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[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

19 minutes ago, JCon said:

The right always tries to deflect and both sides every argument. They have no ideas and no policies besides woke bad. 

Everytime someone uses woke in a pejorative manner, I think of this cartoon.

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Wanna-B-Fanboy

[HardCoreBlue]

52 minutes ago, JCon said:

The right always tries to deflect and both sides every argument. They have no ideas and no policies besides woke bad. 

Go to deflection: everyone's bad. 

[HardCoreBlue]

49 minutes ago, JCon said:

They admit that they've been lying to the public for years but the mouthbreathers that watch don't care. They like being lied to, as long as it's to serve white supremacy. 

Apparently the US Justice system doesn't care either. Yup they say we agree you're just entertainment and shouldn't be taken seriously. Next case please.

[bustamente]

What Tucker and the rest at Fox do is performance art they don't actually believe what they are saying but have tapped into a segment a very big segment of Americans that hang on to every word they say and that has made them very wealthy. It takes a lot of effort to constantly top stupid talking points week after week that the uniformed , uneducated  and frankly stupid viewers will google up, but it all comes back to making money and Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham aren't about to stop what keeps them employed and rich

[bustamente]

The investigated are going to investigate the 1/6 committee, any Democrat that is served with a subpoena by this committee and shows up is a fool

[blue_gold_84]

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-fox-news-murdoch-capitol-attack-96c305cf4046aaf373130876940fd06e

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NEW YORK (AP) — A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, “I hate him passionately.”

Carlson’s private text comments were revealed in court papers at virtually the same time the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media. Trump said he was doing a “great job” in presenting excerpts of U.S. Capitol security video of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — though Carlson used the video to produce a false narrative of the attack.

The documents are coming to light at a time of increased tension between Trump and Fox, the dominant media force appealing to conservatives, as he campaigns to regain the presidency.

A common theme emerging from the internal documents and depositions is that Fox executives and hosts doubted the election claims being peddled by Trump and his allies, but aired and emphasized them anyway. Fox was growing concerned about a decline in viewership as Trump supporters turned away from the network after it — correctly — called Joe Biden the presidential winner in Arizona on election night.

Fox, in response to the court exhibits quoting Carlson that were released late Tuesday, said that “Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”

It's pretty delightful watching these braindead assclowns turn on each other as the MAGAt Mistake is fleshed out for all to see.

[HardCoreBlue]

6 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-fox-news-murdoch-capitol-attack-96c305cf4046aaf373130876940fd06e

It's pretty delightful watching these braindead assclowns turn on each other as the MAGAt Mistake is fleshed out for all to see.

Come on man, they're all just offering their own well informed, well thought out perspectives around the 2020 election and the resulting capital sightseeing tour.

 

 

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Ivanka Trump Rats Our Her Dad And Brothers In Fraud Case

Ivanka Trump went with the tried and true defense when people start trying to save themselves. She blamed her father and brothers for the fraud.

The Independent reported: In court documents, Ms Trump’s attorneys argue that the fraud complaint filed last year against her and her co-defendants by New York Attorney General Letitia James “does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements”.

“Other individuals were responsible for those tasks,” her lawyers wrote.

The New York Attorney General has a much different view of the case that has Ivanka Trump just as involved in the fraud at the Trump Organization as the other family members.

Ivanka Trump clearly is not going to take any legal bullets for her family. Just like her father, She found someone else to blame, and that person is her dad.

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Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits to lying 10 times while pushing election fraud lies

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/

Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported.
For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.”

Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported.

Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.”

When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

Edited March 9, 2023 by Tracker

[TrueBlue4ever]

17 minutes ago, Tracker said:

When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

God be like…..

[iHeart]

2 hours ago, Tracker said:

Ivanka Trump Rats Our Her Dad And Brothers In Fraud Case

Ivanka Trump went with the tried and true defense when people start trying to save themselves. She blamed her father and brothers for the fraud.

The Independent reported: In court documents, Ms Trump’s attorneys argue that the fraud complaint filed last year against her and her co-defendants by New York Attorney General Letitia James “does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements”.

“Other individuals were responsible for those tasks,” her lawyers wrote.

The New York Attorney General has a much different view of the case that has Ivanka Trump just as involved in the fraud at the Trump Organization as the other family members.

Ivanka Trump clearly is not going to take any legal bullets for her family. Just like her father, She found someone else to blame, and that person is her dad.

I'll make the popcorn

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Bill To Ban Child Marriage In West Virginia Defeated By Republicans

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.

The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates.

The vote came shortly after the bill’s main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children.

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

“For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote.

In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day.

Some of the bill’s opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia.

Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

(And a good argument for contraception)

Edited March 9, 2023 by Tracker

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits to lying 10 times while pushing election fraud lies

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/

Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported.
For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.”

Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported.

Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.”

When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

And then, right after the court hearing:

 

 

Jenna Ellis   @JennaEllisEsq

 

 

The politically-motivated Left failed miserably in their attempt to destroy me. They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied. That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement. I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that. As has become sadly typical, the opposition-controlled media is intentionally twisting the truth, conflating the full RPC standard with the actual stipulation. The standard reads, “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, OR misrepresentation.” The Colorado bar counsel and my counsel concluded that it was best to resolve the bar complaints by agreeing to a public censure.

[bustamente]

Jenna Ellis doesn't get disbarred but rather a public censure, woopty do, all this characters knew exactly what they were doing and will never get punished.

[HardCoreBlue]

14 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Jenna Ellis doesn't get disbarred but rather a public censure, woopty do, all this characters knew exactly what they were doing and will never get punished.

AND will continue to grift gobs of money off the original behaviours and actions they are not getting punished for.

Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. 

[bustamente]

Sounds like prosecutors in NYC might be getting ready to indict Senor Cheeto Mussolini next week, or maybe never who knows.

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Lauren Boebert trashes sex-ed — then announces teen son is making her a “36-year-old grandmother”

“He said, ‘well didn’t you make granny a 36-year-old granny,’” she said. “I said, ‘yes I did'"

By IGOR DERYSH

Senior News Editor

PUBLISHED MARCH 9, 2023 12:30PM (EST)

Rep. Lauren Boebert speaks at CPAC at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention on March 4, 2023. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., announced that her 17-year-old son will be making her a "36-year-old grandmother" in April.

Boebert, who called to cut funding to schools that teach students comprehensive sex education at last week's CPAC, announced at a Moms for America event that her son Tyler and his girlfriend are expecting a baby boy.

Boebert during the announcement took at dig at LGBTQ Americans, saying that she and her husband are raising their four boys "to be men before liberals teach them to be women."

Boebert then revealed that "come April, I will be a Gigi to a brand new grandson."

"Now, any of you who have young children who are giving life, there's some questions that pop up. There's some fear that arises," Boebert said in a video posted by Patriot Takes.

Boebert said that when she approached her son and told him that he is making her a "36-year-old grandmother," he reminded her that she was a teen mother herself.

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Manhattan Prosecutors Signal to Trump That Indictment Is Coming: Report
-Reuters
The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently gave Donald Trump’s lawyers the clearest signal yet that it plans to file criminal charges against the former president, The New York Times reported Thursday. This hint came in the form of an offer for Trump to go before a grand jury currently hearing evidence about his alleged role in a hush-money arrangement with a porn star, four people familiar with the matter told the Times. He could give his testimony, if he wishes, as soon as next week. Such offers, according to the newspaper, “almost always” signify an impending indictment. The Manhattan inquiry has involved the questioning of at least six other people before the grand jury, including most recently Hope Hicks, a onetime senior aide to Trump. If District Attorney Alvin Bragg ultimately chooses to indict Trump, it will be the first criminal charges the former president has ever faced, and could throw a wrench in the gears of his campaign to get back into the White House in 2024.

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McConnel's in the Hospital, we are very close to getting a Trump indictment....what's the third one going to be?

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[HardCoreBlue]

15 hours ago, Tracker said:

Lauren Boebert trashes sex-ed — then announces teen son is making her a “36-year-old grandmother”

“He said, ‘well didn’t you make granny a 36-year-old granny,’” she said. “I said, ‘yes I did'"

By IGOR DERYSH

Senior News Editor

PUBLISHED MARCH 9, 2023 12:30PM (EST)

Rep. Lauren Boebert speaks at CPAC at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention on March 4, 2023. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., announced that her 17-year-old son will be making her a "36-year-old grandmother" in April.

Boebert, who called to cut funding to schools that teach students comprehensive sex education at last week's CPAC, announced at a Moms for America event that her son Tyler and his girlfriend are expecting a baby boy.

Boebert during the announcement took at dig at LGBTQ Americans, saying that she and her husband are raising their four boys "to be men before liberals teach them to be women."

Boebert then revealed that "come April, I will be a Gigi to a brand new grandson."

"Now, any of you who have young children who are giving life, there's some questions that pop up. There's some fear that arises," Boebert said in a video posted by Patriot Takes.

Boebert said that when she approached her son and told him that he is making her a "36-year-old grandmother," he reminded her that she was a teen mother herself.

LB a perfect example of how lunacy is very hard to stop. Lunatics raising lunatics raising lunatics raising lunatics . . .

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Man convicted in credit card 'skimming' scheme alleges George Santos was the one 'in charge'

During his two months in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. George Santos (R-New York) has been inundated with bad publicity. Much of it has surrounded all the lies he told during his 2022 campaign, including false claims that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was in the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (which, according to the New York Times, would have been impossible because records show that Devolder was in Brazil at the time).

