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“Campaign ads have always had a loose association with the nuances of governance. But as the midterm elections tighten into dozens of battlegrounds across the country, a number of GOP ads are showing a breathtaking disregard for accuracy and clarity, with Republican candidates and their allies twisting tangential elements into baseless or misleading claims.
Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency erased many of the traditional campaign guardrails in the GOP as Republicans adopted his approach of pushing fact-free arguments.

Jason Reifler, a political science professor who taught in Georgia and Illinois before joining the faculty at the University of Exeter in Britain, said Trump introduced a whole new level of lying in politics”

The right-wing incumbent, who had remained out of view for 45 hours after the race was called Sunday night for Lula, spoke for less than two minutes Tuesday afternoon at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, thanking his voters and describing the blockading of highways throughout Brazil as rightful expression of “indignation and a sense of injustice.”
“The right has truly emerged in our country,” Bolsonaro said. “Our robust representation in Congress shows the strength of our values: God, country, family and freedom.”

He left it to his chief of staff, Ciro Nogueira, to say he had authorized a transition to Lula.
It amounted to a tacit acknowledgment of the loss while at the same time taking a page from his ally, former U.S. president Donald Trump, by suggesting, without evidence, that the vote was somehow tainted — a posture aimed at undermining Lula’s legitimacy and authority.
After months in which Bolsonaro and his supporters sowed unfounded doubts about the integrity of Brazil’s electoral system, his comments appeared to spur his supporters on. Since Sunday night, they have blocked highways with trucks and burning tires, causing shortages of gas and medicine in some Brazilian cities. As of Tuesday night, hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters were rallying, chanting and praying in front of the army’s headquarters in Brasilia.

None of course. But he will use that excuse to delay and obstruct the Georgia investigation for as long as he can.

A district court judge said prosecutors could not question Graham about portions of his calls that were legislative fact-finding. But the judge said Willis’s team could explore coordination with the Trump campaign in its post-election efforts in Georgia, public statements regarding the 2020 election and any efforts to “cajole” or “exhort” Georgia election officials. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed that those actions “could not qualify as legislative activities under any understanding of Supreme Court precedent.” Two of the judges were nominated by Trump.

At issue in Graham’s subpoena dispute are calls the senator made to Raffensperger and his staff in which prosecutors said the senator asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots” in the state to “explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome” for Trump.

Adam Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada, the son of Pete Domenici, a Republican U.S. Senator from New Mexico, and Michelle Laxalt. He is the grandson of former Republican Nevada Governor and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt. Laxalt's mother raised him as a single parent. Laxalt's parents did not publicly acknowledge his paternity until 2013.[2][3] At that time, Domenici acknowledged that Laxalt was his son and was born as a result of an extramarital affair.[3]

Domenici was married and 22 years older than Michelle Laxalt when he got the 24 yo pregnant. The party of family values!!

The circumstances of Adam Laxalt’s birth are unique. His mother’s father, Paul Laxalt, founded a prominent law firm in Nevada before becoming our state’s governor. In 1974, he became a United States senator and moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter, Michelle. When she was 24, Michelle was impregnated in 1977 by a colleague of her father’s, Senator Pete Domenici. At that time, Senator Domenici was 46 years old, a staunch Catholic and the married father of eight children.

In a personal blog that DePape maintained, posts include such topics as “Manipulation of History,” “Holohoax” and “It’s OK to be white.” He mentioned 4chan, a favorite message board of the far right. He posted videos about conspiracies involving COVID-19 vaccines and the war in Ukraine being a ploy for Jewish people to buy land.

From the LA Times 10/28:

DePape’s screeds included posts about QAnon, an unfounded theory that former President Trump is at war with a cabal of Satan-worshipping elites who run a child sex ring and control the world. In an Aug. 23 entry titled “Q,” DePape wrote: “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deepstate moles within Trumps inner circle.”

DePape followed a number of conservative creators online, including Tim Pool, Glenn Beck, DailyWire+ and the Epoch Times. He also followed an account on YouTube called Black Pilled and reposted several of its videos on his blog. “Blackpilling” is internet slang for coming to believe supposedly unacceptable facts about society, and the reposted videos include accusations such as the FBI covering up child rape.

