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About time someone listened to me about Eric Swalwell and his chinese spy he had for years in D.C. and he on the Intelligence Committee, he should be on the Unintelligent Committee. Everyone knows Chinese folks have sworn to their leadership when coming here to steal all America has to offer to them, and we give it over so freely and stupidly every day. Tic Toc being one of those methods but Eric he did it directly from his pants.
U.S. Transfer of Wealth to Other Countries Due To Climate Change Made Up Disaster Which By the Way Does Not Exist but you Liberals once again have been sold a bill of goods with no delivery, other than your tax dollars to other folks who have disasters strike which has happened for thousands of years but now its got a way for them to grab our cash from the good old USA.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1132980254/its-going-to-be-hard-for-biden-to-meet-this-11-billion-climate-change-promise
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11448109/Biden-agrees-pay-climate-reparations-compensate-developing-countries-global-warming.html
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-agrees-to-pay-climate-reparations-and-china-the-worlds-top-carbon-emitter-could-profit/
Need to get the banks onboard here upfront or their raping of American’s wealth will not work.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-regulator-proposes-sweeping-climate-risk-guidance-banks-2021-12-16/
https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-negotiators-agree-pay-climate-reparations-poor-nations
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/climate-reparations-cop27-what-it-means-rcna49105
https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/11/07/developing-countries-want-climate-reparations-heres-what-it-could-cost
Oh and by the way Al Sharpton it pissed off because his family is not getting reparations before climate reparations are paid out.. So Al will my family get reparations money for fighting and dying to end slavery as we fought on the North side of this battle, where is our reparations for dying and bleeding for this cause. And by the way all those Somalian’s and other African nataions that came here to live over the last 40 years and have nothing to do with slavery or its ugly history get money as well due to their skin color alone?
Ahead of his time again on this Tic Toc issue going on today, but hey because you hate this person no credit will be given. He was not ahead of my time here as I have stated Social Medial outlets serve not purpose in life, produce zero productivity and just are a total waste of humankind’s time in life. These sites cause nothing but strife and steal your identities but hey humans are dumb and lazy and think the Commie Chinese Government are nice people and love us just like we lull ourselves to sleep thinking such nonsense about their Government that controls all facets of life in thier regime of China. Fakebook, Tweetle Dee-Tweetle Dumb, Insta-crap, Tumbler-Bumbler-Dumber, My Space Out, You Tub, Snap Crap, What’s Up Yours. To name a few useless sites that steal your identity and crap all over you all. Not to mention now Banking on your Phones yeah that is safe don’t you know fools all of them. Cannot spell i-d-i-o-t-s fast enough. For example stolen identities that we all heard about was from China at Equi-No-Fax idiots yeah all your data is safe no worries here, when all your accounts get drained one day you will maybe take notice.
Trump on Tic Tac being on its being owned American Company, not Chinese owned. Ahead of his time maybe some on this board will catch up to reality someday, but I highly doubt it, you all live in the past and no looking forward.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-tiktok-shut-us-sept-15-deal-made/story?id=72150177
Enes Kanter
But hey just like Enes Kanter who has reeled against slave labor in China making NBA stars and the NBA billions of dollars he has been banned by stating the truth of this fiasco and human rights in China that exists today, but Democrats love China. No one is standing up for this one person stating the real facts of China while everyone else buries they heads in the sand. Oh well the humanity of it all right folks.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072678653/why-nba-player-and-political-activist-enes-kanter-added-freedom-to-his-legal-nam
https://nypost.com/2022/08/02/enes-kanter-freedom-im-being-blackballed-by-nba/
China and Biden’s Climate Change Values and Requests and Denials.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-uses-climate-change-threaten-joe-biden-administration-1566056
https://ccci.berkeley.edu/news/2021/11/more-numbers-china-s-new-climate-plans
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/biden-climate-plan-is-not-a-counter-to-china-john-kerry.html
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-says-it-won-t-pay-into-climate-fund-for-developing-countries/6828347.html
Biden’s economy when he became President inflation was a 1.2% today 8% nothing more to add here folks this is what you all wanted so this is what you get.
Biden’s joining of the Paris Climate accords now places our money in jeopardy as they had to get the Banks to agree to their conditions. Those who hold bank accounts in Europe are now paying negative interest for keeping money in the bank soon coming to America whereas if a Bank feels you do not support or reduce your carbon footprint in the future then they will be allowed via Federal fiat dictates that they charge your accounts a set percentage every month to pay for carbon credits, its coming folks soon to a bank near you. Believe it move your money soon or you snooze you lose.
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Banks’ Climate Commitments – QuickLook | Deloitte US
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Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve Board announces that six of the nation’s largest banks will participate in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise designed to enhance the ability of supervisors and firms to measure and manage climate-related financial risks
Climate Chaos: NGOs Name Top Banks Who Put $3.8 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels (forbes.com)
May help some here. I did not expect to see this on this site. But it is what it is.
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/TPTW/opinion
OK here goes folks. This President you call Orange Man did many things while in office. He started by having a attempted coup against his ever taking office in the months prior to his taking office there were those other American known for their underground tactics already working against him taking office with a false plot about Russian collusion now having been proven not to be true at all. But in that effort and his findings out about it who could he even trust in D.C. not his world location. Only the most dedicated of his followers and staff would stay and help him carry on after this false fiasco which followed him all the years of his Presidency from the get go. So trust level for him of the D.C. crowd was very low, this is why he had and has enemies on both sides of the aisle, he played both sides because he knew not whom to trust here, he remember was the outsider coming in to straighten up those long time on the take bought and paid for politicians who never leave office and I do not need to go into why they stay you all know why they stay and it is not for American’s best interest to give you a clue here. How many of you would trust anyone in D.C. after winning the Presidency and finding out they were attempting to get rid of you from the get go here? Who would you trust at that point, that is the position that these bad actors did for him before he took office. What would any of you do, remember you are the outsider here dealing with those that have been there for years taking away American rights and tax money. Whatever happened to No Taxation without Representation?
Other than the newbies just duly elected into office the older folks know the game and play the game everyday not earning your trust or their paychecks. They work for themselves using deep pocket lobbyists and others with intent to get their share of our Tax dollars. These newbies once again will be in for a big surprise when the old timers tell them how it is and how they have to vote with them. They take turns hating on each other to keep us all entertained that they really hate each other that is the biggest scam in American History. Better Actors and Actresses in Hollywood, nope they have nothing on these politicians who play their roles well and get paid handsomely for it.
