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2021-11-17 at 5:52 PM UTC in 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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2021-11-17 at 4:41 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sABC News
House plans Wednesday vote to censure GOP Rep. Gosar, remove him from committees
The House plans to vote Wednesday on a resolution that both censures Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and removes him from his committee assignments, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to ABC News.
Gosar last week tweeted an edited Japanese anime cartoon showing him stabbing President Joe Biden and killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. He later deleted the tweet.
On Tuesday, sources confirmed to ABC News that Gosar apologized for the tweet behind closed doors during a GOP conference meeting. Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said he had also spoken privately with Gosar about the tweet, but it appears he did not take further action against him.
A spokesperson for McCarthy told ABC News that the Republican leader opposes the Democratic move to censure Gosar and remove him from his committee assignments.
Gosar said his video was an attempt by his staff to reach a younger audience and was not meant to condone violence. He has not publicly apologized.
"I have never in 40 years seen such a vile, hateful, outrageous, dangerous, and inciting to violence against a colleague, ever," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said to reporters during a press call Tuesday.
"The fact that they would not take some action themselves or make some comments themselves, which I have not seen, is a testament that perhaps they are rationalizing, as they rationalize other items of criminal behavior, this particular action," Hoyer said of Republicans.
The resolution would boot Gosar from the Oversight and Reform Committee, which he serves on alongside Ocasio-Cortez. It would also remove him from the Committee on Natural Resources.
Late Monday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters it was up to McCarthy to rein in and reprimand his conference members -- but Democrats, outraged over Gosar's behavior, insisted on a floor vote.
On Tuesday, Pelosi deemed the resolution as an appropriate measure.
"Why go after [Gosar]? Because he made threats, suggestions about harming a member of Congress...We cannot have members joking about murdering each other as well as threatening the president of the United States," Pelosi said.
A censure resolution requires a simple majority of lawmakers present and voting. If it is approved, Gosar could be forced to stand in the center of the House chamber as the resolution condemning his actions is read aloud.
Twenty-three members of Congress have been censured for misconduct, according to a 2016 Congressional Research Service Report.
Former Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., was the last member of Congress to be censured -- in December 2010 -- accused of nearly a dozen ethics violations. -
2021-11-17 at 5:43 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sIntelligencer
Report: Sidney Powell Even Crazier Than You Think
Jonathan Chait
It takes a certain kind of legal mind to decide to go to work for Donald Trump. Since Trump transparently does not believe in the rule of law in any way, shape, or form, serving him in a legal capacity is a bit like taking a job as Jeffrey Dahmerâs ethicist.
Trumpâs attorneys, like many of his advisers, tend to justify their positions on the grounds that they can steer a powerful man away from crazy or dangerous advisers. Attorney General William Barr was running around claiming that mail-in voting would enable foreign countries to cast massive amounts of fake ballots, that democratic norms were being shredded by Trumpâs enemies and not by Trump, the mainstream media was smearing the healing properties of hydroxychloroquine, and so on. But Barr was also maneuvering to keep Trump from listening to the legal stylings of Rudy Giuliani, who is much crazier than Barr. Giuliani, in turn, was working to wall off Trump from the advice of Sidney Powell, who is crazier still.
Just how crazy is she? Jonathan Karl reports that Powell â who, at the height of her influence, appeared at an official Republican National Committee press conference as Trump counsel to make the case for Trumpâs election challenge â believed the CIA director had undertaken a secret international mission to confiscate the evidence that would reveal election fraud:
âGina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany,â Powell told Cohen, pushing a false conspiracy theory that had been gaining steam among QAnon followers, according to the book. âYou need to launch a special operations mission to get her,â Powell said.
Powell, according to the book, was pushing the outlandish claim that Haspel had been injured while on a secret CIA operation to seize an election-related computer server that belonged to a company named Scytl â none of which was true.
