Paul A Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Gold Medal Ceremony The Lincoln Project Dec 9, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/12/15/trumps-major-announcement-was-to-hawk-his-99-nfts/ Dec 15, 2022 Trump’s ‘Major Announcement’ Was To Hawk His $99 NFTs Former President Donald Trump unveiled Thursday a “limited edition collection” of NFT trading cards featuring cartoon-like images of himself depicted as a superhero, Hollywood actor and more, after teasing a “major announcement” on his Truth Social account. The trading cards, priced at $99 and available at collecttrumpcards.com, feature cartoon images of a particularly machismo Trump dressed in hunting gear, wearing a “DOW” hat with a surging stock ticker in the backdrop, playing golf, wearing sunglasses while standing in front of a “Trumpworld” sign, and more. The rollout comes after Trump told his 4.73 million Truth Social followers on Wednesday “America Needs a Superhero,” while teasing a “major announcement” he said would come Thursday. “GET YOUR CARDS NOW! Only $99 each! Would make a great Christmas gift. Don’t Wait. They will be gone, I believe, very quickly!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 RULES Be good to one another. Don’t insult anyone directly, including the staff. Don’t use hate speech of any kind, including (but not limited to) hate speech related to ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender, religion, political inclination, or anything else deemed inappropriate by the moderation team. No pornography. Do not type your entire post or the entire topic title in ALL-CAPS. Capitalization of a few words for emphasis is okay (like I just did in the last sentence). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Not sure how it is hate speech... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 57 minutes ago, Paul A said: Not sure how it is hate speech... Guess it isn't really hate speak per say. My bad i read it wrong. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 I would also say I'm a little embarrassed not interpreting what i read properly but even more embarrassed for Trump in this latest stunt. I just can't believe people close to him aren't saying..no...no you don't want to do that, you would look like a total fool. What a shame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 15 hours ago, Paul A said: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/12/15/trumps-major-announcement-was-to-hawk-his-99-nfts/ Dec 15, 2022 Trump’s ‘Major Announcement’ Was To Hawk His $99 NFTs Former President Donald Trump unveiled Thursday a “limited edition collection” of NFT trading cards featuring cartoon-like images of himself depicted as a superhero, Hollywood actor and more, after teasing a “major announcement” on his Truth Social account. The trading cards, priced at $99 and available at collecttrumpcards.com, feature cartoon images of a particularly machismo Trump dressed in hunting gear, wearing a “DOW” hat with a surging stock ticker in the backdrop, playing golf, wearing sunglasses while standing in front of a “Trumpworld” sign, and more. The rollout comes after Trump told his 4.73 million Truth Social followers on Wednesday “America Needs a Superhero,” while teasing a “major announcement” he said would come Thursday. “GET YOUR CARDS NOW! Only $99 each! Would make a great Christmas gift. Don’t Wait. They will be gone, I believe, very quickly!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Holeeshit. Who could I vote for in 2024? President poopypants or this guy. I think I would abstain from voting for prez entirely. I think we can do better, but we don’t know how to at this point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Similar incident with Goya beans. __________________________________________________ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/16/resolute-desk-trump-goya-cuomo/ July 16, 2020 The Resolute Desk, used by Trump to hawk Goya beans, is a weighty symbol of presidential power CNN anchor Chris Cuomo nearly lost his mind Wednesday evening over President Trump hawking Goya beans in the Oval Office, but the beans aren’t what really seemed to set him off. It was the symbol on which the beans were photographed. “You tell me how a president, in the middle of a pandemic, has got time for this b-------. Are you kidding me? Hawking products?” Cuomo said. Then he added, “Resolute Desk! This is what he’s resolute about.” The Resolute Desk is one of the most powerful and heavy — it weighs more than 1,000 pounds — symbols of the American presidency. The desk has been used by almost every U.S. president since Queen Victoria presented it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 'Five Thirty Eight' is an often used resource for seeking results of opinion polls. Un/Popularity of Biden https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ Un/Popularity of Trump https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/ etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Ron DeSantis seems to be the likely Republican candidate, with the recent landslide victory. Joe Biden seems to be the likely Democrat candidate, with the much better than expected mid terms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/19/jan-6-committee-hearings-live-updates/ Dec 19, 2022 Jan. 6 committee refers Trump to Justice Department for prosecution The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol voted Monday to send to Justice Department prosecutors a recommendation that the former president be charged with four crimes: inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to make a false statement. The committee’s report reveals that plenty were seized at the magnetometers outside where Trump gave his speech on the Ellipse before the riot. Specifically, the report cites a November 2021 document produced by the U.S. Capitol Police that says: “Secret Service confiscated a haul of weapons from the 28,000 spectators who did pass through the magnetometers: 242 canisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers.” Hutchinson had previously testified that Trump was told about weapons being seized at the magnetometers but didn’t care; indeed, the outgoing president said he wanted the magnetometers gone because the security measure would keep out too many of his supporters. He still directed supporters to march to the Capitol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 'He is unfit for any office': Jan 6. panel's Liz Cheney on Trump Reuters 1.81M subscribers Dec 20, 2022 A special select committee probing the U.S. Capitol attack held its final hearing, and Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the panel, said evidence