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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-05-13 at 8:09 PM UTCremember 2 dolla gas guys
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2021-05-13 at 8:24 PM UTCThese idiots LOVE to pay triple for their gas and goods. They just can't get enough of the overbilling.
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2021-05-13 at 8:53 PM UTCbelieve in the plan
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2021-05-13 at 8:54 PM UTC
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2021-05-14 at 5:32 AM UTCPoley, I got your plan right here:
Washington Examiner
Pain is the best remedy for a Trump-led GOP
Kimberly Ross
It's strange to think anyone believed the era of Trumpism would magically end once the 45th president left office. Daily battles with the press and on social media may have stopped, but the GOP allegiance to Donald Trump seems anything but wavering.
The most substantial proof of this is the Republican Party's collective insistence that the Trump-critical should not only get condemned but ousted. The tent of conservatism can include divergent avenues of thought insofar as they relate to policy. Protecting the most prominent personality ever seen on the GOP political stage is an entirely different matter. And he's worth shielding from disapproval at all costs. In a May 10 letter to Republican colleagues, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said, "Each day spent relitigating the past is one day less we have to seize the future." On its own, this statement is correct. There is every reason to move beyond the last few months toward a present and future dedicated to defeating the Democratic Party.
The only problem is that most current GOP politicians believe "seizing the future" includes the anchor of Trump.
After all, Trump is the kind of unbridled bully the party so desperately craves. He's a winner in the sense that he won via the Electoral College in 2016 and lost in 2020 to a supposedly doddering septuagenarian. He's a fighter in the sense that his antics have gotten him banned from social media platforms, and now, he must pathetically share his Twitter-like thoughts via a memo on his personal website.
To this day, the former president believes the 2020 election was stolen. The Matt Gaetzes and Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the party believe it. The more ardent admirers who head to the polls do as well. Jan. 6 wasn't a scourge; it was a moment of defiance against godless socialism. It wasn't an international embarrassment fueled by conspiracies and high-ranking GOP enablers. It wasn't distorted defiance against millions of fellow people who just happen to vote another way. Believing and propagating these lies is behavior that will endure well into the midterm election cycle. It will not cease only if disobedient members of the Republican Party, such as Rep. Liz Cheney, are criticized and removed from leadership.
If anything, these claims will grow even more potent and louder as a petulant Trump sits on the sidelines, banned from his online world. They will also remain in a deeply divided United States during a Biden/Harris administration that is anything but centrist.
This sad fact remains: The best way to purge the GOP of Trumpism is to nominate him and then see him lose again. One final blow to the relatively new religion should starve it of its life. Otherwise, loyalty to the man, or at least the same brand of politics that he espouses, will continue. The Trump populists, and even the man himself, must be demoralized. Then, the party should rebuild. A GOP that offered a decent candidate in 2020 might have captured the White House once again. It's not that President Joe Biden is a better alternative; he just isn't Trump.
The immediate future of the Republican Party is Trump and those like-minded unless steps get taken to rid the GOP of him and his mentality. The purification process won't get done by requesting that the party unify and look forward. There are still too many who remain deeply devoted to the man who disgraced the office and helped to incite an insurrection. Because of that, one final Trump-fueled burnout in 2024 would be for the best. Losing to the Democratic Party is in no way ideal, but this is the hand dealt to the GOP by the sycophants and grifters who still inhabit its ranks. The onus is on them, not the conservatives who find themselves politically homeless.
There is no reason for an enthusiastic and cultish commitment to a disgraced president, especially one who still spouts the big lie. And since far too many insist on defending him simply because Democrats exist, then the party deserves one final taste of its own medicine. In 2016, the Right took a remarkable turn away from formerly concrete principles to support Trump. It would take a unique and painful loss to turn them back. To act as if Trump is the future of the Republican Party is foolish and self-destructive. However, since the GOP is undeterred from such a path at its highest level, they should continue down that way until the bitter end. -
2021-05-14 at 11:56 AM UTCits not about trump nigger its the fight against globalism and our corrupt government.
you niggers are skerred of trump cuz he woke us up,, well nigger we are woke the fuck up and we are fighting mad and out for vengeance.
the constitution will prevail in the end,, we have citizens fighting in NH, AZ, Pen, Ga, Mi with some of the smartest folks out there.. if you are not keeping up with it all then you do not know or care so you don't even matter neither does what you think or say,, you are either mad as fuck over the breaking of the laws and rules that are being stomped on by the corrupt government or ur a commie cunt globalist faggot cuck. -
2021-05-14 at 2:42 PM UTCThink it's over?
