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In a letter to all employees, the Chief of the Forest Service has indicated that severe budget cuts, more severe than the days of Bush freezes and cuts and privatization, is going to be implemented. Many of the field going forest service employees work seasonally, as surveyors, timber cruisers, archeologists, etc. only work outside the winter months. All seasonals (1039 appointments) will be no more, and permanent employees with seasonal appointments will be laid off when their appointments end. This is not a result of threatened shut downs. When asked if that means relief from accomplishment targets, he didn't really respond. Because of recent large fires the last few years, fire people were moved to a different job series, and even the fuels reduction projects are going to be radically reduced. I am perplexed at this ham handed annihilation of many programs. Small woods products and biomass energy production ceasing will again cause mill and plant closures in small communities. Does anyone know of radical budget cuts in other program areas of the gov? This one seems to be evading the press, and as a retiree I do not have availability of as many information sources as I once enjoyed.
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Nothing will save Trump's plan to shut the government down -- House GOP announces plan to avert looming shutdown
"Mike Johnson Nears a Deal With Dems in Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Shutdown
TRY TRY AGAIN"
The bill would fund the government through mid-December and is expected to get bipartisan support.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) addresses the press after a failed House vote on a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the Federal Government pass the Sept. 30 deadline in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2024. | Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO
By Jordain Carney and Jennifer Scholtes
09/22/2024 05:09 PM EDT
Updated: 09/22/2024 05:44 PM EDT
Congressional leaders reached a deal on Sunday to fund the government through Dec. 20, dropping a GOP push to attach a conservative immigration proposal backed by former President Donald Trump.
The short-term funding bill is expected to get a vote on the House floor by mid-week as Congress races against a Sept. 30 government shutdown deadline. Last week, 14 Republicans joined with most Democrats to tank Speaker Mike Johnson’s initial plan to fund the government for six months, which included a GOP proposal that required proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Unable to pass a funding package on their own, House Republicans quietly pivoted to negotiating with Democrats on Sunday’s short-term bill, known as a continuing resolution or a CR, that would punt the funding fight until after the election. They also stripped it of partisan policies that would threaten bipartisan support needed for passage in the House. Dozens of conservatives are expected to oppose it.
“Next week the House will take the initiative and pass a clean, three-month CR to prevent the Senate from jamming us with a bill loaded with billions in new spending and unrelated provisions. Our legislation will be a very narrow, bare-bones CR including only the extensions that are absolutely necessary,” Johnson wrote in a Sunday Dear Colleague letter, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO.
Though the bill was rolled out by House Republicans, Democratic leaders on the Hill quickly embraced it and touted it as a bipartisan compromise that will avert a shutdown.
“Over the past four days, bipartisan, bicameral negotiations have been underway to reach an agreement that maintains current funding through December 20 and avoids a government shutdown a month before the election. … If both sides continue to work in good faith, I am hopeful that we can wrap up work on the CR this week,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
The newly unveiled bill funds the government largely at current levels through Dec. 20, setting up another round of the high-stakes funding fight just before the holidays. The legislation would provide $231 million to the Secret Service for carrying out protective operations, including those related to the 2024 presidential campaign. But the spending bill links that funding to requirements that the agency hands over a report on its investigation into the July 13 shooting to a House task force and Senate committee investigating the two assassination attempts against Trump. The bill also sets a timeline for DHS to respond to two letters sent by the House task force last month.
Appropriators had been in talks with the Secret Service about what additional resources the agency needs after those two apparent assassination attempts, including a July 13 shooting where security failures sparked widespread criticism of the Secret Service.
Lawmakers widely predicted that congressional leaders would eventually need to punt the shutdown deadline into later this year and embrace a bipartisan deal. Though Johnson refused for weeks to publicly or privately acknowledge if he had a Plan B in the spending fight, there was a growing expectation that the House .. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/19/congress/where-johnson-goes-next-00180079 .. would pass a bill to fund the government into December this week. By the time Congress left town at the end of last week, appropriators and members of leadership were already predicting that they were close to a deal to avoid a shutdown.
The spending bill will also need to clear the Senate, where conservative demands could drag the chamber into weekend work ahead of Monday’s deadline. Still, Johnson could face real blowback in the House, where his right flank will be watching closely to see if he can get a majority of Republicans to back the bill or if the measure gets more Democratic than Republican votes.
The speaker will face an early test on that point. Due to typical House rules and his narrow majority, Johnson will need near-unanimity to bring the spending bill to the floor — meaning he’ll need help from some Republicans who might ultimately vote against it on final passage. If he can’t get that support, he’ll either need to lean on Democrats to help him get over the procedural hurdle or hope the bill can pass a higher two-thirds threshold that would let him leapfrog over his own holdouts entirely.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement that “House Democrats will collectively evaluate the spending legislation in its entirety in advance of its consideration on the Floor.”
It all comes at a critical moment for Johnson, who has worked to mend relationships with the right after a heated spending fight earlier this year led to a failed attempt to strip him of the gavel. But his conservative allies worry that the stopgap bill, and the subsequent year-end shutdown battle, will inflame his right flank just as he’s trying to keep the top House spot — assuming Republicans win House control in November.
Though Johnson only requires a simple majority of the GOP to become the speaker nominee in that case, he would face a much tougher hurdle in early January, when he will need 218 votes on the House floor. He can’t count on any help from House Democrats, who are expected to unanimously back Jeffries.
Johnson was under pressure from some in his right flank, plus Trump, to shut down the government if Democrats wouldn’t agree to their immigrant voting bill. But in his letter on Sunday, Johnson made it clear he agrees with many Republicans who have publicly and privately said a shutdown weeks before an election would be politically disastrous.
“As history has taught and current polling affirms,” he wrote, “shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/22/house-republicans-plan-avert-shutdown-00180415
Luckily caught this on seeing light just over an hour ago -- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
""Star Wars director George Lucas, who also created the Indiana Jones character, said Sir Sean "left an indelible mark in cinematic history"."
