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2021-03-31 at 3:19 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sIt's my own personal refutation of MAGA lies.
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2021-03-31 at 2:07 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sIsn't it amazing what a real President can do when he doesn't spend his day watching Fox News, tweeting, spending the first half of his day applying spray tan and hair spray and planning and attending ego-boosting rallies?
The New York Times
Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy
Jim Tankersley
WASHINGTON — President Biden will unveil an infrastructure plan on Wednesday whose $2 trillion price tag would translate into 20,000 miles of rebuilt roads, repairs to the 10 most economically important bridges in the country, the elimination of lead pipes and service lines from the nation’s water supplies and a long list of other projects intended to create millions of jobs in the short run and strengthen American competitiveness in the long run.
President Biden is proposing to spend $2 trillion over eight years on improving roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Biden administration officials said the proposal, which they detailed in a 25-page briefing paper and which Mr. Biden will discuss in an afternoon speech in Pittsburgh, would also accelerate the fight against climate change by hastening the shift to new, cleaner energy sources, and would help promote racial equity in the economy.
The spending in the plan would take place over eight years, officials said. Unlike the economic stimulus passed under President Barack Obama in 2009, when Mr. Biden was vice president, officials will not in every case prioritize so-called shovel ready projects that could quickly bolster growth.
But even spread over years, the scale of the proposal underscores how fully Mr. Biden has embraced the opportunity to use federal spending to address longstanding social and economic challenges in a way not seen in half a century. Officials said that, if approved, the spending in the plan would end decades of stagnation in federal investment in research and infrastructure — and would return government investment in those areas, as a share of the economy, to its highest levels since the 1960s.
The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan proposes $80 billion for Amtrak and freight rail.
The proposal is the first half of what will be a two-step release of the president’s ambitious agenda to overhaul the economy and remake American capitalism, which could carry a total cost of as much as $4 trillion over the course of a decade. Mr. Biden’s administration has named it the “American Jobs Plan,” echoing the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that Mr. Biden signed into law this month, the “American Rescue Plan.”
“The American Jobs Plan,” White House officials wrote in the document detailing it, “will invest in America in a way we have not invested since we built the interstate highways and won the Space Race.”
While spending on roads, bridges and other physical improvements to the nation’s economic foundations has always had bipartisan appeal, Mr. Biden’s plan is sure to draw intense Republican opposition, both for its sheer size and for its reliance on corporate tax increases to pay for it.
Administration officials said the tax increases in the plan — including an increase in the corporate tax rate and a variety of measures to tax multinationals on money they earn and book overseas — would take 15 years to fully offset the cost of the spending programs.
The spending in the plan covers a wide range of physical infrastructure projects, including transportation, broadband, the electric grid and housing; efforts to jump-start advanced manufacturing; and other industries officials see as key to the United States’ growing economic competition with China. It also includes money to train millions of workers, as well as money for initiatives to support labor unions and providers of in-home care for older and disabled Americans, while also increasing the pay of the workers who provide that care.
The infrastructure plan has provisions intended to help communities deal with the effects of climate change.
Many of the items in the plan carry price tags that would have filled entire, ambitious bills in past administrations.
Among them: a total of $180 billion for research and development, $115 billion for roads and bridges, $85 billion for public transit, and $80 billion for Amtrak and freight rail. There is $42 billion for ports and airports, $100 billion for broadband and $111 billion for water infrastructure — including $45 billion to ensure no child ever is forced to drink water from a lead pipe, which can slow children’s development and lead to behavioral and other problems.
The plan seeks to repair 10,000 smaller bridges across the country, along with the 10 most economically significant ones in need of a fix. It would electrify 20 percent of the nation’s fleet of yellow school buses. It would spend $300 billion to promote advanced manufacturing, including a four-year plan to restock the country’s Strategic National Stockpile of pharmaceuticals, including vaccines, in preparation for future pandemics.
In many cases, officials cast those goals in the language of closing racial gaps in the economy, sometimes the result of previous federal spending efforts, like interstate highway developments that split communities of color or air pollution that affects Black and Hispanic communities near ports or power plants.
Officials cast the $400 billion spending on in-home care in part as a salve to “underpaid and undervalued” workers in that industry, who are disproportionately women of color.
