Republicans

[CornusKousa]

It is also DEMOCRACY when they face the voters in a year and a half. We'll see how this goes over in a state that just elected to Democratic senators and that Biden carried, and where the Democratic base has just become even more energized than it already was.

Yes it is, and if democracy turns the state blue?

Then so be it

You won't hear me cry about some other state deciding to California itself....they should be able to vote themselves into a N. Korea like shit hole, I'm sorry I mean a bastion of "progress" ~tee hee~ as far as I'm concerned.

But all this is really beside the point. You accused me of thinking "Democracy is BAD when it doesn't go your way hua???" when the whole problem - from the GA lege's point of view, is that democracy DID go my way.

Now you support the state legislature and it's voter laws now??

You need to pick one.

Which is why they are trying to curtail it. In other words, it's YOUR side that isn't very happy with democracy right now.

My side never was. Not being ok with democracy only makes you and yours hypocrites.

My side will straight up tell you they don't think people without any vested interest in the country should NOT be allowed to vote, especially considering they almost exclusively do so against the interest of those who do.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My side will straight up tell you they don't think people without any vested interest in the country should NOT be allowed to vote...

Tell us what constitutes 'vested interest' on your planet.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Tell us what constitutes 'vested interest' on your planet.

"To not be a commie shitstain like yourself!"

 

[CornusKousa]

Tell us what constitutes 'vested interest' on your planet.

Why? You'll just ascribe whatever fantasy you want anyhow.

Why should I tell you anything Rob?

"To not be a commie shitstain like yourself!"

Well that would put one in the running at least...a sense of private property of some sort will put anyone well out in front of you do nothing begging for free shit loser comrades.

 

[YDB95]

Now you support the state legislature and it's voter laws now??

You need to pick one.

You're the one who's confused here, not me. Or at least you're talking like it. But as I said, I think it's just a matter of you projecting as usual.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

 

[CornusKousa]

You're the one who's confused here, not me.

No bubba.

I'm not the one who can't decide if democracy is a good or bad thing based on partisanship without looking like a dishonest hack.

I know where I stand on the issue.

Do you respect democracy or not??

Or at least you're talking like it.

But as I said, I think it's just a matter of you projecting as usual.

Nobody is projecting. You're just confused.

 

[YDB95]

I know where I stand on the issue.

So do I. Curtailing the right to vote because you didn't like the outcome of the last election is despicable, and to accuse people who oppose that of having a problem with democracy is the very definition of projection. Simple as that.

 

[CornusKousa]

So do I. Curtailing the right to vote because you didn't like the outcome of the last election is despicable,

It's also democracy in action....which you clearly have a problem with.

Democracy is soooo good and soooo sacred!!.....until YDB isn't getting things his way.

Then it's "despicable"

and to accuse people who oppose that of having a problem with democracy is the very definition of projection. Simple as that.

You literally just got done calling democracy despicable.

It's not a projection, it's a cited fact.

 

[Champakian]

So do I. Curtailing the right to vote because you didn't like the outcome of the last election is despicable, and to accuse people who oppose that of having a problem with democracy is the very definition of projection. Simple as that.

Not one person's ability to vote was curtailed.

I think Democrats are up in arms because it makes election fraud harder...



If, in today's society, you do not have a valid picture ID of some sort,
then you are probably living in a box beneath an interstate overpass.

 

[YDB95]

I think Democrats are up in arms because it makes election fraud harder...

Since most if not all of the (very few) cases of election fraud that surfaced in the last election were people trying to cheat in Trump's favor, that makes even less sense than BoBo's nonsense.

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

Federal judge warns that Trump could be in yuuuuuge legal trouble

Surprised no one has mentioned this, but earlier this week, a federal judge fired a shot across the bow of the crybaby from Queens. In the midst of telling one of the Capitol rioters that he was going to be in jail for awhile, that judge delivered a sobering warning to Trump—he could potentially have to answer for his role in the horror of Jan. 6.

On Wednesday, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan dealt with the case of Jeffrey Sabol, a Colorado geophysicist who is accused of grabbing a D.C. cop’s baton, then using it to attack another officer, among other things. Sabol went back to his home near Denver, fried all of his devices, then made his way to Boston in hopes of fleeing to Switzerland. But when he saw cops there, he rented a car and tried to make a break for it south. He only made it as far as the outer suburbs of New York City before being arrested. That escape attempt was enough by itself for Sullivan to deny Sabol bail.

