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Lost the war?
But then, the President doesn't control the price of gas......
I think it’s odd that one of the two major political parties in the United States has an undying need to have flags, stickers, signs, hats, T-shirts, mugs, banners, pennants, scarves, plates, and everything with stupid political messages on it at all times, and the other party has basically none of it. One of these two parties is obsessed.
DOJ is looking past J6 and are on to something much bigger — Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy:
Adam Schiff
Sarah K. Burris
July 26, 2022
https://www.rawstory.com/adam-schiff-trump-doj-probe/?fbclid=IwAR1xeVZM7VElnzlox3N-D-FHWuXOdpHvobuWFJNNbNUzfcWRI4uiQLAgg1c
Walking a fine line...
Hawley Concerned That Being a Coward Is Overshadowing His Work as a Fascist
“People are focusing on the totally chickenshit Josh Hawley and ignoring the lusting-for-autocracy Josh Hawley,” the senator complained.
By Andy Borowitz
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Report Confirms Surging Biden Economy Despite GOP ‘Doom’ Narrative
By Gloria Christie -July 25, 2022
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President Joe Biden has earned his place in history as he “created one of the strongest economies” yet. But somehow the Republicans manage to walk in lockstep propaganda rather than legislating. And Democrats have a messaging problem. Take a look at the economy that our president turned around while juggling at least a dozen crucial balls. As The Lincoln Project noted about our president’s successes, “The numbers don’t lie.”
Its video shows President Biden out in the field with American workers in the areas of energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, and more. Plus 90 percent of the 6.6 million jobs he created this year do not require more than a high school degree.
Just last month, he created 1.2 million. Dems need to discount this recession talk. Never has America faced a recession during strong growth on the labor side.
Most important, President Biden has been providing more relief to bring down costs for American families. To that end, he brought gasoline prices down 70 cents per gallon last month. He is also working to allow competitive Medicare prescription drug prices.
Third, Congress needs to pass the president’s semiconductor bill. That will bring manufacturing relief that can ripple through the economy, including bringing back more union jobs.
The Lincoln Project showed just some of the disasters POTUS has had to face this, in less than two years in office:
An attempted coup
The COVID virus pandemic
The war in Ukraine that has driven up the price of a barrel of oil
Republican legislators embracing the Trump autocracy, not our democracy and the freedom it brings
The COVID virus pandemic
And an attempted coup.
Check out The Lincoln Project’s video is below:
‘THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS CREATED ONE OF THE STRONGEST ECONOMIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. HE BUILT US BACK BETTER. THANK YOU ‘
But President Biden cannot do this alone. Americans can spread the word.
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Capitol Officer Fanone Rips Josh Hawley For Running Like A Fool
By Gloria Christie -July 22, 2022
One of the first police officers to testify before the House January 6 Select Committee was the heroic Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, as NPR described him. When reporters asked him what he thought of Senate Josh Hawley (R-MO), the officer did not crack a smile. The Lincoln Project captured his response for…
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January 6 Committee Urges Merrick Garland To Go After Trump
By Gloria Christie -July 24, 2022
Will the Department of Justice (DOJ) criminally investigate Donald Trump? Four members of the House January 6 Select Committee came out full force on Sunday talk shows. They urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to do just that in the strongest language possible. Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) appeared on CNN’s State of the Union…
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Republicans Go Silent As Gas Prices Fall Day After Day
By Gloria Christie -July 19, 2022
Gasoline prices have been dropping as President Joe Biden approached the problem head-on. We see prices per gallon at $3.99 once again. Not everywhere, but in about 20 percent of all filling stations. Biden pointed out that oil profits are astronomical and pressured the oil giants to drop the prices at the pump. Since President…
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On Friday, Axios began to publish a deeply researched and important series by Jonathan Swan, explaining that if former president Trump retakes power, he and allies like his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), and head of Trump’s social media network Devin Nunes are determined to purge our nonpartisan civil service and replace it with loyalists. In a normal administration, a new president gets to replace around 4000 political appointees, but most government employees are in positions designed to be nonpartisan. Trump’s team wants to gut this system and put in place people loyal to him and his agenda.
When he campaigned for the presidency, Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of officeholders who, he suggested, were just sucking tax dollars. Once in office, though, Trump grew increasingly angry at the civil servants who continued to investigate his campaign’s ties to Russia, insisting that figures like former FBI director Robert Mueller and former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, were Democrats who wanted to hound him from office. (They were, in fact, Republicans.)