Documentary
1h 20m 2019 English Expires in 2 months
A chronicle of the life and work of visual effects artist Phil Tippett, considered one of the greatest masters in his field.
Play Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters 1h 20m
It's still running now - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2281337923953 , just ended.
It is very good.
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Teaser - Building Stop-Motion Masterpieces by Hand
Old for you, new for us - Bears Stadium Plans Take Another Hit: Governor Postpones Decision
By Eric Fisher
LAST UPDATED July 30, 2024 | 03:54 pm— PUBLISHED July 30, 2024 | 02:18 pm
* Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says it will be ‘near impossible’ for a Bears stadium deal to get done this year.
* The politician’s extensive business background and high profile give his comments additional weight.
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The Indianapolis Star
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The famous sports fan refrain “wait ’til next year,” often associated with MLB’s Cubs, is now taking on new meaning for another Chicago pro sports team.
The Bears’ attempt to strike a deal for a lakefront domed stadium, already facing mounting obstacles .. https://frontofficesports.com/back-in-the-burbs-bears-weighing-renewed-stadium-interest-from-cities/ , took another sizable hit when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (above) said Monday it would be “near impossible” for the team to get an agreement through the state legislature this fall. Assuming that projection holds, it will be at least spring 2025 before there is any further movement there on the Bears’ proposal.
After missing out on this past spring’s legislative session, the Bears had targeted the fall to accelerate progress on a new stadium, with the team looking for public money to cover slightly more than half of the projected $4.7 billion cost. The team has already said that every year lost to delays adds more than $150 million to that figure.
“In reality, there isn’t a proposal on the table right now that would be acceptable to anyone that I know in the legislature,” Pritzker said.
The governor’s comments are hardly a departure, as he called the Bears’ initial proposal in April a “nonstarter.” But the latest remarks show how little progress has been made since then.
“I’ve done a lot of research on this topic. But let me clear: There isn’t much change,” Pritzker said.
Power and Influence
While Pritzker was already a powerful governor of a populous state, his political star has risen further in recent weeks, giving anything he says relative to the Bears situation that much more weight. He’s been mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate to join the campaign of expected Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, and the party’s national convention will be on his home turf, as the event is scheduled for Aug. 19–22 in Chicago.
Unlike many politicians who struggle with the complexities of pro stadium finance, Pritzker also boasts a high-level business background and is worth an estimated $3.5 billion. He’s part of the Pritzker family that controls the Hyatt hotel chain and, before entering politics, was involved in several business ventures, including a technology incubator and an investment group. His assets are now in a blind trust while he serves as governor, but those extensive holdings are seen as a complex factor during Harris’s process to select a running mate.
https://frontofficesports.com/bears-stadium-plans-take-another-hit-governor-postpones-decisio
Old for you, new for us - Bears Stadium Plans Take Another Hit: Governor Postpones Decision
By Eric Fisher
LAST UPDATED July 30, 2024 | 03:54 pm— PUBLISHED July 30, 2024 | 02:18 pm
* Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says it will be ‘near impossible’ for a Bears stadium deal to get done this year.
* The politician’s extensive business background and high profile give his comments additional weight.
[Image]
The Indianapolis Star
All links
The famous sports fan refrain “wait ’til next year,” often associated with MLB’s Cubs, is now taking on new meaning for another Chicago pro sports team.
The Bears’ attempt to strike a deal for a lakefront domed stadium, already facing mounting obstacles .. https://frontofficesports.com/back-in-the-burbs-bears-weighing-renewed-stadium-interest-from-cities/ , took another sizable hit when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (above) said Monday it would be “near impossible” for the team to get an agreement through the state legislature this fall. Assuming that projection holds, it will be at least spring 2025 before there is any further movement there on the Bears’ proposal.
After missing out on this past spring’s legislative session, the Bears had targeted the fall to accelerate progress on a new stadium, with the team looking for public money to cover slightly more than half of the projected $4.7 billion cost. The team has already said that every year lost to delays adds more than $150 million to that figure.
“In reality, there isn’t a proposal on the table right now that would be acceptable to anyone that I know in the legislature,” Pritzker said.
The governor’s comments are hardly a departure, as he called the Bears’ initial proposal in April a “nonstarter.” But the latest remarks show how little progress has been made since then.
“I’ve done a lot of research on this topic. But let me clear: There isn’t much change,” Pritzker said.
Power and Influence
While Pritzker was already a powerful governor of a populous state, his political star has risen further in recent weeks, giving anything he says relative to the Bears situation that much more weight. He’s been mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate to join the campaign of expected Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, and the party’s national convention will be on his home turf, as the event is scheduled for Aug. 19–22 in Chicago.
Unlike many politicians who struggle with the complexities of pro stadium finance, Pritzker also boasts a high-level business background and is worth an estimated $3.5 billion. He’s part of the Pritzker family that controls the Hyatt hotel chain and, before entering politics, was involved in several business ventures, including a technology incubator and an investment group. His assets are now in a blind trust while he serves as governor, but those extensive holdings are seen as a complex factor during Harris’s process to select a running mate.
https://frontofficesports.com/bears-stadium-plans-take-another-hit-governor-postpones-decisio
Good to know. The future road you choose will be the best for you, having the feeling ease would likely be good for you. Just consider, you don't have to back off it 100%. It might even be best for all, including him, if you toss a shrimp on the barbie when you feel the conditions are just right for it.
Old, yet always, and forever, pertinent -- Tax the Rich, Help America’s Children
"House Republican Budget Plans Would Cut Social Security Benefits"
Oct. 25, 2021
Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by shorrocks and Lauren Burke, via Getty Images
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
Democrats may — may — finally be about to agree on a revenue and spending plan. It will clearly be smaller than President Biden’s original proposal, and much smaller than what progressives wanted. It will, however, be infinitely bigger than what Republicans would have done, because if the G.O.P. controlled Congress, we would be doing nothing at all to invest in America’s future.
