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2022-01-13 at 6:45 AM UTC in i just purchased 80 pounds of charcoal...KA-BOOM!
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2022-01-13 at 6:44 AM UTC in This is it champs, the breakup is comingHave you met her new love interest yet?
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2022-01-12 at 6:35 PM UTC in Mushroom Lo MeinGimme a Heiney, please.
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2022-01-12 at 5:24 PM UTC in what's the last thing you bought?
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2022-01-12 at 5:17 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2022-01-12 at 5:12 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stop gaslighting, dummy. Trump was exonerated on both counts.
Stop your lying.
Rump was never exonerated (especially by the American electorate who chose Biden by over seven million more votes).
What Rump was was protected by his own party refusing to even hear or see any evidence against him.
Tell the truth, if you even can any more. -
2022-01-12 at 5:05 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Hey, Donny, do you know the reason you got your ass kicked in 2020 was that you are an asshole?
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2022-01-12 at 4:30 PM UTC in Mushroom Lo Mein
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2022-01-12 at 3:57 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sORANGE MAN BAD
Top Republicans stand up for Rounds after Trump's attack: He 'told the truth'
By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent
Senior Republicans are closing ranks behind Sen. Mike Rounds after he endured a scathing attack from former President Donald Trump for acknowledging the reality that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Top Republicans stand up for Rounds after Trump's attack: He 'told the truth'
"I think Sen. Rounds told the truth about what happened in the 2020 election," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN on Tuesday. "And I agree with him."
The back-and-forth is the latest sign that many Republicans -- particularly in the Senate -- are eager to move past the former President's obsession with the 2020 elections and instead focus on more fertile ground: The Biden agenda and their efforts to take back both houses of Congress in 2022.
Yet, Trump continues to hover over the party given his outsize influence with the base, his close hold over House Republicans and his ability to generate attention over his outright falsehoods and conspiracies over the outcome of the 2020 election. That has prompted concerns among senior Republicans that his claims over the election could depress GOP voter turnout in the fall, something that a number of senators blame for costing them the two Georgia Senate seats -- and the majority -- last January.
The latest blowup came over the weekend after Rounds said that any voting "irregularities" in 2020 wouldn't have changed the outcome of the race.
"The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency," Rounds told ABC News.
That fact-based comment prompted a broadside from the former President, who called Rounds a "jerk" and "ineffective" and vowed "never" to endorse Rounds for reelection, though he's not facing voters again until 2026.
"Is he crazy or just stupid?" Trump said in a statement.
Rounds, who has a low-key and genial demeanor and is well-regarded by his colleagues, stood by his comments -- and said he was "disappointed but not surprised" by Trump's statement. Rounds told CNN on Tuesday that Republicans need to speak the truth to voters about 2020 so they can have trust in the results of free and fair elections in 2022 and beyond.
"Nobody is out looking for confrontations," Rounds said, defending his remarks. "What we are looking for is to be able to provide good information in a timely fashion, but to be seen as being responsible and being honest. I think that's what the American people deserve. And I think that's what many of us want to do. We're not looking to fight. What we're looking is, is to say here are the facts, and they're not going to change."
Rounds added: "Why are we having that discussion today? I think because we're getting closer and closer to 2022, in which we want people to get out and vote. We want them to have faith in the election process. We want them to feel like they're a part of it and that their vote really matters."
Even some Trump allies came to Rounds' defense on Tuesday.
"I've always said I agree that the election was not stolen -- at least to the degree that it was illegal theft," said Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican who contended Democrats took advantage of more voting rules eased during the pandemic. "I've moved on a long time ago, and most members of Congress have, including Mike."
Other Republicans said it was time to focus on something other than 2020.
"I say to my colleague, welcome to the club," Sen. John Thune, the senior South Dakota Republican said of the Trump attack on Rounds -- something he has endured himself in the past. "I don't think re-litigating or rehashing the past is a winning strategy. If we want to be a majority in 2023, we've got to get out and articulate what we're going to do with respect to the future the American people are going to live and the things they're going to care about when it comes to economic issues, national security issues."
Many Republicans were angered over the personal nature of Trump's attacks against Rounds, who lost his wife in November after a battle with cancer.
"I take great exception to anybody that calls Mike Rounds a jerk," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican. "Because he's one of the kindest, nicest, most sincere members that we have."
Still, some Republicans wanted to stay above the fray.