Again I am neither of this party nor the other party that are the mainstream groups in our Nation here. I am an outlier giving you information you all can see if you look briefly online yourselves which you do everyday, at least some of you do here. Remember one thing Trump used to be a Democrat but knew he could not be in the same Party as the crooked Clinton clan, they were friends and probably still are today, they just do not show it in the public eye. More in common than we all know here for sure. You are the ones that have to deal with these two parties and those systems and long term bloodsuckers that remain in power/office and never leave because of the power and money they control. Control being the key word here, control of the masses. But again below are some links related to Trumps accomplishments and I am showing you both sides here especially the NY times listing with their provocative negative comments as expected of these accomplishments while this person was in office. I know you will not like what I am placing here as links as you never do like them, that is your choice not mine you can find hundreds more for and against his reign of terror in the White House I will just say here,
• NO Wars
• Job creation prior to pandemic (Thank you China and Fauci),
• United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957 do not need any Foreign Oil in this situation under Biden he is begging Countries for Oil.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal, This country has vowed to destroy the U.S. and Israel openly and constantly are a daily threat to Americans.
• BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME, this has been proven and under Biden is ongoing today, terrorists coming across our borders daily into our Country.
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord, now under Biden we are giving both India and China billions of dollars as they are considered under Biden Admin as emerging Countries???? So our Tax Dollars is going to China to help them with Climate controls????? Nice huh.
• Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the administration's national program to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (medical countermeasures).
So from these above items Prison Reform was also a major accomplishment.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments-2018/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/fact-check-trump.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biggest-accomplishments-and-failures-heading-into-2020-2019-12
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2310750/trump-administration-announces-framework-and-leadership-for-operation-warp-speed/
Now you can chime away and ship away at both my comments and links. Feel free as I really could care less.
No point I have learned that lesson on this board. You accept no good things done under his tenure as President so why start now. Thanks for goading me but did not work. He did plenty of good and plenty of bad I will say that much. But again not my guy or Party so does not matter much to me really in the end. The real powers that control our Country will make the next President like all the others, President has little control over this Country. You all grown up folks here smart enough as well should know that by now. Take care.
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Yes I am pretty well rounded for a human being so I search and view all points of opinions in my life. It does well not to shut out anyone in life but to be open for something new and different not the norm as most of you seem to live by here. Sorry that I am a varied individual I know you love one sided things in life. So be it you are you and I am me. Thanks for reminding me of my life once again. Take care and good luck with you great President.
Totally understand that as I to have found the same thing, my point being this write up was for Trump's B.Date and it speaks about him to a Tee exactly, if you read it.
You sound like your bitch father Biden. Take me out behind the woodshed and beat me up. Been done before I am still here pal.
Something of interest guess who this fits to a tee?
https://astronumerology.net/1946/6/14
It is a very simple and old concept here. Trump knew it well. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Very simple concept. This way Putin stays on his toes as does the Chinese nut job commie, they did not know how to handle this person. Simple.
My candidate are not allowed on the ballots in many States because the two parties have to approve of them getting on the ballot funny how free our elections are that you have to be a billionaire to run for office these days. Sad country we have when 25% of the voting public elect our leaders. Shameful very shameful.
Just wondering how many missiles hit Ukraine or Poland under Trumps presidency? Hmmmmm… can you say NONE. How many wars did he start being the big warmonger he was? I will tell you NONE. Just sss as ping not my guy or party but those things are true. C ya.
So whatever party you purportedly represent in your lives just know that you are one of a large 25% percentile in your State roughly being governed by whomever got elected in your States. This is why election process today stinks to high heavens and why folks stay home because no matter who gets elected you get the same result in D.C. from their shenanigans. Good Luck all. Ponder this Batman.
GEORGIA USA DATA 2022
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj4q-3F3qP7AhW8mmoFHUuiDbwQFnoECDgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fpolitics%2Falmost-all-eligible-georgians-are-registered-to-vote-data-show%2FWVN373LTIZAN7IJECDODHRJWLM%2F&usg=AOvVaw1bp9reA8TJTPQaO7bcQcCf
Federal election report says 95 percent of Georgia citizens are registered to vote (ajc.com)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj4q-3F3qP7AhW8mmoFHUuiDbwQFnoECDgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fpolitics%2Falmost-all-eligible-georgians-are-registered-to-vote-data-show%2FWVN373LTIZAN7IJECDODHRJWLM%2F&usg=AOvVaw1bp9reA8TJTPQaO7bcQcCf
7,200,000 Registered Voters in GA. 387,000 are eligible but not registered so 95% of GA possible voters are in fact registered.
Election Results Nov 8th. 2022.
Warnock got 1,941,499 votes from registered voters or 26.9%
Walker got 1,906,246 votes from registered voters or 26.48%
Oliver got 81,175 votes from registered voters or 1.1%
So total voters is 3,298,920 voted of 7,587,000 eligible so 51.785% voted and that vote is split basically between two (2) candidates. Nice huh.
7,200,000 plus 387,000 is 7,587,000 total eligible voters means the percentage above or less than 26%.
By the way in 2020 4,888,000 voted in GA.
So whoever wins this election in time will be representing about 25% of the registered voters in GA. 75% are not with the future selection of a candidate here so anyone whom head to D.C. and claims they are representing the folks from GA. Who sent them here is mistaken entirely and is a lie. They represent less than 25% of those who live in GA. Over age of 18.
ARIZONA USA DATA 2022
Number of Active Registered Voters in Arizona Close to Four Million as of January 2, 2020 | Arizona Secretary of State (azsos.gov)
https://azsos.gov/about-office/media-center/press-releases/1099
Has almost 4,000,000 registered voters in Arizona.
Election Results Nov 8th. 2022.