But what will the plan do? Far too much reporting has focused mainly on the headline spending number — $3.5 trillion, no, $1.5 trillion, whatever — without saying much about the policies this spending would support. To be fair, though, the Biden administration could have done a better job of summarizing its plans in pithy slogans.
So let me propose a one-liner: Tax the rich, help America’s children. This gets at much of what the legislation is likely to do: Reporting suggests .. https://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-manchin-agreeable-wealth-041349788.html .. that the final bill will include taxes on billionaires’ incomes and minimum taxes for corporations, along with a number of child-oriented programs. And action on climate change can, reasonably, be considered another way of helping future generations.
Republicans will, of course, denounce whatever Democrats come out with. But there are three things you should know about both taxing the rich and helping children: They’re very good ideas from an economic point of view. They’re extremely popular. And they’re very much in the American tradition.
About the economics: Although the modern Republican Party is utterly committed to the proposition that low taxes on corporations and the rich are the key to economic success, there is no evidence that this is true. If anything, the historical correlation runs the other way. The U.S. economy grew faster during periods when taxes at the top were relatively high than it did when they were low.
On the other hand, there is overwhelming evidence that helping children, in addition to being the right thing to do, has big economic payoffs. Children who benefited from safety-net programs like food stamps became healthier, more productive adults. Children who were enrolled in pre-K education were more likely to graduate from high school and go to college than those who weren’t. As I’ve argued in the past .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/opinion/biden-family-aid.html , the economic case for investing in children is even stronger than the case for investing in physical infrastructure.
When it comes to public opinion, what’s striking is how little impact more than 40 years of anti-tax, anti-government propaganda has had on voters’ views. Polls consistently show large majorities, including many Republicans, supporting higher taxes on corporations and the rich. Large majorities also support subsidizing child care and aiding families with children.
It’s true that anti-government politicians often win elections — but they do so, with rare exceptions, not because the public buys into libertarianism but because white voters can sometimes be persuaded that government programs benefit only people of color.
Finally, while Republican politicians routinely claim that Democrats are anti-American and that Democratic proposals are Marxist, history tells us that the key elements of the legislation we’re probably about to see — aid to middle-class and poor children together with higher taxes on the wealthy — are quintessentially American ideas.
Remember, we are the nation that basically invented universal education. Thomas Jefferson called for publicly funded schools .. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/bill-more-general-diffusion-knowledge .. even in the midst of the Revolutionary War (yes, only for whites, but still). In the 19th century, America led the way in creating “common schools” .. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf#page=3 .. that were meant to include students from all social classes, and were justified by many of the same arguments now being made for universal pre-K and other forms of aid to children.
So when Republicans denounce pro-child policies as socialist and try to promote private schools, they, not Democrats, are rejecting our nation’s traditions.
And guess what: We are also, arguably, the nation that invented progressive taxation. America has had progressive income taxes and estate taxes — that is, taxes that are levied at a higher rate on large incomes and estates — since 1916.
It’s notable that the early proponents of these taxes didn’t view them simply as ways to raise revenue. They also explicitly called for taxes on the wealthy as a way to limit inequality, and in particular to prevent the emergence of a hereditary oligarchy. Thus in 1905 Theodore Roosevelt .. http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1901 .. argued that it was essential to prevent the “inheritance or transmission in their entirety” of “fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits,” and in 1907 he called for a “heavy progressive tax” on estates to achieve this goal.
A modern U.S. politician who said anything similar would be accused of engaging in un-American class warfare. But if this be class warfare, make the most of it; like spending to help children from lower-income families, progressive taxation is as American as apple pie.
So if Democrats finally do agree on a fiscal plan, they should go all-out in promoting it. Economics, politics and America’s historical traditions are on their side.
More on federal spending for the welfare of children.
Opinion | David Brooks
What Democrats Need to Do Now
Sept. 23, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/opinion/democrats-moderates-progressives-us-budget.html
Opinion | Paul Krugman
Why Not Make the Kids Alright?
Sept. 21, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/opinion/child-tax-credit-poverty.html
Opinion | N. Gregory Mankiw
Can America Afford to Become a Major Social Welfare State?
Sept. 15, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/biden-spending-plan-welfare.html
Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since 2000 and is also a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade and economic geography. PaulKrugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/opinion/democrats-child-benefit-tax.html
I see those MAGA family values are shining through again. Does anyone see a pattern?
#BREAKING : Oran Routh , Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child porn#Trump #GunShot #Shooting #WestPalmBeach #Gunfire #DonaldTrump #GolfClub #TrumpNationalGolfClub #Florida #TrumpAssassinationAttempt #AssassinationAttempt #SecretServices… pic.twitter.com/L0RDGxhN6H
— upuknews (@upuknews1) September 24, 2024
Wow, a dumpster fire, a shark, a battery, dancing Trump and JD literally losing his grip. Outfuckingstanding!😂
At New York Military Academy he was dumber than shit, but good old Dad kept those donations coming. Fred thought Military school would teach his son some discipline. It did eventually gave Donald some, but he is just lazy. He always had so much money from an early age, he always wanted the easy way.
I don't know if this is true but it makes sense.
#TheView
— Kemu 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟦🟧 (@kemu808) September 24, 2024
Speaking of "dumb" pic.twitter.com/aBlRu0cFDK
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
Once again maybe you should look at the numbers.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-afghanistan-troop-death-claim-fact-check/
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/summaryData/deaths/byYearManner
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF10899.pdf
Trump's public appearances show more than an aging, demented demagogue. Better get prepared for the violence to come.
His crowds are down, which drives the anger and hatred even more. He's losing, knows it, can't admit or deal with it, and his behavior and the direction his campaign is going are an indication that he's losing a lot worse than the media is letting on or allowing the polls to show.
