...the radical, censorship-forward, founder of the “pro-net neutrality group” Public Knowledge, lawyer, Soros’ Open Society Foundations fellow...
Biden's choice to run the federal agency, potentially lacks necessary Senate votes
The White House may finally be looking to throw in the towel on Gigi Sohn.
Good.
The Biden administration’s controversial choice to fill an open seat on the Federal Communications Commission has been in Senate confirmation limbo for months, failing to garner enough support to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote.
The confirmation hurdle Sohn faces isn’t just the GOP in a 50-50 Senate. Her far-left positions have spooked moderate Democrats running in tight races in this year’s midterms who continue to balk at casting a "yes" vote for Sohn, thus forcing the White House to keep her nomination on ice.
Gigi Sohn
In recent weeks, at the urging of progressive advocates of Sohn, the White House has been discussing possibly pushing the vote until after the midterms, which might give the wavering Dems cover to vote for her confirmation in a lame duck session, Fox Business has reported.
But amid that discussion, the White House is also reaching out to other candidates as part of an early-stage vetting process if the administration decides to pull the plug on Sohn, according to one person with direct knowledge of the matter.
It’s unclear if the White House will go through with pursuing another candidate, people with knowledge of the matter say. The FCC is deadlocked 2-2 between GOP and Democratic appointees.
If the White House doesn’t pick a candidate soon and the GOP takes the Senate, the deadlock could remain for the extent of President Biden’s term, thwarting telecommunication policy, including a reprise of net neutrality, which essentially treats internet providers as utilities.
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We are only a little more than 90 days from the end of Bidet's term, as far as appointments go. Summer recess and election recess leave next to no time for any more of this sort of trash to slip through the cracks.
Say what you want about Cocaine Mitch, but he knows how to work a calendar...
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[Breitbart] Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) mocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for complaining about busloads of border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in his city after previously supporting policies that promoted illegal immigration.
After outlining how Adams’ city was a “magnet” for illegal immigrants by making them eligible for assistance programs, Cammack told the mayor that if “you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.”
“Well, maybe he’s upset about the midnight flights of aircraft dropping illegals at the behest of the federal government in New York, or maybe he’s upset of the fact that once these busses of illegals arrive in Washington, D.C., that they are free to go wherever they want because that is what the Biden administration has done,” Cammack said.
“But let us also not forget that New York City advertises openly that you do not have to be a U.S. citizen to take advantage of programs like their food stamp program, cash programs, housing programs and also health care programs,” she added. “They openly advertise that you are eligible if you are an illegal citizen. So, he has a magnet, and now he’s shocked and appalled when people are showing up in New York City expecting a handout? Seems kind of crazy to me. But as I’ve said before, you play stupid games. You win stupid prizes.”
[Breitbart] The Texas capital city is suffering from a dramatic shortage of police officers resulting in increased response times to 911 calls — often more than 30 minutes. While the city is struggling to find enough officers to answer calls, the mayor’s security detail remains fully staffed and unaffected.
As a way to help have enough officers on the streets, Austin Police will be moving 465 detectives from various units as well as SWAT team members to patrol duties, the local TV station KVUE reported. Traffic enforcement units had previously been suspended and those officers are currently responding to 911 calls.
The staffing issue stems from decisions made by the Austin City Council which cut millions from the police budget and diverted other supplemental funds into other non-police programs as part of the Defund the Police movement, Fox News reported in 2021, This resulted in the city’s first shortages of officers. The police department is paying double overtime to officers in order to have enough personnel on the streets. However, due to the staffing shortage, the move has not been enough.
Ken Casaday, the president of the Austin Police Officers Association told KVUE that the blame for the critical shortage stems from the actions of the city council since they voted in 2020 to cancel three police academies.
The actions by local politicians have depleted the police force which is supposed to have more than 1,800 police officers. Austin PD is currently staffed with approximately 1,550 officers.
Despite the critical staffing shortage, the city’s Executive Protection Unit which provides security for Austin Mayor Steve Adler and the city manager. Adler, a Democrat, was a vocal opponent of a 2021 city proposition that would provide funding for the hiring of additional police officers.
According to KVUE, on July 15, the city had 868 calls to 911 with an average response time of 37 minutes and 37 seconds, while on July 18, the city had 831 calls to 911 with an average response time of 31 minutes and 53 seconds.
