what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
can someone name one contribution besides dead american bodies?
Trickle down economics, only the greatest contribution to America since we won the freedom to get taxed and fleeced by our wealthy land owning countrymen instead of the crown.
Bush rightly called it "voodoo economics"... and then was VP.
what is one thing maga republicans have contributed to amercian society besides dead bodies?
dead bodies from covid disinformation. dead bodies from cutting social programs. dead bodies from ending abortion and going after the lgbtq community. dead bodies from failure to do anything about guns. their lapel pin logo is an ar-15 by the way.
can someone name one contribution besides dead american bodies?
Trickle down economics, only the greatest contribution to America since we won the freedom to get taxed and fleeced by our wealthy land owning countrymen instead of the crown.
some people call this trickle on economics.
i am not kink shaming.
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WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.
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DeSantis to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all grades
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Today
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don't Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues to focus on cultural issues ahead of his expected presidential run.
The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote next month before the state Board of Education and has been put forward by the state Education Department, both of which are led by appointees of the governor.
The rule change would ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade. The change was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
DeSantis has leaned heavily into cultural divides on his path to an anticipated White House bid, with the Republican aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda that targets what he calls the insertion of inappropriate subjects in schools.
Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the Education Department did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the proposal saying “It’s wrong, it’s completely, utterly wrong.” She called it “part of a disturbing and dangerous trend that we’re seeing across the nation” of targeting LGBTQ people.
Last year's Parental Rights in Education Act drew widespread backlash nationally, with critics saying it marginalizes LGBTQ people and their presence in society. President Joe Biden called it “hateful.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly said the measure is reasonable and that parents, not teachers, should be broaching subjects of sexual orientation and gender identity with their children.
Critics of the law say its language — “classroom instruction,” “age appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate” — is overly broad and subject to interpretation. Consequently, teachers might opt to avoid the subjects entirely for fear of being sued, they say.
The law also kicked off a feud between the state and Disney, one of the state's largest employers and political donors, after the entertainment giant publicly opposed the law and said it was pausing political donations in the state.
At the governor’s request, the Republican-dominated Legislature voted to dissolve a self-governing district controlled by Walt Disney World over its properties in Florida, and eventually gave DeSantis control of the board. The move was widely seen as a punishment for the company opposing the law. The board oversees municipal services in Disney’s theme park properties and was instrumental in the company’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s.
Disney later this year will host a large conference on LGBTQ workplace representation with the group Out & Equal, continuing a longstanding relationship with the organization.
DeSantis has faced calls from at least one Republican presidential contender to go even further than the existing law, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley last month saying the prohibition could be more stringent and extended into later grades.
The proposed rule change this year also signals the governor's willingness to bypass even the compliant state legislature and instead leverage state boards in order to accomplish his high-profile political goals. Late last year, at DeSantis' urging, state medical boards voted to ban children from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria.
“Everything he does is about what can further his own career ambitions,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida. “And it's clear he see the anti-LGBTQ movement as his vehicle to get him where he wants to go.”
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Associated Press reporter Aamer Madhani contributed from Washington.
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‘Murica is toast. ‘Murica, just like I pictured it, like Flo Rida.
DeSantis wants ‘media accountability.’ A new bill makes suing journalists easier.
The Florida governor’s antipathy toward media has been a key part of his brand during a rise in GOP politics. Free speech advocates fear a new libel bill goes too far in codifying that attitude.
Ron DeSantis sat in an anchorman’s chair, peering at a camera as phrases such as “SPEAK TRUTH” flashed on a screen behind him.
Presiding over a setup that resembled a cable-news panel show, the governor of Florida teed up provocative video clips and welcomed guests into his mock studio for what his office called a “roundtable discussion” that was streamed on social media last month. Topic: “Legacy media defamation practices.” Guests: Plaintiffs and lawyers who had sued major media companies, including Fox News and The Washington Post.
“These companies are probably the leading purveyors of disinformation in our entire society,” DeSantis said. “There needs to be an ability for people to defend themselves.”