Their line of defense is voter suppression tactics. Mark Elias, last night on Jen Psaki's MSNBC show, pointed out that the litigation is going full force, and that, just like 2020, nothing they're doing is likely to get through the justice system, even with conservative justices, because most of them are going to uphold the law, and they're not going to descend into divisive partisanship. There may be one nut here and there, but most of this is being squashed.
So I think we need to face what's coming. When he loses, and just for the record I think he's going to take a beating along the lines of what John McCain got in 2008, though I am now seeing some commentators in independent media talk about 1964, there will be violence. He's prompting and goading it now. The Republican party will not have many pieces left to pick up if they let him rant on like this up to election day. And his followers are going to try and attack vote counting offices, anyone associated with the election, and wreak havoc if we are not prepared with a high level of security.
The sheriff in Ohio who wanted to target people who put Harris signs up in their yard is just a prelude. He got his hand slapped. He should have been charged with incitement, had his credentials removed and put on trial. I hope that didn't send a message of weakness.
We need to be ready.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219497725
Trump calls for Johnny Carson to take over the Tonight Show again.
Trump:The Tonight Show is dying. Bring back Johnny Carson. pic.twitter.com/yfkg0Pm9ar
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 24, 2024
Republicans: “Late night hosts these days make fun of Donald Trump too much! Johnny Carson would never do that!”
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 14, 2019
Johnny Carson: *literally does jokes about Trump evicting people from their homes* pic.twitter.com/H0XS3FPy6M
whoo boy, what a bombshell. The other guy says windmills cause cancer and that we had airports during the revolutionary war. We could play this game all day long since you have two and we have about forty thousand if you include the last nine years.
Do you know this artist? He's on a European tour right now and the audiences sing along, knowing every word. It's a smash hit because they even know what kind of moron we are currently dealing with.
edit: that first vid was a bit corrupted, here's the version.....
WTF part of 'I won't defend.....' don't you understand. Trump is by far the biggest liar in the race, The stupid mfr pushed 'the Haitians are eating pets' bullshit and he still claims he had the greatest economy EVER; he didn't.
Sluttypants said when Biden took over from Trump inflation was at 9% when all of America knows it was 1.4% Man she's a LIAR !!!
She also said under her and Biden's administration that not one military personal is or has been in a war zone. What a LIAR !!!
Guess that's why the media and her administration are keeping her out of the spotlight. She's a liar.
I KNOW THE TRUTH HURTS Lil MAN.
Dominos about to start falling? Trump and Putin!
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Trump gets booed, pitiful crowd, Here comes Jack Smith!
The loathsome piece of shit was greeted by boos in South Carolina, y'all. I'm going to repeat what I just said. The loathsome piece of shit was greeted by boos in South Carolina. 😳 The American people are waking up to the moral abomination that is serial lying psychopath. 👇 pic.twitter.com/nUCydGyYWS
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) September 24, 2024
Look at Trump’s Rally in Philadelphia!!
— Lucas Sanders 💙🗳️🌊💪🌈🚺🟧 (@LucasSa56947288) September 23, 2024
What you make of this? pic.twitter.com/weSMXC8p9q
Jack Smith is filing a 180 page brief on election interference today that will work around Trump’s immunity. He also plans to push to have the underacted report put out for the American people to read. Bring it on. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/WpigTFlb6K
— Dobie lover. 💙 🇺🇸I WON’T BOW TO PROJECT 2025 (@GallihughDeb) September 23, 2024
⚡️Breaking ❗️
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 24, 2024
Russian propagandist Solovyev suggests Putin's resignation. pic.twitter.com/8j4hDTglIa
Yep, that was the night I found out that he had blocked me. I tried to send him a PM to get him to admit (at least in private) that he was misrepresenting the whole story to suit his narrative rather than factual information I gathered from his own links.
He was also seeming to be all full of himself while berating poster Arizona over that whole issue and it pissed me off, so that PM would have included a few more choice words if it was able to be composed.
I've probably taken it a bit too far since then because I let it get to me, so I'm going to stop that stuff and let you all deal with it from now on. It's childish of me to continue that behavior but it doesn't mean that it won't still bug the hell out of me.
people like that are the same type of people that would condemn a rape victim and condone their attacker because her skirt was worn too short.
Learn how to read.....for comprehension; 'I don't defend.......'
Now Mrs. Lincoln, aside from THAT what did you think of the play.......the rest of my verifiably accurate f'ing post?
Like I said where is your proof she never said those things. OH, so you're saying sluttypants Harris did not say those things.
Where's your proof she didn't say those things? I'll wait !!!
you have jack shit...
Trump has got, like yourself...............jack shit. I won't defend misstatements of facts but I do keep them in perspective.
Trump's decision to 'downplay the pandemic', his words, mislead with statements about its severity and when it would end, cost lives. Cost jobs too.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
Employment — A record nine years and five months of monthly job gains — dating to October 2010 — ended March 2020. The U.S. lost 1.4 million jobs that month.
But the U.S. economy was slowing down even before the pandemic. The U.S. added less than 2 million jobs in 2019 — the lowest annual growth since 2010.
And then the novel coronavirus struck. In two months, March and April 2020, the U.S. economy lost a staggering 21.9 million jobs.
Most of those jobs (57%) would return before Trump left office. But he ended his presidency with an economy that had 2.7 million fewer jobs than when he started — becoming the first president in modern times to experience a net loss of jobs over his time in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has monthly employment figures dating to 1939.
More Than 400 Economists Endorse Kamala Harris
September 24, 2024 at 7:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/24/more-than-400-economists-endorse-kamala-harris/
"SNIP.............
“More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy,” CNN reports.
“The mass endorsement lands as Harris tries to erode former President Donald Trump’s lead on the economy, a critical issue that many Americans say could decide their vote this election.”
..............SNIP"
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“More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy,” CNN reports.
“The mass endorsement lands as Harris tries to erode former President Donald Trump’s lead on the economy, a critical issue that many Americans say could decide their vote this election.”
