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2021-05-15 at 3:48 PM UTCThe Hill
Romney: Capitol riot was 'an insurrection against the Constitution'
Jordan Williams
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol an "insurrection against the Constitution" as some GOP lawmakers sought to minimize the violence this week.
The comment came as several Republicans, including Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Jody Hice Norman (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.), downplayed or made false claims about the attack.
Clyde asserted during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday that calling the events of Jan. 6 an "insurrection" was a "boldface lie."
Speaking to HuffPost on Thursday, Romney noted that the mob attack resulted in severe property damage and death.
"I was there," Romney said. "What happened was a violent effort to interfere with and prevent the constitutional order of installing a new president."
"As such, it was an insurrection against the Constitution that resulted in severe property damage, severe injuries and death," he continued.
Romney was one of seven GOP senators to vote to convict former President Trump for inciting the insurrection. He was joined by GOP Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.).
Several of the senators have been censured by Republican groups in their states, with Romney most recently being censured by the GOP in Weber County, Utah's fourth-most populous county.
During Wednesday's hearing, Clyde asserted that a photo of individuals walking in Statuary Hall after breaching the Capitol looked like a "normal tourist visit," despite some evidence showing rioters engaging in vandalism in violence elsewhere in the building.
Gosar declared that Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police after trying to breach the House chamber, was "executed" while also stressing that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of "natural causes." Sicknick suffered two strokes while responding to the mob attack.
Hice said that Babbitt and four others who died that day were Trump supporters, not "supporters who were taking the lives of others."
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) began asking his Democratic colleagues on Friday to sign a resolution censuring the three lawmakers for their comments. -
2021-05-15 at 4:21 PM UTCSome of the shit you post, stl1, is so retarded there is no response.
Since when do you or the people who feed you your opinions care about the US constitution? -
2021-05-15 at 7:24 PM UTCBusiness Insider
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's 'offended' by House Republicans minimizing the Capitol riot
insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski criticized House GOP efforts to downplay the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"I'm offended by that," Murkowski told CNN. "This was not a peaceful protest."
Murkowski said she would be open to backing an investigation examining the riot.
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on Friday said that she was "offended" by a number of House Republicans who have sought to minimize the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to CNN.
Murkowski, who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial for his role in the riot, slammed revisionist attempts to label the insurrectionist mob's actions as "a normal tourist visit."
"I'm offended by that," Murkowski told CNN. "This was not a peaceful protest. When somebody breaks and enters, and then just because you know they don't completely trash your house once you're inside does not mean that it has been peaceful. This was not a peaceful protest."
She added: "We got to get beyond that rhetoric and acknowledge that what happened were acts of aggression and destruction towards an institution, and there were some people intent on (harming) the people that were part of that institution."
Murkowski, who is also up for reelection next year and has been targeted for defeat by Trump, expressed a willingness to back a bipartisan commission in Congress that would examine the riot.
"I'm one that thinks that there should be an investigation regarding the events on the 6th," she said.
Advocates of the commission hope an investigation would deter any further GOP attempts to downplay the riot, which has become a popular sentiment among some House Republicans.
On Friday, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas minimized the severity of the insurrection.
"There have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building," he expressed on the House floor, arguing that Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks were more consequential events.
"When Pearl Harbor occurred, that was more of an attack on democracy than the protests of January 6," he said. "When 9/11 occurred, and I know it's been so long ago and a lot of people that have forgotten apparently about 9/11, 3,000 people killed, the Pentagon was hit, the two World Trade Centers were hit, thousands died."
Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona accused the Justice Department of "harassing peaceful patriots across the country.
A fellow conservative, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, tried to dispute that the protestors were mostly in support of Trump, despite the rally held that day that sought to pressure Republicans to overturn the Electoral College victory of President Joe Biden.
"I don't know who did a poll to say that they were Trump supporters," he said.
Another Republican, Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, described the harrowing scene as similar to a "normal tourist visit" to the Capitol.
"Let's be honest with the American people: It was not an insurrection," he said. "There was an undisciplined mob. There were some rioters, and some who committed acts of vandalism."
He added: "To call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bald-faced lie."
LYING SACK OF SHIT !
ASK POLECAT IF IT WAS AN INSURRECTION OR JUST A PEACEFUL PROTEST. -
2021-05-15 at 7:33 PM UTCMORE VOTER FRAUD DISCOVERED ! ! !
