“They asked us for language and we gave them language when they asked us for it,” Weingarten said. Yeah, no, that’s not normal. It’s normal to get stakeholder opinion. It isn’t normal for an administration to ask for language and then take it “nearly verbatim.” The fact that she doesn’t see the issue with it means it’s something they’ve likely been doing for a while and they’ve had outsized influence except in the “last administration.”

What separates us from the Third World in our politics, he opined, are the twin concepts of peaceful transfer of power via the ballot box rather than by military intervention and the unwritten and unspoken principle that victors do not use the police power of the state to punish the vanquished. Without the second concept, no sane person will ever relinquish office if they run the risk of ending up imprisoned or on the gallows. Once politics become a blood sport, he said, there is no way to stop the slide into rule by people with guns. I’d never really looked at it that way and can’t, even today, disagree with him. If there is any debt owed to Gerald Ford, it is his preservation of the republic by pardoning Richard Nixon.

With that said, it seems as though the left, which has long detested America, is hellbent on crossing that redline and pushing this nation ever closer to one where the abuse of law and the use of the judicial apparatus as stormtroopers and enforcers rather than the rule of law and respect for tradition prevails. If Politico is to be believed, stay with me here, the left is anticipating that President Trump will soon be indicted on state felony charges in New York: POLITICO Playbook: How Palm Beach is preparing for a possible Trump indictment: //

We need to anticipate that President Trump will, indeed, be indicted by a New York grand jury. The New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney have too much political capital involved in their highly public investigation of President Trump to shrug and say, “nothing there, folks.” With the New York power structure in utter chaos thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s predatory behavior, casual cruelty, calculated evasion of the law, and superhuman hubris, there is literally no mechanism left within that state to prevent a revenge indictment that could very well propel the instigator to national prominence. They will give no thought to the long-term damage done to our political life or even the damage done to the Democrat party in 2022 and 2024. The lizard-brain urge to lash out at President Trump is simply too strong to be resisted. //

There won’t be any kind of a face-off between Ron DeSantis and Cyrus Vance over the corpus of Donald Trump. If he’s indicted, he will end up on trial. He will be convicted. He will spend the rest of his life in jail. The left will think they have taught us a lesson, and they will be right. The next Republican president will be under enormous pressure to take a similar Democrat scalp. To be on the safe side and make it hurt, he’ll probably have to take down several prominent Democrats. And the left will ‘wave the bloody shirt’ and demand retribution the next time they occupy the White House. The real question becomes why a Republican from a Blue or even a Purple state would even bother to run for the presidency and what he would do when leaving office meant either prison or financial ruin in defending himself? //

Laocoon • 12 hours ago

Outstanding post!

Take a look at the events that led up to the Spanish Civil War sometime. This criminalization of political opposition, anti-religious fanaticism, doctrinaire socialism/communism/anarchism, a willingness by the state to tolerate political violence from the forces of the left, the personal danger of opposing the favored factions of the Republic...all these combined to spark the Spanish Civil War. The persecution of any non-socialist political opposition to the Republic forced many of their victims to take up arms just to survive.

Increasingly the US is starting to resemble that awful conflict.

Usernotfound Laocoon • 12 hours ago

I’m afraid there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed and the left is desperately searching for it. //

uplateagain • 17 hours ago

The indictment of Trump could well be an historical turning point. A match to pooled gasoline. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The British march on Concord to confiscate weaponry. Anyone thinking such an act won't inevitably portend a lot of retribution at the least (actual physical retribution... not political) and quite possibly ultimately full scale civil war, has no concept of how abused and righteously indignant half or more of the country is already feeling about Democratic criminality, bullying, and their working attempt to establish a one-party system and eventual overthrow of Constitutional government and the free market system.

The symbolism of arresting Trump on trumped-up charges would be too great for way too many people to stomach.

Fyrch uplateagain • 2 hours ago

While I may agree with you in spirit, I don't believe the actual anti-fascists in America are cohesive enough to fight back.