âThe server, Powell claimed, contained evidence that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of votes had been switched using rigged voting machines. Powell believed Haspel had embarked on this secret mission to get the server and destroy the evidence â in other words, the CIA director was part of the conspiracy,â Karl writes.
Powell wanted the Defense Department to send a special operations team over to Germany immediately: âThey needed to get the server and force Haspel to confess,â Karl writes.
Powellâs theory has a number of flaws. Perhaps the most glaring is her premise that the agent the CIA would select to carry out its secret mission would be the agencyâs director. My understanding of the espionage world is that secret agents generally try to escape recognition. Maintaining your cover is considerably more difficult if you have appeared on television and in newspapers across the world identified as the director of the CIA.
Anyway, Powell is crazier than Giuliani, who is crazier than Barr. At some point toward the very end, things got so crazy even Barr couldnât handle it anymore. But Barrâs grip on reality is quite tenuous. The mental-health spectrum of Trump lawyer crazy runs from Fox News Brain (Barr) to Newsmax Brain (Giuliani) to One America News Brain (Powell). Say what you will about Trumpâs managerial style â his legal team has truly been a Big Tent. -
2021-11-16 at 8:31 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMaybe now
All the
Goofy-assed whackadoodles
Are finally going to get it
Newsweek
No, Donald Trump Will Not Be Reinstated as President
Ewan Palmer
Experts have once again stated that there is no legal or constitutional basis for Donald Trump to simply be "reinstated" as president after a recent survey suggests more than a quarter of Republicans believe it could happen this year.
According to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted between November 6 and 9, at least 28 percent of people who identify as Republican believe that it is "somewhat likely" or "very likely" that Trump will be reinstated as president before the end of 2021.
The percentage of Republicans who believe that the man who lost the 2020 election will soon return to the White House is also increasing, with a previous Economist/YouGov survey in October revealing 22 percent of Republicans consider it "somewhat" or "very likely" to happen.
The poll results appear to be based on the belief of the so-called Big Lieâwhich has been pushed by Trump, his supporters, and QAnon conspiracy theoristsâthat Joe Biden only won the last election because of widespread voter fraud and Trump will return to his rightful place in the White House when this is proven.
Speaking to Newsweek, Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and former U.S. attorney in Detroit, explained that even if there is proof of voter fraud, something which hasn't materialized more than one year since the 2020 election took place, there is "absolutely no mechanism" in the law where Trump could become president.
"As former Attorney General William Barr noted, there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Even if some new revelation somehow proved that Trump had lost the 2020 election because of fraud, the result would not be to reinstate Trump," McQuade said.
"The only way President Joe Biden could be removed from office under that scenario would be impeachment and conviction. Even then, he would be succeeded by President Kamala Harris. If somehow she were also impeached and convicted, then we would follow the normal line of succession, resulting in a President Nancy Pelosi."
Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, added that the Constitution is "quite specific" about how someone can be removed from office and have someone else replace them.
The obvious way is a new election, with Trump eligible to throw his hat in the ring again in 2024. Another way is that the vice president can succeed if the current president is impeached, dies, or otherwise becomes unable to carry out his role.
"But that would mean Vice President Harris, not Trump, would become president," Volokh told Newsweek.
"There's no constitutionally provided mechanism for any entity, whether the courts, Congress, or anyone else simply reconsider the certified election results once a president is inaugurated."
Volokh did suggest one outlandish and highly improbable way in which Trump could return as president.
"In theory, one can imagine Vice President Harris being impeached or resigning, President Biden nominating Trump to replace her, Trump being confirmed by both Houses under section 2 of the 25th Amendment, and then President Biden resigning or being impeached and new Vice President Trump becoming president.
"But for obvious reasons, I doubt that President Biden will go along with that," Volokh said.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is one of the main orchestrators of the false belief that Trump will be reinstated as president, setting out deadlines over the past year for it to happenâwhich have obviously failed to come to fruition.
