If the GOP Wins the House they will Impeach Biden... and that means ACCUSE Him of an Offense... but then The Senate Will FAIL to Convict...
They Will Stop after Three Times because Their Goal is to Have Biden be Impeached More Times Than Trump.
IMPEACH BIDEN Hat for sale at zazzle/gregvanand They Will Need Time to Impeach Kamala Harris and Justice Jackson, Dr. Fauci and DOJ Director Merrick Garland...
It's Safe to Assume the Republicans Will Not Pass ANY Legislation... Because Their Entire Goal is to Break the Election System and Replace Democracy With Monarchy... and Crown Trump King... and then there will be NO NEED for Congress because King Donald the Insane Will Simply DECREE Whatever It Is That He Wants!
On FaceBorg MT Said:
I Want My Children and Grandchildren to Have a Better Country Than We Did. For me that means voting for people who actually seem to know what it's like to be everyday Americans. Those who care about everyday Americans and their daily issues, not those who only want to make a connection with everyday Americans to persuade them to vote for them. Those that would try to say that they've always been there (to assist the every day people...but that's only according to them) I'm not sure how people can actually vote for republicans these days in all honesty. Every republican politician .with very few exceptions. who speaks to a news outlet mostly scare me with their rhetoric . They don't seem to care whether what they say is factual, just that it makes the correct news cycle, for a bit of free advertising in my opinion.
Written by Heather Cox Richardson:
October 21, 2022 (Friday)
This morning, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Democratic president Joe Biden contrasted his record in office against that of his Republican predecessor, and the visions of the Democrats and Republicans going forward.
Biden began with his usual line: that he set out to rebuild the middle class by building “an economy from the bottom up and the middle out.” He noted that since he took office, the nation has added 10 million jobs and has seen unemployment drop to 3.5%, a 50-year low. In 11 states, unemployment is at all-time lows, and 17 states have unemployment rates under 3%. He also highlighted that the country has added almost 700,000 manufacturing jobs and that companies are continuing to invest in new industries, at the same time that we are rebuilding our roads, airports, bridges, and ports.
But his main point today was to demonstrate how the Democrats’ program does not, in fact, blow up the nation’s finances the way Republicans have insisted for forty years. Biden focused on the deficit, which is the gap between what the government takes in through taxes and other revenue sources and what it pays out. Republicans insist that social welfare spending racks up government debt; Biden emphasized today that the Democrats’ investment in the nation has not increased the federal deficit. Indeed, the opposite is true: today the administration announced that the deficit this year fell by $1.4 trillion. This was the largest-ever decline in the federal deficit. Last year’s drop was $350 billion.
The deficit climbed every year of the Trump presidency, including in the years before the pandemic. Trump and the Republicans added $400 billion to the deficit, primarily because of their $2 trillion tax cut for the wealthy and for corporations.
Biden was not simply talking about today’s numbers; he was making a case that government investment in ordinary Americans is better for the nation’s finances than handing more money to the wealthy, which Republicans claim will goose the economy to produce higher tax revenues and thus balance the budget. Biden was pointing out that unlike the Republicans’ supply-side economics, the Democrats’ version of the economy actually works.
The numbers prove his point. According to Politifact, Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan have exploded deficits, while Democrats have brought deficits down. Reagan sent the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. George H.W. Bush took it to $300 billion. Bill Clinton—with help from Bush’s willingness to raise taxes—got the deficit to zero. George W. Bush took it back up to $1.2 trillion with unfunded wars. Barack Obama cut that back to $600 billion. And Trump’s tax cuts sent it skyrocketing again, even before pandemic spending sent it higher still.
Biden’s reduction of the deficit is due in part to the end of some of those pandemic programs, in part to the booming economy which is producing high tax revenues, and in part to higher taxes on the wealthy. He highlighted it today because, as he pointed out, the Republicans are promising further tax cuts that will send the deficit soaring upward again. The pattern is for them to cut taxes for the wealthy and then, when the deficit increases, complain that there is no money for social welfare programs and that Democrats advocating them are in favor of wasteful spending.
Biden emphasized that Republicans have told us what they will do if put back into power. They will pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, after which they plan to repeal the administration’s actions—like the ability of Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act—that are bringing down the deficit. After their plan explodes the deficit again, they have said they would cut Medicare and Social Security.
“The election is not a referendum,” Biden said, “it’s a choice.”
But it’s a choice people might not see because of the headline-grabbing drama coming from the MAGA Republicans.
This morning, Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, sentenced Trump ally Stephen Bannon to four months in prison and a fine of $6,500 for contempt of Congress after Bannon ignored a subpoena from the the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Nichols’s sentence was at the upper end of the sentencing guidelines for his offense. Nichols permitted Bannon to stay out of prison while he appeals his sentence.
And yet, Bannon’s sentencing was not the day’s big news. The January 6th committee today subpoenaed former president Trump to produce documents and to testify before it under oath. “[W]e have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power.”
The committee wants testimony, under oath, “regarding your dealings with multiple individuals who have now themselves invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination regarding their communications with you.” The professional staff of the January 6th committee, “including multiple former federal prosecutors,” as well as congressional members, will conduct the deposition. “If, like other witnesses identified above,” the committee wrote, “you intend to invoke your Fifth Amendment rights…, please so inform the Select Committee promptly.”
The committee also ordered Trump to produce documents, including—among other things—any records sent through the encrypted channel Signal, including not only messages he placed or received, but also those placed “at your direction.” It also asked specifically for all documents that referred “in any way” to the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys, or any other similar gang. It also called out specifically communications with a number of those already associated with the attempt to overturn the election—Roger Stone, Stephen Bannon, Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Clark, and so on—as well as Trump’s former deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, who was also a Secret Service agent, and “any employee of the Secret Service with whom you interacted on January 6, 2021.”
