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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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2021-10-11 at 12:06 AM UTCI hope I'm stoned, otherwise I losing my typin skills
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2021-10-11 at 12:07 AM UTCI think we need a weak retort from st|1 at this point.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-11 at 2:15 AM UTCi disagree
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2021-10-11 at 2:22 AM UTCSt|1? Please go ahead. You have the floor.
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2021-10-11 at 2:25 AM UTChe's gonna start being silent er and silenter as time goes on from here
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2021-10-11 at 2:26 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-11 at 2:30 AM UTC
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2021-10-11 at 2:31 AM UTCHe's careful not to say too much, like his child-sniffing boy Biden.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-12 at 12:36 AM UTCinteresting
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2021-10-12 at 6:11 AM UTCI demand st|1 comment.
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2021-10-12 at 5:39 PM UTCMAGAts
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Gonna
Acquiesce to the Bigly Lie
The Guardian
The Senate’s findings on the last days of Trump’s presidency are grim. Will it matter?
Lloyd Green
Last week, the Senate’s judiciary committee released its staff report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and bend the justice department to his will. Subverting Justice: How the Former President and his Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election lays out in grim detail the ex-reality show host’s concerted effort to weaponize the government’s legal machinery in his desperate bid to cling to power.
One conclusion reads: “President Trump repeatedly asked DOJ leadership to endorse his false claims that the election was stolen and to assist his efforts to overturn the election results.” Another informs us that “Trump allies with links to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and the January 6 insurrection participated in the pressure campaign against DOJ.”
As if we didn’t already know. Don’t expect the report to change hearts or minds.
On a Saturday night visit to Iowa, Trump told the crowd that he had not conceded defeat. Indeed, one day later, Steve Scalise, the No 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, refused to say that the election wasn’t stolen. Trump has the Republicans in a hammerlock. The impact of Senate report is likely to be negligible.
As America’s cold civil war continues, hyper-partisanship is the rule, not the exception
Since Trump’s backers pillaged Congress back in January, the Republican party has selectively forgiven and forgotten. By the numbers, 57% of Republicans now believe “too much attention” has been paid to the 6 January riot. Only roughly a third of Republicans concede that storming the Capitol was about overturning the election. Too many Republicans still blame it on antifa.
The new normal is neither particularly normal nor new. As America’s cold civil war continues, hyper-partisanship is the rule, not the exception. And among Republicans, fealty to Trump is the acid test.
Look at Mike Pence, Trump’s hapless vice-president and an aspiring 2024 presidential nominee. Even after having been kicked to the curb by his former boss and targeted for hanging by Capitol rioters, Pence continues to play political lapdog.
He is all too aware that Trump remains the Republican party’s boss and that his future rests in Trump’s hands. “I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January,” Pence told Fox News.
“One day in January” – really?
Apparently, signs that screamed “Hang Mike Pence” were an illusion, as were the gallows near the capitol. Then again, Pence’s brother Greg, a congressman from Indiana, voted against certifying the election despite his having seen first-hand what his sibling had endured.
Although the report will not change the political landscape, it is likely to have real consequences for Jeffrey Clark, a former assistant attorney general and the most senior justice department official to plot with Trump. The report recommends that the DC bar’s disciplinary counsel “evaluate Clark’s conduct to determine whether disciplinary action is warranted”.
In plain English, the Senate’s Democrats are inviting the DC bar to strip Clark of his law license. Working for Trump frequently comes with a downside.
Tellingly, the committee’s Republicans do not offer a particularly full-throated defense of Clark. Instead, Senator Charles Grassley, the committee’s ranking Republican, intimated that Clark had failed to receive sufficient due process. “Committee Democrats opted to release their report having not yet received requested government documents and having not yet heard from Jeffrey Clark,” Grassley said.
Substantively, the Republican party appears ready to sacrifice Clark to spare Trump. The president “listened to all data points”, they wrote in a competing report, and the path advocated by Clark “would be rejected”. In all fairness, he wouldn’t be the first person to thrown in a front of the proverbial bus for the sake of a sitting president.
Not surprisingly, where there’s a raging dumpster fire, Rudy Giuliani is close by.
According to the committee, Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, asked the justice department to investigate a theory pushed by Giuliani known as “Italygate”, which “held that the Central Intelligence Agency and an Italian IT contractor used military satellites to manipulate voting machines and change Trump votes to Biden votes”.
Let that sink in.
As the Senate report recedes from the voters’ conscience, expect the House’s investigation to emerge as a focal point for all things Trump, with the ex-president seeking to block the cooperation and testimony of his former aides, including Meadows, all in the run-up to the midterms.
Beyond that, Trump is also invoking “executive privilege” to keep Steve Bannon, his 2016 campaign chairman, from testifying. To be sure, Bannon was not a member of the administration when 2021 rolled around. He had left the White House in the summer of 2017.
Instead, Bannon was goading Trump, telling him, according to Peril, the latest Bob Woodward book, co-authored with Bob Costa: “People are going to go, What the fuck is going on here? We’re going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him … We’re going to kill it in the crib, kill the Biden presidency in the crib.”
For the record, Bannon had previously suggested that Anthony Fauci’s head be severed from its body. Whether Bannon is found to be in criminal contempt for refusing to testify before Liz Cheney and others is a live question.
The bottom line remains that Trump was never going quietly into the political night. Short of his own re-election, he viewed the process as “rigged” and “corrupt”.
How the House and the courts handle all this remains to be seen. Right now, the broader public is far from riveted, and the Republicans are either on board with Trump or simply cowed. -
2021-10-12 at 5:48 PM UTCHOLDING A BAD LEADER ACCOUNTABLE
Mediaite
Trump Blames January 6th on Officials Who Ignored ‘Intelligence’ on Capitol Attack Planned During his Administration
Colby Hall
Former President Donald Trump appears to be admitting that the attack on January 6th was a bad thing. Rather than blaming actual attackers — the vast majority of which were his supporters — he’s blaming those who ignored intelligence that attacks were planned…by his supporters.