But there have been other Santos-related controversies as well. In Brazil, prosecutors are investigating the Queens/Long Island congressman for possible fraud and are looking into allegations that he used a stolen checkbook in Rio de Janeiro in the late 2000s.
Meanwhile, in a separate fraud cause in the United States, a Brazilian man, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, is alleging that Santos (who has also gone by Anthony Devolder) coordinated a credit card skimming scheme in Seattle.

According to Politico reporter Jacqueline Sweet, Trelha told federal U.S. officials, in a sworn statement, "I am coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested was George Santos/Anthony Devolder."

Sweet, in an article published by Politico on March 9, reports, "Trelha decided to contact law enforcement officials after seeing the newly minted congressman on television, he said in the declaration…. He was previously questioned about the Seattle scheme by investigators for the U.S. Secret Service, CBS News has reported. He was never charged, but the investigation remains open. Santos also told an attorney friend he was 'an informant' in the fraud case. Trelha insists he was its mastermind."

Trelha, who served seven months in jail in the U.S. before being deported back to Brazil in early 2018, alleges that Santos trained him to commit credit card fraud. In a statement to the FBI and federal prosecutors dated March 7, 2023, Trelha alleged, "Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on ATM machines."

https://www.alternet.org/george-santos-2659569789/

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1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Man convicted in credit card 'skimming' scheme alleges George Santos was the one 'in charge'

During his two months in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. George Santos (R-New York) has been inundated with bad publicity. Much of it has surrounded all the lies he told during his 2022 campaign, including false claims that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was in the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (which, according to the New York Times, would have been impossible because records show that Devolder was in Brazil at the time).

But there have been other Santos-related controversies as well. In Brazil, prosecutors are investigating the Queens/Long Island congressman for possible fraud and are looking into allegations that he used a stolen checkbook in Rio de Janeiro in the late 2000s.
Meanwhile, in a separate fraud cause in the United States, a Brazilian man, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, is alleging that Santos (who has also gone by Anthony Devolder) coordinated a credit card skimming scheme in Seattle.

According to Politico reporter Jacqueline Sweet, Trelha told federal U.S. officials, in a sworn statement, "I am coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested was George Santos/Anthony Devolder."

Sweet, in an article published by Politico on March 9, reports, "Trelha decided to contact law enforcement officials after seeing the newly minted congressman on television, he said in the declaration…. He was previously questioned about the Seattle scheme by investigators for the U.S. Secret Service, CBS News has reported. He was never charged, but the investigation remains open. Santos also told an attorney friend he was 'an informant' in the fraud case. Trelha insists he was its mastermind."

Trelha, who served seven months in jail in the U.S. before being deported back to Brazil in early 2018, alleges that Santos trained him to commit credit card fraud. In a statement to the FBI and federal prosecutors dated March 7, 2023, Trelha alleged, "Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on ATM machines."

https://www.alternet.org/george-santos-2659569789/

GS, LB, MTG, MG, JJ, PG etc etc etc. 

All the above lunatics (just examples, not the full list) currently represent who a large portion of Americans (and some Canadians for that matter) are as people.

But we're the problem because calling them out doesn't account for everyone is bad (yea but whatabout that person who is no where near as bad as the original lunatic being called out) or we're the problem because we're just a WOKE cancel culture of diverse people who live in our echo chambers being divisive by wanting insane words and actions to come along with actual consequences.

 

[blue_gold_84]

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-capitol-riot-tarrio-jan-6-09f5e86dd62580eaaef0f5413206c63e

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn’t carry out the violence themselves.

As they wrap up their seditious conspiracy case, prosecutors are arguing that Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio and other leaders of the group handpicked and mobilized a loyal group of foot soldiers — or “tools” — to supply the force necessary to carry out their plot to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election.

These “tools” helped Proud Boys leaders overwhelm police, breach barricades, force the evacuation of the House and Senate chambers and disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory, prosecutors allege.

Defense attorneys have dismissed the “tools” theory as a novel, flawed concept with no legal foundation. They argue that the Justice Department is trying to unfairly hold their clients responsible for the violent actions of others in the crowd of Trump supporters. Tarrio, for example, wasn’t even in Washington on Jan. 6.

 

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“Defense attorneys have dismissed the “tools” theory as a novel, flawed concept with no legal foundation. They argue that the Justice Department is trying to unfairly hold their clients responsible for the violent actions of others in the crowd of Trump supporters. Tarrio, for example, wasn’t even in Washington on Jan. 6.”

Charles Manson wasn’t present when his “family” murdered people. Didn’t stop his conviction. Sounds like a good legal foundation to me.