"Nothing to add to what's already out there," Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican and member of GOP leadership, said when asked about the episode. -
2022-01-12 at 3:44 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Made
A feisty Fauci
Go
After a Republican moron
TheWrap
Dr Fauci on Why He Called U.S. Senator ‘a Moron’ in COVID Hearings: ‘It Was Stunning to Me’
Jeremy Bailey
Yes, you heard it right – the beloved Dr. Anthony Fauci called a U.S. senator a “moron” in a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday regarding the nation’s COVID-19 response.
Fauci, appearing on MSNBC later in the day, did not shy away from the response, saying his reaction was based on the senator’s implication that Fauci was involved in the corrupt practice of investing in pharmaceutical companies based on insider knowledge, or “ahead of the game,” as Fauci put it.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) had challenged Fauci to “submit to Congress and the public a financial disclosure that includes your past and current investments,” during the Senate Health Committee hearing.
Fauci replied by telling the senator what most sitting U.S. senators should know – that anyone who formally requested Fauci’s financial records had a lawful right to them, due to his position in the federal government as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Adviser to the president.
“You are so misinformed,” Fauci scoffed at Marshall, before the senator then laid the blame on Big Tech for his staff’s inability to acquire Fauci’s financial records.
“Totally incorrect,” Fauci again responded before the hearing moved ahead but not before Fauci got the last word, or words.
“What a moron. Jesus Christ,” Fauci could then be heard saying into a hot microphone.
“Didn’t sound like you at the end there, Dr. Fauci,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said, in his interview Tuesday night. “You seemed, uh, you seemed a little frustrated with that line of inquiry.”
While Fauci shut down Marshall’s implication in the hearing, he clarified his frustrations to MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.”
“He was totally implying that,” Fauci said in the interview. “He made the statement that ‘We can’t get your financial statement.’ It was stunning to me that a United States senator doesn’t realize that my financial statement is public knowledge. It was just like, ‘Where have you been?’” -
2022-01-12 at 3:37 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Newsweek
Father Dies of COVID After Refusing To Get Vaccinated Despite Wife's Pleas
Gerrard Kaonga
Gligor Kedioski died of coronavirus earlier this year and had previously refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, despite his wife's best efforts to convince him.
Kedioski died on January 2 after being admitted to hospital in December. He lived in the city of Liverpool in the U.K. with his wife Bilyana and their 5-year-old daughter.
His family and friends have since come out to insist they want to raise awareness about the vital importance of getting vaccinated.
A friend of Kedioski, Robert Karalioski, has set up a GoFundMe page to send his body back to his home city of Prilep in Macedonia.
Karalioski spoke to the Liverpool Echo and highlighted the difficulty facing Kedioski's family and friends at this time.
"Gligor wasn't vaccinated. Bilyana was fully vaccinated but he wasn't," Karalioski said. "He was afraid of the vaccine, he wasn't sure how it would work. He was afraid that he would get some kind of health complication from the vaccine.
"Bilyana tried everything to convince him to take the vaccine, but she couldn't persuade him. Now, we really want to raise awareness of the importance of the vaccines. He also said it was Kedioski and his parent's wish that his body be buried in his home country to give them closure.
"His father is still alive. It was Gligor and his family's wish for him to be transported back to Macedonia," Karalioski said.
He added: "Every day, his family back home are calling Bilyana to ask when everything will be finalized and when the body will arrive there. It's been a nightmare for the whole family, they need closure.
"Everyone is trying to help. It is a really hard time, especially for his daughter. She's always asking when her father is coming back from the hospital and that's the most difficult part to answer."
According to the U.K. government website, the country has seen the majority of the population receive at least two COVID-19 vaccines since they were introduced.
As of January 10, 2022, 51,992,559 people in total have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. While 47,745,458 people have received their second dose and 35,813, 659 people have had their third dose or booster vaccine.
Ahead of Christmas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to get the vaccine to help protect their country and family members.
"There is still a wonderful thing you can give your family and the whole country. That is to get that jab, whether it is your first or second, or your booster," he said on Christmas Eve.
He added: "If the pile of scrumpled wrapping paper is bigger this year it is precisely because across the country, in the run-up to Christmas, we have been giving each other an invisible and invaluable present.
"We have been getting that vaccination that protects us and stops us infecting others. I hope I can be forgiven for taking pride in the immense spirit of neighborliness that the people of this country have shown." -
2022-01-12 at 3:19 PM UTC in im dum cant figure this out halp plsIs that a dick in your mouth?
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2022-01-11 at 7:34 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMan, wouldn't you want to be
A man who could not
Get to be held to
Account for your actions?