Kelly got 979,509 votes from registered voters or 24.48%
Masters got 884,191 votes from registered voters or 22.10%
Victor got 40,811 votes from registered voters or 1.0%
So total voters is 1,904,511 voted of 4,000,000 eligible so 47.61% voted and that vote is split basically between two (2) candidates as well here less percentage of voters voted in AZ as well than in GA.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi20Jrj46P7AhUBmmoFHXKKBVsQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2022%2F11%2F08%2Fus%2Felections%2Fresults-arizona-us-senate.html&usg=AOvVaw3VEHdDvwYecEZSqC2YDak-
Arizona U.S. Senate Election Results 2022: Kelly vs. Masters - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
NEVADA USA DATA 2022
Election Results Nov 8th. 2022.
Masto got 421,042 votes from registered voters or 22.7%
Laxalt got 436,854 votes from registered voters or 23.6%
Others got 10,302 votes from registered voters or .50% ½ percent
So total voters is 868,198 voted of 1,853,980 eligible so 46.8%voted and that vote is split basically between two (2) candidates. So each of these folks can gladly state in D.C. they are fully supporting about 23% of the State of Nevada.
2022 Statistics | Nevada Secretary of State (nvsos.gov)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1q87f5aP7AhU3RTABHVOsC7cQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvsos.gov%2Fsos%2Felections%2Fvoters%2Fvoter-registration-statistics%2F2022&usg=AOvVaw1ehEeznA-EyBiFI4BbtSgh
Sorry for my typo’s below. “Totally different view point” and “I quit swearing in my teens”.
Good evening all.
Be careful with your dirty mouth your intelligence is showing I am an honest hard working American Citizen with a totally different vierr we point then most of you here hold and unlike yourself I use proper English sometimes. Thanks though for your totally uneducated response I bet you grunt too!!!! I w we hit swearing in my teens. Grow up a bit please.
I see the one sided links to appreciate are still your mantra. Oh well to each their own. I liked the article myself and found it worthy enough for this unappreciative board.
This is why every American should be against our Two Party System. Power, Money and Control. Thank you Mr.Cockburn, no that is not my Urologist.
https://harpers.org/archive/2022/11/party-walls/
Party Walls
by Andrew Cockburn
Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment
November 2022 issue
[Letter from Washington]
Conventional wisdom holds that our political moment is, in Joe Biden’s words, “not normal.” Thus, the usual political lessons to be drawn from such historical events as the New Deal or the United States’ entry into the world wars are supposedly irrelevant now. This is surely a dangerous misconception, especially when promoted by those who remember the past incorrectly. That is why the work of Walter Karp, a passionate scholar of American political history who offered a bracing antidote to the popular beliefs of his own era, is so useful today.
A generation ago, Karp served as a contributing editor of this magazine. In the words of his friend and longtime editor Lewis Lapham, he was “a stormy petrel of a man, small and excitable, delighting in the rush of his words and the energy of his ideas” who “believed that in America it is the people who have rights, not the state, and that the working of a democratic republic requires a raucous assembly of citizens unafraid to speak their minds.” For more than a decade, beginning in 1978, he focused on abuses of power in Washington for Harper’s Magazine, deriding Democrats who collaborated with Ronald Reagan, the elected officials behind failing school systems, and Capitol Hill controls on the press. While he lived before the limitless political spending and the egregiously partisan Supreme Court that mark our political landscape, Karp’s pungent analyses are entirely relevant at a time when true representation seems far removed from the minds of politicians.
Karp firmly believed that the actions of party leaders can be explained only if one understands that they are primarily motivated by the pursuit and retention of power; any suggestion that national interest, or even ideology, drives their decisions he considered delusional. Karp once wrote that “we can judge the character of public men only by what they actually do,” which all too often involved betraying the platform that got them elected, almost always to further their own political fortunes. In his estimation, Democrats and Republicans therefore had much in common; by prioritizing their own rule, the two parties operated on a principle of collusion—“for without it neither party organization could long survive.”
Karp’s analysis of the actions and motives of the Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson provide illuminating examples of his approach. Though each had been enthusiastically elected on the promise of far-reaching reform, they all took steps that effectively frustrated their professed reformist intent. Having kept afloat the system threatened by a Depression-ravaged populace, Roosevelt largely abandoned further reforms in his second term on the grounds that gathering war clouds in Europe mandated concentration on “national security.” A generation later, Kennedy, possessed of a congressional majority inclined to reform, announced that he would introduce no major legislation without the cooperation of the Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, who duly blocked measures seemingly dear to the president’s heart, such as a civil-rights bill, thus saving Kennedy from alienating the Southern racist wing of the Democratic Party. When it came to Johnson, Karp wrote, one could presume that he sent more troops to Vietnam in hopes that it would “kill reform,” “distract the citizenry from domestic concerns,” and “provide the means to suppress dissenters and insurgents in the name of wartime unity.”
Overall, Karp argued, the enduring goal of our dominant political institutions is to maintain control of the parties, a goal that can supersede even their supposed objective of winning elections. “The whole purpose of party organizations at every political level,” he wrote in his 1973 book Indispensable Enemies, “is to sift out, sidetrack and eliminate men of independent political ambition, men whom the party bosses cannot trust.” Karp predicted that his analysis would be deemed “grossly ‘conspiratorial’?” or “paranoid.” He rebutted any critics thus:
When it can be established that a number of political acts work in concert to produce a certain result, the presumption is strong that the actors were aiming at the result in question. When it can be shown, in addition, that the actors have an interest in producing those results, the presumption becomes a fair certainty. No conspiracy theory is required.
Those who argued the contrary were suggesting that, regardless of their actions, those in high office are essentially “men of goodwill,” which he deemed a “farfetched theory indeed.”
Events this year confirm that Karp’s theories remain roundly applicable. The Democratic response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade serves as a prime example. When the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, it rapidly became clear that party leadership had readied no campaign to capitalize on the outrage triggered by the court’s Catholic fanatics, despite the opinion’s leak seven weeks prior. Reacting to complaints from the abortion rights movement—a key component of the Democratic base—the White House communications director Kate Bedingfield told the Washington Post that “Joe Biden’s goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party.” Her remark, undoubtedly representing Oval Office sentiment, would have come as no surprise to Karp. Nor would the reports that, following Kansas voters’ rejection of a proposed abortion ban by an eighteen-point landslide, White House advisers reportedly urged a position of “modesty and nuance.”
