Arab American leaders in Detroit have been told by the Kamala campaign that @keithellison is on the short list to be Attorney General if she should win.
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[BREITBART] A group presenting itself as a voting rights group is fighting election integrity measures and sowing chaos inside a critical swing state.
Fair Fight, a group founded by election denier Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Then she wanted to be Joe Biden's vice president, so now she can sour grape about that too... , is running an ad in Atlanta pressuring Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) to remove three ''MAGA bad boys'' members of the Georgia State Election Board — an action Kemp may not have legal authority to take.
The ad, airing on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , MSNBC, and Fox News, asks voters to flood Kemp's phone lines demanding he remove three Republican board members who have pushed election integrity measures many Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have framed as election interference.
The modest $50,000 ad buy was first reported by the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , who was given an early look at the ad.
Fair Fight and other leftwing groups have objected to the board's actions to increase election integrity, including its requirement that county election officials make a ''reasonable inquiry'' before certifying election results to the state.
National and state Democrats recently sued the board over its certification rules, arguing they could cause confusion and delay the process. Additionally, State Representative Nabilah Islam Parkes
…D of course. The child of immigrants from Bangladesh, Mrs. Parkes was the first Muslimah elected to the Georgia state senate when she won two years ago…
filed an ethics complaint against the board, alleging the new rules were passed to help Trump win. An additional complaint alleges the trio violated open meetings laws.
Kemp referred the ethics complaints to the Georgia attorney general. He also asked the AG if he, the governor, possesses the power to remove members of the board.
Trump has praised the board's work, singling out three Republicans — Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Janelle King — as ''pit bulls'' during a recent campaign rally. The five-member board includes an additional Republican and a Democrat who often have partnered to oppose the trio.
The former president and Kemp recently mended their at-times fraught relationship, with each publicly praising the other.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban and called it an extraordinary success... will not pardon his son Hunter Biden, according to a statement made Thursday by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during her regular afternoon briefing.
A news hound first asked Jean-Pierre if Hunter Biden changing his plea had any influence on the ''calculus'' of Biden's decision. The press secretary responded, ''no comment'' to that query but said ''It's no, it's still no,'' when asked if Biden had any intention of pardoning his son.
''Can you comment on whether a commutation would be on or off the table?'' another news hound asked. ''That's also no,'' Jean-Pierre said, adding that she didn't ''have anything to say'' about whether Hunter's predicament had anything to do with his father's decision not to seek a second term as president.
Hunter Biden pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court on Thursday to nine tax evasion charges, three of which are felonies.
According to the Daily Mail, Judge Mark Scarsi informed Hunter that his sentence could be as high as 17 years in prison with over $1 million in fines when convicted on all counts.
In pleading guilty on Hunter Biden's behalf, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the reason underlying Biden's decision was a desire to save his family from more grief and lay the matter to rest.
"Your honor has basically indicated that there's a need to address the public interest," Lowell said. "But Mr. Biden also has to address the private interest. This has been a difficult time for him and his family. Enough is enough."
Biden's lawyers had wanted to enter an "Alford plea" where Hunter Biden would have pleaded guilty while maintaining his innocence. They agreed to drop that course of action after meeting with prosecutors.
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They dragged their feet for years and then rushed to plea…. Just like his letter dropping out of the race someone else has already written the pardon announcement.
I am just unsure how the smartest person Joe knows could get in this mess?!?!
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Biden will leave as president right before the election to try and give Kamala the bump needed to beat Trump. In the deal she will pardon the entire Biden family of any and all crimes... Done...
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Kamala won't do it if she remembers how that worked for Ford.
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Hunter would need a comprehensive pardon for broader illegality than tax evasion. There are other family members including Joe that will need coverage as well.
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09/08/2024 14:54 Comments ||
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A lifetime of lies, grifting, deal-making and selling the powers and influence of his office for personal gain, and suddenly a question of "integrity" and moral courage is asked by those in search of readers? A deal has been made, and widespread family pardons will occur, the details by whom and when are merely formalities. Risible naivete for the gullible and more "pretending" by the media fabulists who assert their journalismbono fides!
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I agree with #6 Ebbiter Omose6659; It will be Joe Biden who will do the Pardoning whether Trump or Harris when the election. He has nothing to lose, no skin in the game. The only question is when? Tactically it would be better to do it as soon as possible after the election to cover Harris or preempt Trump!
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There are plenty of other crimes to try Mr. Hunter Biden on. Though even without prison, it will be interesting to see what becomes of him without the prospect of access to power — it’s not like anyone is going to bother collecting his paintings now.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] On Wednesday, a federal court ruled in favor of Elon Musk's X Corp in its case challenging Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s content moderation laws, citing free speech violations. X Corp filed a lawsuit to block the controversial law, which took effect on January 1, 2024.
The legislation requires social media companies to disclose details of their content moderation policies to the state or face civil penalties.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... overturned a previous lower court's decision that ruled against pausing enforcement of the state law. The panel of three judges decided the law facially violated the First Amendment, Rooters reported.
