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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 8, 2022 21:00:41 GMT
Working with children here, we have to be fingerprinted.
As in trek over to the police station and get your prints taken!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 7, 2022 22:03:31 GMT
He doesn't even own the trailer which somehow makes it even more shady. And the hypocrisy that he might have personally committed voter fraud while at the same time pushing federal agencies to investigate baseless claims is absolutely unbelievable. And this is just what has been released and might be the just tip of the iceberg. What he turned over including a power point presentation on how to overthrow the government is pretty astonishing. What is he trying to hide when he stopped cooperating with the committee? www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/politics/mark-meadows-capitol-attack.htmlA Nov. 7 email that discussed an attempt to arrange with state legislators to appoint slates of pro-Trump electors instead of the Biden electors chosen by the voters. Mr. Meadows’s text messages also showed him asking members of Congress how to put Mr. Trump in contact with state legislators.
Emails from Mr. Meadows to Justice Department officials on Dec. 29, Dec. 30 and Jan. 1 in which he encouraged investigations of voter fraud, including allegations already rejected by federal investigators and courts.
The committee said it also had questions about why Mr. Meadows had used a personal cellphone, a Signal account and two personal Gmail accounts to conduct official business, and whether he had properly turned over all records from those accounts to the National Archives.
docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=114313But her emails!!!!! |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 7, 2022 21:31:37 GMT
Interesting... Fox evolves from siding with Russia and Putin to calling for World War III against themSarah K. Burris March 06, 2022 Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has turned full war-hawk on his Fox network show after many of their hosts were standing with Russia and Vladimir Putin just a week ago. *** It's an ironic question because Fox hosts like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity spent last week raging about the contributions that the U.S. was sending and the work President Joe Biden was doing behind the scenes. youtu.be/Z0kzoTsmBkMwww.rawstory.com/fox-network-trey-gowdy-russia/ETA: I forgot the flip flop crew!! There’s a shock. I understand (depending on what happens), the response might need to be reevaluated in future, but FOX going full 180 war-hawk (historically) convinces me further they need to be really careful and considered in their decisions on this. 😐 Not so shocking… Biden’s approval rating went up after his speech, republicans are not doing anything to help the American people, they are just literally not showing up, so they figured they better get on board—to which they’ll then say Biden isn’t doing enough or giving enough. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 6, 2022 20:31:57 GMT
And another. Republicans are just fucking morons. This country is doomed. Solely a photo op. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 6, 2022 20:31:23 GMT
Fuck them. Fuck them right to hell. They should be banned from further meetings and from receiving Intel. Great googly moogly. What the F*CK is wrong with those f*ing morons??? And where the f*ck are our resident conservatives who bitch about every freaking thing a Democrat does? They've been noticeably absent on this thread anyway, but can you imagine if one of the Democrat senators had done this?? There heads would be exploding. Republicans will NEVER hold another republican actually accountable. Ever. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 6, 2022 1:29:37 GMT
Love them!!!!!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 5, 2022 16:10:38 GMT
What is it with these Reps throwing the Holocaust as comparison in every issue? Every chance they can. It’s all part of their script to gaslight, lie, confuse so they have a better chance at staying in power. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 5, 2022 16:03:30 GMT
Love these!!! I’m pm’ing you!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 21:07:25 GMT
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could start a political thread that it’s about something positive the Republicans in Congress or one of the Red State Legislators have done? Pigs will fly first. Unicorns will be real before that happens. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 21:04:29 GMT
Republicans have collectively lost their fucking minds. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 16:17:31 GMT
Just bought a bunch of digital files from several sellers, thank you @pyckku
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 15:05:21 GMT
And the harms just keep on comin' "The Texas department of health and human services has removed suicide prevention resources for LGBT+ youth from its website. NBC News reported that on 1 February, the department’s suicide prevention page listed four organisations “for people who are at risk of suicide” – The Suicide Prevention Lifeline, The Veterans Crisis Line, Crisis Text Line and The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention charity for LGBT+ young people. But by 5 February, The Trevor Project had disappeared. It was the only resource that was removed from the page. The charity is still listed as a resource on a downloadable Youth Suicide Prevention PDF, but it is far less accessible, and is not marked as an LGBT-specific organisation. Sam Ames, director of advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project, told NBC News that removing resources “because they are specific to LGBTQ youth is not only offensive and wrong, it’s dangerous”. Ames continued: “We’re talking about a group of young people who are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide compared to their peers." www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/texas-lgbt-suicide-prevention-trevor-project/I just changed my Amazon smile to the Trevor Project. ❤️🌈🧡🌈💛🌈💚🌈💙🌈💜 |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 3:12:38 GMT