Ever since Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign, Democratic Party leadership has made it abundantly clear that eliminating the leftist insurgency is perhaps its highest priority. Examples abound, ranging from the brutal tactics deployed to prevent the popular progressive congressman Keith Ellison’s election as party chairman in 2017, to the full-court press assembled against Sanders in favor of nominating Biden in 2020. Earlier this year, the Democrats, reaping the consequences of their lackluster choice, resigned themselves to a crushing defeat in the midterms. But then the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, replete with climate funding; gas prices fell, thanks in part to Vladimir Putin selling large quantities of oil despite sanctions; and Biden, appealing to younger, progressive voters,canceled a portion of the $1.6 trillion federal student-loan debt burdening millions of graduates. These developments enabled Biden and his team to gain favor with progressives, but they in no way indicate a leftward shift that will last beyond November. Karp, for his part, would likely predict the opposite.
In keeping with his gloomy assessment of our political leaders, Karp described them in trenchant terms: “oligarchs” and “bosses” servicing “machines.” Such language is generally absent in the more decorous prose of punditry today, as is any echo of Karp’s thesis that all political decisions, even when labeled as acts of statesmanship, are adopted to serve the interests of the relevant players. Oligarchs, bosses, and machines are rampant in today’s political system. On the “left,” one need look no further than the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the body that oversees election efforts for the House of Representatives.
Its chair, always a Democratic House member chosen by party leadership, selects the DCCC’s executive director and other senior staff. This little-known group exercises immense power in deciding which campaigns receive the party’s blessing and, no less importantly, who gets campaign consultancy work—ever more lucrative regardless of who wins. The list of recent executive directors and their subsequent employment support Karp’s depiction of such machines as self-perpetuating: In 2005, Rahm Emanuel, then a congressman and chairman of the DCCC, hired the political consultant John Lapp as executive director ahead of the 2006 midterms. At a time of rising discontent with the Bush Administration, the team sought out centrist candidates supportive of the disastrous Iraq War. The Democrats won the House, by thirty-one seats, for which Emanuel took full credit. But many of the winning candidates were those—such as Steve Cohen in Memphis and John Yarmuth in Louisville—to whom the Emanuel–Lapp team had refused support.
While Emanuel went on to serve as chief of staff to Barack Obama—whose progressive campaign platform was soon neutered with the help of “moderates” ushered into Congress by Emanuel—Lapp co-founded the political consultancy Ralston Lapp Media. In 2010, as detailed by Ryan Grim and Rachel Cohen in a 2021 investigation for The Intercept, the firm reaped $3 million in contracts from the DCCC and House Democrats, where the executive director was now Lapp’s former deputy Jon Vogel. Following the party’s losses in the 2010 midterms amid the Tea Party surge, Vogel set up MVAR Media, which continues to gain lucrative DCCC contracts. Vogel was succeeded by Robby Mook, who later ran Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Despite frustration over his inept performance, Mook retained party favor. By 2019, he was running House Majority PAC, the independent expenditure arm of the Democratic House leadership, founded by Ali Lapp, wife of John.
Chuck Rocha, a Democratic consultant, summarized the issue bluntly. “Many of the firms that are servicing the DCCC are made up of the former executive directors who used to run the DCCC,” he said. “Once you run it as an executive director, then you become a media consultant, and the DCCC will hire you then to work on all of these races across the country.” For much of the period discussed above, the DCCC leadership has been determinedly white and overwhelmingly male—this for a party utterly reliant on black, Hispanic, and women voters. Complaints grew from minority lawmakers, as well as from consultants like Rocha, after which Lucinda Guinn, who identifies as Latina, was appointed as executive director in 2019. Following the party’s poor showing in the 2020 congressional races, Guinn left the job to become a partner at Ralston Lapp, which had billed the DCCC more than $760,000 over the course of the campaign. Rocha concedes that the leadership situation has improved somewhat, especially on the Senate side, but maintains that problems persist. When he met with four different Latino or black congressional candidates this summer, he told me, they claimed that the list of approved consultants given them by the DCCC did not include any black- or brown-majority-owned consulting firms.
There is a financial imperative to these arrangements. Consultants are rewarded for failure partly thanks to the importance of media buying to their business model. Media buyers charge a hefty commission in the form of kickbacks from TV networks and other media companies. The consultant wings of party machines are therefore naturally disposed to favor paid media, as opposed to grassroots efforts propelled by enthusiastic volunteers. Much of the time, Democratic grassroots campaigns are led by progressives—those mobilizing the exact voters Karp once described as unwanted “active citizens.”
While the Democrats regularly provide textbook confirmation of Karp’s relevance, the Republicans’ record appears more complicated, given that their insurgency has seemingly triumphed. Mitch McConnell and the establishment he represents have long struggled to quell the mutiny that flowered in the 2010 election and continued through Donald Trump’s presidency. The effort continues to falter, partly thanks to the Democratic establishment’s failure to convict Trump, no matter the production value of the January 6 hearings. (However, criminal charges related to the alleged theft of documents could yield different results.) Part of the insurgents’ success may be attributed to a factor that Karp did not anticipate: the enabling of dark-money mega-donors, such as the Koch brothers and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, thereby loosening party control over finances, a vital tool for enforcing discipline. Nevertheless, the beleaguered leadership has done its best to combat what former house speaker John Boehner derides in his memoir On the House as a “freak show” of “lunatics” overly endowed with independent political ambition and difficult to control. Boehner and his colleagues attempted to corral the upstarts into the Republican Study Committee under leadership they selected. Among other efforts to stem the tide, they recruited a primary opponent to run against the Michigan congressman Justin Amash, an irksomely principled member of the conservative faction—the exact kind of meddling Karp would expect from party leadership. Nevertheless, Amash won, and in 2015 Boehner was overthrown as house speaker by the Freedom Caucus.
The year before, disaffected Republican voters in central Virginia defeated the House majority leader Eric Cantor, an oligarch if ever there was one, in a primary upset. The victor, the conservative college professor David Brat, outspent forty times over by his well-heeled opponent according to some calculations, ran a populist grassroots campaign focused on the federal deficit, opposition to “crony capitalists” in politics, and immigration. Few outside the district had paid much attention. One who did was Donald Trump, who arrived via helicopter at a Brat fundraiser around six weeks before he himself unveiled his presidential run. “Dave Brat is onto something,” he told organizers.