The Progressive fascists yell about breaking the system & Whyte Soup/Remacy because they count on the citizenry to meekly bend the knee to outrageous demands simply in order to get on with their lives. It's not just this silliness with wearing masks; we were already letting high school dropouts sexually molest us simply to board a plane, and meekly allowing those in power to get away with the most egregious abuses of law because some paid to watch big men chasing little balls while the rest of us paid to applaud (quoting Michael Crichton).

America's Republic was already sliding into the abyss, not because of a fake insurrection but because people were watching a horde of hOOrs called the Kardashians. //

clconnett • 2 days ago
If the Democrats go down this road there are two options: they stop with one scalp, and we don't retaliate, or we retaliate and they do the same. The problem is that we can't not retaliate. Once they use the state to arrest and detain the politico opposition, there's no closing that door. Either we concede the nation, or violence reigns.

This is not something we should cheer for, but a result we should mourn. //

metalman304 • 2 days ago

Nice theory but think about this....Cy Vance was and is, bossom buddies with Hillary Cankles Clinton. There is no way in blue hell he would retire before taking the first chair on the prosecution of the 45th President and Hillaryś arch enemy. His retirement is more like a signal that a ham sandwhich will be easier to indict than DJT. //

clconnett • 2 days ago

No. It's stupid to wish for further deterioration of our political discourse. This isn't something we callously invite, it's a reality we face with stoicism.

Think about it: Where does something like this end? They take Trump, so we arrest, try and imprison Pelosi, Schumer, and Nadler. So they come for Cruz, DeSantis, Noem, Hawley, etc. The heat is always ratcheted up until... what? What's the final outcome?

I get the attitude of, "We'll let them have it!" Okay. And how many will you, personally, visit in prison, in the hospital, or at their wake? The violence of policing will lead to violence in the streets. And we're all losers then. //

hawkeye1903 • 2 days ago

Yes, stupid to wish for. However - it's very much like the situation facing Israel. We would live in peace with democrats if they would as well, but the democrats have zero intention of letting us live in peace or "otherwise live" if we don't succumb to their boot on our neck. I already know where the democrats intend "it" to end.... we can mourn it, and face it, and prepare for it at the same time.

But hey, I’ve got some good news – there’s not a mean tweet to be seen.

Donald Trump has been reduced to releasing written statements that get users banned if they share them, and isn’t that truly enough to get us through these tough times? I mean, sure, your savings are evaporating due to inflation, you can’t afford to gas your car up, your grocery bill has exploded, and the Middle East is on fire again, but the decorum we are currently experiencing is just invigorating, right?

All of this was preventable, but shallow, cocktail circuit dwellers in the beltway thought it better to promote a “return to normalcy” that has been anything but. Joe Biden’s administration isn’t even six months old and it’s already an abject disaster. Actually, we’d be lucky to just end up with Jimmy Carter’s second term at this point. //

RescueMe
an hour ago
"A three-legged dog could have been elected president in 2020 and done a better job with the economy than Biden"

I'm still waiting for the media to wake up to the reality of our current situation. The Barrack Obama via Susan Rice / Biden administration isn't doing a "bad job." They are skillfully executing a plan to destroy the republic.

• Demoralize the military - purge the patriots.
• Demoralize the CIA - hire based on wokeness not actual qualification and patriots retire in frustration.
• Turn the FBI into a political prosecution machine when they're not being used as wheelmen for white collar crimes.
• Open the border and invite the entire world into our social safety net.
• Pay people to stay away from work until small businesses collapse.
• Spend the country into oblivion... Cloward - Piven.

Does anyone see how intentional this is? This is not a failing or bungling administration and until we stop ascribing their performance to idiocy we're not addressing what is actually happening before our eyes.

In response to the news of the Civil Service Board’s ruling, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) issued a statement defending the decision to terminate Rolfe’s employment at the time, and it was – quite frankly – one of the most embarrassing justifications I’ve ever seen a so-called “leader” give for this type of knee-jerk decision:

“Given the volatile state of our city and nation last summer, the decision to terminate this officer, after he fatally shot Mr. Brooks in the back, was the right thing to do,” she said. “Had immediate action not been taken, I firmly believe that the public safety crisis we experienced during that time would have been significantly worse.”