Lindell previously claimed Trump would return as president in August because the Supreme Court would be so impressed with his apparent proof of voter fraud in states such as Arizona and Pennsylvania that they would vote 9-0 in favor of Trump being declared the true winner of the last election.
Lindell's prediction had no basis in constitutional law and his August deadline fell during a three-month recess for the Supreme Court.
On November 2, a large crowd of QAnon supportersâwho not only believe Trump won the 2020 election but had been battling a cabal of satanic pedophiles during his time in the officeâgathered in Dallas, Texas, in the hope John F. Kennedy Jr. would return from the dead and somehow announce Trump as the true president. -
2021-11-16 at 3:55 PM UTC in 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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2021-11-16 at 3:51 PM UTC in 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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2021-11-16 at 3:46 PM UTC in 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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2021-11-16 at 3:43 PM UTC in 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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2021-11-16 at 3:40 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sABC News
Trump allies pressed Defense Department to help overturn election, new book says
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, some of Donald Trump's closest allies embarked on an unprecedented effort to get the Department of Defense to chase down outlandish voter fraud conspiracy theories in hopes of helping Trump retain power, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl writes in his new book.
In "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," scheduled to be released today, Karl reports that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell tried to enlist a Pentagon official to help overturn the election.
According to the book, Flynn -- who had just received an unconditional pardon from President Trump after pleading guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI during the Russia probe -- made a frantic phone call to a senior Trump intelligence official named Ezra Cohen (sometimes referred to as Ezra Cohen-Watnick), who previously worked under Flynn at both the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Council.
"Where are you?" Flynn asked the DoD official, who said he was traveling in the Middle East.
"Flynn told him to cut his trip short and get back to the United States immediately because there were big things about to happen," according to the book. Karl writes that Flynn told Cohen, "We need you," and told the DoD official that "there was going to be an epic showdown over the election results."
Flynn, according to the book, urged Cohen that "he needed to get orders signed, that ballots needed to be seized, and that extraordinary measures needed to be taken to stop Democrats from stealing the election."
"As Flynn ranted about the election fight, [Cohen] felt his old boss sounded manic," Karl writes in the book. "He didn't sound like the same guy he had worked for."
"Sir, the election is over," Cohen told Flynn, according to the book. "It's time to move on."
Flynn, according to Karl, fired back: "You're a quitter! This is not over! Don't be a quitter!"
Karl writes that after a heated few minutes, Flynn hung up the phone -- and that was the last time the two men talked.
"Betrayal" also reports that Sydney Powell, Flynn's former lawyer who was then advising President Trump, called Cohen shortly after the Flynn conversation and tried to enlist his help with one the most far-fetched claims about the election, involving then-CIA Director Gina Haspel.
"Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany," Powell told Cohen, pushing a false conspiracy theory that had been gaining steam among QAnon followers, according to the book. "You need to launch a special operations mission to get her," Powell said.
Powell, according to the book, was pushing the outlandish claim that Haspel had been injured while on a secret CIA operation to seize an election-related computer server that belonged to a company named Scytl -- none of which was true.
"The server, Powell claimed, contained evidence that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of votes had been switched using rigged voting machines. Powell believed Haspel had embarked on this secret mission to get the server and destroy the evidence -- in other words, the CIA director was part of the conspiracy," Karl writes.
Powell wanted the Defense Department to send a special operations team over to Germany immediately: "They needed to get the server and force Haspel to confess," Karl writes.
Cohen thought Powell sounded out of her mind, according to the book, and he quickly reported the call to the acting defense secretary.
A CIA spokesperson subsequently debunked the claim, telling news outlets that "Iâm happy to tell you that Director Haspel is alive and well and at the office.â
Neither Powell nor Flynn responded to repeated requests for comment. -
2021-11-15 at 11:40 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by â â â â â â When they use the term "efficacy", they're not referring to transmission of the virus. They're referring to antibody production. Both the vaxxed and unvaxxed can transmit and contract the virus equally. In fact, the experimental concoctions were never intended to, or designed to, prevent transmission of any virus, only make you less sick when you do get it. And you will get it. Everyone on earth will, eventually. Just like a common flu or a common cold. So this idea of segregating society between vaxxed and unvaxxed is based entirely without science or facts, and solely on fear and the power of politics.
