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Post by nursema on Jun 14, 2023 20:58:21 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2023 21:08:46 GMT
I saw that and all I have to say is the Republicans certainly know how to waste taxpayer money don’t they. I mean seriously we are paying these guys $174,000 a year plus expenses so they can vote on stuff like this?? |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2023 21:15:49 GMT
Say what?? U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has spent years promoting countless conspiracy theories on topics ranging from COVID-19 to climate change, apparently isn’t sold on House Republicans’ claim that when President Joe Biden was a vice president, he took a $5 million bribe and there are taxes to prove it.How far out there is Sen. Johnson? "All told, when it comes to spewing dangerous drivel, Mr. Johnson has displayed a commitment and creativity rarely seen outside of QAnon gatherings or Trump family dinners,” The New York Times’ Michelle Cottle wrote in an opinion piece last year. So it’s stunning that Sen. Johnson is now apparently walking back the unsubstantiated claims exploding on the right that President Biden took a $5 million bribe when he was President Barack Obama’s Vice President. The latest twist of “evidence,” according to Republicans, is that there are now “tapes” allegedly proving the Biden bribe conspiracy theory.
But, in a Tuesday interview with a local Wisconsin right-wing talk radio show host, Johnson – whose outrageously wild claims in the past have crowned him the “Senate’s leading conspiracy theorist” a “bagman for Qanon,” and “Putin’s favorite Senator” – said the allegations he and other Republicans have been spreading now must be taken with a grain of salt.
“We don’t even know” if the tapes “exist,” Johnson said. “It’s a claim, it’s an allegation. We don’t know whether they really exist or not.”
Another GOP Senator who has been spreading the bribery conspiracy theory is Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate who began serving in public elected office in 1959.
Grassley has been a consistent partner with House Republican Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer on the Biden bribery conspiracy theory, despite having no official Senate function or role that would allow him to pursue an investigation.
Chairman Comer, who has admitted his purpose as that powerful committee’s chief is to attack Biden and help Trump get elected, has repeatedly suggested or implied the FBI document, officially called an FD-1023, is proof (it is not).
“The FBI’s 6/30/20 FD-1023 record stands on its own and contains information from a trusted confidential human source who had conversations with the foreign national who claimed to have bribed Biden,” Comer’s Oversight Committee tweeted over the weekend.
Last month Comer’s Oversight Committee posted a nearly ten-minute video of a press conference with him making various wild allegations about Biden and the Biden family.
Newsweek on Tuesday notes that “The Washington Post reported last week that the allegations contained in the FD-1023 document being sought by Republican lawmakers was reviewed by the FBI under former Attorney General William Barr, only for the agency to conclude the allegations were found not to be supported by facts. The investigation was later dropped, a fact confirmed by several outlets.”
Stunningly, it’s not only Senator Johnson, but Chairman Comer himself on Tuesday, under pressure by a Newsmax host pressing him to either say the tapes are legitimate or say when he will be able to confirm their legitimacy, confessed on live TV: “We don’t know if they’re legit or not.”
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Post by Gem Girl on Jun 14, 2023 21:20:40 GMT
I doubt he was worried, but I'm glad it went nowhere. Since he's likely one of their preferred targets, maybe this will take them off that particular tack. |
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nursema
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Post by nursema on Jun 14, 2023 21:26:28 GMT
I’d really like to know who the 20 Republicans were who helped Dems get rid of it.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2023 21:38:53 GMT
Hopefully some of them are begining to realize their disaster.
