Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2020, 05:24:00 am
news.yahoo.com/us-state-department-employee-prominent-161051603.html
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An explosive new report says a US State Department official was the head of a Washington chapter for a white nationalist group and published extremist propaganda online.
Matthew Gebert, who serves as a foreign affairs officer in the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources, actively promoted white nationalist sentiments and was a prominent member of white nationalism circles, the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s Hatewatch reported Wednesday.
Hatewatch said Mr Gebert often discussed the need for a country exclusively built for white people that featured a “nuclear deterrent.” His wife, Anna Vuckovic, was also a blogger who published white nationalist views, according to the report.
The two went by the pseudonyms “Coach Finstock” and “Wolfie James,” according to the researchers’ sources.
They also regularly invited other white nationalists over their house in Leesburg, Virginia, Hatewatch reported.
“[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split,” Mr Gebert reportedly said on a podcast last year while using his alias.
“That’s all that we need,” he added, “we need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.”
Mr Gebert first joined the State Department as a fellow in 2013 before eventually being promoted to his current position at the Bureau of Energy Resources.
How many more are embedded up and down the state apparatus whom do we not know about yet?
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www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49405099
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A senior Berlin-based Croatian diplomat has been accused of damaging her country's reputation after she wrote inflammatory Facebook posts alongside idyllic images of the Adriatic coast.
"Just white Europeans as it used to be only 30 years ago in the whole of Europe," wrote Elizabeta Madjarevic.
The foreign minister said she was being recalled.
The incident has embarrassed Croatia, which only joined the EU in 2013 and takes over its presidency next January.
The Facebook account of Ms Madjarevic, who is first secretary at the Berlin embassy, has now been deleted.
But the diplomat's views were exposed by Croatia's Index.hr website, which said that in an 8 August post, under sun-drenched images of Croatia, she referred to "white Europeans" and a "pure and authentic Europe". The comments were characteristic of white nationalists and neo-Nazis, it said.
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However, Index.hr reported that in earlier Facebook posts she had written about the "Islamisation agenda" of Muslims and espoused homophobic views. In one post she linked LGBTQ to paedophilia.
Ms Madjarevic was also outspoken about German attempts to integrate migrants into society, it said.
Notice how she espouses the entire repertoire of bigotry. Even in the early 2010s there used to be non-racist Islamophobes, non-homophobic racists, etc.. Not any more. Now it is either no bigotry at all, or straight Alt-Right.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XyUCijQkI
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Think it's enough to fire them? As long as they are still alive, they soon get re-hired by their fans:
www.claremoreprogress.com/news/rogers-county-sheriff-hires-former-tpd-officer-wayne-brown/article_7bbba37a-e44e-11e9-bf64-c3709f74dbbd.html
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The Rogers County Sheriff’s Department hired former Tulsa police officer Wayne Brown as a detention officer today, following his termination from the Tulsa force in early September.
TPD fired Brown following the discovery of anti-government and Islamaphobic posts on his personal Facebook page between 2013 and 2016, three years before he was hired on by TPD.
Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton said Brown was chosen from three candidates who applied for an open position at the county jail.
"Hands down, we all felt that he was the best candidate," Walton said.
As if it's not bad enough that Islamophobia is not disqualifying for a government job, even more ludicrously, being anti-government is also not disqualifying for a government job. You can't make this **** up.
The only positive is that the hirer has also exposed himself.
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www.pressherald.com/2019/10/15/national-civil-rights-group-calls-for-resignation-of-maine-sports-official/
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The head of Maine’s regulatory body for boxing and mixed martial arts events is under fire for alleged anti-Muslim posts on his personal Facebook page.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, called Tuesday for the resignation of Hal Pierce, chairman of the Combat Sports Authority of Maine.
The governor appoints board members to the Combat Sports Authority of Maine, which was created by state law to regulate and promote boxing and mixed martial arts in the state. The authority was established by the Legislature in June 2009 to ensure that all mixed martial arts and professional boxing exhibitions, events, performances, and contests are safely regulated and controlled.
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news.yahoo.com/warren-hurst-tennessee-white-men-rights.html
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Warren Hurst, who sits on the Sevier County Commission, spoke up during a discussion on an upcoming vote to become a gun sanctuary city. He told the crowd, many of whom were holding little American flags, that it was time to “wake up people.”
“We got a queer running for president if that ain’t about as ugly as you can get,” he said, in comments captured by Knoxville-based station WVLT. “Look what we got running for president in the Democratic Party. We can go over here to Hoss’ jail [the Sevier County sheriff] and get better people out of there than those running for [the] Democratic [nomination] to be president of the United States.”
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running in the Democratic primary. If elected, he would be the first openly gay president. His campaign didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
At least one woman objected to Hurst’s remarks and stormed out, but others applauded and agreed with him.
“I’m not prejudiced, but by golly, a white male in this country has very few rights and they’re getting took more every day,” the commissioner added.
On one hand he complains that "white males" have too few "rights". On the other hand he wants to prohibit Buttigieg from running for president. Obviously he does not see Buttigieg as a fellow "white male". I wonder why not. And in the same sentence he also says "I'm not prejudiced". This is why you do not talk to trash like Hurst, you just agree with his policy of a gun sanctuary city and then use one of those guns:
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www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/us/virginia-first-responder-racist-remarks/index.html
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An emergency medical technician has been placed on unpaid leave after racist comments surfaced of him comparing black patients to gorillas and claiming to take "immense satisfaction" as he "terrorized" an African American boy with a needle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFvu0wPhG4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKMHZI7rrvg
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barenakedislam.com/2020/01/20/florida-police-officer-suspended-from-his-job-for-supporting-his-wife-after-she-posted-on-social-media-statements-accusing-radical-congressmuslim-rashida-tlaib-of-being-a-hamas-loving-antisemite/
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A veteran law enforcement officer, Corporal Pablo Lima, has been placed on administrative leave amid allegations that he violated his department’s social media policy by “liking” social media posts made by people who supported his Israeli-born Jewish wife and her political views.
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Cpl. Lima’s wife, Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Annabelle Lima-Taub, was condemned by the commission in a 3-2 vote one year ago, after she spoke out against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in a Facebook post.
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n January 2019, a vote was held in Hallandale Beach City Hall to condemn Lima-Taub for her Facebook posts targeting Tlaib, including calling her a “Hamas-loving antisemite,” and said that she might be a “martyr and blow up Capitol Hill.”
Dozens of people came to the city hall waving Israeli flags and holding signs in support of her statements. In addition, she was unapologetic about her posts, and doubled down on them in further posts.
“I am offended by anyone who is NOT OFFENDED by Rashida Tlaib’s hateful rhetoric and pro BDS and other radical dangerous views calling for the obliteration of Israel, literally off the face of the map,” she said in one of her posts.
“I remain unapologetic for my views that she is a danger to the peace process and demand an apology of her for relabeling Israel as Palestine on a map hanging on her wall in her congressional office.”
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www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-judge-uses-hunch-call-180845332.html
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Judge Robert Ruehlman told The Cincinnati Enquirer Wednesday: "They're committing a crime by being here illegally, and then, if they're in front of me, they've allegedly committed a felony."
And how does he know someone is here illegally? If the person needs an interpreter, is accused of drug smuggling or has international connections, Ruehlman said he acts on his hunch.
"I set a high bond and I call ICE," he said. "I'm batting a thousand. I haven't got one wrong yet."
Ruehlman said he calls ICE about a dozen times a year. He said he has a good relationship with the agency.
So the bond he sets depends on his hunch about the defendant's immigration status, rather than solely on facts relevant to the case being tried. That is unacceptable professional conduct in itself.
Fortunately there still exist other judges who behave professionally:
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Kubicki said, for him, issues of immigration are between the defendant and the federal government.
"I never call ICE," he said. "I don't know their number."
He said if a person decides to plead guilty to a charge, the court is required to ask about their citizenship and inform those who aren't citizens that their immigration status could be affected by a conviction.
Kubicki said even if a person were to admit to him then they were in the country illegally, he would feel no obligation to report them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy2dA5NCqgI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vj7YpRu3YU
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2020, 05:30:24 am
www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-for-resignation-of-islamophobic-indiana-gop-official-who-replaced-resigned-islamophobic-official/
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In January, CAIR welcomed the resignation of Kokomo Common Council Member Greg Jones after Islamophobic posts to his Facebook page in 2015 were found calling Muslims “goat humpers” and referring to Islam as “a Theocratic Moon Cult.”
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Last week, the Howard County Republican Party selected Roger Stewart to replace Jones as the council representative of District 4. On Friday, Islamophobic posts were discovered on Stewart’s now-deleted Facebook page, including one 2019 meme stating, “I refuse to bend, twist or change to make Muslims feel comfortable in MY COUNTRY.”
The US is not "his" any more than it is any other American's, including those who happen to be Muslim.
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www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/michael-caputo-tweets/index.html
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Michael Caputo, a longtime New York Republican political operative who worked on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was appointed last week as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HHS, a prominent communications role at the department which serves a central role in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Here are some of Caputo’s deleted tweets pertaining to the unfolding health crisis in the United States:
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March 12: Caputo tweets in response to the baseless conspiracy that the US brought coronavirus to Wuhan that, “Sure, millions of Chinese suck the blood out of rabid bats as an appetizer and eat the ass out of anteaters but some foreigner snuck in a bottle of the good stuff. That’s it.” He follows up, “Don’t you have a bat to eat?” He tweets at another user, “You’re very convincing, Wang.”
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March 17: Caputo tweets, “#ChineseVirus” 20 times in a row.
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March 18: Caputo tweets, “Double down on #ChineseVirus. Leftists lost the true meaning of ‘racism’ long ago. And polls show they’ve beaten this dead horse so badly that GOP, independent, and soft Dem voters ignore them.” He adds, “Nobody should let Democrats and their conjugal media popularize Chinese Communist Party talking points. Democrats + Media = CCP.”
Note that he was appointed after he posted these tweets.
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"GOP, independent, and soft Dem voters ignore them"
A.k.a Fence sitters, whom the Sanders campaign tried so hard to appease.
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www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/20/dallas-county-demands-white-man-gov-greg-abbott-ap/
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The Dallas County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution Tuesday accusing Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of perpetuating white supremacy after they criticized a black judge for jailing a salon owner who reopened her business against the governor’s stay-at-home orders.
The resolution describes Shelley Luther, the white owner of Salon à la Mode, as a “lawbreaker” and said the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s intervention into her jail sentencing by Dallas County Judge Eric Moyé, who is black, reintroduced issues of racism and white superiority in Dallas.
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“Dallas County had its reputation questioned and ridiculed as this staged-circus was reduced to issues of race and the superiority of Anglos over all other Americans, which was exhibited by the Governor and the Lt. Governor’s reintroduction of Dred Scott v. Sanford [sic] which briefed by any reasonable party reads; ‘a Black man (Moyé) has no rights that a White man (Trump, Abbott, Patrick) are bound to respect!’” the resolution states.
Ms. Luther rose to national fame last month after she reopened her salon despite Mr. Abbott’s coronavirus-related stay-at-home order, which deemed her business “nonessential” on March 22. After she reopened her doors on April 24, Ms. Luther went viral for ripping up a cease-and-desist letter from County Judge Clay Jenkins at a demonstration outside her salon.
Judge Moyé later issued an order for Ms. Luther to close her doors, but she again refused. On May 5, he sentenced her to seven days in jail. Mr. Abbott and Mr. Patrick both slammed the judge’s decision, and a Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of her release only two days into her sentence.
President Trump weighed in on the judge’s sentencing on May 10, retweeting a message that called for the judge to be voted out of office on Nov. 3 for an “outrageous abuse of judicial power.”
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Jack Posobiec, a conspiracy theorist and consummate pro-Trump media figure who often boasts of his access to the White House and other MAGA celebrities, worked as recently as 2017 with white supremacists who advocate for violence. Posobiec has a long record of extremism and ratfucking: He was an outspoken advocate of the “alt-right,” published a book with the help of an “alt-right” figure, and pushed all kinds of smears and misinformation for political gain.www.veteranstoday.com/2020/05/25/white-supremacists-directly-linked-to-pro-trump-media-figure-jack-posobiec-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-him/
Posobiec reportedly had links to Jeffrey and Edward Clark, two white supremacist brothers. Jeffrey Clark was arrested by federal authorities in Washington, D.C., for gun charges after relatives contacted authorities about his support for last month’s mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue. As reported by HuffPost, Posobiec teamed up with the brothers in 2017 to film documentary footage; a source provided an image of Posobiec alongside the brothers. HuffPost also reported that anti-fascist researcher Laura Sennett said Jeffrey Clark had told her Posobiec both knew of his [NEO]Nazi beliefs and was sympathetic to them.
Posobiec is currently a host for One America News Network, a right-wing news outlet that specializes in sycophantic coverage of President Donald Trump and conspiracy theories. He previously worked for far-right Canadian outlet Rebel Media. Posobiec achieved his standing in the MAGA media universe by embracing the “alt-right” and its public figures during the 2016 presidential election and, like many other grifters, eventually rebranding as a member of the “New Right” after the extremism of the “alt-right” made associating with it too toxic.
Despite his continued efforts to sanitize his role in spreading the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, Posobiec repeatedly broadcast to his social media followers and to Infowars audiences the baseless claim that a D.C. pizza restaurant served as a front for a child trafficking ring, showed up at the pizza parlor himself to “investigate,” and then claimed that the arrest of a gunman who also showed up at the pizzeria was a “false flag.”
Posobiec’s ratfucking record includes spreading forged documents tied to Russia purporting to be then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s emails; planting a “**** Melania” sign at an anti-Trump protest to smear activists; and doxxing one of the women who reported that she was sexually assaulted as a minor by defeated Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, Posobiec was an administrator in a racist Facebook group that promoted Republican candidates and pushed far-right conspiracy theories.
He has built his brand by promoting attention-grabbing stunts that masquerade as activism, such as disrupting a theater presentation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that he deemed to promote political violence, filing a civil rights lawsuit over all-female screenings of Wonder Woman, and trolling a congressional press conference on net neutrality to demand that Democratic senators disavow “satanic” internet pornography. He also gleefully participated in an online harassment campaign that resulted in CNN journalist Andrew Kaczynski receiving death threats.
Posobiec has ridden every controversy and subsequent media coverage to increase his visibility and online followers. He’s used that branding for political access and promotion of his personal business endeavors, which include his self-congratulatory book about the movement that took Trump to victory, and his most recent book, published with the help of with “alt-right” figure Theodore Beale, who writes under the pseudonym Vox Day. Posobiec promoted this book by linking to Vox Day’s website, a depository of white supremacist grievances.
Posobiec’s clout in the MAGA social universe has risen high enough to earn him a retweet from Trump himself (when Posobiec wrote an accusatory tweet aimed at the media for focusing too much on the 2017 white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA) and allow him access to the White House. He used temporary White House press credentials in May 2017 to push the debunked conspiracy theory that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered for leaking DNC emails.
In his role as OANN correspondent, Posobiec regularly showcases his access to pro-Trump celebrities (including Donald Trump Jr.) and his presence at White House and Trump Hotel social functions. Meanwhile, he’s used his OANN platform to hype smears from the defendant in the Seth Rich lawsuit, as well amplify the wild conspiracy theory known as QAnon, giving virulent far-right troll Microchip a platform and taking his word at face value that he is the anonymous poster known as Q. Microchip is an anonymous and prolific user of Gab — the social media site known for being “haven for white supremacists” — where he constantly posts white supremacist grievances and anti-Semitic and racial slurs and invites followers to “**** **** up” legally by pushing and spreading the misinformation campaign QAnon.
It is clear that Posobiec’s history of extremism, peddling of conspiracy theories, and ties to white supremacists are not a problem for the network that employs him, nor for the pro-Trump universe that has enabled his professional career. In that universe, misinformation and extremism are not deal breakers. They’re assets.
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www.modbee.com/news/politics-government/article242887536.html
California Republican Ted Howze on Wednesday was removed from a GOP website that promotes 2020 congressional candidates and rebuked by House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy after a second batch of “disturbing” social media posts on his accounts was uncovered.
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Some of those social media posts include:
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“European leaders are willfully ceding their continent to religious extremists following the teachings of their **** Prophet Mohamed ... ,” states one Facebook post referencing Muslims and the need for the United States to separate itself from Europe.
Responding to a tweet from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, calling for Trump’s impeachment, with “How do we impeach say a Southern California Congresswoman who’s been hitting the crack pipe too hard?”
A retweet disparaging Palestinian-American organizer Linda Sarsour, saying if is she is the average Muslim woman than “I finally understand why so many Muslim men would rather copulate with a goat!”
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us.yahoo.com/news/t-breathe-breathing-mississippi-mayor-231418722.html
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Hal Marx, the mayor of Petal, a city near Jackson, voiced his opinion on the incident on Twitter on Tuesday, saying he “didn’t see anything unreasonable” and “if you can say you can’t breathe, you’re breathing.”
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The Petal Board of Aldermen held a special meeting on Thursday, voting unanimously to ask for Marx’s resignation, The Clarion Ledger reported.
However, the mayor who was first elected in 2009, refused, and elected officials in Mississippi can only be removed from office if they’ve committed felonies.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhXWzdQbMs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNhrbMnKRz4
Doxxing required.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2020, 05:32:57 am
edition.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/pentagon-nominee-tata-trump-kfile/index.html
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(CNN)The White House's nominee for a top position at the Pentagon has a history of making Islamophobic and inflammatory remarks against prominent Democratic politicians, including falsely calling former President Barack Obama a Muslim.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, a frequent guest on Fox News and ardent defender of President Donald Trump, was nominated to become the under secretary of defense for policy.
If confirmed by the Senate, Tata would become the third highest official in the Pentagon overseeing the Defense Department's policy shop, including its national security and defense strategy, nuclear deterrence and missile defense policy, and security cooperation plans and policies. The policy chief also closely advises the secretary of defense on national security and supports the Department of Defense's program and budget decisions.
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In several tweets from 2018, Tata said that Islam was the "most oppressive violent religion I know of" and claimed Obama was a "terrorist leader" who did more to harm the US "and help Islamic countries than any president in history." Following the publication of this story, Tata deleted several of his tweets, screenshots of which were captured by CNN's KFile.
Tata, in one radio appearance, speculated the Iran deal was born out of Obama's "Islamic roots" in an attempt "to help Iranians and the greater Islamic state crush Israel."
I wish that were true.....
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Tata is a regular defender of the President and his policy decisions, including Trump's intervention in the war crimes case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher that forced Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to resign.
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In 2018, Tata falsely said Obama was a "Muslim" and a "terrorist" while on Twitter, writing "Obama normalized Islam for America."
After a Twitter user wrote to him that "Obama was not a terrorist sympathizer," Tata replied, "No he was just a terrorist leader," adding in another tweet, "He gave $150B to #1 state sponsor of terror so they could destroy Israel."
I wish.....
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The Obama administration did not give $150 billion to Iran. The deal, which was approved by six countries and the European Union, gave Iran access to its own frozen assets and it's unclear how much those assets were worth.
In another Twitter engagement, Tata reiterated that Obama was a terrorist because of his dealings with Iran, noting that the only joke was that it was considered a conspiracy theory.
"I was joking! Of course it's not a conspiracy theory. He did more to harm US vital interests and help Islamic countries than any president in history. The Iran deal alone is more than enough evidence of his drive to subvert US national interests to Islam and a globalist agenda," Tata wrote.
In a follow-up tweet, Tata wrote Obama "is a Muslim who got other countries involved via corporate greed to support a regime (Mullahs) that sponsors anti West hatred and violence using money US unfroze or gave. He made no secret of his belief that a weaker America made for a stronger world." After a user said there was no evidence that Obama was a Muslim, Tata replied, "Other than him saying he is, no."
No, a weaker West makes for a stronger America. Not that Tata would ever understand what I mean.
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Obama has written extensively about his Christian faith and has never claimed to be a Muslim.
Tata made similar comments about Obama while appearing on radio programs in 2017 and 2018.
During a radio appearance from 2018, Tata called Obama an anti-Semite who wanted to give Iran money so the country could fund terrorist organizations, and that unlike Obama, Trump wanted to defeat ISIS.
"The reason Obama did that was he wanted nothing to impact his Iran nuclear deal because what he wanted was Iran to be flushed with cash so that they could support Hezbollah and Hamas and their fight against Israel because Obama is an anti-Semite," said Tata. "That was all of the machinations of the Obama administration and he gave birth to ISIS and he also allowed what weapons of mass destruction to use in the Middle East. And so President Trump is simply allowing us to defeat ISIS now which Obama did not want to happen."
I wish.....
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In a radio appearance from March 2017, Tata said Obama "really disliked Israel" and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and speculated that the Iran deal was born "sorta from [Obama's] Islamic roots to help Iranians and the greater Islamic state crush Israel."
"I think President Obama really disliked Israel and know he disliked Netanyahu. I think this was in part, you know, sorta from his Islamic roots to help the Iranians and the greater Islamic state crush Israel," said Tata on the radio show. "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's probably a duck. And so that was what Obama did. He propped up our enemies and the Islamic world, and he undercut Netanyahu in Israel."
I wish.....
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www.yahoo.com/news/not-dont-philadelphia-court-supervisor-174427845.html
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A supervisor with Philadelphia's Family Court was fired after a video circulated online showing him tearing down Black Lives Matter signs and telling bystanders that black lives don't matter to him.
The video shows Michael Henkel marching along a sidewalk tearing Black Lives Matter signs from fences and walls. When a bystander yells "black lives matter" at him, Mr Henkel replies "not to me, they don't."
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The fence was surrounding a public playground and was on public property. During the video, a woman off-camera yells that the signs weren't his property.
"My taxes pay for this place, just so you know. So I can do whatever I want ... I'm always around here too," Mr Henkel says to an individual during the video.
As if no one else pays taxes.....
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www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-53007974
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Middlesbrough's Dennis McCabe shared a post which read "White lives matter!!! Bet you won't repost", while another claimed people sailing to the UK on rubber dinghies were "fast tracked" to council houses with benefits.
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Two council group leaders have called for him to resign.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2020, 05:34:34 am
https://us.yahoo.com/article/news/2020/08/07/commissioner-blames-black-people-for-virus-uses-racial-slur/24585671/
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SUTTONS BAY, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan county official was heard using a racial slur prior to a pubic meeting to describe African Americans in Detroit whom he blamed for spreading the coronavirus in the state.
When asked by a colleague why he wasn’t wearing a mask before the meeting on Tuesday, Leelanau County road commissioner Tom Eckerle said “well this whole thing is because of them (racial slur) down in Detroit," according to the Petoskey News-Review.
The Leelanau Enterprise, which first reported the story, said on its website that the meeting could be attended by the public via phone and that anyone listening could have heard the comments. Since it was made before the meeting started, the comment was not officially recorded.
Road Commission Chair Bob Joyce told Eckerle that he couldn’t say that, to which Eckerle responded: “I can say anything I want. Black Lives Matter has everything to do with taking the country away from us.”
Joyce later rebuked Eckerle a second time.
“There’s just no room for that kind of language here,” Joyce told the Leelanau newspaper. “I won’t tolerate any kind of racism in our meeting room or in our organization. Around here, it’s all about the content of people’s character – not the color of their skin.”
The Leelanau Enterprise said two commission members confirmed the comment was made.
State Rep. Jack O’Malley said the county must take action against Eckerle.
"This type of racial slur is flat-out unacceptable and ignorant. I asked Mr. Eckerle to resign his position as road commissioner in light of these comments and shall he refuse, the citizens of Leelanau County have every right to recall him from office,” O’Malley said in a statement. “It saddens me to have to even make this statement.”
Eckerle, a Republican, was elected in 2018 to a six-year term on the road commission.
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also called for Eckerle to resign.
“Dropping the N-word, along with falsely claiming that police accountability activists who are American citizens are taking the country away, is discourse that that must be repudiated by all public officials,” the organization’s Executive Director Dawud Walid said in a statement.
The Associated Press was unable Thursday to find a telephone number to reach Eckerle at home, and emails to his address bounced back. Records show Eckerle lives in Suttons Bay, about to 283 miles (455 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 16, 2020, 03:43:40 am
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The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board filed a formal complaint against Allegheny County Judge Mark Tranquilli on Wednesday. Tranquilli is accused of racist behavior against Black jurors and defendants since at least 2015, in violation of the state's constitution and code of judicial conduct.
"The allegations contained within the board complaint undermine both public confidence in the judiciary and its reputation," the board wrote. "If Judge Tranquilli is permitted to continue exercising judicial duties during the pendency of the board complaint, the public's confidence in the judiciary will continue to erode."
Tranquilli has been on administrative leave since February, not long after he allegedly dubbed a Black juror who wore her hair in a wrap "Aunt Jemima." The judge is said to have used the racist moniker during a discussion on jury selection he initiated with lawyers after becoming "visibly affected" when the jury returned a "not guilty" verdict.
He is also said to have remarked that he believed the juror had a "baby daddy" at home who he speculated was "probably slinging heroin," while he called a different juror a "knucklehead."
During a 2015 custody case involving Black parents, the complaint states that Tranquilli said "that his only concern is his own three children" while noting that he "did not care" about the children involved in the case.
This is what racism looks like. No hate, just tribalism.
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He told the parents that he had been a homicide prosecutor and was "merely passing time in the family division" as he waited for criminal cases, describing himself as a "butcher" and saying he would "split [their] baby in half like Solomon and sleep like a baby that night.
At one point during the hearing, the judge allegedly "affected an accent and dialect described as 'Ebonics'" while speaking to the parents about communication.
"When I say communication, I don't mean 'and den da **** done dis, and den da **** done dat," Tranquilli said, according to the complaint.
For every one racist judge exposed, how many more are there who hold the same views but merely are better at keeping them hidden? We are dealing with a problem no different than that of the police or the military.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 29, 2020, 11:20:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1otCDPcrhNk
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 03, 2020, 11:42:16 pm
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Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright resigned Friday after a recording of him using racial slurs made its rounds on social media.
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The recording was five minutes long. Wright can be heard using the n-word nine times, while berating a female for speaking to a Black person at a grocery store.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 06, 2020, 04:32:06 pm
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A Texas assistant attorney general sent dozens of tweets over the past several months threatening violence against progressives, spouting racist and transphobic rhetoric, casting doubt over the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and sharing QAnon conspiracy theories. On Thursday, he lost his job with the state agency after national media reported on his social media activities.
Nick Moutos, whose racist tweets were reported Thursday morning by Media Matters, threatened Black Lives Matter protesters and has regularly referred to the organizers as “terrorists.” He called Islam a “virus” and trans people an “abomination.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 23, 2020, 01:42:34 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 23, 2020, 11:52:26 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 25, 2020, 11:16:56 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islXphyHJNk
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 02, 2020, 12:43:52 am
https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/frances-choy-wrongfully-incarcerated-17-151043409.html
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A Chinese-American woman was incarcerated for 17 years in Massachusetts after being wrongfully convicted of murdering her parents. But this month, her charges were vacated after the discovery of new evidence, including racist emails between the two prosecutors indicated they were “biased against Asians.”
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“This may be the first case in the U.S. where a murder conviction has been thrown out because of racism on the part of prosecutors,” John Barter, attorney for Frances Choy, said, according to PEOPLE. Barter spent nearly five years trying to get access to the emails, which were released last year after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the Plymouth County District Attorney to do so. The DA’s office admitted the emails are “reprehensible” and “horrific.”
“The trial prosecutors exchanged numerous images of Asian people, some accompanied by pejorative comments and some unexplained. They exchanged jokes about Asian stereotypes and mocking caricatures of Asians using imperfect English,” Judge Giles wrote in her decision.
In the emails, then-Plymouth County prosecutors Karen O’Sullivan and John Bradley demonstrated “racial animus towards Frances and her family” (Frances’ parents were Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong and Vietnam), sending emails implying Frances had an incestual relationship with her nephew, Kenneth, exchanging images of Asian people “accompanied by pejorative comments,” making jokes about Asian stereotypes, and mocking caricatures of Asian people using broken English.
In one email exchange discussing an upcoming hearing before the state Supreme Judicial Court, one of the prosecutors told the other they would be “wearing a cheongsam and will be the one doing origami in the back of the courtroom.”