Mediaite
Trump Fan Charged with Murdering His Wife — And Using Her Ballot to Cast Extra Vote For Trump
Tommy Christopher
Colorado man Barry Morphew was charged with murdering his wife, and of using her mail-in ballot to cast an extra vote for then-President Donald Trump.
Last week, the man was charged with murder in the disappearance of 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, whose body has not been found. And this week, CNN reports that a warrant was issued this week alleging Mr. Murphew committed voter fraud by submitting his missing wife’s ballot — but with his own name printed on the signature line:
The affidavit shows that a Chaffee County clerk reported the alleged voter fraud on October 22, 2020, after receiving a “voter ballot predesignated for a missing person, identified as Suzanne Renee Morphew.”
While the ballot did not have a voter signature, it had a handwritten name of Barry Lee Morphew on the designated signature line for a witness, according to the affidavit.
When FBI agents went to interview Barry Morphew on April 22, 2021, he told them he did it because he wanted Trump to win reelection.
“Barry replied ‘Just because I wanted Trump (referring to President Donald Trump) to win,'” and “‘I just thought, give him (referring to President Trump) another vote,'” the affidavit said.
Morphew allegedly also said, “I figured all these other guys are cheating” and “I know she (referring to Suzanne Renee Morphew) was going to vote for Trump (referring to President Trump) anyway,” according to the affidavit.
He allegedly told investigators that he didn’t know it was illegal to vote for your spouse, the affidavit said.
Trump and his supporters — including a large chunk of elected Republicans — have spent months falsely insisting that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump, a lie that led to the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Republican’s voted to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position for vocally calling out that lie. -
2021-05-15 at 9:44 PM UTCI stopped wearin a mask to go in stores today,, not one nigger had the balls to say anything to me
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2021-05-15 at 9:45 PM UTC
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2021-05-15 at 9:58 PM UTCI was wearing them to go in stores but not anymore,, I gave myself a home vaxination last night so I no longer have to wear one
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2021-05-16 at 5:11 AM UTCThe New York Times
Democrats Move Closer to Setting Up Jan. 6 Commission, With or Without G.O.P.
Nicholas Fandos
WASHINGTON — House Democrats pressed ahead on Friday with a bipartisan proposal to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, after reaching agreement with a key Republican to drop his party’s demand that it look at left-wing violence unrelated to the assault.
But it was not clear whether G.O.P. leaders, who have insisted any such inquiry study Black Lives Matter and antifa, a loose collective of antifascist activists, would go along with the deal. The uncertainty raised the prospect of a showdown in the House next week over the investigation and the Republican Party’s reluctance to reckon with the deadly attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob.
The proposal agreed to by the top Democrat and Republican on the Homeland Security Committee would provide Congress with a nonpartisan, government-wide accounting of what led to the riot and hampered the response by law enforcement, as well as recommendations to prevent a repeat. Modeled on the commission that studied the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the body would deliver its findings by Dec. 31.
Representative John Katko said in a statement that the commission was “about facts, not partisan politics.”
“Inaction — or just moving on — is simply not an option,” said Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, who reached the agreement with Representative John Katko, Republican of New York. “The creation of this commission is our way of taking responsibility for protecting the U.S. Capitol.”
The proposal could break a partisan logjam that has persisted for months over the composition and mandate of such a commission. But Republican leaders in the House and Senate did not immediately say whether they would support it.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the minority leader, said shortly after the announcement that he had not signed off on Mr. Katko’s plan and still needed to review its details. A spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, declined to comment.
Still, the announcement of a compromise suggested that Democrats were prepared to simply go around most Republicans in the House if need be. That would force G.O.P. lawmakers to choose between embracing an investigation of a riot inspired by Donald J. Trump, which is likely to anger the former president and alienate their constituents who revere him, and opposing an accounting for the deadliest attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would vote next week on the legislation creating the proposed panel. At the same time, she plans to move ahead with a vote on a long-awaited bill that would provide $1.9 billion to bolster the Capitol’s defenses, reimburse the National Guard and other law enforcement for protecting the complex in the attack’s aftermath and cover costs related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Republican leaders have not yet endorsed the spending measure either, calling it premature. But Democrats believe holding a prompt vote will force G.O.P. leaders to the negotiating table.
