[LegalInsurrection] President Joe Biden issued an executive order on guns.
Lefty websites make you think he’s taking a stance against those assault rifles! Other websites make you think he’s coming from your guns.
The executive order literally does nothing. Buried in The New York Post (emphasis mine):
Biden’s executive order does not make policy changes but calls on executive agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws, moving the US as close to universal background checks as possible under existing laws without requiring Congress to pass additional legislation.
My friend responded, “So it’s the equivalent of shaking his fist and saying, ‘You better do your job!'”
Yup.
Buried in The Associated Press article:
Tuesday’s action does not change U.S. government policy. Rather, it directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures — a typical feature of executive orders issued by presidents when they confront the limits of their own power to act without cooperation from Congress.
So America will have more background checks by people actually doing what they’re supposed to do.
[Townhall] Black Lives Matter is facing another scandal in Boston, as local activists face several new fraud charges stemming from COVID relief funds. The couple, Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant, were slapped with over a dozen charges stemming from their community-based advocacy group VIB, which they established in 2017. VIB and BLM partnered on many marches and events, especially during the 2020 election and in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis:
A year ago this week, Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant, were charged with 18 federal counts in connection to their organization, Violence in Boston. The pair founded VIB in 2017 with the stated goal of reducing violence, raising social awareness, and aiding community causes in Boston, according to NECN. VIB partnered with BLM in the ensuing years, especially in 2020. That June, VIB and BLM organized a Boston rally and vigil for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and thousands reportedly attended.
Though VIB was a nonprofit which had raised over $1 million, Cannon-Grant and Grant allegedly used a significant portion of those funds for personal use. The 2022 federal indictment claimed that the couple had spent that money on gas, restaurants, personal travel and hotel reservations, nail salon appointments, auto repairs, and ride-share services.
There are also allegations that the two lied on a mortgage application and that Cannon-Grant had received more than $10,000 in grant money from a department store but had spent at least a third of that money on her rent.
Now, federal prosecutors have added nine more charges against Cannon-Grant and Grant — 42 and 39, respectively — in connection to COVID relief funds. As in the previous indictment, the two are alleged to have spent the grant money on personal expenses.
They are also accused of defrauding other governmental agencies by misrepresenting their income. For example, until recently, Grant had been working full-time for a commuter services company, a job he had held since 2018, Boston.com reported. (via The Blaze, emphasis mine)
What a mess. Black Lives Matter’s troubles aren’t just contained to the Boston area. Amazon removed them from their charity platform last year. It’s to the point where the movement has no real leader for multiple reasons, not the least being that whoever is picked as king or queen of the mountain faces intense legal scrutiny. Some top leaders made away with sketchy real estate deals. Other local leaders were busted for voter fraud.
The BLM Funding Database contains pledges and contributions from 2020-present. In eight instances, pledges or contributions made prior to 2020 are included because (1) contributors touted them in their 2020 racial equity statements, or (2) they were partially fulfilled between 2020-present. These exceptions amount to less than $330M in pledges and contributions and are noted in the details of the contributors.
The "BLM Movement" is composed of the BLM parent organizations (BLMGNF and M4BL), the BLM Foundation (a separate, BLM-aligned organization that some contributors confused for BLMGNF), BLM Grassroots, independent BLM chapters (the BLM10+, etc.), BLM PAC, the fiscal sponsors of BLM organizations (including AfGJ, Thousand Currents, the Common Counsel Foundation, and the Tides Center), BLM At School, BLM partners such as the NAACP (a partner of BLMGNF) and the ACLU (a partner of BLM DC), and the more than 150 member organizations of M4BL. "Related Causes" are organizations that advance aspects of BLM’s agenda.
The topline dollar amount is generated using contributor data – not recipient data – because the precise dollar amounts contributed to individual recipients often remain unknown. This means that when the data is sorted by recipient(s), the topline dollar amount generated represents all of the contributions made by the relevant contributors rather than only those contributions made to the selected recipient(s).
A blank entry in the BLM Movement & Related Causes column indicates that the amount pledged or contributed is unknown.
The Follow-through column indicates whether or not contributors have made good on their pledges.
"Yes" indicates that a contributor took at least some action to fulfill pledges.
"Unknown" indicates that no evidence could be found to ascertain whether or not pledges were acted on.
While not verbatim, the Details column embodies the language contributors used to describe their contributions.