According to WBUR, O’Sullivan now works in the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office while Bradley left the Plymouth office in 2012 and sued the DA over his termination. Sharon Beckman, a Boston College Law School professor, told the Boston Globe that Choy was “an innocent crime victim who was instead treated like a criminal suspect.”
(Note O'Sullivan's first name. And no, there is nothing funny about it.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 03, 2020, 04:42:27 am
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LANSING – A Michigan prison supervisor who admitted using the N-word at a Michigan Department of Corrections Christmas party is facing more allegations of racism from a former corrections officer who is Muslim.
And court records show Capt. Frank Sawyer — who admitted in sworn testimony he has used the N-word racist slur between 30 to 100 times — did not lose a single day's pay as part of his discipline for using the word at a 2017 department social event.
That raises questions about whether the department is treating racism seriously enough in a prison system where 55% of the prisoners who officers are supposed to monitor and protect are people of color, according to the department's latest statistical report.
Sawyer is accused of calling a Muslim prison officer a terrorist and a "goat f---er," amid allegations of widespread workplace racism directed at the officer that included tricking him into eating pork — a food off limits to devout Muslims — at a prison chili cook-off.
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Other officers, including supervisors, regularly made cracks about Yehia being a terrorist or ISIS recruiter and one regularly greeted him with the words, "Allah, allah akbar boom," in an apparent reference to Yehia setting off a bomb, according to evidence in the case. Others suggested he brought a camel to work or was carrying a bomb or wearing a bomb vest if he set off the metal detector when entering the prison to start his shift, according to sworn testimony
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Lt. Michael Doss said in an Aug. 10 declaration that he saw a co-worker telephone Yehia at work, using a Corrections Department phone line, and say: "I want to report that there is a terrorist in the building. He is a tall, heavy-set guy." The co-worker — not Sawyer — was referencing Yehia "in a derogatory, racist way by insinuating that Mr. Yehia was a terrorist because he is Muslim," Doss said in the signed statement.
Doss said he heard from co-workers that Yehia got harassed "all the time," and that Sawyer told Yehia not to "blow the place up while I'm working." This "was a discriminatory remark, aimed at harassing Mr. Yehia because of his race and religion," Doss said.
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One officer brought in chili that contained pork, and Yehia ate it "because he didn't know what was in it," Sawyer testified.
In his own deposition, Yehia, who is seeking unspecified monetary damages, plus attorney fees, described how someone switched the lids on two pots of chili so that it appeared the one that had pork in it did not contain pork.
"They laughed, they all laughed, and said: 'Dude, I don't see you turning into fire,' " Yehia testified. " 'Aren't you supposed to go to hell right away after you eat this?' "
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"I didn't go tell the supervisors because those guys were in on it, too," he said. "It's just very mind-boggling."
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"The harassment was regular, consistent, and pervasive, and I personally observed it at least once a week," Herman testified.
He said when officers checked Yehia's identification at the gate, when he reported to work, they would refer to him as a terrorist. If there was a terrorist incident in the news, colleagues would say things like, "Don't blow up the place now." They also made false claims that Yehia was married to his cousin, rode a camel to work, and was a member of ISIS, Herman testified.
The harassment often took place in front of supervisors and "sometimes the supervisors participated in it," Herman said.
How much longer is mainstream society going to avoid admitting it is not merely "a few bad apples"? Racism these days is as common as it was throughout the colonial era. Things are going back to normal.
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Sawyer also testified that reports about his use of the slur spread quickly through the department. He received a five-day suspension over the incident, following an internal affairs investigation, but did not miss a day of work or lose any money from his paycheck, he testified. Instead, he had five days of annual leave time deducted from the leave time he had banked.
Doss alleged in his lawsuit that Sawyer "laughed and bragged about" his light punishment, and said he "would drink a beer for each day" of banked vacation time that was deducted.
And how much longer is mainstream society going to refuse to admit that there is no solution to racism other than eliminating all racist bloodlines?
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2020, 12:45:15 am
And his face.....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 20, 2020, 05:30:29 am
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NEW YORK — One white court officer in Brooklyn posted an illustration of President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck on social media. Another white officer referred to a Black court officer as “one of the good monkeys.”
A third white court officer commented to a white colleague that he would have done better on a firearms test if he had been given a “Sean Bell target,” a reference to an unarmed Black man killed by police in 2006.
The incidents of overt racism were among several mentioned in a new report about racial bias in the New York state court system commissioned by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore after national protests this summer against institutional racism in the criminal justice system.
Jeh Johnson, a former Homeland Security secretary under Obama, led the team that did the review. His report, released with little fanfare last week, found pervasive racism in New York courts, both explicit and implicit, from judges, court officers and lawyers. The accounts of racial bias the team collected bore a striking similarity to testimony in another review from three decades ago, the report said.
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“The sad picture that emerges is, in effect, a second-class system of justice for people of color in New York State,” Johnson wrote. “This is a moment that demands a strong and pronounced rededication to equal justice under law by the New York State Court system.”
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The officer, Sgt. Terri Napolitano of Brooklyn Criminal Court, was accused of uploading to Facebook an illustration of Obama with a noose around his neck and of Hillary Clinton being taken to a wooden apparatus to be hanged. Napolitano did not respond to a request for comment.
She was suspended for 30 days, her firearm was taken away, and she remains on paid leave with disciplinary charges pending, court officials said. After the posts appeared, three Black court officers sent a letter to DiFiore saying the racist memes were “only the tip of the iceberg.”
The sergeant’s behavior had long been tolerated, the report said, which was evidence of a broader institutional acceptance of racist conduct. It recommended “more robust bias training for nonjudicial personnel, particularly the court officer community.”
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Johnson’s team found that some court officers, in dealing with people of color who were defendants, lawyers or the public, were disrespectful, condescending, and at times, racist.
Court officers were heard using racial slurs and berating minority litigants about the clothes they wore. Black defendants were often handcuffed when appearing in court for minor infractions, while white defendants were not, the report found.
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As part of the review, Johnson and his team interviewed nearly 300 people throughout the court system, including many Black and Hispanic lawyers who recounted incidents of bias.
These lawyers said that they were often mistaken for criminal defendants and were asked to show identification to enter the courthouse while most white lawyers were not questioned. They also said they were often asked to identify themselves when they sat in the front row of the courtroom, which is reserved for lawyers.
Black and Hispanic lawyers told the report’s authors that they are “believed less often” when making statements to judges, a problem that is magnified when their client is also a person of color.
One lawyer said she has been called “aggressive” while her white male counterparts have not when they have made similar arguments before the court, the report said.
Chrishana White, a Black woman who is the director of diversity and inclusion for Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defender organization, said the kind of pervasive racism in courthouses that the report highlighted had led her to stop practicing law. She said when she walked into court she was often “assumed to be less than an attorney.”
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Judges interviewed for the report said there were challenges to diversifying the judiciary. The appointment process, some judges said, required candidates to go through judicial screening committees that were predominantly white.
One judge said the electoral process also tends to marginalize Black and Hispanic candidates. Like the appointive process, it depends on a candidate’s personal connections, and the nominating system, which is controlled by party loyalists, “causes candidates of color to be bypassed or discouraged by party leadership, particularly in upstate counties.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 06, 2020, 02:36:38 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 06, 2020, 10:51:26 pm
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Citing zero evidence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asks Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest election workers in Pennsylvania
Post by: guest5 on November 06, 2020, 11:21:28 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-speaker-house-newt-gingrich-172256262.htmlQuoteCiting zero evidence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asks Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest election workers in Pennsylvania
How can any serious government allow these types of people to remain within it's ranks and expect anything to go smoothly and for the benefit of the people and their state?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 06, 2020, 11:23:11 pm
Because civilians are not applying the Second Amendment.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 26, 2020, 10:55:47 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 30, 2020, 11:01:37 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 05, 2021, 10:37:12 pm
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Officer who shot Jacob Blake will not face charges, district attorney says
Rusten Sheskey will not face charges in the shooting of Jacob Blake, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday.
Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times in the back while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
"It is my decision now that no Kenosha law enforcement officer will be charged with any criminal offense based on the facts and laws," Graveley said Tuesday.
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Graveley announced there will be no charges for the other two officers involved in the incident. They were identified by the Wisconsin Justice Department in September as Officers Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek.
Graveley should now be considered complicit and dealt with the same way Sheskey should be dealt with.
In other news:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-ordered-freed-without-bail-banned-d-c-court-date/
Freeing with bail would be bad enough (as I previously mentioned, bail is a Western institution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail#History
which should be eliminated ASAP). But freeing without bail leaves us in no doubt whose side they are on.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 08, 2021, 11:07:13 pm
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years.
A judge last month granted a deferred judgment for Michael Ray Stepanek, 45, who told police he drove his Toyota Camry through the crowd in August because the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.”
The sentence means a felony charge of willful injury resulting in bodily injury against Stepanek will be dismissed and expunged, as long as he does not commit a crime during a three-year term of probation. Judge Paul Miller also suspended a $1,025 civil fine.
Now Miller needs to be shot too!
Post by: guest5 on January 09, 2021, 12:42:17 pm
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Rep. Louie Gohmert threatens white supremacist terrorism during his interview on Newsmax.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCCm4wdR6hI
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 10, 2021, 11:07:07 pm
Post by: guest5 on January 12, 2021, 01:05:35 pm
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Several hundred protesters gathered in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon calling on US Senator Josh Hawley to resign.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUoAIwrMew
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Republicans are horrific hypocrites. Rick Strom breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEC3ozAHYKo
Post by: Starling on January 16, 2021, 09:06:41 pm
The Communists, thus the False Left, will try to divide American society along lines of race (as per conventional categorization)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwwNH_r2muw
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 27, 2021, 03:24:07 am
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An Ohio lawmaker who caused an uproar last year when he asked whether the “colored population” was more susceptible to the coronavirus because they “do not wash their hands as well as other groups” has been chosen to lead the state Senate’s health panel.
State Sen. Stephen Huffman, a Republican who was fired from his job as an emergency room doctor amid the uproar over his remarks last June, was picked for the post by his cousin, Senate President Matt Huffman.
So, nepotism too!
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"He apologized months ago for asking a clumsy and awkwardly worded question. Sincere apologies deserve sincere forgiveness, and not the perpetual politically weaponized judgment of the cancel culture," Fortney said.
Sincere apology? Has he cut out his own tongue?
Post by: guest5 on January 27, 2021, 10:13:54 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txiCxXtjPQ
Burnett: This is the kind of thinking the GOP is embracing
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CNN's Erin Burnett wonders how House Republicans could remain silent over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) past comments supporting the execution of prominent Democrats and others about the Parkland school shooting. Rep. Greene was recently given a seat on the House Committee on Education and Labor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EcdPFh9uc
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The stage is being set, we must be patient. — Rep. Greene
Tucker Carlson To QAnon: Don't Let Them Thought Police You
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Tucker Carlson doesn't see the problem with these INSANE social media posts from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztAEdR0dmUs
Post by: guest5 on January 28, 2021, 01:19:36 pm
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In the post-Trump era, Fox News is taking a hard-right turn in a bid to win back an audience that it's losing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZzX0ilMyWI
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 28, 2021, 10:48:32 pm
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President Joe Biden’s American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter reportedly manages a pro-Trump Facebook group that provides sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos.
ASL interpreter Heather Mewshaw was introduced by press secretary Jen Psaki as “today’s interpreter, Heather” on Monday, as the administration announced it would be adding a sign language interpreter to its daily press briefings.
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One video Ms Mewshaw features in is titled: “WHAT REALLY HAPPENED On January 6th?” while another is called: “Joe Biden is literally and legally not the President elect.”
In a video on 20 January titled “Thank You President Trump From the Right Side ASL Team!” which was posted just five days before she was introduced as an ASL interpreter for the Biden administration, Ms Mewshaw wore a MAGA hat and signed to Mr Trump dancing to “YMCA”, according to Time.
https://www.change.org/p/white-house-remove-heather-mewshaw-from-white-house-for-asl-interpreting?source_location=petitions_browse
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 16, 2021, 09:17:58 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html
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The criminal case against Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park and falsely reported that he had threatened her, was dismissed on Tuesday after Ms. Cooper completed a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases.
At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, a senior prosecutor asked a judge to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Ms. Cooper — falsely reporting an incident — and the judge agreed. Ms. Cooper had faced up to a year in jail if convicted.
The resolution of the case without a trial or a guilty plea was for some an anticlimactic ending to an incident that had provoked intense discussions across the country about how Black people are harmed by false reports to the police.
The prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said Ms. Cooper had participated in five therapy sessions that focused in part on how racial identities shape people’s lives. Her therapist had reported that the sessions were “a moving experience” and that Ms. Cooper “learned a lot,” Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon said.
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Ms. Cooper’s lawyer, Robert Barnes, thanked the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Twitter for what he called “a thorough & honest inquiry.”
Remember all their names. One day they will all have to answer for their complicity.
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Eliza Orlins, a candidate for Manhattan district attorney, said in a tweet that the dismissal “isn’t surprising.”
“This is how the system was designed to function — to protect the privileged from accountability,” she said.
What is the name of this system? Answer: Western civilization.
Also let's not forget that the victim also believes it is OK to be "white":
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In July, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., decided to charge Ms. Cooper with filing a false report, one of the first charges a white person in the United States had faced for filing a false report involving a Black person.
“We will hold people who make false and racist 911 calls accountable,” Mr. Vance said later.
But prosecutors faced a problem: Mr. Cooper declined to participate in the investigation, saying Ms. Cooper had already paid a “steep price.”
He too is our enemy now, as he has proven that he cares less about protecting future victims than about protecting the criminal.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 24, 2021, 09:16:45 pm
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After news that a grand jury announced no criminal charges would be brought against the Rochester officers whose restraint of Daniel Prude may have caused his death, members of the city's Black community expressed grief, anger and fatigue, along with a determination to set a new path forward.
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Protesters expressed frustration with the Rochester Police Department and the grand jury's decision not to charge any officers in Prude's death, which comes on the heels of similar findings in the high-profile cases of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor. The Kenosha, Wisconsin, officer who shot Blake was not charged. One Louisville, Kentucky, officer was indicted on counts of wantonly endangering Taylor's neighbors, but no officers were charged with killing Taylor herself.
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"If we cannot get justice for Daniel Prude then Black communities are not safe," Brown said. "The grand jury decided it was more important to protect white officers who work from a slave patrol blueprint of 1819 in this city than to offer public safety to its Black citizens.
"We’ve never had public safety for the whole of the Black and brown community," she said. "We need to stop telling ourselves that that’s what we have.”
If we cannot get justice through the system, we can still get it through application of the Second Amendment.
Post by: guest5 on February 24, 2021, 11:31:48 pm
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Former Trump campaign senior adviser Lara Trump discusses what former president will say at CPAC this weekend.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLi5oX5X_cw
Post by: guest5 on March 03, 2021, 09:14:07 pm
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With voting rights again under threat before the Supreme Court, NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the legislative voter suppression efforts also happening in states across the nation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxPkPKyZNOk
Post by: guest5 on March 06, 2021, 07:13:44 pm
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A former police officer in Kentucky is sponsoring a bill that would make it illegal to "accost, insult, taunt, or... [use of] offensive or derisive words" towards a police officer during a protest. David Shuster, Jayar Jackson, and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.
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"A bill moving through Kentucky's Senate would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer during a riot. Supporters say the bill targets people who unlawfully "cross the line" but opponents call it a blatant attempt to crush protests and a violation of First Amendment rights."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DjKAPv5JpA
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 13, 2021, 10:25:34 pm
Post by: rp on March 17, 2021, 11:48:51 pm
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article215897645.html
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 31, 2021, 03:47:04 am
Post by: guest5 on March 31, 2021, 11:21:14 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 03, 2021, 11:37:07 pm
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Gov. Mike Huckabee Grotesquely Mocks Asian Americans In Tweet Amid Racist Violence
Amid a raging upsurge in attacks on Asian Americans, former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee posted an outrageously dismissive, mocking tweet about people of Chinese ancestry in America.
“I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese,” Huckabee tweeted Saturday. “Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my ‘values’ and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games,” he added, in a reference to criticism against Georgia for its new law making it more difficult to vote.
“Ain’t America great?” he asked sarcastically.
(responses available at link)
About Huckabee:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/friends-of-zion-honors-mike-huckabee-596064
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/01/mike-huckabee-israeli-occupied-west-bank-efrat-holiday-home
(https://armoneyandpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AP18213305069777.jpg)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 10, 2021, 12:03:29 am
https://www.city-journal.org/asian-american-activists-fighting-ncy-school-reform
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The fundamental problem: under the current exam-based standards, white and Asian students perform well enough to earn the vast majority of spots in gifted-and-talented programs, and an even greater share in top high schools, yet 70 percent of the roughly 1 million children across the system’s 1,800 schools are black or Hispanic.
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The mayor’s proposal to reform specialized high schools would phase out the SHSAT and replace it with a system that admits students on various factors, including how well they perform on state assessments and where they rank in their own middle schools. According to an analysis by the New York City Independent Budget Office, the plan would keep the proportion of white students the same, boost the share of black and Hispanic students to 46 percent from its current 10 percent, and halve the percentage of Asian students, to 31 percent.
If you are too stupid to figure out what is going on here, no amount of school will help you.
Post by: guest5 on April 15, 2021, 09:55:13 pm
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"It is very hard to see how this man could be acquitted. And yet, let's remember the context here," says Chris Hayes on the Derek Chauvin trial. "There is a history of police violence against unarmed Black people recorded on camera that has not led to convictions."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgf8JWadznM
Because all juries are miniature democracies, therefore justice is the exception not the rule. If 75 million people out of 160 million people voted for some one like Trump, what makes you think a jury is capable of justice?
Post by: guest5 on April 16, 2021, 11:16:00 pm
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High school students in Texas were disciplined for a “slave-trading game” on Snapchat that “auctioned” off classmates based on race.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJFkqWmuZA
#Racism
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 17, 2021, 02:55:47 am
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 24, 2021, 12:23:27 am
Anyone want to remove his tongue?
Post by: guest5 on April 24, 2021, 12:15:29 pm
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MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the rise in extremism affecting Republican parties at the state level with Melissa Ryan, author of the Ctrl Alt-Right Delete newsletter, who is an expert in disinformation and the dark corners of the internet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyYtONlRGWs
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 24, 2021, 10:09:54 pm
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The racial tension at the Colorado Capitol is escalating, and Black lawmakers say they won't tolerate it — or the silence of their white allies any longer.
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Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Penrose) made a joke last week about lynching and said the Three-fifths Compromise that devalued the lives of Black slaves during the drafting of the Constitution was "not impugning anybody’s humanity."
Rep. Rod Bockenfeld (R-Watkins) shouted "I didn't ask for this color" on the House floor after a Black lawmaker condemned white supremacy following last month's Atlanta shootings, in which six of the victims were Asian women.
In 2019, another Republican lawmaker falsely claimed that white people were lynched as often as Black people.
Be smart: The instances are not isolated, and Black lawmakers say their viewpoints are more likely to get discounted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hanks
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Hanks participated in the January 6, 2021 protests that culminated in the storming of the United States Capitol, saying that "people had already entered the building" by the time he arrived at a designated meeting area.[5] In a fundraising newsletter, Hanks continued to promote conspiracy theories regarding the certification of the 2020 election.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 28, 2021, 04:39:12 am
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The Minnesota Department of Corrections is investigating one of its officers after he was recorded taunting and shouting profanities at a group, largely composed of Black people, peacefully protesting police brutality and racial injustice on Sunday.
Sgt. Paul Gorder, who has worked at Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater for more than 30 years, has been placed on “investigative leave” while MN DOC’s Office of Professional Accountability reviews the matter, a spokeswoman for the department told HuffPost in an email Monday.
“The actions in this video in no way reflect the values of the MN DOC,” the spokeswoman wrote.
In the nearly 40-second video, recorded on a cellphone by one of the protesters, Gorder can be seen giving the middle finger to the small group of demonstrators, which included several Black people, in Stillwater, Minnesota, about 25 miles east of Minneapolis.
“**** you, fuckers!” shouted Gorder, who was wearing American flag shorts.
At one point, a blond woman standing with Gorder can be heard yelling, “All you **** n****rs ― get out of here!”
Multiple witnesses identified the woman as Gorder’s wife, Kimberly Beer. Facebook accounts for Gorder and Beer feature photos of them together.
https://twitter.com/nvlevy/status/1386539241505796097 (video here)
Post by: guest5 on April 30, 2021, 12:15:00 am
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CNN's Van Jones reacts after Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said America is "not a racist country" in the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden's joint address to Congress.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOd5TrzoT0&list=TLPQMzAwNDIwMjGUYGzLw6e5cA&index=2
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 05, 2021, 12:13:03 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p22mcO-2UY
Ignore Kasparian's False Leftism at 7:09.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 08, 2021, 10:46:15 pm
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Derek Chauvin was indicted in the arrest of a 14-year-old whom prosecutors say he knelt on for 17 minutes and hit with a flashlight
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In a court filing, the Minnesota state prosecutor Matthew Frank said videos from the arrest show Chauvin striking the teenager in the head and then pinning him to the ground with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, ignoring complaints that the teen couldn't breathe.
Chauvin and another officer had been called to the teen's home after his mother reported that her two children had assaulted her, according to the filing. The officers told the boy, who was lying on the floor, that he was under arrest, and then Chauvin struck him several times with a flashlight before putting him in the prone position.
Chauvin hit the boy with the flashlight, then grabbed his throat and hit him again in the head with it, according to the filing. The teen called out for his mother and for the officers to stop hurting him, the indictment said.
He bled from his left ear and later was hospitalized to get stitches, according to the filing.
Videos of the arrest first surfaced last year but did not lead to state charges.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 14, 2021, 10:12:58 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-accused-storming-capitol-giant-143555257.html
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A man accused of storming the Capitol with a giant Confederate flag will get to go on a family road trip while awaiting trial
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Kevin Seefried is allowed to take his scheduled family trip to Salvo, North Carolina, on May 15, returning to Delaware on May 22, according to court documents.
His son, Hunter Seefried, was also charged in the Capitol siege; he too got approval to travel for the trip.
Prosecutors took no issue with either defendant leaving town for the vacation, court filings show.
We need the prosecutors' names.
Post by: guest5 on May 16, 2021, 02:19:42 am
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Jen Psaki shut down this question about Sen. Tom Cotton’s proposal to penalize colleges that teach the history of racism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyNytZO4bKg
Post by: guest5 on May 23, 2021, 11:50:11 pm
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Author of “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service” Carol Leonnig discusses revelations from her new book including the existence of extremism among some of those in charge of protecting the president, and how after the Capitol insurrection, some agents expressed their support for the rioters.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRvW4C97dY
Trump's Impact On The Secret Service Was 'Corrosive'
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In her new best-selling book, 'Zero Fail,' Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post Reporter Carol Leonnig details the history of the Secret Service, Trump's impact on the agency, and so much more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMkOT6TL2cg&list=TLPQMjQwNTIwMjFG5u2aWbY0Cg&index=3
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 25, 2021, 09:54:52 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fight-whitewash-us-history-drop-100026579.html
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 31, 2021, 01:55:58 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXwdjFt6wI0
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 03, 2021, 10:21:33 pm
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A white prosecutor in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, told deputy prosecutors not to make plea deals with a Black lawyer who criticized systemic racism in criminal courts, according to emails seen by the Tribune Review.
Emails seen by the paper show Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. emailing his deputy prosecutors about attorney Milton Raiford.
Post by: guest5 on June 05, 2021, 12:04:32 pm
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The Department of Justice and FBI are investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign contributions of former employees. The Washington Post's Jacob Bogage has details.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdAzHJ9tKY
Post by: guest5 on June 07, 2021, 08:41:49 pm
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Audio obtained exclusively by CNN shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsH5nuBWhq4
#CNN #News
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 09, 2021, 10:30:23 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania-republicans-cut-lawmakers-mic-234357103.html
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A Pennsylvania Democrat had his speech cut short on Wednesday after he noted the state's Republican lawmakers are "100% white."
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Sims punctuated his remarks with an attack on his Republican colleagues and the demographic makeup of their caucus. The bill, he argued, was just another line item in "a grossly, predictably misogynistic agenda - an agenda pursued by a party that is 100% white, in a chamber that is 70% male."
House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler, a Republican, then cut Sims' microphone. "That's enough," he said amid booing from other GOP lawmakers.
Sims was unrepentant.
"Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you cheer for."
https://twitter.com/jjabbott/status/1402713851251003396 (video)
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@PAHouseGOP
leader has meltdown on House floor after it was raised that his caucus is 100% white in a chamber that is 70% male while pushing bills that hurt women's health, especially Black and brown women.
He had it stricken from the record then they shut down the floor.
Post by: guest5 on June 09, 2021, 10:43:03 pm
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"Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you cheer for."
Post by: guest5 on June 10, 2021, 11:10:27 pm
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Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that the DOJ seized private data on members of Congress and their staff members and families, and still fresh revelations that the data of reporters was also subpoenaed in other investigations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSrpVqowzs
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 12, 2021, 10:49:37 pm
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Dr. Christine Longo (her status as a physician was revealed by her attorney after her bench trial), a 34-year-old woman from South Kingstown, ran afoul of the law for berating Adote Akpabie, his wife and two daughters, as the family vacationed in Narragansett in June 2020.
Although Associate Judge James Caruolo found Longo guilty of disorderly conduct, he ruled that she had not committed a hate crime. If Longo had been found guilty of violating the state’s rarely used hate crimes law, she would have faced an enhanced sentence.
Under the law, prosecutors must prove that the defendant “intentionally selected the person against whom the offense is committed” because of their “hatred or animus toward the actual or perceived disability, religion, color, race, national origin or ancestry, sexual orientation, or gender of that person.”
So, do Longo's own words sufficiently incriminate her? You judge:
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“Look at this [expletive] Black guy,” Longo said when she saw Akpabie walking in the restaurant to reserve a table, according to a witness. “Go back where you came from.” The woman then began to shout at Akpabie’s wife and two teenage daughters, who were waiting outside of the restaurant.
“Blacks don’t belong here,” Logo told Akpabie’s wife and daughters, according to police
So Caruolo is the problem.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 23, 2021, 11:43:37 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-capitol-attack-first-defendant-100025672.html
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Anna Morgan-Lloyd, a 49 year-old Donald Trump supporter from Indiana, was the first person to be sentenced for participating in the 6 January attack. She will spend no time in prison after pleading guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building”.
Judge Royce C Lamberth gave Morgan-Lloyd three years of probation
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Morgan-Lloyd had initially boasted on Facebook about how she had “stormed the Capitol”, calling the event “the most exciting day of my life”.
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“I think she’s learned a lot,” Morgan-Lloyd’s attorney, Heather Shaner, told the Guardian.
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“She’s a very fine woman, and I hope she gets probation,” Shaner said.
Lamberth and Shaner are what the Second Amendment was designed for.
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Unlike most federal defendants, who typically remain in detention before trial, the vast majority of people charged in the Capitol riots have already been released, a Guardian analysis found. The stark contrast in pretrial detention rates has prompted questions about whether the predominantly white Capitol defendants were getting different treatment from prosecutors and judges than most federal defendants, who are Black and Latino.
Duh!
By the way, note Morgan-Lloyd's face shape:
(https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/06/17/19/newFile.jpg)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 24, 2021, 10:28:50 pm
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Black US farmers dismayed as white farmers’ lawsuit halts relief payments
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The money, intended as a way to address more than 100 years of discriminatory practices and policies that have historically and disproportionately disadvantaged Black owners of farmland, is now being held up due to an injunction granted this month by a federal judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The USDA says it will “forcefully defend” the payments and is fighting lawsuits against them with the Department of Justice. Around the country there are other lawsuits against debt relief to Black and minority farmers with claims of discrimination against white farmers, including one in Texas backed by the ex-Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
Farming while Black, according to Rodney Bradshaw, never gets any easier. “My feeling before [the injunction] was that we’re finally getting some justice that was due to us after the Pigford agreement [a discrimination settlement in the late 1990s]. Now, it’s that promises to Black farmers are always put on hold,” says Bradshaw, of Jetmore, Kansas.
He is a descendant of Black settlers with a more than 100-year legacy of farming in Kansas, but that legacy is as threatened as ever today, he says, because of racism that has been allowed to run rampant, and in some cases been historically supported, by the USDA.
