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“Pro-Life” Gov. Greg Abbott Demands That Biden Starve Babies

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded that Biden stop providing baby formula to migrant babies in US custody on the border.

Children are our most vulnerable, precious Texans and deserve to be put first. Yet, President Biden has turned a blind eye to parents across America who are facing the nightmare of a nationwide baby formula shortage. While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden Administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border.
This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden Administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans. Our children deserve a president who puts their needs and survival first – not one who gives critical supplies to illegal immigrants before the very people he took an oath to serve.

Starve the babies while taking away abortion rights is what Republicans mean by pro-life. Gov. Abbott doesn’t suggest what President Biden should do with all of the babies that will no longer be fed.

Republicans have no real plan. It’s just nothing but an endless spewing of hare-brained anger intended to divide the country. It doesn’t matter to them that starve the babies isn’t a winning political message to about 70% of the country.

 Republicans want to take away the right to choose, then take away the right to food.

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/12/pro-life-gov-greg-abbott-demands-that-biden-starve-babies.html

[Mark F]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Gov. Abbott

Just pissed away hundreds of millions on truck searching trucks coming from mexico...... caught exactly nothing.

not one thing. Did manage to piss off and screw up businessess depending on the flow of goods.

But cant come up with the ten bucks per infant to save a life.

If there is heaven, this so called christian guy will not be getting admitted.

Edited May 13, 2022 by Mark F

[Mark F]

18 hours ago, bustamente said:

Subpoena's issued thrown in the garbage by the current crop of Republicans, Democrats say when the Republicans take over and form their own committee's and issue subpoena's the Dems will ignore them. Silly Dems the Republicans will throw you in jail in a New York minute with their bought and paid for AG

"Asked whether the panel is prepared to hold the GOP lawmakers in contempt if they refuse to comply with the subpoenas, member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told The Washington Post, "I'm not going there."

"I've got to believe," he added, "that every member of Congress will want to do his or her legal duty and patriotic duty to participate in an investigation into an attack on our own institution and an attack on the political institutions in the United States.""

This is the the main Democrat speaking. 
 

His head is in the clouds.

 

Edited May 13, 2022 by Mark F

[JCon]

There is no such thing as a conservative. It's all about getting their own. The party of white supremacy and limiting rights, now wants babies dead. The GOP

 

[Mark F]

Why does Raskin think that the people whom participated in a plot to overthrow his government...

 

will do " their patriotic duty" ?
 

Why would a person like him say something that preposterous?

 

Nancy  Pelosi   rules of engagement.

she is bad for Democracy. 
 

I am having trouble   Managing the daily inflow of complete world wide insanity.

Edited May 13, 2022 by Mark F

[Fatty Liver]

On 2022-05-07 at 4:47 PM, Mark F said:

Wow these people are insane.

"The draft references nearly 1 million women who were seeking to adopt in 2002

,“whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted has become virtually nonexistent.”

 

Nothing so far-fetched if you accept the concept of "prisons for profit", adding "orphanages for profit" just improves the vertical integration of business, cuts down costs and helps maximize profit.  I believe there are people who would gladly re-introduce "slavery for profit", if they could find a way to do it without using the word "slavery".

[bustamente]

Poor Melania never got the cover of Vogue, well at least she is being graceful about it🤣

[Tracker]

On 2022-05-13 at 12:23 PM, JCon said:

There is no such thing as a conservative. It's all about getting their own. The party of white supremacy and limiting rights, now wants babies dead. The GOP

 

Rep. Elise Stefanik Attacks Mysterious 'Pedo Grifters' For Shortage Of Infant Formula

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who describes herself as “pro-life,” blamed the White House and mysterious “pedo grifters” on Friday for America’s infant formula shortage — and called for denying formula to migrant’s babies.

The “White House, House Dems, & usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people that rather than present ANY PLAN or urgency to address the nationwide baby formula crisis, they double down on sending pallets of formula to the southern border,” Stefanik wrote in a tweet.