Additionally, according to a post on social media shared by the Austin Police Officers Association, the city is also seeing a shortage of 911 dispatchers.
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The Texas capital city is suffering from a dramatic shortage of police officers resulting in increased response times to 911 calls — often more than 30 minutes.
At a certain point you're better off ordering a security detail through Amazon, same-day delivery.
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Wonder if having an anti-police, pro-criminal Soros DA has anything to do with it?
[Epoch Times] One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration said July 22 that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection.
"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization," Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization in late 2020 to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, and were promoted by many health officials, including Birx.
"This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine," Birx said on an ABC podcast at the time.
She made no mention of concerns the vaccines might not protect against infection.
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The fundamental political instinct is always "Do something!"
It's no mistake that the Hippocratic Oath Begins "First, do no harm."
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When I have medical questions, I ask my doctor (who has taken excellent care of me for the last 22 years.) I do not ask politicians or people who read the news on TV. My doctor went to medical school, has an MD, has practiced medicine for 30+ years, keeps up with research, and has consistently steered me right for the last 22 years. Why would I listen to anyone else?
The moral: When you have health questions, find a professional who you can trust, who knows what he's doing, and who has your best interests at heart. And then follow their advice. You really don't need to listen to idiot politicians and news readers.
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I have several physicians as neighbors. Variety of specialists. They all seem to be very afraid of Covid to this day. My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs. Can’t even have a conversation about Covid with them.
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^ Even money is, what they are afraid of is what COVID hysteria is doing to their profession.
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Early on, doctors and nurses got hit harder than most--probably because they got higher doses from their patients than most of us get from everyday interactions.
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I met a 30-yr NIH official on while vacationing in Europe and he said that the CDC/NIH response to Covid was a hasty and effective to the pandemic, including that they learned nothing from the 2009 SARs outbreak. He believes that masks are a joke.
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We learned lots from the SARS outbreak.
A murderous gnome willfully threw all of that information out. Including the treatment-with-HCQ discovery.
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The demand for liability exemption by big pharma was the key to what followed. Do something to look like you have answers and quell rising panic gave us paper masks, risky vax, and pontificating politicians who discovered the power of health rish fear as a tool for massive political advantage.
But when early on, the CDC/NIH moved to block existing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin treatments to push the massive overbuy of the vax, the Puppet Show government seemed to have moved into the big pharma corruption phase.
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^ They will never be able to use this trick again. They always burn down the latest scam they attempt on the first try.
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No no no.
The sales pitch was:
Immunity now, Immunity forever!11!
Until then, do your part and stay locked in your house. Moral officers will visit your blog shortly and check on your wellness. Orange man bad.
And scarf prop here wasn't the only one sneering that a civilized, educated person's place is under the desk, and that only a provincial superstitious rube would want to leave their home and menace society.
And don't forget those who were like, "Businesses don't need income so they don't need to be open until whenever, so businesses which close were run by morons."
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"So sorry madame. We must take your scarf before you mount the scaffold..."
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My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs.
My cardiologist (Mr. 'One Beer a Day' Guy) told me last month "You need to get boosted". A few seconds before that, I noticed he had Harvard cuff links on. I wasn't even going to try to argue with him, and I'll cite the ol' Howie Carr line - 'you can tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much'. I don't want to be on a bike ride and wind up like the hundreds of soccer players dropping on the pitch from 'unexpected' heart attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Tim Gionet, who streamed live video from assault on Congress, faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment
American alt-right antisemitic activist muppet Anthime "Tim" Gionet, better known on social media as "Baked Alaska," pleaded guilt on Friday to joining the mob that stormed the US Capitol, where he streamed live video that incriminated him and other rioters, according to a court filing.
Gionet faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside a Capitol building.
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan is scheduled to sentence Gionet on January 12, 2023.
The judge had scheduled a March 2023 trial for Gionet after he balked at pleading guilty during an earlier hearing. Sullivan refused to accept a guilty plea by Anthime Gionet in May after he professed his innocence at the start of what was scheduled to be a plea agreement hearing.
At the start of Friday’s virtual hearing, defense attorney Zachary Thornley told the judge that a protester was outside Gionet’s Florida home and was recording the proceedings over the telephone, a violation of court rules.
"Protesting what?" the judge asked.