The Republican establishment reacted with fury to the defeat of one of its favorite sons. “They really hated Brat,” recalls a former Republican staffer who requested anonymity, “especially after he was a ringleader in overthrowing Boehner.” In 2016, Brat’s constituency was redistricted, losing Hanover, a Republican county. The machinations that led to this rearrangement were complicated, involving a legal battle over statewide Republican gerrymandering, but Brat supporters had little doubt about who was behind it. “It was all part of [the leadership’s] effort to take Dave Brat out,” Dale Swanson, co-founder of the district’s Conservative Women’s Coalition, told me.
Yet, for all the furor, the Republican insurgency never quite achieved its stated goals. Obamacare was never repealed, even when Republicans held power in Congress and in the White House under Trump. The Kochs, who had funded Freedom Caucus campaigns with the expectation that the recipients would honor pledges to shrink government spending, watched unfaithful beneficiaries vote to raise the debt ceiling and swell the deficit. Even with Trump’s arrival at the White House, apparently the culminating insurgent triumph, followers’ hopes remained unfulfilled. Wall Street and corporations still ruled the roost. “It’s still a government of the people, not for the people,” Swanson complained to me, “a government repping lobbyists, not us.” Trump’s diatribes against McConnell, the ultimate Republican establishment leader—“a broken-down hack” with “a crazy wife”—denote his failure to subdue the establishment. A striking number of GOP candidates, however, owe their primary victories to Trump’s endorsement. A Republican civil war may be the Democrats’ best hope for victory in the midterms and beyond—especially if establishment leaders continue to oppose candidates who could actually win.
In their shared determination to exclude dissidents, both parties inevitably drive many such to secede and operate independently. This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders. This year, for example, Texas Republicans brought suit, albeit unsuccessfully, to exclude a raft of Libertarian candidates from the ballot. Democrats have been equally ruthless in their efforts to banish at least one Green Party candidate seeking election: Matthew Hoh, a Marine combat veteran who quit a foreign service career in 2009 to protest America’s war in Afghanistan, who is campaigning for a Senate seat in North Carolina. His platform is unreservedly progressive; among other leftist positions, he promotes universal health care, workers’ rights, and an end to America’s aggressive militarism. In North Carolina, as in many other states, minor parties are often enjoined to gather a set number of signatures from registered voters spread across a specified number of congressional districts, which are then validated by county election boards before routine certification by the state board of elections. The state board, made up of five members, is appointed by the governor, currently Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and consists of three Democrats and two Republicans.
Although the North Carolina Greens fulfilled the deliberately cumbersome requirements for signatures supporting a minor party petition—the bulk of which were certified by election board officials—the state board refused to validate them. They claimed, on the day before the statutory deadline to file as a candidate, that some of the signatures could be fraudulent and required further investigation. At the virtual board meeting, the Greens’ attorney asked whether any of the potentially tainted signatures were among those already verified by the county election boards, at which point the chairman, a Democrat, curtly declined to answer, then muted the attorney’s microphone. It took a federal appeals court decision to finally allow Hoh’s name on the ballot. Meanwhile, both state and federal Democratic groups participated in several lawsuits against the North Carolina Greens that were overseen by the Elias Law Group, a go-to law firm for the Democrats, generally acclaimed for its efforts to counter Republican voter-suppression initiatives and Trump’s election-fraud charges. The Greens have alleged that Elias operatives targeted voters on the Greens’ ballot petition, often falsely identifying themselves as Green Party officials, in order to persuade them to withdraw their names. Such insidious subterfuge would fit well with Karp’s proposition that “the grassroots political activity of the citizenry and its inseparable adjunct, the entry into political life of non-organization politicians, is a constant threat to party organizations.”
Karp’s political prognoses tend to be most vividly demonstrated in races within a given party. Take Philadelphia. The city has been a showcase for urban renewal in recent decades, complete with gentrification, an attrited public school system, and austerity in public services—attributes that leftists deride as free-market neoliberalism. These developments also run alongside gross inequality and outright poverty, notably among the majority-black population which suffers a poverty rate double that of white residents. The city has long been a Democratic fiefdom, and despite changing demographics—the current mayor is white, for the first time since 2000—the city council is majority black. “The political machine is still Democrat,” the Philadelphia activist Robert Saleem Holbrook told me. “Old-school Democrats: pro-development, pro-gentrification, pro-charter school, paying lip service to unions only at election time.”
Lately, however, a threat to the machine has emerged. In recent elections, Philadelphians have been voting for progressives in both city and state races. Anthony H. Williams, a state senator for the past twenty-four years, had, until this year, never faced a serious opponent. Responding to a union activist endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, Paul Prescod, running against him, Williams called the news “insulting.” To fight the challenge, he garnered hefty financial support not only from his Democratic colleagues, but also from Republican mega-donor Jeffrey Yass, a former professional gambler who made his billions as a Wall Street trader and is currently the richest man in Pennsylvania; Yass pours his money into his favorite free-market causes in the United States—especially when it comes to so-called school choice. Williams’s response perfectly confirms Karp’s point about the dedicated self-interest of party machines: “Don’t criticize me because of where I get money to run a campaign,” he told a reporter. “You want me to tie both hands behind my back and hamper myself to run an effective election? I’m not going to do that.” Williams won the Democratic primary in May, ensuring his reelection this fall, though Prescod received almost 40 percent of the vote. “Think about that,” Holbrook said. “The Democratic machine was willing to go to Republican PACs to hold off a progressive challenger.”
The machine also put considerable energy into an effort to derail another unwelcome progressive candidate. Summer Lee, a Democratic Socialist and a longtime supporter of Sanders, challenged and defeated an incumbent Democratic state representative in Pittsburgh in 2018 with 68 percent of the vote, becoming the first black woman from western Pennsylvania to sit in the statehouse. Two years later, she won reelection. A vocal proponent of universal health care, the Green New Deal, Palestinian rights, and criminal justice reform, Lee announced her intent to run for Congress in a district that historically favors Democrats. To oppose her, the party recruited Steve Irwin, a rich white attorney who attracted a torrent of money, not least from pro-Israel PACs such as AIPAC’s United Democracy Project and Democratic Majority for Israel—a lobby that has been an especially useful ally in beating back progressive challengers this cycle.