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Black farmers peaked in number in 1920 when there were 949,889; today there are only 48,697; they account for only 1.4% of the country’s 3.4 million farmers (95% of US farmers are white) and own 0.52% of America’s farmland.
Part of the reason was displacement of Black farmers due to New Deal legislation, whose purpose was to help farmers by paying them to reduce crop production, thereby forcing food prices to rise. But white farmers used the money to purchase mechanical farming equipment and pushed out Black sharecroppers whose work was no longer needed due to the decreased production.
Disenfranchisement didn’t stop there. In 1965, the US Commission on Civil Rights found that the USDA discriminated against Black farmers when providing financial assistance payments and loans. In 1999, the Clinton administration admitted that the USDA’s loan practices were discriminatory, in what is now known as the Pigford Settlement.
The Pigford Settlement was named for the Black farmer Timothy Pigford of North Carolina, who was the lead plaintiff in a victorious 1997 class action lawsuit – still the largest civil rights settlement ever won against the federal government. It was supposed to pay just over $1bn to Black farmers, but less than 16,000 payments were received, even though more than 22,000 claims were filed.
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On the recent injunction, she says: “A colleague reminded us, ‘It is always going to be all deliberate speed if it’s on white supremacy’s time.’”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 29, 2021, 10:42:25 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-indictment-georgia-officer-killed-175112206.html
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ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury has declined to indict a former Georgia state trooper who shot and killed a Black man last year after trying to pull him over for a broken tail light.
Jacob Thompson, who worked for the Georgia State Patrol, had been arrested on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault in the Aug. 7 death of 60-year-old Julian Lewis. After the case was presented to a Screven County grand jury Monday, the grand jurors did not indict Thompson on any of the charges.
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Thompson, who is white, tried to pull Lewis over for a broken tail light in rural Screven County, near Georgia's border with South Carolina. When Lewis didn't immediately stop, the trooper pursued him and forced his car into a ditch, then shot Lewis in the head.
Thompson wrote in his incident report that he shot Lewis as Lewis was revving his engine and turning his steering wheel, as if he was trying to ram the trooper. But Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Dustin Peak testified in September that was impossible, because Lewis’ car battery disconnected when it hit the ditch, leaving the vehicle inoperable.
Peak testified that dash camera video shows one second elapsed between the time the trooper got out of his patrol vehicle and when he fired the shot that killed Lewis.
Thompson's face:
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/MoHxswcjVN0ZsDEwzJLffw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTc1Ny44MDg5ODg3NjQwNDQ5O2NmPXdlYnA-/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VD8wIIOgow6PCeqRWW3l3w--~B/aD0zMTU3O3c9MjkzNzthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2633c540c4a4c9405b00dfb54ecbd6ea)
But who were the jurors? They are now complicit in the crime.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 07, 2021, 10:08:14 pm
Post by: guest55 on July 08, 2021, 10:24:00 pm
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"When it comes to a certain class of criminal, there is no one softer on crime than the Republican Party," says Chris Hayes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ualRfAMfyPc
Rightists are very worried about "whites" who get caught for tax fraud, obviously....
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(https://politicalpunchline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/trump-hair-styling-write-off.jpg)
Post by: guest55 on July 11, 2021, 07:04:38 pm
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In her speech at CPAC Texas, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) defended sending National Guard troops to the southern border, and took aim at "critical race theory" and the "1619 Project."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIr-OzY8-7M
Post by: guest55 on July 11, 2021, 09:45:26 pm
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem delivers a speech at CPAC 2021.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zs4j40ORoY
Post by: guest55 on July 17, 2021, 03:08:38 pm
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A Texas federal judge ruled DACA illegal, blocking new applications from undocumented immigrantshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i22xTdBBMo
Post by: guest55 on July 17, 2021, 03:17:52 pm
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A new YouGov/BrightLineWatch poll says that 66% of Republicans from southern states want to secede from the United States. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Adrienne Lawrence discuss on The Young Turkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4egwEbESA
Post by: guest55 on July 21, 2021, 09:52:42 pm
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Texas already banned teachers from discussing racism, but that wasn't enough as the legislature is now trying to ban teaching that the KKK is morally wrong.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kax-x6XamFc
Post by: guest55 on July 22, 2021, 02:53:26 pm
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At the top of the Senate Energy Committee hearing, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) accused BLM Director nominee Tracy Stone-Manning of lying to the committee about her part in a 1989 tree-spiking plot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV79ovXwbZU
Post by: guest55 on July 22, 2021, 02:59:07 pm
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House GOP leadership hold a weekly press briefing in which they condemned President Biden's response to the protests in Cuba and the continuing surge of migrants crossing the southern border.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPGbuBgAwRI
Post by: guest55 on July 23, 2021, 12:27:18 pm
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Candace Owens believes that conservatives today face the same problems as Jews in Nazi Germany. Dr. Rashad Richey discusses on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_UD5u_0k44
Starting to think articles and videos such as these belong under this section?: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/alt-right-internet-pipeline/
How is it that rightists in France and the U.S. are all hitting the same talking points all of a sudden?: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/french-anti-vaccine-protesters-compare-themselves-to-jews-in-nazi-germany/
See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/marjorie-taylor-greene/?message=6681
Post by: guest55 on August 02, 2021, 06:23:34 pm
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More issues are emerging from Arizona Republicans' controversial 2020 presidential election audit, which ended last week. Arizona's former secretary of state, who is overseeing the process, threatened to quit last week after being locked out of a building where the audit was taking place. Then the tally from Cyber Ninjas, the private company conducting the audit, failed to match Maricopa County's official count. Cyber Ninjas' CEO also says private donations from pro-Trump organizations helped fund the process along with the state. CBS News political reporter Adam Brewster joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" host Elaine Quijano to discuss how officials are responding to the latest developments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjj1xVfkVw
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randal gibbons
3 minutes ago
The audit took longer because the donations kept coming in.
They were using the machines to count the $5,000,000 that came in.
The audit was another grift
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Jesus Says
24 minutes ago
Non-Deplorable (decent and honorable) Americans are LAUGHING at your foolish "audit," MAGAfans!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 04, 2021, 11:26:44 pm
https://apnews.com/article/michael-brown-st-louis-20062ccc6593bd91757ad1ea4a190db5
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Missouri governor pardons gun-waving St. Louis lawyer couple
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year.
Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, and Patricia McCloskey, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
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The McCloskeys were indicted by a grand jury in October on felony charges of the unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering. Callahan later amended the charges to give jurors the alternative of convictions of misdemeanor harassment instead of the weapons charge.
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“It is beyond disgusting that Mark and Patricia McCloskey admitted they broke the law and within weeks are rewarded with pardons, yet men like Kevin Strickland, who has spent more than 40 years in prison for crimes even prosecutors now say he didn’t commit, remain behind bars with no hope of clemency,” Missouri House Democratic Minority Leader Crystal Quade said in a statement.
Post by: guest55 on August 06, 2021, 09:29:40 pm
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Deadline: White House’s Nicolle Wallace sits down with former McCain advisor Mark McKinnon, Axios reporter Alexi McCammond and New York Times’ White House correspondent Michael Shear to discuss the current state of the GOP and what it means for the future of our democracy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2lT91153mU
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SJ
2 hours ago
The irony is, if trump were a Democrat, the republicans would have had him in jail by now
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Michael Humphrey
1 hour ago
Okay so Republicans are traitors and proud of it then. Truly terrifying.
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Laird Dougal
2 hours ago
And they will do so successfully if you don’t hold Trump, Brooks and the rest of that vile crew accountable.
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Cat's Meow
2 hours ago
FOLKS better wake up and stay informed. We are living in dangerous times!
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Ngunnawal Mick
2 hours ago
The Republicans do what they do 'cos there are votes in it. Millions of Americans agree with 'em. Sick society.
Post by: guest55 on August 06, 2021, 11:37:17 pm
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The governor of Missouri has pardoned the gun-toting couple infamous for raising their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters, while a Black man in the same state who prosecutors say is innocent--and who has been incarcerated for over 40 years--remains imprisoned. Joy Reid is joined by Tricia Rojo Bushnell, director of the Midwest Innocence Project, who explains the details of Kevin Strickland’s case and his hopes for exoneration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvt-qSX72g
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Troy Patterson
1 hour ago
Three words for why these two got pardoned....rich, white, and Republican...nothing else needs to be said.
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Kay Ouellette
1 hour ago
An innocent man may not be able to leave jail .... Wtaf??
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Lost Pony
1 hour ago
This is ancient news how is this guy STILL locked up? Factually innocent=go home already
Post by: guest55 on August 07, 2021, 04:05:25 pm
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In an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Maricopa County GOP official Bill Gates talks about the threats election officials have received for refusing to push Donald Trump's big election lie and support the baseless Arizona election audit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0ud6fyrV0
#KateBolduan #ErinBurnettOutFront #CNN
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 07, 2021, 10:19:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4aS7QCFCH4
My favourite comment:
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Imagine getting mad at people for speaking Spanish in a place named "Los Angeles".
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 09, 2021, 10:10:45 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ohio-court-sentences-black-woman-193000949.html
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Ohio Court Sentences Black Woman to 18 Months in Prison the Day After Giving White Woman Probation for Same Crime
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On August 2, former Chagrin Falls, Ohio Village Clerk Debbie Bosworth pleaded no contest to 22 counts of theft in office, tampering with records and money laundering after auditors discovered she had embezzled more than $238,000 over the span of 20 years. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office rejected the 53-year-old Bosworth’s plea and asked a judge to sentence her to prison, even though she wrote a check for $100,000 to repay part of her debt when her scheme was uncovered.
But Bosworth is white, as is Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Hollie Gallagher. And in the history of America, there isn’t one documented case of a “Hollie” sending a “Debbie” to prison (yes, we actually checked). So, Gallagher, citing the fact that Bosworth paid back some of the money she stole, sentenced her fellow white woman to two years probation, much to the chagrin of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, who issued a statement saying he found the sentence “to be unacceptable in that he believes public employees who steal from taxpayers should go to prison.”
The very next day, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor James Gutierrez—the same assistant district attorney who prosecuted Bosworth—recommended a prison sentence for 51-year-old former school secretary Karla Hopkins for stealing $40,000 from Maple Heights High School. Although Hopkins appeared before the exact same court, Hopkins’ judge was a white man, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Rick Bell. Unlike Bosworth, Gallagher pleaded guilty. Unlike Bosworth, Hopkins was only charged with one count of theft in office. Unlike Bosworth, Hopkins had already found a new job, completed an in-patient program for her gambling addiction and had promised to repay the money she stole.
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Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor James Gutierrez, like Brydle did with Bosworth, sought a prison sentence for Hopkins. He told Bell that the state would be fine with a sentence of between nine and 12 months.
Bell scolded Hopkins for taking her pension money, and sentenced her to 18 months in prison — six more months than Gutierrez requested.
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The white woman committed more crimes, over a longer period of time. She stole more money than the Black woman. She had 21 more charges and cost taxpayers six times more money. She was facing 60 years in prison while the Black woman’s maximum sentence was three years. Yet the Black woman received more prison time than prosecutors wanted her to spend in jail.
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Nationwide, Black people convicted of crimes received 20 percent longer sentences than similarly situated whites who commit the same offenses, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In Ohio, the state’s Black residents are imprisoned at 6 times the rate of Ohio’s white residents, according to the Sentencing Project. In 1999, a report from the Commission on Racial Fairness found that Black Ohioans are sentenced to prison at grossly disproportionate rates compared to their white counterparts. The study, requested by the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, determined that “the consensus of the available research acknowledges that minorities are more frequently sentenced to prison and generally receive harsher penalties than do whites.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 18, 2021, 11:23:43 pm
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The president’s comments were swiftly criticised by other politicians on social media, as the Twitter hashtag #EmmanuelLePen compared him to far-right politician and leader of Le Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen.
Deputy mayor of Paris, Audrey Pulvar, said the president’s comments were similar to former President Nicolas Sarkozy comparing migrants from Syria entering Europe to a “water leak”.
France is becoming the next Denmark. But it has nukes.
Post by: Zhang Caizhi on August 19, 2021, 01:30:19 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Hamon#2017_presidential_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannick_Jadot
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In 2016, Jadot was selected by Europe Ecology – The Greens to stand as their candidate in the 2017 French presidential election after defeating fellow MEP Michèle Rivasi in the second round of primary voting.[4] Though Jadot secured 496 sponsorships just before the opening of the signature collection period,[5] he announced that he would withdraw his candidacy and endorsed Socialist nominee Benoît Hamon, the pair have agreed on a common platform;[6] their alliance was consummated when EELV primary voters approved the agreement on 26 February.[7]
Post by: guest55 on August 20, 2021, 12:04:46 pm
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House members criticized Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., after he released a statement Thursday that appeared to be sympathetic to the man police had arrested earlier in the day in connection with a bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrXkSdSJpI
Post by: guest55 on August 21, 2021, 03:24:58 pm
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The California gubernatorial recall election is “all about a GOP power grab” Rob Reiner tells Joy Reid. Independent journalist Jean Guerrero also explains the grave concerns many have about controversial Republican recall candidate Larry Elder, a supporter of Stephen Miller, possibly becoming the governor of California through this election.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFjQMTQx0Do
Disturbing to say the least.
See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/stephen-miller/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 21, 2021, 10:38:56 pm
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“I’m really quite proud to be white,” Rep. Brian Smith, R-Derby, told a crowd that was largely, if not entirely, white. “And I don’t think too many people want to say that, but I’m glad I am.”
Smith made the comments during the latest in a series of meetings held around the state to discuss “critical race theory” and oppose discussion of structural racism in public schools. Video of the event, held last Friday in Brighton, Vt., was captured by NEK-TV and posted to YouTube.
In an interview with VtDigger on Thursday, Smith stood by his earlier comments — and disputed the existence of white privilege.
And yes, he looks like what we would expect:
(https://static.votesmart.org/static/canphoto/171300.jpg)
Post by: guest55 on August 24, 2021, 02:17:58 pm
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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham remained a loyal ally to former President Donald Trump throughout both of Trump’s impeachments, but now Graham says he wants to impeach President Joe Biden for his approach to the drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan. In the latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explores Graham’s blind loyalty to Trump and how it’s still affecting his political moves.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI1tcoxp-go
You just cannot make this stuff up....
Post by: guest55 on August 24, 2021, 02:19:10 pm
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The final report from the Arizona ballot audit has been delayed due to a number of staffers testing positive for COVID-19. This is a testament to how ridiculous the audit has been run from the start, and after security failures, court rulings, and a total lack of transparency, they now have to fight against a virus that they could have easily protected themselves from. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why this whole process has been a joke from the start.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_GnDLsaTug
Post by: guest55 on August 24, 2021, 07:19:51 pm
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The rumours have circulated for decades. Did the CIA flood the inner cities of the US with crack **** in the 1980s? Was the American government actually responsible for the crack epidemic?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2-zYEldGc
Often dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but passionately believed by huge sections of the population – the idea that US intelligence agencies knowingly protected drug traffickers and played a role in bringing **** into the US is one of the most often repeated stories of the War on Drugs.
But what is the truth to these allegations? It turns out the real story is perhaps even stranger than the street-level gossip.
This is how one reporter exposed a web of CIA cover-ups, and how the rest of the media destroyed him for doing so.
The short answer as presented by this video: no, the CIA did not directly sell crack in the 1980's. Regardless, the War On Drugs should never have happened in the first place!
Post by: guest55 on August 26, 2021, 02:33:41 pm
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Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the California governor recall ballot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYN8ivXGzbY
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 27, 2021, 12:06:36 am
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Crenshaw demands United States 'Unleash our military power NOW'
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, ripped the commander of U.S. Central Command for its coordination with the Taliban to keep Americans safe.
Crenshaw said Gen. Frank McKenzie Jr. has "got to be kidding" after U.S. officials told the Taliban to help keep its forces and civilians safe in Afghanistan.
About Crenshaw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crenshaw#Political_positions
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he became a "staunch defender" of Trump after the 2016 election.[71][72] He voted against both articles of impeachment the House of Representatives brought against Trump in 2019.[73]
In 2020, Crenshaw defended the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[74][75] In a video Trump retweeted, Crenshaw rebutted criticisms that the Trump administration had been slow in responding to the virus.[74]
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After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump refused to concede, Crenshaw was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the election.[80][81][82] The lawsuit claimed that the four swing states that Biden won had taken "unconstitutional actions", and invoked baseless claims of fraud.[83]
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Crenshaw voted against the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021.[93]
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In 2019, Crenshaw voiced opposition to the For the People Act of 2019, saying it would "limit free speech drastically". He also said the bill would use taxpayer money to "legalize" the kind of electoral fraud that he alleges occurred in the 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election.[96] PolitiFact rated Crenshaw's assertion about the North Carolina race "false", adding, "nothing in the bill that expands who can collect absentee ballots, allows people to fill out ballots for others, or loosens witnessing procedures for absentee ballots", as happened in that election.[96][97]
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During Crenshaw's 2018 campaign, he defended Trump's proposal to build a border wall on the Mexico–United States border.[57] In a May 2019 appearance on The View, he claimed that 80–90% of asylum seeker requests "don't have a valid asylum claim". PolitiFact rated his statement "false", asserting that while it is true that between 20 and 30 percent of asylum requests per year have been granted since 2009, some of the rejected applications may still hold legal merit.[103] In 2021, Crenshaw accused the Biden administration of provoking a crisis on the southern border by having a memorandum on deportations and reversing Trump's policies on asylum and illegal immigration.[104]
Crenshaw supports enforcing physical barriers and implementing technology at the southern border to prevent illegal immigration.
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Crenshaw supports cooperation with and support for Israel.[7][114]
Face shape:
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ovGJ_vVlhlPRrMeg_teDNw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQzMC4zMjQ2NzUzMjQ2NzUzO2NmPXdlYnA-/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Cp9kl5.bLTCgjIIt7kpn4g--~B/aD05NDA7dz0xNTQwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/washington_examiner_articles_265/58060638449fcd5aa0aed19a11f67e50)
Even an eyepatch can't hide his subhumanity.
Post by: guest55 on August 27, 2021, 10:46:38 pm
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Democrats in California are worried about the potential of losing the upcoming recall election, especially thanks to their stupid strategy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J45Y-pKNiWQ
If Larry Elder wins in California I may actually be fast-tracking my exit from the U.S. ....
CA Republican Takes "Mulligan" on Trump's Big Lie
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California Republican Larry Elder leads the polls among Republicans in the recall election but is losing his grip after accidentally called the 2020 election fair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD0eGSdGt08
Post by: guest55 on August 27, 2021, 11:09:54 pm
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Caller suspects Donald Trump could win in 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRlyq_RA1I
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 27, 2021, 11:11:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reLGa9jpWM
Post by: guest55 on August 28, 2021, 12:30:38 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0jHrOi_fM
Florida Politician Makes Racist Comments To Teenagers
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Martin Hyde as some explaining to do.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4waMvlmxE0
Post by: guest55 on August 28, 2021, 02:31:05 pm
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Ken Paxton, the indicted Republican Attorney General of Texas, has released a report this week that seeks to absolve him of any wrongdoing in an ongoing bribery investigation. The report, predictable, claims that Paxton didn't do anything wrong and that the multiple whistleblowers who came forward were actually lying. You'd have to have a head filled with marbles in order to believe this garbage, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfI4sGrLUuE
Post by: guest55 on August 29, 2021, 12:54:45 pm
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Via America’s Lawyer: California voters head to federal court over the upcoming recall election for governor. They’re insisting the process is unconstitutional and is specifically designed to oust Gavin Newsom. RT correspondent Brigida Santos joins Mike Papantonio to explain why some believe the special election to be rigged against Governor Newsom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG7mXh1KPcE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 29, 2021, 09:56:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47htbt1Jj9U
Post by: guest55 on August 30, 2021, 07:50:46 pm
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After a teacher assaulted a student, a group of students walked out to show support for their peer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKi6Y9w9kPc
Post by: guest55 on August 30, 2021, 07:58:34 pm
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A state official and former sheriff in Georgia resigns over photos of him in KKK regalia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y27FU274gTI
Post by: guest55 on August 30, 2021, 08:18:32 pm
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Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump’s former lawyer, Sidney Powell, accused election technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic of rigging the election.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyWDAJzCZk
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 31, 2021, 11:53:20 pm
About McCarthy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(California_politician)#Political_positions
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On September 17, 2020, McCarthy voted against House Resolution 908 to condemn racism against Asian-Americans related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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McCarthy was an early supporter of Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, saying that Trump's "intensity" could help the Republicans win House seats.[115] McCarthy also suggested in a private recording with GOP House leadership in 2016 that Putin pays Trump, which McCarthy said is a joke went wrong.[116]
After the 2018 mid-term elections, in which Democrats won a majority in the House, McCarthy said that Democrats should not investigate President Donald Trump.
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In 2019, McCarthy defended government officials spending money at resorts owned by President Trump. He said that there was no difference between government officials spending money at hotels owned by Trump and other hotels.[120]
In October 2019, McCarthy said "there's nothing that the president did wrong" in regard to President Trump requesting that the Ukrainian President start an investigation into 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.[121]
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McCarthy himself had been among those Republicans, who in the weeks prior to the January 6th attack on Congressional offices, had spread false claims about the validity of the presidential election.[123]
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McCarthy did not vote to impeach Trump for a second time,
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McCarthy said he did not think that Trump "provoked" the attack.[123]
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McCarthy visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort to discuss the future of the Republican Party. McCarthy released a statement that read in part, "Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022".[128]
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On May 19, 2021, McCarthy and all the other Republican House leaders in the 117th Congress voted against establishing the January 6 commission.
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McCarthy has been frequently at odds with environmental groups; the League of Conservation Voters has given him a lifetime score of 3%, as of 2015.[133][134] McCarthy does not accept the scientific consensus on climate change, as of 2014.[135][136] He was a major opponent of President Obama's Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas from coal-fired power plants.[133][136] He has opposed regulations on methane leaks from fossil-fuel drilling facilities, characterizing them as "bureaucratic and unnecessary.'"[133] In 2015, McCarthy opposed the U.S.'s involvement in global efforts to combat climate change; as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference began, McCarthy announced that he would oppose an international agreement on climate change.[137][138] In 2017, McCarthy led House Republican efforts to use the Congressional Review Act to undo a number of environmental regulations enacted during the Obama administration.[139]
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In 2019, McCarthy had threatened to take "action" against two new Muslim congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who have sharply criticized the Israeli government's policies in the Palestinian territories and embraced the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. McCarthy said that if Democrats "do not take action I think you'll see action from myself."[148]
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McCarthy voiced support for Hong Kong protesters.
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McCarthy said he supported Israel's planned annexation of the West Bank.[151] He signed a letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that reaffirms "the unshakeable alliance between the United States and Israel".[152]
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Throughout 2018, McCarthy opposed efforts to codify the legal status of DREAMers after Trump suspended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which provided temporary stay for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as minors.
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In June 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the holding centers for undocumented immigrants at the Mexico–United States border to "concentration camps". McCarthy strongly criticized her words, saying they showed disrespect for Holocaust victims.[164]
Post by: guest55 on September 01, 2021, 08:59:03 pm
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Republican House Member Scott Perry explained why he voted against helping Afghan refugees in the most disgusting way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6jbioIkAs
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Wow this is eye opening! Huge amount of steps these people have to go thru
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Reminds me of Churchill and his treatment of Africans whom supported GB's war efforts after WW2
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So much for being really concerned about the Afghans. That didn't last very long.--
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They're okay when it comes to invading other countries and causing problems.
But when it comes to refugees from said countries trying to live freely in America, then it's "All racists on deck!"
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Doing a little search this guy has a long history of racism, tried helping trumps attempt to overthrow election etc.
Post by: guest55 on September 01, 2021, 09:04:17 pm
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This black Texas principal was suspended because a parent sent this photo into the school board.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmkDlIKvSr0
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So who is the worst... the racist who called for his firing or the "non racist" system who fired him.
Post by: guest55 on September 03, 2021, 10:15:15 pm
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A former prosecutor has been indicted for shielding the killers of Ahmaud Arbery from immediate charges.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzQc_GQisE
Post by: guest55 on September 07, 2021, 04:05:54 pm
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A recent ProPublica investigation uncovers how a cohort of far-right Trump supporters are influencing elections and the voting process. Former President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon is calling on supporters to take up low-level precinct officer positions within the Republican party to shape its future. Isaac Arnsdorf, a reporter for ProPublica, joined CBSN to discuss.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1TBcD1uK9A
Post by: guest55 on September 07, 2021, 04:15:07 pm
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Larry Elder goes on Candace Owens's show and says that slave-owners deserve slavery reparations, too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtDvC7hWQ7k
Larry Elder is a SLAVE!!!
Post by: guest55 on September 07, 2021, 04:27:25 pm
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Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert demanded that the conversation between President Biden and the former Afghan president be released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Cbn65ZCI4
Post by: guest55 on September 11, 2021, 01:22:18 pm
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In a video released to social media, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) assailed the Afghanistan withdrawal under President Biden on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqy4ElON6M
Post by: guest55 on September 16, 2021, 12:37:44 pm
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Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_txZZH9i_8
"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each other," Central York High School senior Christina Ellis told CNN.
Ellis is among the students protesting a book ban in York, Pennsylvania, and questions whether the officials who decided to remove certain reading materials from the curriculum even read the resources they deem controversial. She was joined by other teens protesting in front of Central York High School this week.
On Monday, students, parents and other community members debated during a virtual school board meeting about the list of anti-racism books and resources that were banned from the curriculum by the Central York school board last year.
Last October, the all-White school board unanimously banned a list of educational resources that included a children's book about Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai's autobiography and CNN's Sesame Street town hall on racism. CNN's Evan McMorris-Santoro reports.
#CNN #Evan McMorrisSantoro #DonLemonTonight
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 16, 2021, 09:53:50 pm
Post by: guest55 on September 17, 2021, 06:28:47 pm
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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick touts replacement theory on Fox News.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYjO2Xl73E
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This is stolen land anyway that belongs to Native American Indians.
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Unless his real name is Patrick feather, his family are immigrants too
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The real "Great Replacement" began in 1492.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 17, 2021, 10:48:57 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJWnHpzvw8
On the other hand, Uyghur reveals his False Leftism as usual (6:10-6:45). Victims of colonialism exterminating colonialists does not make us the same as them. What would make victims of colonialism the same as colonialists would be one group of victims of colonialism exterminating other victims of colonialism of different ethnicity. But exterminating colonialists is nothing but belated justice (contrary to what Uyghur says). It is seeing no need to exterminate colonialists which is injustice (as demonstrated by Uyghur).
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 20, 2021, 02:01:39 pm
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Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Sunday ruled against Democrats' plan to provide 8 million greencards as part of their $3.5 trillion spending bill, dealing a significant blow to Democrats' immigration reform chances.
MacDonough's guidance, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, all but closes the door to Democrats using the spending bill to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants.
This is the kind of person the Second Amendment was designed to get rid of.
Post by: guest55 on September 20, 2021, 11:05:52 pm
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A former senior aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul was indicted this month for allegedly funneling $25,000 from a wealthy, unnamed Russian to former President Trump's reelection efforts.(https://images.axios.com/CnEAx9C2RWu6LRIIwTtrvq73mfE=/0x0:6144x3456/1920x1080/2021/09/20/1632179994826.jpg)
The big picture: The Justice Department alleges that Jesse Benton, 43, the husband of Paul's niece and a veteran Republican staffer, orchestrated a scheme to conceal the illegal foreign donation with another GOP operative, Doug Wead.
The details: The indictment, unsealed on Monday, outlines allegations of a convoluted money trail from the unnamed Russian national through a consulting firm run by Benton and to a Trump joint fundraising committee.
The Russian national was determined to underwrite a Trump fundraising event in order to get a photo with the former president, according to communications between Benton and Weed cited in the indictment.
The indictment alleges that Benton received $100,000 from the Russian national and passed on $25,000 to the joint fundraising committee, allegedly pocketing the remaining $75,000.
Wead and Benton each face six criminal charges, including conspiracy and abetting illegal foreign political contributions.