Trump’s first impeachment trial inflamed his fury at those he considered disloyal. The day after Republican senators acquitted him on February 6, 2020, he fired two key impeachment witnesses: U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the top expert on Ukraine at the National Security Council. Ironically, Vindman had testified in the impeachment hearings that he had reassured his father, who had lived in the Soviet Union and was worried about Vindman’s testifying against the president, not to worry because in America, “right matters.” Trump fired Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny, at the same time, although he had nothing to do with the impeachment.
A Trump advisor told CNN the firings were intended to demonstrate that disloyalty to the president would not be tolerated.
Within days, Trump had put fierce loyalist John McEntee in charge of the White House office of personnel, urging him to ferret out anyone insufficiently loyal and to make sure the White House hired only true believers. McEntee had been Trump’s personal aide until he failed a security clearance background check and it turned out he was under investigation for financial crimes; then–White House chief of staff John Kelly fired him, and Trump promptly transferred McEntee to his reelection campaign. On February 13, 2020, though, Trump suddenly put McEntee, who had no experience in personnel or significant government work, in charge of the hiring of the 4000 political appointees and gave him extraordinary power.
Trump also wanted to purge the 50,000 nonpartisan civil servants who are hired for their skills, rather than politics. But since 1883, those jobs have been protected from exactly the sort of political purge Trump and McEntee wanted to execute.
A policy researcher who came to Trump’s Domestic Policy Council from the Heritage Foundation, James Sherk, found that employees who work in “a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating” job can be exempted from civil service protections.
On October 21, 2020, Trump signed an executive order creating a new category of public servant who could be hired by agency heads without having to go through the merit-based system in place since 1883, and could be fired at will. This new “Schedule F” would once again allow presidents to appoint cronies to office, while firing those insufficiently loyal. One Trump loyalist at the Office of Management and Budget identified 88% of his agency as moveable to Schedule F.
Biden rescinded Trump’s executive order on January 22, 2021, just two days after taking office.
According to Swan, Trump has not forgotten the plan. Since the January 6 insurrection, he has called those former colleagues who did not support his coup “ungrateful” and “treasonous.” In a new administration, he would insist on people who had “courage,” and would reinstate the Schedule F plan in order to purge the career civil service of all employees he believes insufficiently loyal to him.
The idea of reducing our professional civil service to those who offer loyalty to a single leader is yet another fundamental attack on democracy.
Democracy depends on a nonpartisan group of functionaries who are loyal not to a single strongman but to the state itself. Loyalty to the country, rather than to a single leader, means those bureaucrats follow the law and have an interest in protecting the government. It is the weight of that loyalty that managed to stop Trump from becoming a dictator. He was thwarted by what he called the “Deep State,” people who were loyal not to him personally but to America and our laws. That loyalty was bipartisan.
Authoritarian figures expect loyalty to themselves alone, rather than to a nonpartisan government. To get that loyalty, they turn to staffers who are loyal because they are not qualified or talented enough to rise to power in a nonpartisan system. They are loyal to their boss because they could not make it in a true meritocracy, and at some level they know that (even if they insist they are disliked for their politics).
Between 1829 and 1881, all but the very highest positions throughout the government were filled by the president on the recommendations of officials in his party, so every change of administration meant weeks of office seekers hounding the president. After the Civil War, the numbers of federal jobs climbed, until by 1884 there were 131,000 people on the federal payroll. Assignment of these jobs was based not on the applicants’ skills, but on their promise to bring in votes or money for their party. Once a man scored a government job, he was expected to return part of his salary to the party’s war chest for the next election.
And then, on July 2, 1881, a man who had expected a government job and didn’t get it retaliated for his disappointment by shooting the president, President James A. Garfield, in the back as he walked up the stairs of a train station in Washington, D.C. The assassin expected that Garfield’s successor, Chester A. Arthur, would reward him with a job.
Horrified, Americans recognized that a government that was for sale by the political party in charge created men who saw government only as a way to make money and were willing to tear the entire system down to get their cut. Even though they hoped no one else would go so far as Garfield’s assassin did, they could see that such a system attracted those who could not get a decent job on their actual merits.
So in 1883, Congress passed and President Arthur signed An Act To Regulate and Improve the Civil Service of the United States, more popularly known as the Pendleton Civil Service Act. It guaranteed the government would have skilled workers by requiring applicants for positions to pass entrance exams, and then protected them from being fired by an incoming president of the opposite party. At first, only a few jobs were covered, but presidents expanded the system quickly. Our government employees became highly qualified, and loyal to the country rather than to a president.
That seems likely to change if Trump gets back into office.
So are religions...3,000+ at last count... /e
So the fact that Jan 6 happened and our Secret Service coincidentally lost all cell phone records for that time period? BULLSHIT! It doesn’t even pass the smell test. Anyone in network security knows that this was not an accident - especially for the secret service. There’s something much bigger here that’s going on….. At this point the entire agencies leadership should be terminated for cause. I mean the entire leadership. A systemic “cleansing” of the entire service should be done now. Immediately. The secret service is now a party to conspiracy to over throw the US Government. How much worse can it get?