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Pseudohistory........$10 word for junk-history.
She's nothing more than a LIAR.
Remember in the debate where she said under her and Biden's administration there has been not one military person in a combat zone anywhere in the world; Liar. She also said that when Biden took over from Trump inflation was at 9% when in fact it was 1.4%.
Polls are starting to lean towards Trump again. Remember Killary was ahead of Trump by 7-9 points one week before election and TRUMP mopped the floor with her.
Trump has got this. 2024
Thanks, I did catch it. A bit boring but eh.
Watched this as well - not boring:
Lol,.. My God. "MEANING"??
I see you stand with the side of the critics
wikiHow has also been the target of satire and criticism for its notable abundance of arguably eccentric articles. For example, American Public Radio show Wits has a segment called "wikiHow theater", where actors read obvious or ludicrous wikiHow topics, such as "How to Make People Respect Your Pet", for comic effect.[45] Two accomplished poets published a book called "How To Feel Confident with Your Special Talents", where each poem's title is taken directly from a wikiHow article.[46] Vice parodied wikiHow's article "How to Break Up with Your Boyfriend".[47] The Huffington Post created a list of bizarre life skills, such as "How to React to an Ugly Baby", that "you could only learn from wikiHow".[48] Other publishers have criticized wikiHow for hosting instructions on topics of questionable social value, such as "How to get a thigh gap"[49] and "How to stop a wedding".[50] Other websites have created "worst of wikiHow" lists to highlight topics that are "deranged",[51] "brilliantly bizarre"[52] and otherwise controversial.
The artwork of wikiHow’s illustrations has received mixed reception among internet users, with some[who?] praising the representation of various minority groups, while others[who?] ridicule the bizarre and uncanny depictions. In an interview with OneZero, Chris Hadley, Vice President of Operations, stated that the illustrations are created by freelance artists typically outside of the US.[53]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiHow
The rest of the Wikipedia article sounds quite exemplary especially for a for profit biz.
.. and who the hell would question the social value of acquiring a thigh gap?.. as they say in the wiki world - this article needs editing.
It is EPIC! Is always good to retire for the night with a smile on your face. Thanks, pal.
You're right, two good posts by you questioning OMOLIVE's position, the first here ..
I don't understand what you are trying to prove.
2) Gradual increase in the age of eligibility for full benefits to age 66 in 2009 and to age 67 in 2027. The earnings test will also be modified so that after 1990 a $1-for-$3 benefit withholding rate will replace the present $1-for-$2 withholding for beneficiaries who have reached the age of eligibility for unreduced retirement benefits.
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and the 2nd
"So you didn't know that the retirement age was increased in 1983
Yes they voted to increase the age.....in 2009 as my post that you didn't reply to clearly showed. Plus it was only part of a massive bill that overhauled the whole SSA. I was only 13 years old in 1983 so I could not offer my opinion one way or another.
And a whopping 65 Democrats along with 52 Republicans didn't even bother to vote!!
You see, back when congress used to function in a bipartisan fashion they already knew the results of a vote before it was even brought to the floor. All those people sitting out were just a way to get things done faster. If you don't have to go through the entire roll call the vote goes quicker and you are able to move right into the next matter at hand. But you would know that because you were obviously glued to the edge of your seat waiting for the outcome of that and other bills that you can tell me all about.
I always liked when my great uncle would tell me stories about the good old days. I never had the opportunity to fact check him though, which is why I asked you what you were trying to prove.
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the post this post replies to. Yet both gone to now unanswered by that other.
It's much easier to whinge, to dismiss every politician as being hypocritically interested only in enriching themselves
and to say they are all the same, than it is to support your positions in rational and reasonable discussion.
Trump DOJ corruption -- There Used to Be Justice. Now We Have Bill Barr.
"Did Bill Barr ‘corrupt’ the Justice Department?"
The attorney general’s intervention in prosecutions of Mr. Trump’s allies is a new low.
May 13, 2020
Attorney General William Barr. Erin Schaff/The New York Times
By Emily Bazelon and Eric Posner
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This week, more than 2,000 former officials of the Justice Department and the F.B.I. called on Attorney General William Barr to resign for dropping the prosecution of Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. when he was President Trump’s national security adviser.
“Subsequent events strongly suggest political interference in Flynn’s prosecution,” the former officials said in an open letter published online. They condemned Mr. Barr for having “once again assaulted the rule of law,” in light of his earlier decision to overrule career prosecutors and seek a lighter sentence than what they had recommended for another Trump associate, Roger Stone.
It’s easy to grow numb to the abuses of the Trump era. But Mr. Barr’s intervention in the Flynn and Stone cases is a deviation even from the standards at the outset of Mr. Trump’s presidency. The corrosion at the Justice Department from the beginning to the homestretch of Mr. Trump’s first term illustrates a long-term problem of maintaining the independence of a department with unrivaled powers of investigation and prosecution.
More troubling, as recent history has shown, there are no easy ways to rein in an attorney general whose loyalty to a president stands ahead of his fidelity to the rule of law.
Jeff Sessions, Mr. Trump’s first attorney general, followed the advice of career professionals at the Justice Department by recusing himself from the F.B.I.’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in 2016. He did so because of his own meetings with Russia’s ambassador while he was advising the campaign. Mr. Sessions’s recusal opened the door for his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, to appoint the special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian campaign interference after Mr. Trump fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director. By doing so, Mr. Rosenstein allowed a federal investigation into the campaign of a sitting president to proceed. While Mr. Trump repeatedly inveighed against the Mueller investigation, its work continued, upholding a crucial norm of Justice Department independence, however uneasily.
Then Mr. Barr became attorney general. Establishment figures in Washington hoped he would check Mr. Trump, given his deep experience in the Justice Department, including two years as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. Instead, Mr. Barr muffled the impact of the special counsel’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by suggesting that it absolved Mr. Trump when it did not. A federal judge later called .. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/mueller-report-barr-judge-walton.html .. Mr. Barr’s comments “misleading” and said “his lack of candor” about the report called into question his “credibility.”