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 14, 2023 22:40:03 GMT
I’d really like to know who the 20 Republicans were who helped Dems get rid of it. Maybe they're the ones from swing districts? Except for Massie, not sure why he voted no thehill.com/homenews/house/4050563-these-20-house-republicans-voted-to-block-resolution-to-censure-adam-schiff/Reps. Kelly Armstrong (N.D.), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Ore.), Juan Ciscomani (Ariz.), Tom Cole (Okla.), Warren Davidson (Ohio), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Kay Granger (Texas), Garret Graves (La.), Thomas Kean Jr. (N.J.), Kevin Kiley (Calif.), Young Kim (Calif.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Tom McClintock (Calif.), Mark Molinaro (N.Y.), Jay Obernolte (Calif.), Mike Simpson (Ind.), Mike Turner (Ohio), David Valadao (Calif.) and Steve Womack (Ark.). eta - Not sure I follow Massie's logic www.axios.com/2023/06/14/adam-schiff-censure-house-voteWhat they’re saying: Massie compared the $16 million fine to efforts by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during the last Congress to enforce the chamber’s mask mandate.
“I’m still litigating a federal lawsuit against Pelosi over a salary reduction she imposed on me for my refusal to wear a mask,” he tweeted. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2023 22:46:09 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 15, 2023 0:12:47 GMT
Boring Bidens?? No, just busy!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 15, 2023 19:48:29 GMT
Not only did gov Abbott send 42 immigrants on a 23 hours bus ride to Los Angeles, he sent them with no water or food and there infants and babies on the bus.
It has also been reported that at least one of the adults has a court date in New York. It is unknown how many traveled voluntarily.
It is true... The GOP wants immigrants as well many of us dead!!
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 15, 2023 20:26:49 GMT
What the Republicans don’t want you to know….
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 15, 2023 23:36:14 GMT
Surely Ted Cruz has gone around the bend...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 15, 2023 23:42:07 GMT
The 'fake whistleblower' against the Bidens is dead per Rudy.. Remember Johnson and others are now saying they are not even sure really are tapes.. So, the man who had the "tapes" of Biden purportedly died in 2011, three years before Biden first went to Ukraine and three years before Hunter Biden was put on the board of Burisma. The way Guiliani appears to explain it, the Burisma co-founder left those tapes to his wife when he died. But he doesn't appear to know her name. She just died of mysterious circumstances, which appear to be going unreported everywhere else.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 0:00:42 GMT
Just a little unrelated blurb in an article about Cruz and his calling the Uganda law to kill the gay and trans a horrific law.. The Taylor guy wants us to go back words.. If so more then a few GOP persons would be in big trouble... Our early settlers call for the death penalty for adultery. GOP, be careful what you wish for!! Hate group urges Ted Cruz to support Uganda’s 'Kill the Gays' law like in 'the American colonies'David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement June 15, 2023, 6:40 PM ET .....Likewise, the very lenient Quakers in Pennsylvania preferred to punish sodomy with whipping, forfeiture of one-third of one’s property, and six months hard labor for a first offense. I would thus refer Senator Cruz to hashtag ‘American founding’ and hashtag ‘divine law and natural law.’” Taylor did not mention that in the American colonies the death penalty was also imposed for crimes including witchcraft and adultery.www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-2661383630/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 5:35:44 GMT
Here they are all together..
No no no, we have no tapes..
