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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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2021-05-22 at 3:47 PM UTCDave Jose is the man with the plan for free American's.
if you love freedom and do not watch his videos you are a sad fuck and deserve what you get.
his true fight is against the BAR and all lawyers, courts and cps.
and for you never TRUMPERS ill tell you I haven't heard him say his name in 30 hrs of videos,, maybe one time but not that I remember -
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2021-05-22 at 4:44 PM UTCBusiness Insider
US seizes $90,000 from insurrectionist who sold footage of Ashli Babbitt's fatal shooting to news outlets
jzitser@businessinsider.com (Joshua Zitser)
John Earle Sullivan, charged with eight criminal counts, claimed to be at the Capitol riot as a documentarian.
He recorded Ashli Babbitt's fatal shooting and sold it to news outlets, Reuters reported.
US authorities have now seized around $90,000 - the amount he is believed to have made from selling the video.
US authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a man who sold footage of a protester being fatally shot during the January 6 storming of the Capitol, according to court filings seen by Reuters.
John Earle Sullivan, a 26-year-old from Utah, recorded videos capturing the chaos of the Capitol riot, Reuters said. He claims to have been there as a "documentarian" but now faces a total of eight criminal counts relating to his involvement in the insurrection, Insider previously reported.
One of the videos he recorded, which included the shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a police officer, was sold to several unnamed news outlets for a total of $90,000, according to a seizure warrant seen by the news agency.
Sullivan licensed parts of the video footage to the Washington Post and NBC, The New Yorker reported in February.
Sullivan reportedly boasted about the value of the gruesome footage of Babbit- one of the five people who died during the unrest on January 6. "My footage is worth like a million of dollars, millions of dollars," he said, according to the court filings.
"Dude, this s--- is gonna go viral," Sullivan crowed shortly after watching Babbitt fall to the ground in a pool of blood, The New Yorker reported.
Sullivan is one of the many insurrectionists who is using the legal defense that he was at the Capitol siege purely for journalistic reasons.
But, according to an affidavit against him submitted to the US District Court for DC, he played a more active role in the Capitol siege. He is accused of using a microphone to shout, "Let's burn this s--t down," while breaching the Capitol's security barrier, the affidavit said.
An FBI affidavit also pointed out that the self-proclaimed journalist had no press credentials, the Rolling Stone reported.
Sullivan is charged with eight criminal counts including weapons charges, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. -
2021-05-22 at 4:50 PM UTCIs that story supposed to not sound like a tyrannical Government railroading some guy, ruining his life and seizing his money? Cuz it reads like the FBI didn't want video of the police gunning down some woman not any alleged offense commited by the guy who recorded it.
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2021-05-22 at 4:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo Milo "freely admits to fucking kids" Yannowhogivesashit
You always do the whole moral superiority thing to justify ignoring things that don't line up with the mainstream world view.
Milo is literally an FBI informant, whoever warned him is someone who knew what was going to happen. I find that interesting. But you think you should ignore this interesting evidence because "le gay jedi said he wants to fuck 13 year old boys". -
2021-05-22 at 4:55 PM UTCYou don't need any press credentials to be a journalist, because "press credentials" don't actually exist. Another casual lie by the chronic liars.
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2021-05-22 at 5:10 PM UTCCredentials is just another lie propagated by the man to stifle our freedom and make sure only shills and bought men are able to directly query our civil servants.
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2021-05-22 at 5:17 PM UTCFuck you st1l, you dumb old fucking retarded piece of shit.
Gtfo.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-22 at 5:17 PM UTCMaking
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REPUBLICANS STEALING YOUR DEMOCRACY
The New York Times
Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy
Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti
In 2008, deep-blue California banned same-sex marriage. In 2018, steadfastly conservative Arkansas and Missouri increased their minimum wage. And last year, Republican-controlled Arizona and Montana legalized recreational marijuana.