AlterNet notes that Sullivan also cited Sabol’s “prior planning” ahead of the insurrection as a reason to keep him in jail. But in so doing, Sullivan also put Trump on notice—he could be in big trouble. From Alternet (by way of Marcy “Emptywheel” Wheeler):

"To be sure, to what extent President Trump's words and actions led to the violent and shocking storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 is an important question, and one that could still have legal consequences for the former President and his prominent supporters," Sullivan wrote, citing a civil lawsuit against the former president. "But President Trump's culpability is not before this Court."

It’s not often that you see a federal judge use this kind of language about an incumbent or former president. The fact that Sullivan pointed this out at all is a sign that Trump is in very real legal jeopardy. The only question is if and when his reckoning will come.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...that-Trump-could-be-in-yuuuuuge-legal-trouble

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

Devin Nunes is caught up in Giuliani’s Russian mob scandal


Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has exposure in Rudy Giulian's legal scandal, according to former prosecutor Daniel Goldman, who served as majority counsel in Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.


Goldman offered his analysis after The New York Times reported that FBI agents also executed a search warrant at the home of Giuliani ally Victoria Toensing.

"This makes sense because, during the Ukraine impeachment investigation, we obtained draft retainer agreements between a Ukrainian official and Toensing and diGenova that Giuliani brokered," Goldman tweeted.

https://www.rawstory.com/devin-nunes-ukraine/

 

[bodysong]

Devin Nunes’ cow
Twitter › DevinCow

(graphic- screen grabs from two twitter accounts)

I don’t know who needs to hear
this but the first person to talk gets
the good deal.

3 hours ago

 

[nowisthetime]

The terrorist sympathizer party

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Law enforcement officials on Wednesday raided the apartment and office of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani -- and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Thursday that wouldn't have happened unless the one-time New York mayor was in significant legal jeopardy.


Honig began by walking through all the steps that had to occur before a raid on Giuliani got approved, and he noted that they were not simple hoops to jump through.

"You can't just go to a judge and say, 'Hey, judge, take my word for it, we have probable cause," Honig said. "You have to type it all out and bring it to the judge and he reviews it."

Host Brianna Keilar then noted that the raid on Giuliani's apartment, which was reportedly related to lobbying work he may have done on behalf of officials in Ukraine, isn't the only challenge he's facing.

"Yeah, Rudy's legal problems are piling up," Honig replied.

"We know Rudy has been sued civilly by Dominion Voting Systems, alleging he caused over a billion dollars in damages for defamation based on false statements of election fraud," Honig explained. "We know he is being investigated criminally by the Fulton County District Attorney down in Atlanta for potential perjury... and, of course, we know DOJ continues to investigate the insurrection."

https://www.rawstory.com/rudys-lega...icant-jeopardy/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[bodysong]

'Vote no, take the dough': Pelosi calls the GOP's bluff on helping their constituents

April 30, 2021

Congressional Republicans are doing an epic job of talking out of both sides
of their mouths right now. On one side, they're beside themselves over the
price tag of the investments President Biden wants to make in the national
economy.

On the other side, they're all too happy to tout the relief funds that Democrats—
and Democrats alone—made available to their constituents.


Even before Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was digging in on the GOP hypocrisy.
Remember when Republicans passed that 2017 tax gift to the wealthy
that they said would pay for itself but actually added some $2 trillion
to the deficit? So does Pelosi.

“All of a sudden they are deficit hawks when they were giving away money
to wealthy people under President Trump,” Pelosi said of the 2017 law
Wednesday on CBS This Morning.

Pelosi went on to liken the GOP initiative to a "scam," while Democrats
are proposing "investments" that will pay off for the whole country.

“What we’re talking about here are investments. Nothing brings more to the Treasury
than the investment in education we make,” Pelosi said. Biden's American Families
Plan includes money for universal preschool, two years of free community college,
and expanded Pell Grants, among other initiatives to boost education rates in the
country.


But Pelosi's morning salvo to Republicans on Wednesday wasn't to be outdone by the
sentiments she shared Thursday after a string of House Republicans gleefully told their
constituents that new relief funding provided by the American Rescue Plan they voted
against would soon be available to them.


“A number of them are trying to take credit for something they didn't vote for—
that's not unusual," she said. "Vote no, take the dough—that's what the Republicans do."


Pelosi enjoyed the whole line of attack so much, she quote tweeted Rep. Elise Stefanik
of New York, one of the Republicans enthusiastically announcing the availability of
new relief funding she sought to deny her constituents.

Daily Kos

Exhibit A https:/*******RNa15YMqxU pic.twitter.com/xqGyqoshDg

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 29, 2021

 

[CornusKousa]

'Vote no, take the dough': Pelosi calls the GOP's bluff on helping their constituents

April 30, 2021

Congressional Republicans are doing an epic job of talking out of both sides
of their mouths right now. On one side, they're beside themselves over the
price tag of the investments President Biden wants to make in the national
economy.