For the record: Efforts to reach Wead were not immediately successful. Benton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Benton was previously convicted of filing false statements in connection with a scheme to funnel money from Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign to an influential Iowa politician who backed Paul in the state's presidential caucus.
Trump pardoned Benton in December, shortly before leaving office.
https://www.axios.com/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-to-trump-870141e0-4534-4cdf-8d1b-95cfe0d31e02.html
Post by: guest55 on September 21, 2021, 10:55:13 am
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A Rosa Parks book is banned in a Pennsylvania district and students are fighting back. A Black police chief faces intense criticism for pushing to reform the Waterloo police department. Madison Cawthorn allegedly carries a knife on his person and brings it to a school. 9 Oakland cops suspended after probe into ‘racist and sexist’ posts. A Canadian ‘Karen’ goes ballistic on McDonald's workers. A White woman calls a Black restaurant patron the N-word, and police coddle her. A shoplifting White woman punches a Dollar General employee in the face, cops handle her with care.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYljbSrwf0
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 28, 2021, 10:11:28 pm
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to crack down on undocumented immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border has led to the arrests of hundreds of migrants who are now languishing in Texas prisons, often without being charged with a crime or assigned legal representation in violation of both their constitutional rights and Texas state law.
The Texas Tribune reported that as of Friday, almost 900 male migrants captured as part of Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” have been imprisoned for weeks without charges. Dozens more have been held for over a month without an assigned attorney.
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As the Tribune puts it: “Defense attorneys have started asking courts to set migrants free because local justice systems, overwhelmed by arrests under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push, are routinely violating state law and constitutional due process rights.”
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“They didn’t have anyone communicating to them about their cases or their process,” Jindal told the Tribune. “You’re just sitting in jail, and the clerk doesn’t have records of you existing.”
“The system crumbles without due process,” she said.
As if the above were not bad enough:
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The U.S.-Mexico border has made news in recent weeks as thousands of migrants, including many coming from Haiti, had gathered there seeking shelter in the United States. Last week, disturbing footage showed U.S. Border Patrol on horseback swinging their reins at the migrants. This led Homeland Security to open an investigation into the incident, and President Biden promised that “those people will pay.” But on Sunday, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Abbott told the agents who may soon be fired that he would happily hire them as part of his Texas Border Patrol.
“You have a job in the state of Texas,” Abbot said, adding, “I will hire you to help Texas secure our border.”
About Abbott:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott
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In November 2015, Abbott announced that Texas would refuse Syrian refugees following the Paris terrorist attack that occurred earlier that month. In December 2015, Abbott ordered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to file a lawsuit against the federal government and the International Rescue Committee to block refugee settlement, but the lawsuit was struck down by a federal district court.[150]
On February 1, 2017, Abbott blocked funding to Travis County, Texas, due to its recently implemented sanctuary city policy.[151][152] On May 7, 2017, Abbott signed Texas Senate Bill 4 into law, targeting sanctuary cities by charging county or city officials who refuse to work with federal officials and by allowing police officers to check the immigration status of those they detain if they choose.[153][154]
In January 2020, Abbott made Texas the first state to decline refugee resettlement under a new rule implemented by the Trump administration.[155] The move was condemned in a joint statement by all 16 Catholic bishops of Texas.[156]
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Abbott rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. Abbott has said that the climate is changing, but does not accept the consensus that human activity is the primary contributor to climate change.[169][170]
In early 2014, Abbott participated in strategy sessions held at the headquarters of the United States Chamber of Commerce, devising a legal strategy for dismantling climate change regulations.[171] In 2016, Abbott supported the appointment of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), noting "He and I teamed up on many lawsuits against the EPA."[172] As Attorney General of Texas, Abbott frequently sued the federal government over environmental regulations.[173]
After Joe Biden was elected President, Abbott vowed to pursue an aggressive legal strategy against environmental regulations implemented by the Biden administration.[174]
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Abbott pressed for a purge of nearly 100,000 registered voters from Texas voter rolls. Texas officials initially claimed that the voters to be purged were not American citizens. The purge was canceled in April 2018 after voting rights groups challenged the proposed purge, and officials at the Office of the Texas Secretary of State publicly admitted that tens of thousands of legitimate voters (naturalized citizens) were wrongly flagged for removal. Abbott claimed that he played no role in the voter purge, but emails released in June 2019 showed that Abbott was the driving force behind the Department of Public Safety voter-purge effort.[175]
In September 2020, Abbott issued a proclamation providing that each Texas county could only have a single location where voters could drop off their early voting ballots. Abbott justified the decision by claiming it would prevent "illegal voting" but cited no examples of voter fraud. Election security experts say voter fraud is extremely rare.[176][177] Also in September 2020, Abbott extended the early voting period for that year's general election due to COVID-19; his decision was opposed by the Republican Party of Texas.[178]
Abbott, a political ally of Donald Trump, made "election integrity" a legislative priority following President Trump's failed attempts to overturn the election results of 2020 United States presidential election by using baseless claims that the results were fraudulent.[179] The resulting legislation was denounced by voting rights advocates and civil rights groups, who accused it disproportionatly affecting voters of color and people with disabilities.[180]
The answer:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/re-demographic-blueshift-548/msg8900/#msg8900
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 29, 2021, 10:10:30 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg8904/#msg8904
Now:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/574534-senate-parliamentarian-rules-out-democrats-immigration-plan-b
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The Senate parliamentarian has nixed Democrats' back-up plan for getting immigration reform into a sweeping spending bill, handing them a second setback.
Democrats had pitched parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants by making a change to the date for when undocumented immigrants within the United States can apply to adjust their legal status.
But MacDonough told Democrats that the option was a non-starter, according to a copy of the guidance obtained by The Hill. Democrats are pursuing other back-up plans with the Senate referee, according to a source familiar with Democrats' strategy.
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MacDonough's latest ruling immediately renewed calls from outside groups for Democrats to overrule her — something they could do with total unity from their 50 members plus Vice President Harris presiding over the Senate.
Post by: guest55 on September 30, 2021, 07:52:57 pm
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At today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Gen. Mark Milley he should resign.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-fo38sAEw
'YOU SHOULD BE FIRED!' Matt Gaetz rips military commanders during fiery hearing exchange
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) grills Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley at a House Armed Services Committee, "Ending the U.S. Military Mission in Afghanistan".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxDsSSL1zfw
The only thing Cotton has going for him here is the fact that he actually served honorably himself....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 30, 2021, 10:38:40 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ran-over-blm-protesters-apparently-001605192.html
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He Ran Over BLM Protesters—but Apparently That’s Not a Crime
Jared Benjamin Lafer, who last September drove his SUV through a tiny assemblage of Black Lives Matter protesters in Johnson City, Tennessee, and then sped away — leaving behind a man with a concussion, brain bleed, and two broken legs — will face no charges.
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Lafer never returned to the scene to check on his victim, but instead drove to his home state of North Carolina, hired a lawyer to talk with the cops on the case, and turned himself in two days after committing the crime.
By the time of the arrest, Lafer’s earlier social media posts joking about running over protesters had been scrubbed from the internet, preserved only in screengrabs captured by a local progressive news site.
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“Run them over” had become a rightwing social media catchphrase as far back as 2015, after the Ferguson uprising, and memes about vehicular homicide against protesters — like those Lafter promoted before his accounts were deactivated — have proliferated since.
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In recent years, conservative legislators around the country have responded to demonstrations and uprisings with anti-protest bills that, in addition to threatening folks’ constitutional rights, protect drivers who used their cars in attacks against protesters.
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In Oklahoma — where last June, the driver of a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer drove through a crowd of BLM protesters, paralyzing one, but faced no charges because he claimed to be scared for the safety of him and his family — a recently signed law gives immunity to drivers who run protesters over.
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That’s the thing about all these anti-protest laws: they deny the most vulnerable the right to demand that their personhood be recognized, while protecting the same people who are always allowed to deny that personhood. We already know how the system works. This whole anti-protest legislative movement takes pains to explicitly tell folks to stay in their place and put up with the various injustices this country inflicts upon them — or to suffer the consequences.
I asked Hewlett how she reacted upon finding out that Lafer would face no charges. She expressed a similar jaded lack of surprise.
“I’m obviously appalled by the whole process,” she said. “But I had been getting trickles of information that the charges were getting reduced, so I already wasn’t super hopeful.
“It’s just been a slow burn of they’re going to let this guy get away with this. That’s how it always goes. I don’t really know what else to say at this point.”
You could say something about how all it takes to give Lafer what he deserves is one person willing to use a firearm.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 04, 2021, 11:30:25 pm
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We don’t want you, DeSantis tells desperate Haitians trying to migrate to Florida
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order preventing any state agencies from “aiding or abetting in any way what the federal government is doing right now.”
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The state’s reaction put the responsibility entirely on the shoulders of South Florida’s churches, charities, state representatives and community organizers. They’ve helped take in dozens of families who were not turned away at the border, and they’re calling for accountability for those who were, as well as for what they described as border patrol officers’ horrific treatment of them at the border in Del Rio, Texas.
What’s most critical is that the government is not allowed to walk right through asylum seekers’ rights to due process, they say.
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“Why aren’t they granting these people due process where they can apply for political asylum? Why is there a double standard from Haitians to Afghans to Cubans?” he asked. “We want the administration to stop the deportation, treat them with dignity, investigate the abuses that were perpetrated against our brothers and our sisters at the border. It’s inhumane. That’s not what America is.”
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“We’re all saying let’s work cooperatively. We can absorb and help meet the needs of these families, but we can’t do it if we don’t know where they are, where they’re coming out of, and whether they’re receiving due process or were deported.”
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“We are asking the president to immediately pause all deportation flights,” he said. “We want more transparency for this entire process.”
Rep. Dotie Joseph, D-Miami, was on the trip as well. Joseph, an attorney, stressed that the Haitians who arrived at the border did exactly as the asylum law instructs them to do when they legally presented themselves at a port of entry.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 06, 2021, 09:40:25 pm
In other news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6huomrelsQ
Post by: guest55 on October 08, 2021, 08:01:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dauruIDJQ
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 12, 2021, 10:22:04 pm
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A Conservative MP has said anyone using the term “white privilege” should be reported to the government’s counter-terror programme, and that teachers who criticise the Conservative party should be sacked.
Jonathan Gullis told a fringe meeting during the party’s conference in Manchester last week that anyone using the phrase should be referred to the government’s Prevent programme, which is used to track potential terrorists.
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“It’s racist to actually suggest everyone who’s white somehow is riddled with privilege.”
So pointing out who benefits from unfairness is "racist". But actually getting away with unfairness is fine (but only if you are "white"). Got it.
About Guillis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gullis
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In June 2020, Gullis introduced a Ten Minute Rule bill which would introduce custodial sentences of up to 14 years for those who desecrate war memorials.[14]
In October 2020, after voting against a Labour Party Opposition Day Motion to extend free school meals until Easter 2021, Gullis said that he would not address a "baying mob" in response to an alleged planned protest during his visit to a church foodbank.
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In October 2020, Gullis stated on his Facebook page that research by the National Maritime Museum into the Royal Navy's links to slavery was "leftwing ideological nonsense".[16]
In November 2020, following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Gullis was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians. The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke agenda'".[17]
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In October 2021, Gullis suggested at a fringe meeting during the Conservative Party conference that people using the term "white privilege" should be reported to the Home Office as extremists and that teachers found criticising the Conservative Party should be sacked.[22][23][24]
Gullis has described Black Lives Matter as "a Marxist organisation that wants to abolish the nuclear family and defund the police".[25]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2021, 10:28:20 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i78f_FgKA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/10/08/tennessee-county-reportedly-illegally-jailed-hundreds-of-children-charging-some-with-crimes-that-dont-exist/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 16, 2021, 10:07:26 pm
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Priti Patel plans to grant Border Force officers immunity from prosecution if Channel migrants DROWN during new 'turnback' operation
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Priti Patel is planning to grant Border Force officers immunity from prosecution if migrants die during her operation to 'turn back' small boats crossing the Channel, it has been reported.
The Home Secretary has previously approved the plan which would see migrants boats intercepted and turned back to France by officers on jet skis.
Currently, sailors are obliged to rescue 'a person in distress at sea' under international maritime laws and failure to do so could result in up to two years in prison.
But the government is trying to pass the Nationality and and Borders Bill through Parliament, which would give Border Force officials immunity from prosecution during the 'turnback' operations.
The plans have been criticised by opposition MPs, and charities, while France has branded the tactics 'illegal'.
Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said they were 'unconscionable' and 'unnecessary', The Times reports.
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Kim Bryan, from the charity, told BBC Breakfast on Sunday that in the last two weeks her group had spotted, from the cliffs of Dover, Border Force officials practising a pushback using jet-skis.
Miss Patel has threatened to turn boats around and send them back to Europe as part of her 'pushback' plan.
However, French politicians branded the Home Secretary a 'clown', while Mr Darmanin claimed any action to send migrant boats back would be illegal.
Pushbacks are illegal (and, in our worldview, initiated violence), period.
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Ms Bryan told BBC Breakfast on Sunday: 'What they seem to be doing is pushing the boat from the stern and from the bow, and I guess the idea is they're going to push them back into French waters.
'These boats are incredibly flimsy. Just the wash from jet-skis going around them in the first place could cause them to capsize. What we will be seeing, then, if this starts happening, is tragedy. The consequences are going to be horrific.
'I think it's entirely unsafe, entirely impractical for Priti Patel to suggest that we do pushbacks in the Channel.'
So will someone drown Patel first? If not, it will be the innocent refugees who drown.
About Patel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel
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Patel was critical of the UK's decision to invest DFID funds to support the Palestinian territories through UN agencies and the Palestinian Authority. In October 2016, she ordered a review of the funding procedure, temporarily freezing approximately a third of Britain's aid to the Palestinians during the review. In December 2016, DFID announced significant changes concerning future funding for the Palestinian Authority. DFID stated that future aid would go "solely to vital health and education services, in order to meet the immediate needs of the Palestinian people and maximise value for money." This move was widely supported by Jewish groups, including the Jewish Leadership Council and the Zionist Federation.[52][53]
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Meetings with Israeli officials and resignation
On 3 November 2017, the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent James Landale broke the news that Patel had held meetings in Israel in August 2017 without telling the Foreign Office. She was accompanied by Lord Polak, honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). The meetings, up to a dozen in number, took place while Patel was on a "private holiday". Patel met Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, and reportedly made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was discussed. The BBC reported that "According to one source, at least one of the meetings was held at the suggestion of the Israeli ambassador to London. In contrast, British diplomats in Israel were not informed about Ms Patel's plans."[56]
It was also reported that, following the meetings, Patel had recommended that the Department for International Development give international aid money to field hospitals run by the Israeli army in the Golan Heights.
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Black Lives Matter and anti-racism protests
In June 2020, Patel urged the public not to partake in the UK protests brought along by the murder of George Floyd in the United States, due to the coronavirus outbreak.[93] She criticised Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Bristol for toppling the statue of Edward Colston,[94] calling it "utterly disgraceful".[95] In February 2021, she described the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred in the UK in 2020 as "dreadful" and said she did not agree with the gesture of taking the knee.[96]
In June 2021, Patel criticised the England national football team for kneeling against racism before their Euro 2020 games, describing it as "gesture politics". She further said that spectators had the "choice" to boo the players for doing so.[97]
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Extinction Rebellion protests
In September 2020, in a speech at the annual conference of the Police Superintendents' Association, Patel described Extinction Rebellion protesters as "so-called eco-crusaders turned criminals" and said Extinction Rebellion was an "emerging threat"
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Patel has vowed to make the Channel "unviable" for migrant boats.[108]
Asylum seekers
In September 2020 Patel asked officials to look at asylum policies which had been successful in other countries. It was suggested that Ascension Island, more than 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the UK, could be used to build an asylum processing centre. Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: "This ludicrous idea is inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive - so it seems entirely plausible this Tory government came up with it."[109]
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In June 2021, a High Court judge ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully by housing asylum seekers in an "unsafe" and "squalid" former army barracks. The judge found that the Home Office failed to look after vulnerable people and noted that a lack of safety measures had contributed to a "significant" risk of injury and death from fires or from coronavirus.[113][114]
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She previously served as a vice-chair of Conservative Friends of Israel.[131][132]
She also looks like what we would expect:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Rt_Hon_Priti_Patel_MP.jpg/500px-Rt_Hon_Priti_Patel_MP.jpg)
Post by: guest55 on October 17, 2021, 12:03:43 pm
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A group of right-wingers formed their own school board and attempted to toss the real one out of the room.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drsn1b_1gMo
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 17, 2021, 10:25:19 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 20, 2021, 11:32:09 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhs6W4k17G8
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 21, 2021, 09:37:33 pm
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For everyone wondering what the hell that was, it was Soh Cah Toa- it's how you figure out the angle degree or side length from a right triangle. Soh = Sin of opposite side × hypotenuse, Cah = Cosign of adjacent × Hypotenuse, Toa = Tangent of opposite side × Adjacent side.
But yeah, that's pretty racist
I hardly need to add that there is no evidence that trigonometry was used in the New World prior to the colonial era, so her skit is not even defensible from a historical perspective. If the teacher merely wanted her pupils to remember the trigonometric functions, why not cosplay as Hipparchus while doing the exact same chant? (We all know why not.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 27, 2021, 12:43:45 am
Schroeder also looks like what we would expect (and thinks it's OK to be "white"):
(https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox6now.com/www.fox6now.com/content/uploads/2021/02/932/524/5P-Miston-Rittenhouse-PKG-2_11_WITI8b61_186_mp4_00.01.17.01-e1613084467885.png?ve=1&tl=1)
The solution is to apply the Second Amendment to both Rittenhouse and Schroeder.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 28, 2021, 11:28:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0KnRKsBwIo
More about Burr:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burr
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Burr does not accept the scientific consensus on climate change; he acknowledges that climate change is occurring, but has expressed doubt that it is caused by human activity.[29][42][43] He opposes regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and opposed federal grants or subsidies to encourage the productions of renewable energy.[29] In 2015, he voted against a measure to declare that climate change is real, human-caused, creating problems, and that the U.S. must shift from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.[44][45] In 2013, Burr voted for a measure expressing opposition to a federal tax or fee on carbon emissions.[46] He voted in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline.[47]
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In 2017, Burr co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[55][56]
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In 2016, Burr and other Republican Senators opposed holding hearings on President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States, and refused to have a customary meeting with Garland.[100] He said that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, he would try to block her from ever filling the vacancy, saying that if Clinton won, "I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court."[66][101] Burr voted to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,[26] issuing a statement in favor of Kavanaugh's nomination two days before the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while in high school,[102][103] and indicating he would support Kavanaugh's confirmation regardless of the hearing.[102]
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Burr was a national security adviser to the Trump campaign.[53] He stated that Trump "aligns perfectly" with the Republican Party.
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During Trump's first impeachment trial, Burr said he would oppose removing Trump from office even if a quid pro quo was confirmed.[114] He opposed calling Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton as a witness at the Senate trial; Bolton had written that Trump had tied U.S. security aid to Ukraine to the country's taking action against Biden.[114] Burr voted to acquit Trump on the two charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.[26]
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On May 28, 2021, Burr abstained from voting on the creation of an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[136]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 29, 2021, 11:36:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47QBdYqqhc
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 30, 2021, 09:53:51 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 01, 2021, 02:30:37 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-school-district-official-dismisses-224606253.html
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Florida school district official dismisses video of white students using n-word as ‘joke amongst friends’
The district has not disciplined the students in the video, yet has disciplined the student who circulated it and two Black students who physically confronted the pair in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhVO3rry7H8
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 01, 2021, 09:22:09 pm
(Note the face shape of the principal.)
Post by: guest55 on November 10, 2021, 09:45:52 pm
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Jason Szep, reporter for Reuters, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on threats made against election officials around the United States and the ease with which he and his colleague were able to find and interview several of the people who made the threats even after law enforcement authorities said the threats were untraceable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9NM8qfO20A
Post by: guest55 on November 10, 2021, 09:52:37 pm
'Brazen': Judge In BLM Protester Murder Trial Under Fire As Suspect Cries On Stand
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Accused murderer Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand today in his own defense, trying to present a story of self-defense amidst danger. Rittenhouse is on trial after opening fire during a BLM protest and killing two protesters. In this legal breakdown, MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber recaps the moment Rittenhouse broke down into sobs and the trial judge’s biased rulings and statements.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ6qYqnT4OU
'Don't get brazen with me': Judge has heated exchange with prosecutor
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Judge Bruce Schroeder and prosecutor Thomas Binger get into an exchange during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4kxzOIlPY
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 11, 2021, 11:46:19 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-judge-asks-194713058.html
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Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Judge Asks Jury to Applaud Defense Witness
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-overseeing-rittenhouse-trial-makes-231550814.html
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Judge Bruce Schroeder makes 'Asian food' comment during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and people are outraged
But we are supposed to believe this is a fair trial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmlSNYp3CI
Post by: guest55 on November 12, 2021, 12:10:56 pm
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The defense in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial rests a day after the 18-year-old took the stand and offered dramatic testimony. CNN’s Don Lemon takes a look at how Judge Bruce Schroeder has handled the trial so far. #CNN #Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE8QIzrNVK8
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This judge is too old, too biased, prejudiced and should be removed. He should not be on the bench.
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It's not a political trial but he's showing clear favoritism to the defendant and has a MAGA ringtone. MMMMMMMMK.
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The judge decided months ago that he was going to let this killer go scot free. If there was any doubt, the judge made sure his ring tone (dog whistle) got played in court.
Robby Soave: Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Takes DRAMATIC Turn In His Favor, MSM Hypocrisy BETRAYS Tragedy
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Robby Soave details the latest developments in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0J09bdRTgA
Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder image courtesy of Mark Hertzberg /Pool Photo via AP. Kyle Rittenhouse image courtesy of Mark Hertzberg
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 12, 2021, 10:40:46 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 13, 2021, 09:05:58 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-opens-path-jury-clear-003306793.html
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The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial on Friday said he'll instruct the jury that unless the state proved the teen's AR-15-style rifle had an unlawfully short barrel, he can't be convicted of being a minor in possession of a firearm.
WTF?!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 15, 2021, 02:11:57 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nationwide-audience-turns-rittenhouse-trial-120049437.html
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Bruce Schroeder, the longest-serving circuit court judge in Wisconsin, has emerged as a lightning rod at the center of the Kyle Rittenhouse case, one of the most consequential trials in Wisconsin history.
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Schroeder started to make waves nationally shortly before the Rittenhouse trial began. He made the polarizing decision to forbid lawyers from referring to the people Rittenhouse shot as “victims” until someone is convicted of a crime. He has called the term “loaded.”
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But observers have alleged that Schroeder applied a double standard when he denied a request from prosecutors that defense attorneys be forbidden from referring to the men as “looters, rioters, arsonists or any other pejorative term.” And some of those words have been used during testimony.
From there, as the trial unfolded over two weeks, Schroeder has continued to draw scrutiny for the way he’s conducted the proceedings, and for his behavior in idle moments in between.
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During what was perhaps the trial’s most dramatic segment — as Rittenhouse spent hours on the witness stand Wednesday — Schroeder interrupted Binger’s cross-examination twice and harshly admonished him for his lines of questioning.
In the first instance, Binger attempted to establish that Rittenhouse had benefited from staying quiet and hearing and seeing more than a week’s worth of evidence. Binger was trying to demonstrate that Rittenhouse could therefore tailor his testimony around that.
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In the second, Binger appeared close to bringing up a video that Schroeder had ruled could not be mentioned in front of the jury. The video was taken more than a week prior to the Kenosha shootings, and shows people shoplifting from a convenience store. Rittenhouse is heard in the video saying if he had a gun with him, he’d shoot the shoplifters.
Both times, Schroeder excused the jury and dressed down Binger for the infractions, at times yelling at him and interrupting him.
“I have no idea why you would do something like that,” Schroeder shouted.
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prosecutors wanted to zoom in on images from a key drone video to make it easier to see what Rittenhouse was doing in the moments before the first shooting.
But after the defense claimed the pinch-to-zoom function on an iPad distorts images, Schroeder told prosecutors they would have to introduce an expert to prove that images were not distorted by zooming in.
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Ball said he didn’t see why a judge would demand an expert explain the technical methodologies behind the zoom function without some credible claim that zooming — a “normal” and “non-malevolent” function — distorts the image.
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Schroeder took heat Wednesday for an attempted joke he made as the trial adjourned for lunch.
“I hope the Asian food isn’t coming ... isn’t on one of those boats along Long Beach Harbor," Schroeder said.
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“Most Chinese-Americans know the racist idiomatic slang ‘Slow boat to China’ to mock anything that takes a long time,” Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist, said on Twitter. “I’m (an) Asian-American immigrant - I heard this crap all the time. It’s racist. He could have just said the lunch was late.”
Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson also Tweeted that “it's pretty clear that this man should not be a judge of anything,” in response to the comment.
Schroeder has also been criticized for his attempt at acknowledging Veterans Day on Thursday. That morning, as the defense was about to start the day by questioning its expert witness, John Black, Schroeder asked who in the room was a veteran.
With the jury present, only one person identified themselves as a veteran — Black.
"Okay, and I think we can give a round of applause to the people who have served our country," said Schroeder.
Multiple people in the courtroom then applauded Black, moments before he began his testimony, which the prosecution would later object to as crossing the bounds of what was proper for the jury to hear.
Onlookers saw Schroeder's move as something that could inadvertently lend more credibility to the witness in the eyes of jurors.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DeH2MqcJfrQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Post by: guest55 on November 16, 2021, 12:57:48 am
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In an exclusive interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Republican Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez warns that former President Donald Trump is evaluating who stood in his way in overturning the 2020 election and is working to replace them with people who will do as he says.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBrQBYDtjY
#CNN #News #Politics
See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-coup/
Post by: guest55 on November 17, 2021, 11:50:19 am
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The Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial jury is currently deliberating as the Ahmaud Arbery case continues--cases that will determine if primarily White men serve as judge, jury, and executioner, Joy Reid says.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10hwo_WSE1s
Trump backs 2020 election conspiracy theorist for office
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Kristina Karamo, the candidate Donald Trump is backing to be Michigan's next secretary of state, has falsely claimed the former President was the true victor in Michigan in 2020 and has spread the conspiracy theory that left-wing anarchists were behind the January 6 attack on the Capitol. CNN's Sara Murray reports and Jim Acosta joins Brianna Keilar to discuss what this means for the state of US democracy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OZPJ1xi1c
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2021, 08:10:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bKaI8BENE8
But it's not just Schroeder who supports Rittenhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3Kbbhu8L0
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/DF4tCkYLx_AV0yyu.QxJDg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/iBfX747fOrwRymY53YBUVw--~B/aD03NjA7dz0xMTQwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/kansas_city_star_mcclatchy_articles_677/272b32d467b4a13ec7f25e61078ad7d7)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 18, 2021, 08:37:19 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sQ_CodRSs
Post by: guest55 on November 19, 2021, 07:16:07 pm
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After Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges in the shooting that killed two BLM protesters, MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by Professor Brittney Cooper and Brittany Packnett Cunningham to discuss the verdict and its broader implications for America.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vB6ndPCO48
No surprise there aye!?
‘This Is a Direct Attack on Our Democracy’: Local Kenosha Activists Respond to Rittenhouse Verdict
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The Rainbow Push Coalition's Bishop Tavis Grant and Justin Blake, Jacob Blake's family member, responded to Kyle Rittenhouse verdict outside the Kenosha County Courthouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZy8_njGy5I
Pretty sure a jury is a democracy also, no!? HELLO!!! I see the lights are on, is anybody home!?!? Wasn't Trump, Rittenhouse's hero and leader, also elected by a democracy the first time around? Apparently, most people just want to roll around in shyte with swine their entire live's, wtf!?!?!?
See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 19, 2021, 08:48:13 pm
So now either some true vigilantes put bullets through the heads of both Rittenhouse and Schroeder, or there will continue to be no accountability, and consequently proliferation of similar behaviour. And now I am no longer the only one saying it; there are many comments with similar sentiments:
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Disgusting. This is a travesty of justice that allows for vigilante justice.
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He has no idea that there are people just like him and will hunt him down from state to state just like he did.
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Good....let the people bring justice to him.
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These monsters will be hung for what they have done. They don't understand this yet but it will happen. The judge, the jury, the defense attorneys and more. Justice will prevail.
