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29 other high-profile, profitable corporations also paid their execs more than they paid in federal income taxes in at least two of those five years, including:
— Americans For Tax Fairness (@4TaxFairness) March 13, 2024
AT&T
General Motors
Chevron
Marathon
Charter
FedEx
Whirlpool
These firms all made billions of dollars in profits.
“How Come Everything the Republican Party Stands for Involves Other People Dying?”
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to these outcomes?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-come-everything-the-republican-66c
THOM HARTMANN
MAR 13, 2024
According to a popular meme, comedian Noel Casler (the guy who worked on The Apprentice and outed Trump’s drug abuse and diaper wearing) asks, “How come everything the Republican Party stands for involves other people dying?”
He then goes on to note GOP support for assault weapons, opposition to masks and vaccines, opposition to saving the environment, and their all-out war on Obamacare and Medicare-for-All.
Casler may have just been being glib, doing the written equivalent of a standup routine, but his question deserves a serious answer, so let’s look at the evidence.
It’s undeniably true that Republican-controlled “Red” states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:
Spousal abuse
Obesity
Smoking
Teen pregnancy
Sexually transmitted diseases
Abortion
Bankruptcies and poverty
Homicide and suicide
Infant mortality
Maternal mortality
Forcible rape
Robbery and aggravated assault
Dropouts from high school
Divorce
Contaminated air and water
Opiate addiction and deaths
Unskilled workers
Parasitic infections
Income and wealth inequality
Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
People on welfare
Child poverty
Homelessness
Spousal murder
Unemployment
Deaths from auto accidents
People living on disability
But are all these things, along with widespread GOP support for dictators like Putin, Orbán, and Xi, happening because Republicans hate their citizens and worship poverty, death and disease?
Or is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to these outcomes?
It turns out that’s very much the case: these terrible outcomes are the direct result of policies promoting greed and racism that the GOP has been using for forty+ years to get access to billions of dollars and win elections.
Using racism as a political strategy while promoting and defending the greed of oligarchs always leads to widespread poverty, pollution, ignorance, and death regardless of the nation it’s done in.
We’ve seen it over and over again around the world: it’s happening today in India, The Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and Hungary, for example. And the GOP has spent the past 40+ years marinating itself in both.
Here’s how it happened here in America:
The GOP first openly embraced racism in 1964 when the party’s presidential candidate that year, Barry Goldwater, proudly refused to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was a huge shift for the party of Lincoln, and when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, the South did a collective “what the hell?!?”
As LBJ told Bill Moyers, “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.”
So the newly publicly proclaimed belief in white supremacy became an official part of GOP ideology in the 1960s, leading directly to Richard Nixon’s explicitly racist 1968 “Southern Strategy.”
It was later replicated by Reagan speaking about “states’ rights” at his first campaign speech near the scene of the murder of 3 civil rights workers, George HW Bush’s Willie Horton ad campaign, and Donald Trump’s rants about Mexican rapists and people from what he called “shithole countries.”
But racism alone can’t explain the entire list above. There had to be something else.
The second element embraced by the GOP that filled out the rest of the list above happened in 1980 when they hooked up with religious grifters and greedy, morbidly rich people.
Prior to that election year, George HW Bush and his wife Barbara were big advocates for Planned Parenthood and a woman’s right to choose an abortion. Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, had signed the nation’s most liberal abortion law and was also an outspoken supporter of Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood.
Similarly, the white evangelical movement prior to 1980 was largely supportive of abortion rights. They were furious, however, when the Supreme Court banned preacher-led school prayer and in the late 1970s Jimmy Carter pulled the tax exemptions of segregated schools run by white supremacist evangelicals.
Jerry Falwell had started his “Moral Majority” in 1978 and uber-Christian Paul Weyrich (co-founder of The Heritage Foundation and the guy who famously said, “I don’t want everybody to vote!”) signed up for the Reagan campaign.
