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Ignoring Warnings, #GOP Trumpeted Now-#Discredited Allegation Against #Biden
#Republicans in #Congress built their #impeachment case against #POTUS Biden around a #bribery accusation that the #FBI had warned them was #uncorroborated.
#HouseRepublicans #RussianAsset #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #CultOfPersonality #Gaslighting #Propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/gop-smirnov-allegation-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X00.r4n3.WHg71dYeGf2P&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Here's what we're reading today:
Biden's administration is considering a plan to help #Ukraine with weapons without waiting for #Congress to approve aid.
The mechanism allows #Biden to provide weapons by special order period, the WH weighs the risks of providing weapons without replacing them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/us/politics/ukraine-weapons-pentagon.html
Democrats and Republicans both aimed at former special counsel Robert Hur in a congressional hearing about his investigation into U.S. President Biden’s handling of classified documents. Democrats took issue with Hur’s comments about Biden’s memory, while Republicans pressed him over his decision not to charge the president for willfully retaining classified materials. Read more from CNN.
As #Elections Loom, Congressional Maps Challenged as Discriminatory Will Remain in Place
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With control of the House of Representatives hanging in the balance, the time-consuming appeals process means elections in multiple districts will take place using maps that have been challenged as discriminatory to #voters of color.
#Voting #SouthCarolina #Florida #Election #Gerrymandering #News #Law #Congress #Politics
The #DOJ is expected to announce the #indictment of longtime Rep #HenryCuellar, US House of Representatives #Democrat of #Texas.
Cuellar’s home & campaign office in Laredo, Texas, were raided in Jan 2022 as part of a federal investigation into #Azerbaijan & a group of US businessmen who have ties to the country. His office had pledged to cooperate w/the investigation.
#law #Congress
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567
So, 21 Republicans in Congress are planning on slowing things down and not doing any work in protest of Felon Trump being prosecuted.
My question is simple. How will we know the difference?
#Trump plans to claim sweeping #authority over #federal #spending
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the #WHO & #green #energy initiatives.
He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from #Congress & to assert more control over the federal #budget than any president in #US #history.
#law #Constitution #SCOTUS #power #government #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://wapo.st/3XekhX4
The #UnitedStates #SurgeonGeneral, Dr. #VivekMurthy, announced on Mon that he would push for #WarningLabels on #SocialMedia platforms advising #parents that using the platforms might damage #adolescents’ #MentalHealth.
Warning labels —like on tobacco & alcohol— are one of the most powerful tools available to the nation’s top #health ofcl, but…requires approval by #Congress.
#law #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/health/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-label.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#SCOTUS upholds #Trump #tax provision on #offshore earnings
The Supreme Court on Thurs rejected a challenge to an obscure provision of rump’s 2017 tax package.
The one-time tax on offshore earnings helped fund the massive tax cut permitted under #Congress’s limited powers of #taxation.
Some viewed the lawsuit as an effort to preemptively block Congress from creating a #WealthTax.
#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/20/supreme-court-trump-offshore-tax-wealth-earnings/
#Democrats seek to repeal #Comstock #abortion rule, fearing #Trump crackdown
Democrats are seeking to overhaul an 1873 federal #law that #bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, worried that a future Trump admin could invoke the #ComstockAct to crack down on #AbortionAccess or effectively #ban the procedure altogether.
#MAGA #Republicans #extremism #Christian #evangelism #Congress #legislation #TrumpProofing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/20/comstock-abortion-repeal-tina-smith-senate/
"[U.S.] House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced Tuesday the creation of a bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, adding to the congressional panels that are looking into the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania."
CBS News reports: https://flip.it/QhqpiG
#Trump #TrumpShooting #Congress #USPolitics #Politics #Assassination #News
#LizCheney says she’ll vote for #KamalaHarris
‘I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names,’ the fmr #GOP House [& #powerhouse] member said.
Cheney, an ex-#Republican member of #Congress from #Wyoming & daughter of fmr VP #DickCheney, announced her backing of current MVP #Harris while speaking at Duke on Wed.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://19thnews.org/2024/09/liz-cheney-kamala-harris/
#Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to #Gaza, Two #Government Bodies Concluded.