Mr. Barr also opened a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, despite the conclusion .. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/barr-durham-ig-report-russia-investigation.html .. of his department’s inspector general that the F.B.I. had adequate reason to proceed. His department declined to investigate the whistle-blower complaint about the president’s phone call last July with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. That decision led dozens of government inspectors general to warn that the Justice Department “could seriously undermine the critical role whistle blowers play.” Then came Mr. Barr’s interference in the long-running Stone and Flynn prosecutions, both times fulfilling Mr. Trump’s stated desires and serving his political interests.
The attorney general, whom the president hires and can fire, is supposed to advise the president and advance his or her policies. But he is also obligated to enforce the law impartially and not to use it to shield the president’s allies or punish his enemies.
After its inception in 1870, the Justice Department cycled between periods of cronyism and professionalism. The problem of cronyism was on full display in Watergate. President Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, was jailed for his role in the scandal. Hoping to clean up the department, President Gerald Ford appointed Edward Levi, the president of the University of Chicago, who was widely regarded for his integrity. Mr. Levi boosted morale and professionalism at the Justice Department and reined in the F.B.I., whose abuses had badly tarnished the reputation of that agency.
But there was no guarantee that attorneys general who followed Mr. Levi would uphold his standards. So in 1978, Congress passed a law that created an independent counsel, whom the attorney general could authorize to investigate top executive-branch officials for wrongdoing. Because the counsel was chosen by a three-judge panel and could be removed only for cause, the counsel operated beyond the influence of the president and the attorney general. The law addressed the competing loyalties inherent in the job of attorney general by walling him or her off from certain investigations.
But Congress let the law expire in 1999 as both parties tired of independent counsels they saw as abusing their powers. Without this external watchdog, the stage was set again for conflict between politics and the rule of law. John Ashcroft, George W. Bush’s first attorney general, resisted some of the Bush administration’s claims to broad executive power in the wake of Sept. 11. But Mr. Ashcroft’s successor, Alberto Gonzales, was a longtime Bush crony who resigned after repeated battles with Congress raised questions about whether his responsibilities to the law took a back seat to his loyalty to Mr. Bush.
President Barack Obama appointed an ally with his own professional reputation, Eric Holder, as his first attorney general, and a career prosecutor, Loretta Lynch, as his second. Ms. Lynch found herself mired in controversy for talking to former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac while his wife was under investigation for mishandling classified information. Ms. Lynch’s breach seems minor now but led her to defer the decision ..https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html .. whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton to the F.B.I. and her aides. The norm of independence held.
Now we have Mr. Barr. The next president could reassert that standard by appointing someone in the mold of Edward Levi. But history suggests that too often presidents prefer an attorney general whom they can control.
Will Congress be able to step in? Not fully, it seems.
Democrats in the House investigated Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine when Mr. Barr’s Justice Department declined to do so, but they didn’t have a clear path for compelling witnesses to testify, as a prosecutor would. And if the attorney general is willing to drop charges against an executive-branch official like Mr. Flynn, who lied to the F.B.I., then what’s to stop him from refusing to prosecute officials who lie to Congress? This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases about whether Congress can subpoena the president’s tax returns. The back-and-forth hinted that the court could erect new barriers for Congress when it seeks to keep the executive in check.
This suggests that Congress erred by allowing the independent counsel statute to expire. The potential that political considerations could warp decisions by the president and attorney general require this extra check on the executive branch. The best way to stop the downward spiral of the Justice Department is to protect it from its own boss.
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and a fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School. Eric Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the author of the forthcoming “The Demagogues’ Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy From the Founders to Trump.”
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Trump attorney general Barr a liar, bully and thug, says fired US attorney in book
In memoir, Geoffrey Berman recounts clashes before a botched firing he insists was politically motivated
Martin Pengelly in New York
Thu 8 Sep 2022 02.00 EDT
Geoffrey Berman arrives at his office in New York on Saturday 20 June 2020 – the day he was fired by Donald Trump. Photograph: Kevin Hagen/AP
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Donald Trump’s second attorney general, William Barr, is stupid, a liar, a bully and a thug, according to a hard-hitting new book by Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the southern district of New York whose firing Barr engineered in hugely controversial fashion in summer 2020.
Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November 2018. I’m sure Mar-a-Lago was being targeted by Russian intelligence over the course of the last 18 or 20 months,’ John Brennan said.
Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn after nuclear file reportedly found
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/mar-a-lago-trump-nuclear-documents-spies
“Several hours after Barr and I met,” Berman writes, “on a Friday night, [Barr] issued a press release saying that I was stepping down. That was a lie.
“A lie told by the nation’s top law enforcement officer.”
Trump’s politicisation of the US Department of Justice was a hot-button issue throughout his presidency. It remains so as he claims persecution under Barr’s successor, Merrick Garland, regarding the mishandling of classified information, the Capitol attack and multiple other investigations.
Berman describes his own ordeal, as Barr sought a more politically pliant occupant of the hugely powerful New York post, in Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and its Battle with the Trump Justice Department, a memoir to be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Berman testified in Congress .. https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3124 .. shortly after his dismissal. He now writes: “No one from SDNY with knowledge of [his clashes with Barr over two and a half years] has been interviewed or written about them. Until now, there has not been a firsthand account.”
Berman describes clashes on issues including the prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, and the Halkbank investigation, concerning Turkish bankers and government officials helping Tehran circumvent the Iran nuclear deal.
Barr was also attorney general under George HW Bush. He has published his own book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, in which he discusses SDNY affairs but does not mention Berman. Promoting the book, Barr told NBC he “didn’t really think that much about” his former adversary.
Berman calls that “an easily disprovable lie”.