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I hope he gets street justice...
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The family should just take the law into their own hands.!!!
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Time for some vigilante justice.
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This only proved one thing. protestors need rifles also, because the militia and police don’t care about protestors. They just left an active shooter walk away and assumed he was innocent, while the protestors trying to stop Rittenhouse were shot in the name of self defense. There’s only one solution left, protestors should also have rifles because there is no one looking out for the safety of the protestors.
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Well, now we know what's allowed during the next trump insurrection.
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ES! EXACTLY THIS. Time to meet fire with fire.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 20, 2021, 11:00:25 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/judge-says-jail-isnt-appropriate-140500492.html
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A 20-year-old New York man was facing eight years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting four teenage girls during parties in his parents’ home, but this week a judge sentenced him to eight years of probation because jail was “inappropriate.
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Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III said according to WKBW. “It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn’t appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation.”
Christopher Belter must also register as a sex offender.
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The sentencing sparked outrage.
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“If Chris Belter was not a white defendant from a rich and influential family, in my experience … he would surely have been sentenced to prison.”
Also, both Belter and Murphy look like what we would expect:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEhKDQyXoAgJunH?format=jpg)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 28, 2021, 08:08:09 pm
Note face shapes.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 06, 2021, 09:01:03 pm
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced a budget proposal on Thursday that includes plans to establish a militia that would answer solely to him.
Unlike the Florida National Guard, the Florida State Guard wouldn’t receive federal funding or embark on federal missions.
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“No Governor should have his own handpicked secret police,” said Rep. Charlie Crist, who represents Florida’s 13th District in Congress.
Crist, who previously served one term governor after being elected to the office in 2006, is running against DeSantis in the 2022 gubernatorial race.
How many more warning signs do we need? Will someone assassinate DeSantis ASAP?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 10, 2021, 01:44:27 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YDYpGKdpU
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 11, 2021, 12:43:06 am
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House Republicans mocked Ilhan Omar's bill to establish an envoy to combat Islamophobia worldwide
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"I have many Pennsylvania Dutch that feel that they're not treated properly," said Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, sarcastically calling for their inclusion in Omar's anti-Islamophobia bill. "How about those that are gay, you know, the LGBTQ community? That should be part of this bill."
"Let's keep going, you know, there are people that are overweight, and there are skinny kids that get picked on," Meuser added. "Why aren't they included in this as well?"
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Republican Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio ... said that Omar's bill would "trivialize" anti-Semitism, given the existence of another State Department post to combat that form of bigotry. "We should avoid such a dangerous false equivalency at all costs, as it could be used by some extremists to actually justify further anti-Semitic activity," said Chabot.
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Another amendment offered by Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania sought to exclude "any action (to include counter-terrorism measures) taken by the Israeli Government" from the bill.
In a statement to Insider, Omar condemned Republican behavior during the hearing.
"It is shameful and embarrassing that the Republican Party's response to blatant Islamophobia and incitement of violence is to double down on anti-Muslim rhetoric," she said. "Instead of engaging in a good faith discussion on how to address the rise of Islamophobic violence, Republicans engaged in ad hominem attacks, belittled Muslims, and minimized the pain of Muslim communities around the world."
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 16, 2021, 09:06:38 pm
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‘That’s a Threat’: Texas Teens’ Racist Group Chat Exposed, School Reacts with Extra Security for Black Students, Keeps Discipline for the Offenders Confidential
Black students in a Texas high school are afraid to return to school after reading racist messages in a group chat from their white classmates. The school district promised to take immediate action, as one of the messages read “All N—s must hang.”
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“Students involved with the group chat and racist hate speech are receiving disciplinary measures in accordance with the student code of conduct. These measures are confidential,” Courtney Hudgins, the superintendent, wrote in a letter about the incident.
If they are confidential, how can we confirm there are any measures being taken at all?
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The district’s superintendent affirmed, “EBISD does not condone these students’ actions or any other discriminatory remarks, threats, or behaviors, nor shall students or staff discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, nationality, or disability.”
Then identify the offenders and punish them in public view! By hiding their identities and not showing them being punished, you are in practice condoning their behaviour even if you claim you are not!
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Hudgins has urged that parents, staff, and students work together to fix the school’s sense of “unity.”
Courtney Hudgins must hang.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 17, 2021, 09:11:07 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg9115/#msg9115
Now:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586240-senate-parliamentarian-rejects-democrats-third-immigration-offer
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Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected the third and most recent plan from Democrats for including immigration reform in the Build Back Better bill, telling senators that it doesn't meet the rules for what can be included in a budget measure bypassing the Senate's filibuster.
The guidance is the latest setback for Democrats' hopes of including immigration reform in the spending bill. MacDonough had previously rejected two plans from Democrats that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants.
The third plan stopped short of that, aggravating some activists and progressives. It would have granted 6.5 million foreign nationals a temporary parole status that would give them five-year work and travel permits.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said he was "disappointed" and that Democrats are "considering what options are available."
Remove her from her position! This is what should have been done after the first rejection! Instead the cowardly Blue establishment kept watering down the bill thinking this might gain them acceptance from someone who has already proven she shouldn't be in authority in the first place. Have they learned their lesson by now?
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The ruling isn't binding and immediately fueled calls for Democrats to try to sidestep the parliamentarian's guidance.
"It’s time for Senate leaders to retake control of the legislative process. ... The Senate has received some bad advice that needs to be disregarded," said American Business Immigration Coalition co-chair Mike Fernandez.
Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund, said that Democrats should use "their power under existing Senate rules to disregard the parliamentarian’s advisory opinion and enact the permanent protections."
Some Democrats, including Durbin, support trying to formally overrule MacDonough. But that would require 50 votes and would ultimately fall short given opposition from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
Advocates are instead urging Democrats to try to put someone in the chair that would ignore MacDonough's advice, though that wouldn't prevent Republicans from trying to win over one Democrat to strip out the plan as part of a chaotic floor process where any senator who wants to force a vote on a change to Biden's spending bill will be able to.
As if it weren't obvious enough that MacDonough is a subverter, our enemies have a picture of her on their site FFS:
(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/56509/VDARE-washington-watcher_1_.jpg)
Post by: guest55 on December 17, 2021, 10:16:50 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 22, 2021, 03:41:37 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEq5L558MM8
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 29, 2021, 10:38:12 pm
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PROVIDENCE – A racially charged tweet by Rep. Patricia Morgan Tuesday has inflamed social media, with Black Lives Matter Rhode Island calling on the speaker of the House to strip Morgan of her committee appointments.
In her tweet, Morgan writes, “I had a black friend. I liked her and I think she liked me, too. But now she is hostile and unpleasant. I am sure I didn't do anything to her, except be white. Is that what teachers and our political leaders really want for our society? Divide us because of our skin color? #CRT”
Here is what you did to her:
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Morgan, the former minority leader of the Rhode Island House, unsuccessfully sponsored a bill this spring that would restrict the way schools teach the role of race in American history, a move that provoked heated criticism from educators, parents and other Rhode Islanders.
I guess this is part of being "white".....
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BLM RI calls for Morgan's removal from committees
Harry Tuttle, executive of Black Lives Matter, called for Morgan’s immediate removal from the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee, House Health and Human Services Committee, House Labor Committee, and the House Municipal Government and Housing Committee.
In a statement, he wrote, “This comment is offensive and deeply insulting to the Black and Brown community. If Rep. Patricia Morgan truly believed we shouldn’t be divided by our skin color, she wouldn’t have made this divisive of a comment, along with the many other similar comments she has made in the past.
“Not to mention the piece of legislation she introduced, that if passed, would ban Critical Race Theory in Rhode Island classrooms. Rhode Island should no longer tolerate ideologies, by any political party, that are hateful and divisive–in the media, in policy proposals, and in our everyday lives. We are disappointed to see elected officials who say they are progressive seek compromise with people who make comments like these.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 31, 2021, 12:10:52 am
Cousins' attitude is improving.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 02, 2022, 08:58:58 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 11, 2022, 05:01:28 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-kp2-1CO4
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 13, 2022, 12:09:50 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-told-72-old-man-014113290.html
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A judge told a 72-year-old man who has cancer that he 'should be ashamed' of himself after he said he was too weak to keep up with his lawn
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In a video of the exchange, Burhan Chowdhury, of Hamtramck, Michigan, can be heard struggling to breathe as he explained his situation to 31st District Judge Alexis G. Krot.
"You should be ashamed of yourself," Krot could be heard saying in the video. "If I could give you jail time on this, I would."
She then issued him a $100 fine, adding: "You've got to get that cleaned up. That is totally inappropriate."
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"Do you see that photo?" Krot asked. "That is shameful. Shameful. The neighbors should not have to look at that."
Shibbir Chowdhury told The Washington Post that his father was diagnosed with lymph node cancer in 2019. He said he usually helps keep up the yard for his parents, but he was out of the country in Bangladesh for three months last year.
He said the weeds grew out around his parents' house while he was gone. When he returned, his father told him they had received a ticket for noxious weeds and vegetation.
For more about lawns:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg37/#msg37
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg5521/#msg5521
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/olympics/msg7795/#msg7795
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 13, 2022, 10:46:58 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-prosecutor-declines-charge-white-215558334.html
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Missouri prosecutor declines to charge white man who fatally shot his Black neighbor
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A Missouri prosecutor announced Wednesday that no charges will be filed in the death of Justin King, a Black and Filipino man who was fatally shot by his white neighbor last year.
"I am declining to issue charges related to the death of Mr. King," Crawford County Prosecuting Attorney David S. Smith wrote in a statement to Insider outlining the findings of the sheriff department's investigation.
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the shooter — who had previously been arrested and charged for second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon while intoxicated — had a history of using racial slurs and had threatened to kill King months before he did so, according to NBC News.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 14, 2022, 08:48:39 pm
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-robert-adrian-****-tosses-conviction_n_61e02b8ce4b09724bb97c149
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Judge Robert Adrian Says Man's 148 Days In Jail For **** Of Teen Is Enough, Tosses Conviction
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In October, Adrian found Clinton guilty of felony sexual assault, but during a Jan. 3 sentencing hearing he said he would not impose the mandatory minimum sentence of four years in prison.
“Mr. Clinton has served almost five months in the county jail, 148 days,” Adrian said, according to the court transcript of the hearing posted online by local media. “For what happened in this case, that is plenty of punishment. That would be a just sentence.”
“There is no way,” the judge explained, “for what happened in this case that this teenager should go to the Department of Corrections. I will not do that.”
The rapist and the judge both also look like what we would expect:
(https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/01/13/12/Screenshot%202022-01-13%20at%2011.59.34.png?width=990&auto=webp&quality=75&crop=982:726,smart)
(https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/01/13/01/Rape_Conviction_Tossed_Illinois_46063.jpg?width=640&auto=webp&quality=75&crop=3000:1997,smart)
Post by: guest55 on January 18, 2022, 12:03:49 am
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After spending his entire adult life as a "private equity firm executive", multi-millionaire Glenn Youngkin spent millions funding his own political campaign, was elected and was just sworn in as governor of Virginia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHEPvV8Ww2w&t=17s
On his first day as Governor, Youngkin signed a number of executive orders, including one banning teaching students "inherently divisive concepts", and another prohibiting school districts from continuing their mask mandates for students and staff.
Problem is, Virginia schools do not teach "critical race theory" - which is what Youngkin's euphemism was designed to prohibit. Moreover, some of Virginia's largest school districts have announced they will not obey Youngkin's executor order prohibiting mask mandates because it appears to violate Virginia law. Plus, school districts are determined to protect the health of students and staff rather than act based on political demagoguery.
Let's talk about my last day teaching in Virginia....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51vrmzdKHo
This seems to be the main rightist political position at this point: Only rightists should vote, no living wage for anyone, and schools must teach children false history....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 21, 2022, 03:46:31 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhixSxPuj8
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 22, 2022, 03:07:33 am
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A town supervisor in Seneca County is under fire after posting a cartoon about white supremacy on social media.
Don Trout, the supervisor in the Town of Waterloo, last week publicly shared a cartoon listing "the warning signs of white supremacy," on his personal Facebook page.
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The post lists eight traits of a white supremacist, such as "no criminal record, "good credit rating" and "full time employment."
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Trout has been Waterloo's supervisor since 2018 and is also a member of Seneca County's Board of Supervisors. In November, he was re-elected to a second four-year term.
Our enemies do us a favour by identifying themselves openly, but why are we returning the favour by not shooting them?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 24, 2022, 08:20:52 pm
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a stay of a lower court mandate that hundreds of pages of his presidential records from Jan. 6 be turned over to the congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The vote was 8-1. Justice Clarence Thomas would have granted the application.
Hence:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076138/-Is-Clarence-Thomas-the-most-corrupt-Supreme-Court-Justice-in-your-lifetime
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Last week, a black guy, a white supremacist, and a judge walked into a bar. Bartender says, “Hi Clarence. Are you alt right today? Would you like to order the usual? A White Russian?”
Related:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-coup/msg10764/#msg10764
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 28, 2022, 08:43:32 pm
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Newt Gingrich wants to punish Rep. Adam Schiff and other anti-Trump lawmakers with a bogus committee assignment if Republicans retake the majority
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Gingrich told Insider his advice is to invent a new committee "for people who are so despicable that they should not have any legislative jurisdiction."
He recommended that House Republicans "dump" Schiff of California on the bogus committee "with no staff, no jurisdiction and no opportunity to do anything, and say, 'You can stay in the Congress as long as you can get re-elected. You'll just be useless.'"
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 30, 2022, 12:43:04 am
Post by: Zea_mays on January 30, 2022, 05:45:24 am
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076138/-Is-Clarence-Thomas-the-most-corrupt-Supreme-Court-Justice-in-your-lifetime
And don't forget, he was carefully chosen to be a demographic replacement of one of the best Supreme Court judges:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/abraham-lincoln/msg10507/#msg10507
Post by: guest55 on January 31, 2022, 07:19:37 pm
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Congressman Thomas Massie quoted phrase coined by white supremacist convicted of possessing child abuse images(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/204cc70216e3e45ef287a377f4844700bad547f7/0_173_5179_3108/master/5179.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5f19fdc7e20c630c049cef6419c178d1)
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The Kentucky Republican congressman Thomas Massie was under familiar fire on Monday, after criticising Anthony Fauci with a quote attributed to Voltaire but actually coined by a white supremacist convicted on charges related to child abuse images.
“To learn who rules over you,” the quote says, “simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.”
Massie posted it to Twitter on Sunday, saying: “You mustn’t question Fauci, for he is science.”
Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser is the target of rightwing criticism and death threats for his role in the US government response to Covid-19.
Massie is an energetic rightwing gadfly who last month issued a Christmas card image in which he and his family toted assault rifles.
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Speaking to the Guardian then, Elaine Kamarck, a former official in the Clinton administration, said: “The guy’s abominable but that’s what’s happening to the Republican party. They’re flat-out nuts. There’s a piece of the Republican party that now supports violence.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/republican-thomas-massie-voltaire-quote-neo-nazi
Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said: “We’re into the kind of outrage culture in the Republican party. There’s almost a competition as to who can be more outrageous, more vicious and threatening. It’s a race to the bottom.”
Massie is not the first person to apparently be fooled by the supposed quote from the French philosopher Voltaire. In 2019, the actor John Cusack used it in a tweet for which he apologised after being accused of antisemitism.
The neo-Nazi who coined the quote, Kevin Strom, is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “arguably the only true intellectual remaining in the American neo-Nazi movement … a bookish yet dogmatic neo-Nazi”.
He has said attributions of his quote to Voltaire are “kind of flattering”.
His conviction for possessing child abuse images came in 2008 and resulted in a sentence to 23 months in prison.
Massie’s use of Strom’s quote to attack Fauci attracted widespread criticism. The writer Thomas Ricks, for example, wrote: “Nah. The essence of science is asking questions. But you also must listen to the answers.”
By Monday afternoon, Massie had not commented on Twitter or taken his post down.
He had tweeted in praise of the “intellectual honesty” of Joe Rogan, a podcast host under fire over Covid misinformation.
Post by: guest55 on January 31, 2022, 07:26:05 pm
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Proposals banning abortion, discussions of sexuality, and white racial ‘discomfort’ aim to establish Florida as capital of Trumpistan
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It has been a long and painful month in the Florida legislature for opponents of the state’s Trumpist governor Ron DeSantis and his loyal band of rightwing Republicans. A slew of bills has advanced attacking everything from diversity rights, abortion protections and free speech in schools, in addition to a proposal that would legally shield white people from feeling “discomfort” over the state’s racist past.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/florida-republicans-draconian-bills
And last Wednesday, an anti-masker physician, hand picked by the governor and apathetic about the value of Covid-19 vaccines, was backed unanimously by a Republican senate panel as the next surgeon-general following a walk-out by Democratic politicians frustrated by Joseph Ladapo’s evasiveness.
To hear DeSantis tell it, the “freedom state” of Florida is merely following the will of a populist citizenry in defying the perceived tyranny of the federal government, determined to protect liberty in the face of a deadly pandemic that has claimed more than 64,000 of their fellow residents, and standing up against the “indoctrination” of children.
Yet as the possible 2024 presidential candidate presses ahead with turning Florida into what critics see as his own conservative fiefdom – a de facto Trumpistan of the south with an “Orwellian-sounding” election police force – DeSantis is finding opposition beginning to harden.
But rightists aren't "snowflakes"? Furthermore, the background to this post is actually white. Is DeSantis even "white"?
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"Whiteness" is an identity, not a race! Westerners for the most part have no true concept of race.
Post by: guest55 on February 03, 2022, 09:07:19 pm
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"A bill centered on self-defense that is making its way through the Missouri state legislature has sparked outrage for its possible consequences which, critics say, would all but make legal the killings of Black people, in particular."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAtlNvM4TQ
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 04, 2022, 10:43:07 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-slain-black-missouri-man-153000477.html
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The family of a man who was fatally shot in Missouri late last year is calling for the county coroner to resign, citing his social media posts as “overtly racist and dehumanizing.”
Justin King, a 28-year-old Black man, was shot by a neighbor on Nov. 3 in a trailer park in the small city of Bourbon, about 75 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Earlier this year Crawford County Prosecuting Attorney David S. Smith said he wouldn’t charge the man, after saying he agreed with the findings of a county coroner’s inquest that the shooting had been done in justifiable self-defense.
King’s family and civil rights leaders have since questioned why the shooter, who’s white, wasn’t charged.
On Wednesday, a lawyer for the victim’s family, Rod Chapel, wrote a letter to multiple state coroner oversight boards accusing Crawford County Coroner Darren Dake of racist behavior.
Chapel, who’s the president of the Missouri NAACP, cited a Facebook post from 2017, which had been recently highlighted by The Daily Beast, in which Dake writes that the “KKK and BLM are the same racist coin,” he said using the acronyms for the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ku Klux Klan.
His posts “demonstrate his reluctance and preconceived biases which prevent him from completing his professional responsibilities in a way required by statute,” Chapel said in the letter, according to The Associated Press.
Post by: guest55 on February 12, 2022, 02:40:20 pm
Firefighters Racially Mock Murdered 8-YO Girl In Leaked Call
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A Philadelphia-area fire station has shut down for the time being after firefighters were caught using racial slurs and mocking the death of an 8-year-old Black girl who was murdered by police just a year ago. Firefighters of Briarcliffe Fire Company made these disgusting comments on a virtual meeting about consolidating with two other local fire departments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5eVi-SE5E
Post by: guest55 on February 12, 2022, 02:43:59 pm
ABC15 exposes ‘astonishing and horrific’ conduct by judge, staff in major cases
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A Maricopa County Superior Court judge and her staff mocked and ridiculed people during hearings and trials by routinely emailing each other cruel and obscene statements, jokes, and memes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-egFO13HIg
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 17, 2022, 03:25:11 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 17, 2022, 10:32:01 pm
You can tell from the mocking tones of voice of the jail staff that they were positively enjoying it.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 18, 2022, 09:03:14 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-sentenced-kim-potter-daunte-185026907.html
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The judge who sentenced Kim Potter for Daunte Wright's death cried as she asked people to empathize with the ex-cop
The Minnesota judge who handed down a 2-year sentence to former cop Kim Potter for killing Daunte Wright got emotional as she asked the public to empathize with the ex-officer — and said that Potter tried "to do the right thing."
"I recognize that there will be those who disagree with the sentence," Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said in the courtroom after handing down the sentence to Potter.
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Potter faced a total of up to 25 years in prison after her conviction in December 2021.
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Under Judge Chu's sentencing, Potter will serve 16 months in prison with the possibility of 8 months of supervised release for the end of her sentence.
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"She never intended to hurt anyone. Her conduct cries out for a sentence significantly below the guidelines," Chu said.
Why do you believe Potter's narrative FFS?! Claiming to mistake her gun for her taser is just her excuse made in self-interest! Why are you taking it at face value? (Answer: Eurocentrism.) Moreover, even if for the sake of argument (I do not believe this for an instant) Potter really did mistake her gun for her taser, Wright shouldn't even have been tased, so how can you say Potter was "trying to do the right thing"? (Answer: Eurocentrism.) Finally, is being tased painless? So how you say Potter "never intended to hurt anyone"? (Answer: Eurocentrism.)
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Wright's father called the 2-year sentence a "slap in the face" at a press conference after the sentencing on Friday. Wright's mother, Katie Bryant, told reporters that it felt like the justice system "murdered" Daunte "all over again.
"To sit there and pouring my heart out in my victim impact statement that took so long to write, and I rewrote it over and over again, to not get a response out of the judge but then when it came down to sentencing Kim Potter, she broke out in tears," Bryant said at the press conference.
So will you finally apply your Second Amendment to assassinate both Potter and Chu? Will anyone else?
(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/12/640/320/Kim-Potter-Verdict-Judge-Regina-Chu.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Post by: guest55 on February 18, 2022, 10:17:52 pm
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Potter really did mistake her gun for her taser, Wright shouldn't even have been tased, so how can you say Potter was "trying to do the right thing"?
Furthermore, how is still possible for police to supposedly mistake their gun for their taser after the Oscar Grant incident where that police officer supposedly did the same thing? After the murder of Oscar Grant I would have thought "good police" would have made sure they never made the same mistake?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 18, 2022, 10:55:56 pm
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White women’s tears trump justice.
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Potter is seen smiling in her mugshot
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg7261/#msg7261
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 22, 2022, 02:33:22 am
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kyle-rittenhouse-says-hes-going-to-sue-whoopi-goldberg-and-other-politicians-celebrities-athletes-074102590.html
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who was acquitted last year in the shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday where he announced plans to sue individuals and media companies for negative coverage of him. Rittenhouse had traveled to Kenosha with an assault-style rifle and subsequently shot and killed two protesters. Despite his acquittal, some maintain the opinion that Rittenhouse is a murderer. He called out The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg and Cenk Uyger of The Young Turks by name, but was otherwise vague about who his potential targets might be
“Right now we’re looking at quite a few,” Rittenhouse said. “Politicians, celebrities, athletes. Whoopi Goldberg’s on the list. She called me a murderer after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that. And there’s others. Don’t forget about Cenk from The Young Turks. He called me a murderer before verdict and continues to call me a murderer.”
Some have accused Rittenhouse of being a white supremacist. While out on bail, prosecutors said he flashed a white power sign while at a bar with members of the far-right Proud Boys. Rittenhouse also said he plans to sue anyone who made the assertion that he’s a white supremacist.
This would not be happening if Rittenhouse had been assassinated following his acquittal. But he wasn't, so it is. Will leftists ever learn that there is only one correct way to communicate with rightists?
Post by: guest55 on February 23, 2022, 08:55:01 pm
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Two top prosecutors in the Trump criminal probe stepped down Wednesday after the newly-elected Manhattan D.A. expressed “doubts” about any case to indict Donald Trump, The New York Times reports. Former prosecutor Tali Farhadian Weinstein and former Executive Assistant District Attorney Adam Kaufmann analyze the “mysterious” and abrupt departures, noting the news riveted the legal community in New York.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-sNDF53n3I
Sounds promising.... ???
NY Prosecutors Resign, Reportedly in Protest Over DA Bragg's Concerns About Indicting Donald Trump
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On the justice front, it is often one two steps up, one step back. Today feels like a "step back" day, as the New York Times reported that the two lead prosecutors on the Trump Organization criminal investigation resigned, reportedly in protest over the new District Attorney Alvin Bragg's apparent reluctance to bring charges against Donald Trump himself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewt0fF1mXkw
This video discusses this unexpected and unusual development, and what circumstances might be impacting DA Bragg's concerns and views about the investigation.
Trump Legal Nightmare Ends? Top Prosecutors Bolt Criminal Case in NY
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The two lead prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into the Trump Org resigned Wednesday. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the legal path to this "good news" for Trump, from past comments by the new D.A., Alvin Bragg, to pressure on the company.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7w46goyKE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 25, 2022, 07:47:45 pm
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Arizona Governor Says He’d Rather Have a White Nationalist in State Legislature than a Democrat
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was questioned Thursday about his efforts to get Wendy Rogers elected to the state senate in 2020, and whether he has any regrets in light of how Rogers has been promoting white nationalist causes.
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Rogers is scheduled to speak Friday at the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), the Mirror reported last week. AFPAC is an annual gathering of far-right figures organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, whom Rogers has praised in social media posts more than two dozen times, according to Left Coast Right Watch, an extremist monitoring group. Rogers promoted the event on Telegram last week, the Daily Beast reported.
Rogers has intertwined herself with the Q-Anon crowd, has espoused racist “great replacement” theories, has called for Christian theocracy, and is a member of the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers. She is also a ‘Big Lie’ proponent, falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.
More about Ducey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ducey
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In August 2017, after violence by white nationalists at a gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, Ducey said in response to a reporter's question that he had no interest in removing Confederate monuments from public lands in Arizona.[57]
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After the 2020 presidential election, Ducey signed legislation that purges voters from the vote-by-mail system unless they voted by mail every two years. The bill was estimated to lead to the immediate removal of 100,000 to 200,000 voters from the vote-by-mail system.[134]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 26, 2022, 07:43:29 pm
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Why do Republican lawmakers want to keep Black people off Arizona juries?
Why do you think?
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What HB 2413 actually would do, however, is to restore a system that keeps Black people off juries.
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Essentially, a peremptory challenge allows an attorney to strike a juror without having to give a reason.
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HB 2413 would restore those challenges in criminal trials.
But the Arizona Supreme Court – not exactly known as a bastion for liberal thinkers – seemed to believe the challenges were being abused and decided to take the bold step of eliminating them and requiring counsel to convince a judge there is just cause to strike a juror.
The system only went into effect in January and already Republican lawmakers are trying to override it.
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research showed Black citizens are “at least twice as likely as White people to be excluded from jury service.”
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I’d guess they’d say they want to return to the old rules in order to keep Black citizens from the burdensome trauma of having to deal with the justice system.
Except as defendants, of course.
In other news, it's OK to be a "white" convict:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unprecedented-judge-rules-missouri-ex-160000013.html
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A white former Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who faces up to 19 years in prison after being convicted of killing a Black man will remain free on bond after his sentencing.
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After a four-day bench trial in November 2021, found ex-cop Eric DeValkenaere guilty of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the 2019 killing of Cameron Lamb, he has not spent one day in jail, KCUR reports.
And according to Jackson County Circuit Judge Dale Youngs, who convicted DeValkenaere of the crime in a bench trial and allowed him to stay out of jail on a $30,000 bond, says he will not have to endure incarceration even after his sentencing on Friday, March 4, because Youngs ruled this week that the ex-cop can remain free while he appeals his conviction.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/georgia-cityhood-push-divides-white-flight-or-self-rule/ar-AAUyYkw?li=BBnb7Kz
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — In the 2020 election, Jerica Richardson and two other Black women gave Democrats control of the commission overseeing this affluent suburban Atlanta county for the first time in decades.
Now, the Republican-controlled state Legislature has passed bills that would give three largely white parts of the county a chance to form their own governments during Georgia's primary elections ahead of the midterms.
The new cities would take over key parts of the county's decision-making power. Two of them would be in Richardson's district, which GOP lawmakers have also reconfigured in a way that draws her out of her seat.