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 6:14:25 GMT
E Jean Carroll defamation case v TFG set for January 2024
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 13:32:32 GMT
Pennsylvania Mastriano election fraud.. other GOP filed law suit, exposed incriminating emails. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, Laughlin filed a lawsuit last year against the Erie Reader alleging that he had been defamed in an opinion column published by the newspaper. A series of damning emails about the 2020 election were exposed as a result of a lawsuit filed against a local newspaper by Pennsylvania State Sen. Dan Laughlin. As the lawsuit opened up Laughlin to discovery -- and wound up churning up several emails related to former President Donald Trump's pressure campaign to get Pennsylvania Republicans to overturn President Joe Biden's win in their state. Among the most notable communications was between Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano and then-One America News anchor Christina Bobb, who has since become part of Trump's legal team. Mastriano, a staunch Trump ally who last year failed to win his race to become Pennsylvania's governor despite Trump's support, told Bobb that he was worried about Trump's proposals to have state legislatures throw out certified election results, as other Republicans had told him such a scheme would be "illegal." The emails reveal that Trump personally called Mastriano to push him on the legality of the scheme and gave him materials that falsely accused Dominion Voting Systems of rigging the election for Biden. Other emails show that Laughlin was not happy about some of the actions that fellow Republicans were taking to get Trump back into the White House, including an attempt by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) to get every single mail-in ballot thrown out. “We’re not saying a word on this crap,” Laughlin wrote in December of 2020. “Mike Kelly is hurting our party right now.” www.rawstory.com/trump-pennsylvania-2020-election/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 14:22:51 GMT
A question. The GOP is always going after and blaming Soros for doing all kinds things. We do the Democrats ignore, the Koch Bros, Theil, Greene(hobby lobby), the Home depot guy, Public Heiress , and more recently Crow?? In a new analysis, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) details how Crow "personally took park(sic) in the creation" of the dark money system that flourishes in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruling.That landmark decision—in which Thomas sided with the 5-4 majority—affirmed that the First Amendment's free speech clause prohibits limits on independent expenditures on political campaigns by corporations, labor unions, nonprofit groups, and others.*** More recently, Crow gave $2.5 million to the American Crossroads super PAC and $1.5 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund. Both groups are dedicated to electing Republican political candidates. Crow—who has denied any wrongdoing regarding his relationship with Thomas, as has the justice—has been coy about his dark money contributions. "I disclose what I'm required by law to disclose," he toldThe New York Times in 2011, "and I don't disclose what I'm not required to disclose." www.rawstory.com/harlan-crow-dark-money/ |
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Post by hop2 on Jun 16, 2023 14:31:57 GMT
A question. The GOP is always going after and blaming Soros for doing all kinds things. We do the Democrats ignore, the Koch Bros, Theil, Greene(hobby lobby), the Home depot guy, Public Heiress , and more recently Crow?? In a new analysis, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) details how Crow "personally took park(sic) in the creation" of the dark money system that flourishes in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruling.That landmark decision—in which Thomas sided with the 5-4 majority—affirmed that the First Amendment's free speech clause prohibits limits on independent expenditures on political campaigns by corporations, labor unions, nonprofit groups, and others.*** More recently, Crow gave $2.5 million to the American Crossroads super PAC and $1.5 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund. Both groups are dedicated to electing Republican political candidates. Crow—who has denied any wrongdoing regarding his relationship with Thomas, as has the justice—has been coy about his dark money contributions. "I disclose what I'm required by law to disclose," he toldThe New York Times in 2011, "and I don't disclose what I'm not required to disclose." www.rawstory.com/harlan-crow-dark-money/ And he is one of the larger donors to ‘No Label’ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 14:37:16 GMT
"And he is one of the larger donors to ‘No Label’"Thanks hop2
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 16, 2023 15:27:32 GMT
What this latest rant shows, at least to me, is how insecure he is and how he is trying to act like a tough guy when he is anything but.