DePape posted videos to Facebook by MyPillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell saying that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, according to reports.

Of course Trump says if you plead the fifth your guilty, but Trump is an idiot.

But if they haven’t done anything wrong, why are so many Republicans pleading the 5th Amendment?

Kelly Ward, head the the Arizona GOP,  is just the latest

“Substitute “election denier” for “the South,” and you have a fair approximation of the current state of American politics. Now, one side believes its viewpoint is essential to maintaining its power and its conception of America. It insists its followers can be “seen” only if the rest of us agree with their delusions and conspiracies. Sorry, but in a democracy, there is no compromise with that mentality. Buying into the “big lie” and white nationalism means rejecting the premise of constitutional government based on the creed “All men are created equal.”

“The MAGA perspective explains the constant anger of a shrinking segment of Whites who, as George Mason University political scientist Ashley Jardina told the New York Times, feel “really threatened [so] are willing to reject democratic norms because they see it as a way to protect their status.” These Americans believe they’ve been deprived their “due” of elite status by a changing country”

Smart economic policy, - policies that help non-college whites in the heartland

well-selected candidates - not too liberal in states like Pennsylvania or Wisconsin

supercharged organizing  - register and turn out college students and blacks

could provide some hope of returning to the politics of reason and inclusion. But do not underestimate the difficulty of the undertaking.

“Fox News — a sanctuary for conservatives where few unpleasant facts intrude and political misinformation has spread — looms large in a case that threatens Fox’s business, and possibly Ms. Scott herself. She has emerged as one of the central figures in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems”…

“Ms. Scott’s Fox News — a sanctuary for conservatives where few unpleasant facts intrude and political misinformation has spread — also looms large in a case that threatens Fox’s business, and possibly Ms. Scott herself. She has emerged as one of the central figures in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, in which the voting company accuses Fox executives of juicing ratings and profits by repeatedly airing false information about Dominion machines siphoning votes away from former President Donald J. Trump”

“Since then, $5.8 million in taxpayer money has fueled a fruitless search for evidence of a hoax or witch hunt that did not exist. Two indictments, both flimsy, have ended in not-guilty verdicts. What has emerged more or less matches what Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz already revealed in his own 2019 report: There remains no reason to believe that the FBI’s 2016 probe was improperly predicated”

“The evidence stubbornly shows that the FBI’s inquiry wasn’t politically motivated, even after Mr. Durham spent so much money and so many months trying to show otherwise”.

In 1933, the German Reichstag burned to the ground. Hitler claimed the communists were to blame. Within 24 hours, basic German rights, including privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, were suspended. More than 100,000 Germans were arrested and put in concentration camps.

Hitler was ostensibly a dictator just 52 days after being appointed Chancellor. Just a few days later, the Jews got the same treatment as the communists. First a boycott of all Jewish businesses by the German people. Then the businesses were destroyed.

Beginning in 1934, 400,000 Germans would be forcibly sterilized for “undesirable” qualities.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s order that a special master review classified documents taken in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club.

There were no noted dissents to the court’s unsigned, one-sentence order. It amounted to a quick and sharp rejection of an emergency request by the former president to intervene in the high-profile document review, which is part of an ongoing criminal investigation of the potential mishandling of classified material after Trump left the White House.

But idiot Republicans will still believe the “Deep State” is trying to frame Trump. Even though Trump appointed 3 of the 9 justices on the mostly conservative court.

After getting caught on tape making racist remarks, city council President Nury Martinez was compelled to resign from office by her fellow Democrats including words from President Biden.

This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. In the Republican Party, she would have been given an award, a speaking slot at the next Republican National Convention, and an opportunity to move up to higher office.

Wow, if you’re not President of the United States (Trump) lying can cost you a lot of money.