There is a small amount of redundancy inherent to the database, but we believe that, in the final analysis, total contributions to BLM remain underreported. See the list at the link
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There are more shells in their organization than Hampton Beach. Truly impressive grift, graft and overall corruption. I like that the scam operates with no one in charge to resist accountability. Overall, BLM is a masterpiece in race hustling.
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BLM itself is the scam. Anything that flows from BLM is by definition a scam itself.
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[An Nahar] A regulatory takeover of a New York-based bank was intended to send a message to U.S. banks to stay away from the cryptocurrency business, a former member of Congress who was on the bank's board says.
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that he believes the state officials behind the action were trying to make an example of Signature Bank in takeover that he said was the wrong move. Despite a wave of withdrawals, the bank's situation was under control before regulators swooped in, he said.
"This was just a way to tell people, 'We don't want you dealing with crypto,'" Frank said in an interview.
Frank, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1981 until 2013, coauthored the Dodd-Frank act that boosted government oversight of banks following the 2008 financial crisis.
He was a director at Signature Bank until the New York Division of Financial Services took it over Sunday and gave control of it to the FDIC, the federal agency that insures bank deposits, until the bank can be sold.
Frank said the bank's former operators have no recourse. But he said he expects some vindication when Signature is sold eventually.
"I believe they're going to get a very good price," Frank said, "proof that it was not a bank problem."
Signature's takeover came two days after regulators seized Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based Silicon Valley Bank. Both followed a rush of withdrawals from the banks, which catered to technology businesses.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul described the takeover as a way to avert a bigger crisis that could have affected more banks.
"Our view was to make sure that the entire banking community here in New York was stable, that we can project calm," Hochul said in a news conference Monday.
Signature, which was founded more than two decades ago, has about 40 offices across the U.S. and says it focuses on banking for privately owned businesses, their owners and senior managers.
The bank said it was the first FDIC-insured bank to launch a blockchain-based digital payments platform.
As worries mounted about Silicon Valley Bank last week, Signature put out a statement seeking to reassure clients and investors that it was stable. The statement included a reminder that despite its efforts to cater to cryptocurrency holders, it "does not invest in, does not trade, does not hold, does not custody and does not lend against or make loans collateralized by digital assets."
But by Friday, there were more withdrawals, which Frank said were "based solely on the contagion from SVB."
He said the situation had stabilized by the time Sunday that New York regulators took it over.
The bank had more than $110 billion in assets, making it the third-largest banking failure in U.S. history.
Unlike Frank, Hochul did not point to cryptocurrency as a factor in the bank's shuttering over the weekend. She said withdrawals were continuing, making the action necessary.
And the state regulator went even further, saying Signature wasn't a crypto bank.
"This is not about a particular sector in the case of Signature Bank, but we moved quickly to make sure depositors were protected," said New York Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris.
The bank's top executives were ousted and it reopened Monday under operational control of the FDIC as Signature Bridge Bank.
Also Monday, the FDIC announced that those with deposits in both banks would have full access to them — even the amounts that exceed the regular $250,000 insurance limit.
Frank said that if the FDIC had agreed to insure the entire deposits on Friday rather than waiting until Monday, Signature would not have been taken over. He said the insurance limit for businesses should also be raised permanently by Congress to an amount high enough to cover a few months' worth of payroll for most firms.
[TOWNHALL] If you thought today would be a great market day, you’re either on crack or are so wealthy that you can absorb the losses if you were deep in financial stocks. The closure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has many on edge since many fear a domino effect. Silicon Valley Bank, which had no risk assessment officer for eight months, collapsed over the weekend, hastened by the institution’s announcement to raise capital to cover massive losses it took with the fluctuating tech market; SVB is a go-to bank for loans for fledgling start-ups. That news triggered a panic, a run, and now Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, officials have taken over and given the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation the reins. Signature Bank, which is a cryptocurrency operation, was shuttered over ’systemic risk’ concerns (via CNBC):
U.S. regulators on Sunday shut down New York-based Signature Bank, a big lender in the crypto industry, in a bid to prevent the spreading banking crisis.
"We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank, New York, New York, which was closed today by its state chartering authority," the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a joint statement Sunday evening.
The banking regulators said depositors at Signature Bank will have full access to their deposits, a move similar to that which was made to ensure depositors at the failed Silicon Valley Bank will get their money back.
"All depositors of this institution will be made whole. As with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, no losses will be borne by the taxpayer," the regulators said.
The regulators shuttered Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and seized its deposits in the largest U.S. banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis — and the second-largest ever. The dramatic moves come just days after the tech-focused institution reported it was struggling, triggering a run on the bank’s deposits.