Mr. Biden’s pledge to tackle climate change is embedded throughout the plan. Roads, bridges and airports would be made more resilient to the effects of more extreme storms, floods and fires wrought by a warming planet. Spending on research and development could help spur breakthroughs in cutting-edge clean technology, while plans to retrofit and weatherize millions of buildings would make them more energy efficient.
The president’s focus on climate change is centered, however, on modernizing and transforming the United States’ two largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution: cars and electric power plants.
A decade ago, Mr. Obama’s economic stimulus plan spent about $90 billion on clean energy programs intended to jump-start the nation’s nascent renewable power and electric vehicle industries. Mr. Biden’s plan now proposes spending magnitudes more on similar programs that he hopes will take those technologies fully into the mainstream.
It bets heavily on spending meant to increase the use of electric cars, which today make up just 2 percent of the vehicles on America’s highways.
The plan proposes spending $174 billion to encourage the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles by granting tax credits and other incentives to companies that make electric vehicle batteries in the United States instead of China. The goal is to reduce vehicle price tags.
The money would also fund the construction of about a half-million electric vehicle charging stations — although experts say that number is but a tiny fraction of what is needed to make electric vehicles a mainstream option.
Mr. Biden’s plan proposes $100 billion in programs to update and modernize the electric grid to make it more reliable and less susceptible to blackouts, like those that recently devastated Texas, while also building more transmission lines from wind and solar plants to large cities.
It proposes the creation of a “Clean Electricity Standard” — essentially, a federal mandate requiring that a certain percentage of electricity in the United States be generated by zero-carbon energy sources like wind, solar and possibly nuclear power. But that mandate would have to be enacted by Congress, where prospects for its success remain murky. Similar efforts to pass such a mandate have failed multiple times over the past 20 years.
The plan proposes an additional $46 billion in federal procurement programs for government agencies to buy fleets of electric vehicles, and $35 billion in research and development programs for cutting-edge, new technologies.
It also calls for making infrastructure and communities more prepared for the worsening effects of climate change, though the administration has so far provided few details on how it would accomplish that goal.
But according to the document released by the White House, the plan includes $50 billion “in dedicated investments to improve infrastructure resilience.” The efforts would defend against wildfires, rising seas and hurricanes, and there would be a focus on investments that protect low-income residents and people of color.
The plan also includes a $16 billion program intended to help fossil fuel workers transition to new work — like capping leaks on defunct oil wells and shutting down retired coal mines — and $10 billion for a new “Civilian Climate Corps.”
Mr. Biden would fund his spending in part by eliminating tax preferences for fossil fuel producers. But the bulk of his tax increases would come from corporations generally.
He would raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent, partly reversing a cut signed into law by President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Biden would also take a variety of steps to raise taxes on multinational corporations, many of them working within an overhaul of the taxation of profits earned overseas that was included in Mr. Trump’s tax law in 2017.
Those measures would include raising the rate of a minimum tax on global profits and eliminating several provisions that allow companies to reduce their American tax liability on profits they earn and book abroad.
Mr. Biden would also add a new minimum tax on the global income of the largest multinationals, and he would ramp up enforcement efforts by the Internal Revenue Service against large companies that evade taxes.
Administration officials expressed hope this week that the plan could attract bipartisan support in Congress. But Republicans and business groups have already attacked Mr. Biden’s plans to fund the spending with corporate tax increases, which they say will hurt the competitiveness of American companies. Administration officials say the moves will push companies to keep profits and jobs in the United States.
Joshua Bolten, the president and chief executive of the Business Roundtable, a powerful group representing top business executives in Washington, said on Tuesday that his group “strongly opposes corporate tax increases as a pay-for for infrastructure investment.”
“Policymakers should avoid creating new barriers to job creation and economic growth,” Mr. Bolten said, “particularly during the recovery.”The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-02 at 7:35 PM UTC in Chauvin is beyond fuckedDerek Chauvin trial, day 5: Lieutenant calls use of force on George Floyd 'totally unnecessary'; first week of testimony ends
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Grace Hauck, Eric Ferkenhoff, Tami Abdollah and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY (edited for length)
MINNEAPOLIS — The first week of witness testimony in the trial of Derek Chauvin, charged with the murder of George Floyd, ended Friday afternoon with a veteran Minneapolis police officer who explained the training officers receive.