Antony Blinken Rejected Them.
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Blinken told #Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the #law.
#News #Palestine #HumanitarianAid #Biden #Blinken #War
https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.
Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.
In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.
That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.
To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.
But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.
Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.
Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.
(But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)
The fight for the #House & #Senate: Where things stand
Will both chambers flip? #Congress may once again have to work under the strain of divided government.
With <4 weeks to go, #Republicans appear poised to win the Senate, which is currently controlled by the Democrats. The #Democrats, meanwhile, seem to have a slight edge in the race for the Republican-controlled House.
#Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/09/senate-house-race-who-wins/
🚔 #FELON #WINS 🇱🇷 #PRESIDENCY!? 🇮🇱 🐍
🎡 ARE WE NOW KNOWN AS THE #UNITED_STATES OF_PERVERTS!? 🇺🇸
Only One Word comes to mind when I think of this #SO_CALLED USA #DEMOCRACY = " #Caligula.. " 🎡
#CONCLUSION: #NO_MORAL_COMPASS, 🧭 #NO_SELF_CONTROL, #NO_SELF_DISCIPLINE, #NO_BUSINESS_ETHICS, #PERVERSION & #DEPRAVITY RUN RAMPANT! #LOYAL TO NO-ONE! #TRUSTED BY NO ONE!
I cannot tell you how many friends I have met over my life that are #Convicted_Felons.
Some might have maybe 3 -- 6 felony's. drug dealers are higher. Even harden #Criminals doing 10 - 20 year sentencing for murder have less than 5 #Felonies ON AVG..
34 felony CONVICTIONS TO BE #SWEPT #UNDER THE #RUG is #unacceptable BY #WE_THE_PEOPLE!!
So the only question BEGGING TO BE ASKED is what has this LOSER actually got away with in the past and in his lifetime WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT.
34 #FELONIES OR 3,500 #FELONIES??
ONE BIGGY NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IS THAT CHUMP IS A CONVICTED REAL ESTATE AGENT FOR #REDLINING 👺 IN NEW YORK. Look it up..
You cannot get anymore #RACIST than that.. All you Black folk supporting this losers are #BLACK_SUPREMACISTS in our books!
You FOOLS with get NOTHING IN THE END!..
Guess you never learned your lessons in the last 3 decades AS abused #SLAVES have you??
THE #CHUMP ALLEGED #RAP_SHEET IS LONGER THAN ANY #CRIMINAL, I HAVE EVER KNOWN. Not to mention the plethora of 🚔 CRIMES this Government has turned a Blind Eye TOO??!
This man ( #DADDY_MADE not SELF MADE!) has gotten a slap on the wrists ever since he grew out of his #SOOTHER! 🍼
What message does this deliver to #law_abiding_citizens? and what message does it deliver to our #youth and/or #adolescence??
#Father of 4. 👪
Should they just call it #POLITICS for the sake of a life time seat (Supreme Court!? #Losers passing the #BUCK!) or million dollar news anchor seats?? OR to become a #low_life #dirt_bags in #Congress?? (Israeli #Lobbyists) 🇮🇱
🎟️ ..or a free ticket to commit #Mass_Murder.. #RAPE, #FRAUD, #Embezzlement, #Blackmail, #Child_Molestation engulfed with a #LICENSE_TO_STEAL implemented by our 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 #USA_Congress Israeli #ASHKENAZI_JEWS!? (#IP_THEFT)
ARE WE NOW KNOWN AS THE #UNITED_STATES OF_PERVERTS, Indoctrinated Nazism by ISRAELI Ashkenazi Jews and in fact REAL NAZI’S out of EU, FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY WHO ALL HAVE SPEARHEADED THESE ATROCITIES funded by the USA! With WE THE PEOPLES STOLEN MONEY! 🔥
From where I stand it's obvious that this country has #SUNK into the #LOWEST_LEVELS OF #DEPRAVITY THIS WORLD 🌐 HAS EVER SEEN!
