.” The president’s picture should appear in the dictionary under the word “solipsism”; he is the Platonic ideal of the type.
Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote in his memoir: “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations.” As if to prove Bolton’s point, Trump last week said: “We moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: The evangelicals are more excited about that than Jewish people.”
Of course, Trump didn’t actually move the capital of Israel, but he did move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. That was a decision with serious repercussions for U.S. policy. But Trump just confessed that he did not make this move — arguably justified — on policy grounds. He did it, just as his critics suspected, to win evangelical Christian votes. He’s apparently only sorry it doesn’t seem to have won him many Jewish votes.
The same self-centered impulse was evident last week when Trump was asked about QAnon. This is an insane conspiracy theory holding that Trump’s opponents are Satan-worshiping pedophiles. The FBI has warned that QAnon adherents may become a domestic terrorist threat. A normal politician would “dismiss it out of hand”; that’s what Vice President Pence said about QAnon on Friday. Not Trump. Asked about QAnon, he said: “I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate. I heard these are people that love our country.” It would never occur to Trump to denounce any of his fans, no matter how nutty or dangerous, as long as they like him.
The flip side is that it doesn’t matter how much good someone does; if that person happens to disrespect Trump, that’s the only thing that matters to him. The late John McCain was one of our greatest war heroes, but, because he disagreed with Trump on some issues, the president continues to trash him. “McCain was a lousy candidate with lots of bad policy,” Trump tweeted on Thursday. Likewise, the late representative John Lewis was one of our greatest civil rights heroes, but when asked about his legacy, the only thing that Trump noted is that “he chose not to come to my inauguration.”
If there are limits to what Trump will do in service to his own ego, we have not discovered them. He will, as the Senate Intelligence Committee just confirmed, eagerly accept election help from Russia. He will try to blackmail Ukraine into helping him politically. He will urge a boycott of Goodyear — a company that employees 63,000 Americans — because a slide show counseled its employees not to sport “MAGA attire” at work. He will subject millions of Americans to delayed mail deliveries — resulting in dead chicks and missing checks — to prevent anti-Trump voters from casting ballots by mail. He will even push — according to the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security — for the federal government to stop giving emergency aid to help California battle wildfires because that state did not support him.
What makes Trump truly extraordinary is not just that he acts so unethically. It is that he is so open about it, because he can’t conceive there would be anything wrong with anything he does to help himself.
Thus he admitted that he is starving the Postal Service of funds because “that means they can’t have universal mail-in voting.” He will keep insisting until the day he dies that his phone call with Ukraine’s president was “perfect” because what’s wrong with using military aid to promote his own campaign? And of course he calls accusations of collusion between his campaign and Russia a “hoax” — he clearly doesn’t see anything scandalous about inviting foreign election interference on his behalf. He so often says the quiet part out loud, because he doesn’t know that what he’s saying is wrong.
That makes him a uniquely dangerous president: a man with no principles — save the imperative of self-promotion — but with the awesome power of the federal government at his command.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 26, 2020 19:56:59 GMT
Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote in his memoir: “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations.” As if to prove Bolton’s point, Trump last week said: “We moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: The evangelicals are more excited about that than Jewish people.” Bolton in not an honorable man! He has sold the US out!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 20:33:06 GMT
ABC News..
“JUST IN: The FBI says it has to date not seen a "coordinated national voter fraud effort during a major election." The announcement contradicts the president's warnings.”
I wonder how long before someone pressures the FBI to change this to include “proof of fraud associated with mail-in ballots”?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 27, 2020 0:26:27 GMT
When will these old white men learn that they not a gift from heaven!!! Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson (R) has resigned from his post after allegedly sending 558 "uncomfortable" text messages to a younger female colleague earlier this year. In his letter of resignation to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) obtained by The Hill, Clarkson said that it was an honor to serve the state, noting that he was "deeply moved" when the governor appointed him. "I regret that my actions and errors in judgment in interacting with a state employee have become a distraction to the good work and good people working in the state’s and your service," he wrote. Records obtained by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica show Clarkson sending the female employee hundreds of text messages at all hours during a 27-day span, including late at night, usually punctuated with suggestive emojis such as a kiss face. ** thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/513628-alaska-ag-resigns-after-sending-538-messages-to-junior-employee
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 27, 2020 0:33:49 GMT
New video! RVAT! Another one joining DHS Miles Taylor Elizabeth Neumann – the former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump's DHS – says that the U.S. is "less safe today" because of Trump's actions.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 0:52:38 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”.@maddow on how @msnbc is covering the RNC: "We will interject when we feel like there's something that's important and deliberate and very wrong that should be corrected just so that we feel responsible about our broadcast."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 1:08:09 GMT
I don’t remember Obama’s press secretary giving a speech at the DNC Convention.