The measure's provisions include more than $500 million to reimburse the National Guard, which has supplied thousands of troops to patrol the newly fortified Capitol; $350 million to create retractable fencing and new security screening sites at the complex, $160 million for hardening windows and doors; more than $175 million to protect federal judges and courts, and $40 million to fund prosecutors going after suspected Capitol rioters.
It includes smaller pots of money to equip Capitol Police officers with body cameras and increase protection of lawmakers as they travel the country. Many of the initiatives were recommended by a panel led by Russel L. Honoré, a retired Army lieutenant general appointed by Ms. Pelosi to investigate Capitol security.
The Capitol Police promptly issued a statement saying the funding would “help the department move forward to meet our evolving mission.”
The pair of measures, and the protracted deliberations surrounding them, underscored just how significantly the violence has rattled and reshaped Congress in the months since the riot occurred, including by worsening its partisan divisions.
The attack was one of the most violent in American history. More than 140 police officers were injured, at least five people died in connection with the riot, the vice president and members of Congress had to flee for their lives and the Capitol building itself was badly damaged. And initial reviews by congressional committees and other government watchdogs have already turned up troubling evidence of avoidable intelligence and security failures that made matters worse.
Proponents of a bipartisan commission argue that putting outside, nonpartisan experts in charge of the fact-finding will improve the investigation and help calm partisan nerves. Some senators, whose after-action hearings on the attack have been bipartisan, feel the need for another inquiry is less urgent.
“An independent, bipartisan commission will remove politicization of the conversation and focus solely on the facts and circumstances surrounding the security breach at the Capitol, as well as other instances of violence relevant to such a review,” Mr. Katko said in a statement.
Mr. Katko is among the most moderate House Republicans and was one of 10 in his conference to vote to impeach Mr. Trump in January for inciting the insurrection. His position mirrored that of another of the 10, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who Republicans purged from their leadership ranks this week for her vocal repudiations of the former president’s election lies and her party’s complicity in them.
She said that Republicans did not want a narrow investigation into Jan. 6 because it “threatens people in my party who may have been playing a role they should not have been playing.”
“I am very glad that they rejected Leader McCarthy’s suggestions that somehow we should dilute the commission,” Ms. Cheney told ABC News on Friday, adding that Mr. McCarthy “absolutely should” testify before the body about a phone call he had with Mr. Trump as the attack was underway.
But the two Republicans appear to be in the minority. Many of the party’s loudest voices have undertaken a concerted campaign to downplay the Capitol riot and deflect attention from it by pointing to the unrelated actions of activists aligned with movements on the left.
Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, offered the latest example on Friday, when he took to the House floor for an hourlong speech that argued that the rioters — who smashed windows, clubbed police officers and threatened to hang former Vice President Mike Pence that day — had essentially been peaceful.
Mr. Gohmert accused the Justice Department of abusing its power to harass and punish conservatives who had come to stage a nonviolent protest that day, while “going easy on the looters and destroyers in Portland.”
“The overwhelming number of people caught up in this, quote, unprecedented investigations, as the Justice Department promises — they’re actually nonviolent, peaceful Americans,” he said. “Their only crime was supporting Donald Trump and concern about the fraud Democrats have been telling us about in elections for many years.”
The denialism has left Democrats furious and flummoxed over how to respond. One of them, Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who served as an impeachment prosecutor against Mr. Trump, started asking colleagues on Friday to support a resolution censuring a handful of the Republicans who had been most outspoken in misrepresenting the Capitol attack.
The deal struck by Mr. Katko also included concessions from Democrats. After pushing for an agreement that would have given their party more power to choose who would serve on the commission, they accepted a 50-50 split in which each party would appoint five of the 10 members. Subpoena power would likewise be shared between appointees of the two parties.
But it does not allow the commission to look at events beyond Jan. 6 in the way some Republicans had insisted. Instead, the panelists would be tasked with examining “the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex” as well as “the influencing factors that fomented such attack on American representative democracy while engaged in a constitutional process.” -
2021-05-16 at 5:24 AM UTCWashington Examiner
Trump: ‘The entire database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!’
Lawrence Richard
Former President Donald Trump took to his new blog Saturday to repeat a widely shared claim about the Maricopa County, Arizona, election audit.
“The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Trump wrote in a post, calling such action “illegal.”
The former president has routinely and publicly questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, in which he lost both the electoral vote and the popular vote to President Joe Biden.
