Day: January 17, 2024

The Next GOP Debate

I know the news is that the field has narrowed to three for the GOP nomination so the ne4xt debate may be a bit better than the preceding ones.

After their showing in Iowa the two also rans are flex what little muscle they have left…..

Haley thump the loudest but DeSantis could not let a mere woman best him so he had to come up with a retort for Haley….

Haley, one of only three Republican candidates remaining in the 2024 race as of Tuesday, says she will participate in future debates only if they feature former President Trump, the GOP frontrunner who easily won Monday’s Iowa caucuses with 51% of the vote, or Democratic incumbent President Biden, per the Hill. Trump, who refused to participate in any of the five GOP primary debates, needs to stop hiding, the former UN ambassador says in a statement. Two more debates had been planned ahead of New Hampshire’s primary next week: ABC News was to host one Thursday, followed by CNN on Sunday. Given Haley’s statement, it’s unclear whether either will take place.

Trump—with a rally scheduled for Sunday, per Politico—isn’t expected to participate in either debate, leaving DeSantis on his own. The Florida governor, who already accepted his debate invitations, claims Haley is “afraid … to answer the tough questions.” “I won’t snub New Hampshire voters like both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, and plan to honor my commitments,” he says. “I look forward to debating two empty podiums in the Granite State this week.” Haley, meanwhile, accuses Trump of running scared. “He has nowhere left to hide. The next debate I do will either be with Donald Trump or with Joe Biden. I look forward to it,” she says. Haley, who finished just behind DeSantis in Iowa, is polling well in New Hampshire, but still trails Trump by double digits.

Sad news for us political junkies….ABC opts out of a debate….

ABC has canceled its Thursday night debate in New Hampshire because it can’t meet a condition imposed by Nikki Haley. The former UN ambassador said Tuesday that she wouldn’t take part in any more Republican debates unless frontrunner Donald Trump participates. ABC and Manchester, New Hampshire station WMUR confirmed Tuesday evening that the debate had been called off, the Washington Post. ABC said it had given Haley and Trump a 5pm deadline to commit to the debate. The debate had been scheduled to take place at St. Anselm College just days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

In the previous GOP debate, Haley debated Ron DeSantis. Before the Thursday cancellation was confirmed, the Florida governor said in a post on X that he’d show up even if Haley didn’t. “I won’t snub New Hampshire voters like both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, and plan to honor my commitments,” he said. “I look forward to debating two empty podiums in the Granite State this week.” DeSantis, who came in second place in the Iowa caucuses, accused Haley, who came in third, of “running to be Trump’s VP.” CNN was planning to host a Republican debate in New Hampshire Sunday night but it’s not clear whether it will go ahead, the New York Times reports.

How unfortunate….without football or the debate where will the entertainment come from on Thursday?

Well my Thursday night just opened up…..

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Agenda 47

I know it sounds like the code word that turns the clones against the Jedi.

But that is a work of fiction and Agenda 47 is a very real threat to our society.

First of all….what the Hell is Agenda 47?

Read on and be afraid….very afraid….

Agenda 47 would consist of an end to birthright citizenship, further criminalizing transgender people and the LGBTQI community more broadly, expanding the thought crime and other censorship laws to end the teaching of “critical race theory” and to defeat “Woke” and “Black Lives Matter”, attacking academic freedom and replacing it with “patriot education”, implementing a national stop and frisk law, pardoning the Jan. 6 terrorists, putting homeless people in camps or some other designated area under threat of arrest, building high tech “freedom cities”, ending the professional civil service and replacing it with right-wing political appointees and other such partisan agents, gutting the Department of Justice and other parts of the government that opposed Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, executing drug dealers, starting a trade war with China, and making “peace” with Vladimir Putin by withdrawing support for the Ukrainian people and their freedom struggle. In many ways, Agenda 47 is a continuation of the fascist and other authoritarian policies Trump put in place during his first regime but now made even more extreme and cruel.

The Hartmann Report gives a much harder look at the dystopian nightmare that is ‘Agenda 47’.

If Trump is re-elected, he’d be America’s 47th president, so he’s named the plans for his second term “Agenda 47.” At best, it’s a dystopian nightmare: at worst it means ending our current system of American government; aligning the US with Russia and other autocratic nations; and the USA leading the charge against democracy and in favor of authoritarian, strong-man forms of government across the world.

Over at his website, Trump lays out the details of his governing agenda, complete with short videos promoting each of the steps he plans to take. They, and his many statements about future plans, include:

https://hartmannreport.com/p/project-47-trumps-and-the-gops-dystopian-3b1

Read carefully before you vote….

Be Smart!

Learn Stuff!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”