As Donne Levy writes for George Washington University’s History News Network:
“Weyrich and Falwell realized that the tax exemption issue based on racial discrimination had limited value, but opposing abortion was a moral issue cutting across racial and religious lines. That was their thinking on the eve of the 1980 elections.”
The election that year saw the first major merger in American history between a political party and a religious movement largely run by grifters. Something that would have both shocked and horrified the Founders of our country and the Framers of the Constitution.
Republicans started talking about God (the word appeared in their platform for only the second time since the Party’s formation in 1856), and preachers and televangelists began to openly push GOP candidates from the pulpit in defiance of nonprofit law and the IRS.
The GOP also adopted Falwell’s call for a return to school prayer, hostility to sex education, rejection of women’s rights, reassertion of patriarchy, and open hatred of homosexuality.
Championing what today we’d call the “culture wars,” Republicans fully embraced the anti-science perspective of Falwell and his colleagues, questioning for the first time the theory of evolution, ridiculing global warming, and scoffing at concerns about pollution causing cancer and other diseases.
Within a decade they were even claiming, as Mike Pence wrote in a 2000 op-ed, “Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.”
As the GOP went deeper down their religion-induced rabbit hole, their hostility to science was logically accompanied by a hostility to education and educated people. George HW Bush and Rush Limbaugh began talking about “pointy-headed liberals in ivory towers,” openly trashing higher education to bring blue-collar voters into the party.
That was followed by a sustained Republican attack on public education itself by pushing for-profit privatized “charter schools” and vouchers, an ironic position in that Republican President Dwight Eisenhower had probably done more to advance public education than any president in the 20th century.
Thus was set up the GOP’s 2020 hostility to masks and Covid quarantines, sex education and birth control, and their 2021 attacks on vaccination. And their continuous denial of global warming.
The other big turning point for the GOP in 1980 was Reagan’s open embrace of America’s oligarchs.
Just four years earlier, in their Buckley v Valeo decision, conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled that when a rich person showered so much money on a politician that that politician pretty much only voted the way the rich person wanted, that was no longer bribery but, instead, First Amendment-protected “free speech.”
In 1978, in a Republican-appointee-only decision written by Lewis Powell (of Powell Memo fame), the Court extended that right to buy politicians to American corporations (it was extended to international billionaires and corporations in 2010 by Citizens United.)
President Jimmy Carter had championed the average person and the rights of working class people: he even walked from the Capitol to the White House after his inauguration rather than take a limousine. Reagan not only brought back the limousine, he turned his inaugural balls into a high-dollar lavish celebration of wealth and economic power.
The Democratic Party was still, at that time, mostly funded by labor unions; the GOP, however, picked up the opportunity offered them by the Supreme Court four and two years earlier and put up a “for sale” sign, inviting into the party any wealthy person or corporation who’d put up enough money for a Republican candidate to win an election.
The result of this whole sad history is that Red states have been turned into sacrifice zones for Reagan’s racial and religious bigotry and the neoliberal raise-up-the-rich and crap-on-unions economic policies he inflicted on America.
In the years since the Reagan Revolution, TV preachers have become multimillionaires with private jets, their parishioners have slid deeper and deeper into poverty and addiction, and the unholy alliance of church and state that Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton warned us about is now arguably — behind great wealth — the second most powerful political force in America.
Turns out Noel Casler was right, but the story is a bit more detailed than the GOP just embracing death and disease. Those same policies also make the morbidly rich — from oil barons to televangelists — vastly richer, and those rich people and their businesses and churches return the favor by pushing their followers and cycling part of their profits back toward Republican politicians.
Now you know the rest of the story.
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WHEN A BUNCH of all-stars get together to record a song for a cause, the result can often be cringey. But “Tennessee Rise,” featuring the pulpit-ready voices of Brittany Howard, Allison Russell, Katie Pruitt, Amanda Shires, Fancy Hagood, Emmylou Harris, and more, hits all the marks.
