Quote from: Logic Sandwich on Today at 09:52:14 AMMaybe in your estimation. I don't know if you remember that whole "Periods for Pence" flap in 2019, but the way he and his office handled the whole affair from its retarded inception had me rolling my eyes.

I was never under any illusion as to what Mike Pence was and is. I said at the time that Trump could have done a lot better than to choose that particular assclown; a good many disagreed or just flat out ignored it.

Pretty much as the various liberals I know that ignored my cautionaries about ignoring what the democrats were shuffling through the door on the sly in 2020. I was right in my estimations there too.

I was thinking as a spokesperson for the COVID response and his veep debate with Harris.

It might seem even strang to see Justice Samuel Alito splashed across the top of Politico's Playbook and the New York Times morning newsletters for the high crime and misdemeanor of flying a nerdy Revolutionary War flag.

But it is part of a deliberate strategy to try to try to combat virtually the only check remaining on the Democrat Party's political power. While Congress and the White House cannot outright remove judges, they can bring real pressure to bear, cast national doubt on rulings, and reform the court even to the point of expanding it.

The reason for all this is the Supreme Court sometimes says no to things Democrats want. Already this year, the court has batted down Trump v. Anderson, in which a state official tried to block Republican candidate Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot for treason. They are currently considering two other cases that could decide what immunities a president has from prosecution for official duties and whether a law designed to prosecute Enron executives can be used to put Jan. 6 rioters and trespassers in prison for years.

"Democrats' Supreme Court Strategy is fourfold," a senior Republican Senate aide told Blaze News: "First, incentivize justices to defect and change their rulings. Second, delegitimize the Court's outputs. Third, provide political cover for aggressive ethics reforms that are stalking horses for bureaucratic controls to kneecap the Republican majority, such as mandatory recusals on the basis of unevenly applied ethical standards. And fourth, create the political conditions necessary for court-packing."

We've watched modern Supreme Court intimidation for years now. President Barack Obama famously broke decorum at the State of the Union, scolding justices to their faces during his 2010 State of the Union. But now it's different.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/democrats-have-a-new-playbook-for-pressuring-and-restructuring-the-supreme-court?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202024-05-25&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM&tpcc=email

Democrats are attacking the USSC because it is the only branch of government they cannot control. The independence of the top court was not a problem until they made some decisons the Democrat mafia did not like. Now it's war on the jusicial branch.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 24, 2024, 07:39:46 PMShe said the quiet part out loud. That they truly believe the niggers and spics are too dumb to vote for anyone but the people she feels are appropriate to lead them. They disobeyed the directive and are now outcasts

typical among cultist degenerates that hold you to their belief system with intimidation, alienation, embarrassment and the threat of ruining you.

She has uttered a lot of Joe Bideneaque comments.

Quote from: Logic Sandwich on Today at 09:37:27 AMsure had no problem with Bill Clinton being their governor after all.

Quote from: Oerdin on May 24, 2024, 08:10:12 AMI will believe it when I see the voting results.

Precisely. Still, Trump drawing a large crowd in the Bronx is cause for concern among the Dem leadership.

Quote from: caskur on May 24, 2024, 02:40:26 PMPelosi has retired I believe... that is a good thing.

Nope, she is running for congress again this year. She is eighty four and worth a fortune, all of it derived from her elected office. I guess she doesn't have enough yet.

I remember watching Gabbard wipe the floor with Kamala Harris in 2016. Tulsi's positions and priorities have changed since then.

I think she could win over some independents. I also think she could be an effective communicator for Trump's policies. But, Mike Pence was at one time too.

Quote from: Odinson on Today at 07:08:43 AMChinese Optimus Prime.

Quote from: Logic Sandwich on Today at 08:47:10 AMWell it served its purpose didn't it? The church lost great currency in the court of public opinion, up to and including the casting of its scriptures as effectively hate speech, priests being arrested for carrying bibles in their pocket. Houses of worship are being defaced and burned down by ANTIFA goons to this day.

The whole reason the story got any traction in the first place was because "muh poor downtrodden minority"... with the ongoing persecution of that religious chapter, do you not think the bleeding hearts might start bleeding for the ongoing persecution of religious practitioners? I think there's a good chance that they might, and that would put them at odds with the assholes that lied their arses off to slander and smear the church in the first place.

There's your reason why retractions aren't coming thick and fast, why there's no wall to wall coverage of "hey, we were lied to, we cannot find the bones".

I'm not convinced that was it's purpose.

Trump's rally on Thursday night drew a crowd that looked very different than the typical MAGA flock.

Why it matters: The unusual sight of Trump speaking to several thousand people in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in deep blue New York is a sign of the realignment happening between the two parties.

Trump's GOP is becoming more working class and a little more multiracial.
Democrats are gaining with more well-educated voters in the suburbs.