Another thing that I have been thinking about is if Putin wants to take over Ukraine and sees it if value for Russia, why destroy it? What is the plan when the country is decimated and everything needs to be rebuilt? How is that of benefit to Russia? This is so senseless in so many ways. He doesn't care what is left. He just wants the toy (Ukraine) so no one else can have it. His own country is hardly anything to brag about...he's barely taking care of what he already 'has'. He most likely has no intention of developing the Ukraine after he levels it. He wants to rule the world and the more land mass he has, the happier he will be. When you’re an authoritarian dictator, you keep the people you rule in poverty. I’m starting to feel like China will take over Russia once Putin destroys it. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 4, 2022 1:04:20 GMT
This gives me no pleasure to say, but even if its military and citizens have not wavered one bit, Ukraine is outgunned. I’m afraid Russia will end up overtaking this country. Putin will install a puppet gov’t there as predicted, but he’ll never have legitimacy and Ukrainians will continue to take back their country. All is not lost yet. It is a race against time. Yes, Russia has a huge convoy - but how much of that is fighters and how much of that is support? So far, logistics seem to be very bad. The Russians are running out of fuel, food, and other surprised. If it's all fighters, they may win firefights - but they won't have anything to eat, or ammo if they run out. If it's lots of support, those are easy targets to take out. Yes, Russia has the country surrounded. But this war is costing billions per day - and Russia has lost the value of most of its currency. It doesn't have access to Euros, Dollars, or Yen. Other countries refuse to do business with them, so they don't have the raw materials to make more weapons. Using their own resources, it will take months if not years to rebuild the materiel that they've already lost. The economy of Russia has tanked. People have panicked and withdrawn cash and banks are failing. The stock market is closed. The average Russian person is going to be going through some difficult times. The oligarchs are now having to live the lives of actual Russians - not rich, international jet-setters. If Putin keeps talking crazy, it is only a matter of time before someone takes him out. Sure, he's got security. But so do all of the oligarchs. He was the richest man in the world - but is he still? If he can't get any more foreign currency or goods, all it takes is one oligarch with good connections to an EU or NATO government to fund him and that security can be bought over. If it comes down to "you all get to live the lives of peasants instead of wealthy rulers because I want to take Ukraine" or "you are all going to die in a nuclear holocaust because of my ego" - I would imagine someone will try to take him out. The people of Russia are getting actual information, not propaganda. Never before has an entire WORLD tried to work against them in a sort of cyber warfare. Not just hackers, but regular people doing what they can to get the message out. The moms getting calls from their sons in Ukraine - do you think they won't tell their friends? Regular Russians are now feeling the hurt - worthless rubles, goods in stores are gone, they can't get Spotify or Netflix, their trips abroad have been cancelled, their sports teams have been banned. Their lives are getting worse, very quickly. How long can Putin hold out? Sure, he can arrest protestors - but what happens when the police making the arrests realize the paychecks aren't coming, or aren't covering basic necessities? Your pist is actually comforting. Thank you!!!! |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 13:05:38 GMT
I am so sure Putin has some amazing dirt on some people. That’s why they defend him. Or has given them $$$$$ |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:29:29 GMT
I've had a moment to think, and I apologize to you personally hop2. I have nothing against you and it may have seemed like I do. I have zero tolerance left for anyone who liberally smears labels of racism on people who don't deserve it. And I haven't much more, if any, tolerance for people who deliberately distort our history so that even though they are among the most privileged people who have ever lived on this earth, they can say nothing good for the country that made it possible. This board is rife with miserable attitude and it in turn makes me miserable to read it. I won't live my life that way, so I walk away when I've had enough. Once in a while, something happens that makes me wander back in to see what the peas are saying, and even rarer a post catches my eye that makes me sign back in just to address it. This was one such topic. And you, hop, just happened to be on the receiving end. It's not you. Just be careful who you suggest supports such vile things as lynching in the future, eh? So lynching is not racist? |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:28:07 GMT