The “usual pedo grifters,” who were unidentified, appeared to be a reference to a particularly outlandish QAnon conspiracy theory that an international ring of child sex traffickers is being operated by Democratic leaders. A Stefanik spokesperson insisted to The Independent that the imagined “pedo grifters” also included Republicans.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elise-stefanik-formula-shortage-pro-life-immigrant-babies_n_627ee897e4b050d95191ed13

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Judge rejects request from Trump allies to dismiss Dominion Voting exec defamation case: report

According to a report from CNN, a bid by allies of former President Donald Trump to get a defamation suit filed against them by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive dismissed was shot down by a Colorado judge on Friday.

The report notes that Eric Coomer was accused by lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani — among others — of involvement in a plot to rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump.

As CNN's Tierney Sneed reports, District Judge Marie Avery Moses ruled the trial can go forward and that more "extensive" discovery can also proceed.

In the ruling, Moses wrote, "There is no constitutional value in false statements of fact or the deliberate spread of dangerous and inflammatory political disinformation designed to sow distrust in democratic institutions. The public has an active interest in ensuring that there are remedies for defamatory statements."

She added, "There is evidence that Giuliani's allegations against Coomer conformed to a preconceived storyline of fraud given his allegations of fraud after the election. Further, there is evidence that Giuliani had incentive to defame Coomer both in support of former President Trump and to maintain national attention. This evidence is sufficient to support a finding of actual malice."

According to CNN's Sneed, "Already, the case has revealed that Trump allies did little to investigate uncorroborated claims of election fraud before repeating them on the public stage. The discovery Coomer was entitled to at the motion-to-dismiss stage produced a Trump campaign memo -- written days before Giuliani and Powell held their infamous RNC news conference where they promoted election fraud claims -- that debunked several of the allegations the Trump lawyers went on to make," adding, "As part of the motion to dismiss, Powell, Guliani and others who boosted Trump's lies about election fraud sat for depositions in which they said they only minimally reviewed the claims about Coomer before touting those allegations in front of a national audience."

[bustamente]

Unless people start pay large sums of money to the people effected or going to jail nothing will change, there are laws for defamation and slander, just because you want to open your yap and spout falsehoods you should have proof or pay the consequences. Just saying someone told or I heard is not a good enough defense.

[bustamente]

2 different mass shooting in Milwaukee after the Bucks game, then a mass shooting in Buffalo at a grocery store with 10+ dead. Thoughts and prayers and pass me my gun

[Tracker]

There are no words to express the horror and sadness. America as we know it is doomed.

[Mark F]

Eighteen years old.

 

"Ten people were killed and another three people wounded in Buffalo, New York on Saturday afternoon by a gunman who opened fire inside a supermarket, a pre-planned shooting that he live-streamed on the internet and evidence indicates was motivated by racial hatred and white supremacist ideology.

“This was pure evil,” said Erie County Sheriff John Garcia during a press conference on Saturday. The killings, he said, "was straight-up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community."

The Buffalo Police Department told news outlets that of 13 people shot, eleven of the victims were African American while two were white."

logical  next step after kyle rittenhouse verdict.

 

From common dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/14/horror-movie-10-people-murdered-during-mass-shooting-white-supremacist-buffalo

Edited May 15, 2022 by Mark F

[the watcher]

 After the attempted coup, I thought America only had one last chance to pull them back from the brink dand that would be their judiciary system. But it has failed. 

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Buffalo mass shooting came months after NY newspaper warned of congresswoman’s racist conspiracy theory
   
Saturday’s mass shooting in New York occurred less than eight months after a local newspaper scolded a Republican congresswoman for pushing the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

“A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and live-streaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday in what authorities described as ‘racially motived violent extremism.’ The gunman wore body armor and military-style clothing during the attack on mostly Black shoppers and workers at Tops Friendly Market,” the Times Union reported Saturday.