“The text message suggests that Arizona GOP leaders had no intention of using donations to help pay for the audit effort, despite what it had been telling its supporters in fundraising pleas. In the end, the $6 million audit was bankrolled through a separate fundraising effort by election denier groups, along with $150,000 in initial taxpayer money”

“The pattern was evident around the country. In total, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol found that more than $250 million was raised off fraudulent claims that the election was stolen. Trump’s campaign continued to raise money for an “Election Defense Fund” that did not exist. Trump’s PAC has raised more than $100 million, much of it on claims the election was stolen, and he has largely hoarded the money while spending some on candidates and some on his own lawyers”

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville was on TV today in front of an all white Trump rally audience screaming that blacks are all criminals and paying reparations to blacks would be rewarding criminal activity. The white crowd ate it up and screamed their agreement.

Maggie Haberman of The NY Times just wrote a book about Donald Trump - Confidence Man. It has some surprising revelations.

“Trump’s chief mentor, and a consigliere to most of the big shots named above, was the legendary underworld and overworld fixer Roy Cohn. The pampered son of a kingpin in Bronx Democratic politics, long notorious for his McCarthyite Red Scare grandstanding, Cohn, as Haberman details, connected Trump with Roger Stone as well as with organized crime while giving him master classes in high-stakes con-man strategy and tactics. Whenever Trump today intimidates the press with threats of retaliation, whenever he defends his aggressions by claiming to be the victim, whenever he calls his accusers (especially if they represent the federal government) life-destroying, treasonous “scum,” he is channeling his mentor, Cohn”

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing the client to sign a will amendment leaving him his fortune.[6] He died five weeks later from AIDS-related complications,[7] having vehemently denied that he was suffering from HIV.

Walker definitely qualifies in the hypocrisy category to be a Republican.

But Because he’s black, it seems likely Republicans will be inclined to believe he paid for abortions and pressured women to get them and then lied about it. He won’t have the benefit of white privilege like Bret Kavanaugh did when his scandal was exposed.

A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Many of these candidates echo the false claims of former president Donald Trump — claims that have been thoroughly investigated and dismissed by myriad officials and courts. Experts said the insistence on such claims, despite the lack of evidence, reflects a willingness among election-denying candidates to undermine democratic institutions when it benefits their side…Far from repudiating candidates who embrace Trump’s false fraud claims, GOP primary voters have empowered them.

“I don’t believe we’ll ever have a fair election again,” Trump told the crowd. “I don’t believe it.”

Republican voters are bad for America! They are stupid. They are living outside of reality. They are putting our country at risk.

After hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey in 2012, Ron DeSantis, a newly sworn-in congressman, was one of 67 House Republicans who voted against the relief bill. DeSantis said he sympathized with victims and that those with flood insurance should have their claims paid. But he said that “allowing the FEMA program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere is not fiscally responsible.”

I suggest any relief funding for Florida be offset by cuts in funding to farmers in the Midwest. After all, we need to be “fiscally responsible”, right Ron?

So the guy that won in 2016 because Hilary used a private server for her emails and she should be “locked up” is guilty of doing far worse with classified documents.

“During his four years in office, Trump never strictly followed the rules and customs for handling sensitive government documents, according to 14 officials from his administration, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss what they called Trump’s mishandling of classified information.”

Although she is always talking about religion and family values, nut job Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting divorced after 27 years of marriage. Her husband filed for divorce saying he has had enough. They had married in 1995 while both were in college.

Marjorie is still saying Trump won in 2020. No wonder her husband left her. Pretty soon her 3 children will disown her too. 

The Bible says God hates divorce. Looks like Greene is another cafeteria Christian who picks and chooses what they like and what they don’t care for.

…since they started asking (the) question in November 2020, the percentage of Republicans who claim that Biden only won due to voter fraud has hardly budged at all. On Nov. 18, 2020, 70 percent of Republicans said Biden won only due to voter fraud. This month, 61 percent did. On average, over the course of those nine polls, 64 percent of Republicans have blamed voter fraud — just shy of two-thirds of the total.

The pattern is obvious. People who want to believe that voter fraud occurred are almost universally people who do not read evaluations of fraud claims in The Washington Post. They are not people who are looking for information that falsifies their beliefs because, if they did, they would very quickly find it. Vague debunked allegations are made and comport with their sense of what happened, and that’s good enough.

The Koch Brothers and Americans for Prosperity announced that Hurricane Ian is a hoax!