The heavenly choir anthem was recorded to encourage Tennesseans to register and vote for Gloria Johnson, who is challenging Republican incumbent U.S. senator — and the state’s Darth Vader — Marsha Blackburn in the November election. Johnson is one of the lawmakers known as “The Tennessee Three,” the group that protested on the statehouse floor the inaction by their Republican peers to pass gun reform in the wake of the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville.
Along with being a state representative, Johnson is also a former special education teacher who has spoken out in favor of gun reform, reproductive rights, and racial equality. When asked by reporters why her Tennessee Three colleagues, representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, who are Black, were expelled from the House following their protest and she was not, Johnson replied, “I’ll answer your question; it might have to do with the color of our skin.”
Rev. Benjamin Cremer
@Brcremer
As a pastor, I’m much less concerned about those who question God or even doubt God than I am about those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone else and therefore have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
I realized a long time ago that politicians love giving lip service to Christianity in order to gain Christian support.
They will talk about God and quote the Bible, even claim to be our greatest protector from things we are supposed to fear, all so we’ll help them win. 🧵
Every time I hear a politician doing this now my heart sinks. It not only feels like pandering of the worst kind, but it treats us Christians as if we are some populist movement that can be stirred into a frenzy for a politician’s gain.
While that makes my heart sink, what actually breaks my heart is how often it works.
I’ve watched politicians claim to support Christianity, then I watch entire Christian movements become their staunch supporters, create paintings of them in the Whitehouse with Jesus praying over them, and even write books on why their rise to power fulfills Biblical prophecy.
It all seems so deeply self-centered for a people who claim to be “loving our neighbor as ourselves.”
We clamor over politicians who claim to be about us Christians, but shouldn’t we be paying more attention to what politicians are saying about our neighbors?
Instead of being preoccupied with their lip service to our faith group, shouldn’t we be more concerned about what their plans are to help the poor, the vulnerable, the hungry, the homeless, and those without access to healthcare among us? The very people Jesus talked about?
The culture is always watching how we Christians participate with power. It shapes our public witness. Would our culture be able to say, “look at how Christians love others” when it comes to political power, or would they say, “look how Christians love power for themselves?”
I’m so uninterested in how politicians talk about my faith group. I’m far more interested in what they plan to do for my neighbors.
Rev. Benjamin Cremer
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”-Philippians 2:3-4
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Strange the way arms always flow one way or another.
Biden administration sidesteps Congress again for emergency arms sale to Israel
The equipment is valued at about $147.5 million and comes as Israel faces increased scrutiny over the rising number of Palestinian civilian casualties.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-sidesteps-congress-arms-sale-israel-rcna131661
Dec. 29, 2023, 8:55 PM MST
By Abigail Williams and Megan Lebowitz
Jacqueline Alemany
@JaxAlemany
Congressional investigations@washingtonpost. Contrib @NBCNews & @MSNBC
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Buck elaborated on his news w reporters just now: "We've taken impeachment and we've made it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept -- this place keeps going downhill and I don't need to spend more time here."
Asked about the dysfunction he’s referring to specifically, Buck went out of his way to note the fact that he was the last person to question Hur today even though he’s the third most senior person on the committee.
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There's more than one way of pushing. I'm sure he is fed up with it and like other members of the old republican party that are leaving or left, being sick and tired of it is a pretty forceful push. Too many others have succumbed to being trump's cuck and whore. The magas have been doing some real damage suppressing the vote all over the US and they own the Supreme Court, rather their donor's do, so it's been a tough fight and will get a lot tougher. Hopefully somehow a democratic system will prevail.
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Maybe something to do with pushing out anybody but loyalist. Goes along with taking over the RNC and any of its' money. There is no republican party anymore, there won't be a dime going to any candidate that isn't a loyalist. Both things are standard in a totalitarian state and dictatorship. Right in Putin's policies and in the....whatever they are going to be called, the trumpian party's plan that they have been implementing in real time.