The governor, who is expected to challenge Donald Trump and a growing field for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, has made open antipathy toward “corporate media” a key part of his brand in his rapid ascent in conservative politics. He shuns talks with mainstream news outlets in favor of exclusive interviews with conservative platforms. His office keeps a growing catalogue of what it considers media hoaxes. And his press aides mock journalists by sharing their emails on social media.
Now, a new bill moving through the Florida Capitol appears to codify DeSantis’s combative stance toward media — and his portrayal of journalists as partisan players who lack accountability — by making it far easier to sue news organizations for defamation and win.
DeSantis has framed the push to rethink defamation law as wanting to “stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates.”
Under current case law, private citizens actually face a much lower legal threshold than prominent people when it comes to suing for defamation.
While Republican state lawmakers quickly took up his cause, publishers and free-speech advocates, including some from conservative media, warn that the bill would dramatically change how journalists do their jobs.
Bobby Block of the First Amendment Foundation called it “a death knell for American traditions of free speech.” James Schwartzel, the owner of 92.5 FOX News, a talk-radio station that carries Sean Hannity and other conservative personalities, said the bill would be“the death of conservative talk throughout the state of Florida.”
“The devastation will be severe and swift,” he wrote to lawmakers. “Republicans will lose one of their most prominent platforms to reach their base forever.”
Opponents of the bill saya provision that presumes reporting cited to anonymous sources is false could make it harder for journalists to investigate corruption and sensitive topics. They also warn that it could turn Florida into a destination for filing defamation lawsuits — and that ordinary citizens, not just media professionals, could face more lawsuits.
The bill’s author has dismissed concerns as overblown. In an interview with The Post, state Rep. Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola) argued that truthful reporting and even name-calling and satire would still be protected. But under current law, “it’s nearly impossible to bring a defamation claim,” he said — a situation he wants to change.
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Bernie was right but his approach was wrong. And senator whitehouse is right on. Unfortunately, it’s way too late. Hunter’s laptop and all.
We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the last hundred years. In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. Today, 45% of all new income goes to the top 1%, and CEOs of large corporations make a record-breaking 350 times what their workers earn.
Remember
back in the good old days when Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the
electric television set and told us that she and her husband's
administration were the targets of a "vast, rightwing conspiracy," and
everybody thought that was hilariously funny, if not deeply paranoid?
And we all had a good laugh?
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As
the years have gone by, and as a misbegotten Supreme Court decision has
turned the brackish tide of corporate money in our politics from a
steady stream into a biblical flood, HRC now appears to have low-balled
the whole thing.
The good people at ProPublica
have given us a thorough examination of the latest iteration of what
she was talking about—another project from the laboratory of dark money sorcererLeonard Leo, this one called Teneo. ProPublica describes
an attempt by Leo and his henchpeople (who include, this time, Peter
Thiel) to do to the general culture of the United States what they've
managed to do to the federal judiciary.
Now,
Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he
planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country
was plagued by “woke-ism” in corporations and education, “one-sided
journalism” and “entertainment that’s really corrupting our youth,” said
Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American
flags. Sitting tucked into a couch, with wire-rimmed glasses and hair
gone to gray, Leo conveyed his inspiration and intentions: “I just said
to myself, ‘Well, if this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots
of other areas of American culture and American life where things are
really messed up right now?’” Leo revealed his latest battle plan in the
previously unreported video for the Teneo Network, a little-known group
he called “a tremendously important resource for the future of our
country.
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Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the
Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of
Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American
politics and culture.
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A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.
Ever since the longtime
Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on
the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a
wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s
next moves had been the subject of speculation.
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Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the
Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of
Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American
politics and culture.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.
Ever since the longtime
Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on
the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a
wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s
next moves had been the subject of speculation.