In other words, the decision to kick Rolfe off the police force rather than give him due process was done in an effort to appease mobs of violent rioters so they wouldn’t get more violent or something.

So how exactly did that work out for Mayor Bottoms? As noted above, a child was murdered by rioters who were “protecting” the parking lot, and others were shot in the area as well in weeks following Brooks’ death – all because Bottoms refused to have the Wendy’s parking lot cleared and opposed measures eventually carried out by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to get the situation under control.

If America is indeed plagued with a “systemic racism” problem as the above continually attest, then a few obvious questions are in order for each of them:

How was Kamala Harris elected first as a US senator in California and then vice president of the US?
How did James Clyburn, who was the eldest son of an activist, fundamentalist minister in Sumter, South Carolina, rise to become the third-ranking Democrat in the US House of Representatives?
How did Hakeem Jeffries, born in Brooklyn and “a product of New York City’s public school system,” become the House Democrat Caucus Chairman?
How was Jamaal Bowman, who spent his early years in public housing and later in rent-controlled apartments in New York City, elected to Congress?
How was Muriel Bowser, the youngest of six children raised in northeast Washington, elected as the DC mayor?
How was Keith Ellison elected to the US House of Representatives, served as the Deputy Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, and elected as the Minnesota attorney general?
How did the high school graduate Lebron James achieve a net worth of $500 million while earning $100 million per year, including lucrative endorsement deals?
How did Maxine Waters, who was raised by a single mother from the age of two in St. Louis and Los Angeles, become the Chair of the House Financial Services Committee? //

Bob Woodson, a former civil rights and community activist and founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) had the race-mongers pegged in an interview with Laura Ingraham:

“These people are worse than bigots,” he said. “I know what bigotry looks like, but I also know what treason looks like. And what they’re doing to Black America, in terms of pushing this false racial narrative, to me amounts to treasonous behavior against them.”

Host Laura Ingraham responded that Democrats rely on claims of “systemic” racism to shift focus away from their otherwise “ruinous” policies

“I think it’s a deflection away are their personal responsibility,” replied Woodson. “If racism were that pervasive, the question is, ‘Why in the last 50 years are low-income Blacks failing in systems run by their own people?’

“And now the police are being thrown under the bus as an extension of White supremacy, and again, it presents a convenient excuse for why their policies are not working. It’s really to conceal their incompetence, but they’re also weaponizing race and using it for political purpose at the expense of low-income Blacks. And they’re ignoring real remedies.”

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
Can we talk about how absurd it is that a Democrat called Tim Scott an "oreo" and the national press aren't even mentioning it, but when some random college student makes an OK sign, it becomes a 48-hour news cycle?

DeSantis’ over-arching point is that such claims of systemic racism are used as a political catch-all, whereby literally everything someone on the left doesn’t like is relegated to some form of systemic racism. That then gives them license to destroy the system instead of just dealing with whatever bad apples may emerge. Thus, the comparison to Marxism is profound and relevant, especially considering that many of those same people self-identify as Marxists.

The real goal of Black Lives Matter and the myriad of other social justice activists out there is not to stop supposed examples of racism (note that even Derek Chauvin was never found to have had racist intentions). Rather, by their own admission, it’s to tear down the system as it exists and rebuild it in a more “equitable” fashion. But forcing equity via the heavy hand of government is, in and of itself, discrimination, because it throws out individual choices and performance in favor of defining people by their immutable characteristics. That’s racism. //

Arcturus77
17 hours ago edited
Bonchie,

I think a more succinct way of explaining the Marxist underpinnings of Critical Race Theory is to note that like "traditional" economic class-based Marxism, CRT posits a zero-sum struggle between groups of people, in its case, based upon racial or other biomarker identities (e.g., gender / sex). Individuals do not exist except insofar as they are members of a group -- and that group is either oppressed or oppressor. CRT is simply a Cultural Marxism.