"I guess him as a person," Thornley replied.
The judge instructed court staff to shut off the telephone line, preventing the public from hearing Gionet enter his guilty plea.
Two of Gionet’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to calls for comment after the hearing.
After entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Gionet streamed live video that showed himself inside the building and repeatedly encouraging other rioters to stay there.
"Come in. Let’s go. Come on in. Make yourself at home," Gionet told other rioters, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea. Gionet joined others in chanting, "Patriots are in control!" and "Whose house? Our house!" Before leaving, he profanely called a police officer an "oathbreaker," the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... said.
Federal authorities have used Gionet’s video to prosecute other rioters, including three men from New York City. Antonio Ferrigno, Francis Connor and Anton Lunyk pleaded guilty in April to riot-related charges. Gionet’s livestream showed them in Sen. Jeff Merkley’s office, according to court filings accompanying their plea agreements.
Gionet worked at BuzzFeed before he used social media to build an online following in far-right political circles. Defense attorney Zachary Thornley said Gionet "has long been a member of the press."
"His actions on the day many folks entered the Capitol were no less than he has always done. He filmed it. That is what he does," Thornley wrote in a court filing last year.
Prosecutors disputed Gionet’s contention that he is a member of the news media.
Gionet became known for posting videos in which he attempts to pull pranks or troll his targets. He also has a history of promoting far-right extremism. He was scheduled to speak at the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 before it erupted in violence on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mainstream internet platforms, including Twitter, suspended Gionet’s accounts before January 6. At the Capitol, he was livestreaming video using a fringe service called DLive.
Other Capitol riot defendants have claimed that they were acting as journalists, not insurrectionists.
Infowars host Jonathan Owen Shroyer has asked a judge to throw out his riot charges. Shroyer’s lawyer argues the Justice Department is prosecuting him for his constitutionally protected "rights to protest, speak freely and report the news." Prosecutors counter that the First Amendment doesn’t protect Shroyer’s conduct at the Capitol.
Gionet, who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested in Houston less than two weeks after the riot. He moved from Arizona to Florida after his arrest.
In January, Gionet was sentenced to 30 days in jail for misdemeanor convictions stemming from a December 2020 encounter in which authorities say he shot pepper spray at an employee at a bar in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Gionet’s plea agreement includes a provision allowing Sherlocks to review any of his social media accounts for posts around the time of the Capitol riot.
Gionet, known for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories,
“It’s just edgy entertainment. Nobody takes that kind of thing seriously.”
is also suspected of defacing a Hanukkah menorah in Arizona in 2020. "No more ’Happy Hanukkah,’ only ’Merry Christmas.’ This is a disgrace, " Gionet said in footage that circulated online.
Gionet has been banned from a number of social media sites for posting antisemitic content, including tweeting the 14-word white-supremacist mantra “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” Gizmodo reported.
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Said it before. Last time I was in DC was for the dedication of the WW II Memorials. Two days of outstanding history and amazing people. Stood next to a MOH recipient who was wearing the same uniform he had on when he was 18 years old. Sat in a session with some of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers.
I'll go back when the current bunch is put up against a wall.
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[THELIBERTYDAILY] A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent’s rallies, encouraging supporters to "RSVP" where "far-right murderous Moslems" will be gathering. It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level.
I discussed this in detail on today’s episode of America First Report. Kathy Hochul is not alone. Prominent Democrats like The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 30.64366 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 45.64160 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... , Rashida Tlaib, and Eric I farted on national television Swalwell ... U.S. Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 15th congressional district since 2013. Naturally he's a Dem. His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County. He was rapidly eliminated from the 2020 Dem nomination pool. He looks a lot like Greg Marmelard, and has the distinction of being one of the few politicians to ever fart on national teevee... have used similar language as Hochul in prompting their supporters to get "aggressive" with MAGA supporters. It has resulted in multiple incidents over the past six years where America First patriots have been assaulted for something as harmless as wearing a red hat.
Hochul’s dog whistles were particularly egregious. According to Breitbart:
While Zeldin spoke at a campaign event in Fairport, New York, a man reportedly rushed the stage with a weapon in an apparent attempt to stab him on Thursday evening. Fortunately, Zeldin grabbed the attacker’s wrist long enough for other event attendees to step in and subdue the attacker.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... as people like GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz and New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy pointed out, Hochul’s campaign sent out a blurb just hours before the failed attack on Zeldin that blasted out the time and location of several of Zeldin campaign’s upcoming stops.
