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Post by happyhoix on Feb 6, 2024 18:17:10 GMT -5
I gently suggest that if this happens again, the Capital police step aside, and escort the rioters to the offices of the Republicans who approve of this resolution. Hopefully, in their agitated state, karma will be allowed to do whatever it is karma does. Remember, the Republicans were hiding too while the Capital was being ripped apart. I'm sadly NOT surprised that Gaetz is behind this. He's probably hoping for a high post if God forbid Trump gets back in office. He's a useful toady to the GOP. Gaetz might need a pardon from Trump. Ethics committee is sniffing around his underage dating pool again.
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Post by busymom on Feb 6, 2024 20:53:54 GMT -5
Maybe Gaetz is hoping to be VP? Of course, considering Trump's last VP almost got hung in the rioting, it's not exactly a safe job.
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 6, 2024 23:40:49 GMT -5
Can’t we just let Florida and Texas and whoever wants to join them drift off into the ocean and become an island nation? Conservatives have been saying that about CA for decades - goose/gander.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 25, 2024 12:50:45 GMT -5
Republicans clapped when a 'cool dictator' defended Trump. Somehow that makes sense.Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, was given a hero's welcome Thursday while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual conference. The charismatic 42-year-old, who just defied his country's constitution this month to win a second term, markets himself as "the world's coolest dictator." He sounded like an enthusiastic surrogate for Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House, without even mentioning Trump by name. But Bukele is more than that. He's also a guide and template for authoritarian rule. And he was speaking in a Maryland ballroom to a crowd of Trump supporters with a strong appetite for that sort of thing. The part that went unsaid: Bukele has already accomplished autocratic achievements that eluded Trump during his one term as president. Trump couldn't steamroll Congress or the courts as president. He failed to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden. The Supreme Court's conservative super-majority did not rescue his presidency from defeat. He wants an autocratic do-over. Authoritarians always cast themselves as a bulwark against some terrible threat. Bukele's popularity in El Salvador is tied to his brutal arrests of more than 76,000 suspected gang members who had effectively controlled the country through violence and murder for years. Swept up in that were more than 7,000 people who were later let go. But speaking here, his boogieman was "globalism" – the view that the political and economic interactions of countries should be coordinated. He said America's next president must have the courage to confront a problem already unfolding here. "Above all, you must be able to identify the underlying forces that will conspire against him," Bukele said. "These dark forces are already taking over in your country. You may not see it yet. But it's already happening." Bukele's biggest cheer came when he spoke about removing "corrupt" judges and prosecutors. The crowd, which chanted "USA" after that, was clearly thinking about Trump's criminal cases pending in New York, Washington, D.C., Georgia and Florida. Rest of article here: Republicans clapped when a 'cool dictator' defended Trump. Somehow that makes sense.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 25, 2024 22:52:55 GMT -5
“That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God,”
i think this is great, if he follows through on it. if religious folks stuck to religion and stayed out of government, the world would be vastly better than it is.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 11, 2024 21:06:37 GMT -5
Our eyes must have deceived us on January 6, 2021. Those who quietly walked to Congress after trump's peaceful, truthful speech protested through a sit-down protest and kumbayaed until trump told them to go home. GOP report seeks to discredit Jan. 6 committee, exonerate TrumpHouse Republicans on Monday issued a new report on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, seeking to discredit Congress’s initial investigation into the 2021 rampage and exonerate former President Trump of any wrongdoing as he races to return to the White House next year. Behind Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chair of the House Administration Committee’s Oversight subpanel, the Republicans have accused the Jan. 6 select committee — which operated during the last Congress, under Democratic control — of conducting a partisan witch hunt designed solely to harm Trump politically. The 80-page report of initial findings, released by Loudermilk, amplifies that narrative. It blames the Jan. 6 attack on leaders of the U.S. Capitol Police, for a failure to provide proper security; questions the reliability of the select committee’s star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson; and accuses former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of fashioning a one-sided investigation in which the facts were manipulated and Trump’s guilt was predetermined before the first witness was called. GOP leaders welcomed the new report as a kind of counternarrative to the select committee’s conclusions, which blamed Trump for orchestrating the riot. “This House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigation is necessary to correct the incomplete narrative advanced by the partisan Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and today’s initial report is an important step in that process,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement. Rest of article here: GOP report seeks to discredit Jan. 6 committee, exonerate Trump
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 12, 2024 18:19:26 GMT -5
blaming the cops for crime?
that is pretty fringe.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 18, 2024 9:20:12 GMT -5
Trump doubles down on call for Liz Cheney to be prosecutedFormer President Trump on Sunday doubled down on his push for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to be prosecuted over allegations she and the other Jan. 6 committee members purposely withheld testimony and details from their investigation into the former president’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Trump, on Truth Social on Sunday, posted a piece from former Trump administration aide Kash Patel published in The Federalist last week, in which Patel claimed Cheney and the House Jan. 6 committee “suppressed evidence” about the former president’s authorization of National Guard troops during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. “SHE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR WHAT SHE HAS DONE TO OUR COUNTRY! SHE ILLEGALLY DESTROYED THE EVIDENCE. UNREAL!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social while linking to Patel’s piece. Cheney clapped back Sunday at Trump’s calls for her to be jailed on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, writing, “Hi Donald: you know these are lies. You have had all the grand jury & J6 transcripts for many months. You’re trying to halt your 1/6 trial because your VP, WH counsel, WH aides, campaign & DOJ officials etc. will testify against you. You’re afraid of the truth and you should be.” Rest of article here: Trump doubles down on call for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 18, 2024 12:01:07 GMT -5
i think he thinks that GLORY and POWER are synonyms.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 18, 2024 12:04:30 GMT -5
incidentally, i fervently disagree with that statement.
the only power that should be rendered to God is that which is God's. power over men is best residing in the people, not God, or any person who purports to represent hIM.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 22, 2024 17:34:37 GMT -5
Good article. It's A shame the issues in the article are not related to trump's current criminal trial being heard now in the courts.
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