Boxes of ballot initiative petitions were delivered to the Missouri secretary of state’s office in Jefferson City in May 2020. Republican lawmakers have since refused to carry out the Medicaid expansion that voters favored in November.
These moves were all the product of ballot initiatives, a century-old fixture of American democracy that allows voters to bypass their legislatures to enact new laws, often with results that defy the desires of the state’s elected representatives. While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly successful in recent years at using ballot initiatives to advance their agenda in conservative states where they have few other avenues.
In Missouri, voters have approved measures in recent years to repeal the state’s so-called right-to-work law, increase the minimum wage and expand Medicaid.
But this year, Republican-led legislatures in Florida, Idaho, South Dakota and other states have passed laws limiting the use of the practice, one piece of a broader G.O.P. attempt to lock in political control for years to come, along with new laws to restrict voting access and the partisan redrawing of congressional districts that will take place in the coming months.
So far in 2021, Republicans have introduced 144 bills to restrict the ballot initiative processes in 32 states, according to the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, a liberal group that tracks and assists citizen-driven referendums. Of those bills, 19 have been signed into law by nine Republican governors. In three states, Republican lawmakers have asked voters to approve ballot initiatives that in fact limit their own right to bring and pass future ballot initiatives.
Mississippi’s conservative Supreme Court invalidated the state’s entire ballot initiative process on a technicality.
“They have implemented web after web of technicalities and hurdles that make it really hard for community-based groups to qualify for the ballot and counter why ballot initiatives were created in the first place,” said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “This is directly connected to every attack we’ve seen on our democracy.”
In recent years, Democrats have leveraged ballot initiatives to bypass Republican-controlled legislatures, enacting laws in red states that raised the minimum wage, legalized marijuana, expanded Medicaid, introduced nonpartisan redistricting and no-excuse absentee voting, and restored voting rights to people with felony convictions.
Republicans are trying to block that path in a wide variety of ways, including blunt measures that take direct aim at the process and others that are more subtle.
In South Dakota, where in 1898 a socialist Catholic priest named Robert Haire pioneered the American ballot initiative process, Republicans this year passed a law mandating a minimum type size of 14 points on ballot initiative petitions. Combined with a requirement that all initiatives, along with their signatures, fit on a single sheet of paper, the new type size will force people gathering signatures for petitions to tote around large pieces of paper, including some that unfold to the size of a beach towel. The new rules will increase the cost of ballot initiative efforts and limit the scope of the text that explains often-complex legislative proposals.
“People who carry petitions have been very resourceful,” said State Senator Al Novstrup, a 66-year-old bespectacled Republican who sponsored the bill because, he said, the text of ballot initiatives is often too small for him to read. “There is no restriction on the size of the paper.”
In Mississippi last week, the conservative State Supreme Court, ruling on a Republican lawsuit, invalidated the state’s entire initiative process on a technicality, throwing out a 2020 referendum that legalized medical marijuana and halting an effort to collect signatures to place Medicaid expansion on the state’s 2022 ballot. The constitutional amendment that created the state’s initiative law was enacted in 1992, when the state had five congressional districts, and required signatures from voters in each. Mississippi has had just four districts since the 2000 census.
Democrats have used ballot initiatives to advance their agenda in states where they have little hope of otherwise enacting their policy priorities.
And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation introducing a $3,000 limit on campaign contributions to ballot initiatives — cutting off a key source of revenue to subsidize the gathering of signatures for petitions.
The Republican effort now gaining steam has been years in the making.
In South Dakota, Republicans have in recent years limited the window for collecting petition signatures to the cold winter months and required all canvassers to register with the state and wear state-issued identification cards while gathering signatures, hurdles that the state’s few Democrats say have increased the difficulty of qualifying for the ballot.
“Republicans have every statewide office, 85 percent of the Legislature and every constitutional office,” said Reynold F. Nesiba, one of three Democrats in the 35-member State Senate. “The one place where Democrats can make progress is through the initiated measure process, and the Republicans want to take that away, too.”