Signature is one of the main banks to the cryptocurrency industry, the biggest one next to Silvergate, which announced its impending liquidation last week. It had a market value of $4.4 billion as of Friday after a 40% sell-off this year, according to FactSet.
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It will never not be weird that Biden simply lies about stuff like this constantly. Biden voted for DOMA in 1996 and was openly saying marriage should be between a man and a woman over a decade later. There’s a 2006 clip from a Meet The Press interview where he says exactly that. https://t.co/QM25m7T80T
[REDSTATE] John Fetterman remains institutionalized and unable to perform the duties of his office following his admission for severe depression. Now, we finally have an "update" on his situation.
As RedState previously reported, the Pennsylvania senator and his staff have provided very little in the way of information for the public, though they have staged a few photos of him "working" for the compliant press to fawn over.
Making the situation even weirder, Gisele Fetterman ran off to Canada after her husband initially went into the hospital, posting a long social media screed in which she didn’t even mention him. Some weeks later, People Magazine, in an article meant to drool over Gisele Fetterman being a volunteer firefighter, revealed that she’s only been visiting her husband once a week.
So what’s the latest update? According to CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s Manu Raju, Fetterman is "making progress in his recovery from clinical depression" and will be "as good or better than his best days post-stroke." Manu Raju once self-identified as a "Journolist", but lied about that too
Putting that out is insulting. I know the assumption is that most Americans are either too stupid or too busy to pay attention to political gas-lighting, but truly, this is next-level stuff.
John Fetterman has clinical depression, and by his own admission, he has a severe diagnosis of it. Clinical depression is not like a virus. You don’t just go to the hospital, sit around, pop some meds, and come out good as new a few weeks later. Rather, it’s often a life-long struggle of balancing medication and one’s personal life in order to mitigate the effects. This idea that Fetterman is going to get a new drug cocktail and suddenly be "cured" is farcical. That’s not how depression works.
Further, the circumstance which triggered Fetterman’s worsening depression was his working in Washington, DC. How is he going to return to his life and not suffer another relapse if he changes absolutely nothing about it? This is a man who needs to be at home with his family. Presumably, that would include an attentive wife. Going back to the doldrums and stresses of politics, remaining isolated from those he loves will only exacerbate his situation.
That’s what makes this so crazy. If Fetterman is suffering from severe clinical depression coupled with his other serious physical health problems, going right back into the situation that brought him to this point is the worst thing that he could do. Where are the adults in the room to say enough is enough? A US Senator can’t perform the duties of his office while suffering from clinical depression and being unable to participate in basic communication. Depression affects decision making, even when medicated. I realize the joke is that senators don’t do anything, but this is pushing the limits of absurdity.
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I think the chances of him being better than before in most regards assuming that he was pretty much out of control before his stroke. He was not on my radar before his campaign went into basement rope-a-door. Seems like he was sort of a van down by the river type guy.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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My guess is that Fetterman is sufficiently brain-damaged and handicapped that he will never be able to even present an effective facade of functioning as a Senator. After window dressing moments so kicking him to the curb doesn't look like kicking him to the curb, the PA Gov will pick a replacement that promised all the needed obedience and was capable of being elected in 2024. It will not be the spouse, she has seen the evidence and perhaps already has the financial commitments to quietly step aside. All this kabuki theater about functioning from the bedside is the Chief of Staff and his team settling in and trying to make themselves likely to be kept on board when the replacement arrives.
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I'm good with it. Penn voted for him. They actually voted themselves out of a senate seat. While he is in the hospital, he can not vote. Hope he recovers, I dont wish this on anyone. But his not being in the Senate is good for America...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Townhall] Black Lives Matter is facing another scandal in Boston, as local activists face several new fraud charges stemming from COVID relief funds. The couple, Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant, were slapped with over a dozen charges stemming from their community-based advocacy group VIB, which they established in 2017. VIB and BLM partnered on many marches and events, especially during the 2020 election and in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis: 
[TOWNHALL] If you thought today would be a great market day, you’re either on crack or are so wealthy that you can absorb the losses if you were deep in financial stocks. The closure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has many on edge since many fear a domino effect. Silicon Valley Bank, which had no risk assessment officer for eight months, collapsed over the weekend, hastened by the institution’s announcement to raise capital to cover massive losses it took with the fluctuating tech market; SVB is a go-to bank for loans for fledgling start-ups. That news triggered a panic, a run, and now 
[REDSTATE] 