In Berman’s book, Barr is a constant presence. Describing the Halkbank case, Berman says Trump’s closeness to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, meant Barr was, “always eager to please his boss, appeared to be doing Trump’s bidding” by leaning on Berman to drop charges.
Berman says Barr told him he, Barr, would be “point person” for the administration on Halkbank, which Berman found “odd”.
“This is a criminal case being run out of New York .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york , right? As attorney general, Barr had a role to play. But why as White House-designated point person? That was problematic.”
Berman says Barr tried to block the SDNY to benefit Trump politically. In June 2019, he says, he was summoned to a meeting where Barr told him the Halkbank case “implicates foreign policy” and, “his voice … steadily rising”, asked: “Who do you think you are to interfere?”
He writes: “I’ve seen bullies work before. In fact he had used the same words with me a little more than a year before” over the appointment of Berman’s deputy, Audrey Strauss, without Barr’s approval.
Berman adds: “I would describe Barr’s posture that morning as thuggish. He wanted to bludgeon me into submission.”
Berman turned Barr down. He also says he told Barr a proposal to offer individuals in the Halkbank case a non-prosecution agreement without disclosing the move would be “a fraud on the court”.
The Halkbank issue eventually dropped away, after Trump and Erdogan fell out over the US withdrawal from Syria. But Barr and Berman’s enmity remained.
Berman also gives his version of events in June 2020, when Barr summoned him to a meeting at the Pierre hotel in New York City.
Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House judiciary committee, in July.
William Barr told Murdoch to 'muzzle' Fox News Trump critic, new book says
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book
Berman first delivers a sharp aside about Barr’s ostentatious travel, his apparent ambitions – Berman speculates that the attorney general wanted to be secretary of state in Trump’s second term – and an infamous, secretive meeting .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book .. between Barr and Rupert Murdoch that Berman calls “a scene right out of HBO’s Succession”.
Berman says he did not know why Barr wanted to meet him, but thought it might be because he had refused to sign a letter attacking Bill de Blasio, then mayor of New York, over the application of Covid restrictions to religious services and protests for racial justice. Berman did not sign, he writes, because he could not be seen to act politically.
At the Pierre, he says, Barr, who with his chief of staff was not wearing a mask indoors, said he wanted to “make a change in the southern district”. Berman says he knew what would come next, given changes elsewhere to instal Barr allies and moves to influence investigations of Trump aides including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.
“The reason Barr wanted me to resign immediately was so I could be replaced with an outsider he trusted,” Berman writes, adding that he was not sure he could be removed other than by the judges who appointed him to fill the office on an interim basis in 2018, or by Senate confirmation of a successor.
Berman turned down Barr’s offer. He says Barr then made an “especially tawdry” suggestion: that if Berman moved to run the DoJ civil division, “I could leverage it to make more money after I left government”. Berman says Barr also asked if he had civil litigation experience, a question Berman deems “almost comical”. Then Barr threatened to fire him.
Berman “thought to myself, what a gross and colossal bully this guy is to threaten my livelihood”. He did not budge. Barr said he would think of other jobs. After the meeting, Berman writes, Barr asked if he would like to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. Berman says that job “was not [Barr’s] to offer”, as the SEC chair is nominated by the president and Senate confirmed.
Berman says he agreed to talk to Barr again after the weekend. Instead, that night Barr issued a press release saying Berman had agreed to resign.
“It was a lie, plain and simple,” Berman writes. “I clearly told him I was not stepping down. Barr [was] the attorney general … in addition to being honest, he should be smart. And this was really stupid on his part – a complete miscalculation … he should have known at this point that I was not going to go quietly.”
William Barr’s Trump book: self-serving narratives and tricky truths ignored
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/03/william-barr-attorney-general-trump-book
In a press release of his own, Berman said he had not resigned. The next day he showed up for work, greeted by a swarm of reporters. Then, in a public letter Berman now calls “an idiotic diatribe”, Barr said Berman had been fired by Trump.
Barr did drop a plan to replace Berman with an acting US attorney, instead allowing Berman’s deputy, Strauss, to succeed him. Berman says that enabled him to step aside in good conscience. He calls Barr’s move a “surrender”.
Berman describes both his belief he was fired because his independence represented “a threat to Trump’s re-election” and Trump’s insistence to reporters on the day of the firing that he had not fired Berman – Barr had.
“Barr’s attempt to push me out,” he writes, “was so bungled that he and Trump couldn’t even get their stories straight.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/07/donald-trump-william-barr-geoffrey-berman-southern-district-new-york-book
louieforpar, Yes, and surely it follows that any voter who supports such a creature has to be at least somewhat deranged themself.
That of yours i think is a top effort, you might even find a couple to add to your list in this post .. The Psychopath in Chief ..
"Firstly, a 2020 four forming a partial portrait of Trump
[...]The Mass Psychology of Trumpism
[...]
[ Insert: Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley
The former president is inciting violence against the nation’s top general. America’s response is distracted and numb.
By Brian Klaas
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/ ]
He now urges police to shoot shoplifters.
[ Trump calls for police to shoot shoplifters as they leave the store
Candy Woodall USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/01/trump-police-shoot-shoplifters-california/71021289007/ ]
He has begun characterizing his political adversaries as subhuman “vermin” who must be “rooted out.”
I spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write ‘The Art of the Deal.’
I now see a deeper meaning behind his behavior.
Tony Schwartz
·Published in GEN May 28, 2020
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Try - Nope gone again. If anyone has idea on how to see the full Maddow - From Russia with Lev, please do.
Do you ever listen to the Podcast "Wait Wait Don't Tell me" on NPR? It's a game show of sorts where 3 panelist/comedians answer questions about recent news events.
This past week in the game called "Bluff the Listener" the panelists told 3 stores about Target and the home listener was tasked with picking out the true story (the other two stores were made up). The 8 year old driving to Target and drinking the Frappuchino was the true story.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/id121493804
On that same show they played a game called "Not My Job" with actor Gary Oldman, who was terrific in the TV series "Slow Horses" a British spy thriller:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Horses
Shooks, the full From Russia with Lev YouTube video is gone.