Some in Lee’s circle discerned a more underhanded effort to derail her election. During her primary race, Pennsylvania’s state and congressional districts were being redrawn, and political parties and citizen groups had submitted redistricting proposals. The mapping issue was ultimately decided by the State Supreme Court, where liberals hold the majority, and where justices had previously thrown out a former map, put in place by the Republican legislature and an example of egregious gerrymandering. The court-blessed map has been generally commended as bipartisan, but it did exhibit one curious feature: Lee’s home address was cut out of the district in which she intended to run, along with other portions of her voter base. This rearrangement was mostly a detriment to Lee, having far less of an effect on her primary opponents, and thereby generating suspicion among her campaign staff that she had been deliberately targeted. At the very least, Karp would likely have seen the redistricting as a thumb on the scale.
Lee won her primary race, and is expected to win the general. Meanwhile, in this year’s Senate Democratic primary, the city machine endorsed Conor Lamb, a corporate-friendly congressman beloved by the national party. Lamb ran unsuccessfully against John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor. Fetterman, a Sanders supporter, ran on a progressive social platform, supporting government-funded health care, legalized cannabis, and a reformed immigration system. (Fetterman has dodged attacks from pro-Israel PACs, having promised to “lean in” and strengthen relations with Israel.) His success, as well as Lee’s, surely gives the lie to the mantra that “progressives can’t win.” If successful, they pose a potential threat to establishment control. They can, however, be warded off by invoking existential menace. This “indispensable enemy” was one of Karp’s central concepts: a potent opponent that justifies shameful compromises and betrayals of the sort seen in the FDR, Kennedy, and Johnson presidencies.
Trump has been the most indispensable of enemies for the Democrats, so corrupt and clownish that Clinton hoped he would be her opponent in 2016. That hope has endured, as Biden’s September speech in Philadelphia once again confirmed, with its dark invocations of “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans” who “embrace anger,” “thrive on chaos,” and live “not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.” Meanwhile, his own Democratic allies had been pouring millions of dollars into Trump-backed primary campaigns around the country, from Colorado to New Hampshire, in a cynical effort to further split Republican factions. This strategy may yield success, especially since it has dawned on Democrats that support of abortion rights is a winning ticket. But an indispensable enemy can turn into something much more dangerous. It may evolve into a figure less fallible than Trump: a sharper, more presentable candidate such as the Florida governor Ron DeSantis, capable of summoning the MAGA army while maintaining support from supposedly moderate Republicans. Democrats still strive to suppress their own insurgents, but the day may come when they regret following their instincts. Of course, by then it may be too late. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment
by Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn
is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine.
Rooster remember they are fighting for Democracy, their meaning being that we are the only truthful party that tell no lies the others are a useless waste of space. He does it more kindly than I do here but again I am against any Country today with only a two party system. But hey they own the media and now Biden says now that Twitter is owned by another rich white guy only lies from the other parties will be accepted not our real truths we promote. So funny. Put a fork in it Dem.’s you are toast this time around and your lies will not save you snd the truth will set you all free. Good Day sir.
Yes by all means always carry an umbrella with oneself you could get weather a phenomenon known for decades. Thanks for the activist update on her wayward thinking appreciate you reminding us who gives the worldly orders around the planet. Good day sir.
If you say so zab it must be true. You will get this entire board to believe you as you quote only facts here.
ZAB no I love our Country here, Putin has his own cross to bear here, not me. But hey he dug his own grave here on this one. Ukraine is his starting point in my mind and Europe should step up to the plate and stop him. They allowed him to provide them fuel at 2 billion dollars per day. Trump at least was informing Europe it would end up being trouble for them but they did not listen because like you folks here no one liked the guy even when he was right on the money, but I digress.
Maybe you should open up a webster's dictionary and learn some new real words. They are available still I think, may help you get over these swear curse words you tend to use a lot here. But hey it is your life. Go for it. Tells me all I need to know about you.
The other side is known by osmosis, I guess. Good deal I did not know that. I must have slept through that part of the hearing, but then again I have watched none of the clown show, see enough of that here.
I guess if you believe all their stories this must be true if you have a link to prove it all make fuagf proud of you for doing so.
10-4, they love fairy tales as long as they can spin them around and around they go, they have a bigger fetish on Trump than his own followers. Maybe these guys on here are the Oath Keepers???
Oh Ok so they do not want all the information, I see then, thanks for clarifying for us slow old folks here, appreciate it. I though Liz Chaney was the judge and jury, from what I have seen, or maybe that was Gerry Nadler? Trial I used the incorrect term so you best crucify me over that one. Good catch. Such language to attempt to get some sense of a point over to me. Good luck in your training to be an adult.
Sorry but I am on America's side and protecting our own borders not someone else's 10,000 miles away from our families. Get real, do you honestly think this is a war intended to be Russia against Ukraine? What a dope. We need to get the heck out of this fray here as our arms are being depleted but perhaps we could go and beg Afghanistan rebels for the weapons we left behind there in that dumb azz pull out, like we are now begging Saudi for oil that we can produce on our own without anyone's help. I am for America here at home, not for some far away crime ridden country. Sorry that my allegiance is here, not there.
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FBI pays to get fake dossier that they already knew was phony. Oh well your tax dollars hard at work. October 2016 hmmmm.... before the election yet Hunters shenanigans occurred and was reported but no one knew about it. hmmmm.......
Seems fair to me in our great American system right folks, oh but you all agree with it. and Pulitzer prizes were given out on stories about this fake dossier, did those folks give back their fake stories and report that they were wrong the dossier was totally phony?
No they did not.
And more waste of money good old liberal union leader travels to Ukraine while the kids here in America are at their lowest level of learning and GPA's in years. Good job going to Ukraine, now DO YOUR JOB HERE LADY. Shows how much these dolts really care about America. Leave Ukraine to its own crime ridden economy. We are simply propping up a corrupt nation, I guess nothing new for our Government and its dumb azz leadership. Hey here's any idea how about leading in AMERICA first not Ukraine, how about protecting the American border not Ukraine's? Leaders today are mush.
US teachers union honcho ripped for visiting Ukraine to 'assess the situation'
by Jeremiah Poff, Education Reporter
October 11, 2022 12:35 PM
The president of the nation's second-largest teachers union received a wave of social media criticism when she announced she was visiting the border of Ukraine after Russian missiles peppered several Ukrainian cities.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, announced Monday on Twitter that she woke up that morning to "reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv and other cities" and that she was headed to the Ukrainian border to "assess the situation."
