Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 15

Jay Kuo

”Trump’s lawyers have responded to Jack Smith’s request for a gag order, and hoo boy. They sound mad. Or at least they’re trying to sound as mad as they can for their client. But is there any substance to their argument? My take in today’s piece.”

“Gag Me With An Order”. link

Just another day in America living the American dream…

ABC News…

”Two 17-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy have been arrested after a South Carolina shooting that killed three teens and injured a fourth.”


From the article..

”The Columbia, South Carolina, community is reeling in the wake of a shooting allegedly carried out by three teenagers that killed three teens and injured a fourth.

Two 17-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy have been arrested for three counts of murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and possession of handgun under the age of 18, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday.

Sunday afternoon's shooting apparently stemmed from a previous dispute. Lott called it a fight "over something stupid" from a couple years ago.”

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So this is why he’s here.  Looks like he’s staying at the Fairmont on top of Nob Hill.  When President Obama stayed in SF he stayed at a hotel on Mission Street that was close enough to the Financial District and the approach to the Bay Bridge it mucked up the afternoon commute traffic.

Janelle Wang..

“Air Force One just touched down at Moffett Field.
President Biden attending fundraiser tonight at the Atherton home of billionaire couple Mark Heising and Liz Simons. He will spend the night in SF and attend several more events tomorrow.” 

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If she had become president I think we would be better off today.  There wouldn’t be majority in the Supreme Court busy taking away our rights  and I’m pretty sure she would of handled the pandemic better than trump and maybe some who died from COVID would be alive today.

From ABC News


“Hillary Clinton swipes at Trump, Putin during portrait unveiling”

“At an event Tuesday highlighting her contributions to American diplomacy as the 67th secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made barbed remarks about her political rivals, issuing thinly veiled criticisms of her one-time presidential opponent Donald Trump and taking direct aim at Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

After being introduced by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, she thanked him for the contributions he had made so far, remarking that at one point it would have been nearly unthinkable for the United States and its allies to remain united behind Ukraine because of what she described as damage done during the Trump administration -- without ever calling out the former president by name.

"We had burned so bridges with our allies and our friends, so reinstating a foreign policy that plays to the best of American values, that puts our interests and security front and center but does it in a way that actually brings people to us, not pushes them away -- would have been thought to be extremely difficult, and indeed it was," she said at the State Department ceremony. "But it was accomplished."

Before the curtain was dropped from her portrait, which depicts the former first lady standing in front of an American flag, Clinton commented that it had been a long time since she had seen the painting "between Covid, between not wanting to finish it during the last administration," drawing laughter from the crowd of State Department employees and other guests.

Clinton also took time to thank the current and former Foreign Service officers and civil servants in the room for their contributions, calling their often-unsung work "vital to our nation's security" and enumerating their accomplishments during her time in office and after.

We continued to build on our human rights commitments, women's rights, gay rights, the rights of all people to have a chance to live up to their own God-given potential. And we have seen the continuation of a lot of the values and priorities that we worked on into the Biden administration, in looking across the globe, defending democracy in Ukraine, expanding NATO," she said.

Just as an aside: Too bad, Vladimir. You brought it on yourself," Clinton quipped, referencing Putin's invasion of Ukraine, where fighting has reached a stalemate more than a year into the war despite bullish early predictions about Russia's chances of success.

In his remarks introducing Clinton, Blinken extolled her trailblazing stances and said he admired her tough approach to Russia.

"A lot of what's now recognized as universal, what's commonly accepted, Secretary Clinton helped make it that way. She led with America's values and interests, calling out Putin for who he really is from the start," he said.

"Secretary Clinton has often said that America's leadership in the world is like a relay race. Presidents, secretaries, entire generations are handed the baton and asked to run a leg of the race and then hand it off as best we can," Blinken added. "Secretary Clinton, your leg of the race helped revitalize the power and the purpose of American diplomacy. It reminded the world of who America is, what we stand for, and helped us achieve our mission."

Clinton was accompanied on the stage by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Blinken's wife, Evan Ryan.

In his speech, Blinken thanked Clinton for indirectly introducing him to Ryan when they both worked at the White House during her time as first lady.

"I spent an inordinate amount of time in the first lady's office on the other end of the old executive office building and also in the East Wing. And that was, in fairness, all because a certain member of her staff," he said, referencing Ryan. "Of all the things I have gratitude for the Clintons for, number one is bringing my wife Evan into my life."

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How do these guys get elected?  Wasn’t he a football coach, is that why he was elected?

No Lie with Brian Taylor Cohen…

”Tommy Tuberville: “Our military is not an equal opportunity employer. Don’t give me this stuff about equal opportunity.”

She has a work ethic?  Seriously?

Acyn…

“Boebert: I lived under government dependency and I‘m thankful that I have broke free of that cycle given my life experiences and developing work ethic”

OMG!  You need to listen to this video.  This idiot is claiming that in 2017 Joe Biden used his political clout to help Hunter.  What was Joe Biden doing in 2017 where he would have political clout.

When the NBC reporter asked him about that the fool said you won’t believe us anyway.

Tell me again why anyone votes for these guys?

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen..

“Oh my God this is incredible.”

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A miscellaneous response…

”Attn: Journalism finally bites back! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻”

This woman is dumber than dirt.

Acyn..

“Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump would’ve never left the Afghan people to be controlled by the Taliban”

Black Knight…

”Here's Mike Pompeo agreeing to surrender Afghanistan to the taliban in 2020. Trump is literally the one person solely responsible for this.”


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In case you forgot  it was trump who negotiated with and made a deal with a terrorist group and cutting the legally elected government out of any negotiations.

A random response…

Just Jill..

”@repmtg is a terrible liar and con. She thinks we have a short memory of what went down with Trump’s transition team giving Afghanistan to the Taliban. Remember he wanted the meeting at Camp David? That was treasonous right there…”


A United States President wanting to impress a terrorist group.  Unbelievable.