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Post by aj2hall on Mar 12, 2024 13:45:31 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 12, 2024 15:51:44 GMT
Oh crap!! How does this happen ? Infomercial for businesses by a governor from a different state, because she had her teeth fixed?The tweet left onlookers bemused. Just when you think you've seen it all in politics, the South Dakota governor goes and films an infomercial for a Texas dentist that gave her fake teeth," wrote X user Jennifer Bendery. Robert J. Salvador wrote, "Im still trying to figure out if I’m missing something bc there is no way this is real life and a sitting Governor and potential VP pick just posted this." And user Peter Henlein wrote, "Ok. So we have sitting governors just doing infomercials for commercial businesses now. This is inappropriate and incredibly off-putting." www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-texas/ |
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Post by dawnnikol on Mar 12, 2024 16:16:36 GMT
I'm not going to that other thread, but isn't it interesting that Hur has now been found lying?
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 16:36:26 GMT
A sampling of how the hearing with Hur went. Once again the Democrats rose to the occasion and showed how petty and revengeful the House Republicans are.
Acyn….
”Hur: What you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons.
Schiff: No I suggest you not shape your report for political reasons. Which is what you did.”
Biden-Harris HQ…
”GOP Rep. Bishop is upset that the full interview transcript was released, which shows Republican counsel Robert Hur praising President Biden’s “photographic” memory and how “well” he remembered things during their interview”
Acyn….
”Spartz: Mr. Raskin mentioned about us not remembering communism. I have a very good recollection what it is… Unfortunately, they have been emboldened by President Obama, now by President Biden.”.
Acyn…
”Lieu: Did you find that President Biden set up a shell company and paid $130,000 in hush money to an adult porn star?
Hur: No.”
Acyn…
”Rep. Lofgren: President Biden allowed your team to review all of the notebooks you found. That's in stark contrast to Trump's who obstructed and diverted all the investigations. After being given multiple chances to return classified documents, Trump did the opposite”
Aaron Rupar…
”Rep. Lofgren: President Biden allowed your team to review all of the notebooks you found. That's in stark contrast to Trump's who obstructed and diverted all the investigations. After being given multiple chances to return classified“
documents, Trump did the opposite”
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”Lieu: "Each of these activities I laid out describe what Donald Trump did ... that is why Donald Trump has been indicted in four criminal cases."
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 16:38:33 GMT
Missed one. Another person where the facts don’t matter…
The Recount…
”Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) uses her questioning time at Robert Hur's testimony to argue the “double standard” on DoJ charging Trump but not Biden resembles the Soviet Union:
“Unfortunately our government, in Department of Justice, really now resembles a tyrannical government.”
Aaron Rupar…
”GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany to Hur: "I want to thank you for the work you did as far as you could, but unfortunately you are part of the praetorian guard that guards that swamp out here in Washington DC, protecting the elites." 😆”
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 16:44:52 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 17:13:13 GMT
Whatever happened to integrity? Yashar Ali…. “Special Counsel Hur told President Biden that he had a “photographic understanding and recall of the house.” But he never mentioned that in his report which cast doubt on Biden’s ability to remember major events in his life.” x.com/yashar/status/1767589484428959991?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw& Aaron Rupar… ”Swalwell points out that Hur left out of his report details from his interview with Biden that undercut his claims about Biden not having a good memory” ”Swalwell put together his own supercut of Trump shorting out time after time after time -- and it's perhaps even more brutal than Nadler's 😬” x.com/atrupar/status/1767583353564209426?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwA couple of responses… “Talk about selectively picking out a piece of this hearing to post about. Sheesh..” “It was obviously a political hit piece. A competent prosecutor would never have included it in a report.” |
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 17:15:53 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 17:23:49 GMT
Kyle Griffin….
”Republican Scott Fitzgerald reads the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word 'senile' and asks Robert Hur if his report found that Biden was senile.
Hur says "that conclusion did not appear in my report."
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 12, 2024 17:45:45 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 12, 2024 21:01:08 GMT
'Chuck' a lifetime Republican from Kansas states he will not vote for TFG because he caused the insurrection. Instead he will vote for Biden
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Post by uksue on Mar 12, 2024 21:36:07 GMT
I just saw that Ken Buck is leaving early- next week. What effect will that have on the slim majority? I agreed with a lot of what he said in his interview except for the praise he heaped on Hur who he called 'very credible'.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 0:12:37 GMT
2 Developments in aid for Ukraine and Israel
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 0:19:05 GMT
I just saw that Ken Buck is leaving early- next week. What effect will that have on the slim majority? I agreed with a lot of what he said in his interview except for the praise he heaped on Hur who he called 'very credible'. Yes, Republican majority will narrow to 2, 218 to 213. They will only have a cushion of 2 votes. There will be a special election to replace him in June. Lauren Boebert is running in the primary for that seat. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/12/ken-buck-leaving-congress/Buck’s resignation will create a vacancy in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, which he has represented since 2015. The district covers much of the eastern half of the state and favors Republicans.
Buck’s departure will mean there are four vacant seats in the House for at least a few weeks.