It’s not a Category 5. The science is not definitive.

The flooding and high winds go in cycles. So stop worrying Florida. 

Republicans said they believe they can use the issue to motivate their base and persuade undecided and independent voters to cast ballots for GOP candidates. Some Democrats said they see a more sinister strategy reminiscent of past elections, involving racial stereotypes and playing on voters’ worst instincts.

White Supremacist is sentenced to 4 years in prison for his role in the 1/6 insurrection.

Hale-Cusanelli, 32, worked as a security guard at Naval Weapons Station Earle and lived on the base in Colts Neck, N.J. In addition to being a supporter of President Donald Trump, the man was a white supremacist who supported Nazi ideology and admired Adolf Hitler, even wearing a “Hitler mustache” to work, the government said in court filings. But U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden ruled that Hale-Cusanelli’s racist preferences were too prejudicial to present to a jury, though he did allow the defendant’s comments that he wanted a civil war to come into evidence.

Is it because Trump welcomes their support? Is it because Trump speaks their language and uses racist dog whistles? Is it because they believe Trump is a racist?

Nope, just kidding. But how come none of Trumps’s lawyers are telling the judge overseeing the case that the FBI planted evidence?

Remember, that was one of the original explanations given for these documents being found in Trump’s possession. That’s a pretty big accusation to throw around and then completely drop. Kinda shows what a liar Trump is and how stupid his supporters are.

The display bore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Nazi salute. The delusional incitement and zombie-like response should put to rest the notion that President Biden (or anyone) should be “reaching out” to these people. They are unreachable, and pretending otherwise misleads voters.

No Republican should ever escape an interview or news conference without being asked to condemn this monstrous event. The cynical GOP leaders who know that Trump is unfit for office and that many of his cult followers have become violent should not be treated as ordinary party hacks. They are enablers of a dangerous movement. Yet they continually evade persistent, aggressive questioning.

For all the dummies on this site who watch FOX News or worse and think they are getting informed.

“By any indication, the Republican Party — upper level, midlevel and grass roots — is a party that can only be described as not committed to democracy,” 

“Nearly 70 percent of Republican voters say that Mr. Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately, according to polls”

The roots of the modern election-denier movement stretch back to 2008. When Mr. Obama was running for president and after he won, some of his critics falsely claimed that his victory was illegitimate because he was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii. This movement became known as birtherism, and Mr. Trump was among its proponents. By making the claims on Fox News and elsewhere, he helped transform himself from a reality television star into a political figure.

Mr. Trump’s promotion of falsehoods, turned them into a central part of the Republican Party’s message. About two-thirds of Republican voters say that Mr. Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately, according to polls. Among Republican candidates running for statewide office this year, 47 percent have refused to accept the 2020 result, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.

“The growth of the election-denier movement has created a possibility that would have seemed unthinkable not so long ago. It remains unclear whether the loser of the next presidential election will concede or will instead try to overturn the outcome”

NYTIMES 

Op-Ed: Ron DeSantis’ cruel political theater falls flat on Martha’s Vineyard

LA Times

MAGA REPUBLICAN Governor Ron DeSantis has taken the bizarre step of flying immigrants from San Antonio to Massachusetts and videotaped the scene for an exclusive on FOX News.

To respond, Biden should direct the Treasury Secretary to delay social security checks and Medicare benefits to people living in Florida and Texas because those folks don’t support big government socialism. So let’s fuck with them and laugh and laugh as they suffer in their poverty.

With Ashli Babbitt, Donald Trump and the GOP have found a perfect martyr to rationalize their perpetual victimhood and inspire future “freedom fighters” to assist in their full-scale assault on democracy.

Trump is a big baby who is is always claiming to be a victim. People are treating him very unfairly!

He is using that same language to gin up support for MAGA nut job Ashli Babbitt who was shot and killed by Capital police as she was breaching a broken window during the assault on January 6.

Trump was on TV today speaking by phone to Babbitt’s parents who were attending a rally in support of 1-6 mob members who are being held in jail.

MAGA Republicans are a disgrace trying to claim the police officer murdered Babbitt.