Unlike other Marxism ideologies and movements that were economic power-based but included a cultural element -- most famously, the Maoist Cultural Revolution and, even more extreme, the Khmer Rouge -- CRT is a uniquely American Marxism. That's because it sidesteps the actual issue of excessive concentration of wealth and power by the overclass (except insofar as the overclass is white) and focuses on culture and racism -- via the "systemic racism" struggle between groups.

This is how multimillionaire Blacks such as the Obamas, LeBron James, and Oprah are, ipso facto, oppressed and a working class white living in a trailer park in Appalachia is the oppressor.

It is getting extra traction in America because corporate oligarchy has discovered the usefulness (at least short-to-medium term) of CRT because, as a Cultural Marxism, it really doesn't upset the highly imbalanced economic system but keeps it in place by keeping the population at war with itself.

It is a profoundly immoral and, operationally, a violent philosophy, but that's the inherent nature of Marxism in whatever form the "struggle" takes.

Facts, truth, reality itself are all subservient to the ideology and its zero-sum struggle. Needless to say, it is a profoundly illiberal philosophy. But young people with no real prospects in society and addicted to social media love it because of its all-embracing explanation of reality and good-versus-evil struggle it posits. Every Marxist movement has been like that.

The tragedy of the Obama presidency was rather than healing America's traditional racial divide, Obama made it acceptable for anyone who had one drop of "BIPOC" blood in them to claim the mantle of oppressed victimhood no matter their actual station or situation in life. //

skeptic62 Arcturus77
15 hours ago edited
Marxism is not about creating a more equitable system; far from it.

Each of us is bestowed with different skill sets. In Capitalism, the best in each field rise to the top, with the rest taking spots on the lower rungs.

For some though, their best if not only skill is the ability to take. Most are just common criminals, but under Marxism the “best” rise to the top by inflaming passions and pitting several groups against one. Until there is only one.

Marxists can’t compete in The Marketplace of Ideas, but they can surely surf the wave of revolution. THIS is why the Marxist Revolution never ends. //

timcooper62 Arcturus77
17 hours ago
I like what you wrote. They don't want to acknowledge the individual because then they may have to acknowledge individual rights. These schemes are the antithesis of individual rights. The individual has no rights under these schemes. Its totally un American and really as you say immoral. Its evil on its face. When people fail, instead of looking inward and making changes to improve, they can claim victim status and blame some oppressor. //

ConservatarianGirl
18 hours ago
For Republicans to be brave, they're going to have to care more about being right than about being liked. //

IrishMailey ConservatarianGirl
15 hours ago
And they need to say over and over: Rep. Lincoln freed the slaves and made them full citizens under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, Rep. Eisenhower sent NG to desegregate Southern schools, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act comes from a 1957 Eisenhower bill that was defeated by sens. JFK, Johnson, and Al Gore's dad.

Before the likes of the cancel culture rewrite the history of the Vietnam War, it is important to remember that US and South Vietnamese forces won virtually every major battle during the war, including the 1968 Tet Offensive, which wiped out the Viet Cong as an effective fighting force, but which the pro-Communist Walter Cronkite (and others) spun as a “strategic American defeat” to American television audiences. An excellent discussion of how Tet was falsely spun by the North Vietnamese Communists and their sycophants in the American media and anti-war movement (which was possibly the most successful information operation in history) can be found here entitled “Tet Declassified.” That Communist info op convinced Americans that the war was lost, which led to the “Vietnamization” of the war effort, to the Paris Peace Accords, to the American withdrawal from Vietnam, and ultimately to Operation Frequent Wind.

Why was the war lost? A tragedy of bad decisions and strategic errors. That the US evolved ridiculous Rules of Engagement but no mission success criteria doomed the American effort to failure. Body counts, aircraft sorties and bombs dropped, artillery rounds fired, etc. The US “counterinsurgency strategy” was completely wrong, given the overwhelming military superiority of the US versus the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. And LBJ’s management of the war effort from the Oval Office severely constrained commanders in the field. Allowing unfettered access by the American news media to unit-level operations was a strategic mistake, which led to the likes of Cronkite falsely spinning the reality on the ground to Americans watching the “television war.”

