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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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2021-07-28 at 8:31 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT The secret society referred to is the Illuminati, the globalist cabal which controls our media of communication. Their objective from the beginning is to instigate revolt against the institutionalized Church and to submerge the nations under a communistic one-world government and religion.
https://www.unz.com/book/douglas_reed__the-controversy-of-zion/ -
2021-07-28 at 8:32 PM UTC
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2021-07-28 at 9:43 PM UTC
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2021-07-28 at 11:12 PM UTCHey sti are you proud of your pathetically weeping congressmen?
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2021-07-29 at 12:50 AM UTC
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2021-07-29 at 2:37 PM UTCBusiness Insider
Trump called his acting attorney general almost daily to pressure him into investigate 2020 election-fraud claims, and was ignored every time, report says
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Then-President Trump kept pushing Jeffrey Rosen to probe election-fraud claims, WaPo reported.
But Rosen reportedly refused to bend to his demands, always remaining noncommittal.
More information is emerging of the lengths Trump went to overturn the election.
Then-President Donald Trump called then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen almost daily during his final months in office to pressure him into helping overturn the 2020 presidential election results, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing two sources.
According to the sources, Trump would in the calls present Rosen with information that he claimed showed the election had been tainted by fraud on a vast scale, and ask Rosen what the Justice Department intended to do about it.
"Trump was absolutely obsessed about it," a person familiar with the conversations told The Post.
But Rosen refused to promise Trump that he was going to take any action, remaining noncommittal in his response, the sources told The Post.
Representatives for Trump and Rosen did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
This is not the first report of Rosen resisting pressure from Trump to investigate claims of election fraud.
A January 1, 2021, email released last month showed Rosen expressing frustration with then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' fixation on a conspiracy theory that Italian officials tampered with ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.
"Can you believe this?" an email from Rosen said. "I am not going to respond to the message below."
Rosen also told a congressional panel in May that under his stewardship, the Justice Department had taken no special action to lend credibility to Trump's election fraud allegations, and that he had seen no evidence to indicate they were credible.
Since his defeat last November, Trump has focused on pushing his claim that the election was stolen from him as a result of mass fraud.
During his final weeks in office, he launched a campaign to persuade officials at a state and federal level to back his accusations, despite the scarcity of any compelling evidence to support them.
The claim has been defeated or withdrawn in a series of legal challenges in swing states, and the Supreme Court twice refused to hear lawsuits owing to the lack of evidence substantiating it.
In recent weeks, further accounts have emerged of the lengths Trump went to in his bid to undermine Joe Biden's victory, with Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fearing that the president was planning on invoking the Insurrection Act as part of a coup.
Trump had replaced then-Attorney General Bill Barr with Rosen during his final 30 days in office, after Barr said the Justice Department had not uncovered any evidence of voter fraud on a scale that would delegitimize Biden's victory. -
2021-07-29 at 2:46 PM UTCThe Week
The persistent temptation of anti-Trump outrage
W. James Antle III
Many Americans have had it with Donald Trump supporters. After the opening testimony from law enforcement officers who successfully fought off pro-Trump rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, they are tired of claims that last year's presidential election was stolen. As face masks become the norm again, even for the fully vaccinated across the country, they are sick — both literally and figuratively — of vaccine holdouts, many of whom live in communities that voted for Trump.
The current news cycle has heightened the political polarization that characterized the last two presidential elections. For some, the frustration has reached a boiling point. A Justice Department reporter for The New York Times vented in a since-deleted tweet that combating "legitimate national security threats now entails calling a politician's supporters" — she meant Trump's — "enemies of the state." An emotional reaction to the Jan. 6 committee's first hearing, perhaps, but one must ask: What if Trump had said it?
All this comes with Trump's refusal to simply ride off into the sunset, as he continues to relitigate the 2020 election, but only episodically promote the vaccines that were substantially developed under his watch. Some Trump supporters have responded to obvious media bias against the 45th president by retreating to pro-Trump outlets that either have low editorial standards or traffic in misinformation for fun and profit. But concerning COVID or the Capitol, the outcomes can be dangerous.
Thus there have been demands for some Republican — any Republican — to grab Trump supporters by the lapels and yell, "Cut it out!" The problem, however, is that this is precisely what a small army of Never Trumpers on the right have done since 2015 to no obvious effect, other than their own estrangement from the GOP.
"The theory that vaccine efforts will improve if John Cornyn tells his voters, 'you swim in a cesspool of lies!', seems pretty doubtful," New York Times columnist Ross Douthat tweeted earlier this month.
And yet this theory persists for two reasons: It is emotionally satisfying, and nothing else this side of Tucker Carlson has worked when it comes to managing hardcore Trump supporters' radical disenchantment with the political system. But a corresponding increase in rage and despair on the other side is just as counterproductive as the worst Twitter tantrum. The country needs something more. But will we get it? -
2021-07-29 at 2:59 PM UTCThe LA Times
Column: He warned democracy was in peril. And that was before the Capitol riot
Mark Z. Barabak
It's not as if Tom Mann is happy to say I told you so.