Buck already was not going for another term and he dared to speak out against the bs.
Republican US Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado won’t seek reelection, citing party’s ‘insidious narratives’
https://apnews.com/article/ken-buck-colorado-retire-republican-conflict-congress-3fb96d1e158405ab78892fdf71632b46
BY THOMAS PEIPERT
Updated 1:57 PM MDT, November 1, 2023
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado’s rural eastern plains, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, citing many in his party who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
In a video message posted online, Buck said voters’ hopes that Republicans will take decisive action may be in vain, and that his party’s “insidious narratives breed widespread cynicism and erode Americans’ confidence in the rule of law.”
“Too many Republican leaders are lying to America, claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, describing Jan. 6 as an unguided tour of the Capitol and asserting that the ensuing prosecutions are a weaponization of our justice system,” Buck said.
The 64-year-old former prosecutor, who has served in Congress since 2015, was one of the eight Republicans who joined with Democrats to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in early October. Buck eventually threw his support behind Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana for speaker, despite Johnson’s own efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election through a legal challenge.
Buck has a penchant for being a wildcard as a fiscal conservative, but he also has proven himself to be someone willing to push back against party leaders.
He spoke out against McCarthy’s launch of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, saying that House Republicans were relying on flimsy evidence. He also has pointed to concerns about the process for approving spending and complained about stopgap spending bills.
Buck’s decision not to seek reelection came the same day U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the Republican chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said she would not seek reelection in 2024 after nearly three decades in Congress.
Granger, who at 80 is the nation’s longest-serving GOP congresswoman, said, “It’s time for the next generation to step up and take the mantle and be a strong and fierce representative for the people.
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Yes, every little bit helps, but so much more is needed. We're fighting a powerful enemy state that has recruited the Republican party and is attempting total control and destruction of our democracy. World War is not made with just guns and tanks anymore, in fact, Putin's war on the West is way more than the guns and tanks in Ukraine. Putin's personal representative and enabler is the Republican's hero and frequent guest and speaker and is their model of their political plans.
Very informative thread.
https://twitter.com/SmartUACat/status/1767290078890545217
https://twitter.com/SmartUACat/status/1767290085236511123
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Republicans causing violence and death of innocent children that have no fault the way they were born.
In states with laws targeting LGBTQ issues, school hate crimes quadrupled
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/03/12/school-lgbtq-hate-crimes-incidents/
The republican's gun culture war is the overwhelmingly the major cause of gun violence in schools, just collateral damage for their greed for power. Republicans teach the gun culture, and our children learn it. Comparatively rare instance of doing as they say and doing as they do.
New info: Female student at LeFlore High (AL) shot a classmate in the leg and then followed him down the hallway as he tried to crawl away.
— K-12 School Shooting Database (@K12ssdb) March 12, 2024
She then put the gun to his head but missed when she fired. The bullet struck a bystander student.
Unnamed girl is being charged as adult pic.twitter.com/rdlrtrR1bF
Bullet shatters a school window when shots were fired inside a Massachusetts high school yesterday afternoon.
— K-12 School Shooting Database (@K12ssdb) March 12, 2024
Gun violence at schools has become so normalized that it doesn't make national news anymore. pic.twitter.com/ZKptv3cXW9
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
BREAKING: North Carolina court strikes down power-grab law that transfers the ability to appoint members to the state board of elections from Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to the Republican-controlled state legislature. More to come.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-carolina-s-b-749-challenge/
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Ex-Hays County GOP official sentenced to 410 years in child sex abuse case
Bo Dresner pleaded guilty to 65 counts of sexual abuse and possession of child pornography.
https://www.expressnews.com/hill-country/article/hays-county-bo-dresner-abuse-sentence-18891536.php
By Liz Teitz, Barry L. Harrell,
March 11, 2024
The Fart of the Deal. lol People could tell him this for free. Hope Block got his $750,000 up front.