By 1971 or 1972, the war was essentially won in South Vietnam, and after the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in December of 1972, North Vietnam’s will to continue had been broken. However, it was the Democrat majority in the US Congress who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and who deliberately forfeited the war after all US forces were withdrawn for US political reasons, as well as suspended military aid to the South Vietnamese. That latter perfidious act was the coup de grâce. Funny how nobody mentions that these days as the DC Democrats push their Communist agenda down our throats. Some things never change. //

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tet-offensive-halted

https://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-terrible-truth-about-walter-cronkite/

https://www.intelligence.gov/tet-declassified

AUSTIN, TX– The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to institute more measures to safeguard black lives by banning products they like. After it was announced that the Biden administration would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes, officials are looking at other ways the government can save the black community from itself.

Only days after the menthol ban was announced, the FDA declared that it was pushing full steam ahead with its effort to rescue the black community through what they refer to as “strategic race-based prohibition.” An FDA official explained that the fried fowl and grape-flavored cola – also known as “grape drank” – must be banned because “these hopeless negroes don’t know how to act.”

“Preventing black people from killing themselves by banning certain products is the least we can do given the level of oppression they have endured in this country,” said a high-ranking member of the Biden administration. “This is why fried chicken and grape soda have to go.”

What is it with white liberals believing they have the right to levy racist attacks against black Republicans? That happened again last night from several corners of the left after Tim Scott delivered his rebuttal to Joe Biden’s boring, yet surprisingly dangerous address to Congress.

Keith Olbermann mocked Scott, claiming he had “Stockholm Syndrome,” for example. You know, because a black man can’t possibly think for himself. He needs a white savior like Olbermann to dictate to him.

Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
Sen. Scott insisting America is not racist but our healing from racism isn’t finished and he’s been called racist names.

Incidentally, Senator, anybody calls you the N-word is a friend of Trump’s. We progressives refer to you as a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. //

I’m going to watch Senator Tom Scott’s speech later. I guess it was good if the reaction is the Left doubling down on being racist towards him.

— kaitlin, super mega RINO (@thefactualprep) April 29, 2021

Watch below as Cuomo asks Slavitt four different times why can’t the CDC’s/White House’s messaging simply be that vaccinated people can get back to normal, no masks, no social distancing indoors or outdoors? It could, Cuomo argued, be a great way to discourage vaccine hesitancy and hasten the country’s return back to business as usual.

Slavitt never directly answered the question. Instead there was much obfuscating. Watch and see for yourselves (here’s the transcript as well): //

Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Vaccine demand is dropping, particularly among the young and among minorities. To reverse this, we should tell people they can go back to normal if they get vaccinated. This is precisely what Biden refuses to do, because continuing covid panic is his lever for change. //

Greg Borchers
@GregBorchers
When Chris Cuomo holds someone on the left to the fire, and they can't hold up to his scrutiny, it is time to evaluate the position.

In short, there is no reason to think Zarif’s oral history is anything but accurate. He has maintained a close relationship with Kerry since rolling him on the Iran nuclear deal. The oral history is damaging to Zarif both at home and abroad. If you are going to claim this was a clever ruse to further discredit John Kerry, you have to answer two questions: a) why bother? and b) why Zarif made himself and Iran look bad in the process. Everything we know about Kerry since he flung someone else’s medals over a fence in front of the US Capitol in 1971 screams, “THIS IS TRUE!!”