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Two of the cityhood efforts reflect a “pattern of backlash against the election of three Black women to the Cobb commission,” said State Rep. Mary Frances Williams, a Cobb County Democrat.
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Cobb County has become more diverse in recent decades, with non-Hispanic white residents making up just over 51% of the population today, compared with more than 85% in 1990. But in the area that would become East Cobb, white residents would represent more than 70% of the population, according to county estimates. Vinings and Lost Mountain would also have a significantly higher percentage of white residents than the county as a whole. Those two cities' median incomes would exceed $110,000, compared with $78,000 for the county.
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Post by: guest55 on March 19, 2022, 08:16:16 pm
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Republican Lieutenant Governor of Idaho Janice McGeachin is confronted by KTVB reporter Brian Holmes over her participation in the white nationalist conference AFPAChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeBgGB1KR4
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 22, 2022, 11:34:07 pm
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No jail time for man who shoved 92-year-old Asian man with dementia in Vancouver, says judge
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Judge Donna Senniw gave Jamie Bezanson, 52, aconditional discharge and a one-year probation during his ruling at the Provincial Court of British Columbia on Monday.
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Staff members at a 7-Eleven store near First Avenue and Nanaimo Street in East Vancouver were trying to assist Kwong on March 13, 2020, when Bezanson reportedly began shouting anti-Asian remarks about COVID-19 at the elderly man.
Surveillance footage from inside the store shows the assailant dragging Kwong by his arm and pushing him to the ground right outside the store. The victim reportedly hit his head but did not suffer serious injuries.
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Despite seven eyewitness accounts and CCTV footage, the court said there was not enough evidence to call the incident a hate crime.
Translation: it's OK for 7-Eleven to be "white".
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 23, 2022, 09:15:49 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2022, 10:17:58 pm
More about Blackburn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn
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In November 2016, Blackburn joined Trump's presidential transition team as vice chair.[104] She was a staunch supporter of his, and backed most of his policies and proposals.[36][40][52] She nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations with North Korea.[52][105]
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After Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Blackburn supported Trump's false claims of victory and raised funds to support the Trump campaign's effort to overturn the election results in court.[114]
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Blackburn supported Trump's 2017 executive order imposing a temporary travel and immigration ban barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.[118] She has often expressed support of Trump's immigration policy, especially his plan to greatly expand the Mexico–United States barrier.[119]
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In December 2020, Blackburn posted, "China has a 5,000-year history of cheating and stealing. Some things will never change..." on her Twitter account.[124]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 25, 2022, 09:26:35 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 26, 2022, 11:12:36 pm
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/homophobia-is-not-american/
Post by: guest55 on March 30, 2022, 09:33:15 pm
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Republicans are mad at Rep. Madison Cawthorn. But not for the reasons you might think. “At the very least we know where the line is—appearing with Holocaust deniers is fine, but don't go telling people about Republican drug and sex parties,” says Chris Hayes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2miCZtYRV7s
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 03, 2022, 08:32:41 pm
Post by: guest55 on April 05, 2022, 08:31:18 pm
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Rep. Mat Gaetz, R-Fla., clashed with Defense Secy. Lloyd Austin over socialism and accusations of "wokeism" in the military during a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e30vJwz-W9Q
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Embracing socialism as a strategy to combat China.... — Gaetz
Defense secretary fires back at Matt Gaetz's accusation
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Rep. Matt Gaetz got into a heated argument during Tuesday's House Armed Services hearing after the Florida Republican accused the Pentagon of being too focused on "wokeism" and not defense. #CNN #Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_2r6rWgY8
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Ex military officer here. Matt Gaetz is exactly the sort of person we try to screen out and reject at the recruitment stage.
Personally, I'm sick and tired of civilians having any say over the military at all. If you have not served yourself then you have "no skin in the game" as they say in the military.
I still remember this classic line from my time in the U.S. Army:
Private says to a Sargent: "Yes, Sir!!"
Sargent says to private: "Sir!? Who you calling a 'sir'? I work for a living private!".
This is what I'm reminded of anytime I hear a civilian question anything about the military....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 08, 2022, 11:08:02 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/shocker-far-men-accused-michigan-182306641.html
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In a shocking twist, a gaggle of white men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election dodged convictions on Friday.
After five days of deliberations, a Michigan jury acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta of several charges, including conspiracy, for what prosecutors said was a depraved scheme born out of anti-government anger at the Democratic leader’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Post by: guest55 on April 09, 2022, 01:51:03 pm
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin didn't back down to the disrespectful attacks Matt Gaetz hurled his way. Veteran Richard Ojeda breaks it down.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84mmEOzIL4
I share many of the same sentiments with this veteran, having served myself. Still a German citizen though, and I'm embarrassed for Germany that Gaetz is a German last name also....
Fox News Can't Hide Its Manufactured Chaos
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Fox News is subverting American democracy! Leave a comment with your thoughts below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3LatAQsvo
#RebelHQ #FoxNews #Progressive
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 13, 2022, 12:10:01 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 14, 2022, 08:31:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-fQGaYw9U
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 15, 2022, 11:47:26 pm
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‘Did You Just Forget … All Those Black People We Shipped Over?’: Mississippi Governor Confuses Many When He Declares April Both Confederate Heritage Month and Genocide Awareness Month
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Gov. Tate Reeves unpacked Genocide Awareness Month as a time to reflect on the “systematic destruction of lives” and noted it had “no place in society,” but he neglected to mention the devastating race-based institution of American slavery or the near destruction of Native American people by white colonizers in the country.
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Mississippi State Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center Mississippi said n a statement, “It is unfortunate that the governor chooses to glorify the Confederacy — a traitorous government that fought against the United States for the right to enslave Blacks.”
Many have also pointed out the governor’s announcement comes in the aftermath of his signing the state’s highly contested critical race theory law on March 14, where he called CRT a curriculum of indoctrination created to “humiliate” whites.
More about Reeves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Reeves
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Reeves is a staunch Donald Trump supporter.[33][25] During his 2019 campaign for governor, Reeves touted the support of Trump,[26] who carried the heavily Republican state in both 2016 and 2020.[34] In his 2019 campaign for governor, Reeves promised, "If I'm elected governor, I will work for President Trump."[25] Trump, his vice president Mike Pence, and his son Donald Trump Jr. all campaigned for Reeves in Mississippi in 2019.[34] At a rally in Tupelo days before the November 2019 election, the elder Trump promoted Reeves's candidacy while assailing the impeachment inquiry against him over the Trump–Ukraine scandal.[35][36]
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After Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election, and Trump refused to concede, Reeves supported Trump-backed lawsuits to throw out the election results in several states won by Biden, where Trump and his allies made false claims of fraud.[39]
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Amid the acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reeves undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus.[25]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 19, 2022, 09:45:46 pm
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Ten Democrats have broken ranks with President Biden to side with the GOP over the ending of Title 42, a Trump-era border policy that allows for expedited deportation of migrants and prevents them from seeking asylum.
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Kelly is just one of several Democrats now speaking out against the Biden administration's move, with the Washington Examiner compiled a list of 9 other Democrats who have expressed concern over ending the policy.
The list includes Democrats from border states, with fellow Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, joining Kelly in opposition.
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The list of Democrats speaking out also includes moderates who have at times broken from the president, including Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Catherine Cortez, D-Nev., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Jon Tester, D-Mont.
When it was just Manchin and Sinema, we didn't assassinate them. So now we have eight more. And if all ten are not assassinated, soon there will be even more. Are leftists learning yet?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 20, 2022, 08:23:12 pm
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 23, 2022, 08:33:28 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woops-critics-catch-mike-pompeos-104835709.html
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'Woops': Critics Catch Mike Pompeo's 'Freudian Slip' On Fox News
Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, left critics bemused on Thursday with an apparent slip-up on Fox News that some commenters viewed as a rare moment of honesty.
“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the Chinese Communist Party?” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham asked Pompeo.
“Because, in fact, we often are,” replied Pompeo, a potential 2024 GOP presidential contender
Post by: guest55 on April 23, 2022, 10:20:36 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 24, 2022, 01:08:31 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5R4yy2C6vo
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Post by: guest55 on May 18, 2022, 12:46:54 pm
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) calls out GOP leaders including Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson for tolerating an environment that involves White replacement theory, the notion that Whites are under threats to be replaced by minorities. #CNN #Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_REAzKPFrs
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More interested in becoming famous than doing actual work...
Fame and popularity are a function of democracy. This is why democratic people are fame-mongers.
Post by: guest55 on May 21, 2022, 12:17:55 am
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A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave?
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IDAHO — White nationalist Vincent James Foxx had a new video for his nearly 70,000 subscribers on BitChute, one of the few tech platforms that hasn’t banned him. On Feb. 16, he appeared wearing a baseball hat emblazoned with the state’s outline tilted on its side so that it resembled a pistol.
“We are going to take over this state,” Foxx declared. “We have a great large group of people, and that group is growing. A true, actual right-wing takeover is happening right now in the state of Idaho. And there’s nothing that these people can do about it. So if you’re a legislator here, either get in line, or get out of the way.”
Foxx, 36, isn’t from Idaho. He only recently moved from California to Post Falls. But in the video, he showed off photos of himself posing with a string of prominent Republican politicians in the state as he explained who he’s supporting in the upcoming primaries, slated for May 17.
He was especially excited about a selfie he’d taken a week prior: It showed him and fellow white nationalist Dave Reilly, a recent Pennsylvania transplant also living in Post Falls, standing alongside Idaho’s lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin. All three were smiling.
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“The solution is local politics: Amassing power in these pockets of the country until it’s time to unify,” he said. “I’ve only been here for a couple of months and I’m tapped in the way that I am. You can do it too.”
Fascists like Foxx are famous fabulists, experts at exaggerating their influence and success. But Foxx wasn’t just talking ****.
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He is one of many far-right activists who have flocked to Idaho in recent years, where a large and growing radical MAGA faction in the state’s Republican Party has openly allied itself with extremists to a shocking extent, even for the Trump era. This faction is accruing more and more power in Boise, the state capital: Imagine a statehouse full of Marjorie Taylor Greenes and Steve Kings. At the local level, they have seized seats on school boards and county commissions at a fast clip.Entire article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/far-right-idaho_n_628277e2e4b0c84db7282bd6?utm_source=pocket-newtab
In other-words, Trumpism is growing still and getting more aggressive than we even saw prior, and during, the Trump presidency in some states!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 04, 2022, 10:31:38 pm
Post by: guest78 on June 07, 2022, 08:43:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBhH2-RdM0
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 08, 2022, 08:44:12 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-MkOUbeLHM
because it's OK for Garland to be Jewish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland
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Merrick Brian Garland was born on November 13, 1952, in Chicago.[1] He grew up in the northern Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood.[2][3] His mother Shirley (née Horwitz)[4] was a director of volunteer services at Chicago's Council for Jewish Elderly (now called CJE SeniorLife). His father, Cyril Garland, headed Garland Advertising, a small business run out of the family home.[3][5][6] Garland was raised in Conservative Judaism, the family name having been changed from Garfinkel several generations prior. His grandparents left the Pale of Settlement within the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century
ultimately because it's OK for Israel to be Jewish:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/stephen-miller/msg5419/#msg5419
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Meadows is a strong supporter of Israel.[83] He said that "the giving away of property, whether in the Sinai or Gaza, [did not bring] peace. In many ways, it has made (the situation) more difficult."[84] Meadows has opposed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.[85]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 10, 2022, 08:18:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594pO27swtA
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 18, 2022, 03:48:45 am
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 28, 2022, 10:43:05 pm
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“There is no statutory ability for the City of New York to issue inconsistent laws permitting non-citizens to vote and exceed the authority granted to it by the New York State Constitution,” Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio wrote in his 13-page ruling, according to the New York Post.
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In December, the New York City city council approved 33-14 with two abstentions in the measure granting the city’s resident aliens, who comprise 10 percent of its population, the right to vote, according to reporting from the Washington Post.
The law was set to come into effect in the state’s January 2023 elections, according to the Times.
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The law’s proponents told Gothamist that the case’s outcome was not surprising since plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in Staten Island, a Republican-leaning part of the city.
“They went court shopping where they knew that the court would be favorable to them,” New York City Immigration Coalition head Murad Awawdeh told Gothamist.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 02, 2022, 04:13:19 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWfauJFEs4
Those who promoted this should receive "involuntary sterilization" by Second Amendment.
Post by: guest78 on July 05, 2022, 01:30:56 pm
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“If we believe we’re the right person to lead America forward, we will absolutely get in the race.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfeLRhx6oo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells Carole Walker on #TimesRadio that he is considering running for US president in 2024.
Pompeo supported Trump to the fullest...
At the least we can be glad leftists of any stripe do not gun down Americans on July 4th as Trump supporters similar to Pompeo do:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/rightist-mass-shootings/?message=14496
Do we really need another pro-Western anti-American in the U.S. presidency at this point, or any other point in time for that matter?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 05, 2022, 08:02:36 pm
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Alabama judge who used mock Asian accent in courtroom suspended and charged
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The Judicial Inquiry Commission, the state agency that investigates complaints against judges, accused Judge James Patterson of violating judicial ethics with his inappropriate remarks and repeated profanity in court.
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The complaint against him also states that Patterson made a racially charged comment in a mock Asian accent to a jury pool with at least one potential Asian American juror. He reportedly made an inappropriate remark about everyone in court being able to speak English when he saw the juror of Asian descent.
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“The liberals call everyone they disagree with a racist nowadays. I am nothing of the kind,” Patterson reportedly wrote in 2019, according to the commission’s complaint.
He also looks like what we would expect:
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/oYU_uWT1E2LDEL9jzR8hqw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F32y3JRTfH8saLxJxKKPWA--~B/aD00MjU7dz04MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/d2487ca72732e18db01b1454b1198118)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 07, 2022, 11:36:59 pm
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/07/texas-greg-abbott-state-police-border/
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Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday cleared state authorities to return migrants they apprehend to the border, setting up a potential clash with the federal government over the authority to enforce immigration law.
Immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility. Abbott appears to be testing the limits of state authority by empowering state law enforcement and National Guard troops under state deployment to bring migrants to the ports of entry — stopping short of using state resources to expel migrants from the country, as immigration hawks have increasingly called for in recent months.
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“In terms of transporting, that’s exactly the question I’d have. Where would be the authority [come from] for state officials to transport people they suspect of being in violation of immigration law and having just recently crossed without arresting them for some reason?” said Meissner, who ran the U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Service from 1993 to 2000. “Were they to do that, I think that raises pretty basic civil rights violation questions.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 11, 2022, 07:23:55 pm
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A new state law in Arizona will soon make it illegal for people to film a police officer from 8 feet or closer without the officer’s permission, placing greater limits on how people can video police officers at a time when calls are growing louder for increased law enforcement transparency.
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signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday
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As part of the law, an officer can also stop someone from filming on private property, even if the person has the owner’s consent.
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Critics of the law contend that filming police is an American right upheld by the federal appellate courts and the First Amendment of the Constitution. “A blanket restriction is a violation of the First Amendment,” Stephen Solomon, a constitutional expert and director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, told the Washington Post.
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civil rights advocates are wary that it will have a chilling effect on people wanting to film encounters at all.
Others question how the law will be enforced, particularly if the officer moves closer to the person filming.
Ducey was previously covered here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg11484/#msg11484
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 14, 2022, 07:36:06 pm
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House Republicans Vote Against Tackling White Supremacy In Military and Law Enforcement
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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), known for his election meddling efforts and one of the 23 Republicans who voted against an anti-bigotry resolution in 2019, claimed the measure “denigrates” law enforcement personnel.
“This amendment attempts to create a problem where none exists by requesting investigations into law enforcement and the armed services for alleged rampant white supremacists or white national sympathies,” he said.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), currently on the Jan. 6th House select committee, also voted against the amendment despite everything she’s seen in the investigation.
Just because Trump dislikes Cheney doesn't mean she is not our enemy.
For reference, this is what they are trying to keep going:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/military-subverters/
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/police-rightist-bias/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 15, 2022, 08:37:38 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ucf-removes-anti-racist-statements-214723261.html
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The University of Central Florida has removed anti-racist statements from departmental websites, a move that one professor has decried as an “infringement on academic freedom” in the wake of the passage of a Republican-backed law that restricts how race can be taught.
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According to the Orlando Sentinel, the anthropology department's website at UCF said, “We acknowledge that many of us are born with unearned privilege, while others are denied basic human rights."
“We decry this history, commit ourselves to rectifying it, and stand with those working to build an antiracist future for our nation," the statement said.
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Democratic state Rep. Carlos G. Smith, a UCF graduate, slammed the move on Wednesday.
“The DeSantis regime has made the anti-racist mission of my alma mater AGAINST THE LAW,” Smith tweeted. “This is a consequence of HB 7 and the Governor’s out-of-control censorship agenda. This is not freedom.”
Previous DeSantis coverage:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg9208/?topicseen#msg9208
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg10022/?topicseen#msg10022
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg10936/?topicseen#msg10936
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg14034/#msg14034
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/msg353/#msg353
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/elon-musk/msg14116/#msg14116
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-as-viewed-by-westerners/msg10812/#msg10812
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/msg7970/#msg7970
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 26, 2022, 05:12:15 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/portland-court-dismisses-bias-crime-171946110.html
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A court in Portland, Oregon, has dismissed the bias crime case against a man accused of kicking an Asian American woman and spewing racial slurs at her last year.
A Multnomah County judge dropped the case against Peter Eschright without prejudice last week, explaining that the man was not assigned a public defense attorney "in a timely manner," according to KPTV.
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The woman, who was with her son at the time, did not require medical assistance following the incident, but the attack reportedly left her with “some trouble walking.”
Eschright was taken into custody shortly after the incident and was charged with two counts of first-degree bias crime and one count of fourth-degree felony assault. He reportedly failed to appear in court for his arraignment multiple times. Since his court dates kept on getting pushed back, he was not assigned a defense attorney, which led to the dismissal of his case.
If you fail to appear in court, this should be viewed as you voluntarily declining your chance to defend yourself, and thus should lead to an automatic conviction. But because Eschright is "white", further bad behaviour leads to exoneration from the consequences of the initial bad behaviour.
Eschright also looks like what we would expect:
(https://www.koin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/peter-eschright-01272021.jpg)
At least the comments get it:
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They'll find a lawyer if it was a black man.
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Next week you're going to see the same guy do the same thing. Justice system doing nothing.
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Seems like the court just gave him permission for a repeat performance. What has happened to justice in this country?
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And these are the reasons bad behavior will continue.
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So it is now a defense to not show up for an arraignment?
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This is perfect example of that selective prosecution, white get the break or invent ways to decline prosecution
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 29, 2022, 08:38:37 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39NVCF69gE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 07, 2022, 09:36:20 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-man-drove-truck-mostly-160305077.html
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Wisconsin man who drove truck into mostly Black crowd pleads guilty to felony, but could have record erased
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A white man in Wisconsin accused of accelerating his vehicle through a crowd, injuring a Black woman and fleeing the scene in 2020 has pled guilty to a felony charge.
Brendan O’Neil, 28, on Friday agreed to a plea deal that convicts him of a hit-and-run involving injury — but not a hate crime — with an opportunity to clear the charge from his record. Under the deal O’Neil can have his record wiped clean should he complete a first-time offenders program, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 09, 2022, 07:00:38 pm
https://apnews.com/article/arrests-mississippi-kidnapping-emmett-till-greenwood-86b6b9acefe957dff24f0b04dc6a615e
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement.
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The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living witness to Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, abduction, said Tuesday’s announcement is “unfortunate, but predictable.”
“The prosecutor tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to this day,” Parker said in a statement.
“The fact remains that the people who abducted, tortured, and murdered Emmett did so in plain sight, and our American justice system was and continues to be set up in such a way that they could not be brought to justice for their heinous crimes.”
Cue False Leftist nonsense:
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“Justice is not always locking somebody up and throwing the keys away,” Gordon said. “Ms. Donham has not gone to jail. But in many ways, I don’t think she’s had a pleasant life. I think each day she wakes up, she has to face the atrocities that have come because of her actions.”
I guarantee she is proud of what she did. Why would you believe someone capable of doing something like this in the first place would regret doing it?
Back to True Leftist response:
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A third cousin, Deborah Watts, who leads the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, said the case is an example of the freedom afforded to white women to escape accountability for making false accusations against Black men.
“She has still escaped any accountability in this case,” Watts said. “So the grand jury’s decision is disappointing, but we’re still going to be calling for justice for Emmett Till. It’s not over.”
Good! You will need:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
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GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former police officer in a small Texas town was found not guilty of murder Thursday in the slaying of a Black man who offered a handshake as the officer arrived to respond to a call about a fight at a convenience store.
The Hunt County jury deliberated for more than five hours before acquitting Shaun Lucas of the death of Jonathan Price.
Lucas also looks like what we would expect:
(https://am22.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2022/09/Shaun-Lucas.jpg)
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Texas Rangers concluded that lethal force was not called for in the confrontation since Price was unarmed. Eleven witnesses at the scene testified that Price was not angry or aggressive in his reactions, prosecutor Steven Lilley reminded the Hunt County jury in Thursday’s closing arguments.
“He’s dead. He was killed that night,” Lilley said of Price. “If it wasn’t necessary, it was murder. Go back and find him guilty.”
Defense attorney Robert Rogers contended that Lucas had no choice but to shoot Price in self-defense "because he was terrified. That’s the only reason he fired his gun.”
In other words, it's OK for terror to be "white".
At least the comments are woke:
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He wasn't terrified. He just didn't care. They should add perjury to his charges. Maybe it was not murder, but it sure seems like manslaughter to me. Why wasn't there a lesser charge included in the indictment?
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Let me help you with that. the victim was black, and the murderer was a white Deputy Sheriff.
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How DARE you ridicule their "Get Out Of Jail Free" card ??!!
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What was Lucas afraid of? The man was unarmed and Lucas is a huge guy.
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The victims Blackness???
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It’s rural TX. White cop vs black not-a-cop. The white guy was never gonna lose
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 27, 2022, 08:00:46 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKz7D7UkHE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 11, 2022, 02:22:06 am
About Tuberville:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville
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After taking office in January 2021, Tuberville joined a group of Republican senators who announced they would formally object to counting electoral votes won by Democratic president-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The objections were part of a continued effort by Trump and his allies to overturn his defeat in the election.
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Tuberville voted in support of an objection to Arizona's electoral votes and an objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes, both of which were won by Biden. He was one of six Republican senators to support the former objection and one of seven to support the latter; the remainder of the Senate defeated the objections.[79][80] No further objections to the electoral votes were debated and the count concluded on the morning of January 7, certifying Biden's victory over Trump.
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On May 28, 2021, Tuberville voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[81]
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uberville's interests include "NASCAR, golf, football, hunting and fishing, [and] America's military".
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 15, 2022, 04:33:07 pm
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Rep. Biggs' bill would allow states to pass immigration enforcement laws, in response to ‘historic invasion’
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The bill would give congressional authorization for states and local governments to act, which they have so far been stopped from doing due to a 2012 Supreme Court decision. Reps. Bob Good, R-Va., Randy Weber, R-Texas, and Ted Budd, R-N.C., are all co-sponsors on the legislation.
Previous Biggs coverage:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg14694/#msg14694
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-coup/msg13256/#msg13256
About the co-sponsors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Good
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Good promoted the theory that Democrats had perpetrated a vast conspiracy to steal the election. He said that while the virus was real, the pandemic was "phony".[14] Good told a maskless crowd that "this is a phony pandemic" and, the next day, suggested that precautions to prevent the spread of the disease were a "hoax".[14]
On January 6, 2021, Good voted against certifying the election of President-elect Biden.[14]
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On October 26, 2021, while the House discussed anti-domestic violence legislation, Good said: "Nearly everything that plagues our society can be attributed to a failure to follow God's laws for morality and his rules for and definition of marriage and family."[24]
In October 2021, Good encouraged a group of high school students from Rappahannock County, Virginia, to defy a local school mask mandate, saying, "If nobody in Rappahannock complies, they can't stop everyone".[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weber
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In April 2015, Weber met with Aleksandr Torshin, the alleged handler for Russian spy Maria Butina,[19]
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In December 2020, Weber was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated[21] incumbent Donald Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Budd
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On April 23, 2021, Budd went to Mar-a-Lago to discuss his prospective U.S. Senate candidacy with former U.S. President Donald Trump.[22]
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In December 2020, Budd was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed by long-indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at the United States Supreme Court.[34][35] It contested the results of the 2020 presidential election, in four states, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where Joe Biden defeated[36] incumbent Donald Trump.
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On January 6, 2021, Budd was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who objected to the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing an emergency recess of Congress.[40]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 28, 2022, 11:04:29 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-strips-illegal-immigrant-citizenship-035900334.html
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Oct. 27—CONCORD — A federal judge has taken the unusual step of stripping the citizenship of a New Hampshire man who has lived in the country for 28 years.
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Rahman moved to New York City from Bangladesh in 1994 on a non-immigrant visa, according to a lengthy court order issued by District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro.
Rahman engaged lawyers with the hopes of securing work authorization. According to the ruling, he followed the advice of lawyers, changed his name and applied for asylum. He obtained a New York driver license and eventually a passport.
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He obtained permanent legal status in 2004, and in 2007 he became a U.S. citizen. During various interviews and on applications, he did not disclose his use of a false name in New York or the deportation order.
According to the court order, Rahman "by all accounts, remained a citizen in good standing since his naturalization."
In 2019, however, prosecutors filed complaints against Rahman and sought his deportation. Rahman had said his misrepresentations were not willful and were made on the advice of his lawyer.
"There is no question that Rahman's failure to disclose his past name constitutes a misrepresentation (of a material fact)," Barbadoro wrote.
Barbardoro revoked Rahman's citizenship and canceled his certificate of naturalization. He ordered Rahman to hand over any papers indicating his citizenship within 10 days.
The only thing that will protect us is our willingness to apply the Second Amendment against such as Barbardoro.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 01, 2022, 06:23:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhpMXjgNeQg
It is demographic warfare. When will we start fighting back?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 02, 2022, 10:39:29 pm
Why not shoot him?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 07, 2022, 06:18:27 pm
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), who served under Donald Trump as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.)—a Black American pastor—should be “deported.”
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That’s a pretty stunning thing to say. Deported to where, Nikki? Reverend Warnock was born in Georgia; his dad served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and he is currently serving in the U.S. Senate. Essentially saying this man should “go back to Africa” is quite a closing message, two days before a midterm election.
Where exactly do you want to deport Savannah, Georgia-born Raphael Warnock to, @NikkiHaley
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Now that wouldn't be daughter of immigrants Nikki "Nimrata" Haley using the "Go back to Africa" racist trope that damn near every Black person in America has heard since childhood, would it?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2022, 06:42:50 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 20, 2022, 02:09:58 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 20, 2022, 07:46:24 pm
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“We watch anti-Semitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow In the halls of Congress,” McCarthy said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting in Las Vegas on Saturday, Fox News reported.
“I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he added, to cheers from the crowd, video posted to his Twitter shows.
After Republicans barely secured a majority in the House, the California lawmaker was given the nod by the party to be the next Speaker of the House in January following a congressional vote.
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Greene was removed from her committee assignments after the comments and for espousing Qanon conspiracy theories.
McCarthy has promised Greene that he would reinstate her once he becomes speaker, according to Fox. Greene said she plans to vote for him.
Previous McCarthy coverage:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg8520/#msg8520
Post by: rp on November 20, 2022, 08:57:10 pm
Post by: guest78 on November 21, 2022, 01:00:26 am
Rightist anti-Semitism (discrimination against Semites) is tolerated by rightists it seems.
Rightist anti-Semitism, which, if it were logically possible, is closer to the "selective anti-Semitism" some Jews have accused me of in the past. To clarify, I have nothing against Semitic people at all, and I'm certainly not anti-Jewish because Jews speak a Semitic language in some places.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 22, 2022, 08:21:26 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB60OilLAIg
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 26, 2022, 07:47:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-ggrQX0Ec
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 02, 2022, 11:20:38 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuWTo7P2Fc
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 07, 2022, 11:58:33 pm
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A former Oklahoma jail supervisor was sentenced to federal prison after prosecutors said he allowed Black inmates to be attacked by white supremacist inmates, according to court records.