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The California Republican promised right-wing holdouts that he would deliver a budget that balances within 10 years. But he also promised not to touch Social Security and Medicare. Republicans are likewise committed not to allow cuts to defense spending and veterans’ pensions, nor to allow the Trump tax cuts to lapse.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ran the numbers on those promises at Democrats’ request, and the results are in. To keep all those pledges, Republicans would literally have to eliminate everything — everything — else the government does. No more Homeland Security, no more Border Patrol or FBI, no more Coast Guard, air traffic control or federal funds for education or highways, no agricultural programs, no housing, food or disaster assistance, no cancer research or veterans’ health care, no diplomacy or space exploration, no courts — and no Congress.
Defund the police? This is defund America. Even then, Republicans would still be in the red after 10 years.
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Senate Ethics admonishes Graham for campaign solicitations
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Nov. 2022 Fox News interview in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate.
Graham violated Senate rules and standards of conduct because he was in a Senate office building when he did the interview, the leaders of the ethics panel said in a rare public letter released on Thursday.
“The public must feel confident that Members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan political activity,” wrote Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the panel's Republican vice chairman. “Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate. You are hereby admonished.”
Coons and Lankford wrote that Graham solicited campaign contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker's campaign committee “five separate times” during the Nov. 30, 2022 interview on Fox News. They noted that Graham reported himself to the committee after the interview was over.
In a statement Thursday, Graham said: “It was a mistake. I take responsibility. I will try to do better in the future.”
It is unclear if Graham could face any criminal penalties for his actions. Coons and Lankford said this was the senator's second violation, after he similarly solicited campaign contributions for his own campaign during an unplanned hallway interview in 2020.
The ethics committee dismissed that complaint and notified Graham in a private letter, Coons and Lankford wrote. The panel did not publicly reveal that violation until now, having determined at the time that his conduct was ”inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature," the letter said.
The prohibitions on campaign solicitation in federal buildings and the use of federal resources for campaign activity “have been consistent and clear throughout your years of Senate service,” they wrote, and Graham solicited the campaign contributions in the November interview “despite the Committee’s specific guidance following your violation in October 2020."
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She is my State Senator. I never have any doubt when voting for her. I've had multiple occasions to hang out with her and she is as awesome in person as she appears in social media.
Keep fighting the good fight Republicans. You've managed to open up another front on the culture war that excites your base, but center right, center and left citizens oppose your actions. You can add this to that big winning issue of Abortion that you've clung to for so long. Way to read the room.
She is my State Senator. I never have any doubt when voting for her. I've had multiple occasions to hang out with her and she is as awesome in person as she appears in social media.
Keep fighting the good fight Republicans. You've managed to open up another front on the culture war that excites your base, but center right, center and left citizens oppose your actions. You can add this to that big winning issue of Abortion that you've clung to for so long. Way to read the room.
lol this coming from the party that politicized science and vaccines. they can't read books so how can they read a room? partly because they want to ban a lot of the books...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
unfortunately they might have one of the crazies try to assassinate them. they are hated on the right because of their involvement with the j6 committee and votes to impeach tfg.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
unfortunately they might have one of the crazies try to assassinate them. they are hated on the right because of their involvement with the j6 committee and votes to impeach tfg.
unfortunately they might have one of the crazies try to assassinate them. they are hated on the right because of their involvement with the j6 committee and votes to impeach tfg.
Oh yea for sure.
they got out at the right time. unfortunately public life may end up costing them in their private life. i hate that.
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i am not kink shaming.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter’s Defeat
Nearly 43 years later, a prominent Texas politician said he was an unwitting part of a mission to sabotage President Carter’s campaign.
By Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don't Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues to focus on cultural issues ahead of his expected presidential run.
The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote next month before the state Board of Education and has been put forward by the state Education Department, both of which are led by appointees of the governor.
The rule change would ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade. The change was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
DeSantis has leaned heavily into cultural divides on his path to an anticipated White House bid, with the Republican aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda that targets what he calls the insertion of inappropriate subjects in schools.
RON DESANTIS
DeSantis to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to all grades in Florida
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Trump vs. DeSantis: Rivals' very different styles on display
Proposal to ban abortions at six weeks advances in Florida
Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the Education Department did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the proposal saying “It’s wrong, it’s completely, utterly wrong.” She called it “part of a disturbing and dangerous trend that we’re seeing across the nation” of targeting LGBTQ people.