"X Corp. is likely to succeed in showing that the Content Category Report provisions facially violate the First Amendment," Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. wrote in his case opinion.
In the complaint filed in Sept. 2023, X Corporation argued that Assembly Bill 587 violates the company's First Amendment rights because it pressures "companies such as X Corp. to remove, demonetize, or deprioritize constitutionally-protected speech that the State deems undesirable or harmful" which "interferes with the constitutionally-protected editorial judgments" of the company.
The suit alleged that the law "places an unjustified and undue burden" on social media companies. The lawsuit was originally dismissed by US District Judge William Shubb in December 2023.
Assembly Bill 587, signed into law last September, aims to tackle extremism, hate speech, and online misinformation. According to the law, online businesses that collect personally identifiable information from Californians must make their privacy policies easily available to the public, as reported by Forbes.
The lawsuit argued that the "true intent" of the legislation "is to pressure social media platforms to 'eliminate' certain constitutionally-protected content viewed by the State as problematic."
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[ZERO] Look who slithered out of his neocon lair of no regrets to publicly endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Former Vice President and "lifelong Republican" Dick Cheney announced Friday that he will vote for Biden's VP over Republican candidate Donald Trump, issuing a stern warning to the public that the former president "can never be trusted with power again."
The blood-curdling pot meet kettle irony of that statement coming from Dick-shock-and awe-Cheny aside... it's entirely to be expected in a post-"Global War on Terror" world (apparently everyone conveniently forgot) where GW Bush regularly pals around with the likes of Ellen DeGeneres.
83-year old Cheney said in his statement: "In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
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Lemme get this straight. Once upon a time, BushHitler and Chainy (/hi, Mucky!) were evil incarnate and not to be trusted. Now, Dick Cheney and his spawn are fountains of wisdom?
Based on our priors, this is an endorsement for the Orange Man. Or we are in Bizarro World.
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...no, think Uniparty (the party and state are one, everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party) and is lust for power. Power by any means necessary. Power is self justifying and self rationalizing. Orwell covered it all in 1984.
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There was a post this am which has since disappeared: Team Trump in a trade with Team QueMala: Trump gets RFK, Jr & Gabbard. Team QM gets Dirty D|ck and Dirty D|ckless
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Ref #10
Many thanks Mecutio, Cynical Publius is a pleasure to read!
For example:" Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius
I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.
My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley. Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky.
My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.
My side of history is freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and spirited debate. Your side of history is ThoughtCrime, Speech Codes, religious persecution and Cancel Culture.
My side of history is Brown v. Board of Ed., Loving v. VA, Gitlow v. NY, and Heller v. DC. Your side of history is Dred Scott, Korematsu and Roe v. Wade.
My side of history is Jackie Robinson. Your side of history is Colin Kaepernick.
My side of history is head held high, standing straight, hand over heart. Your side of history is sullen glances at the ground, kneeling.
My side of history is the family as the foundation of society. Your side of history is mutilating confused children.
My side of history is the rockets’ red glare. Your side of history is imagine no religion.
My side of history is firefighters going up the stairs into the Twin Towers. Your side of history is 28-year-old men playing Call of Duty in their mothers’ basements.
My side of history is smoked brisket. Your side of history is a no-foam, no-sugar, soy latte.
My side of history is Lincoln freeing the slaves and General Patton liberating Buchenwald. Your side of history is Fort Sumter, the Gulag and Pol Pot’s killing fields.
My side of history is Mel Brooks. Your side of history is Amy Schumer.
My side of history is all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Your side of history is critical theory and only some lives matter.
My side of history is 20-year-olds storming Omaha Beach. Your side of history is 20-year-olds in their safe spaces with adult coloring books.
My side of history is American men and women disabled by an IED. Your side of history is American men and women disabled by anxiety.
My side of history is the Kentucky Rifle, the Springfield 1861, the M1911, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15. Your side of history is whimpering submission.
My side of history is Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Apollo 11 and Jonas Salk. Your side of history is “global warming,” 100+ genders and porous cloth masks stopping viruses.
My side is of history is laughing babies. Your side of history is selling aborted baby parts on the open market.
My side of history is the Sistine Chapel and Monet’s water lilies. Your side of history is an inverted crucifix in a bottle of urine.
My side of history is construction. Your side of history is deconstruction.
My side of history is civilization. Your side of history is nihilism.
And, MOST OF ALL:
My side of history is liberty. Your side of history is tyranny.
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From one no mo to another - thanks for posting that bit of truth.
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When I think of the thousands of words that I and others wrote supporting him 20+ years ago on this very blog...his ingratitude makes me want to puke. We effed up. Not in our intent, but in our trust.
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We effed up. Not in our intent, but in our trust.