Matthew Ware, 53, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release after being convicted of “violating the civil rights of three pretrial detainees” held at the Kay County Detention Center, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Oklahoma said in a Monday, Dec. 5, news release.
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While third-in-command at the jail, Ware ordered correctional officers to move two Black inmates into a cell row that housed white supremacist inmates “whom Ware knew posed a danger” to the Black inmates, according to a sentencing memo filed on Nov. 15. He ordered correctional officers to unlock both cells at the same time the next morning.
The officers followed his orders in May 2017, court documents said. When the cell doors opened the next day, the white inmates attacked the Black inmates, injuring both. One needed stitches.
While second-in-command of the jail, Ware ordered correctional officers to restrain another pretrial detainee in a “stretched-out position,” prosecutors said in the release. The inmate’s wrists were handcuffed to opposite sides of a bench, and he was left in that position for 90 minutes, causing him bodily harm, the release said.
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So he got 46 months for letting both of the white inmates attack black inmates on two occasions?
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Why is it only 46 month? Is that what you get for attempted murder and hate crime nowadays?
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Not a surprise, we're talking about Oklahoma/ Red Dirt/ Red Neck USA. I lived in that hovel...of a state for 10 years. The "good ol' boy" attitude is a large out there. Good luck if you're a minority or even look like a minority. The racism out there is very overt & the cops don't even bother to hide it.
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Absolutely nothing shocks me when it comes to white males.
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Leave his cell unlocked.
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put him in the black section
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And if he follows the normal "MAGA in jail" path, he will insist on segregated confinement, then when that isn't comfortable enough for an honorable white man like himself, he'll become an activist for prison reform, but work it so that the white boys are the only ones to get better treatment.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 12, 2022, 07:18:57 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-documents-indicate-over-300-230536493.html
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Just weeks after Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for trying to violently overturn the 2020 election, a leak of the paramilitary group's membership list has revealed that potentially hundreds of far-right extremists have infiltrated federal law enforcement, the Project on Government Oversight reported on Monday.
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More than a decade of recruitment has led the group to collect at least 306 members who have described themselves as "current or former employees of the Department of Homeland Security," according to POGO, which reviewed the leaked membership documents from the group in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
DHS agencies include US Customs and Immigration Services, the Transportation Security Administration, and the US Secret Service. Most of the self-described DHS employees asserted that they were retired, but at least one claimed to be an activity-duty Secret Service agent; another said they were a supervisor with Border Patrol, according to the documents reviewed by POGO.
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it also targeted veterans and police because their skillset could prove useful in an armed struggle.
"That's a real manipulation tactic, to target people for a particular skill and then bring them into a violent and ideological movement," Carrol Rivas said in an interview.
That they apparently enjoyed success among the ranks of DHS is "unfortunately not surprising," she added, citing the department's role in policing immigration — a top Border Patrol agent has promoted far-right "replacement theory," while the ICE union endorsed former President Donald Trump — and founding in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a time of heightened Islamophobia. The nature of its work, and the overt sympathies of some of its members, has made it a more receptive target for extremist recruiting, Carrol Rivas argued.
"It was flawed from the get-go and it continues to be flawed," she said.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/ice/
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/rightist-militias/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 17, 2022, 08:20:17 pm
More about McClintok:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McClintock#Political_positions
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In December 2020, McClintock joined 125 other Republican members of Congress in signing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit by the attorney general of the state of Texas that sought to overturn the certified results of the 2020 presidential election in four other U.S. states.
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McClintock voted against impeaching Trump over his role in inciting the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.[67][68]
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McClintock has said that "farm animals are food, not friends."[15]
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, McClintock expressed the view that wearing face masks should not be mandatory
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McClintock questions the role that human activity plays in climate change
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In July 2021, McClintock was one of five House Republicans to vote against a bill that allocates $2.1 billion for Afghan visas
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McClintock opposes same-sex marriage. In 2008, he said, "calling a homosexual partnership a marriage doesn't make it one."[15]
In June 2021, McClintock was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish June 19, or Juneteenth, as a federal holiday.[87]
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McClintock voted against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.[88]
McClintock voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.[89][90]
McClintock voted against Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158) which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).[91]
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McClintock opposes mail-in voting
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 22, 2022, 10:52:52 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/colorado-city-councilmember-faces-backlash-164503088.html
(https://nextshark.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.nextshark.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F12%2Faurora-councilmember.jpg&w=1920&q=75)
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Colorado city councilmember faces backlash over ads mocking minorities
Councilmember Steve Sundberg of Aurora, Colorado, has issued an apology following backlash over a series of videos of himself imitating minority groups.
Sundberg, who took office in 2021, created Facebook advertisements for his sports bar business Legends of Aurora Sports Grill in 2020 by doing stereotypical impressions of Arab Muslims, South Asians and Mexicans, among others.
In one of the videos, Sundberg can be seen sitting on a carpet wearing a robe and a turban.
“Haram, haram,” he says while brandishing a scimitar after an employee tries to give him bacon. The term “haram” is an Arabic term that refers to something forbidden under Islamic law, such as eating pork.
In another video, the councilmember imitates a South Asian accent to promote his business's curry. He does something similar in a separate video where he promotes Maharaja IPA produced by Avery Brewing Co.
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The videos have prompted criticism and disappointment from community leaders and civil rights groups.
“The message that these videos send to members of minority communities in Aurora is that they are not respected and cannot expect to be represented by this elected official,” Ismail Allison of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement to The Sentinel.
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“My initial impression was shock, and then quite frankly disgust,” Colorado State Rep. Iman Jodeh told CBS News. “Having your shoes on while sitting on a prayer rug holding up a sword. You know these very trite and cliche stereotypes are so low-brow. I was really hoping that Aurora especially was past a lot of these stereotypical, bigoted and racist tropes that have plagued our city for such a while.”
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Omar Montgomery, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Aurora branch, said that Sundberg’s involvement in the council is disappointing as he suggested cutting the city’s diversity office. During the 2023 budgeting process, Sundberg agreed with other conservatives on cuts to the internal police monitor.
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Of course this guy made the videos to offend. And if he "apologizes" it is insincere. That it is how he gets attention; belittling others.
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It’s always the same type of people with the stereotypes and the racist comments. They are the problem
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Not the brightest light in the menorah.
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There is no value in a racist life alive.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 29, 2022, 07:34:59 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7gaIGzxOBY
It is demographic warfare. When only one side is fighting, the side that is not fighting will surely lose.
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Wow nothing going to be done that's white privilege
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White people don't like to lockup white people for killing blacks.
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They system called white supremacy is so corrupt and evil that it cannot be reformed. Not to mention all the things that have been hidden about this wicked system is coming to the light.
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Ok so he's out of jail ? thats a good thing ! NOW GO GET HIM !
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Black pple instead of bitchin bout it y dnt yall find out where he live at an blow his fuckin head we all knw they ain't goin charge him hell they ready drop the murder charge that should tell hw they feel bout the situation hell dnt live far **** the jury **** the system let's handle it ourselves
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Return the favor
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**** it just go with old school street justice.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 08, 2023, 12:13:40 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santos-appears-flash-white-201121087.html
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Instead of keeping a low profile after admitting to lying about significant portions of his biography, New York Republican Congressman-elect George Santos has put himself front and center in photos from the floor of the House of Representatives, including one in which he appears to flash a white power symbol.
On Thursday evening, the incoming lawmaker gestured as he stood to cast a vote for Kevin McCarthy in the 10th round of votes for speaker of the House.
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With his right hand raised and his left hand across his midsection, he made a sideways “OK” gesture by making his index finger and thumb meet.
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C-SPAN video of the incident shows that Santos had pre-positioned his hand along his body in an unusual way to create the gesture.
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When groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Front conduct their activities, they have been photographed flashing the gesture.
In those cases, the intent of the meaning of the sign is clear, but through gaslighting, those who make it claim just to be indicating that everything is all good, while often sporting a disingenuous smirk or grin, the SPLC reports.
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“The guy who lied about everything turns out to be a white supremacist who flashed a white power hand gesture on the house floor,” she wrote.
Previous Santos coverage:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/non-aryan-treachery/msg17126/#msg17126
Anyone who uses the "It's OK to be white" gesture should have their fingers cut off.
Post by: guest78 on January 10, 2023, 01:01:38 pm
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Adam Schiff tells The Independent that is ‘another promise by McCarthy to try to gain support from people that were not supporting him anyway’
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Mr McCarthy has vowed to remove Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in one of his first major moves as House speaker. He also said he wanted to kick Representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, from the House Intelligence Committee.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ilhan-omar-adam-schiff-mccarthy-committees-b2259523.html
“Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector. I’m not going to give him a government security clearance,” Mr McCarthy told Punchbowl News. “Schiff has lied too many times to the American public. He should not be on Intel.”
The three House Democrats brushed off the newly installed speaker’s threats to remove them from their committees.
Republicans have long disliked Mr Schiff for his role as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee during the probe into Russia’s influence on the 2016 presidential campaign and any ties between former president Donald Trump’s campaign.
Republicans have called for Mr Swalwell’s removal from the committee ever since Axios reported in late 2020 that a Chinese intelligence operative targeted him, took part in a fundraising activity and placed at least one intern in his office. Mr Swalwell reportedly cut off all ties to her and nobody accused him of any wrongdoing in an investigation.
In addition, Mr McCarthy said he wants to remove Ms Omar from her committees after she made comments about Israel and its influence in the United States, which many, including some Democrats, have interpreted as antisemitic.
But Mr Schiff brushed off the threats last week during the delayed vote for speaker.
“You know, that was, I think, another promise by McCarthy to try to gain support from people that were not supporting him anyway. But it shows why I think he has no respect from his own conference or the American people,” Mr Schiff told The
Independent last week.
Mr McCarthy’s push to boot members from committees comes after the House voted to remove Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar from their committees. The House voted to remove Ms Greene for a series of inflammatory racist remarks and promoting conspiracy theories before she won her congressional seat.
The House voted to remove Mr Gosar from his committees after he tweeted a video of the anime Attack on Titan with his head photoshopped onto a character that killed a character with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s head photoshopped on.
But last week, Mr Swalwell brushed off Mr McCarthy’s threat on Friday shortly before the House voted for speaker for the fifteenth time.
The GOP does not like it when people do not show support for two countries which have both attacked America, those countries being Russia and Israel.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 12, 2023, 07:12:51 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 20, 2023, 07:55:46 pm
Post by: guest78 on January 20, 2023, 11:36:12 pm
'Shocked & disappointed': Ron DeSantis blocks African American studies course
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Reginald Ellis, a Florida A&M Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s state education department blocking Florida high schools from offering a new AP African American Studies course.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNHSdpMmdQ
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 05, 2023, 04:35:42 pm
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Watch 'Mulan' with your kid, wind up in prison? What will Arizona lawmakers think of next?
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Senate Bill 1698 would criminalize anyone who exposes a child to a drag performance.
Take your daughter to see “Hairspray” and, by my read of the bill, you’d be guilty of a class 4 felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. You’d also have to register as a sex offender.
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This bill is brought to you by Sen. Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, a member of the Arizona Freedom Caucus.
Freedom, that is, unless you allow your child to watch “Mulan,” in which case you’d be guilty of a “dangerous crime against children” if said child is under the age of 15.
I realize there’s political gold these days in demonizing drag but isn’t this just a tad … I don’t know … full-on, flat-out bonkers?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 05, 2023, 09:07:21 pm
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has included more than $18.2 million in funding for Jewish schools, museums, and memorials in his proposed Florida state budget for fiscal year 2023-24.
The funding includes a record $5 million in security funding for Jewish day schools, Agudath Israel of Florida pointed out in a statement welcoming the proposed measures.
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“The state of Florida is taking the threat of rising antisemitism seriously,” said Rabbi Moshe Matz, executive director of Agudath Israel of Florida.
“The recent public displays of antisemitism and distribution of antisemitic materials is deeply concerning to our community. We are heartened to see that Florida is taking action to respond.
“We are grateful to Governor Ron DeSantis who continues to provide strong support to the Jewish community in Florida, and to Representative Mike Caruso whose proposed legislation shows zero tolerance for antisemitism.”
Contrast with:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg17575/#msg17575
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 17, 2023, 05:28:13 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 23, 2023, 10:39:36 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-zJVsmOus
False Leftist Fiorentini needs to STFU. Ziegler and his wife should both have been executed, and should now both be assassinated, as should those who gave Ziegler parole. In fact I would not mind adding Fiorentini to the latter list; she is part of the problem.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 24, 2023, 07:43:38 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 27, 2023, 05:35:51 pm
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Rep. Judy Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, on Thursday blasted Texas GOP Rep. Lance Gooden over recent statements that he made where he seemingly questioned her loyalty to the United States.
During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, the third-term Gooden suggested that the California Democrat, who has served in the House since 2009, should be barred from accessing sensitive classified materials over her defense of Dominic Ng — the chairman and chief executive of the California-based East West Bank and President Joe Biden's appointee to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.
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"I'm really disappointed and shocked that someone like Judy Chu would have a security clearance and be entitled to confidential intelligence briefings until this is figured out."
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In January 2021, Gooden voted against the certification of electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 election.
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"Congressman Gooden appears to sympathize with violent insurrectionists and spreads big lies to the American people, having voted not to certify the election of President Joe Biden."
I'm really disappointed and shocked that someone like Lance Gooden was not only not executed for treason two years ago but is still entitled to his House seat.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2023, 09:04:21 pm
It is demographic warfare.
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This was an opportunity to kill a black.
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They look racist and racist devils don’t care about black folks and cops know they have the green light to kill blacks Without impunity
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They want to exterminate you and the DA, judges, responders, media, all of them are obviously in on the plan.
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Politicians do NOTHING!!! Yet we're still voting & paying our taxes, we're ALL being duped!!!! It's them AGAINST us!!!! SMFH
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Like I say White cops don't get charged unless you have millions of peoples protesting. Black cops get charged right because they don't want them on the force anyway.
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Instead of using "Reparations" use Reparative Justice
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 29, 2023, 07:52:34 pm
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Protections to Jewish people, both as a religion and an ethnicity, could be added to Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act under legislation recently introduced in the state House this month.
Sponsored by Rep. Noah Arbit, D-West Bloomfield, House Bill 4327 would amend the civil rights act to include ethnicity as a protected class – highlighting in particular that discrimination because of ethnicity includes antisemitism.
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Covered under “antisemitism” would include making dehumanizing or stereotypical allegations about Jewish people, including the myth that Jews as a monolith control institutions like banks or media outlets, or holding all Jews responsible for the conduct of Israel.
Arbit is one of two Jewish lawmakers currently in the state House. The other, Rep. Samantha Steckloff, D-Farmington Hills, is a co-sponsor of his bill.
Will they be allowed to get away with this?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 14, 2023, 04:04:11 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BE0qfIS5EE
Post by: rp on April 24, 2023, 01:49:48 am
It's OK for directions to be "white":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-zJVsmOus
False Leftist Fiorentini needs to STFU. Ziegler and his wife should both have been executed, and should now both be assassinated, as should those who gave Ziegler parole. In fact I would not mind adding Fiorentini to the latter list; she is part of the problem.
Fiorentini, Kasparian, etc. are all obnoxious False Leftist airheads who need to die already.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2023, 12:40:00 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-school-district-claims-teacher-161956818.html
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Members of the Asian American community in Wausau, Wisconsin, are outraged that the school district has put a teacher it admits used racist and sexist language back in the classroom.
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An open letter signed by Asian American leaders in Wausau—which is 81 percent white according to census data, but has a large Hmong-Lao population—said they were outraged by the reinstatement of high school band teacher Robert Perkins.
“Despite corroborating statements confirming Mr. Perkins’ use of anti-Asian, racist slurs such as ‘chink’ and ‘ching chong,’ as well as statements from other witnesses that Mr. Perkins’ conduct caused unease among students from protected classes, the WSD investigator still found no grounds for a determination of harassment,” the letter reads.
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The father of the boy who complained said his son was so upset he had not been in school for two weeks.
“When I saw it in my son’s eyes as he’s crying on the floor, it broke my heart that a grown man can do this to my son,” Tha Vongphakdy told WAOW.
Perkins also looks like what we would expect:
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2023, 09:31:54 pm
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MUNCIE, Ind. − Community members showed up in force at the Delaware County Council meeting Tuesday, and most who spoke were demanding Ryan Webb resign as a member of council following his declaration on Facebook earlier this month that he identifies as a woman of color.
"If he were serious, I'd sing his praises," said Charlize Jamieson, a transgender female who rose to address the council. "But instead, I know better. We all do. I know better because of his history of making hateful anti-trans statements on social media and disrespecting one's pronouns. He has, purposely, and intentionally, misgendered me, ridiculing my own gender identity. That is not something transgender people do to one another."
She went on to say that Webb was being disingenuous and "his words not only embarrass himself, but you, the county council."
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After Webb earlier this month made his announcement that he would go by a different gender, while continuing to keep the pronouns of a man, Jamieson in an online exchange asked him if this was really necessary. Jamieson added this gender announcement was unbecoming of an elected official.
"Charlize Jamieson, do you think you have the password to the forbidden world of coming out," Webb said in reply, according to a printed record from Jamieson. "When you decided to become a woman did people tell you that it was unbecoming. Sorry pal but you don't get to be the decider of who is acceptable and who isn't. I was hoping that you and I could be friends now that we are both ladies who used to be men. I'll give you some more time."
Webb initially posted : "After much consideration I have decided to come out and finally feel comfortable announcing my true authentic self, It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman and not just any woman but as a woman of color as well. I guess this would make me gay/lesbian as well, since I am attracted to women."
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He said that a person's sense of his own gender is not subject to debate.
"To clarify, I never claimed to be trans anything," he said. "I simply expressed my own gender identity ... I'm being dead serious. This isn't a joke. I said what I said. I don't know what to tell you. You don't get to question me. You do not get to require proof from me. You were part of the movement that helped establish these rules and set the bar, OK? You don't get to come later when someone else joins the club that you don't want in ... You don't get to question how I identify."
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Webb said he is not leaving the council.
Webb also looks like what we would expect:
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Ryan-Webb.jpg)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 04, 2023, 08:56:52 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/non-aryan-aggressiveness/msg17465/#msg17465
Now we see it's OK for stabbings to be "white":
https://us.yahoo.com/news/state-charges-tossed-university-town-225002223.html
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — State charges including attempted murder have been dismissed against a woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus, court records show.
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Online court records show state charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery by means of a deadly weapon were dismissed April 25. Davis had pleaded not guilty to the charges.”
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Being white comes with privileges in Indiana.
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It's Indiana and she's white. Of course they have no interest in charging her.
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Sounds about White.
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if it's a non-white, the white magas will say: "It's always one of them." But if it's a white, the white magas say: "Everyone does it."
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 07, 2023, 02:52:40 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sk_mfQe1d4
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White privilege at its finest.
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Must be nice being white and being able to do whatever the fck you want w/o consequence
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Time for some street justice for that **** then.
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Ok, we just going to jump her instead.
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We need to get together a get the justice we deserve
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Well she needs to be hit by a damn 🚗
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And let wheel spin on her face too.
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Street justice is the only way.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 09, 2023, 01:13:09 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 09, 2023, 06:23:56 pm
Post by: rp on May 12, 2023, 08:43:37 pm
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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said there should be no efforts to block different ideological groups, including white nationalists, from serving in the military and criticized President Joe Biden for taking steps to remove them even as concerns about extremism in the military dates back to the Trump administration.
Tuberville, a staunch supporter of the military and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the comments in a Monday interview with WBHM, a National Public Radio station in Birmingham.
Asked if he believed white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military, Tuberville said in referring to the Biden administration, “They call them that. I call them Americans.”
You call them that, I call them Western occupiers.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 14, 2023, 07:40:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itYT-IgYvt4
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 15, 2023, 07:47:09 pm
But rightists prefer food to be expensive.
Post by: 2ThaSun on May 15, 2023, 09:39:02 pm
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Talking Points Memo’s Hunter Walker reports a congressional staffer for Rep. Paul Gosar is a prominent follower of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Evidence uncovered by Walker shows the staffer is behind an online persona Fuentes referred to as one of his “strongest soldiers.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hta235TfCIY
The "strong soldier" is the one on the right. The soldier who is fast as a Greyhound and as hard as Krupp steel is the one on the left:
(https://trueleft.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Faryanism.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fneonazi.jpg&hash=68e108e672047dff758d98965908c270f57915d7)
Post by: 2ThaSun on May 16, 2023, 10:38:30 pm
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new immigration law will impose huge financial penalties for immigration offenses in Florida. Immigration lawyer Andrea Reyes discusses this and the expected health and safety ramifications of this new law that many are calling cruel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRRxGuJ2TJI
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10 of the top 15 states with the highest GDP? The Democrat-led states of California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan and Colorado. 9 of the top 10 states with the lowest poverty rate? The Democrat-led states of New Hampshire, Maryland, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Virginia. 4 of the top 5 states most dependent on welfare? The Republican-led states of Louisiana, West Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi. 4 of the top 5 states with the highest bankruptcy rate? The Republican-led states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. 8 of the top 10 states most dependent on aid from the federal government? The Republican-led states of Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Montana and South Carolina. 8 of the top 10 states with the highest poverty rate? The Republican-led states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
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AMNESTY for the Undocumented!
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Democrats won big tonight!!! Congrats to the newly-elected mayor of Jacksonville. Take that, Ronnie!! :) And GOP lost mayoral race in Colorado Springs, that’s amazing
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Congratulations in your today win Democrat Mayor Donna & Jacksonville! 🎉
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The Republican Politicians do not get it. How quickly they forget the pictures of rotting fruit and vegetables back when "Former Guy" was president and migrants with Work Visa weren't able to pick the crops.
Related:
Understanding America’s Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted States
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Every state is facing an unprecedented challenge finding workers to fill open jobs. Learn which states have been impacted the most by the nation’s worker shortage crisis.
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America is facing a worker shortage crisis: There are too many open jobs without people to fill them. The interactive map below shows which states are suffering the most from a labor shortage by comparing their Worker Shortage Index ratios.Entire article: https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/the-states-suffering-most-from-the-labor-shortage
Farm workers say they will be leaving Florida
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Farm workers say they are thinking about leaving Florida, following the latest immigration laws.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzDNHTKyuVE
Post by: 2ThaSun on May 20, 2023, 12:58:25 pm
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Construction workers say many employees have not showed up to work because they fear deportation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilEdf-9uks
Law targeting undocumented migrants affecting farms, construction sites
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A new law targeting undocumented migrants is set to go into effect on July 1st. The law is already affecting farms and construction sites in the state.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsT8Guq26Yk
Latino truck driver boycott over new immigration work rules causes Jacksonville businesses to worry
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Imagine your favorite restaurant, grocery store, or farmer’s market with limited produce. That could soon be a reality. Latino truck drivers are encouraging truckers everywhere to boycott Florida in response to the state’s immigration laws.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaU1Km-WAk8
Post by: guest98 on May 21, 2023, 03:31:54 pm
Premier Scott Moe says feds can ‘come get me’ over Sask coal-fired generating plants
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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe plans on running coal plants in the province past 2029, which the federal government pointed out could be breaking the law.
“If Prime Minister Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is the prime minister, and Minister Guilbeault is the environment minister on Jan. 1, 2031, they can come get me,” Moe told reporters when asked whether the province’s position is something he’d be willing to go to prison over.
Moe made it known that his government is going to ignore the net-zero emissions plan of the feds, and instead move the goal post to 2050 to run these plants until the end of their lifespan.
Post by: 2ThaSun on May 28, 2023, 02:20:03 pm
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As the country has been reckoning with questions of race, justice and equality, many state legislatures have passed laws restricting how American history, particularly around the issue of race, can be taught in schools. Judy Woodruff visited her native Tulsa, Oklahoma, to see how that city, amid its own reckoning, is navigating this moment. It's her latest installment of America at a Crossroads.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCrNHaZmaM
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 28, 2023, 07:35:22 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 30, 2023, 05:56:25 pm
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/irs-acknowledges-racial-bias-tax-auditing-based-professors-work-rcna85630
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The Internal Revenue Service is increasingly acknowledging the presence of racial bias in the nation’s tax system — along with the years of work by pioneering researchers who’ve spent years highlighting the issue.
In a letter sent last week to the Senate Finance Committee, the agency said Black taxpayers are far more likely to be audited than non-Black ones, exposing them to tax penalties. And in January, the Treasury Department revealed that a swath of tax breaks disproportionately benefit white people, leaving many Black people with hefty tax bills and little money left over.
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Dorothy Brown: I thought it was a big deal that the IRS finally acknowledged that race has played a role in their enforcement activities. They came out and validated the results of the Stanford study that showed that if you were Black and filed for the Earned Income Tax Credit you were three to five times more likely to be audited. In years past, the former IRS commissioner testified before Congress that the IRS doesn’t discriminate or treat anyone differently based on race and it’s obvious that simply isn’t true. So that this new commissioner acknowledged that is a big deal.
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The way you get to pay fewer taxes is to have income from stock or gifts and inheritance. And we know that, given the racial wealth gap, gifts and inheritances are going to disproportionately benefit white Americans. So to the extent that Black Americans get most of our income from wages that are taxed at the highest rates and not income from stocks, Black people are left behind.
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Every [Tax Day on] April 15, Black family wealth gets depleted. So over generations, it’s just wealth depletion, wealth depletion. Whereas for white Americans, every April 15 it’s wealth building, wealth building. The tax system right now is a builder of wealth for some people and a depleter of wealth for others.
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the jobs that tend to be disproportionately white tend to come with tax-free benefits like retirement accounts and health insurance. And there are other jobs that are disproportionately Black that do not come with those tax-free benefits.
Post by: 2ThaSun on June 03, 2023, 08:44:00 pm
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Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani talks with Alex Wagner about protests across the state of Florida against new immigration policies passed by Ron DeSantis and state Republicans that not only threaten the health and wellbeing of immigrants but hurt the local business community as important jobs and services that would ordinarily be staffed by immigrants go unfulfilled.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2x9uCfetSw
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Republican's are lining up to pick oranges, install drywall, sew cloths, and become house workers.
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Agriculture, Construction and Tourism three of the biggest Industries in Florida and Ron DeSaster's doing his best to tank all of them.
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It's against the hypacratic oath to deny health services to anyone (there is no mention of someone's citizenship status in the oath).
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Doesn’t DeSantos break his own law when he puts immigrants on a plane to anywhere?
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If employers have to hire Americans they might have to pay minimum wage at least. That would be devastating to these businesses that are profiting from exploiting immigrants.
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Think about Brexit and how well that turned out for the UK. Note: The UK has the highest inflation in Europe and in the G7.
Post by: 2ThaSun on June 06, 2023, 01:30:54 am
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California’s attorney general says the state of Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be dropped off outside a Sacramento church. Bob Redell reports.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTanrpKqUU
Newsom suspects DeSantis behind migrants flown to Sacramento
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Governor Gavin Newsom called Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a "small pathetic man," suspecting Florida is behind migrants being flown to Sacramento.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwpCk7VF3s
After 16 migrants were dropped off at the Diocese of Sacramento Friday night, Monday saw another flight touch down in the capital city.
The Department of Justice said there are many similarities between the two flights, including flight pattern and paperwork.
Post by: 2ThaSun on June 09, 2023, 01:09:48 pm
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Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been assigned to initially oversee the case involving the Department of Justice's indictment of former President Trump over his handling of classified documents. NBC's Laura Jarrett reports.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCgsIgYm-Xc
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Her previous performance proved she's biased in Trump's favor and willing to subvert the law for him.
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In most of her previous rulings on this subject, the appellate courts were able to overrule her. Our judicial system will work again in this trial.
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Hopefully
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Cannon was already censured for trying to help Trump and should be barred from this case. Otherwise, she may find herself in a cell, too.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 09, 2023, 03:34:19 pm
https://vdare.com/posts/texas-governor-plans-to-install-inflatable-border-on-the-rio-grande
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that an inflatable border was being installed along the Texas-Mexico border Thursday, to make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to enter the country. The floating barriers are expected to deter illegal crossing at hotspots along the Rio Grande River, and the first 1,000 feet will be placed near Eagle Pass.
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Photos of the inflatable barriers show what appear to be a string of connected inflatable spheres, that when someone attempts to scale them, spin.