Lev Parnas tells his story, seeks redemption in new Maddow documentary, 'From Russia with Lev'
Trumps Derangement explained:
A deranged CONVICTED FELON,cheater,Liar sometimes requires the shoe to fit.
You sexually assaulted a woman in the dressing room of a clothing’s store. Deranged
You are taped saying “I just grab them by the vajajay.”Deranged
You have a copy of Mein Kampf at your bedside. Deranged
You supported the KKK in Charlottesville. Deranged
You sat your fat azz in the White House for 187 minutes and did nothing when this country’s Capital was being ravaged. Deranged
You cheated on not one but two wives,of which one just gave birth to your child. Deranged
You were a pal of Jeffrey Epstein. No narrative needed here. Deranged
You admire and wish to be a communistic,authoritative to likes of Putin,Xi,victor orban. Deranged
You stated you would pardon those found guilty and serving time in prison for the January 6th insurrection that you caused. Deranged
You sign a picture of a dead girl,smile and pose with other idiots. Deranged
You state stormy Daniels reminds you of your daughter. Deranged.
You state if Ivanka wasn’t your daughter you would date her. Deranged.
You tell the world our fallen service members are suckers and losers. Deranged
You fucked a porn star that’s been with hundreds.You’re married. Deranged
You pose with an AI generated photo with Black folks you really hate. Deranged
You still think you won the 2020 election. Deranged.
Lime Time, Trump Devotional Syndrome. Trump Dereliction Syndrome. Trump Deterioration Syndrome. Trump Disintegration Syndrome.
You people have so many others to choose from, still you pick deranged.
Understandable i guess in that Trump has been ripping you off for so long you love him for it.
Why would anyone visit such a shit site even once, you would have thought 2016 and Jan. 6 would have been enough.
Interesting read. Missed before, grabbed a wheel search. Good you made back to the cat ok.
LOL Guessing Hunter is smarter than that now. My turn:
Snake was having a bad "hare" day😁 pic.twitter.com/pflhkBa6Zb
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It's just the six-monthly blood test is all. No particular health problem except the basically self-inflicted COPD ..
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-(copd)#:~:text=Overview,damaged%20or%20clogged%20with%20phlegm. , mine for life now. Thanks.
How Anthony D’Esposito went from cop to GOP congressman in a Biden district
‘Keep the windows down,’ New York Republican says
[...]
Q; Your district backed Joe Biden by double digits in 2020. So what do you need from McCarthy to be able to convince voters to split their tickets next year, especially if you don’t have progress on SALT?
A: Many people feel the Democrats in New York have gone too far to the left. They’ve seen the implementation of cashless bail. They’ve seen the state legislature really try to change suburban communities into what we see in the five boroughs. I mean, many of our families moved out of the five boroughs onto Long Island because they wanted a better quality of life.
Voters see someone like me as a person with common sense. And then from leadership, we need them to have a really good understanding of what our districts are about. And I think they’re doing that.
Speaker McCarthy has already visited my district twice, Leader Scalise has visited my district twice, Whip Emmer has been to my district, and they understand that Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 80,000.
My district is very diverse. We have a corridor that is a majority-minority community. We also have one of the largest Jewish populations in the country and the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. The relationship that the United States has with Israel is very important in my district, and I think that’s one of the reasons the speaker recently named me to the parliamentary working group between the Knesset and the House of Representatives. He also has very limited appointments to the national Holocaust Museum, and he gave me one of those.
When it comes to legislation, we have been very clear in where we stand. [Members from] New York have been very strong allies of organized labor. When certain amendments were about to come to the floor that had a devastating effect for organized labor, we said we couldn’t support it. And listen, when it comes to the abortion issue, we have always said it’s a state issue.
Q: But are you worried that if the GOP continues to focus on cultural issues, you’ll get labeled as just another Republican?
A: Am I concerned? Yeah, obviously, the Democrats have already committed tens of millions of dollars just to New York to win the seats back. We’ll see what happens with redistricting, but I am confident that our conference from New York is going to maintain our seats and hopefully pick up one or two more.
The issues do concern me, and when I go home, I take every opportunity to talk about it. I want to talk to my neighbors and let them understand that the Republican Party of Nassau County and the Republican parties across this country are different Republican parties.
We have colleagues who come from different parts of this country, and voters sent them here to represent them, and they are doing just that. And I have voters who sent me here, and I’m going to represent their interests. Being accessible, being in the community, being the first guy off that floor on a Thursday or Friday and back to Reagan to get to JFK so that I can be at those Boy Scout events and the fire department parades and the ribbon cuttings for chamber of commerces — that’s the stuff that’s going to make the difference.
Q: George Santos has become a sort of antihero to a subset on the right. Their logic is that if liberals dislike him, he must be good. What do you make of that?
A: They don’t realize that everyone doesn’t like him.
https://rollcall.com/2023/09/26/how-anthony-desposito-went-from-cop-to-gop-congressman-in-a-biden-district/
Fabulous!
Amazing Music environment pic.twitter.com/Be8rsTzywO
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Thank you! Sweet little ratties!
My cynical thought is, how did such a new and now obviously deeply right wing entrenched judge really get a 'random' selection?
I believe she's the only judge in that district court. Which is apparently in the middle of nowhere. Why the case ended up there is beyond me, but I think Jack Smith should have understood that was a possibility, and made sure it didn't happen.
https://www.wikihow.com/Where-You-Are-from-Meaning
My God. "MEANING"?? The illustration tells the story: the explanatory article is about young people. They meet and make small talk at a college mixer. "Yeah, I'm a freshman. I'm from Michigan, you?"
I've lived in four states and, for many years, in another country. That is not unusual. I don't have a "hometown", or a "home state."
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