Lt. Richard Zimmerman told the court that kneeling on the neck of a suspect is potentially lethal and there is "absolutely" an obligation to provide medical intervention as soon as necessary. Zimmerman called Chauvin's use of force on Floyd “totally unnecessary."
“Holding him down to the ground face down and putting your knee on the neck for that amount of time, is just uncalled for," he said.
Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd, who was Black, died in police custody after Chauvin, who is white, pinned his knee against Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
Lt. Richard Zimmerman, the Minneapolis Police Department's most senior officer in years served, testified Friday about the training officers receive. He said he’d been trained on having suspects in the prone position, meaning face down, since 1985. He has never been trained to kneel on the neck of a suspect who is prone – as Floyd was while Chauvin subdued him from above.
"That would be the top level of force," said Zimmerman, who also characterized it as potentially lethal danger.
"Once a person is in handcuffed, you need to get them out of the prone position as soon as possible because it restricts their breathing," said Zimmerman. "If you're laying on your chest, that's constricting them (breathing muscles) even more."
He noted that Minneapolis police officers are trained to abide by their department’s use of force continuum, which involves constantly revaluating and adjusting the level of force used on a person, depending on the threat that’s posed. After a person is in handcuffs, "the threat level goes down all the way," Zimmerman said.
Police are first responders, which means they can perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and attempt to revive someone who’s not breathing. Minneapolis officers are trained on it every other year or so, he said. There is "absolutely" an obligation to provide medical intervention as soon as necessary to an injured suspect before an ambulance arrives with paramedics, Zimmerman said.
Based on his review of police body camera videos of the struggle and subduing of Floyd, Zimmerman said Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck was “totally unnecessary."
"I saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger, if that’s what they felt, and that’s what they would have to feel to be able to use that kind of force," he testified.
The top-level restraint should have been stopped while Floyd was prone and no longer resisting, he said.
During the prosecution's re-questioning of Zimmerman, government lawyer Matthew Frank asked whether police training about potential dangers for a suspect held in the prone position had been adjusted over the years.
“That hasn’t changed,” said Zimmerman.
Citing his review of the police body camera videos, Zimmerman added that he did not see Floyd trying to kick Chauvin and other officers as he was held down.
Frank asked whether the bystanders watching the police struggle with Floyd posed an "uncontrollable threat" to the officers. Zimmerman said they did not.
"It doesn't matter – the crowd – as long as they're not attacking you," he said. "The crowd shouldn't have an effect on your actions."
Thursday ended with David Pleoger, a recently retired Minneapolis police officer who was responsible for reviewing officers' use of force, who testified for nearly an hour Thursday afternoon.
After receiving a call from 911 dispatcher Jena Scurry — who testified Monday and said she didn't mean to be a "snitch," but that she had seen what happened to Floyd —Pleoger said he called Chauvin on his cellphone.
Much of the conversation was not recorded because Chauvin turned off his body camera, as allowed per policy. Pleoger said Chauvin told him restraint was used, Floyd suffered a medical emergency and they had called an ambulance. Pleoger told the court he didn’t think Chauvin told him that it was him who had held Floyd down or that he had placed a knee on Floyd’s neck.
“Would you agree that a person may be restrained only to the degree necessary to keep them under control,” Schleicher asked.
"Yes and no more restraint,” Pleoger said.
Schleicher also asked when the restraint of Floyd should have ended.
Pleoger replied, "When Mr. Floyd was no longer offering up any resistance to the officers, they could have ended their restraint."The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-02 at 5:50 PM UTC in Candyrein NudesNot me.
Candy would never in her life take nekkid pictures of herself or (gasp) send them to someone else.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-18 at 3:50 PM UTC in is Biden even realBiden is not real. Neither are his $1400 checks. Please sign the backs of your fake checks and mail them to me.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-27 at 1:57 PM UTC in They tried to arrest me for stealing.It seems that this video may help you. OP.
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2021-03-26 at 4:30 PM UTC in Jow "Teleprompter" Biden doesn't know where he is.No.
