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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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2021-12-16 at 9:49 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-12-16 at 9:59 PM UTCtuber is a proven waker
como got canned for helping his sexual assaulting brother
lemon is charged with many accusations of assault
that other guy just got busted for teaching cock worshiping to a 9 year old and her mom.
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2021-12-17 at 4:34 PM UTCMark Meadows -
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Asset to the Jan. 6 Committee
Mark Meadows' texts reveal what the White House knew about the danger in the Capitol on Jan. 6. Here's what they said.
Rick Rouan, USA TODAY
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol ramped up its pressure on a key member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle this week – all while revealing more about the chaos that unfolded that day.
The House approved a resolution Tuesday asking that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows be charged with contempt of Congress after he refused to testify before the committee, citing executive privilege.
The leadup to the vote brought a flood of public revelations about text messages Meadows shared with the committee, shedding new light on what the White House knew about the danger in the Capitol as rioters tried to stop Congress from counting electoral votes.
After months of negotiating, Meadows provided the documents in response to the committee’s subpoena but decided not to testify, citing Trump’s claim of executive privilege. His attorney said the committee had made testifying 'untenable.'
Absent his testimony, committee members began reading aloud messages Meadows exchanged with Republicans in Congress, offering Americans a look at the concerns expressed by Trump allies, conservative media pundits, GOP lawmakers and even Trump's son as an angry mob attacked the Capitol.
The committee said the communications raised new questions they needed to ask Meadows, and put a fine point on their need for his testimony.
“Clearly Mr. Meadows has important information about events that culminated in the violent attack on the Capitol and on our democracy. He must follow the law,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said on the House floor during a debate about the contempt resolution. “He must cooperate with the select committee’s lawful request. No one is above the law.”
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., called the texts "nothing short of a bombshell" on Tuesday, hours before the House would vote to hold him in contempt.
The Justice Department will now decide whether to charge Meadows. His lawyer knocked lawmakers for revealing the messages while pursuing a contempt citation against him.
“As the House prepares to act on the Select Committee’s recommendation, perhaps Members will consider how the Select Committee’s true intentions in dealing with Mr. Meadows have been revealed when it accuses him of contempt citing the very documents his cooperation has produced,” Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger, said as the House weighed contempt. “What message does that duplicity send to him as well as to others who might be inclined to consider cooperating in good faith to the extent possible?”
Here's some of what the Jan. 6 committee revealed about Meadows' communications on and leading up to the attack on the Capitol.
Weeks after losing the election, and having failed to overturn it in the courts and in a number of states, Trump directed his attention to Jan. 6.
Congress would meet then to count the Electoral College votes to mark Joe Biden's victory.
In the days leading up to the counting of electoral votes, Meadows exchanged messages about ways to overturn the election. In one, a member of Congress acknowledged Republican-controlled state legislatures sending alternate slates of electors would be “highly controversial.” Meadows responded “I love it,” according to a 51-page report outlining what Meadows had provided the committee.
One of Trump’s closest allies in Congress, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, forwarded Meadows a text message on Jan. 5 laying out a case for Vice President Mike Pence rejecting electoral votes in some states.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., read a truncated portion of that message during a committee hearing this week, attributing it to an unnamed member of Congress. But a Jordan spokesman later confirmed to various news outlets that the text came from the Ohio Republican.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., read a message on the House floor on Tuesday about efforts to overturn the election.
“He thinks the legislatures have the power but the VP has power too,” Meadows wrote in a Jan. 3 message.
Aguilar said he believed Meadows was referring to Trump and that the message, where he writes about the president’s thinking, illustrated “why his privilege claims are so outrageous.”
“We’d like to ask Mr. Meadows about that, about what the former president thought,” Aguilar said. “Days before the violent attack Mr. Meadows was willing to share what he, President Trump, thinks, but he won’t tell us.”