According to a press release from Abbott’s office, the strategy of placing an inflatable barrier along the border will ”proactively prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry by making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border.”
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/texas-city-declares-state-of-emergency-over-migrants/msg9295/#msg9295
Post by: 2ThaSun on June 14, 2023, 09:51:15 pm
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) responds to Republican-led effort to censure him. The House voted on a motion to table – or kill – the resolution, a motion put forward by House Democrats. Enough Republicans crossed the aisle in support for the effort to succeed in blocking the censure. #CNN #Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YREu8X8Dkkk
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 15, 2023, 12:50:57 am
https://www.rawstory.com/chapin-high-school-chapin-south-carolina/
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A South Carolina school district halted classroom discussion of a book about racism after white students complained it made them "uncomfortable", The State reported.
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“In this culture, EVERYTHING may be considered controversial,” she said. “To prevent conversations about experiences which exist outside of heterosexual, caucasian norms is both biased and discriminatory and completely antithetical to the development of critical thinking and civil discourse, which is the entire point of an AP Lang course.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 22, 2023, 04:06:46 am
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Michael Gove to ban councils from boycotting Israeli goods
Michael Gove has warned that boycotts of Israeli goods lead to “appalling anti-Semitic rhetoric and abuse”, as he prepared to unveil legislation preventing councils from conducting their own “foreign policy”.
On Monday, the Communities Secretary will introduce a Bill banning all public bodies from imposing their own boycott or divestment campaigns on foreign countries and territories.
The legislation was promised in the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto following a series of local council motions backing the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanction) movement in public procurement contracts or pension schemes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove#Israel_and_Jewish_people
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Gove has described himself as "a proud Zionist",[247] and supports the United Jewish Israel Appeal's fundraising activities.[248] In 2019, he reiterated "One thing I have always been since I was a boy is a Zionist" and spoke of his desire to "celebrate everything that Israel and the Jewish people have brought to the life of this world and hold it dear to our hearts" and that "For as long as I have breath in my body and a platform on which to argue I shall be on your side, by your side and delighted and honoured to argue, powerfully I hope, on behalf of people who have contributed so powerfully to the life of this nation".[249]
Gove is, like the great majority of UK Conservative Party MPs, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel.[250] He has said that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel is anti-Semitic.[251] Gove said that jihadist terrorists "hate Israel, and they wish to wipe out the Jewish people's home, not because of what Israel does but because of what Israel is – free, democratic, liberal and western."[251]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 13, 2023, 05:40:49 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_OUSlueDo
Post by: guest98 on July 17, 2023, 03:01:32 pm
Alberta will not recognize federal net-zero mandates: Premier Danielle Smith
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she is “disappointed” in the federal government’s proposals for net-zero mandates and oil and gas production cuts.
In a statement on Saturday, Smith called the proposed mandates “unconstitutional” and “extremely harmful” to Alberta’s and Canada’s economies.
This comes after federal Environmental Minister Steven Guilbeault announced he will be publishing policy guidelines that will dictate the circumstances for the flow of future federal investment to Canadian oil and gas firms.
In an interview from Brussels Friday, Guilbeault said the policy will be similar to one the government announced last year that ended most of Canada’s public financing for international fossil-fuel projects.
That means going forward, new domestic fossil-fuel projects are only to receive federal funding if the government can reconcile them with Canada’s climate commitments.
Smith added Alberta will not recognize any federally-imposed emissions reduction targets for the province’s energy and electricity sectors because they are under provincial jurisdiction.
She also said Alberta will not recognize any regulations in these areas without the province’s approval.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 21, 2023, 06:14:18 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 18, 2023, 08:08:02 pm
We must continue:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/statue-decolonization/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 30, 2023, 06:26:59 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KNxD9xyqnw
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 02, 2023, 06:11:11 pm
Post by: BurningRain on September 03, 2023, 03:08:07 pm
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From the ex-president to his Republican primary opponents to the right-wing media machine, there’s talk of a war on cartels and drug labs over the border. Why is it happening… and how dumb could it get? Mehdi discusses with Mexico’s former U.S. ambassador.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ZSx0h-dWE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 05, 2023, 04:33:37 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-immigration-law-isn-t-210108063.html
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These are the people cleaning our homes and caring for our family members, doing landscape work in our suburbs and harvesting our produce — which better be affordable when it reaches our Publix. The unprecedented inflation since the pandemic is not the American norm. Having abundant goods and services is.
Florida’s new hardline immigration law, which went in-to effect on July 1, was an unprecedented effort to crack down on the hiring of undocumented immigrants. As the Herald reported this week, the law could worsen an existing labor shortage in the state’s agriculture sector, which relies heavily on migrant labor.
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From fall through spring, production of some of the state’s main crops, like potatoes and tomatoes, will ramp up, making it clear whether that shortage materializes and to what extent. Some farmers and farmworkers advocates already are telling stories of migrants who are skipping Florida this season out of fear they could get tangled in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature law.
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It’s not the big corporate farming conglomerates that Florida’s law affects the most. Almost three-quarters of farms in Miami-Dade County are smaller than nine acres, and family-owned operations dominate the area’s agriculture sector. Foreigners make up almost 87% of Dade’s farming workforce, the Herald reported.
Post by: Oregon on September 09, 2023, 11:22:13 am
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In a state dominated by progressive politics, some residents in rural Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains want to move the border so that their counties become part of Idaho, a more conservative state that more closely aligns with their values. Correspondent Lee Cowan returns to Oregon for an update on his story (originally broadcast Oct. 16, 2022), in which he talks with advocates of the Greater Idaho movement about why they believe the time is right for this "radical" idea.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0hc9mos8c
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So they want the state to look like a middle finger. Very appropriate.
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To the radical left-wing zealots in Portland? I'm not a fan of sticking up the middle finger at anyone. However, it might be fitting here.
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In Tennessee some might think we have the opposite problem of these people in Oregon. No Democrat has been elected to a statewide office since 2006 and the GOP has supermajorities in both houses and even voted to expel two state representatives and almost expelled a third. I'm sure many people (probably around 40%) think the state lawmakers do not listen to their concerns. The real difference in TN isn't an East/West divide, it's more an urban/rural issue. Tennessee borders 8 states all of which are a mixed bag of political makeups so joining other states probably wouldn't actually work.
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I wish the video referenced what issues this population is most passionate about and what they feel underrepresented on.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 14, 2023, 07:36:52 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 16, 2023, 03:22:29 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deliberations-texas-attorney-general-ken-041603406.html
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was fully acquitted Saturday of corruption charges following a historic impeachment trial, a resounding verdict that reaffirms the power of the GOP's hard right and puts an indicted incumbent who remains under FBI investigation back into office.
The outcome demonstrated Paxton’s enduring durability in America’s biggest red state after years of criminal charges and scandal.
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In end, all but two Senate Republicans voted to acquit Ken Paxton on each of the 16 impeachment articles that accused him of misconduct, bribery and corruption.
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The Senate is led by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who served as Texas chairman of Trump's previous presidential campaigns, and who served as the presiding judge for the trial.
Patrick, a former conservative radio host in Houston, had said little about the case leading up to the trial. But once it was over, he unleashed a blistering attack over the impeachment ever getting this far in the first place.
About Paxton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton
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In September 2022, a process server alleged in an affidavit for the court that when he attempted to serve a subpoena to Paxton at his home, he saw Paxton coming to the door but turning back; Paxton's wife answered the door saying Paxton was on the phone, with the process server stating that he had important legal documents for Paxton; Paxton left the house an hour later but ran back into the house when the process server called his name; minutes later Paxton ran out of the house and left in a truck driven by his wife, ignoring the process server stating his intentions.[52][53] Paxton responded claiming that the process server "yelled unintelligibly, and charged toward me. I perceived this person to be a threat", while further stating that the process server "is lucky this situation did not escalate further or necessitate force".[54]
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In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Paxton threatened to file lawsuits against local governments unless they rescinded stay-at-home orders and rescinded rules regarding the use of face masks to combat the spread of coronavirus.[56] The city of Austin encouraged restaurants to keep logs of contact information, so as to as to ensure contact tracing in the event of an outbreak; Paxton described this as "Orwellian".[57] Paxton sued the city of Austin again in December 2020 when the city implemented restrictions preventing indoor dining and drinking on New Years weekend amid surging COVID-19 cases.[58] In March 2021, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Austin as well as Travis County, this time for the city and county continuing their local mask wearing requirements after Governor Abbott had signed an order ending the statewide mask-wearing mandate.[59]
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Paxton defended Texas in a federal lawsuit involving allegations that Texas's congressional districts were gerrymandered. In 2017, a three-judge panel of a U.S. federal court based in San Antonio ruled that the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature drew congressional-district to discriminate against minority voters, and ordered the redrawing of Texas's 35th and 27th congressional districts. Paxton appealed the ruling, contending that the previous maps were lawful, and vowed to "aggressively defend the maps on all fronts"; U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett criticized the appeal as a "desperate, highly questionable Paxton-Abbott maneuver" coming "after yet another ruling against the state of Texas for intentional discrimination".[60][61] Texas won on appeal when in a 5–4 decision the Supreme Court ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove that state Republicans acted in bad faith and engaged in intentional discrimination with respect to the 27th and 35th congressional districts.[62]
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In 2018, Paxton falsely claimed that undocumented immigrants had committed over 600,000 crimes since 2011 in Texas.[64] PolitiFact said that it had debunked the numbers before, and that the numbers exceed the state's estimates by more than 400%.[64]
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Paxton led a coalition of twenty-six states challenging President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) executive action, which granted deferred action status to certain undocumented immigrants who had lived in the United States since 2010 and had children who were American citizens or lawful permanent residents.[65] Paxton argued that the president should not be allowed to "unilaterally rewrite congressional laws and circumvent the people's representatives".[65]
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In July 2017, Paxton led a group of Republican Attorneys General and Idaho Governor Butch Otter in threatening the Trump administration that they would litigate if the president did not terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy that had been put into place by President Barack Obama
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In 2017, Paxton voiced support for the application of eminent domain to obtain right-of-way along the Rio Grande in Texas for construction of the border wall advocated by President Donald Trump as a means to curtail illegal immigration.
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In 2017, Paxton joined thirteen other state attorneys general in filing a friend-of-the-court briefs in defense of both Trump's first and second executive orders on travel and immigration primarily from majority-Muslim countries (informally referred to as the "Muslim ban").
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In May 2017, Paxton filed a preemptive lawsuit designed to ascertain the constitutionality of the new Texas law imposing penalties on sanctuary cities
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Paxton has mounted a legal challenge to the Clean Power Plan, which is President Obama's "state-by-state effort to fight climate change by shifting away from coal power to cleaner-burning natural gas and renewable resources".[74]
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In 2016, Paxton was one of eleven Republican state attorneys general who sided with ExxonMobil in the company's suit to block a climate change probe by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[77]
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As Attorney General, Paxton appointed several social conservatives and opponents of LGBT rights to positions in his department.[85]
In June 2015, after the issuance of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Paxton offered support for clerks who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Of the voter fraud cases that Paxton's office chose to pursue, 72% were people of color.[128]
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Paxton's office spent more than 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud after the 2020 election, finding only 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms out of nearly 17 million registered voters.[145]
On December 8, 2020, Paxton sued the states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, where certified results showed President-elect Joe Biden the victor over President Donald Trump
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In October 2021, Paxton falsely claimed that Biden "overthrew" Trump in the 2020 election.[166]
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In early 2017 Paxton objected to a Texas school's use of an empty classroom to allow its Muslim students to pray
Post by: MagaLago on September 23, 2023, 01:17:52 pm
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Sabrina Singh, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary, joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss how Sen. Tuberville's effort to block hundreds of military nominations and a possible government shutdown will affect our troops.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhuH1-AnV4
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In August 2018, Tuberville moved from Florida to Alabama with the intention to run for the U.S. Senate in 2020.[63] In April 2019, he announced he would enter the 2020 Republican primary for the Senate seat held by Democrat Doug Jones.[64] Tuberville's campaign was described as "low-profile," with few pre-scheduled campaign appearances or press conferences.[65] He closely allied himself with President Donald Trump.[65] Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer was a member of Tuberville's campaign staff.[66]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville
Tuberville opposes the right to an abortion and favors repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). He supports Trump's proposal to build a wall on the border with Mexico.[67] Tuberville supports reducing the national debt through cuts to social programs, but opposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.[65] He dismisses the science of climate change, saying that the global climate "won't change enough in the next 400 years to affect anybody."[68][69]
On March 3, 2020, Tuberville received 33.4% of the vote in the Republican primary, ahead of former United States senator and former attorney general Jeff Sessions, who received 31.6%. Because neither candidate won over 50% of the vote, a runoff election ensued.
On March 10, ahead of the runoff election, Trump endorsed Tuberville.[70] Trump had been angered by Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections when Sessions was U.S. attorney general.[65] In May 2020, Trump called Sessions "slime" for this decision.[71] In campaign ads, Tuberville attacked Sessions for not being "man enough to stand with President Trump when things got tough."[72] In the July 14 runoff, Tuberville defeated Sessions with 60.7% of the vote.[72]
As the Republican nominee, Tuberville was heavily favored to win the election.[73] He was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee, America's largest anti-abortion organization.[74] On November 3, he defeated Jones with 60.1% of the vote.[5]
In an Alabama Daily News interview after the election, Tuberville said that the European theater of World War II was fought "to free Europe of socialism" and erroneously that the three branches of the U.S. federal government were "the House, the Senate, and the executive." He also said that he was looking forward to raising money from his Senate office, a violation of federal law. Tuberville's comments attracted criticism.[75][76]
On November 26, 2020, Tuberville announced that his chief of staff would be Stephen Boyd, who had been serving as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.[77]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 01, 2023, 11:17:50 pm
Post by: . on October 08, 2023, 05:29:06 pm
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For the first time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has voted to remove its leader, ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The National breaks down how it unraveled and what it will take to unite the Republican Party.
Joining The National's Ian Hanomansing on the panel are CBC News Washington correspondent Paul Hunter and New York Times congressional reporter Karoun Demirjian.
00:00 How big a deal is this?
00:46 Without a Speaker, what happens now?
02:08 Concern about the next spending bill
03:53 8 Republicans who knocked out the Speaker
05:26 Who could be the next House Speaker?
https://youtu.be/p4fMf5nIk6s?si=4aY3XB_R7DfSGvAn
Post by: Maurice on October 12, 2023, 11:38:01 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQp7CFahPo
For comparison purposes:
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Emil MauriceEntire article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Maurice
Emil Maurice (German pronunciation: [e.mil mo.ʁis]; 19 January 1897 – 6 February 1972) was an early member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) and a founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was Hitler's first personal chauffeur, and was one of the few persons of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ancestry to serve in the SS, being declared an honorary Aryan by Adolf Hitler in 1935.
Early life and association with Hitler
A watchmaker by trade, Maurice was a close early associate of Adolf Hitler; their personal friendship dated back to 1919 when they were both members of the German Workers' Party (DAP).[1] Maurice officially joined the DAP on 1 December 1919 and his party number was 594 (the count began at 501).[2][3] With the founding of the Sturmabteilung in 1920, Maurice became the first Oberster SA-Führer (Supreme SA Leader).[3] Maurice led the SA stormtroopers in fights that were known to break out with other groups during those early days. Hitler later in his book Mein Kampf mentions one fight in particular from November 1921 where Maurice was at the forefront of the SA unit during the fighting.[2]
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-073-19A%2C_Emil_Maurice.jpg)
Emil Maurice
Graham is clueless as usual.
Here's another clueless western politician who has swallowed the ADL's ridiculous talking points as of late:
‘This is not complicated, America’: Sen. Booker condemns 'Hitler-like' Hamas
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“This is why as an American, as a Black American, I will always stand against hate and stand with the people who are targets of hate,” says Sen. Cory Booker. “This is not complicated, America. It is not complicated. We all must denounce hate, and those people who use hate to destroy. That is Hamas.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpd8GGoHG2Q&t=27s
Booker as a "Black American" is clearly still under the western "white" man's spell:
‘Hamas was planning a fourth reich’: Jonathan Greenblatt on the terrorist attack in Israel
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Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League reacts to President Joe Biden's comments on the terrorism attack in Israel and the rise of anti-semitism with Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXRMUb_iTIQ&t=1s
Doing good in this world starts with not taking known lies at face value...
Post by: . on October 14, 2023, 09:58:07 pm
DeSantis says US should not accept refugees from Gaza
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday that the US should not accept refugees from Gaza, as tens of thousands flee their homes following an evacuation warning from Israel ahead of a possible ground assault.
“I don’t know what (President Joe) Biden’s gonna do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees. I am not going to do that,” DeSantis, who is vying for the GOP presidential nomination, said at a campaign stop in Creston, Iowa.
“If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all antisemitic. None of them believe in Israel’s right to exist,” he continued.
DeSantis argued that Arab states should accept refugees from Gaza, who are attempting to cross south into Egypt, rather than refugees being “imported” to the United States.
One of DeSantis’s 2024 rivals, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, agreed with the Florida governor that the US should not accept refugees from Gaza
I’ve said it also that we should not have refugees in here from Palestine. That’s not our role. It’s the role of those countries surrounding there,” Hutchinson told reporters
DeSantis and others have used the attack to argue for hardline immigration policies and stronger border security in the US.
DeSantis said the voter made a “really good point” by bringing up neighboring countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
“Why aren’t these Arab countries willing to absorb some of the Palestinian Arabs? They won’t do it,” DeSantis said.
Post by: d on October 24, 2023, 01:51:16 am
MAGA Figures Share Warning of Hamas Threat at US Border
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Customs officials have warned the conflict in the Middle East may lead to a surge in border crossings "to or from" the U.S. by travellers "inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict."
Right-wing politicians have seized on the claims, suggesting that the U.S. is now at an increased risk of "terrorists coming through," criticizing President Joe Biden and his administration on the issue of illegal migration.
The subject of immigration has proved divisive as lawmakers across the political spectrum battle about the best way to deal with skyrocketing numbers of illegal border crossings. In December 2022, one of the largest mass crossings in living memory was caught on camera when a huge caravan of more than 1,000 migrants filed into the U.S. at El Paso, Texas. That group was mostly made up of people from Nicaragua, Peru or Ecuador, but increasing numbers of Chinese migrants are also arriving at the southern border. And experts have claimed migrant numbers are likely to shoot up exponentially, following the end of Title 42, a COVID-era policy that had limited the number of asylum claims.
"Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico."
Officials were urged to be aware of the possibility, and to take extra care when assessing military-aged men and lone travellers.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 03, 2023, 09:58:57 pm
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WASHINGTON — Rep. (R-Mont.) introduced legislation on Thursday to ban Palestinians from the United States in an echo of former President Donald Trump’s infamous “Muslim ban.”
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Despite the fact that Palestinians make up the largest stateless community in the world, the U.S. has only resettled roughly 2,000 of them in the last 20 years, according to the Migration Policy Institute, largely due to the fact that most Palestinians are ineligible for traditional visas and face exceptional immigration barriers.
Israelis, by contrast, no longer need visas to enter the U.S., a policy updated just weeks before the Oct. 7 conflict.
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Zinke was appointed secretary of the Department of the Interior by Trump
Post by: DISGUSTING!!! on November 07, 2023, 10:14:30 pm
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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) led debate on the former's resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her statements about Israel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcykKOrEGcU
BREAKING NEWS: Rashida Tlaib Censured By Fellow House Members
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is censured by her fellow House lawmakers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMMDZ_6ixo
Post by: silencing on November 08, 2023, 06:48:47 pm
Rashida Tlaib, only Palestinian-American member of Congress, censured for controversial war statements
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The U.S. House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic member Rashida Tlaib, Congress's lone Palestinian-American lawmaker, for comments she made regarding Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.
Twenty-two Democrats joined with most Republicans in the chamber to censure Tlaib for allegedly "promoting false narratives"
"I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes."
"My criticism has always been of the Israeli government and [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's actions …The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent," Tlaib said.
"I will always defend the right to free speech," said Schneider. "Tlaib has the right to say whatever she wants."
Washington Democrat Pramila Jayapal, in a response to a reporter she reposted on the social media site X, rebuked members of her party who were in favour of the censure.
"It is outrageous," she said. "I am embarrassed for those Democrats who voted to censure their own colleague, who voted against free speech."
"Palestinian people are not disposable," Tlaib added, taking a long pause as she became overcome with emotion. Her grandmother lives in a village in the occupied West Bank, territory Israel captured in a 1967 war.
Post by: EU on November 08, 2023, 10:55:12 pm
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Germany and Italy Join Europe's Anti-Immigrant Wave | Vantage with Palki Sharmahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0AcaxR-eM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to make it easier for the country to deport migrants.
It's a U-Turn from former Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-refugee policies.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has signed a deal that will send asylum seekers to Albania.
These nations join the UK and France in Europe's anti-immigrant wave.
Palki Sharma reports.
When the waves of refugees begin arriving in the tens of millions because of the climate crisis western civilization created, are westerners prepared to slaughter them all? Because, at that point any "good" westerners ever claimed they stood for will be completely destroyed along with any grain of soul they may have left. Are westerners prepared to slaughter the poor and oppressed in the tens of millions if not in the hundreds of millions? Shame on all of you! You created this mess, it is your duty to fix it cowards!
Post by: germany on November 13, 2023, 10:34:20 pm
Germany, Like U.S., Tries to Curb Surge in Asylum Seekers
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Germany is working on a plan to send some asylum seekers to Africa while their cases are decided, marking a U-turn for a country that has long been open to migrants but is straining under a surge in arrivals.
Berlin is considering approaching Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco and others to house some asylum seekers
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/germany-reports-massive-surge-in-arms-exports-to-israel-/3047652
Germany reports massive surge in arms exports to Israel
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Germany has greatly increased arms exports to Israel, media reports said Wednesday.
The government allowed exports of almost €303 million ($323 million) to Israel up to Nov. 2 -- almost 10 times as much for the entire 2022 (€32 million), according to the German Economic Ministry.
The approvals include primarily components for air defense and communications equipment.
Since an attack on Israel by the Palestinian group, Hamas, on Oct. 7, 185 permit applications from Israel have been processed by Germany as officials in Berlin have repeatedly said Israel's security is Germany's "reason of state."
More material and military support may be in the pipeline, and German officials have said they will meet Israel's requests as they are made.
Also, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock discussed a possible peace solution for the Gaza Strip at the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Tokyo.
“We need clever solutions as to how and by whom Gaza can be managed in the future."
"Gaza must not pose a terror threat to Israel in the future"
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 16, 2023, 06:54:50 pm
Will anyone assassinate him first? (Also, he looks like what we would expect.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 27, 2023, 05:39:33 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 05, 2023, 03:34:33 pm
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Immigration advocates are nearing their wits’ end as Senate negotiators barrel toward a deal that would permanently change immigration law in exchange for another round of Ukraine funding.
The four Latino Democrats in the chamber — who are not part of the talks — have made clear that the fundamental precept being negotiated is unacceptable to them.
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“Using a one-time spending package to enact these unrelated permanent policy changes sets a dangerous precedent and risks assistance to our international partners. Any proposal considering permanent changes to our asylum and immigration system needs to include a clear path to legalization for long-standing undocumented immigrants,” they wrote.
But the negotiations have explicitly excluded any form of legalization, while tying border policy and wartime aid to Ukraine, two previously unrelated issues.
That core concept has made waves among immigration advocates outside Congress and in the House, where the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and its allies have a larger contingent.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) called the Ukraine-border amalgam “an aberration.”
The Ukraine side of the deal is relatively simple, a question of opening the purse strings for the Biden administration to send much-needed aid to its Eastern European ally, a major priority for the administration, many Democrats and a fair share of Republicans.
On the border policy side, talks are revolving over changes to tighten asylum policy — a concession immigration advocates don’t take lightly — and curbing the president’s immigration parole powers, blowing a hole in President Biden’s border strategy.
Those are potential concessions immigration advocates would hope to avoid in tit-for-tat negotiations, let alone in a deal with no Republican concessions on immigration.
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Other House Democrats also said they were surprised by the nature of the talks, including that limitations on immigration would be swapped for something wholly unrelated.
“If we’re going to concede on policy, then the bill should be related or the concessions should be related to getting things on immigration and asylum reform and so forth. Not on issues of war or other funding,” one lawmaker said.
And advocates say the core issue is being overlooked: The proposed changes threaten to endanger human lives.
“The credible fear standard is being treated as a technical point that can be traded away, but in fact it’s the heart of the United States’ compliance with the Refugee Convention and if it’s out of reach, access to the entirety of the asylum system is blocked,”
Never forget whom this idea came from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/stephen-miller/msg23226/#msg23226
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 11, 2024, 06:17:38 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/montana-man-gets-10-hunting-170000269.html
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On December 18, 2023, 27-year-old Earl Russell Benes was sentenced by District Court Judge Randal Spaulding in Musselshell County. Judge Spaulding doled out an $8,200 fine, 28 days in jail, and a 10-year-hunting ban. The punishments were far less than prosecutors had initially sought.
The sentencing is the culmination of a protracted poaching case that dates back to 2019, when according to reporting on court documents by the Helena Independent Record, Benes admitted to shooting three elk out of season from a vehicle over several days. Benes reportedly told wardens that he emptied a pistol into the herd of elk on the way home from a party to “make these ******* move.”
A district attorney filed two dozen charges including eight felonies. Had Benes been convicted on all counts, he would have faced up to $ 278,500 in fines and 83 years in prison. Additionally, prior to the 2019 incident, Benes had already had his hunting privileges revoked for an antelope poaching incident.
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So, essentially 0 punishment. He Should be trampled by elk.
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We need vigilante justice if the DOJ won't make this country safe.
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This clown should have a pistol emptied into him.
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He should be left in a small containment area and for every round he fired off- should be fired upon him!!
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Typical maga move! Low-life, bottom-feeders!
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Crazy they just let these criminals get away with this over and over.
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Slap on the wrist. No justice for senseless cruelty.
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Ah yes!!! Montana. Located at the very bottom of the pot of genetic stew.
Just below Arkansas and West Virginia.
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What color is his neck? I bet red
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"Benes had no comment at sentencing, other than to reiterate his emphatic support of former U.S. President Donald Trump."
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 28, 2024, 08:40:51 pm
Post by: Schwartze Katze on February 29, 2024, 01:51:13 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUojC3jNjg
Reminder:
Project 2025:
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[...]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Mass deportation of immigrants
See also: Operation Wetback
Stephen Miller, a key architect of immigration policy during the Trump presidency, is a major figure in Project 2025 and under consideration for a senior role in any Trump second term.[8] Trump asserted in January 2024 that he would conduct "the largest domestic deportation operation in history" should he be reelected. Miller told Project 2025 participant Charlie Kirk in November 2023 that the operation would rival the scale and complexity of "building the Panama Canal." He said the operation would include deputizing National Guard forces in red states as immigration enforcement officers, under Trump's command. These forces would then be deployed into blue states. Miller was also considering deputizing local police and sheriffs for the undertaking, as well as agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration. He said these forces would "go around the country arresting illegal immigrants in large-scale raids" who would then be taken to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas" to be held in internment camps prior to deportation. Trump has also spoken of rounding up homeless people in blue cities and detaining them in camps.[51]
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 29, 2024, 08:18:09 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2024, 12:59:38 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 25, 2024, 06:18:26 pm
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/25/trump-new-york-fraud-bond-cut-to-175-million-in-appeal-from-454-million.html
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The ruling came the same day New York Attorney General Letitia James could start seizing the former president’s real estate assets and bank accounts to satisfy a $454 million and rising judgment after he failed to obtain an appeal bond.
James is prevented from doing so — for now — due to the order from the five-judge panel in Manhattan Supreme Court’s appellate division, which did not give a reason for cutting the bond threshold by about 60%.
Why haven't the judges involved all had the Second Amendment applied to them yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTvZaARmKJo
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 11, 2024, 03:47:42 am
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a white male judge stayed on code with another white male
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The JUDGE is RACIST.... PERIOD
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They look after their own period!!!
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/old-content/msg25193/#msg25193
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 11, 2024, 06:01:07 am
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/police-rightist-bias/msg25752/#msg25752
It's OK for planted evidence to be "white":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-ANeEAICM