Trump deliberately fucked up the postal system in an attempt to thwart mail-in voting trying to not let people know what a one term president and two-time popular election vote loser he really is. Trump fucked up our postal service in order to serve his sick, twisted ego.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-22 at 4:34 PM UTC in Amy Schumer should be thrown in a gutterObviously the Bill Krozbydog.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-18 at 5:10 PM UTC in NIS Best Fred Ever ! ! !It sounds like someone needs a hug from Fred Rogers.
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2021-03-16 at 7:27 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sFinally, The New York Times Reports on Serious Evidence of Fraud in 2020 Election
Leia Idliby Mediaite
Following countless claims of voter fraud throughout the 2020 election, the New York Times has finally discovered evidence of something fishy.
But much to Donald Trump’s chagrin, the irregularities unearthed by the Times relate not to the election for the leader of the free world, but rather to the vote deciding the Homecoming Queen in a Florida high school.
Yes, a Florida woman and her daughter were arrested on Monday after more than 200 votes had been questionably cast in J.M. Tate High School’s homecoming election.
“It was a case reminiscent of the 1999 dark comedy film ‘Election,'” wrote The New York Times’ Patricia Mazzei, revealing that agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) charged Laura Carroll and her 17-year-old daughter Emily Grover with conspiracy to use their school district login to help Grover get elected homecoming queen.
In all, 117 votes were cast from the same IP address within a short period of time, while a total of 246 votes were cast from their residence for the Homecoming Court.
The five-month investigation additionally found that Carroll, who is an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, used her district login to access the internal accounts of 372 Tate High students since August,.
“She looks up all of our group of friends’ grades and makes comments about how she can find our test scores all of the time,” one of the witnesses said, according to the arrest affidavits. The accounts not only include information on students’ grades, but also include students’ medical history and disciplinary records.
Grover was expelled despite the family’s contention, and sent to juvenile detention for an evaluation, according to The Times. Carroll was also suspended from her position at Bellview Elementary and taken into custody on Monday, yet she was later released on $8,500 bail.
According to an FDLE release, in addition to the conspiracy charge, Carroll and Grover were each charged with offenses against users of electronic devices, computer systems, and computer networks; unlawful use of a two-way communications device; and criminal use of personally identifiable information. All are listed as third degree felonies besides the conspiracy charge.
Surely not the 2020 election fraud charges the former president was hoping for.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-16 at 7:15 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe Wall Street Journal.
Putin Authorized Effort to Hurt Biden's 2020 Campaign, Report Says
Dustin Volz, Warren P. Strobel
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a range of operations last year intended to hurt Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and support President Trump’s re-election while sowing discord to exacerbate tension in the U.S., a U.S. intelligence assessment released Tuesday said.
In addition, Iran carried out a multipronged covert influence operation intended to undercut Mr. Trump’s re-election chances but didn’t directly promote his rivals, the unclassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said.
This effort was approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and involved Iran’s military and intelligence agencies, which used both over and covert messaging and conducted cyber operations, it said.
China didn’t undertake efforts to interfere in the election, considering but ultimately choosing not to go ahead, the report said.
Despite the various foreign campaigns, however, the report said there were no indications any foreign actor had attempted to alter “any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 U.S. elections,” including voter registration systems, individual ballots, vote tabulation systems, or the reporting of results.
Russia’s efforts relied on proxies linked to Russian intelligence services, which promoted “influence narratives—including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden—to U.S. media organizations, U.S. officials, and prominent U.S. individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration.”
The report says that U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Mr. Putin had purview over Russian influence operations, including the activities of Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker linked to Russian intelligence who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in September.
Mr. Derkach has previously rejected similar allegations.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-16 at 6:29 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe Daily Beast
Jimmy Kimmel Brutally Mocks Trump’s Post-Presidency Look
Matt Wilstein
It’s been just about two months since Donald Trump departed the White House for Mar-a-Lago so Jimmy Kimmel decided to check in on how he was doing Monday night.
“This is what our former president is up to,” the late-night host said during his monologue, telling his viewers about the recent report concerning Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara, “she of the plumped lips” who has a charity called ‘Big Dog Ranch Rescue’ that “paid almost two million dollars to Mar-a-Lago, which is owned by guess who, over the past seven years.”