After decades as a leading expert on Congress and our fragile American experiment in democracy, Mann shed his impartiality and scholarly distance and co-wrote a clanging alarm of a book that said government was headed seriously off the rails.
"It's Even Worse Than It Looks" didn't steer a middle course by blaming "both sides," or countenance the "well, what about" school of reductive reasoning — as in, "Well, what about Hillary's emails?" — which shrinks any difference between Democrat and Republican to the level of a schoolyard taunt.
The problem, Mann and coauthor Norman Ornstein stated, was a Republican Party captive to its most unhinged elements.
"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics," the two wrote. "It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges."
That was back in 2012, when Donald Trump was hosting "The Apprentice" and the weightiest matters he publicly wrestled with were questions such as who designed the best launch party for Crystal Light Mocktails.
Nine years later — after a disastrously mishandled once-in-a-century pandemic, a failed presidential effort to overturn the 2020 election and a deadly insurrectionist raid on the U.S. Capitol that Trump helped incite — Mann suggests things are even worse than they seemed back then.
“We’re on a precipice," Mann said. "We’re actually potentially so close to losing our democracy."
The scholar sat grim-faced over his kale salad at a Berkeley bistro, and if those words — scholar, kale salad, Berkeley, bistro — read like a caricature of some out-of-touch liberal elitist, Mann notes he grew up scraping by in a Florida trailer home and took out loans to attend public college. So it's not as though he's spent his entire life stroking his chin in some ivory tower.
His deconstructions of government and politics have long commanded respect from members of both major parties, as well as anyone trying to figure out the byzantine byways of Washington. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was among those who enthusiastically blurbed one of Mann's earlier books on Congress.
More to the point, Mann and Ornstein have proved prophetic. The Republican Party has only grown more obdurate since their 2012 work was published, more invested in conspiratorial thinking and more willing to undermine democratic values, such as the sanctity of free and fair elections.
Yes, Mann said, Democrats have their fringe elements. (Well, what about....) But, Mann said, they haven't commandeered the party to the same extent as the 147 Republicans in the House — among them GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield — who refused to certify Biden's election, or the state lawmakers nationwide who've passed legislation making it harder to vote and allowing partisans to overturn elections they don't like.
"We've always had extremist groups on the left as well as the right, but they've always been marginalized or co-opted to become more moderate," said Mann, 76, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and a resident scholar at UC Berkeley. "This is the first time an extreme set of forces like this has actually won the White House and tried to steal it a second time."
He leaned forward, elbows planted on the table before him, which wobbled as Mann made his point. His salad sat untouched.
The remedy, Mann said, begins with an utter repudiation of Trump and his authoritarian impulses, first in the 2022 midterm election and then in 2024, when the White House is again up for grabs. Only then, he said, will less extreme, more pragmatic elements of the GOP be positioned to rebuild the party atop its rubble and set the country on a healthier course. (A starting point might be some of those Republicans negotiating with the Biden administration to pass an infrastructure bill.)
America needs two strong governing parties, Mann said, to keep each other in check and hold each other accountable. "One-party rule is autocratic rule," Mann said.
He offered other, more drastic prescriptions aimed at sidelining the GOP's scorched-earth wing. He would abolish the electoral college and choose the president based on the popular vote. He would make voting a mandatory requirement of citizenship, the way it is in Australia. He would do more to strengthen third parties, promoting cooperation and more political coalition building.
One step Mann supports but believes is unachievable right now is eliminating the Senate filibuster, which is perhaps the strongest weapon in the minority party’s arsenal. Instead, he would change the requirement to end a filibuster from a supermajority of 60 senators to three-fifths of those present and voting, an easier threshold. Alternatively, he would require 41 votes to keep a filibuster going, not 60 votes to end it, placing the burden on the minority to continue the obstructionist tactic.
The point, Mann said, is allowing the party that gets the most votes to actually govern, pass laws and then be held accountable at the ballot box. Most voters, he said, "want [government] to work well for everyone, are not attracted to conspiracy theories and don't want an autocrat, demagogue or fascist or whatever you call it running things."
For all his gloom, Mann was not entirely cheerless. He took solace in the fact Trump lost his reelection bid — he really did — and was thwarted from pursuing an even more egregiously subversive second-term agenda. Had Trump won, "we'd have passed Hungary pretty quickly in moving to an autocratic world and a dangerous world," Mann said. "So it could be worse."
He paused, then exclaimed: "How about that! It could be worse!"
He laughed, long and hard. -
2021-07-29 at 3:16 PM UTCIs this the end of the beginning?