As a nation we made the best choice from the options available, in both 2000 and 2004. I have no regrets — he started off right, and only later got lost in the weeds. Had we elected the other guy, we would have lost before we started, so I am infinitely glad my guy lost in 2000. John McCain would not have been much better than Barack Obama, unfortunately, and although I can see Mitt Romney rising to the challenge had he got in, he would only have been better than rather than actually good.
But they all disliked those declassé TEA Partiers, and that’s been the Republican Party trend — Donald Trump is just the latest incarnation thereof.
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Tester funding from 175,000, 3.6 million, to 7 million that he will disclose. Last gasp indeed. New pool has Sheehy ahead by 16 points(Kate Bridges, AARP Research).
Men and women presenting themselves as candidates to strengthen and uphold public trust in their elected representatives would do well to remember two things:
First, doing so immediately makes them a “public figure” defined as “someone who has taken on a prominent role in society or has inserted themselves into a public debate in order to influence its outcome” – such as politicians, actual or aspiring.
Second, a good communications adage to follow is, “Maximum disclosure, minimum delay.”
Candidate Tim Sheehy, wanting to be Montana’s next U.S. senator, seems to be having trouble with both....
Sheehy draws a distinction between the “fawning” (his word) news coverage of him and his Bridger Aerospace company before he announced for office and afterwards.
“The press turned against my businesses and has been trying to harm us every single day,” he said in an NBC Montana interview on April 29 that can be viewed on YouTube.
To blame for his difficulties, he named The Washington Post, the Montana Free Press, national online tabloid newspaper The Daily Beast, saying the latter two were not news organizations – at least in his mind.
Clearly uncomfortable in portions of the interview and asked to explain the Glacier Park gunshot incident, Sheehy launched into excessive detail about why his personal judgment outweighed standard operating procedure he was bound as the unit commander to follow.
There are other trust issues.
His “denial” of his paternal grandparents, for example....
There’s another curious situation surrounding the pinning by his new friend and Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke of his Bronze Star Medal with “V” device for valor and his award of the Purple Heart for injuries suffered. Both speak to his heroism in combat; he recently posted online the award certificates and the Bronze Star citation.
His Bronze Star citation for “heroic achievement” is dated June 24, 2014, before he was separated from active duty in Hawaii. By custom, the military conducts such an award ceremony prior to a serviceperson’s separation or departure from a duty station. Sheehy’s resume shows he left Hawaii in October 2014, four months later.
The Purple Heart citation is dated June 5, 2015, when Sheehy was already in business in Belgrade. The citation was for wounds received in action on April 25, 2012, so it obviously was late in its issuance and appropriate for Zinke to present it to Sheehy on Aug. 27, 2015.
But the Bronze Star? Perhaps Lieutenant Sheehy can clear this up by clarifying whether his initial Bronze Star award ceremony was in Hawaii or whether its award was to highlight the Purple Heart – and his entry into Montana politics. Maximum disclosure and minimum delay applies.
And now it is up to the courts to determine the truth behind the breach of contract suit filed by two former employees in April against Sheehy and his brother Matthew.
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^ I'm not a Montanan. The issues you cite are never investigated against a Dem. I question the sources: "The Washington Post, the Montana Free Press, national online tabloid newspaper The Daily Beast". Not reliable sources
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Lies. Heritage Foundation does Project 2025. Not a credible source.
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"The issues you cite are never investigated against a Dem."
Oh, that's for sure. But I think if there's smoke, there's fire. Maybe I'm wrong, so we'll see, but my spidey sense doesn't trust Sheehy...seems like a big b.s'er. Time will tell.
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@#10 - "The far-right wing extremist group Heritage Foundation spent $22 million to create the 887-page policy book....
"It’s important to know Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation’s president, has close affiliations with Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and referred to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Hungarian dictatorship as “the model” of conservative politics (Newsweek, July 5)."
The Daily Montanan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan source for trusted news, commentary and insight into statewide policy and politics beneath the Big Sky....
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^ I just made a snap judgement on them and may be wrong, but Tester is a known Dem plug. He pretends to be independent but votes with Schumer's majority every time
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'The lesser of two weevils.'
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So he is a crook - if more Republicans were crooks, maybe they wouldn't be so easily fooled.
“We can do that after I’m reelected, guys. No need to upset the rubes now.”
[POSTMILLENNIAL] On Friday, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... vetoed a controversial bill that would have given up to $150,000 to illegal immigrants colonists in the state for home down payments.
"To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning Assembly Bill 1840 without my signature. This bill seeks to prohibit the disqualification of applicants from one of California Housing Finance Agency's (CalHFA) home purchase assistance programs based solely on their immigration status," Newsom wrote.
"Given the finite funding available for CalHFA programs, expanding program eligibility must be carefully considered within the broader context of the annual state budget to ensure we manage our resources effectively." "finite funding" = CA's already some $80 billion in the red
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Until Kamala became the Dem nominee for prez, I bet Gruesome doesn't veto that bill.
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...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban and called it an 
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
[ZERO] Look who slithered out of his neocon lair of no regrets to publicly endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Former Vice President and "lifelong Republican" 
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