Hochul claimed that Zeldin and his team would spread "dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda at these campaign events."
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Remember when people got all upset about Sarah Palin posting target symbols over Congress critters districts and then Gabby Gifford got shot? She obviously wasn't inviting people to assassinate anyone.
One idiot (former) friend of mine thundered "Why isn't Sarah Palin in jail???!!"
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They are so far to the Left that traditional independents are considered 'far-right'.
Counterstrike. This looks like a fun project for a programming type with some spare time...
[AmThinker] The soul of phantom voter fraud is the occasional, non-committed voter. They show up at the last minute, delivering winning margins.
Actually, nobody shows up. Nor does anyone return an absentee ballot.
That magic comes from a wonderful customer service innovation, the Phantom Voter Concierge, who casts the non-committed voters' votes for them.
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one category of voting fraud is people who are legal voters who are illegally coached
typically this is done in one or two ways
1. people go into long term care as visitors and 'assist' voters first to register, then to vote
2. during election day, real voters are 'grabbed and dragged' (e.g., 'souls to the polls' campaigns) to voting centers by people who then tell them who to vote for on the way to the poll or, in some cases, get permission to 'assist' in the voting booth
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lost her re-election bid after defense attorney Ivan Bates beat her in the Democratic primaries
Mosby was indicted earlier this year on two counts each of perjury and making a false statement on a loan application in purchasing a Florida home and condo
She was accused of falsely stating that the COVID-19 pandemic harmed her finances so she could get the loans, which amounted to $1.02 million
Defense attorney Ivan Bates is likely to become the city's next DA, vowing to curb rising crime rates as he prepares to face off against an unaffiliated candidate in November That’s defense attorney and former prosecutor Roya Hanna, who dropped out of the primary to run as an independent. Baltimore last elected a non-Democrat to that position over a century ago.
[Washington Examiner] Former President Donald Trump vowed to never abandon his beliefs — including that the 2020 election was stolen — while delivering the keynote address at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit Saturday evening.
The 45th president pulled no punches during his 90 minute speech, which began more than an hour late, bashing everything from Democrats' policy agenda and President Joe Biden's job performance to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband over his controversial stock purchases. Trump delivered the remarks at the conservative youth conference's annual gathering, which took place this year in Tampa, Fla.
"Everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about preserving their power and control over the American people. They're sick. They want to damage me in any form so I can no longer represent you," Trump told the high school and college-aged crowd. "Obviously they want me not to be the candidate, because they never talk about anybody else. And you know, everything's disinformation."
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump, at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, will speak about his schedule F executive order, which would allow him to “drain the swamp” by firing the swamp, according to Trump’s prepared remarks provided in advance of his speech to Breitbart News.
“To drain the swamp, we need to fire the swamp. With schedule F, I took executive action to make it possible to fire federal employees who are bypassing our democracy to advance wokeism and corruption,” Trump plans to say.
“We now need Congress to institute historic reforms to permanently empower the President to root out the Deep State, and ensure that any bureaucrat who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary can be told, ‘You’re fired,’” the former President will assert.
Trump’s remarks will come one day after an Axios report claimed Trump is planning to use the executive order to fire close to 50,000 government bureaucrats if he gets reelected in 2024.
As Breitbart News detailed:
If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies that have great influence over policies impacting American workers, according to the outlet.
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The term administrative state specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies exercising power to create and enforce their own rules.
The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not created by the Constitution. Nearly 2 million federal government employees in federal agencies make up the administrative state. Trump has referred to the administrative state as the “swamp.”
Trump signed the schedule F executive order before leaving office in 2021, but President Joe Biden cancelled the executive order when he took office in January 2021.
Trump also plans to call out the “climate crisis hoax” at his Turning Point speech on Saturday evening:
First: we have to defeat the Climate Crisis Hoax once and for all. For decades, the left has made it a religious crusade to bully and scare young people into believing the world is ending because of climate change—or in the case of AOC, that the planet is doomed in just 12 years. This is a total lie.
The former President will single out Biden for his threats to declare a national emergency over the alleged climate crisis.