This alternative reality has no basis in fact and is made possible by a failure to exercise critical thinking skills 

and the inability to determine credible sources of information as well as the desire to hear only what they already believe.

At an 1855 “American convention” held in Philadelphia, the American Party adopted a platform that would have sweepingly denied political and civil rights to immigrants. Speaking during a downpour, a nativist politician from New York told the crowd, to cheers: “American as I am, I decidedly prefer this rain to the reign of Roman Catholicism in this country … I, as an American citizen, prefer this rain or any other rain to the reign of foreignism … I go for America first, last and always.”

The phrase “ America First”was invoked during the first Red Scare to defend against Bolshevism and on the floor of Congress to pass the raft of laws that imposed racial and ethnic quotas on immigration in the early decades of the 20th century, not to be lifted until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. And it was a favorite slogan of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which in the 1920s was a nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, antisemitic, antilabor and red-baiting fraternity as well as a white-supremacist one. The point for all these groups was always the same: to defend “real America” against the threats posed by anyone they deemed less than a real American

Today’s Trumpers are as bad as the Know Nothings. 

Even though the Republicans try to punish blue states whenever they can (2017 Tax Act SALT Cap) Democrats passed legislation that will help Ohio and other Republican leaning states. The Chips Act was pushed through by Democrats and signed by Biden bringing billions of dollars in subsidies to build factories in Red states.

“The federal subsidies, part of the Chips Act signed into law last month, are sparking a wave of chip investment. Micron is holding its own groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for a $15 billion chip factory near its headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Chip maker Wolfspeed on Friday announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Chatham County, North Carolina” Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest chip maker, has said it will seek subsidies for a $12 billion factory that it has begun building in Phoenix and is aiming to finish late next year” And a partnership between SkyWater Technology and Purdue University will apply for a federal subsidy to build a new $1.8 billion factory and research facility next to the university in West Lafayette, Ind” Nearby states are hoping to benefit from the cluster of suppliers that industry experts say is bound to develop around the Ohio site. Giant chip factories need chemicals, blank silicon wafers to etch, and equipment and service providers.
“Microelectronics occurs in clusters. We believe Indiana and Ohio are a cluster,” Indiana’s Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers said in an interview this week. “That Silicon Heartland concept I think is real.”

ALL RED STATES. ALL BENEFITING FROM LEGISLATION PASSED BY BIDEN

Does this make Democrats suckers? Are Red state Americans too dumb to know who helped them?

A “Russia hoax” lawsuit by Trump is dismissed by a judge with the derision it deserved.

“At its core, the problem with Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm … instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,” he wrote”

Imagine belonging to a right wing militia group that is led by a guy who is so incompetent he shot himself in the eye.

That’s right, Stewart Rhodes, the eye patch wearing leader of the Oath Keepers who is about to go on trial for sedition and numerous other charges, shot his own eye out when he dropped his pistol and the gun went off. What a loser. A loser who attracts other losers. Rhodes and the Oath Keepers supported Donald Trump during his presidency of course.

Oh and the cherry on top - his real name is Elmer, as in Elmer Fudd.

These red states just can’t control crime. 4 more shot and killed in this conservative city awash in guns. So sad.

But this is just an anecdote.

A body found Monday has been identified as that of a kindergarten teacher who was abducted during an early-morning jog last week in Memphis, authorities announced Tuesday.

First the  Uvalde, Texas mass shooting at a school and the incompetent response by law enforcement. Now this. These Republican led cities and states are just havens for violent crime. So poorly managed.

“Jackson, MS, already located in one of the poorest states in the U.S., has seen its tax base dwindle and is far short of the revenues leaders say are necessary to fix outdated water infrastructure in mostly black neighborhoods. While the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last November includes $459 million for water improvements throughout the state, Mayor Lumumba (D)  has said the city would need at least $2 billion to fix its water infrastructure.”

— The Hill

Governor Tate Reeves (R) was on TV today saying the state needs support from the federal government to fix their sewer and water systems.

Note - Mississippi already gets way more money back from the US treasury than it sends. Why should we tax blue state residents with their high incomes only to give it to poor red states. This is Socialism! If Republicans want drinking water in Mississippi then raise the state and local taxes to pay for it.