Business Insider
'Let's stick with the facts': A federal judge rebuked Trump's lawyer's claim that he urged his supporters to be peaceful on January 6
ssheth@businessinsider.com (Sonam Sheth,C. Ryan Barber)
A judge dismissed Trump's lawyer's claim that he urged supporters to be peaceful on January 6, 2021.
"Let's stick with the facts," Judge Amit Mehta told Jesse Binnall, Trump's lawyer.
Mehta added that he wasn't interested in "whataboutism" or other hypotheticals.
A federal judge on Monday forced lawyers for former President Donald Trump to reckon with his hours of silence during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, asking in court whether the president's initial inaction could be considered a tacit endorsement of the day's violence.
US District Judge Amit Mehta also rejected one lawyer's claim that Trump urged his supporters to be peaceful on that day, telling the attorney to "stick with the facts."
During a court hearing Monday, Mehta said that for a "two-hour period" on the day of the siege, Trump did not "take to Twitter or to any other type of communication and say, 'Stop. Get out of the Capitol. What you are doing is not what I wanted you to do.'"
"What would you have me do with the allegation that the president did not act?" Mehta, an Obama appointee who joined the federal bench in 2014, asked.
His question came during oral arguments over a trio of civil lawsuits filed by House Democrats and Capitol Police officers that allege Trump's incendiary rhetoric incited the Capitol breach. At a rally that preceded the siege, Trump told his supporters, "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
In court Monday, Mehta asked whether Trump's inaction could be considered "ratification" of that statement.
Trump's lawyer Jesse Binnall pushed back against the assertion that the former president could face legal consequences for action he didn't take.
"The president cannot be subject to judicial action for any sort of damages for failing to do something," Binnall said.
He added that the president told his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard on January 6, 2021.
But that statement was outweighed, Mehta said, by Trump's earlier calls to "fight like hell" against the 2020 election results. Mehta said there was no doubt "threats" and "intimidation" were used on the day of the insurrection. He also said the main question was whether Trump's actions and statements incited the violence.
"Let's stick with the facts," Mehta said, adding that he wasn't "interested" in "whataboutism."
He continued pressing Binnall on whether Trump's call for his supporters to march to the Capitol and his use of words like "fight" and "show strength," which were followed by Trump's supporters storming the Capitol, satisfied the standards required to establish conspiracy.
"No," Binnall said.
"So the president, in your view, is both immune to inciting the riot and failing to stop it?" Mehta asked.
Binnall replied that "the president cannot be subject" to any judicial action because he "failed to do something."
Joseph Sellers, a lawyer for House Democrats, countered that claim and said the "fervor" and "energy" of Trump's supporters directly before the Capitol riot indicated that the president knew what they were planning to do.
But Mehta pushed back, telling Sellers the allegation of a conspiracy in this case was "unusual" and could be "problematic" because the lawsuit did not allege there was a direct meeting between the defendants, which include Trump, his then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Alleging a conspiracy in the absence of such a link is "dangerous" because the defendants couldn't necessarily have controlled the reaction of Trump's supporters, the judge said.
Sellers conceded the point but added that Trump "ratified" his supporters' actions after the Capitol riot.
Trump's initial silence during the Capitol breach has also come under scrutiny from the special House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack. The panel's top Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney, said last month that the committee was exploring the question of whether Trump, "through action or inaction," sought to impede Congress' certification of now-President Joe Biden's electoral victory.
The committee has released texts showing that Trump's allies — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and Fox News hosts — pleaded with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to have Trump order the violent mob to stand down. In the lawsuits against Trump, House Democrats pointed to his initial silence during the attack as evidence of an agreement with the mob to block the certification of Biden's victory. -
2022-01-11 at 4:59 PM UTC in Wellhung r u homeless?You could be having catfish for dinner.
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2022-01-11 at 4:55 PM UTC in Why I perceive British people as weak.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Most far reaching Empire the world has ever seen..or ever will see…ruled 2/3rd of the Earths land and 3/4 of it's oceans…not bad for a little island.
Not any more, do they?
Hell, if they didn't have nukes, everyone else would ignore them.
You may compare yourself to the French. -
2022-01-11 at 4:48 PM UTC in Why I perceive British people as weak.
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2022-01-11 at 4:44 PM UTC in Why I perceive British people as weak.Sounds pretty weak.
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2022-01-11 at 4:43 PM UTC in Wellhung r u homeless?Is your home a van down by the river?
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2022-01-11 at 4:22 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!It did happen.
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2022-01-11 at 4:20 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sBannon will be the one sucking it...in prison.