Now the state’s Republican lawmakers will put before South Dakota voters a constitutional amendment to increase the threshold to pass referendums — raising it to 60 percent from a simple majority. (The threshold to raise the threshold? Still just 50 percent.)
The question will appear on the state’s June 2022 primary ballot, which is expected to be dominated by Republican contests. The new threshold could be in effect for the November 2022 general election, when a referendum on expanding Medicaid is expected to go before voters.
State Senator Lee Schoenbeck, a Republican, said in March that he specifically wanted to block Medicaid expansion.
“It’s a fair protection for the citizens of our state,” he said on Thursday.
The proposals to limit ballot initiatives are part of a running campaign by conservatives to box out progressive policy efforts. To get a referendum on the ballot, petitioners have to collect tens of thousands of signatures; the numbers vary by state. The process can cost millions, so the initiative campaigns are often underwritten by large donors.
In Arizona, Republicans have been smarting since 2018, when Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democrat who later ran for president, helped finance an ultimately unsuccessful effort to pass a constitutional amendment requiring that half of the state’s energy come from renewable sources.
In February, Tim Dunn, a Republican state representative, introduced a resolution seeking to increase the threshold for a ballot initiative to pass from a majority to 55 percent.
“When you look at the actual people that actually vote on a ballot initiative, the amount of people compared to the citizens of Arizona is quite small, and the outside money could influence that pretty easily,” Mr. Dunn said.
Florida Republicans voiced a similar rationale for a new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that limits the contributions to a citizen-organized ballot initiative to $3,000 per person. Republicans had been frustrated by some donors who supported ballot initiatives, including John Morgan, a wealthy Orlando lawyer, who spent millions of dollars supporting measures to legalize medical marijuana and raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
But civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have said the new law will effectively eradicate citizen-led ballot initiatives, which often require large-scale funding to collect signatures.
Such campaigns are so expensive, advocates say, because of a cascade of limitations that the Florida Legislature has placed on initiative efforts. Recently, the Legislature cut in half the time period in which signatures must be submitted before they expire; banned the practice of paying signature collectors on a per-signature basis; required those gathering signatures to use a separate piece of paper for each signature; and required every signature to be verified, banning a much cheaper “random sampling” process.
“With every successful initiative or every big effort that the Legislature doesn’t approve of, there is a new law to make it more costly, more burdensome, to propose an initiative,” said Nicholas Warren, a lawyer at the A.C.L.U of Florida.
Republican sponsors of the new law in Florida agree that constitutional amendments will be harder to pass. That is their goal.
“I don’t dispute that it will be more difficult to put a referendum on the ballot under the statute, but that’s the point,” said State Senator Ray Rodrigues, a Republican who sponsored the bill.
In Missouri, 22 Republican-sponsored bills this year have sought to limit the state’s ballot initiative process, including one that would double the number of signatures required to qualify for the ballot and increase the threshold for a measure to pass, from a simple majority to two-thirds, which would be the highest in the country.
“This was really just politicians trying to dramatically limit the constitutional rights of Missourians to use the process while telling us it’s for our own good,” said Richard von Glahn, the policy director of Missouri Jobs With Justice, a progressive organization.
In Idaho, Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed a law last month that will make it significantly harder to meet the signature requirements for an initiative to be added to the ballot. Before, an initiative needed signatures from 6 percent of the population of 18 different legislative districts. The new law signed by Mr. Little will now require signatures from 6 percent of residents in each of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts.
And in Mississippi, the State Supreme Court last week ruled that the initiative process was “unworkable and inoperative” because of the disparity between the number of congressional districts in the law and the number of districts the state has now.
Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler of Madison, Miss., a Republican who filed the lawsuit that led to the invalidation of the state’s initiative process, said that the legal action had been intended to protect her city’s ability to deter marijuana retailers through zoning.