Or the beginning of the end?
Losing control or are you winning?
Is your life real or just pretend?
Reanimation of the Sequence
Rewind the future to the past
To find the source of the solution
The system has to be recast
Release your mind
Fast forward to the secrets of your code
Your life's on overload
Delete or save?
The units that make you an entity; that's your identity
If you don't know which way to go
You may be lost and confused
A second chance… your turn to lose
Regeneration of your cyber-sonic-soul
Transforming time and space beyond control
Rise up, resist, and be the master of your fate
Don't look back, live for today, tomorrow is too late
You don't want to be a robot ghost
Occupied inside a human host
Analyzed and cloned relentlessly
Synthesized until they set you free
Alright
Okay
Alright
Until they set you free
Alright
Okay
Until they set you free
I don't want to see you, yeah
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2021-07-29 at 3:31 PM UTCSorry, I refuse to let the Republicans end my democracy.
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2021-07-29 at 3:50 PM UTCst|1's version of democracy:
1. Believe and obey everything I say, or else.
2. Open arms policy to Communist China.
3. Rigging election machines/stealing elections/nullifying more than half the country's vote.
4. Burning down police stations and courthouses as political options.
5. Holding public funds hostage as leverage for partisan political ambitions.
6. Doxxing and framing people who don't fall in line.
7. Banning, deleting, harassing and "fact checking" unpalatable opposing opinions.
8. Ignoring the Constitution of the United States of America.
9. Making pay-for-play backroom deals with enemies of the people.
10. Labelling any constitutional protests they don't like insurrections. -
2021-07-29 at 4:42 PM UTCYou forgot:
11. Hating MAGATS. -
2021-07-29 at 5 PM UTChttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/auditors-finish-counting-ballots-arizonas-maricopa-county
Yo sti, you nervous my boi? -
2021-07-29 at 7:43 PM UTC
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2021-07-29 at 10:12 PM UTC^ Literally mentally deranged retards.
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2021-07-29 at 10:21 PM UTCThe State of Wisconsin has just released a press release to indicate they will be going ahead with a forensic audit of the votes in the 2020 election.
tick.. tock.. -
2021-07-30 at 1:25 AM UTCMi getting full forensic audit
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2021-07-30 at 1:30 PM UTCMake
America's MAGATS last hope
Go
Away
An Arizona GOP state senator who backed the election audit withdrew her support, attacking the process as botched
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Arizona state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita thinks the Maricopa County audit has been "botched."
She cited poor execution and transparency as reasons for withdrawing her support.
The audit, drawing to a close, has been mired in controversy since being launched in March.
Republican Arizona state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita withdrew her support for the much-criticized audit of votes from last year's presidential election being conducted in Maricopa County.
Ugenti-Rita in a Twitter thread said that she believed the audit, which was launched in April by a firm owned by an ally of President Donald Trump, had been "botched."
She criticized Senate President Karen Fann for the process, which was authorized by a vote from the legislature.
"I supported the audit, but I do not support the Trump audit any longer," Ugenti-Rita said.
"I wanted to review our election processes and see what, if anything, could be improved. Sadly, it's now become clear that the audit has been botched. The total lack of competence by @FannKfann over the last 5 months has deprived the voters of Arizona a comprehensive accounting of the 2020 election," she wrote.
In comments to The Washington Post on Thursday she repeated her concerns, and said that she was particularly worried by the delay in concluding the audit, the lack of transparency, and the extent to which the process had been delegated to Cyber Ninjas.
She also said that Fann had failed to control expectations, allowing Trump and his allies to falsely claim the result of the audit could be used to overturn the result of the election, which Joe Biden won both in Arizona and overall.
Ugenti-Rita's decision to withdraw support for the audit is significant because the Republicans hold a narrow one-vote majority in the Senate, meaning Fann faces potential defeat in future votes on the audit.
The GOP-controlled chamber authorized the audit in April, using around $150,000 of taxpayer money. Most of the funding came from Trump-supporting private donors.
Fann has defended the audit, saying it is necessary for restoring trust in the elections, even though there had already been two prior audits which did not reveal evidence of widespread fraud.
Insider has contacted a representative for Fann for further comment.
The audit has been beset by controversy since being launched in April, with contractors at one point searching for traces of bamboo on ballots, seeking to confirm a conspiracy theory that thousands of illegal votes were sent from China.
Maricopa County election officials and election observers from the office of the Arizona secretary of state have decried the recount as shambolic and motivated by a partisan desire to delegitimize Biden's win.
The audit of ballots wrapped up this week, long after its projected completion date. The physical ballots were returned to Maricopa County officials, and the Cyber Ninjas is due to issue a report in the coming weeks. -
2021-07-30 at 1:39 PM UTC
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2021-07-30 at 1:40 PM UTCcommies dressed as trumpers about to attack on the 6th