'It will make a lot of patriots happy'
As Jan. 6 drew near, word of a shift at the top of the Justice Department drew applause in Meadows' text app.
Trump had planned to appoint Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general during his final days in office when then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen did not pursue his unfounded claims about voter fraud. He eventually dropped the plan.
The committee’s report said Meadows introduced Trump to Clark, who the report said asked to be installed as acting attorney general and suggested the Justice Department send letters to state officials to appoint alternate slates of electors to overturn the election.
While debating on the House floor whether to hold Meadows in contempt, Schiff pointed to a Jan. 3 message from an unknown caller praising the White House for its employ of Clark.
“I heard Jeff Clark is getting put in on Monday,” the message said. “That’s amazing, it will make a lot of patriots happy and I’m personally so proud that you are at the tip of the spear and that I can call you a friend.”
The committee also has referred Clark for criminal contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate.
Schiff dismissed Meadows’ claim of privilege in that Tuesday speech, saying he has spoken about the same issues the committee seeks to question him about in text messages, emails and his book.
“The inconsistency, the hypocrisy, grabs you by the neck, and so does his contempt of Congress,” he said.
Protecting 'pro Trump people'
After days of promoting a big rally near the White House, Jan. 6 had arrived and thousands gathered near the White House to hear the president speak.
Trump finished his speech on the Ellipse at around 1:10 p.m., telling those in attendance "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" before sending them off to the Capitol via Pennsylvania Avenue.
At the Capitol, rioters overwhelmed security, busted out windows and ransacked offices.
Some chanted for Pence to be hanged.
The committee’s report said Meadows provided guidance to an organizer of the rally in a text message exchange after the organizer told him things “have gotten crazy and I desperately need some direction. Please.”
In one email, Meadows said the National Guard would be present to “protect pro Trump people,” with more on standby, according to the report.
Fox News anchors pleaded for Trump to stop riot
As the chaos unfolded, Meadows also received texts from some of Trump's most vocal supporters that said he needed to step in and stop the mob.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., read messages she said came to Meadows from Fox News anchors imploring the White House to act and from Trump administration officials.
In one, an unnamed person told Meadows: "POTUS has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed."
Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade and Sean Hannity all reached out to Meadows while the chaos occurred.
“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy,” Ingraham wrote in a message to Meadows.
Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman said in a tweet that he sent some of the text messages Cheney read at a committee hearing this week, including one where he said the Capitol was under siege.
"We're all helpless," Sherman said from inside the building in his final message to Meadows.
Cheney said Trump’s son sent Meadows a message telling him his father should condemn the riot, and Meadows responded that he agreed and was "pushing it hard."
“We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now,” Donald Trump Jr. said in his message to Meadows. “It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
Four people died at the riot, and a Capitol Police officer died the next day after suffering a stroke. At 2:44 p.m., shots were fired in the House chamber, and later authorities identified Ashli Babbit as having been shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer.
Trump eventually told protesters to go home. At about 4:17 p.m., he posted a video to his Twitter account urging them to stop while repeating baseless claims about a stolen election.
"These text messages leave no doubt the White House knew exactly what was happening at the Capitol," Cheney said during the Monday meeting of the Jan. 6 committee. -
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2021-12-17 at 5:07 PM UTCthis is just to draw attention away from the G-Max trial.
Why isn't that thing public? why don't they have a live pool feed for Americans to see the corruption our leaders are involved in.
this is not fair. The people have the right to view any court hearing. this is the kind of censorship done in old times which is why our families left Europe.
sure it's "Public to the reporters" but there should be a live feed with cameras. turning off the audio only when names or personal info is being said, in which the reporters can still hear so they know its not some trickery being played out"
but then again most reporters of MSM are not trustworthy. so there should be no redactions outside of the names of the Jury (which are released after the case is closed)
this is an injustice and you guys shouldn't be focused on the fact that this trial is occurring at the very moment Clinton and other high profile names and information being giving to show the true corruption of child sex and trafficking crimes being done to our children by the heads of state and wealthy elites.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-17 at 6:11 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready this is an injustice and you guys shouldn't be focused on the fact that this trial is occurring at the very moment Clinton and other high profile names and information being giving to show the true corruption of child sex and trafficking crimes being done to our children by the heads of state and wealthy elites.