Am I pro lynching? Just how irrational are you? From your words, which I repeated twice originally and once again here, thousands and thousands of lynchings have been (and continue to be?) committed in the US un-acknowledged and unpunished. Acknowledgement and punishment have been happening since the first half of the last century! and I backed that up by linking to and quoting from an NAACP site. But somehow, it's finally time now to acknowledge how horrific these crimes are? Now? Tim Scott is a black man and was the senator who was responsible for creating Opportunity Zones (look it up) under the last administration. He's actively creating and passing legislature that benefits all citizens, most especially black and minority. I admire him. Corey Booker's name is on the bill too, which adds the element of how the bill will make people feel. I don't personally see the need for another law that is duplicative to what we already have and already enforce, but just the mere fact that Tim Scott's name is on the bill makes it something to take seriously for many Republicans legislators. This new anti-lynching bill will make people feel more protected, whether or not it literally makes them any more protected. Just wait. Corey Booker is going to take this and campaign on how he has now made it a terrible thing to lynch someone in America. Now. You have crossed some kind of line into extreme bitterness I can’t even begin to understand. Of course Corey Booker is going to campaign on passing this law. So will Tim Scott. That’s what politicians do. They wouldn’t be much good at getting themselves elected if they didn’t. But somehow when a Democrat does it, it’s offensive? All righty, then. Not to mention ALL 422 voted in favor, it was 3 republicans who didn’t. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:27:22 GMT
I don’t understand your post, what exactly are you so worked up about by what I said? Are you pro lynching? Debating wether LEO participated? Dismayed that we are admitting how horrible it is way too late? What exactly about my post are you so angry about that you needed a multi paragraph bolded smackdown? Most of what you posted verifies what I said. They were wrong are wrong and we at some point ought to address that as a nation no? Am I pro lynching? Just how irrational are you? From your words, which I repeated twice originally and once again here, thousands and thousands of lynchings have been (and continue to be?) committed in the US un-acknowledged and unpunished. Acknowledgement and punishment have been happening since the first half of the last century! and I backed that up by linking to and quoting from an NAACP site. But somehow, it's finally time now to acknowledge how horrific these crimes are? Now? Tim Scott is a black man and was the senator who was responsible for creating Opportunity Zones (look it up) under the last administration. He's actively creating and passing legislature that benefits all citizens, most especially black and minority. I admire him. Corey Booker's name is on the bill too, which adds the element of how the bill will make people feel. I don't personally see the need for another law that is duplicative to what we already have and already enforce, but just the mere fact that Tim Scott's name is on the bill makes it something to take seriously for many Republicans legislators. This new anti-lynching bill will make people feel more protected, whether or not it literally makes them any more protected. Just wait. Corey Booker is going to take this and campaign on how he has now made it a terrible thing to lynch someone in America. Now. It’s not duplicative. Read it again and compare. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:25:49 GMT
You were not behaving in a hostile manner, if that’s what you think I was saying. On the other hand, you seem heavily invested in explaining why three Congress members (out of 425 who voted) voted no. So few members were opposed that it wouldn’t even seem to need any explanation. There’s always a few, and we can probably safely ignore them. Unless it actually matters to you. Apparently even Gosar, Gohmert, Greene, and Boebert didn’t vote against this bill. That’s really saying something. And you seem so heavily invested in shutting down facts that contradict the reasoning for this bill, not to mention any other perspective whatsoever. So here we are. Read up one sweetheart. You were wrong. Again. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:18:12 GMT
Yikes!!!!! We just bought grape tomatoes and they were $2.99 at Aldi—but they had only a little not stacks like usual. We sat down and planned out bigger gardens this year, we bought a bunch of tomato varieties and a bunch of herbs. We cannot wait to start, but have to figure out how to keep the chipmunks away—they ruin 95% of our patio/containers gardens! We are fortunate to know a couple who has a farm, and we can go help harvest and come home with “earned” fruits and vegetables. So about those bigger gardens… I predict canning supplies might be hard to find again this year. My mom does a LOT of canning (we get blessed with the results at Christmas so I am happy she does it!), so I have been buying Ball lids when I see them. She probably has 24 dozen at this point, which should get her through both the summer (veggies) and fall/winter (meats) canning seasons. With high food prices, I’m sure those COVID gardens are going to be planted again this year. You’re probably right! I have a huge supply of canning jars and lids, week jars and freezer space. Mi might get more pint jars though. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2022 1:15:53 GMT
This is from patriot.wins They’re just emboldening and validating the most vilely hateful among us. I felt sick to my stomach reading this.  Ignorant fuckers. They really believe that only the “Left” has transgender LBGTQIA kids. Dumb as fucking dirt. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 15:56:31 GMT
I think Greek restaurants set it on fire at the table, ahhh!!! Saganaki!!! I haven't had that for ages!! Now we need to find a Greek restaurant... yum!!! Yes!!!!🧀🔥 |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 15:54:28 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/01/republicans-biden-fail-putin-succeed/
After her fellow Republicans booted her from party leadership last year, Rep. Liz Cheney posed a question: “Do we hate our political adversaries more than we love our country?”