It’s worth remembering that the vast majority of attackers of the Capitol started the day at Trump’s Save America rally at the Elipse, then walked over to the Capitol after hearing Trump suggest that very action. There were multiple news reports in the days leading up to the attack that something like this would happen. However, Trump’s blaming officials for ignoring intelligence overlook the fact that this occurred under his administration.
“What happened to the Capitol would have never happened if the people in charge did their job and looked at the intelligence,” Trump said in the statement. “They abandoned the officers on the ground, just like Biden abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Instead of holding bad leaders accountable, the Democrats are going after innocent staffers and attacking the Constitution.”
Trump’s statement was issued via his Save America PAC. It came shortly after new details have emerged about Trump’s phone calls with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a new book excerpt from ABC News Jonathan Karl. The reporting features more detail of the firey phone call exchanges between the two as the Capitol was being overrun by many Trump supporters and how many versions of the video he recorded for Twitter did not even include an exhortation for his followers to leave the Capitol and stop the attack.
Trump goes on in his statement to make predictable political swipes at what he derides as the House “Unselect Committee” who he feels exists only to serve as a distraction from the Biden administration. He then makes predictable digs at Rep. Adam Schiff and references a Politico report of a Capitol Police whistleblower that blames Capitol Police leadership’s handling of the day’s events.
Read the complete statement below:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
The highly partisan Unselect Committee is just a sideshow to distract America from MASSIVE failures by Biden and the Democrats. What happened to the Capitol would have never happened if the people in charge did their job and looked at the intelligence. They abandoned the officers on the ground, just like Biden abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Instead of holding bad leaders accountable, the Democrats are going after innocent staffers and attacking the Constitution.
Why is the just released bombshell January 6th whistleblower report being ignored by the mainstream media? Based on this high ranking Capitol Police official’s report, these partisan hearings must stop at once. This is yet another continuation of the Radical Left’s Witch Hunt—led by Shifty Adam Schiff and his crew who misled America on RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, the “Perfect” Ukraine phone call, the Mueller report scam, and so much else. Now Shifty, who couldn’t get a job with the administration, is at it again. Radical Left Democrats are rapidly destroying America!
"What happened to the Capitol would have never happened if the people in charge did their job"...finally, Trump and I agree! -
2021-10-12 at 6:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The fraudster Democrats and their patented half truths. Trump did get a medical deferment from the Vietnam War draft, but it was only temporary. Once he was informed it was temporary, he immediately signed up for the draft and was given number 356 out of 365. His high number never got picked. Not Trump's fault. He was on the draft AFTER the temporary deferment. Now you see what kind of clever and devious liars we are actually looking at here.
Now everyone can see your manipulation of the truth in this Snopes article:
Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments
An overview of Donald Trump's Selective Service records from 1964 through 1972, when he was classified 4-F (not qualified for military service).
David Emery
Published 2 August 2016
The matter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s military service (or lack thereof) surfaced multiple times during the 2016 election cycle, first in July 2015 when Trump maligned Sen. John McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War, for being captured, and again in July 2016 when he openly feuded with the family of slain U.S. soldier Humayun Khan after Khan’s father, Khizr, criticized Trump during an appearance at the Democratic National Convention.
Trump himself has never served in the military. Selective Service records obtained from the National Archives by The Smoking Gun in 2011 reveal the following history of his draft eligibility:
1964:
Donald Trump became eligible for the draft on his 18th birthday (14 June 1964) and registered with the Selective Service System 10 days later. He received the first of four 2-S (college) deferments on 28 July 1964.
1965:
Trump received his second college deferment on 14 December 1965.
1966:
Trump’s previous deferment expired and he was reclassified 1-A (available for military service) on 22 November 1966. His 2-S deferment was renewed on 13 December.
1967:
No record.
1968:
Trump received his fourth and final college deferment on 16 January 1968. After graduating from Wharton, he was reclassified 1-A on 9 July 1968. Trump underwent an Armed Forces physical examination (with a result listed only as “DISQ”) on 19 September 1968 and was reclassified 1-Y (qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency) on 15 October 1968.
According to a statement from the Trump campaign, the 1-Y classification stemmed from Trump’s having bone spurs in both heels:
While attending the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Finance, Mr. Trump received a minor medical deferment for bone spurs on both heels of his feet. The medical deferment was expected to be short-term and he was therefore entered in the military draft lottery, where he received an extremely high number, 356 out of 365.
The details of that medical exemption remain unclear and controversial, and most draft-related government medical records from the Vietnam era were not preserved.
1972
Despite the supposedly “short-term” nature of Trump’s disqualifying physical condition, on 17 February 1972 he was reclassified 4-F (not qualified for military service), presumably due to the abolishment of the 1-Y classification the previous year.
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2021-10-12 at 7:14 PM UTCWhat year did Biden and Obama serve?
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2021-10-12 at 7:22 PM UTC
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2021-10-12 at 7:23 PM UTCBiden had a medical deferment for having asthma and Obama wasn't old enough to be drafted.
Did Barack Obama dodge the Draft?
Wiki
No, this is an internet myth, and it's not very logical. During the last war when there was a draft-- Vietnam-- in the 1960s, Barack Obama was a young child (he was born in 1961). By the time he was in his teens and old enough to join the military, the Vietnam War had been over for a while. There were no other wars at that time, and there was no draft either, since the US had gone to an all-volunteer force. Barack Obama went to college, and did not "dodge" anything.