“This very week, the White House has even threatened to declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY. But we don’t have a CLIMATE Emergency, we have an ENERGY emergency—caused by their climate fanaticism,” Trump will say.
“As we are now vividly seeing, the real threat to future generations is NOT Global Warming, it is the Green New Deal. Without abundant, reliable, and affordable energy, there is no civilization,” Trump will add.
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TPUSA is a grift, just like CPAC. I don't think Dron has a problem with young conservatives in the USA, he does rightly recognize that these bright shiny objects are just a distraction.
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like Dron doesn’t like young conservatives in the US
Not true, Xyz. I'm just for more Kylie Rittenhouses than 'Benji' Backers.
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A lot of past TPUSA are now concealed carriers and are very good at completely eliminating trash entitlement types who try to rob them I have noticed lately.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... may lose its legitimacy if it strays too far from public sentiment, according to Justice Elena Kagan. Oh, an elected position? That would imply term limits. I say we start with her. Bye
Kagan, a liberal judge appointed to the court in 2010 by former President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... , tied the standing of the court to its "connection to the public," noting it could be dangerous if people continue to view Supreme Court justices as increasingly partisan, likely an allusion to the recent contentious court term that saw the overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights.
"I’m not talking about any particular decision or even any particular series of decisions, but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy," Kagan said at a judicial conference in Montana.
Public approval ratings of the Supreme Court have plummeted in recent months, with only 38% of the country saying it approved of its performance, according to a Marquette Law School poll. The latest numbers are a dramatic drop from last summer when a similar poll showed a 60% approval rating, compared to 39% who disapproved.
People now view the court as more conservative than it did a year ago, with 67% describing it as very or somewhat conservative compared to just 56% who said the same in May, according to the poll. To maintain its legitimacy, the court must ensure its decisions are impartial, Kagan said.
"Overall, the way the court retains its legitimacy and fosters public confidence is by acting like a court, is by doing the kinds of things that do not seem to people political or partisan," she said.
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When I hear people say public sentiment my response is “as it relates to late term abortions?, open borders?, high taxes?, not arresting rioters?…..”. Leftists only want to discuss public sentiment when it favors their view of the issue but not the constitution.
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OBAMA appointed her as a Supreme Court Justice with ZERO Judgeship role exp.
The closes she came to this was in 2009, when Kagan was confirmed as the United States' as the 45th Solicitor General. She held a position that only argued cases for the Federal Gov. in front of the Supreme Court.
It is clear she never should have been appointed, since she does not understand the role of the Supreme Court Justice or any Judge is to rule based on LAW and NOT public lynching whims.
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As someone else has pointed out, does this mean she is now in favor of reversing Obergefell, since gay marriage failed at the ballot box everywhere it was tried (including, believe it or not, Hawaii and California (twice!))
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I've said for a long time now that if everything was put up to a plebiscite in this country, the leftists would all stroke out.
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Public sentiment really helped 20th Century Germany.
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A Lynch Mob is an expression of 'public sentiment', right 'Judge'.
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but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy,"
Good thing we live in a Republic. Ancient Greece showed the fallacy of "democracy".
Failed history and civics, Elana?
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Just what I was going to say, Bobby. Amazing how eager leftists are to subject minority rights to majority sentiment.
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And how does Kagan figure out what "public sentiment" is? I'm glad to see Kagan was at a conference in Montana, because as far as I can tell that's the only time she's been outside of the Acela Corridor. This is Pauline Kael Syndrome Updated: She doesn't know a single person who voted for Trump.
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Obviously she doesn’t know that the majority of Americans are against abortion and the EPA and for the second amendment
She doesn’t understand that a majority of Hispanics in the Southwest are opposed to open borders and illegal immigration
Progressives locked in tough primaries across the state posted abysmal fundraising numbers in their quarterly disclosure forms, suggesting grassroots energy on the far left continues to wane.
The data shows that even the blessing of "Squad" leader Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... has failed to move the needle.
"People are just tired of them. They look around and see increased crime, more chaos and they blame the progressives for it," said veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf — who cautioned that in low-turnout August elections, the winner will be whoever has the best ground game to turn out supporters.
With a month to go before the Democratic primaries, progressive candidates are finding themselves strapped for cash.