On the other side, they're all too happy to tout the relief funds that Democrats—
and Democrats alone—made available to their constituents.

That's because "national economy" = (D) pet projects and bail outs.

They like relief for their constituents, they don't like (D)'s pocketing the majority of it for themselves.

 

[WillJ8787]

Apparently, GOP constituents are not too savy.

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Giuliani's confiscated phones likely contain a 'treasure trove' of info on Bill Barr and Don Trump Jr.

https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-crimes-2652844976/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Rightguide]

Giuliani's confiscated phones likely contain a 'treasure trove' of info on Bill Barr and Don Trump Jr.

https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-crimes-2652844976/?utm_source=push_notifications

Likely privileged attorney client information and classified conversations with the President of the United States, which we can assume will be immediately leaked by the SDNY to the NYTs for political gain.

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Giuliani faces allegations that he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — the law that prohibits individuals from lobbying for foreign governments without disclosing their relationship to the federal government — with his business dealings in Ukraine.

The reporting on Trump's reluctance to get involved with Giuliani's legal expenses dovetails with previous reporting that Giuliani's allies are frustrated at the president's lack of help for his longtime friend. It also follows Trump's refusal to pay the legal expenses he owes to Giuliani for his unsuccessful work to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election — work that saw him arguing a case in federal court before a judge for the first time in over 20 years.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[allison22]

A years-old relic of the Trump-Ukraine scandal—a dossier that was aggressively promoted by Rudy Giuliani—is coming back to haunt him, just as federal law enforcement has ramped up its investigation into the former New York City mayor.

The dossier, a collection of documents centered with wild corruption accusations against Joe Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, and other officials, was widely and almost instantly dismissed as irrelevant ramblings, conspiracy theories, and political smears when it emerged in 2019. But Giuliani pushed it anyway to the highest echelons of the Trump White House and to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.


Now, his efforts have been scrutinized by federal investigators, according to two people familiar with the matter. In a probe that began during former President Donald Trump’s time in power, the feds have been investigating whether some of Giuliani’s activities during the Trump-Ukraine saga amounted to unregistered and illegal lobbying on behalf of foreign figures.

Giuliani's legal team did not respond to requests for comment on this story. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York declined to comment. But Giuliani’s pushing of the dossier is one of a number of activities under investigation by federal law enforcement. Another, The Daily Beast has learned, is his attempts to introduce a conspiracy-peddling Ukrainian prosecutor general to then-Attorney General William Barr.

Last month, federal agents executed search warrants on Giuliani’s apartment and office, seeking access to his mobile devices and communications between the prominent Trump adviser and lawyer and roughly a dozen people, including Ukrainian former prosecutors who had served as sources for Giuliani’s various corruption allegations against the Biden family.

The document reportedly prompted intrigue followed by disappointment when the State Department turned it over to House impeachment investigators. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) described the dossier to The New York Times as “a series of hallucinatory propagandist suggestions.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...d-probe-against-him/ar-BB1gDNkE?ocid=msedgdhp

 

[nowisthetime]

Our energy infrastructure has been hacked, Biden wants to increase taxes to rebuild our nation's infrastructures, and Repugs want to drag their feet.

They are a useless party, they are not Pro-American, but pro-rich.

Dummy Deplorables in here worrying about Jose and 'em, they should be worried about infrastructure targeting hackers with names like Dmitri and Viktor.

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Dominion Voting Systems is suing former Trump attorney Sidney Powell, who baselessly claimed the company's voting machines were rigged, said in a court filing that Powell's nonprofit is nothing more than a personal piggy bank, the Associated Press reported.


Powell's organization, Defending the Republic, claimed to donors that it is a legal defense fund to protect the integrity of U.S. elections. But Dominion, which is suing Powell for defamation, is arguing that Powell is using the alleged social welfare organization to pay her own legal fees stemming from her claims about the 2020 presidential election.


Powell and other allies of former President Donald Trump said following the election that the company's voting system helped to steal the election. The company cited remarks Powell made during a radio interview regarding use of her organization's funds for her legal expenses.

"Now, Powell seeks to abuse the corporate forms she created for her law firm and fundraising website to hide funds that she raised through her defamatory campaign, shielding those funds from the very company that was harmed by the defamatory campaign," Dominion lawyers said in a May 5 court filing.


The dispute shines a light on how Trump allies continue to support, spread and allegedly profit from lies about fraud in the 2020 election.

Although the election is settled, and all major court challenges have been dismissed, Powell's legal defense fund continues to raise money, with help from conspiracy-minded supporters like QAnon adherents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...or-personal-benefit/ar-BB1gHQkb?ocid=msedgdhp