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2021-12-17 at 9:25 PM UTC
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2021-12-17 at 9:53 PM UTCMaybe they'll
All
Grow
A conscience?
Salon
"I didn't want to be complicit in so many lies”: Fox News contributor explains why he finally quit
Jon Skolnik
A former longtime Fox News contributor, Jonah Goldberg, opened up on Tuesday about why he left the channel last month, claiming that he could no longer "be complicit in so many lies."
Goldberg's resignation was announced back in November, alongside Steve Hayes, former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. "Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis," the duo wrote at the time. "But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible."
Goldberg and Hayes originally cited host Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary "Patriot Purge" – which explores the Capitol riot through the lens of unproven right-wing conspiracy theories – as the singular breaking point for their careers with the channel.
But on Tuesday, in a sharply penned essay in The Dispatch, Goldberg condemned the channel's "lies" more broadly, saying that he'd actually exercised "a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News."
"I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest," Goldberg wrote. "I don't merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on."
Goldberg also criticized the channel's coverage of the January 6 panel's findings with respect to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff. This week, the panel unearthed texts sent by three Fox News hosts – including Laura Ingraham – to Meadows, asking the Trump aide to have the former president call off the Capitol riot as it was unfolding. Though Ingraham publicly condemned the riot, Goldberg wrote, she couldn't bear to admit that it was incited by Trump – which her texts indicated.
"What she didn't say is that the mob's passions boiled over because of Donald Trump's lies—and the megaphone she and her colleagues gave to those lies," Goldberg wrote. "From her texts it's reasonable to assume that she believed – rightly – that this mob was Trump's to command because the mob believed it was doing Trump's bidding."
"By the time the cameras went on, Laura was still willing to condemn the president's mob, but not the president," he added.
Goldberg capped off with an indictment of whataboutism, saying that the channel's "audience craved … whataboutism as an exit ramp from having to confront the actual facts."
"It wasn't always explicitly whataboutist. Sometimes the whataboutism was simply implied. Don't talk about Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds, just focus on the hypocrisy or hysteria of liberals who point out Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds," Goldberg argued. "Eventually, I felt like a cog in the whataboutist machinery."
The incisive essay comes just days after the resignation of former Fox host Chris Wallace, who had been with the channel for eighteen years. Wallace is reportedly set to join CNN's new platform to host a weekday show. -
2021-12-17 at 10 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Maybe they'll
All
Grow
A conscience?
Salon
"I didn't want to be complicit in so many lies”: Fox News contributor explains why he finally quit
Jon Skolnik
A former longtime Fox News contributor, Jonah Goldberg, opened up on Tuesday about why he left the channel last month, claiming that he could no longer "be complicit in so many lies."
Goldberg's resignation was announced back in November, alongside Steve Hayes, former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. "Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis," the duo wrote at the time. "But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible."
Goldberg and Hayes originally cited host Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary "Patriot Purge" – which explores the Capitol riot through the lens of unproven right-wing conspiracy theories – as the singular breaking point for their careers with the channel.
But on Tuesday, in a sharply penned essay in The Dispatch, Goldberg condemned the channel's "lies" more broadly, saying that he'd actually exercised "a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News."
"I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest," Goldberg wrote. "I don't merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on."
Goldberg also criticized the channel's coverage of the January 6 panel's findings with respect to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff. This week, the panel unearthed texts sent by three Fox News hosts – including Laura Ingraham – to Meadows, asking the Trump aide to have the former president call off the Capitol riot as it was unfolding. Though Ingraham publicly condemned the riot, Goldberg wrote, she couldn't bear to admit that it was incited by Trump – which her texts indicated.