“That doesn’t sound suspicious at all,” Kimmel added.
But what the host really wanted to talk about were the disturbing Twitter posts from Trump “sycophants” that emerged from the charity’s latest event over the weekend.
“President Trump is looking better than ever before!!” one Trump supporter tweeted. “He’s getting in shape for 2024 and the liberals are freaking out!!”
Brigitte Gabriel, who leads the anti-Muslim group ACT for America, added, “President Trump looks fantastic and stronger than ever!”
“OK, listen, I get that you support Donald Trump,” Kimmel said. “But put that picture back up for a second.”
“He doesn’t look strong and he definitely doesn’t look fantastic,” he added. “He looks like an old man with his belt pulled up to his nips. He looks like a bowl of mashed potatoes in pants.”The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-02-28 at 7:25 PM UTC in What would be hell for you?Having Donald Trump get re-elected.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-15 at 8:54 PM UTC in 2 Men Arrested For Capitol Police Officer KillingThe New York Times
2 Arrests in Assault on Police Officer Who Died After Capitol Riot
Katie Benner and Adam Goldman
The Justice Department has charged two men in the assault on Brian D. Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who died the day after he fought rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the case and court documents.
The F.B.I. on Sunday arrested George Pierre Tanios, 39, of West Virginia and Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania on charges of assaulting officers, including Officer Sicknick, with a chemical spray. Mr. Khater was arrested in New Jersey.
The arrests, which were reported earlier by The Washington Post, came weeks after investigators pinpointed one of the men in a video of the riot, in which he was seen attacking several officers with the spray, according to two law enforcement officials. The Justice Department has said in previous court filings that rioters were recorded on video talking about attacking officers, including Officer Sicknick.
It is not clear whether Officer Sicknick died because of his exposure to the spray. On Jan. 7, the day he died, the Capitol Police said in a statement that he “was injured while physically engaging with protesters” at the riot a day earlier and then “returned to his division office and collapsed.” He later died at a hospital.
In the hours after Officer Sicknick was rushed to the hospital, Capitol Police officials initially said that he had been struck with a fire extinguisher, but later said that his death was not caused by blunt force trauma. In the following days, investigators homed in on the potential role of an irritant as a primary factor in his death.
Officer Sicknick, 42, was an Air National Guard veteran who had served in Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan.
After the F.B.I. posted fliers with photographs of Mr. Khater and Mr. Tanios, seeking information about the Jan. 6 attack, a tipster told the F.B.I. that the two men had grown up together in New Jersey.
Another person told the F.B.I. that one of the men in the photos looked “very close” to Mr. Tanios, who had “bragged about going to the insurrection at the Capitol on Facebook.”
A tipster also identified Mr. Khater as a former colleague at a food establishment in State College, Pa.
The police also are looking for a "person of interest" going by the name of "Polecat" to interrogate him about his activities on Jan. 6, 2021. They expect an arrest soon.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-11 at 4:47 PM UTC in Today i leg pressed 635 pounds...Your girlfriend?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-14 at 6:24 PM UTC in Don'tTellEm and CandyRein had a falling out."The Thrilla In Manila"
and now
"Big Ape vs. The Midget"
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2021-03-13 at 6:07 PM UTC in Have you had THE vaccine?I'll use my figures and you can make up yours, K?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-12 at 7:39 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sSeven million works just fine by me.
The Silent Majority vs. the Vocal Minority.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-12 at 3 PM UTC in Makes You Stiffer Than Using ViagraWTF was this teacher thinking?
I remember seeing a demonstration once where a piece of lettuce was doused in liquid refrigerant and thrown on the ground where it shattered like glass. And this teacher is pouring this type shit on a student's chest and crotch? DAMN!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-03-12 at 2:45 PM UTC in What do you think of Joe Biden?I think Joe is doing a bang-up job. Just look at what he's been able to do with the vaccine roll-out. Larry the Cable Guy drive on gettin' 'er done no holds barred. Got his relief package through Congress without one single Republican vote in the Senate even while 75% of the nation approved. $1400 checks to be arriving shortly. Unemployment benefits extended. Renters extended housing.
HOPE IS BACK
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