In a sane party or in a sane “administration,” passing on classified information to a US adversary like you were giving away Lebron James trading cards would get you shown the door if not actually prosecuted. But we have neither. We are governed by a party where the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing the CIA was boinking a Chinese spy, and when the relationship was disclosed to the Democrat leadership, nothing was done, (read While Eric Swalwell Was Sleeping With a Chinese Spy Adam Schiff Put Him in Charge of CIA Oversight). We have as our selected president a man who is deeply compromised by the Chinese and by the Russians. In that environment, Kerry’s giving aid and comfort to Zarif is more properly viewed as a job application for a higher position. //

Genna
3 hours ago
Why should we believe the NYT lied about John Kerry when John Kerry believed every word the NYT wrote about Donald Trump? //

monster
3 hours ago
Streiff, without any hyperbole, how is what you have described truly not legally traitorous activity?

streiff monster
2 hours ago
we aren't at war with Iran...that is something the Constitution sets as a prerequisite for treason. That's why I say Espionage Act

How does Price know when the conversation was or that it had “already been disclosed?” Does he know the date of the conversation and what was discussed? Why would Zarif be “astonished” if this information was already publicly available?

Moreover, classified information is still classified information even after media might report on it, and it’s not clear exactly what is alleged to have been discussed about the ops.

Meanwhile Kerry claims, not that the information was already out there, he claims he never had the conversation at all.

So which is it? Did he have the conversation that didn’t mean anything or didn’t he?

According to his own comments in 2019, Kerry said he met with Zarif in 2018 “three or four times” to discuss the nuclear deal and other issues.

As we’ve previously said, why was he meeting with the Iranians at all at that time, when he didn’t represent our government and was trying to save the nuclear deal, which was against the U.S. position at the time? What did he say in these admitted conversations and what were the “other issues?”

It isn’t just the revelations about Israel, that’s bad enough. But what he’s already essentially admitted to, the conversations about the nuclear deal, needs serious investigation and is an even bigger issue. He’s never been held to account for it and now he’s on the National Security Council as Biden’s “special envoy” on climate. Joe Biden needs to answer up on this, and the answer can’t just be more avoidance.

Meanwhile, and not a small point, Iranian surrogates were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq over the years and Iranian-backed militias have been attacking American targets in Iraq.

Final point? If Kerry isn’t telling the truth and Iran knows it or has audio tape, he’s now compromised.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry, now President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, briefed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on hundreds of Israel’s covert attacks on Iranian interests in Syria, according to leaked audio reported by The New York Times on Sunday. This revelation echoes reports that Obama officials saved the life of terrorist and Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani by notifying Iran about an Israeli plot to assassinate him in 2015.

This isn’t some anonymous claim made up by a political enemy and because of that, Kerry doesn’t get to play both sides of the fence on this. Given that, let’s assume Zarif is lying and that Kerry never actually shared intelligence with him.

If that’s true, then Kerry has just backed himself into a corner. He can’t simultaneously say not to believe Zarif, the supposed “moderate” in Iran, while at the same time stumping for a return of the Iran deal and lauding his previous work on that front. That extends to the Biden administration as well because they have chosen to employ Kerry as some kind of climate czar. If they are going to not fire Kerry and instead buy his denials here, then they are now in the position of enforcing the assertion that Iran is led by liars who can’t be trusted.

Do you know what you don’t do with liars who can’t be trusted? You don’t sign nuclear agreements with them. //

I see no reason to believe John Kerry on this front. In my view, Zarif had no incentive to lie in the leaked tapes as he was talking to someone he trusts. Further, we already know that Kerry was colluding with the Iranians during the Trump years, advising them on how to get around U.S. policy. It should surprise no one that he would share intelligence with Zarif.

For whatever reason, John Kerry has, time and again, chosen to basically operate as a foreign agent at the behest of the Iranians. Someone should probably figure out why sooner rather than later before something really dangerous happens.

The Washington Post’s lead “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler issued a hit piece against Sen. Tim Scott on Friday targeting him for his black heritage.

Using the guise of a “fact-check,” Kessler spent nearly 30 paragraphs analyzing census documents and other records to try to counteract Scott’s claims that his grandfather left elementary school to pick cotton and “never learned to read or write.”

While the article sets out to prove Scott wrong, it confirms the narrative that the senator has repeated in his book and from the political podium multiple times. While Scott believed his grandfather, Artis Ware, dropped out of school in third grade, Kessler claimed to have uncovered that Ware may have left school in the fourth grade, a slight inconsistency which even Kessler admitted could occur because the records are old.