"Maricopa County Ballot Batches Off By 17.5%" Likely Joe Biden Did Not Win Arizona"
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2021-05-14 at 2:53 PM UTCMaking
America have to
Go listen to whining
Again
The Hill
Trump bemoans lack of vaccine credit amid mask news
Morgan Chalfant
Former President Trump on Friday complained that his administration hasn't been given enough credit on coronavirus vaccines, a day after vaccinated Americans were advised they can go without masks in most settings - a major milestone in the fight against the pandemic.
Trump claimed in a statement that his administration through Operation Warp Speed came up with the vaccines "years ahead of schedule" but said it was "incredible" that "our names are not even mentioned in what everybody is calling the modern day miracle of the vaccines."
"Without the vaccines, this world would have been in for another 1917 Spanish Flu, where up to 100 million people died," Trump said. "Because of the vaccines we pushed and developed in record time, nothing like that will be even close to happening. Just a mention please! The Biden Administration had zero to do with it. All they did was continue our plan of distribution, which was working well right from the beginning!"
The vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration, but the Biden administration picked up the distribution of the vaccines once President Biden took office in January. The U.S. was administering vaccines to about 1 million American adults each day by the time that Biden took office, and the pace has significantly ramped up from there.
The Biden administration built on the Trump administration's vaccination program, ordering more vaccine doses, increasing the number of vaccination locations and vaccinators and invoking the Defense Production Act in order to ramp up production. After the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was approved by the FDA in late February, the Biden administration announced a partnership between Johnson & Johnson and competitor Merck to increase doses.
The Biden administration has credited science and medical experts from the prior administration in the production of the vaccines. However, Biden has criticized Trump for his handling of the pandemic, including claiming that the previous administration had "no real plan" to vaccinate much of the country and that Trump "failed to order enough vaccines, failed to mobilize the effort to administer the shots, failed to set up vaccine centers."
Trump, who contracted the virus himself in October, was widely criticized for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, including his continuous effort to minimize the virus and act as if the outbreak was in the rearview mirror. Trump eschewed public health advice and held large campaign rallies as cases rose and said that the U.S. was "rounding the turn" on the virus even when COVID-19 cases were rising. He also rarely wore a face mask in public.
Biden's election was seen as a referendum on Trump's presidency, including his handling of the pandemic, which has to date killed more than 580,000 Americans.
The vaccine program was one of the bright spots of the previous administration's response to the pandemic, but Trump also oversold expectations by predicting that a vaccine would be available before the November 2020 election. The FDA authorized the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for emergency use in December.
Trump in his statement on Friday also claimed that "everybody," including Anthony Fauci, a main figure in the coronavirus response in both administrations, said that the vaccines would not be produced as quickly as they were. In fact, Fauci repeatedly predicted last year that millions of vaccine doses could be available by early 2021 and in December said vaccines could be widely available by April.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday advised vaccinated Americans that they can go without face masks in most indoor and outdoor settings. Biden cheered the development as a "great milestone" in remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
"It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we have had in vaccinating so many Americans, so quickly," Biden said, while urging those who have not yet been vaccinated to continue wearing masks. -
2021-05-14 at 3:15 PM UTC
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2021-05-14 at 3:35 PM UTCNewsweek
D.C. Officer Michael Fanone Says Republicans 'Peddling That Bulls***' About Capitol Riots
Brendan Cole
A police officer who helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 insurrection has taken aim at GOP lawmakers for downplaying the events and said that only the actions of law-enforcement officials prevented widespread fatalities.
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A police officer who defended the building criticized those who doubted the seriousness of the events.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone was asked on CNN what he thought might have happened if he and his fellow officers had been unable to push back rioters who were trying to force their way into an entrance in the Capitol.
Fanone said in the "best case scenario" a lot of his fellow officers would have been killed, and that if things had got really bad a huge number of people would have made their way into the Capitol.
"Judging based off the amount of violence that we experienced…I believe that violent group would have killed individuals inside of the Capitol complex," he told anchor Don Lemon, referring to the 147 Metropolitan Police Department officers who fought to defend the crucial West Terrace.
Fanone praised the "courage" and "selflessness" of the officers who in normal circumstances would have been on their way to hospital for treatment.
Instead, he said, "they were picking themselves back up, getting back into the line and fighting to protect the Capitol, protect their fellow officers—that was the most awe-inspiring scene in my life."
Former President Donald Trump was impeached for the second time over the riots, after he was charged with inciting his supporters. There were five deaths connected with the attacks, which led to criminal charges for at least 400 people.
A number of Republicans at a House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday still sought to downplay the violence on January 6 and even defended Trump. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) compared the actions by the mobs to a "normal tourist visit," The Hill reported.
Fanone was angered when asked about moves by some GOP lawmakers to trivialize the events, telling CNN: "I'm not a politician, I'm not an elected official. I don't expect anybody to give two s**** about my opinions.