Only one word comes to mind " #Caligula " 🎡
#Count 1: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Feb. 14, 2017
Count 2: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated Feb. 14, 2017
Count 3: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated Feb. 14, 2017
Count 4: A Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated Feb. 14, 2017
Count 5: Michael Cohen's invoice dated March 16, 2017
Count 6: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated March 17, 2017
Count 7: A Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated March 17, 2017
Count 8: Michael Cohen's invoice dated April 13, 2017
Count 9: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated June 19, 2017
Count 10: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017
Count 11: Michael Cohen's invoice dated May 22, 2017
Count 12: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated May 22, 2017
Count 13: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub May 23, 2017
Count 14: Michael Cohen's invoice dated June 16, 2017
Count 15: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated June 19, 2017
Count 16: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017
Count 17: Michael Cohen's invoice dated July 11, 2017
Count 18: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated July 11, 2017
Count 19: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated July 11, 2017
Count 20: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Aug. 1, 2017
Count 21: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Aug. 1, 2017
Count 22: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Aug. 1, 2017
Count 23: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Sept. 11, 2017
Count 24: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Sept. 11, 2017
Count 25: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Sept. 12, 2017
Count 26: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Oct. 18, 2017
Count 27: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Oct. 18, 2017
Count 28: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Oct. 18, 2017
Count 29: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Nov. 20, 2017
Count 30: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Nov. 20, 2017
Count 31: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Nov. 21, 2017
Count 32: Michael Cohen's invoice dated Dec. 1, 2017
Count 33: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Dec. 1, 2017
Count 34: A check and check stub dated Dec. 5 2017
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts
Trial begins in Trump #rape_defamation lawsuit by #E_Jean_Carroll
“She actually said to the jury, looking them #squarely in the #eye, ‘This is #NOT a he said, she said case’” says Rubin.
Judge delays Trump’s sentencing until after the election
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/judge-delays-trumps-sentencing/index.html
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How #Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From #Congress
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Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the #budget, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to defund programs they dislike.
#News #Government #USPolitics #Law #President #Politics #Constitution #Impoundment #POTUS
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget
This guy reeeaaaallllly hates #California.
#Trump Blocks California #EV Rules in Latest Move to *Rein In* the State
California leaders said the #state intends to challenge the move in #court, & to find new ways to move drivers toward #ElectricVehicles.
Trump signed joint resolutions of #Congress on Thurs that block California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles, his latest attempt to reduce the power of the nation’s most populous state.
#law #Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/california-trump-electric-vehicle-waiver.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump fires at least 17 independent inspectors general in late-night purge
The dismissals could clear the way for Trump to install #loyalists in crucial roles of identifying #fraud, waste & #abuse in the #government.
The IGs were notified by emails from the WH personnel director that they had been terminated immediately….The dismissals appeared to violate federal #law, which requires #Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire the IGs.
#Felon47 #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-fire-inspectors-general-federal-agencies/
#Disinformation: #SocialSecurity email praising Trump’s tax bill is a lie
The #SSA sent an email claiming Trump’s bill eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients.
The reconciliation bill–which #Trump called the #OneBigBeautifulBill before signing it after #Republicans in #Congress passed it–will strip people of their #HealthInsurance, cut #FoodAssistance for the #poor, kill off #CleanEnergy development & raise the #NationalDebt by trillions.
#propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/social-security-administration-email-trump-tax-bill
It seems the #USA now has a a different Constitution, a Supreme Leader, a Monarch, a Dictator whom no one shall disobey and to whom every action is accountable, or to the goons he elects to do these jobs for him. This is way past #Congress and #USSenate or even #SCOTUS having authority or control.
Read it all, carefully.
All countries need to distance themselves from this if they want to have anything resembling a democracy. As we have seen in the last 48 hours, his acquaintance with facts or the truth are distant at best.
#Gilead #Coup #USCoup
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies – The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/
An effort to call a convention to amend the Constitution is focused on the national debt but could open the door to other changes — including making it legal for Trump to run for a third term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Congress #USPolitics #Government #Law #History