Woke up this am to reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv & other cities.Heading to the border now to assess the situation. This Russian attempt to frighten civilians & the effect on children (who are learning online today) is why this ???? trip is so important https://t.co/dUVOxsdwRQ
"This Russian attempt to frighten civilians and the effect on children (who are learning online today) is why this [Ukraine] trip is so important," Weingarten wrote in the tweet.
In a video shared by AFT's Twitter account, Weingarten revealed that she was visiting the war-torn nation at the invitation of the Ukrainian teachers union.
AFT President @rweingarten is in Ukraine today at the invitation of the Ukrainian teachers union. This is part of the continued work our union has done to support Ukrainian teachers and students during this war.
The tweet prompted a flurry of criticism of Weingarten, with many wondering why the president of a U.S. teachers union was focusing her public advocacy efforts on the Russia-Ukraine war.
"Why in the world is the teacher’s union head who kept American schools remote for two years in Ukraine Tweeting about Ukrainian school kids being forced to attend remote schools? This is next level tone deaf insanity," radio host and OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote.
Why in the world is the teacher’s union head who kept American schools remote for two years in Ukraine Tweeting about Ukrainian school kids being forced to attend remote schools? This is next level tone deaf insanity. https://t.co/WvPJGriBYP
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 10, 2022
"Can you just assess the situation of failing to properly educate millions of children here?" wrote Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children.
can you just assess the situation of failing to properly educate millions of children here https://t.co/nOE3GVmzFQ
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) October 10, 2022
Other users noted that Weingarten had pushed for extended school closures in the United States during the pandemic, forcing students into extended remote learning.
In Ukraine, kids got stuck with extended remote learning because of an actual war.
In America kids got stuck with extended remote learning because of Randi Weingarten. https://t.co/w3bcMHwvOv
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 10, 2022
Another total waste of time and money.
NATO countries are sending a trove of weapons to Ukraine after Zelensky’s requested air cover. Here’s what each country is sending over
Sophie Mellor - 55m ago
Nato-led allies are preparing to send advanced air defense weapons to Kyiv after Volodymyr Zelensky called on wealthy western nations to help Ukraine create an “air shield” against incoming Russian aerial attacks.
At the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense taking place in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, the U.K., Canada, France, and the Netherlands all promised to send new weaponry to Ukraine, on top of the air military systems already promised by the U.S. and Germany.
The move to send more artillery comes a day after three-quarters of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly called Moscow's annexation of Ukrainian territory "illegal" with only four countries (Syria, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Belarus) joining Russia to vote against the resolution.
Kyiv celebrated the summit calling it “historic” and welcomed the new weaponry, which will be used to fight back Russian missiles raining down on more than 40 Ukrainian cities and towns.
Zelensky previously said at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington: "The more assistance Ukraine gets now, the sooner we'll come to an end to the Russian war."
Russia has always held a staunch position against the West providing weaponry to Ukraine, accusing them of being “a direct party to the conflict." They also warn that if Ukraine is admitted to NATO, which it has already submitted a fast-track membership bid to join, this could trigger World War Three.
Here's what countries are sending to Ukraine:
Germany
Since Russia first began its airstrike against Ukraine on Monday, Germany has sent the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defense systems to Kyiv.
People view a displayed IRIS-T SLM air defense system at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, Germany, on June 22, 2022. With the participation of about 550 exhibitors from about 30 countries and regions, the ILA Berlin Air Show kicked off here on Wednesday. (Photo by Shan Yuqi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
People view a displayed IRIS-T SLM air defense system at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, Germany, on June 22, 2022. With the participation of about 550 exhibitors from about 30 countries and regions, the ILA Berlin Air Show kicked off here on Wednesday. (Photo by Shan Yuqi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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The IRIS-T system is manufactured by Diehl Defense, based in Überlingen, and cost about €140 million ($136 million) each. They are designed to provide medium-range, high-altitude cover for small cities and armies.
The missiles are deployable 360 degrees around the launcher and use infrared imaging to identify targets. The weapons have so far never been used on the battlefield and the final tests on the device were only conducted in late 2021.
The U.S.
Washington, meanwhile, has promised to speed up its delivery of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Tuesday, with two units expected to be delivered soon and six more sent over a longer time frame.
NASAMS, developed by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway and Raytheon, is one of NATO’s most widely used air-defense systems and is currently deployed to protect the Washington area.
But despite Washington's promise to send the launchers as soon as possible, there has been difficulty sourcing the weapons on such short notice. Raytheon Technologies Corp said on Tuesday it would be accelerating the assembly of the NASAMS units by using existing parts rather than building new ones from scratch to get them to Ukraine quicker.
Kangaroo Court with all Democrap's on board begins today once again showing only one side of the arguments. Just the way they wanted this to play out, they had their decision made now they have all the correct testimony to make it so. Good American justice you have to love it where one side shows what happened. Good deal. Fairness in action. I am sure this board appreciates the fine job their Dem.'s did here for them. Hope they never have to go to Court in the U.S. and have no arguments in their favor and see how they may like it. Oh well not too many American's I guess on this board that like our form of fair justice here. Guess they like it one sided kind of like Hitler's Courts must have been. Oh well cannot grow more brains in life you are stuck with what you all have. Tooth fairy is coming tonight too.
Jan. 6 Panel Reschedules Final Hearing as Key Questions Remain Unresolved
The committee, whose work has mostly faded from view since it wrapped up a summertime series of hearings in July, is toiling to conclude its investigation and recapture public attention.
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has rescheduled its next and potentially final hearing for Thursday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m., when it will attempt to refocus the country’s attention on former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the continuing threat that election deniers pose to American democracy.
Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the committee, said last week he expected the hearing to be the panel’s first without live testimony from witnesses. But he promised the committee would present new revelations about the Capitol riot and the events that led to it.
“We still have significant information that we’ve not shown to the public,” Mr. Thompson told reporters on Capitol Hill.
The hearing, which Mr. Thompson had previously said would be the panel’s last barring unforeseen revelations, was postponed abruptly last week as Hurricane Ian bore down on Florida.
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By the way good old FBI and everyone wonders why the former administration had their doubts about these folks, at least the ones involved in this scandal before the person even took their office too. Sad American history here.