The suspect was identified by the newspaper as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York.  Prior to the shooting, the white 18-year-old reportedly posted a 106-page manifesto citing the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory as motivation.

In September of 2021, the newspaper’s editorial board wrote about the conspiracy theory.

“Back in 2017, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Va., carrying torches and chanting, ‘You will not replace us’ and ‘Jews will not replace us.’ Decent Americans recoiled at the undeniable echo of Nazi Germany,” began the editorial, which was illustrated with a photo of the notorious Charlottesville tiki torch march.

“That rhetoric has been resonating ever since in the right wing, repackaged lately in what’s known as ‘replacement theory,’ espoused by conservative media figures like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. And it has seeped into the mainstream political discourse in the Capital Region, where Rep. Elise Stefanik has adapted this despicable tactic for campaign ads,” the editorial board wrote.

Stefanik, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, is the third-ranking Republican in Congress.

[bustamente]

Flea market seems like a good place for a mass shooting, thoughts and prayers give me that bedazzled holster for my hand gun

[Tracker]

33 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Flea market seems like a good place for a mass shooting, thoughts and prayers give me that bedazzled holster for my hand gun

The shooting was done for three reasons: to kill as many non-whites as possible, with as much public exposure as possible and to become a cause celebre as a saviour of the white race.

[HardCoreBlue]

On 2022-05-13 at 8:01 AM, Mark F said:

"Asked whether the panel is prepared to hold the GOP lawmakers in contempt if they refuse to comply with the subpoenas, member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told The Washington Post, "I'm not going there."

"I've got to believe," he added, "that every member of Congress will want to do his or her legal duty and patriotic duty to participate in an investigation into an attack on our own institution and an attack on the political institutions in the United States.""

This is the the main Democrat speaking. 
 

His head is in the clouds.

 

‘I’m not going there’. There’s the problem summarized in four words. 
 

The honor system doesn’t work. What a joke.

[iHeart]

oh come on  the same weekend? well luckily the church goers were able to subdue the ass

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/orange-county-california-church-shooting/index.html

 

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(CNN)At least one person is dead and four are critically injured after a shooting Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods, California, according to the sheriff's department.

"All victims are adults and are enroute to the hospital," the Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a tweet. "One victim is deceased at the scene." Another person has minor injuries, according to the tweet.

 

The shooting occurred at the Geneva Presbyterian Church during a lunch reception to honor a former pastor of a Taiwanese congregation that uses the church for its worship services, according to Tom Cramer, a Presbytery leader.

Police have a suspect in custody, Orange County Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said during a news conference on Sunday evening. He is believed to be an Asian man in his 60s who doesn't live in the area, according to Hallock.

 

 

Police do not yet have a motive, Hallock said.

The suspect was detained at the scene after a group of people at the church were able to hog-tie his legs with an extension cord and confiscate at least two handguns from him, Hallock said.

 

"That group of churchgoers displayed what we believe is exceptional heroism in interfering or intervening to stop the suspect," Hallock said.

About 30-40 people were in attendance at the reception, according to Hallock.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said his office is "actively monitoring the shooting at a church in Laguna Woods and working closely with local law enforcement."

"No one should have to fear going to their place of worship. Our thoughts are with the victims, community, and all those impacted by this tragic event," Newsom said in a tweet.

 

[Mark F]

 

[Mark F]

some American Statistics from 2015, homicide.

 

"The statistics show that the 500 killings of white people attributed to blacks last year were the most since black perpetrators were determined to be responsible for the homicides of 504 white people nationwide in 2008. Last year's total was up 12 percent from the 446 recorded in 2014 and 22 percent from the 409 seen in 2013, a year that saw the lowest total this century and one that capped seven years of general declines in black-on-white homicides. Prior to that, 2006 saw the most black-on-white killings since 2001, with 573.