A Russian-speaking Ukrainian immigrant and fraudster linked to organized crime posed as a Rothschild to gain close access to Donald Trump's inner circle, even posing for a picture at Mar-a-Lago with the former president, according to an investigation.

For a guy who likes to talk about the “failing NY Times” (which has growing revenue) he sure isn’t having much success with his own media company.

Looks like there will be yet another Trump bankruptcy!

The company has seen its stock price plunge nearly 75 percent since its March peak and reported in a filing last week that it had lost $6.5 million in the first half of the year. There are signs that the company’s financial base has begun to erode. The Trump company stopped paying RightForge, a conservative web-hosting service, in March and now owes it more than $1 million, according to Fox Business, which first reported the dispute.

I know facts have never been Trump’s strong suit, but it’s very ironic that the guy who was elected on a platform that Hilary should be locked up for mishandling classified material has so blatantly mishandled highly classified material in the form of hundreds of documents. But his sycophants don’t seem to mind - racists don’t care if their racist candidate is a hypocrite.

They chose a draft dodging liar over democracy.

Liz Cheney was consumed by the monster she and her father helped to create - ignorance. They played to the ignorant masses and they were attacked by the ignorant masses. Dick Cheney lied about WMDs in Iraq and Liz Cheney supported Donald Trump initially. Now they both have been left at the side of the road, beaten and bloodied, and no one will stop to help them.

Let’s see if we can make a list. It’s a long list.

Dinesh D’Souza - Plead guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. He returned the favor to Trump with the pro-election conspiracy movie 2000 mules.

General Michael Flynn - After Trump couldn’t get FBI Director James Comey to “let it go” and pledge “loyalty” Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russians. Before his sentencing hearing, Trump pardoned Flynn.

Steve Bannon - In August 2020, Bannon and three others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection to the We Build the Wall campaign. The defendants allegedly enriched themselves, despite promising that all contributions would go to building a wall. Bannon pleaded not guilty and was pardoned by Trump before his trial date. In 2022, Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress and is awaiting sentence.

Paul Manafort - Tax fraud, obstruction of justice.

Roger Stone - Stone was convicted on all charges (lying to Congress and witness tampering),[207][208] but on July 10, 2020, his federal prison sentence was commuted by President Trump.[209] Asked for a comment after Bannon himself was arrested on August 20, 2020, Stone replied “Karma is a bitch…

Sheriff Joe Arpio - After a judge held Arpio in contempt of court Trump pardoned him.

Scooter Libby - Obstruction of Justice, lying to the FBI, perjury.

Congressman Duncan Hunter - conspiracy to commit offenses, campaign finance laws.

Charles Kushner - His son-in-law’s father who was prosecuted by Chris Christie. Fraud and perjury.

Texas crude is down to $89 a barrel and gas prices are dropping fast. Of course if Biden made gas go up, he now deserves the credit for making it go down.

Oh what will Republicans do if their prayers for runaway inflation go unanswered?

Why has Trump either refused to testify under oath like he did in the Russian collusion investigation or plead the 5th as he did in New York a couple days ago. Is it because he is guilty of the crimes he is being investigated for or because his lawyers are afraid he will lie under oath, which is a crime.

Trump used the Lincoln Memorial as a stage set damaging the 100 year old monument and breaking long established rules.

Los Angeles and San Francisco have been catastrophic,” DeSantis said.
[Andrew Warren: DeSantis sacked me for doing my job as a prosecutor. Who’s next?]


But the data tells another story. By my calculation, the homicide rate in San Francisco in 2020 (the last year for which comparable data are available) was 5.5 per 100,000 people. The rate for the state of Florida that year was 7.8, according to the CDC, a remarkable comparison given that crime in cities tends to be higher than crime in states as a whole. The 2020 homicide rate in Los Angeles was, by my calculation, higher at 8.9 per 100,000 people, but that’s still significantly lower than the murder rates in nearly every large locality in Florida, including Miami-Dade County (10.7) and Jacksonville (15.5), and the capital, Tallahassee (14.5).

Journalist Radley Balko

Washington Post