"But I will say this. Those are lies, and peddling that bulls*** is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol. It's disgraceful."
This week, Lemon became emotional after CNN broadcast a video of Fanone being attacked on January 6. -
2021-05-14 at 3:49 PM UTCEnds up the election thieves in Maricopa County Arizona got caught red handed deleting the entire vote tabulation database. Somebody's going to prison.
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2021-05-14 at 6:25 PM UTCThe Hill
House Democrats unveil $1.9 billion bill to boost security after insurrection
Niv Elis and Rebecca Beitsch
The House on Friday unveiled a $1.9 billion supplemental appropriations bill to address security weaknesses laid bare in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"The January 6 insurrection caused tragic loss of life and many injuries, while leaving behind widespread physical damage to the Capitol Complex and emotional trauma for Members, Congressional employees, and the Capitol Police," said House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.).
"This emergency supplemental appropriation addresses the direct costs of the insurrection and strengthens Capitol security for the future. It is also long overdue recognition of the work of the Capitol Police, the sacrifices that they and their families have made, and the changes they need," she added.
The ability of armed, pro-Trump rioters to breach the Capitol, overwhelm the Capitol Police force, break doors and windows, enter the House chamber and disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6 shocked the nation.
Since then, Congress has held hearings to determine what went wrong.
On Friday, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee reached a deal on creating a 9/11-style commission to examine what led to the insurrection and the failure to prevent it. GOP leadership has yet to sign off on the deal.
The supplemental bill is more narrowly focused on securing the Capitol complex, and is based on recommendations from a task force review spearheaded by Lt.-Gen (Ret.) Russel L. Honoré.
The bill would put $529 million toward upgrading security at the Capitol, including retractable fencing, "hardening" doors and windows and adding security screening vestibules and cameras.
Two hundred million of that amount would go toward a standing "quick reaction force" within the National Guard. Establishing such a unit follows testimony from former Washington, D.C., National Guard chief William Walker - now serving as the House Sergeant at Arms - who said he was hamstrung by Pentagon officials in deploying the Guard's force.
The National Guard didn't arrive at the Capitol until after 4:30 p.m. on the day of the attack, leading some lawmakers to argue the Guard needed its own similar unit.
The bill includes $2.6 million to procure basic riot control equipment like helmets, batons and body shields. The funding comes after the Capitol Police's inspector general found the force was supplied with aging equipment that had not been properly stored, with shields improperly stored at temperatures that rendered them ineffective and ammunition that had also expired.
Another $8.6 million would go toward body cameras for Capitol Police.
Over a quarter of the funds would toward paying subsequent costs for prolonged National Guard deployments and costs incurred by the District of Columbia.
The bill will also put $40 million toward covering the costs of fixing damage done to the Capitol that day, and $5.5 million toward prosecuting the perpetrators.
"The funding provided to the Justice Department in this bill will pay for unanticipated expenses related to the insurrection, support the prosecution of all the perpetrators and provide enhanced protection for those who are doing the work of safeguarding our democracy," said Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee Chair Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.).
"This is how we help deter events like the insurrection from ever happening again."
The bill also sets aside $7.4 million to improve member security, calling for "enhanced security and threat assessments" after Capitol Police noted last week that threats against lawmakers are up 107 percent compared to last year.
Another $10.6 million would go to installing security cameras at district offices, following an effort by Capitol Police to open more regional offices across the country to assist with member security.
The bill also includes funding to boost security at other offices, with $2 million set aside for temporary anti-scale fencing installed at the White House and more than $150 million to protect courthouses and judges across the country.
Despite progress on the supplemental bill and the task force, the events of Jan. 6 have continued to reverberate throughout Washington.
Former President Trump has continued to promote the unsupported claim that the 2020 election was compromised or stolen, and has attacked Republicans who have refuted this claim.
On Wednesday, the House GOP removed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) from leadership after she repeatedly denounced Trump for his role of inciting the violent mob, replacing her Friday with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), one of his most vocal defenders.
Republicans downplaying the events of the January day at a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting drew sharp rebukes from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who labelled the comments comparing insurrectionists to tourists as "sick."
"I don't know any normal day around here when people are threatening to hang the vice president of the United States or shoot the Speaker," she said, in reference to threats rioters made at both her and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
The bill, which is expected to pass the House next week, also included several smaller unrelated appropriations, such as COVID-19-related shortfalls and a $348,000 to fund customary "death gratuities" to the families of Reps. Ron Wright (R-Texas), and Alcee L. Hastings, (D-Fla.), who died while in office. -
2021-05-14 at 6:41 PM UTC'You left us': Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean slams Trump in expletive-laden message
Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean lashed out at President Donald Trump, accusing him of misleading his supporters and then deserting them despite their unwavering loyalty.