Did they?
I ask because trump’s ps is giving a speech now
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 27, 2020 3:19:05 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Aug 27, 2020 3:29:19 GMT
If true, Biden can agree with the stipulation that they also test for Adderall!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 28, 2020 1:06:16 GMT
And why WAS Eric at the Laura FEMA meeting?!?!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 28, 2020 1:16:03 GMT
Good talented film makers!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 28, 2020 1:33:43 GMT
Whole lot of wrong here!! White House says it is creating 'very large' dossier on Washington Post journalist and othersBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Updated 4:45 PM ET, Thu August 27, 2020 New York (CNN Business)The White House said in a story published Thursday that it was compiling a "very large" dossier on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter and others who it said are a "disgrace to journalism and the American people."The astonishing revelation about the White House's efforts to discredit reporter David Fahrenthold came after The Post requested comment for a Thursday story he wrote with two colleagues. The story, co-bylined by reporters Josh Dawsey and Joshua Partlow, detailed how President Trump's company "charged the U.S. government more than $900,000" for hotel rooms fees among other services at Mar-a-Lago. In a statement, White House spokesperson Judd Deere accused The Washington Post of "blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization" and demanded "it must stop.""Please be advised that we are building up a very large 'dossier' on the many false David Fahrenthold and others stories as they are a disgrace to journalism and the American people," Deere said. When asked by CNN Business for further information about the dossier, Deere declined to comment. Neither White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany nor White House director of communications Alyssa Farah responded to additional emails seeking comment. Fahrenthold deferred a request for comment to a spokesperson for The Post who declined. Fahrenthold, however, wrote on Twitter that if anyone knows "anything about a dossier the White House has supposedly compiled" on him, to let him know or provide him a copy. Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for "casting doubt" on Trump's "generosity toward charities" in his coverage. He has also reported on Trump's businesses. Last summer, The New York Times reported that allies of the White House had compiled dossiers on hundreds of people who work for top news organizations.The White House's boasting of building a dossier on Fahrenthold and other journalists is jarring, but perhaps not surprising from an administration that has branded the press as "the enemy of the people." Trump and his allies have for years aimed to discredit journalists and news organizations, often through the use of lies and dishonest rhetoric. ** www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/media/white-house-dossier-journalists/index.html
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 28, 2020 1:38:53 GMT
Just thought of something? dis-barr-him has been quiet! What's he up to? Coaching Durham? Or rewriting Durham's report as he did Mueller's?
Oh crap, Rudy is talking!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 2:00:56 GMT
Ahhh, the old “enemies list” rears it’s ugly head again. I feel like we’re reliving 1973-74 all over again. Cover up, Saturday night massacre, revelation of the enemies list and, finally, the tapes. Who boy what a ride that was! Except back then both parties were disgusted enough to impeach. And as each article of impeachment passed he (Nixon) realized he would be convicted in the Senate as well. Resignation.
Not with this GOP and T would never resign. We have to vote in massive numbers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 2:19:25 GMT
White House says it is creating 'very large' dossier on Washington Post journalist and others Banana Republic level-up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 2:54:58 GMT
Daniel Dale...
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This guy is one of the CNN Fact Checker on trump. I think he’s getting a little tired of all the repeated lies trump tells.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 2:58:16 GMT
Daniel Dale...
”Trump says he has "very good information" that China wants Biden to win because Biden cheers for China.
The US intel community said China prefers Biden because it sees Trump as "unpredictable."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 2:59:28 GMT
Paul Waldman...
”Looks like Trump was supposed to read "personal protective equipment" but he just said "personal..." and then gave up and moved on.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 3:00:21 GMT
Paul Waldman...
”Again with "plahzmah" why does he say it like that”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 3:07:06 GMT
Aaron Rupar....
”"Thanks to advancements, we have pioneered the fatality rate."
He did say that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 3:08:35 GMT
Daniel Dale...
”The president is doing a lot of lying.”
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Yamiche Alcindor....
”President Trump, standing before hundreds of people who are not practicing social distancing and who mostly aren't wearing masks: "We are focusing on the science, the facts and the data."
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