GOP leaders had set the blame-Biden tone earlier in the day. Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, likened Biden’s actions toward Russia to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler, saying, “We have a weak president, and he’s creating a very dangerous world.”
Also Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the No. 3 House GOP leader, said Biden “failed to engage in meaningful deterrence against Russian aggression,” and asserted that “the war on Ukraine represents one of the greatest foreign policy failures in modern history.”
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the House GOP whip, amplified the attacks on Biden over Ukraine. And Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), head of the Senate Republican Conference, said Biden’s “policies from Day One have enabled, emboldened Vladimir Putin to do what he has done,” adding that it’s “as if Vladimir Putin were Joe Biden’s secretary of energy.”
Some Republican candidates have even been fundraising off calling Biden “weak” on Ukraine.
The relentless assault no doubt undermines Biden — but it also weakens America. Biden’s response — the U.S. response — can be only as strong as Republicans allow. By sabotaging the commander in chief, Republican leaders have made it more difficult to rally the nation to accept wartime sacrifices (accepting higher energy prices or, potentially, lost American lives).
In the official GOP response to the State of the Union, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds picked up the blame-Biden theme, accusing him of “focusing on political correctness rather than military readiness” before the Ukraine invasion. “Weakness on the world stage has a cost," she charged.
It does. And Republicans, by undermining Biden in a time of war, risk making America pay. You should watch MTG’s Hot mess propaganda “after the Union address” speech. She was literally fucking insane. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 12:57:54 GMT
russia may have the fire power but i'm pinning my hopes on the international community and the Ukrainian people. Me too! I have a sneaky feeling that Putin is a bit surprised right now at how his unprovoked war on Ukraine is bringing so many together against him. Maybe the world did actually learn something from WWII about how to not enable a madman in his attempt to take over a continent. I think the “unprovoked” part is key in the rallying of Allie’s—even the unexpected. I think they realize that if they’re not going to stick together, it could be anyone. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 9:06:47 GMT
I admire Tim Scott and I don't consider any bill he puts forward as foolish. Because after the thousands & thousands of lynchings committed in the US, many either by ‘law enforcement’ or law enforcement just looked away, it is about time we actually formally as a society acknowledge it is wrong and it will not be accepted. But this is flat out wrong. History of Lynching in America - NAACPUnder the Democratically driven Ku Klux Klan, in order to continue to retake power over the lives of blacks after the freeing of slaves during the Civil War and to keep them oppressed with limited ability to vote or hold elected office, many lynchings occurred.  Note the style of dress and age of automobiles. It's NOW time we formally as a society acknowledge lynchings are wrong? What century are you living in? Don't you think it's time that you personally begin to acknowledge the party behind those horrific crimes? “Democratically driven ku klux klan”  Are YOU ready to acknowledge the party behind these modern day horrific crimes? You want to acknowledge just exactly which party NOW funds, supports, gives a platform to the KKK? One needs to look no further than the current, 2022 Republican Party. “KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Catholics, Native Americans as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, and atheists.” The current Republican Party has been actively creating legislation to limit or suppress the rights of every group listed in the preceding paragraph. The murderers of Ahmad Arbery were trump loving’ good ol’ boy modern day republicans. And their very offensive legal counsel’s statements on her clients murders attempted to excuse them in the most offensive racist ways. (She’s also Republican) “Princeton University Edwards Professor of American History Tera Hunter told USA TODAY that this trope is a fallback argument used to discredit current Democratic Party policies.” “At the core of the effort to discredit the current Democratic Party is the refusal to accept the realignment of the party structure in the mid-20th century,” Hunt said. “A lot of people like to skip over the fact that when it comes to race relations, historically, Republicans and Democrats switched positions.” (Trevor Noah) “As the Democrats introduced policies to support voting rights, it became the favored party for most Black voters and has remained so since. With that