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9 hours ago, bustamente said:

Always know who butters your toast

 

Was never in doubt. He showed his support during both impeachment proceedings. They are Republicans. They might hate each other but they all play for the same team and are hell bent on winning even if they have to tolerate people they despise.

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speaking of terrorists...

lets see what Joe does with this.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a U.S.-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday that could escalate pressure on the Biden administration to hold the kingdom accountable for a murder that drew bipartisan and international outrage.

 

yahoo

 

cause if their wealth and oil, saudi has  gotten a free pass on its links and funding of terror . many of the madrasas that preach jihad get money from the arabian peninsula.

 

with oil heading for the back burner, maybe that changes.

 

lets see an international warrant formthe arrest of salman.

 

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Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states

Republicans across the country responded to record voter turnout by unleashing a flurry of legislation aimed at restricting ballot access, citing concerns over unfounded allegations of rampant voter fraud that they themselves stoked for months.

At least 253 bills with provisions restricting voting access have been introduced, pre-filed, or carried over in 43 states, mostly by Republicans, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, dwarfing the number of similar bills filed at this point in 2020.

Many of these measures are in response to a "rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities" that former President Trump and his Republican allies promoted for months without any evidence, the Brennan Center report said.

"We are about to be hit with a tidal wave of voter suppression legislation by Republican legislatures throughout the country," warned Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic attorney and founder of the voting rights advocacy group Democracy Docket, who batted back many of the election lawsuits filed by Trump and his supporters. Elias said in an interview with Salon that he fears this could result in a historic "contraction of voting rights like we have not seen in recent memory."

"Republicans are doing this because they think they can gain an electoral advantage from making it harder for Black, brown and young voters to participate in the process," he said, adding: "This is the reaction of a party that knows it can't compete for a majority of the votes. So it is acclimating itself to minority rule through a number of tactics. Gerrymandering is one piece of it. But certainly, voter suppression is a big piece of it"

Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states | Salon.com

 

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A recent poll by Economist/YouGov contained a telling and troubling piece of data. The poll asked respondents to consider, "Which comes closest to your view?" 

Here were the two very different options:

1. "Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants and our priority should be to protect ourselves."

2. "It's a big, beautiful world, mostly full of good people, and we must find a way to embrace each other and not allow ourselves to become isolated."

Most Independents and Democrats selected Choice #2. But among GOP respondents, most picked #1. And among Trump voters specifically, fully two-thirds chose the first, darker option.

 

I think this is says a lot and frankly isn’t surprising.  MAGAs and Republicans lean to authoritarian leaders.

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14 hours ago, wpgallday1960 said:

A recent poll by Economist/YouGov contained a telling and troubling piece of data. The poll asked respondents to consider, "Which comes closest to your view?" 

Here were the two very different options:

1. "Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants and our priority should be to protect ourselves."

2. "It's a big, beautiful world, mostly full of good people, and we must find a way to embrace each other and not allow ourselves to become isolated."

Most Independents and Democrats selected Choice #2. But among GOP respondents, most picked #1. And among Trump voters specifically, fully two-thirds chose the first, darker option.

 

I think this is says a lot and frankly isn’t surprising.  MAGAs and Republicans lean to authoritarian leaders.

There are those among us who, either by personality or by socialization, choose to delegate their thinking and responsibility to others who they invest with power and who they are predisposed to obey. The Stanford experiments have shown that even "normal" people can be directed to think and believe like this,

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42 minutes ago, do or die said:

Job not quite finished at CPAC yet.

What is still needed.... is a swearing of personal allegiance to Trump and also to come up with an appropriate salute,

MAG-AH!!, MAG-AH!!

Scaramuchi said today that Trump will be in it so long as the rubes keep pumping the money in to his "re-election campaign". The rest of the GOP does not have the sense to realize that Trump is leading the lemmings to the edge of the cliff and does not give a damn whether they live or die.

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Damn Trump is not to going to start another party ,I guess someone explained it to him, but the grift will go on because 3 plus years of telling people that he could run will be a windfall for a guy who needs to prop up all his other businesses.

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For Trump, starting a new party from scratch would be too much work, and would cut into his golf time.  Besides, why would he need to do that, when the GOP has already morphed into the Trumpest Party, anyways?  Donald can still rake it in, from both the cult, and the currently supine entity known as the former Republican Party.  

These GOP types talking about Trump somehow  stepping back, and enabling some form of "unity" are simply dreaming in technicolor.  The Don can (and will) continue to get his attention, money and revenge....snug and cozy, within this absurd personalty cult, on an ongoing basis.     Anyone in the GOP who is not a cultist, bigot, conspiracy theorist, or seditionist, better start making plans......  

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looks like Biden learned from the Obama mistakes and backtracking.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/01/huge-huge-deal-biden-issues-public-statement-support-alabama-amazon-workers-fighting

""I made it clear when I was running that my administration's policy would be to support unions organizing and the right to collectively bargain," the president says in a two-minute video posted to TwitterSunday night. "I'm keeping that promise."

 

"We haven't had this aggressive and positive of a statement from a president of the United States on behalf of workers in decades," Faiz Shakir, former presidential campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and founder of More Perfect Union, told the Washington Post. "It is monumental that you have a president sending a message to workers across the country that if you take the courageous step to start to unionize you will have allies in the administration, the NLRB, and the Labor Department. It means a lot."

In the new video—released after the president faced pressure to vocally support the Bessemer effort—Biden says that "you should all remember that the National Labor Relations Act didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist. It said that we should encourage unions."

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I'm Sure It Was Just A Coincidence

 


Hyatt Hotels says it takes concerns that CPAC stage resembled Nazi symbol “very seriously”


CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp said the comparison was “outrageous and slanderous” and the stage was “very pretty"
Hyatt Hotels on Sunday said it was treating concerns that the stage for Conservative Political Action Conference — held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando — resembled a Nazi symbol "very seriously" and condemned symbols of hate as "abhorrent."

Photos of the CPAC stage at the Orlando hotel went viral on social media as thousands of users compared the design to a Norse rune used by the Nazis during World War II. The othala rune, which dates back hundreds of years, was adopted by the Nazis as "part of their attempt to reconstruct a mythic 'Aryan' past," according to the Anti-Defamation League, and was included on certain Nazi SS uniforms. It has since been incorporated by white supremacist groups in the United States and Europe and was seen at the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville.

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