And here I thought the dead were being segregated from the living. -
2021-11-15 at 11:37 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I don't get it
They are trying to make fun of President Biden because some pharmacy (I believe) didn't have the child's vaccine which should be 30 cc's (I believe) and instead used 1/3 of an adult's 100 cc dose.
They are just being their ignorant selves. -
2021-11-15 at 10:32 PM UTC in Dude Beats A Coyote Like SpectraL Beating a Bear With His Bare Hands.I know many more beer lovers.
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2021-11-15 at 10:08 PM UTC in Don't you just love pissingI enjoy pissing
off scumbags like Shlomo and Weasel and Speculum.
Great fun! -
2021-11-15 at 10:02 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2stoopid/2read
Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version:
Alex Jones is a lying scumbag and is going to have to pay for his lies and inability to be able to back up his claims that he makes solely to enrich himself.
I hope you didn't strain yourself reading a single sentence! -
2021-11-15 at 9:23 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sABC News
Alex Jones found liable in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit
Controversial radio and TV personality Alex Jones was found liable Monday for damages in a lawsuit brought by the parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones liable for damages by default because Jones and his companies, like Infowars, showed "callous disregard" for the rules of discovery. She previously faulted the Infowars host for failing to comply with requests for documents and other procedures.
The ruling sends the case to a jury to award the families damages without a civil trial. It is legal a victory for eight parents of Newtown victims who sued Jones for defamation after he called the elementary school shooting massacre a hoax.
The plaintiffs earlier alleged a "yearslong campaign of abusive and outrageous false statements in which Jones and the other defendants have developed, amplified and perpetuated claims that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged and that the 26 families who lost loved ones that day are paid actors who faked their relative's deaths."
The judge agreed with the families that Jones, Infowars and his other companies failed to turn over documents to the families that they would need to prove their case, as required by law.
"The defendants were ordered to produce the documents," Bellis said during Monday's hearing, which was conducted remotely. "Discovery is not supposed to be a guessing game. What the Jones defendants have produced by way of analytics is not even remotely full and fair compliance."
Jones was similarly defaulted in Texas for failing to turn over documents.
The U.S. Supreme Court had declined to take up a petition from Jones earlier in April, who had challenged legal sanctions imposed on him by a court in Connecticut.
"This callous disregard of their obligations to fully and fairly comply with discovery and court orders on its own merits a default against the Jones defendants," Bellis said.
"While the families are grateful for the Court's ruling, they remain focused on uncovering the truth. As the Court noted, Alex Jones and his companies have deliberately concealed evidence of the relationship between what they publish and how they make money," Chris Mattei of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, which represents the eight families suing Jones, said.
"Mr. Jones was given every opportunity to comply but, when he chose instead to withhold evidence for more than two years, the Court was left with no choice but to rule as it did today. While today's ruling is a legal victory, the battle to shed light on how deeply Mr. Jones has harmed these families continues," Mattei said.
The judge in Connecticut will hold a hearing in August to determine how much Jones will have to pay in damages.
Twenty children and six staff members died in the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut, school at the hands of gunman Adam Lanza. -
2021-11-15 at 9:15 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sStill not sick and tired of getting your ass handed to you, eh?
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2021-11-15 at 9:08 PM UTC in Don't you just love pissingI remember going on a date with a gal a mumber of years ago and she told me about her ex live-in boyfriend always peeing in the kitchen sink. I don't know if it was a power trip or what but it was just freaking weird as hell to me.
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2021-11-15 at 9:03 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sIf you watch my above video, you can see Rump begging Russia to find Hillary Clinton's e-mails.
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2021-11-15 at 8:54 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sTalking about mental illness...
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2021-11-15 at 8:43 PM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