On Thursday, only days before the trial's closing arguments were set to begin, panels of judges from New York's Appellate Division ruled against Trump twice—denying separate requests to force New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the case and to move the trial out of Manhattan and into another county.

The denial of the request to change the location of the trial was issued with little explanation, with the judges only writing that they had denied Trump's motion for a venue change following "due deliberation" after "reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion."

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 09:44:15 PMIt's been a rough week for Fauci's inner circle — and things may get a lot worse

https://www.theblaze.com/news/its-been-a-rough-week-for-faucis-inner-circle-and-things-may-get-a-lot-worse?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20PM%20Premium%20Test%202024-05-23&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM&tpcc=email-premiumtest

And Fauci's old adviser has been accused of breaking the law.

It has been a rough week for scientists who were in Anthony Fauci's inner circle at the outset of the pandemic — particularly for Peter Daszak, head of the scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance, and for David M. Morens, senior scientific adviser to the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Where Daszak is concerned, all his years of protest and lab-leak denial were apparently for nought, given that he has finally been cut off from all federal funding.

The Department of Health and Human Services told the British zoologist in a letter Tuesday that it holds him personally responsible for EHA's egregious shortcomings, oversight failures, and opacity as it pertains to the dangerous coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Morens, who served as adviser to previous NIAID director Fauci, was accused Wednesday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of undermining the operations of the U.S. government; unlawfully deleting federal COVID-19 records; using a personal email to avoid the Freedom of Information Act; "acting unbecoming of a federal employee"; and "likely lying to Congress on multiple occasions."

Daszak makes a cameo in many of the emails that Morens may now be regretting.

The duo, who had a hand in helping Fauci downplay the likely lab origin of COVID-19, may soon face greater consequences than strongly worded letters and suspended funding.

"Dr. Daszak's impending debarment does not shield him from accountability to the American people," Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the coronavirus subcommittee, said in a statement Wednesday. "It appears that Dr. Daszak may have lied under oath about his relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and his compliance with NIH grant procedures."

As for Morens, the subcommittee indicated that it now has "overwhelming evidence from Dr. Morens's own email that he engaged in serious misconduct and potentially illegal actions while serving as a Senior Advisor to Dr. Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Defunding the unaccountable
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General blasted EHA in a January 2023 report for dropping the ball on oversight regarding the use of grant money on coronavirus research in China and for failing to comply with federal requirements.

On May 1, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its own report recommending that EHA be permanently cut off from taxpayer funding and that Daszak similarly be cut off as well as criminally investigated.

"Dr. Daszak and his organization conducted dangerous gain-of-function research at the WIV, willfully violated the terms of a multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant, and placed U.S. national security at risk. This blatant contempt for the American people is reprehensible," Wenstrup said in a statement.

On May 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suspended EHA from participating in federal procurement and nonprocurement programs and proposed its debarment "to protect the public interest."

I would like to see all of them held accountable, but that is probably hoping for too much.

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 09:53:36 PMBereft of sympathetic representation in Salem, rural Oregonians are willing to redraw the map.
The "Greater Idaho" movement continues to gain steam, promising to liberate conservative counties east of the Deschutes River from the ruinous policies and Democratic control all but ensured by residents in the more populous leftist areas nearer the coast, such as Mayor Ted Wheeler's crime-ravaged Portland.

On Tuesday, Crook County voters were presented with ballot measure 7-86, which asked: "Should Crook County represent that its citizens support efforts to move the Idaho state border to include Crook County?"

The majority signaled their support for moving the state border westward and joining their conservative compatriots in the Gem State.

Citizens for Greater Idaho president Mike McCarter, a firearms instructor from the town of LaPine, alternatively argued, "There is a way to get better governance for central and eastern Oregon. The current location of the Oregon/Idaho border was decided 165 years ago and is now outdated because it doesn't match the location of the dividing line between the counties that prefer Idaho's style of governance and counties that prefer Oregon's style of governance."

McCarter, whose organization has elsewhere suggested that "only 25% of Oregonians who are registered to vote are registered Republican," stressed that the alternative would be to continue living under the thumb of Oregon politicians who "don't understand how we make a living. Their decisions damage industries like timber, mining, trucking, ranching and farming."

I can understand why they would want to exit Oregon. But, does Idaho have tampons in boy's washrooms? That should be a human right.

Quote from: Conservative Perspective on May 24, 2024, 03:23:00 AMGOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

A Republican-led committee has released a document they say shows the Biden administration improperly working to register voters in a key battleground state.

Source: GOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

The Small Business Administration (SBA) acting as Biden's Michigan campaign arm targeting Democrat bloc voters to get out out and vote instead of trying to help small businesses.

The Biden administration is corrupt to it's core.

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 10:13:14 PMThis has nothing to do with the federal electoral college, but you know that.

Can't you go play in your thread. Lokmar still reads your bullshit.

Joe has a calendar on the wall from 2008. His attention starved trolling is antiquated.