pointed to former President Donald Trump's 'utter moral failure' to intervene when the violence was underway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Paul A said: He is unfit for any office': Jan 6. panel's Liz Cheney on Trump LOL, so says the partisan clown show. I can believe you post this garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats/ December 20, 2022 House committee votes to make public Trump’s tax returns The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted 24-16 to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns to the public, capping a protracted legal and political battle that began when Trump was in the Oval Office. Trump — who broke with a decades-long tradition of presidential candidates and presidents by refusing to make his tax returns public — has for years falsely claimed that he could not release them while under “routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service. The New York Times in 2020 reported that Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, when he won the presidency, and another $750 in 2017. The Times, which obtained tax data covering more than two decades, also reported that he paid no income tax in 10 of the 15 years before he ran for president. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 It's hilarious that Trump takes up real estate in peoples heads even 1/2 way around the world from him. You have to admire him for that..lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/122122 December 21, 2022 Press Release Pelosi Invites President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to Address Joint Meeting of Congress Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter on behalf of the bipartisan Congressional leadership to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine inviting him to address a Joint Meeting of Congress on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. The invitation comes as Ukraine continues to fight back against Russia's illegal, unprovoked invasion. ______________________________________________ December 20, 2022 His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine 01220, Kyiv, 11 Bankova Str. Dear Mr. President: It is with immense respect and admiration for your extraordinary leadership that I extend on behalf of bipartisan Congressional leadership an invitation to address a Joint Meeting of Congress on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. America and the world are in awe of the heroism of the Ukrainian people. In the face of Putin's horrific atrocities, Ukrainian freedom fighters have inspired the world with an iron will and an unbreakable spirit — fighting back against Russia's brutal, unjustified invasion. During this dark moment, your courageous, patriotic, indefatigable leadership has rallied not only your people, but the world, to join the frontlines of the fight for freedom. America and our allies have proudly answered your call: imposing devastating sanctions on Putin and ensuring Ukraine has the resources it needs to win this war. And it was a privilege to hear from you and from Speaker Stefanchuk at the First Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimea Platform about how the importance of the free world’s unshakable solidarity with Ukraine. The fight for Ukraine is the fight for democracy itself. We look forward to hearing your inspiring message of unity, resilience and determination. Thank you for your leadership and consideration of this request. best regards, NANCY PELOSI Speaker of the House Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/23/jan6-committee-final-report/ Dec 23, 2022 Fallout continues from Jan. 6 committee final report that blames Trump for deadly riot Today, fallout continues from Thursday’s late-night release of the full report of the House select committee that recommends barring Donald Trump from ever holding public office again and blames the former president’s conduct after the 2020 election for the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in an extraordinary interview published Friday, said the clout of Donald Trump has “diminished,” blamed him for losses in several key states and suggested he would be wary of supporting Trump’s handpicked candidates in the future. Former president Donald Trump on Friday continued to lash out at lawmakers and election officials and spread false claims of election fraud following the Thursday night release of the House Jan. 6 committee report that blamed him for the attack on the Capitol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 ____________________________________ Trump calls for 'end' of US Constitution in Truth Social post Al Jazeera English 9.82M subscribers Dec 5, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 White House Responds To Marjorie Taylor Greene Saying She ‘Would Have Won’ Jan. 6 Riot Forbes Breaking News 1.39M subscribers Dec 13, 2022 The Biden Administration and incoming House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), fired back Monday at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she suggested over the weekend January 6 rioters should have been more aggressive when they stormed the Capitol in 2021, saying she would have “won” and “been armed” if she had organized the insurrection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Investigative journalism.........fact checks, exposes fraud, corruption, conspiracy theories, crime etc...... It is a public good. public good Learn to pronounce noun noun: public good; plural noun: public goods 1. Economics a commodity or service that is provided without profit to all members of a society, either by the government or by a private individual or organization. 