"What she didn't say is that the mob's passions boiled over because of Donald Trump's lies—and the megaphone she and her colleagues gave to those lies," Goldberg wrote. "From her texts it's reasonable to assume that she believed – rightly – that this mob was Trump's to command because the mob believed it was doing Trump's bidding."
"By the time the cameras went on, Laura was still willing to condemn the president's mob, but not the president," he added.
Goldberg capped off with an indictment of whataboutism, saying that the channel's "audience craved … whataboutism as an exit ramp from having to confront the actual facts."
"It wasn't always explicitly whataboutist. Sometimes the whataboutism was simply implied. Don't talk about Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds, just focus on the hypocrisy or hysteria of liberals who point out Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds," Goldberg argued. "Eventually, I felt like a cog in the whataboutist machinery."
The incisive essay comes just days after the resignation of former Fox host Chris Wallace, who had been with the channel for eighteen years. Wallace is reportedly set to join CNN's new platform to host a weekday show.
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2021-12-17 at 10:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Maybe they'll
All
Grow
A conscience?
Salon
"I didn't want to be complicit in so many lies”: Fox News contributor explains why he finally quit
Jon Skolnik
A former longtime Fox News contributor, Jonah Goldberg, opened up on Tuesday about why he left the channel last month, claiming that he could no longer "be complicit in so many lies."
Goldberg's resignation was announced back in November, alongside Steve Hayes, former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. "Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis," the duo wrote at the time. "But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible."
Goldberg and Hayes originally cited host Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary "Patriot Purge" – which explores the Capitol riot through the lens of unproven right-wing conspiracy theories – as the singular breaking point for their careers with the channel.
But on Tuesday, in a sharply penned essay in The Dispatch, Goldberg condemned the channel's "lies" more broadly, saying that he'd actually exercised "a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News."
"I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest," Goldberg wrote. "I don't merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on."
Goldberg also criticized the channel's coverage of the January 6 panel's findings with respect to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff. This week, the panel unearthed texts sent by three Fox News hosts – including Laura Ingraham – to Meadows, asking the Trump aide to have the former president call off the Capitol riot as it was unfolding. Though Ingraham publicly condemned the riot, Goldberg wrote, she couldn't bear to admit that it was incited by Trump – which her texts indicated.
"What she didn't say is that the mob's passions boiled over because of Donald Trump's lies—and the megaphone she and her colleagues gave to those lies," Goldberg wrote. "From her texts it's reasonable to assume that she believed – rightly – that this mob was Trump's to command because the mob believed it was doing Trump's bidding."
"By the time the cameras went on, Laura was still willing to condemn the president's mob, but not the president," he added.
Goldberg capped off with an indictment of whataboutism, saying that the channel's "audience craved … whataboutism as an exit ramp from having to confront the actual facts."
"It wasn't always explicitly whataboutist. Sometimes the whataboutism was simply implied. Don't talk about Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds, just focus on the hypocrisy or hysteria of liberals who point out Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds," Goldberg argued. "Eventually, I felt like a cog in the whataboutist machinery."
The incisive essay comes just days after the resignation of former Fox host Chris Wallace, who had been with the channel for eighteen years. Wallace is reportedly set to join CNN's new platform to host a weekday show.
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2021-12-17 at 10:06 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-12-17 at 10:07 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-12-17 at 10:11 PM UTC"Whataboutism" is really dishonest and disingenuous and a shitty, useless, destructive, stupid, transparent tactic but it's hardly an exclusively Fox News thing.
"What about" is literally a toxic manipulative relationship thing as well, usually used by females to justify their misdeeds so of course it became a political defense tacticThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
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2021-12-17 at 10:15 PM UTCIt's an article about an essay apparently written by one of two guy's who apparently quit his job because other people were more serious about their job than he was and he wanted to tattle on them. What a hero.