In the new 17th District, which stretches along the Hudson Valley from the tip of Greenburgh all the way to East Fishkill, incumbent Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney hauled in $826,528. The powerful boss of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will head into the last stretch of the race with more than $2.5 million in the bank.
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Doesn't matter. The only reason people will vote against her is sexism. Or racism. Maybe because they're mad because they want to date her and can't.
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Honest question - any of you guys think this chick is hot? I don't see it at all. Then again, it's not last call yet, where standards are dropped like hot potatoes...
...one of a group of NeverTrump Republicans who won’t be running for re-election in November, so he’s been spewing bile in all directions...
said Friday on CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s "Newsroom" that the children of Republicans who supported former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... will be ashamed.
Kinzinger said, "I’ve had a lot of anecdotal people call and say like a good friend said my dad was a super MAGA, he hated Adam and loved Donald Trump. He’s all in against Donald Trump because he believes he’s been lied to. But look, yeah, there may be a certain set of voters that will never pay attention. Their kids will."
He added, "I’m going to tell you, I truly believe in my heart in five years, maybe not five but definitely ten, you’re not going to be able to find a single person that admits to supporting or voting for Donald Trump in this country because they’re going to be embarrassed because their kids are going to say, ’You actually supported Donald Trump? Are you kidding me?’ And they’re going to be like, no, no, we didn’t — like trying to find a Nixon supporter a couple of years after he resigned. I got to tell you, your kids, to my fellow Republican congressmen, stand up and speak out, or your kids will be ashamed of having that last name. I’m not saying that to be mean. That’s just a fact."
#2
Have to have 2 married adult daughters with kids that ceased all contact with us and their brother. Because, we openly support Moral Conservative values, and proper social decorum.
Why? Because it was causing them embarrassment with their social media friends.
#5
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
#6
Adam's looking for some role with Madame Speaker after the J6 committee finishes up - maybe Christmas?
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#7
Adam and Liz are auditioning for the liberal networks. It's good money. Since their principal belief appears to be in personal gain, what's the downside?
#10
Ref #3 above.
My liberal daughter, an Army Gulf War vet and a fine human being, has been a captive of the Deep State intel world her entire adult career. Makes great money, married another vet of that exact same environment, and has produced two fine girls, both of whom are now immersed in the same business.
I learned two years ago she taught her girls a list of topics to avoid with grandpa in family gatherings, and to disengage from when they come up for any substantive discussion around me. It seems I am to be dismissed as a beloved, but misguided despite all my achievements, as a radical Archie Bunker style pater familias. All the topics are avoidance of conservative, traditional American values and our actual history, not the snapchat/instagram versions.
To my utter shock, both girls have noted they identify as socialists, an outcome I suspect of James Madison University communications majors and neural implant-like connections to their iphones etc.. .
Given the mind-bending power of social media and our bent university system of late, Kinzinger may actually have a point.
#12
I didn't vote for Trump. I voted strongly against Hillary. I was happy enough with what Trump did as president, though it was clear he mismanaged the transition and generally hired poorly. At the end, he should have recognized an impossible situation, backed off, acted presidential, and not damaged his brand.
What I wish he'd do now is talk, in detail, about exactly what the Republican party is doing in the swing states to assure fair future elections. Replaying 2022 and Jan 6 is a loser. If we win Congress in the fall, let them pick up those cudgels and wield them until 2024. We want Trump to lead us back to prosperity, not "win" on the past issues.
#14
I'm with KBK on this. I didn't so much vote for Trump, as against Hillary. Likewise Biden. Similarly, I voted for Bushes only when forced to. DeSantis? Don't know enough about him yet. I wish him luck with the shark pack.
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#15
both girls have noted they identify as socialists,
Betcha if pushed they would be completely unable to define what that means, NoMoreBS.
#7
Skid, scary isn't it. And Biden was Obama's impeachment insurance.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/24/2022 10:21 Comments ||
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#8
Obama could have never been impeached no matter what he did. You know, raycissm
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#9
If word got out about the origins of Arab Spring especially ISIS raping their way across the Yazidis there could have been real questions. They barely got their Egypt Coup agents out and there was plenty to look bad for the cameras like the on-air rape of journalists. Libya, if Libya had actually been looked into; I think if the last 10 minutes of Sodaffy's life were broadcast I'd wager the majority of people would still be glad he is dead but have to rectify the means and responsibilities.
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