Sending my thoughts and prayers https://t.co/6MiUZBCTrs
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) March 11, 2024
State TV host Olga Skabeeva smirked and gloated about Viktor Orban's admission that Trump's "secret plan" to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours simply means not giving either money or weapons to Ukraine and MAGAs in Congress are already helping him do it.https://t.co/ouhuMzph6P
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 11, 2024
🇺🇦FACTS: Ukraine is NOT Russia 🇺🇦
— COL (Ret) Jeff in 🇦🇹 (@JeffFisch) March 10, 2024
In 1994, Russian President Yeltsin signed the Budapest Memorandum, clearly accepting Ukraine sovereignty.
Your history maps are worthless. pic.twitter.com/8vytQmKlAY
Reverse image search is the most fundamental part of content verification - the process of searching to find if, and when, an image has appeared on the internet before, and in what context.
Google Lens, Yandex, TinEye and Bing are among the free tools that allow you to do this.
https://yandex.com/images?
https://lens.google/
https://tineye.com/
https://www.bing.com/?scope=images&nr=1&FORM=NOFORM
I wrote this thread a year ago today, a step-by-step guide on verifying images on the internet.
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 10, 2024
With major elections in the US, UK, EU, India and many other countries this year, learning to check the veracity of images you see on social media is paramount. https://t.co/Y2dkKpMKYB
Talk about two tier justice, Nothing recent, but I know of people that got more for a couple of joints, no other charges. This guy is whining about 4 easy months in a pokey for being a traitor and helping in an insurrection.
Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19
The former Trump aide is urging an appeals court to step in and block the sentence while he appeals.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/peter-navarro-prison-march-19-00146225
By KYLE CHENEY
03/11/2024 08:33 AM EDT
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four month sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
Navarro, who is urging a federal appeals court to stay the sentence while he attempts to overturn his conviction, faces the prospect of becoming the first top adviser to Donald Trump to serve jail time for an offense related to the effort to subvert the 2020 election.
Navarro, 74, was convicted last year on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents and testimony to congressional investigators probing the root causes of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The committee subpoenaed Navarro in February 2022, and he quickly indicated he would refuse to comply, citing executive privilege. The House held Navarro in contempt two months later, and the Justice Department soon followed suit with criminal charges.
Navarro, an economist who advised Trump on trade issues, was the second former Trump aide convicted for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 panel. Steve Bannon was convicted by a jury in July 2022 for similarly blowing off a subpoena from the committee.
However, the judge in Bannon’s case, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, agreed not to enforce Bannon’s four-month sentence while he appeals his conviction to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Navarro’s judge, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, rejected Navarro’s attempt for a similar stay, and Navarro is now asking a three-judge appeals court panel to stave off imminent jail time.
“Dr. Navarro has now been ordered to report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, on or before 2:00PM EDT on March 19, 2024,” his attorney revealed in court papers late Sunday. “Accordingly, Dr. Navarro respectfully reiterates his request for an administrative stay … Should this Court deny Dr. Navarro’s motion, he respectfully requests an administrative stay so as to permit the Supreme Court review of this Court’s denial.”
The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Navarro for testimony primarily about his efforts to work with Bannon on a strategy aimed at forcing delays in the Jan. 6, 2021 session of Congress where lawmakers were tasked with certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the election. Navarro also compiled a series of three election-related reports touting largely discredited claims of fraud, one of which Trump cited in a now infamous tweet calling his supporters to Washington for a “wild” protest.
Courts rarely permit convicted defendants to remain free while they appeal. However, Navarro contends that, like Bannon, his case presents unusual circumstances because of the complex intersection of his refusal to testify with executive privilege and immunity principles that have rarely been tested in court.
Navarro has claimed that Trump ordered him not to testify and instead to invoke executive privilege, but Mehta rejected this claim as well, noting that Navarro had offered no evidence that Trump in fact gave such an order. Trump had been far more explicit in ordering other former aides to assert the privilege.