Despite the slight difference in his grandfather’s age when he left school, Kessler glossed over the fact that Ware worked “55 hours a week” in cotton fields at a young age in order to attack Scott for amplifying his family history “for political consumption.” //

Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
HT @ellie_bufkin
"Some enterprising Black families purchased property as a way to avoid sharecropping and achieve a measure of independence from White-dominated society." Could this read any more like "Scott's uppity black family dared not be beholden sharecroppers?"

Laura Wides-Munoz
@lwmunoz
·
Apr 20, 2021
George Floyd's death sparked calls for police reform. Why hasn't Congress acted? from @sarahdwire
Whatever happened to police reform legislation?
latimes.com //

Kira
@RealKiraDavis
Hi Laura. There's this guy named @SenatorTimScott and his bill was crushed by partisan Democrats who had no interest in actually solving problems. I'm really surprised you didn't know that. //

Do Laura and her cohorts even care that Democrats — who have been blaming everybody under the sun who doesn’t vote Democrat for the lack of police reform — nixed a bill that would have at least attempted to address the problem?

Senator Tim Scott blasted the Democrats for their partisan and selfish filibuster in an epic rant on the Senate floor. Was it picked up by Journalist Laura and the reporter who wrote the article or anyone at The L.A. Times? Or anyone in progressive media?

Another rhetorical question. //

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
Sen. Tim Scott: Senate Democrats did not reject “what is being offered” but “who is offering it.” //

Democrats wet the bed on this issue. We need to make them change the sheets or lie in their own lazy mess.

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
By a 216-210 vote, the same Democrats who voted to impeach Trump for telling supporters to "peacefully march" just voted NOT to censure Maxine Waters for literally inciting violence in Minnesota.
4:46 PM · Apr 20, 2021

Glenn Kessler
@GlennKesslerWP
The trial memo of the Trump impeachment managers has a sentence that did not age well.

“The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”

Glenn Kessler
@GlennKesslerWP
Replying to @GlennKesslerWP
That sentence was sourced to a Jan. 8 NYT report with the headline, "Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage." But the story was updated after information emerged that cast doubt on that narrative. //

President Donald Trump was impeached in the House on Jan. 13 and the trial was between Feb. 9-13. So they had every reason to know prior to the trial, even from the CNN report on Feb. 2, that this claim of death from being struck with a fire extinguisher by insurrectionists was false. Indeed they should have known since the ABC report and my report on Jan. 10, that there wasn’t any evidence for the fire extinguisher story; they should not have claimed that without evidence. But they made the claim anyway. Indeed by Feb. 2, it was clear even to CNN that Sicknick had no blunt trauma injuries indicating he was ever physically hit by anything.

Had the medical examiner’s report come in before the impeachment trial, saying that Sicknick died due to two strokes, that probably would have heavily impacted what they were trying to sell to people at the impeachment trial between February 9-13. The medical examiner’s report just came out today, April 19, after waiting since January 7. The length of time it took to get the report is troubling, to say the least.

“I do think we should be expanding the court,” she told reporters. “The idea that nine people, that a nine-person court, can overturn laws that … hundreds and thousands of legislators, advocacy and policymakers drew consensus on … we have to … just ask ourselves, I think as a country, how much does that current structure benefit us? And I don’t think it does,” she said.

That’s literally the point of the Court, according to the purpose of the Founders, that nine people sometimes overrule laws and decisions of politicians and others. To be above the political fray, to not do what is popular, but to do what is in accordance with the Constitution, however unpopular it might be. The Court’s decision is based on interpretation of the law, not the politics. //

“How much does that current structure benefit us?” Yikes. According to this logic, why would adding four more justices – what the court-packing Democrats are proposing – make things any better? What’s magical about thirteen? //

The Recount
@therecount
·
Apr 15, 2021
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): “The Republicans stole two seats on the Supreme Court … we undo the damage that the Republicans have done by restoring balance. And we do it by adding four seats to the court …”

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): “We must expand the court and we must abolish the filibuster to do it.”