The 229 black lives taken by white killers last year, however, marked an even larger leap from 2014, jumping more than 22 percent from the 187 black victims killed by whites that year, which was the second-lowest total since 2001. The tally was last exceeded in 2008, when 230 blacks were slain by whites. The highest total in the last 15 years came in 2007, when 245 black people were killed by whites."

and other related.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers

Edit

no idea what these mean, and dont mean it is same as white guy hunting blacks like varmints.

 

Edited May 16, 2022 by Mark F

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Ron DeSantis signs bill criminalizing peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods
   
Florida's right-wing Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law that criminalizes peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods.

The draconian restrictions on free speech were levied in response to the nationwide explosion of demonstrations directed at the United States Supreme Court's anticipated overturning of abortion rights that were established in Roe versus Wade.

But when pro-choice activists began picketing outside the homes of the five Associate Justices who were named in the draft majority opinion that was leaked last month, advocates for forced birth like DeSantis decided that the Constitution's First Amendment right to petition the government should be suspended.

None of the Court's nine jurists, however, live in Florida.

“Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate,” DeSantis said in a press release. “This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law.”

DeSantis' statement added that "once this law takes effect, law enforcement officers will provide a warning to any person picketing or protesting outside of a dwelling and will make arrests for residential picketing only if the person does not peaceably disperse after the warning. Residential picketing will be punishable as a second-degree misdemeanor."

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/ron-desantis-criminalizes-peaceful-protests/

[TrueBlue4ever]

31 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Ron DeSantis signs bill criminalizing peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods
   
Florida's right-wing Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law that criminalizes peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods.

The draconian restrictions on free speech were levied in response to the nationwide explosion of demonstrations directed at the United States Supreme Court's anticipated overturning of abortion rights that were established in Roe versus Wade.

But when pro-choice activists began picketing outside the homes of the five Associate Justices who were named in the draft majority opinion that was leaked last month, advocates for forced birth like DeSantis decided that the Constitution's First Amendment right to petition the government should be suspended.

None of the Court's nine jurists, however, live in Florida.

“Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate,” DeSantis said in a press release. “This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law.”

DeSantis' statement added that "once this law takes effect, law enforcement officers will provide a warning to any person picketing or protesting outside of a dwelling and will make arrests for residential picketing only if the person does not peaceably disperse after the warning. Residential picketing will be punishable as a second-degree misdemeanor."

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/ron-desantis-criminalizes-peaceful-protests/

The next time someone puts up an “Elect Rom DeSantis” sign on their lawn, they should be charged under this law for displaying a form of protest against the Democratic challenger in a residential neighbourhood. 

[HardCoreBlue]

36 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Ron DeSantis signs bill criminalizing peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods
   
Florida's right-wing Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law that criminalizes peaceful protests in residential neighborhoods.

The draconian restrictions on free speech were levied in response to the nationwide explosion of demonstrations directed at the United States Supreme Court's anticipated overturning of abortion rights that were established in Roe versus Wade.

But when pro-choice activists began picketing outside the homes of the five Associate Justices who were named in the draft majority opinion that was leaked last month, advocates for forced birth like DeSantis decided that the Constitution's First Amendment right to petition the government should be suspended.

None of the Court's nine jurists, however, live in Florida.

“Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate,” DeSantis said in a press release. “This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law.”

DeSantis' statement added that "once this law takes effect, law enforcement officers will provide a warning to any person picketing or protesting outside of a dwelling and will make arrests for residential picketing only if the person does not peaceably disperse after the warning. Residential picketing will be punishable as a second-degree misdemeanor."

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/ron-desantis-criminalizes-peaceful-protests/

Where was this law with all the picketing and harassment of people entering and leaving medical clinic dwellings?

Response: Not the same issue. Not residential. We are trying to protect people in residential communities even though none of these supreme court justices live in the state of Florida.

As long as Pro forced birth wingnuts abuse women and their families in front of a commercial dwelling all is good.

This man is insane but hey the honor system of having people play by the rules is working fine.