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 16, 2023 15:28:45 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 22:09:56 GMT
Oh puleese.... DeSantis would like to hang out with Jesus? Like he has anything in common with Jesus? I Don't think so!!!! Not worth posting more. The link is there for you to look.. Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis says he would have loved to hang out with Jesus and his disciples, and thinks America needs more God. *** Former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, a former DeSantis administration official, at the time weighed in, writing: “Desantis gets sexual and biblical on the campaign trail.” www.rawstory.com/desantis-jesus/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 16, 2023 23:53:29 GMT
DeSantis is planning on taking over the FBI directed and control it from the WH, on other words under political control. How's that feel? Although if he or one of the others is elected it might not matter any way.. Former FBI assistant director for counter-intelligence Frank Figliuzzi during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” with Nicole Wallace called the suggestion that federal law enforcement agencies answer directly to the executive branch -- as DeSantis’ plans call for -- a “scary, scary prospect.” *** Figliuzzi touted some of the FBI’s important accomplishments, noting that, just within the last year, the agency has arrested over 20,000 violent criminals and child predators, dismantled 400 violent gangs, and over the last five years has rescued some 8,000 child victims of sex trafficking. “If you want that to go away -- right, because Ron DeSantis is essentially saying there really wouldn't be an FBI as you know it -- there's proposals that he's mentioned to do away with the (FBI) director’s role, the role of the position of the director,” Figliuzzi said. “Think about what that means," he added. "It means that this idea that we have a neutral FBI, that the director serves for 10 years, straddles administrations so that he can't he or she cannot be removed for political whim, that would go away, and then essentially with no director, the FBI would work for the politically appointed attorney general of the United States, and so we would literally have a police agency that serves at the whim of a political appointee who works for Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump or you name the authoritarian figure.”Figliuzzi said a source told him that efforts to split the FBI into two agencies – one for domestic intelligence and security and the other serving as a law enforcement agency – “because the agency wears two hats” goes back to the Clinton administration. “Think about a domestic spy agency that answers to Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump,” Figliuzzi said. www.rawstory.com/desantis-fbi-overhaul/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 17, 2023 0:05:29 GMT
Peter Thiel .... Right-wing billionaire behind anti-abortion candidates now pouring money into worldwide fertility programs: report Matthew Chapman June 27,2023 Recharge Capital announced Thursday that Thiel is among the top funders of its $200 million women’s health investment vehicle focused on funding fertility care in foreign countries," reported Emily Shugerman. "According to Axios, the vehicle will focus on companies working in 'menstrual wellness,' 'women's disease prevention,' and 'international fertility medical tourism' — specifically in areas like Southeast Asia, a destination for women in countries where fertility treatment is heavily restricted." The Daily Beast suggested there may be more to his women's health push than meets the eye. "This is not the billionaire’s first foray into the world of women’s wellness. Last year, Thiel led a $3.2 million seed funding round in a women's health startup called 28, which tracks users’ menstrual cycles and gives them tips on diet and exercise—all while encouraging them not to use birth control. A quote on the company’s website from founder Brittany Martinez says that hormonal birth control 'promised freedom but tricked our bodies into dysfunction and pain' and encourages readers to 'begin anew,'" said the report. "Martinez and her husband, Gabriel Hugoboom, also run a magazine called Evie, a kind of anti-woke, right-wing alternative to traditional women’s magazines; it regularly publishes anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, and, of course, anti-birth-control content. A recent article bemoaned the number of women putting off getting married and having children in order to advance their careers." Thiel has also involved himself in other cultural projects. Last year he poured money into "The Right Stuff," a dating app to help conservatives find love. It launched in the later part of the year, to a rocky start and little interest from users. www.rawstory.com/peter-thiel-fertility/ |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 17, 2023 2:42:30 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 17, 2023 5:06:26 GMT
Wow.
The full tweet.
”OH THIS IS GOOD!!
A Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers lawsuit against a local newspaper just backfired spectacularly, exposing DAMNING 2020 election emails between top state officials and the Trump administration.
State Senator Dan Laughlins defamation lawsuit against "The Erie Reader" opened him up to discovery, and ended up revealing a series of emails pertaining to Trump's pressure campaign on Pennsylvania Republicans to illegally overthrow the election in 2020.
High level communications between far-right gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, and member of Trump legal team Christina Cobb, is part of the information that's been released.
In those emails, Mastriano expressed his concern that Trump's proposal to overturn the election was "illegal." The emails also detail how Trump PERSONALLY called Mastriano and pressured him to overturn the election, and even furnished false documents about Dominion Voting Systems "rigging the election against Biden" in an effort to do so.
“We’re not saying a word on this crap,” Laughlin said in an email after he got word of the plan, worried about his own parties attempt to unlawfully overturn the election.