“This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse,” Trump said.
The president also said the state’s attorney general may have to get involved to oversee the process.
“Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. Many Radical Left Democrats and weak Republicans are very worried about the fact that this has been exposed,” he wrote.
He added: “The DELETION of an entire Database and critical Election files of Maricopa County is unprecedented. Many other states to follow.”
Trump is not the first public figure to claim or share claims that a Maricopa County election database has been deleted.
Earlier this week, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, responded to these claims after Arizona Senate President Karen Fann wrote an open letter about “serious issues” that she had with the audit process.
These issues included a claim that a database was deleted, as well as alleged noncompliance of the legislative subpoena, and a chain of custody issues with the ballots.
"After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts, I can say the allegations are false and ill-informed," Sellers wrote in his statement.
The board of supervisors chairman said such claims were “completely baseless.”
"Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless and beneath the dignity of the Arizona Senate. I demand an immediate retraction of any public statements made to the news media and spread via Twitter," Sellers added.
Despite Sellers’s statement, Trump echoed the claim and said media outlets such as Fox News were scared to cover it.
“The Mainstream Media and Radical Left Democrats want to stay as far away as possible from the Presidential Election Fraud, which should be one of the biggest stories of our time,” he wrote on his blog. “Fox News is afraid to cover it — there is rarely a mention. Likewise, Newsmax has been virtually silent on this subject because they are intimidated by threats of lawsuits.”
The president shared some praise for One America News, which he called “one of the fastest-growing networks on television.”
He also said the outlet was “doing a magnificent job of exposing the massive fraud that took place.”
“The story is only getting bigger and at some point, it will be impossible for the weak and/or corrupt media not to cover. Thank you to OAN and other brave American Patriots. It is all happening quickly!” he said. -
2021-05-16 at 3:45 PM UTCBusiness Insider
The Republican party is no longer serious
insider@insider.com (Matt Walton)
The Republican party used to generate actual policy ideas, but no longer.
Now trolling and obstructionist shenanigans are all the GOP cares about.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
In 1994, Americans were presented with "A Contract with America" from Republican Leaders Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey. This policy document was a set of proposals inspired by President Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union speech.. The "contract" was a detailed document of specific policies and actions that Republicans would advance if they took over the majority of the US House of Representatives. Many of these proposals made their way into actual laws.
Fast forward to today's Republican Party, and it's no longer a party of ideas and policy, nor do they even pretend to be.
Instead, the GOP has turned into a party of obstruction. Recently, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that "100% of my focus is standing up to this administration," meaning that his entire goal was blocking whatever the White House proposes. A few weeks ago, President Biden introduced his anticipated infrastructure plan to the American people, and upon the release of that plan it hit its first roadblock, as the GOP widely panned it.
I will admit there are aspects to the American Jobs Plan that I do not support. For example, I do not believe that child care and caregiving should be part of this bill. It should be a stand alone bill because it has nothing to do with infrastructure or creating infrastructure for the future, such as electric vehicles. However, the Biden plan is the only legitimate one on the table. When President Trump was in office, there were many "Infrastructure Weeks" with no actual plan or any real effort by congressional Republicans to work on any legislation. In fact, during the Trump administration, the term "Infrastructure Week" essentially became a joke to those of us who awaited real action.
Instead of focusing on or proposing ideas to help solve the problems facing the country, the GOP has devoted most of its time and energy to promoting "The Big Lie:" that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Republicans even purged conservative leader Rep. Liz Cheney from House leadership simply for refuting that lie.
Republicans once had grand visions for America. Other than the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the failed American Health Care Act of 2017, there has not been any significant or bold policy proposal from the GOP. The party has been sluggish in solutions and anemic in answering the calls from Americans to work to move the country forward.
Whether you liked it or not, Republican President George W. Bush pushed for an ambitious plan to reform our immigration system. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 demonstrates that the GOP used to be serious about tackling important issues facing many Americans, and were willing to work with Democrats to solve them. The bill never became law, in large part to opposition on both sides, but the same forces in the Republican Party that helped kill this bill are now the "mainstream" leaders of the party.
In 2005, Republicans and Democrats worked together on a major $286.4 billion transportation bill. The Republican sponsored bill won enormous bipartisan support. It received the support of 412 members of the House to eight in opposition, and passed 91 to four in the Senate. This goes to show that when Republicans put forward sensible policy and aren't afraid to work with Democrats, great things can be accomplished.