realignment, many racist voters who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 left the Democratic Party to become Republicans. “That was 150 years ago and the parties are totally different today,” Grinspan said. “It’s like a dinosaur to a modern-day bird. So much evolution has happened. These really aren’t the same groups anymore.” Noah has mocked the political trope of highlighting the Democratic Party’s racist past to question its current progressive policies. “That was true in like 1910, but then after World War II Democratic presidents like Truman and Johnson started supporting civil rights laws and that led to a mass exodus of racists from the Democratic Party,” Noah mocked the claim in 2016: “Just because something used to be something doesn’t mean it still is. What matters more is what it is now.” You seriously need to read an actual history book on the KKK, instead of just sticking with the current conservative talking points/propaganda, to understand just how the KKK has evolved from the 1800’s to 2022. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 8:40:23 GMT
“Lawmakers estimated they had tried more than 200 times to pass a measure to explicitly criminalize a type of attack that has long terrorized Black Americans. This bill was approved 422 to 3, and was expected to pass the Senate, where it enjoys broad support.
“The House today has sent a resounding message that our nation is finally reckoning with one of the darkest and most horrific periods of our history, and that we are morally and legally committed to changing course,”
The measure passed on Monday would categorize lynching as a federal hate crime, carrying a penalty of up to 30 years in prison.
Democrats and Republicans alike hailed the action as historic. Representative Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona and one of the House’s most conservative members, made a point of requesting a recorded vote, saying all members should have their positions memorialized “for posterity, and for all Americans to know and recognize that the United States House of Representatives can come together as yet.”
So apparently, this isn’t a duplication of any other legislation.
No anti-lynching bill has been passed by both houses into federal law. (Until this one)
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 8:29:13 GMT
I want to know why anyone would claim lynching is only a thing of the past. What in the name of God would you call the Ahmad Arbery murder, if not a lynching? People don’t have to dress up in white sheets and hang someone from a tree, complete with eager spectators, for it to be an actual lynching. definition of lynchingETA leftturnonly said: ”Don't you think it's time that you personally begin to acknowledge the party behind those horrific crimes?” Political parties are social constructs, not living beings. The people who used to be Democrats in the days before the Civil Rights laws have long since switched over to the Republican party. So now you want to punish today’s Democrats for the crimes of the Democrats of 100 years ago? Now who’s living in the wrong century? They’ll say anything (even if not accurate) to “own those Libs”! |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 4:08:42 GMT
Yes but I’m 9 weeks pregnant. Did we know this?? OMG Congratulations! I don’t think we did! Congratulations [mention]danimani [/mention] |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 3:58:41 GMT
We only drink Fairlife milk, and it’s currently $3.89- $4.29 a half gallon. Which seems the norm amongst the stores we shop. A local dairy supplies our local grocery chain, so we get cottage cheese, sour cream…when they have their BOGO. I haven’t noticed a big increase in those here (yet). We get block cheese (we shred our own) from Aldi and that hasn’t gone up, and other fancy cheeses from Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and specialty stores. There has been a little increase but not big enough to make us stop buying it (yet) Your cheese hasn’t gone up? Our blocks are close to $3.50 now. Eggs are outrageous, it’s close to $3 dz and those were always under $1.75 dz. A gallon of milk (regular store brand) is almost $4. Aldi used to be super cheap. If their prices are this high, I’m curious what the regular grocery store is. I just checked my Aldi receipt and my blocks of cheddar and Colby were $1.79 each, so only 10 cents increase from the last time I purchased. I have noticed that they don’t have as much cheese as they normally do. Eggs were $1.64 a dozen. At Whole Foods I bought burrata for $4 a container with 4 pcs At another store they had a great sale on fresh mozzarella—perlini, bocconcini, Ciliegine, Ovolini—all for 2/$5 a container! I was in heaven and bought a lot of cheese! Lol |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 2, 2022 3:49:45 GMT
Butter has risen to $6/lb here. I love butter. Our sales ads start tomorrow and everyone has 4 sticks of butter 2/$6 |
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