It seems like the emails implicate Trump in yet another crime. Unreal.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 17, 2023 16:33:48 GMT
Another one that says Democrats should be shot. *** Retired Major League Baseball pitcher-turned-right-wing commentator Curt Schilling told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Friday that "somebody is going to have to pull a trigger" in retaliation to the criminal charges that were filed against former President Donald Trump by United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. *** ....That's it," Schilling carped. "They break the law and they do the things they need to do to ensure their agenda is driven forward and we're watching them gut our nation from the inside out. And I don't know where the rubber is going to meet the road because it's a true sacrifice. mean, you look at the guys, the young men that signed the Constitution and all the things that they sacrificed everything to come out from under a tyrannical government, and then eventually at some point, there was a man at Concord who decided he was going to pull the trigger. And I feel like we're getting back to a point where somebody is going to have to pull a trigger because everything we hold dear, everything this country was founded on is being just dragged through the mud and mocked and made fun of. This country was founded on Godly principles. No matter how offensive that is to the left, it's true." Watters was momentarily taken aback. "Well, I'm going to assume you mean 'pull the trigger' metaphorically?" he asked. "Absolutely, well, no," Schilling replied. "I mean, it doesn't matter if I say metaphorically because they're going to run with that quote no matter how I put it. I could have phrased it in any possible way saying, 'Stand up and fight and blah blah blah,' and I would be inciting a riot while Maxine Waters says, 'Get in their face and beat the hell out of them' publicly." Watters concurred. "No, I understand," Watters said. "I've said this to Jim Jordan. I've said this to these congressmen. They throw a subpoena around. They fire off a really bold letter, 'Gotcha.' Republicans need to go on the warpath. And that means that you got to use every tool necessary. They got to do what's being done to them because that's the only way this is gonna stop." Schilling then added that "the problem is that the left's winning because they're relying — the left is relying on our morals and ethics. They know we'll play by the rules. They know we'll follow the laws. And they're not playing. It's like we're fighting our own war.Watters responded by proclaiming that "we're too good for our own good. Yeah, I get it." www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-curt-schilling/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 17, 2023 22:15:03 GMT
Little bits and pieces about TFG. Trump once approved of allowing transgender contestants into Miss Universe: report Brandon Gage, Alternet June 16, 2023, 9:45 PM ET But as CNN revealed on Friday, Trump's past is peppered with instances where he expressed support for transgender participation in the Miss Universe pageant, which he co-owned from 1996-2015. "In since unreported radio and television interviews from spring and summer 2012, Trump celebrated the interest in a 23-year-old transgender woman named Jenna Talackova participating in a Canadian pageant," CNN explained. "He then later effusively praised the winner of the Miss USA pageant, Olivia Culpo, for saying that transgender women should be allowed to compete." www.rawstory.com/trump-approved-of-ending-miss-universes-ban-on-transgender-contestants-report-2661439179/*** The death of Peter Thiel’s romantic partner is being investigated as a suicide, The Intercept’s Ryan Grim reports. Jeff Thomas, a model and social media influencer who described himself as being “kept” in the relationship by the billionaire tech mogul who reportedly splurged on him, died March 8, according to the report. His death is being investigated by Miami police. Thomas said he didn’t share the political views of his partner, who has emerged as a key figure in right-wing politics in recent years. Thiel made major contributions to former President Donald Trump, and Republican Senate candidates J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona, among others.
In 2016, he donated $1.25 million split between several Trump-backed PACs, and spoke at the Republican convention that year.
“I was wondering why he was being affiliated with someone like Trump, and investing in him, if he’s gay,” Thomas said, noting that his father was a Republican and his Texas upbringing helped him understand people with different views.
Thomas nevertheless tried to influence his partner.
Join Raw Story Investigates. Go AD-Free. “I told him to stay out of politics,” Thomas said. “And he did, and so he didn’t support Trump in 2020. He stayed out of it. I was like, OK, great. So I did my part, I influenced him to stay out of it.”
Thomas acknowledged the relationship wasn’t without perks. Thiel purchased a $13 million Hollywood Hills home for his partner, according to the report.
“If I’m gonna give up the relationships I have and give up my dreams right now, during Covid, or dating other guys or pursuing people, then I’m going to get a $300,000 car and I’m going to get a $13 million home,” Thomas said.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 18, 2023 14:00:35 GMT
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