What if she WASN'T a virgin...
Just a terrified near pre teen, 12 - 16yo, raped by an older man. Who then managed the most colossal coverup in religious spawned lore...
A lot has happened since April 2, 2021...
Man Charged With Murder in North Carolina Road Rage Shooting That Killed Pennsylvania Mother
Dejywan Floyd, 29, of Lumberton, was arrested early Thursday at an apartment complex, the Robeson County Sherriff's Office said in a news release.
Published April 2, 2021 • Updated on April 2, 2021 at 12:08 am
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/man-charged-with-murder-in-north-carolina-road-rage-shooting-that-killed-pennsylvania-mother/2764338/
Jon Perr is in Portland, Oregon.
July 19,2020
I would like to share a few thoughts about the situation here in Portland, Oregon with my friends around the country.
In a nutshell, if you are hearing reports that Portland is “under siege” and “violent mobs” are leaving a charred hellscape of destruction and death in their wake, you are being deceived. Worse still, if you believe these reports, you are not merely doing a disservice to those of us here in the Rose City. You are failing your country in its time of need by refusing to stand up to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.
To be sure, we have had large and enthusiastic marches for over 50-plus days to support Black Lives Matter and push for long overdue police reform. Many of these protests were massive, drawing tens of thousands of peaceful marchers. Yes, we suffered vandalism and some looting in downtown, most of it about two miles from my house. Those crimes, though, largely occurred in the early days of the demonstrations. These episodes, carried out by perhaps dozens, did not enjoy the support of either the marchers or the government of Portland or the state of Oregon. Confrontations between small groups of marchers and police had been on the decline when President Trump decided to launch his political theater here.
Simply put, there is no justification whatsoever for the deployment of militarized federal officers in Portland. Mayor Wheeler and Governor Brown didn’t ask for them and don’t want them. This isn’t Watts in 1965, or Newark or Detroit in 1967, or even Los Angeles in 1992. Portland isn’t in flames and the lives of its citizens are not at risk. And Portland in 2020 certainly isn’t Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, Oxford, Mississippi in 1962 or Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1963. In all three of those cases, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy dispatched troops and/or federal marshals and deputized border agents precisely because the local and state governments were violating the law of the United States by blocking desegregation of the schools and universities as required by the 14th Amendment. Federal action was absolutely required to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens in those states.
President Trump, Attorney General Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Wolf are now engaged in the exact opposite behavior. There is no emergency here. Neither the city of Portland nor the state of Oregon is breaking federal law. Instead, unidentified federal officers in unmarked cars are detaining American citizens, at times without warning, without reason and beyond the physical jurisdiction of the Hatfield Federal Courthouse complex. It is the Trump administration and its foot soldiers who are violating the constitutional rights of our fellow Portland area residents. The First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly, the Fourth Amendment protecting Americans’ rights “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizure,” and the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process of law are all being unilaterally abrogated.
So, my friends, ask yourselves: Why is this happening?
This unnecessary and unconstitutional federal occupation is underway precisely because Donald Trump has nothing left to offer his most ardent backers but fear itself. Trump’s military parade in Portland is about much more than distracting the country from his catastrophic failure, unique in the world, to prevent the American carnage of Coronavirus and the concomitant devastation of the U.S. economy. The President is sending a message to HIS people—white, older, disproportionately evangelical and southern—that they should be afraid of the phantom menace of black Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ Americans, latte-sipping liberals (like me!), mythical Antifa hordes and everyone else they blame for their lot in life. Fearmongering is easy while governing is hard, especially during an era of tectonic global economic change and a time of pandemic. As one Trump voter complained during the government shutdown in early 2019:
“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
Well, Trump is back to doing what he does best: hurting the people he needs to be hurting. What Trump is doing here has nothing do with Portland and everything to do with satisfying his base’s never-ending demand that the bad guys be punished. Not Russians, mind you, but American citizens.
All of which makes Trump’s militarized intervention in Portland un-American in addition to immoral and unconstitutional. As the saying goes, it’s worse than a crime, it’s a mistake.
Which is why I am looking to my Constitution-loving libertarian and conservative friends to join me in denouncing Trump’s lawlessness. His is a potentially lethal threat to American democracy and institutions. After all, I remember the right-wing hysteria over the Pentagon’s long-planned “Jade Helm” military exercises in 2015. Some Republicans accused President Obama of planning to impose martial law in Texas and other southern states.
Of course, that was fake news. As his shameless display in Portland shows, Trump’s threat to Americans’ freedom is real.