On April 30, New York will hold a special election to replace former representative Brian Higgins (D), who resigned his Buffalo-area seat in February. On May 21, California will hold a special election to replace former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R). On June 11, Ohio will hold a special election to replace former representative Bill Johnson (R). |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 0:30:52 GMT
Democrats taking back control of the House before the election would be the greatest gift ever. But, I'm not sure if it's realistic. Even if Democrats win all 4 special election, I think they would only have 217 to the Republicans' 218. But, if Boebert resigns from her 3rd district seat, maybe. Seems like a long shot, though.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 0:55:03 GMT
Seems too good to be true, but there is a possibility Boebert could resign from 3rd district, lose the special election, then lose in November.
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Post by samantha25 on Mar 13, 2024 1:18:10 GMT
Seems too good to be true, but there is a possibility Boebert could resign from 3rd district, lose the special election, then lose in November. I thought she wasn't looking too good in the first primary debate to get close to winning CO-4, so she could not win either. I like it! |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 1:49:52 GMT
Credit to the Democrats today. They made Hur and the Republicans look bad. Yesterday when Hur resigned, it looked suspicious and I was worried today would not go well. Instead, I think Hur's resignation just reinforces his partisanship. The Democrats have Hur on record talking about Trump's obstruction, too.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 13, 2024 1:58:15 GMT
This could be encouraging, too
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 14, 2024 0:37:58 GMT
Quick note: Boebert says she will not enter the special election. Seems she doesn't have much confidence in her wished for constituents... In a live "special announcement" on Wednesday, Boebert explained why she would not be running in the special election to temporarily fill Buck's seat after he declared yesterday that his previously announced retirement would start this month. *** Boebert worried that it would "confuse" voters to hold a special election and a primary on the same day.www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-ken-buck/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 17, 2024 4:34:28 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 17, 2024 4:35:40 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 17, 2024 22:21:03 GMT
Conservatives are not poopooing the 'bloodbath' comment!! After Trump made the comments regarding the potential "bloodbath," the internet struck quickly at the ex-president. But soon after came those on the right labeling it a hoax. *** But some conservatives aren't interested in ignoring the violent rhetoric. Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein, a Ron DeSantis supporter, explained on social media that Trump's comments are already being distorted by his supporters. "See...Trump didn't say 'It's going to be a bloodbath for the auto industry' and then the media cut off the words 'auto industry,'" he explained Sunday in reference to a post with a manufactured Trump quote. "He said: 'Now If don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole...That's going to be the least of it, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole country.' It's fine to say Trump was talking about auto industry, but don't change his quotes to make them more for favorable." Conservative attorney George Conway also chimed in on the issue. "There’s some commentary on here saying we should disregard Trump’s 'bloodbath' remarks last night because he was talking about potential harms to the auto industry. That is misguided," Conway said. "Trump may well have been referring to a 'bloodbath' in that industry. He’s sufficiently incoherent that, as is so often the case with him, it’s hard to tell one way or the other what exactly he’s talking about at any given moment. I’m willing to assume for the sake of argument that he was referring to cars. And it makes no difference to his malicious intent or to the danger he and his rhetoric poses." "What matters," Conway added, "is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil." He continued: "It’s a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues. He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding. That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition." So, for Conway, "it doesn’t matter what he’s specifically referring to at the moment. He could be talking about trans people in public bathrooms or the state of the auto industry or the border—it doesn’t matter." www.rawstory.com/trump-bloodbath-defense-debunked-conservatives/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 17, 2024 22:30:03 GMT
Why are McConnell, Cornyn, and Tillis writing letters to chief judges telling them to disregard this new rule from the Judicial Conference?? Think Mifepristone, and many other cases ... Earlier this week, CNN reported that the Judicial Conference of the United States announced a new rule that would that would shut down "judge shopping" — a tactic conservative attorneys general and conservative litigants have used to file challenges against liberal policies and laws. The new policy requires federal district courts to "randomly assign a judge to a lawsuit if the suit aims to block any federal or state law, executive order or regulation," the Hill reports. "I’m really proud that we did this," 6th Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton said in response to the announcement. However, according to the Associated Press, two days later, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) condemned the move "on the Senate floor and joined with two other GOP senators to send letters to a dozen chief judges around the country suggesting they" ignore it. In a Sunday, March 17 op-ed published by MSNBC, University of Texas School of Law professor Steve Vladeck points out the hypocrisy in not only McConnell's — but US Senator John Cornyn's (R-TX) and Thom Tillis' (R-NC) — opposition to the rule, too. "So why are these three Republican senators so upset by the proposed reform?" Vladeck asks. "The answer is obvious: because it will make it harder to guarantee that specific judges will hear specific lawsuits — whether individual Republican appointees hearing challenges to Democratic policies, or vice versa."Vladeck writes: Plaintiffs have increasingly taken advantage of these 'single-judge' divisions to steer nationwide federal policy challenges to specific, ideologically sympathetic judges. For example, the nationwide challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone (one of two drugs used in the most common and safest abortion procedure) was filed in Amarillo, Texas — not a courthouse with any specific connection to mifepristone, but one in which it had a 100% chance of being assigned to a certain Trump-appointed district judge, former anti-abortion advocate Matthew Kacsmaryk. Kacsmaryk remarkably, if predictably, ruled against the FDA’s approval of the drug — an approval that occurred 23 years ago. www.rawstory.com/republicans-upset-judicial-rule/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 18, 2024 0:53:32 GMT
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