Last year's Parental Rights in Education Act drew widespread backlash nationally, with critics saying it marginalizes LGBTQ people and their presence in society. President Joe Biden called it “hateful.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly said the measure is reasonable and that parents, not teachers, should be broaching subjects of sexual orientation and gender identity with their children.
Critics of the law say its language — “classroom instruction,” “age appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate” — is overly broad and subject to interpretation. Consequently, teachers might opt to avoid the subjects entirely for fear of being sued, they say.
The law also kicked off a feud between the state and Disney, one of the state's largest employers and political donors, after the entertainment giant publicly opposed the law and said it was pausing political donations in the state.
At the governor’s request, the Republican-dominated Legislature voted to dissolve a self-governing district controlled by Walt Disney World over its properties in Florida, and eventually gave DeSantis control of the board. The move was widely seen as a punishment for the company opposing the law. The board oversees municipal services in Disney’s theme park properties and was instrumental in the company’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s.
Disney later this year will host a large conference on LGBTQ workplace representation with the group Out & Equal, continuing a longstanding relationship with the organization.
DeSantis has faced calls from at least one Republican presidential contender to go even further than the existing law, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley last month saying the prohibition could be more stringent and extended into later grades.
The proposed rule change this year also signals the governor's willingness to bypass even the compliant state legislature and instead leverage state boards in order to accomplish his high-profile political goals. Late last year, at DeSantis' urging, state medical boards voted to ban children from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria.
“Everything he does is about what can further his own career ambitions,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida. “And it's clear he see the anti-LGBTQ movement as his vehicle to get him where he wants to go.”
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Associated Press reporter Aamer Madhani contributed from Washington.
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DeSantis wants ‘media accountability.’ A new bill makes suing journalists easier.
The Florida governor’s antipathy toward media has been a key part of his brand during a rise in GOP politics. Free speech advocates fear a new libel bill goes too far in codifying that attitude.
Ron DeSantis sat in an anchorman’s chair, peering at a camera as phrases such as “SPEAK TRUTH” flashed on a screen behind him.
Presiding over a setup that resembled a cable-news panel show, the governor of Florida teed up provocative video clips and welcomed guests into his mock studio for what his office called a “roundtable discussion” that was streamed on social media last month. Topic: “Legacy media defamation practices.” Guests: Plaintiffs and lawyers who had sued major media companies, including Fox News and The Washington Post.
“These companies are probably the leading purveyors of disinformation in our entire society,” DeSantis said. “There needs to be an ability for people to defend themselves.”
The governor, who is expected to challenge Donald Trump and a growing field for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, has made open antipathy toward “corporate media” a key part of his brand in his rapid ascent in conservative politics. He shuns talks with mainstream news outlets in favor of exclusive interviews with conservative platforms. His office keeps a growing catalogue of what it considers media hoaxes. And his press aides mock journalists by sharing their emails on social media.
Now, a new bill moving through the Florida Capitol appears to codify DeSantis’s combative stance toward media — and his portrayal of journalists as partisan players who lack accountability — by making it far easier to sue news organizations for defamation and win.
DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw makes sure reporters feel the burn
DeSantis has framed the push to rethink defamation law as wanting to “stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates.”
Under current case law, private citizens actually face a much lower legal threshold than prominent people when it comes to suing for defamation.
While Republican state lawmakers quickly took up his cause, publishers and free-speech advocates, including some from conservative media, warn that the bill would dramatically change how journalists do their jobs.
Bobby Block of the First Amendment Foundation called it “a death knell for American traditions of free speech.” James Schwartzel, the owner of 92.5 FOX News, a talk-radio station that carries Sean Hannity and other conservative personalities, said the bill would be“the death of conservative talk throughout the state of Florida.”
“The devastation will be severe and swift,” he wrote to lawmakers. “Republicans will lose one of their most prominent platforms to reach their base forever.”
