What Congress is doing, as it always does, is attempting to throw money at the problems that we and state and local legislatures have created. We’ve locked down our economy, isolated Americans from their loved ones and friends, forced stringent protocols on businesses, allowed mob rule to take over our cities, and now believe that more money, not a complete reversal of these failed policies, is the path forward. It is patently absurd.

The best thing we, the elected leadership of America, can do is move towards a full reopening. We must release the restrictions of businesses and the American people to let them choose how to best return to normalcy.

Last year, 48.4 percent of ActBlue's donations were from "unemployed." //

The numbers are ticking upwards as 2020 continues on, with more than 50 percent of donations coming through ActBlue being gifted by those who are unemployed.

Data from WinRed, the Republican Party's version of ActBlue, the number of unemployed people who made donations to President Donald Trump sat at four percent. This year the number is 5.6 percent

Would be senseless to prosecute a case with evidence that will result in the conviction being thrown out.

As election day draws nearer, we are closer to learning who will occupy the White House next year. Will an October surprise upset the the race? //

Jeff Charles, The Black DaVinci
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Sep 12, 2020
So what do y'all think the October surprise is going to be?

JamesCheef
@JamesCheef
No different than the June, July, August, and September surprises.
2:39 PM · Sep 12, 2020

Mandatory masking policies stifle the American spirit and are segueing us right into mandated COVID-19 vaccines. Here's how.

This decision would have never come from a panel with Obama and Hillary Clinton Appointees

Two more high-profile Black police chiefs announced this week that they plan to step down amid protest unrest, spurring more questions about whether Black Lives Matter is hurting rather than helping Black Americans.

Stevens’ attorney, famed Iran-Contra defense attorney Brendan Sullivan, understood that Stevens could not stand for re-election Alaska with the indictment still hanging over his head. Sullivan also likely understood that the government had rushed to secure the indictment ahead of the DOJ that precludes indicting a person running for office less than 90 days prior to the election.

In recognition of those two facts, Brendan Sullivan informed the prosecutors and the Court that Stevens would be asserting his rights to a fair and speedy trial under the Constitution and the federal Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3161(c)(1), which states:

In any case in which a plea of not guilty is entered, the trial of a defendant charged in an information or indictment with the commission of an offense shall commence within seventy days from the filing date (and making public) of the information or indictment, or from the date the defendant has appeared before a judicial officer of the court in which such charge is pending, whichever date last occurs.

Sullivan and Stevens demanded that his trial begins at the earliest possible date and that he would not waive his statutory “Speedy Trial Act” rights to have the trial begin not more than 70 calendar days after his initial appearance.

That tactical decision meant the defense had less than two full months to review and analyze all the evidence in the government’s case, and to prepare to present evidence of their own in Stevens’ defense. But Brenden Sullivan had read the situation correctly, the prosecutors had hastily assembled their indictment to file it prior to the 90-day limit, and their case was not organized. All the witnesses had not been interviewed, all the evidence hadn’t been gathered, and all the reports had not yet been written. But by filing the indictment they started the clocking running on a very short window of time within which all that would need to be accomplished AND have the case prepared for trial where the government has the burden of proof and has to go first. //

This is why the basic rule for federal prosecutors is ALWAYS have your case ready for trial on the day you seek an indictment. Never count on the possibility that you will have additional time to build your case after the case is indicted by doing things after the indictment that should have been done prior to the indictment.

I have always wondered why more defense attorneys didn’t take his calculated risk to force the government to go to trial quickly. It probably has more to do with the “fear” of their clients , and the “sound” advice of a defense attorney to give the government more time to get ready by waiving your right to a trial within 70 days.

Pushing for an indictment from Durham before he’s fully prepared to take a case to trial is a path to a potentially unhappy outcome. Durham understands that.

Many would have us believe that the riots and violence sweeping across America’s cities this year are spontaneous. But the evidence tells us otherwise.

He's telling you what he's going to do. Believe him.

It's hard to look at the Biden campaign and not see a Potemkin Village... a façade, an artifice that looks like a campaign when viewed from afar, but when examined closely looks more like a ruse.

To The Atlantic, the mere chance of President Trump holding the golden medal bearing the visage of Alfred Nobel was too much. ‘Better to shut it down.’

Larry Elder
@larryelder
Thanks #BlackLivesMatter; @BarackObama; @DNC; @CNN; @MSNBC; @TheRevAl; condescending "woke" media; condescending "woke" academia; and condescending "woke" Hollywood for pushing the lie that cops kill blacks just because they're black. This is the result. Happy?

“Recent years, the police have killed an average of a thousand people a year. This is a population of 350 million Americans. Some 40 million are black. I’ve heard the number 35, 35, 32, it’s around in there, okay? In the last 60 years, according to the Centers for Disease control, the rate at which people have…shot and killed blacks has declined 75% percent. Last year, near as we can figure out, there were 25 unarmed black people killed — not just shot and killed, but killed by many other ways. Twenty-five. At least as many unarmed whites have been killed by the police as unarmed blacks.

“Of all the…people police killed, less than 4% are ‘white cop killing unarmed black person.’ And again, ‘unarmed person’ does not necessarily mean ‘not dangerous.’ Michael Brown was unarmed, was perceived, reasonably, as dangerous. His DNA was found on the officer’s gun.

“It is true that the police are two-and-a-half times more likely to kill a black person than a white person. It’s also true, unfortunately, that a young black male is eight to ten times more likely to be the victim of a homicide than a young white male. That’s why the cops are there. … [O]f all the homocides in this country, 50% of them are black victims. And 94% of these black victims were likely killed by other blacks. We say ‘likely,’ because some of these are unsolved. Like in Chicago, where 75% of the homicides are unsolved.

“And you look at cities like LA, like New York, where the police departments — the staff — reflects the demographics of the city. I’m in LA. LA is 40% Hispanic, as is the LAPD. … It’s about 9% or so…black, as is the LAPD. I mean, honestly, from 1992-2002, we had back-to-back black police chiefs. And one of them was a chief during the O.J. Simpson case.”