"We are now and always have been on our own. So glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and s--- on us on the way out," Nordean said in an expletive-laden message about the former president. "F--- you trump you left us on [t]he battle field bloody and alone."
Nordean is one of several members of the extremist group with ties to white supremacy whose members describe themselves as "Western Chauvinists." He's among the more than 400 people who have been charged for their alleged roles in the deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors say Nordean, along with other Proud Boys members, planned to push through police barricades and force themselves inside the building that day. Nordean, the self-described "sergeant-at-arms" of the Proud Boys' Seattle chapter is facing several charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and aiding and abetting.
In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors detailed communications sent through the instant messaging app Telegram that they say show additional evidence that Nordean and other Proud Boys members conspired to breach the Capitol. Prosecutors included the anti-Trump diatribe in which Nordean seemed to acknowledged he and others are facing criminal charges because they followed Trump's lead.
"I've followed this guy for 4 years and given everything and lost it all. Yes he woke us up, but he led us to believe some great justice was upon us...and it never happened," Nordean wrote on Jan. 20, after Proud Boys members were charged, "now I've got some of my good friends and myself facing jail time cuz we followed this guys lead and never questioned it."
The filing was in response to a motion by Nordean's attorney accusing prosecutors of failing to timely release evidence that contradict allegations of a conspiracy. Defense attorneys cited several messages sent after Jan. 6 in which Nordean said that storming the Capitol was not planned and that he no longer wants to be involved in politics.
Prosecutors dismissed the allegations, saying the trove of messages extracted from Nordean's phone are "far from being exculpatory" and contain additional evidence of a crime.
Trump was impeached by the House for a second time for his role in inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol while Congress was counting state-certified Electoral College votes. The impeachment fractured the Republican Party, with 10 House GOP members voting to impeach and others acknowledging Trump's role but arguing that impeachment would further divide the country.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who voted to acquit Trump, later condemned the former president, saying his "crescendo of conspiracy theories" caused the insurrection. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
Testifying earlier this week before a Senate committee, Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to say whether Trump's claims of a stolen presidential election incited the insurrection. More broadly, Garland said false narratives and misinformation lead to acts of domestic extremism. -
2021-05-14 at 6:47 PM UTCINSIDER
A Proud Boys leader went on a profanity-laden rant against Trump when he didn't pardon members of the extremist group before leaving office
jshamsian@insider.com (Jacob Shamsian)
Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean ranted about Donald Trump after insurrectionists weren't pardoned.
He expressed fury on Trump's last day in office in messages obtained by prosecutors.
"I've followed this guy for 4 years and given him everything and lost it all," Nordean wrote.
A leader of the far-right Proud Boys group went on a rage-inflected rant on January 20, as former president Donald Trump left office without pardoning people who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
"FUCK TRUMP! Fuck him more than Biden," Ethan Nordean wrote in a message obtained by federal prosecutors. "I've followed this guy for 4 years and given him everything and lost it all."
Nordean's comments were among messages obtained by prosecutors and included in a Thursday night court filing reviewed by Insider. It drew widespread attention after Politico reporter Kyle Cheney posted it on Twitter.
Prosecutors have accused Nordean of numerous crimes, including trespassing and destroying government property, related to him storming the Capitol building on January 6 as a member of the pro-Trump mob that sought to stop Congress from certifying electoral college results in favor of now-President Joe Biden.
Nordean made the comments after a court unsealed charges against Joseph Biggs, another Proud Boys leader and a co-defendant in the case. Nordean said he was disappointed in Trump's leadership.
"Yes he woke us up, but he led us to believe some great justice was upon us... and it never happened," Nordean wrote, according to the court documents. "Now I've got some of my good friends and myself facing jail time cuz we followed this guys lead and never questioned it."
Before Trump left office, he pardoned or commuted sentences for war criminals and controversial political allies and aides who were either charged with or convicted of crimes. But he did not pardon any insurrectionists who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election by force.
Nordean wasn't happy about that.
"We are now and always have been on our own. So glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and s--- on us on the way out," Nordean wrote. "F--- you trump you left us on [t]he battle field bloody and alone."
Nordean and Biggs were previously permitted to leave jail ahead of their trials. But in late April, a judge ruled that they should return to confinement, citing new evidence brought by prosecutors. -
2021-05-15 at 1:20 AM UTC
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2021-05-15 at 1:25 AM UTCGetting excited about getting vaccinated.
Terrified of a mild flu like illness.
Waiting for vaccination to get laid.
This video is literally stl1.
Remember to unmute sound if needed. It's fairly high level cringe.
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2021-05-15 at 12:56 PM UTC
I want that dog.