Navarro is also fighting a civil lawsuit brought by the Justice Department demanding he return hundreds of records the government claims he improperly declined to deliver to the National Archives after leaving office. Some of those records pertain to the 2020 election.
Daractenus
@Daractenus
What most would consider an insignificant piece of news, one of the so many that get lost, will forever stay with me.
OTD 2 years ago, shortly after the Russian invasion started, the residents from Pietroasa (Romania), a tiny and impoverished mountain village of 300 souls - most of them elderly, decided to help Ukraine with whatever little they had.
No NGO or humanitarian organization told them to. They didn't have to.
Nobody had much money to spare, but as pretty much everyone keeps a little garden to supplement their necessities, they did have potatoes. So that's what they stared with and gathered 1.5 tons of potatoes!
Then each household donated whatever other non-perishable items they had around, which amounted to about 2 tons of flour, rice, cooking oil and various cans.
And sweets, sweets for the Ukrainian children...
The problem remained actually sending it to Ukraine, so they went and looked around and very soon, a van owning volunteer from a nearby town decided to do his bit.
For every vile, wicked, hateful voice out there bent on bringing misery and suffering, there's hundreds of people like this.
For the sake everything good and kind, Russia will not win this war.
What are the trump magas hiding now? Hide, lie, or both, the only choices republicans think about. Just a review;
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
1. Presidents should not have financial conflicts of interest
That's why Carter put his PEANUT FARM in a blind trust
Trump just signed an agreement that could create a massive financial conflict
And he's disclosing virtually NOTHING about it
2. In January, Trump was found liable for $83.3 million for defaming E Jean Carroll. It was based on a finding that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a dressing room in the mid-90s and then, when Carroll talked about it, called her a liar.
3. Trump tried to convince the judge to let him appeal without posting a bond, but it didn't work.
So he submitted a bond issued by Chubb in the amount of $91.6 million. (110% of the judgment to cover interest).
From popular.info
4. Trump has a history with Chubb. In 2018, Trump appointed Chubb's CEO, Evan Greenberg, to a White House advisory council on trade policy. In April 2020, Greenberg was named by Trump to a counsel of business leaders advising the president on how to reopen the economy after the…
5. Chubb also played a role in a separate civil case against Trump, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, for financial fraud. Chubb sent an appraiser to Trump's condo in Trump Tower but was ushered out before taking measurements. Trump then inflated the size of his apartment by 3x, which facilitated the fraud.
6. Almost NOTHING is known about the terms of the $91.6 million bond agreement between Trump and Chubb.
Chubb is refusing to provide any details.
No one knows what assets Trump put up to secure the bond or, critically, if the bond is co-signed by anyone else.
7. If the bond is co-signed, that could make Trump financially beholden to a third party. Voters have a right to know the details of the bond.
From popular.info
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That did come to mind. But I believe Ivanka is the one left to be able to have her name in control on some of the trump's businesses, plus she might be testifying to some more grand jury investigations in the future. She holds the card to something important.
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Trump attends UFC 299 with daughter Ivanka after blasting Biden over Laken Riley at Georgia rally
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-attends-ufc-299-with-daughter-ivanka-after-blasting-biden-over-laken-riley-at-georgia-rally-101710085021237.html
Maybe what they are asking of her is giving her thoughts of the prison yard. Definitely something that is invoking some strong negative emotion from her and intensity of the request from the men. And something she has control over with their need to have.
You would hope none was necessary, but sadly many are in need.
Sometimes the smallest snapshots show the biggest contrasts. After the State of the Union, Trump cruelly mocked Biden for his childhood stutter. Here’s how Biden previously interacted with a child he met who was struggling with a stutter. Watch this. pic.twitter.com/1osTzme6c0
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 10, 2024
'Without Joe Biden I wouldn't be talking to you today.' — Watch Brayden Harrington open up about his stutter and how Joe Biden, who struggled with a stutter himself, came to his aid #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/7XsznKikU1
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) August 21, 2020
They will talk the talk,
Wearing the cross and bible,
The walk shunned with ease.