It's important to notice that at that time, the Democrats weren't solely focused on obstructing the Republicans. They were willing to compromise with them. Lately, that hasn't been the case with the GOP.
In 2016, when the Republican Party was debating who their nominee should be, we saw that base voters chose to support candidates that offered more sensational soundbites than solutions. Candidates like Governors John Kasich and Jeb Bush were heavy with policy ideas, but the media and the GOP base were more attracted to the chaotic candidacies of Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz. Sadly, this laid the foundation for many others in the party to become less serious about policy and more interested in becoming a personality, to the detriment of their part and their constituents.
This desire to become a personality has reinforced the notion that the GOP isn't serious on policy or putting forth any new ideas. Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene go on Fox News to be incendiary figures who care more about throwing elbows and airing GOP grievances to grow "their personal brand" and bank accounts rather than discussing substantive policy. Sadly, this problem is rotten to the GOP core, as this is what their base wants.
There are some Republicans who care to focus on policy, but as a whole, the party doesn't care to lead on ideas.
While a significant majority of the GOP is focused on extraneous matters like old books from Dr. Seuss, there are people who have been castigated from the Trumpist portion of the GOP that hope to lead the way and unveil a new set of guiding principles. This group, to which I belong, consists of current and former Republicans and should be listened to, as we have the vision to lead a policy-oriented debate, free of Trumpism. We have put out a call for an American Renewal.
The best path forward is to increase competitive incentives for the GOP to recommit to truth, our founding principles, and decency. If ultimately the GOP won't accept our agenda, and continues down this path of conspiracies and anti-democracy, we'll have no choice but to forge a new path. -
2021-05-16 at 3:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT I stopped wearin a mask to go in stores today,, not one nigger had the balls to say anything to me
I used to support wearing masks when this whole thing began, back when the CDC and WHO were telling us not to - but the evidence we have seen so far just doesn't support it, even when it comes to N95/FFP2 masks. -
2021-05-16 at 3:51 PM UTCMaking
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The Hill
Maricopa County Republican official calls Trump 'unhinged'
Mychael Schnell
The Republican who leads the Maricopa County, Ariz., elections department slammed former President Trump on Saturday, calling his comments on its 2020 election audit "unhinged."
"Wow. This is unhinged. I'm literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can't indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don't call this out..." Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer wrote on Twitter.
Richer's remarks came in response to a statement from Trump in which the former president claimed that the Maricopa County database had been deleted and that ballots were missing.
Trump called the "DELETION" of the database "unprecedented."
Republicans in the Arizona state Senate advanced an audit of the 2020 election vote in Maricopa County last month, even after multiple audits since November concluded that the vote was counted accurately.
President Biden won Arizona's 11 electoral votes over Trump by nearly 11,000 votes.
Trump has since argued that fraud cost him reelection, despite a lack of evidence bolstering the claim.
The election results were ultimately certified by state officials months ago, effectively solidifying Biden's win in Arizona. Additionally, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate signed off on the electoral vote in January, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building in an effort to stop the count, which led to the former president's second impeachment.
Richer, in a separate tweet on Saturday, called on GOP state Rep. Leo Biasiucci to "help me call out this lie," adding, "Here's a great example of a plain-as-day lie that will lead our Arizona residents to think the Maricopa County database has been entirely deleted."
GOP state Sen. Paul Boyer echoed Richer's sentiment last week, saying the election vote audit "makes us look like idiots." -
2021-05-16 at 3:54 PM UTCstl1 why not just post the text of Biden's ghost written autobiography? It is about as authentic as those articles.
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2021-05-16 at 4:12 PM UTC"makes us look like idiots."
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2021-05-16 at 4:41 PM UTCI will say IF a nigger was to listen to CNN I could see how they may think the wrong stuff.
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2021-05-16 at 4:42 PM UTCKnowledge is power.
Open your mind to the truth, Skunk! -
2021-05-16 at 4:47 PM UTCthe truth is the dems are evil and so are the republicans,, the truth is we need to purge the ranks and start over.
and the truth is it wouldn't hurt to depopulate a little
and the truth is if your country wants to enslave its people to save the world its doing its people wrong and should be held accountable.
the truth is if ur a god damn commie you would be doing this country a favor by jumping off a god damn cliff -
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