“There were those in government that knew it needed to be corrected,” Ms. Butler said of the ballot initiative process. “If we want to go forward in the state and protect the initiative process, it’s got to be corrected. If it’s flawed, the only recourse would be to start over.” -
2021-05-22 at 5:19 PM UTCstl1 is old and grew up in a country where those in authority didn't actually hate normal people.
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2021-05-22 at 5:23 PM UTCStl1 is so old that he actually remembers when truth and reality meant something.
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2021-05-22 at 5:42 PM UTCThe Hill
Republicans try but can't escape Jan. 6
Mike Lillis and Scott Wong
Republicans would really like to move beyond Jan. 6, but it's not going very well.
Republicans try but can't escape Jan. 6.
Four months into the Biden administration, as GOP leaders are racing to shift the focus away from the violent attack by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol, they're being forced to confront the rampage at every turn.
Democrats are charging ahead with plans for deep-dive investigations into the assault.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), joined by like-minded Republicans critical of Donald Trump, is taking every opportunity to condemn the former president for his role in the attack.
Some conservative lawmakers have taken to rejecting the idea that the riot was a riot at all - a denialism that's only thrust the episode back into the headlines.
And Trump has continued to press his case that the election was stolen by corrupt officials - the same falsehood that inspired the mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The combination of factors has made it all but impossible for GOP leaders to turn the public gaze away from the extraordinary attack and toward their criticisms of Biden and his policy agenda.
Those difficulties were on full display at a news conference this week when Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sought to shine a spotlight on Biden's Cuba policy and the dangers of socialism. Instead, McCarthy faced a barrage of questions from reporters about Jan. 6 and the 9/11-style investigative commission he'd voted against just a day earlier.
Would he testify before the commission about his phone call with Trump as the Jan. 6 attack was underway?
"Sure, next question," McCarthy replied.
Were you surprised that 35 Republicans voted with the Democrats to create the Jan. 6 commission?
"No, not at all. I thought it would be higher," McCarthy said.
Is it a conflict of interest for lawmakers to be voting on creating a commission that might ultimately call them to testify?
"No, because who knows what they're going to do on the commission," McCarthy answered.
You're absolutely sure no GOP lawmakers were in communication with the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6?
"I don't believe they are, but thank you for the question," McCarthy said as fellow lawmakers could be seen behind him leaving the press conference.
Complicating McCarthy's efforts to turn the page, there are dozens of Republicans in his conference who say the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol needs further exploration.
That 35 Republicans bucked both McCarthy and Trump to support the outside commission surprised lawmakers in both parties, who were expecting only between 15 and 25 defections.
"I have limited confidence that a traditional partisan committee process will lead us very close to the truth about Jan. 6," Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who was among those 35 defectors, told The Hill. "There are some serious answers we need to get to the bottom of and an independent commission is the right way to do it."
Others, such as conservative GOP Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.), said their constituents back home are still pressing for answers about whether Trump's rhetoric or actions incited the Capitol riot, why some Black Lives Matters demonstrations turned violent last year, and Trump's false assertion the 2020 election was stolen.
"I think the public on both sides wants more information about Jan. 6. I think they want more information about political violence that occurred in the summer of 2020. I think they want more information about the election. It's going to be very difficult to pivot and not talk about those things," Buck told The Hill outside the Capitol.
"I think there will be some value to gaining info about" the election and Jan. 6, he added. "We in Congress have a duty to try to elicit facts that would settle some of those issues."
GOP leaders seem to have other ideas.
They opposed the bill creating the Jan. 6 commission, though it was negotiated by Republican Rep. John Katko (N.Y.). And their decision to remove Cheney, the most powerful Republican woman in Congress, was based primarily on Cheney's refusal to remain silent about what she considers Trump's complicity in the Capitol attack. Her replacement, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), is a centrist-turned-Trump-loyalist who is promising a different focus - one that keeps Trump in the fold and indulges his false election claims.