Proverbs 6:16-19
16 There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
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The Emperor continues to have Community Notes removed from his tweets. Poof! It’s gone. Like magic. pic.twitter.com/x9D4PcmRwl
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2024
Well at least the story is getting out to MSM. Interesting the different intensities of the headlines.
I like the Guardians;
Journalist says Katie Britt’s story about child sex abuse ‘out-and-out lie’
Jonathan Katz accuses Britt of being ‘dishonest’ in State of the Union rebuttal with story about Karla Jacinto Romero
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/09/journalist-accuses-katie-britt-child-sex-abuse-story
The quote on the end is great.
Bette Davis on why actors associate with Democrats more than republicans. At least then anyway. Well said, holds mostly true now, and probably in the foreseeable future.
Bette Davis on being a Democrat.❤️ pic.twitter.com/Yv4lm0oNK2
— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) March 8, 2024
Republicans ask "are you really better off today than you were four years ago?" Many people, in fact a whole boatload of people, can answer that a resounding YES.
Dr. Fauci on with Chris Wallace FOX right now telling him how he fought to have those people taken off the Grand Princess. It appears Trump nixed that, until now. Trump is a danger to every American.
— ⚓️ Jo Wallace - ✍️ 🇺🇦 (@Scampi13) March 8, 2020
They haven't even counted the group I'm in yet, the digital crowd.
🚨 DARK BRANDON BRINGS BIG RATINGS
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) March 8, 2024
According to Nielsen ratings just released, nearly 28 million people tuned into the State of the Union address across nine broadcast TV and cable news channels, with Fox News leading the way with 5.64 million.
Last year, the SOTU drew 23.3… pic.twitter.com/XUahrlLJHx
Believe it not, lead has been a concern to health for literally thousands of years, attempts to control as early as the 16th century. Since the 1970's, it has been documented that there is no safe level of lead exposure to its toxicity. Republicans are all for poisoning our children, lying to kill and deform if it helps them to gain power.
The benefit of *not being lead poisoned* is not speculative. It is enormous.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 8, 2024
And because lead poisoning leads to irreversible cognitive harm, massive economic loss, and even higher crime rates, this work represents one of the best returns on public investment ever observed. https://t.co/uFVsTCebwt
As Marci was saying, we're all old enough to remember the republicans screaming about Hunter not being qualified for his job and shouts about nepotism in the Biden family. Of course every accusation is a confession with the republicans. Jarad, Ivanka, and Lara are the epitome of nepotism to the max degree not being qualified for anything other than being family of traitor trump.
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Maybe it isn't set in stone. Carroll's attorney will check to see if all of their i's and t's are in order. Can't trust anything and everything that criminal trump does. Find out Monday.
JUST IN: Judge Kaplan in @ejeancarroll’s case files this order slamming Trump for his delays and allowing E. Jean to object to the motion to approve the bond, the amount, the other language in Trump’s proposed order, etc.https://t.co/Zs5tDGBozJ
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) March 8, 2024
Russia, Russia, Russia. Exactly right, we are definitely at war with Putin and his republican party that through trump, has taken over. We've been at war but the last few months have been extremely heavy on the cyber front. It's getting so heavy, they can't hide it very well anymore. All over the financial news today the hacking going on.
Both my wife and I work from home, have computer systems hooked up to one of the largest institutions, and can attest personally that we are in a major battle and constant work and time going into our defense with projections to be a lot worse as the election year progresses. Republicans doing about anything they can to support Russia and Putin. I would say that we are in the most dangerous time in history, and I don't say that lightly.
It's still ongoing and unprecedented.
Russian state-backed hackers breached Microsoft's core software systems, company says
Microsoft said it first detected the attack in January.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/microsoft-russian-state-backed-hack-update/story?id=107927553
ByMeredith Deliso
March 8, 2024, 10:31 AM
China is no friend either.