Opponents of the bill say a provision that presumes reporting cited to anonymous sources is false could make it harder for journalists to investigate corruption and sensitive topics. They also warn that it could turn Florida into a destination for filing defamation lawsuits — and that ordinary citizens, not just media professionals, could face more lawsuits.
The bill’s author has dismissed concerns as overblown. In an interview with The Post, state Rep. Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola) argued that truthful reporting and even name-calling and satire would still be protected. But under current law, “it’s nearly impossible to bring a defamation claim,” he said — a situation he wants to change.
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We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the last hundred years. In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. Today, 45% of all new income goes to the top 1%, and CEOs of large corporations make a record-breaking 350 times what their workers earn.
Who here does the maths?
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Leonard Leo Wants to Use His Dark Money to Remake American Culture
Alongside Peter Thiel and a whole rogue's gallery of the conservative right, their plan is to destroy the left.
Remember back in the good old days when Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the electric television set and told us that she and her husband's administration were the targets of a "vast, rightwing conspiracy," and everybody thought that was hilariously funny, if not deeply paranoid? And we all had a good laugh?
As the years have gone by, and as a misbegotten Supreme Court decision has turned the brackish tide of corporate money in our politics from a steady stream into a biblical flood, HRC now appears to have low-balled the whole thing.
The good people at ProPublica have given us a thorough examination of the latest iteration of what she was talking about—another project from the laboratory of dark money sorcerer Leonard Leo, this one called Teneo. ProPublica describes an attempt by Leo and his henchpeople (who include, this time, Peter Thiel) to do to the general culture of the United States what they've managed to do to the federal judiciary.
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Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.
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A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.
Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s next moves had been the subject of speculation.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
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Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
The California Republican promised right-wing holdouts that he would deliver a budget that balances within 10 years. But he also promised not to touch Social Security and Medicare. Republicans are likewise committed not to allow cuts to defense spending and veterans’ pensions, nor to allow the Trump tax cuts to lapse.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ran the numbers on those promises at Democrats’ request, and the results are in. To keep all those pledges, Republicans would literally have to eliminate everything — everything — else the government does. No more Homeland Security, no more Border Patrol or FBI, no more Coast Guard, air traffic control or federal funds for education or highways, no agricultural programs, no housing, food or disaster assistance, no cancer research or veterans’ health care, no diplomacy or space exploration, no courts — and no Congress.
Defund the police? This is defund America. Even then, Republicans would still be in the red after 10 years.
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Nov. 2022 Fox News interview in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate.
Graham violated Senate rules and standards of conduct because he was in a Senate office building when he did the interview, the leaders of the ethics panel said in a rare public letter released on Thursday.
“The public must feel confident that Members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan political activity,” wrote Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the panel's Republican vice chairman. “Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate. You are hereby admonished.”
Coons and Lankford wrote that Graham solicited campaign contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker's campaign committee “five separate times” during the Nov. 30, 2022 interview on Fox News. They noted that Graham reported himself to the committee after the interview was over.
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In a statement Thursday, Graham said: “It was a mistake. I take responsibility. I will try to do better in the future.”
It is unclear if Graham could face any criminal penalties for his actions. Coons and Lankford said this was the senator's second violation, after he similarly solicited campaign contributions for his own campaign during an unplanned hallway interview in 2020.
The ethics committee dismissed that complaint and notified Graham in a private letter, Coons and Lankford wrote. The panel did not publicly reveal that violation until now, having determined at the time that his conduct was ”inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature," the letter said.
The prohibitions on campaign solicitation in federal buildings and the use of federal resources for campaign activity “have been consistent and clear throughout your years of Senate service,” they wrote, and Graham solicited the campaign contributions in the November interview “despite the Committee’s specific guidance following your violation in October 2020."
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I've had multiple occasions to hang out with her and she is as awesome in person as she appears in social media.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3924115-most-in-new-poll-oppose-laws-restricting-drag-shows-or-performances/
pro gun
pro death penalty
pro god
anti gay
anti trans
Can someone with these beliefs please explain to me how it’s possible if they’re so contradictory?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."