The FBI offered British spy Christopher Steele $1 million in cash to prove the salacious allegations in his infamous 'Dirty Dossier' on Donald Trump, a senior bureau analyst told a federal court on Tuesday.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that the bureau made the offer in 2016 during a meeting in the United Kingdom - but didn't hand over the money because Steele couldn't back up the evidence.
At the time, agents were looking to verify claims the Kremlin had compromising videos showing Trump engaged in sexual activity in a Moscow hotel and allegations he was in contact with Russian officials before the general election.
There were also salacious claims Steele was commissioned by Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign and the claims in the dossier have since been debunked.
Steele penned the 35-page document, which alleged that the Kremlin colluded with Trump's presidential campaign, in 2016 after his private intelligence company Orbis Business Intelligence was hired by a law firm representing the Democrats.
Among other things, the 'golden shower' dossier claimed that the Russian security services could blackmail the President-Elect with allegations that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama.
The revelation about the substantial financial incentive being offered came in the trial of Russian analyst Igor Danchenko, one of Steele's primary sources, who is accused of lying to the FBI when questioned about his information.
He was indicted on five counts of making false statements to the FBI about the dossier. Prosecutors told the court Danchenko fabricated one of his own sources and hid the identity of another when he was interviewed by the bureau.
Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by Trump, is prosecuting the case in am Alexandria, Virginia courtroom.
Auten testified that information from the Steele dossier was used to support a surveillance warrant against a Trump campaign official, Carter Page.
Under questioning from Durham, Auten said the dossier was used to bolster the surveillance application even though the FBI couldn't corroborate its allegations.
Auten said the FBI checked with other government agencies to see if they had corroboration but nothing came back.
Auten and other FBI agents even met with Steele in the United Kingdom in 2016 and offered him as much as $1 million if he could supply corroboration for the allegations in the dossier, but none was provided.
Durham's years-long probe has resulted in a single conviction – of FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith for doctoring an email used to justify surveillance. The trial of Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann resulted in an acquittal.
Steele, an ex-MI6 intelligence officer, compiled the dossier as a series of dispatches. He had been a paid FBI informant.
Prosecutors said Danchenko, a Russia analyst and researcher based in Virginia, fabricated once source and hid another source of information as the FBI rushed in the weeks before the 2016 election to confirm information in the dossier. They accuse him of lying to the FBI when he was questioned about information he provided.
They also pointed to an area of harm – the FBI relied in part of information in the dossier to obtain warrants for phone and email surveillance of former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page, a U.S. citizen.
Your hero, need to worry about this man not fairy tales about a guy that has zero power, this is YOUR NUT JOB IN CHARGE TODAY GOD HELP US ALL even you.
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Zab so I guess Biden in the video did not say those words for the world to see is that what your lost mind is saying here. Even for all to see his exact words you dispute it occurred. Now I realize you have lost your mind because some site to you is somehow unworthy. Crazy still. Good luck with that.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-biden-saying-end-nord-stream-resurfaces-after-pipeline-leak-1747005
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/09/28/news/in-february-pres-biden-threatened-to-destroy-the-nordstream2-pipeline-if-russia-invaded-ukraine-now-some-wonder-if-us-blew-it-up/7115.html
https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-blow-nord-stream-pipeline-tucker-carlson-lays-possibility/
No you are saying that, we are not Russia.
A real leader of our Country would go out to the Rose Garden and hold a press conference letting the Saudi's know that the United States will begin full production of our oil reserves and refineries and we will also start undercutting your customers pricing and selling to them as well. But we have no such leader who is still counting his ill gotten gains from the Communist Red Chinese regime. Asleep at the wheel as usual and has no balls. Kamala has none either I have been told, and Joey is begging the Saudi's with hat in hand to give us more oil pleazzzzz..... what a dope and a sad President with zero backbone. Let them know Joey where we stand or you lose.
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blackhawks, like I stated to each their own. I agree with Mr. Shellenberger and disagree with those that refute him. He also names folks in his article involved in the climate dilemma of today. There are truths and falsehoods on every link posted by whomever and from wherever its source is. I agree to disagree with your comments below and those who dispute Mr. Shellenberger. he has been at this for years. So much for all his hard work to have those who know little dispute his writings. He was as I would say here WOKE UP and smelled the coffee. Reality for some here is simply hard to swallow for some reason. But hey again you have you're links and I have mine. Thanks though. Appreciate it.
I work in all phases of energy savings across the U.S. not just solar that just happened to be the discussion on this board at that time, so I chimed in on it. Sorry I do not meet your expectations here, but you have your axe to grind so go do it. I am out here. Thanks for the input and no I am not a liar fool.
A few other tidbits you may not have seen prior, but again its links that you guiys do not like from me, because I take the other side of the argument. And another poster seems to think that because I work in the energy field for over 30 years that I should believe in climate change activism and all their BS, well I don't prescribe to it I just save energy and do the WORK others talk about but do nothing to save Kw/Kwh.
We have been doing this long before Al Gore invented it. And that is but only one company in the U.S. and overseas, but there are thousands of companies that have been doing the WORK in America for four decades now and saving energy on a min. of 40% from grid power loads for each client. But hey I am no expert here you guys seem to be the experts while others again do the actual WORK in reality, why do you think they do not build nuclear plants much anymore?
All that load that we take off of the grid allows for further expansion and growth in America without needing to add these plants. Now with EV Charging Station loads that will once again be on the table as those are continuous loads at more than 3 hours of charging time so loading is at 100% like having a toaster on for three hours or more in your home.
You can thank me and others in this field for years now for our devotion to saving the planet without all the hype you all like to believe in like the climate nonsense noisemakers. We were green before it was popular. But hey I am done tooting my own horn here now. I am out. Go do something real to save the planet. Do not listen to apocalyptic voices among us as they are wrong, not 100% but doom and gloom destruction of our planet is really wayward thinking and scares the hell out children of today to commit suicide in some cases thank you AOC and Greta you have made life more difficult for a lot of kids hope you sleep well at night.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/28/prominent-environmentalist-censored-forbes-called-white-supremacist-writing-sense-about-climate-14938
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/there-is-no-climate-emergency-say-500-experts-in-letter-to-the-united-nations/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/