Cheney is "looking backwards; Republicans are looking forward," Stefanik told Fox News at the start of the week. "We are unified, and we are talking about conservative principles. President Trump is an important voice in the Republican Party."
Yet Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has not fallen quietly. Instead, she's sounding existential warnings that Republicans' fealty to Trump will be the party's downfall. And to the chagrin of GOP leaders, she's taking that message into the 2022 midterms.
"Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that," Cheney said from the House floor on the eve of her ouster. "I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president's crusade to undermine our democracy."
Some Trump loyalists have unwittingly kept the Jan. 6 attack in the news with recent comments downplaying its severity.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) this week called the violent assault on the Capitol a largely "peaceful protest," while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the protesters who've been arrested "are being abused" in custody.
They're hardly alone. During a hearing last week, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) characterized the attack as "acts of vandalism," rejected its portrayal as an "insurrection" and compared the rioters' conduct to that of "a normal tourist visit."
It was later revealed the first-term lawmaker had helped to barricade the House chamber on Jan. 6, as the mob sought to topple the doors to the floor. Capitol Police officers have told The Hill they had pulled numerous firearms off rioters who had breached the complex.
In the same hearing, Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), another Trump loyalist, suggested the rioters were the victims on Jan. 6, not the assailants. And Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) questioned whether the mob consisted of Trump followers at all.
"I don't know who did a poll that it's Trump supporters," he said.
The revisionist claims have helped to keep the story in the spotlight as exasperated lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have accused those voices of flagrant denialism.
"To all my GOP friends, when are you going to say enough is enough?" Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a sharp Trump critic, tweeted this week.
Yet the single source most responsible for driving the debate has been Trump himself. Though he's banned from Twitter and Facebook, the former president has issued a long and growing string of statements in recent weeks, amplifying his false claims that the election was stolen; attacking the Republican voices pushing back against those falsehoods; and warning Republican leaders to oppose any move to create an outside commission to investigate the violence carried out by the mob of his supporters.
"Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left," Trump said this week in a statement opposing the Jan. 6 commission. "Hopefully, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are listening!"
Democrats, meanwhile, are only happy to amplify the GOP divisions as they seek to investigate the causes of the Jan. 6 attack - and keep it in the public eye.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said such an investigation will take place even if the bill creating the outside commission dies in the Senate, in which case she'll likely form a special congressional panel to pursue the probe. And other prominent Democrats are also charging ahead, saying Republican efforts to turn the page belie the historic nature of the attack.
"This was a national trauma. Do we turn the page on 9/11? Do we turn the page on the Civil War? Or do we try to learn from a traumatic event like this?" said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who led the prosecution in Trump's impeachment trial.
"The idea of sweeping it all under the rug is morally abominable and politically unsustainable. It just doesn't work," he added. "That's not how history proceeds." -
2021-05-22 at 5:43 PM UTCAnybody with nothing to hide would be thrilled to investigate and examine every single possibility in the 2020 election, thus proving they actually won once and for all for everyone to see for themselves. Only election fraudsters with a lot to hide do what the Democrats are doing right now.
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2021-05-22 at 5:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Anybody with nothing to hide would be thrilled to investigate and examine every single possibility in the 2020 election, thus proving they actually won once and for all for everyone to see for themselves. Only election fraudsters with a lot to hide do what the Democrats are doing right now.
Post your picture, name, DOB and SIN right now or you're a flesh eating pedophile. If you have nothing to hide you should be thrilled to prove you are not a pedophile once and for all -
2021-05-22 at 6:12 PM UTCso I can see you niggers posting so I know ur not watching Dave,, man are you niggers missing out on freedom
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2021-05-22 at 6:14 PM UTCI found the remains of campsites near Hurdman station, in the over grown areas off of the trail.
I figured it was spectral. I just knew. The left over tins of beans, the graffiti, the eerie feeling you get when you know someone was just there. His sign carved into trees.
I ran off terrified.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
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2021-05-22 at 6:50 PM UTCDavid Jose, you tube