The committee noted that their subpoena of a former president was “a significant and historic action” that they did not take lightly. But they pointed out that former presidents John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford had all testified before Congress after they left office, with Roosevelt saying: “an ex-President is merely a citizen of the United States, like any other citizen, and it is his plain duty to try to help this committee or respond to its invitation.”
The committee wants the documents by November 4. It plans to start Trump’s testimony on or about November 14.
But Trump’s no good, very bad day was not over. Devlin Barrett of the Washington Post broke the story that, according to sources “familiar with the matter,” the federal documents Trump took when he left the White House, recovered during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, contained highly sensitive material about Iran and China, including information about Iran’s missile program. The exposure of the Iran and China information would reveal U.S. intelligence methods, inviting retaliation and weakening our national security.
After the story broke, Trump took to his social media network to suggest that the National Archives and Records Administration and the FBI “plant into documents, or subtract from documents,” suggesting that there is still much to learn about what those documents are, and where they might have gone.
Today, after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that he must testify before the Fulton County grand jury investigating the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham appealed directly to the Supreme Court. Graham argues that his phone calls about the election were protected by the Constitution’s speech and debate clause, under which legislative speech is protected, because as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he needed to review “election-related issues.”
The lower courts disagreed, saying that the Constitution does not protect “communications and coordination with the Trump campaign regarding its post-election efforts in Georgia, public statements regarding the 2020 election, and efforts to ‘cajole’ or ‘exhort’ Georgia election officials.”
Finally, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin today called his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu for the first time since May 13. The Pentagon says it wants to keep the lines of communication open.
So, Voter Vigilantism has a history:
During the 1967 Newark riots, Imperiale advocated armed white self-defense and formed the volunteer North Ward First Aid Squad ostensibly to escort North Ward residents, most of whom were Italian-American, through racially troubled neighborhoods.
The group was accused of vigilantism, and Governor Richard J. Hughes called Imperiale's followers "Brownshirts". At one point during the riots, Imperiale warned that "when the Black Panther comes,
the white hunter will be waiting."
OFFICIAL GOP PLAN:
If elected we promise to...
*Impeach Joe Biden
*Nationalize the abortion ban and criminalize millions of women that seek an abortion.
*Seek revenge against and defund the FBI and DOJ. *Nationally Ban certain books
*Wreck the economy by shutting down the government
*Not provide middle class tax relief.
*End Medicare.
*Privatize and end social security as we know it.
*Raise the retirement/eligibility age gradually from 67 to 70
*Extend the Trump Tax Cuts for hedge fund traders, millionaires & billionaires
*End all funding to Ukraine
*Allow Marjorie Taylor Green to set and run our agenda
*Engage in multiple performative stunts
*Tell you more after we are elected.
Another thing I often see from right-wingers: they seem to think that the police have been defunded, and they often use this is a reason to bash the left and accuse the left of being responsible for crime. "They defunded the police, so now the criminals are not afraid of getting caught!"
The thing is, nobody has defunded the police, and nobody WANTS to defund the police. The phrase "defund the police" was an unfortunate choice of words, because nobody ever wanted to defund
the police. What people want to do is see police REFORM. But even if people wanted to defund the police, the police aren't just magically defunded just because those words are being thrown around. Just because you might hear the words "defund the police," that doesn't mean it's happened! So when I see comments like "The left defunded the police," it's laughable because nobody has the power to just snap their fingers and defund the police! Again, nobody ever actually wanted to defund the police...but if such a thing were to actually happen, it would be a long, drawn-out process. It wouldn't be something that just instantly happens because someone decided to utter the words "defund the police." It hasn't happened, and it isn't going to happen.
I wish right-wingers would stop telling lies! The police have NOT been defunded! Stop saying things that aren't true!
and I Replied:
Police Ought to Stop Murdering People...
She replied:
That is correct. I don't know where they came up with the "defund" part, but it was a terrible choice of words, and the right has taken it and gone crazy with it.
and I Observed:
Black People feel that The Police are a Menace to Society... Due to the Fact that Laws are Enforced differently depending on the Color of Your Skin... I spent 5 years working at a Domino's Pizza in a Black Neighborhood near Washington DC... It was Run by a Black Woman and employed mostly Black people... SO... I got a Very Realistic View of Law Enforcement and Racism... Defunding the Police would make Black People's Lives Safer.
and then SG Wrote on FaceBorg:
These Beltway swamp monster pontifications are directed not just at the general public but at government policymakers and strategists as well, and it should disturb us all that their audiences are being encouraged to view a global conflict of unspeakable horror like it's some kind of natural disaster that people don't have any control over.
Every measure should be taken to avoid a world war in the nuclear age. If it looks like that's where we're headed, the answer is not to
ramp up weapons production and create entire industries dedicated to making it happen, the answer is diplomacy, de-escalation and detente. These pundits frame the rise of a multipolar world as something that must inevitably be accompanied by an explosion of violence and human suffering, when in reality we'd only wind up there as a result of decisions that were made by thinking human beings on both sides.
It doesn't have to be this way. There's no omnipotent deity decreeing from on high that we must live in a world where governments brandish armageddon weapons at each other and humanity must either submit to Washington or resign itself to cataclysmic violence of planetary consequence. We could just have a world where the peoples of all nations get along with each other and work together toward the common good rather than working to dominate and subjugate each other.
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15 Greatest Life Lessons from Dalai Lama:
1. Our primary purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
2. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
3. Love is the absence of judgment.
4. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
5. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other
6. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito
7. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive
8. Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can
9. There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster
10. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever
11. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
12. When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways–either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
13. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
14. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness
15. There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are (You are awareness, You are your inner being). Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?
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