2. the benefit or well-being of the public. "the frequent conflict between the public good and private interests" ______________________________________________________ https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-santos-republican-explainer.html Dec. 27, 2022 New York Times For a week, Representative-elect George Santos avoided answering questions from the media, after The New York Times reported several notable fabrications on his résumé. Now, Mr. Santos has swapped out silence for a new tactic: creating the appearance of coming clean. Mr. Santos did not work where he said he did. Over the course of his two campaigns for Congress, the first of which was unsuccessful, Mr. Santos cast himself as an accomplished veteran of Wall Street, with work experience at both Citigroup, where he said he was “an associate asset manager,” and at Goldman Sachs. Both firms told The Times that they had no record of Mr. Santos’s ever working for them. Mr. Santos did not graduate from the schools he said he had. Mr. Santos has said he graduated from Baruch College in Manhattan with a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance. A biography on the website of the House Republicans’ campaign committee said he had also studied at N.Y.U. But neither college could find records verifying those claims, and in his interview with The Post, Mr. Santos admitted that he had lied about his education. Mr. Santos says he is not Jewish, so much as “Jew-ish.” Mr. Santos has said that his mother was born in Brazil to immigrants who “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium and again fled persecution during WW II.” And he has identified as both Catholic and as a nonobservant Jew. But citing genealogy records and Brazilian records, both The Forward, a Jewish publication, and CNN have reported that Mr. Santos’s maternal grandparents appear to have been born in Brazil before World War II. Mr. Santos amends story on Pulse nightclub shooting. After he won election, Mr. Santos, who says he is gay, claimed to have “lost four employees” at the 2016 shooting at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, a claim for which The Times could find no evidence. During an interview on WABC radio, Mr. Santos said that those “four employees” did not actually work for his Florida company. Rather, those four individuals were in the process of being hired, he said. Mr. Santos denied committing any crimes. Contrary to records unearthed by The Times, Mr. Santos has seemed to insist that he was never charged with fraud for writing checks with a stolen checkbook in Brazil. Mr. Santos does not own 13 properties. During his most recent congressional campaign, Mr. Santos cast himself and his family as the owners of 13 properties. He also suggested he was a beleaguered landlord whose tenants were unjustly withholding rent. On Monday, he said his family owns property, but he does not. “George Santos does not own any properties,” he told The Post. The sources of Mr. Santos’s $700,000 campaign loan remain unclear. Though Mr. Santos’s adulthood has been marked by a trail of unpaid debts to landlords and creditors, in 2021 and 2022, he lent $700,000 to his congressional campaign, according to federal campaign finance documents. It remains unclear where that money came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/28/whitmer-kidnap-plot-barry-croft-sentence/ December 28, 2022 Washington Post Architect of Mich. governor kidnap plot sentenced to more than 19 years in prison A man who was convicted as one of the key orchestrators in the 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and blow up a bridge in hopes of inciting a civil war was sentenced Wednesday to 19½ years in prison, the longest sentence of the four men convicted on federal charges in the most closely watched domestic terrorism case in recent years. Prosecutors depicted the two men as furious over covid-19 lockdowns and supposed “tyranny” by elected officials, and said they poured their anger into a violent plot they were eager to see grow into a bloody “revolution.” Exhibits entered by the U.S. Attorney's Office during the detention hearing for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot suspect Barry Croft Jr. _________________________________ https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-idINKBN27301B October 18, 2020 Reuters Trump blasts Michigan governor Whitmer; crowd chants 'lock her up' JANESVILLE, Wis./WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who played down the coronavirus pandemic from its onset, criticized Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday for her policies to curb the outbreak, drawing shouts of “lock her up” from a rally crowd. At a rally in Muskegon, Michigan, Trump targeted Whitmer several times, criticizing the state’s rules to stop the spread of coronavirus, calling her “dishonest,” and making light of a right-wing plot uncovered by the FBI to kidnap her. The crowd’s chant of “Lock her up!” referring to Whitmer reprised the chants that Trump supporters often direct at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016. Edited December 28, 2022 by Paul A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punxatawneyjoe Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 "It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares." - Napoleon Bonaparte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/29/george-santos-mother-911-death/ December 29, 2022 Washington Post George Santos said 9/11 ‘claimed my mother’s life.’ She died in 2016. When George Santos mentioned his family during his congressional campaign, the New York Republican often reflected on the work ethic and strength of his mother, Fatima Devolder, and how she survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, where she was working that day. In July 2021, Santos replied to a Twitter account named “9/11 was a victimless crime.” “9/11 claimed my mothers life … so I’m blocking so I don’t ever have to read this again,” Santos wrote. In December 2021, Santos tweeted to reflect on the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death in 2016. “December 23rd this year marks 5 years I lost my best friend and mentor,” he wrote. “Mom you will live forever in my heart.” Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly (R) announced Wednesday that she was opening an investigation into Santos for “the numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated” with him that “are nothing short of stunning.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/03/george-santos-first-day-in-congress/ January 3, 2023 Washington Post George Santos had an awkward first day at the office The New York Republican, accused of fabricating details of his biography, got a taste of scrutiny that comes with his new job A posse of journalists assembled before 9 a.m. Tuesday to stake out Santos’s new office on the first floor of the Longworth House Office Building. The accused serial fabulist is now being investigated by the attorney general of New York, the district attorneys of Nassau County and Queens, and the government of Brazil. The main drama of the day was Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s desperate bid to become Speaker of the House in the face of opposition from within his party. Since Santos’s deceptions had been unspooled, McCarthy had declined to move against him. Someone close to McCarthy said they had been in touch with Santos’s lawyer and had been assured that he hadn’t done anything illegal. Stupid, maybe, but not illegal. And McCarthy needed all the votes he could get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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