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That Elusive Leader

Ever since the idiots in the admin have been trying to make antifa some sort of organization and to do this they need a ‘leader’ to point to if they want their accusations to appear legitimate….so far all they have done is show their ignorance.

This saga began in earnest back in Missouri with the death of a black man and the protests that followed….the government could not believe that the American people could be so audacious as to protest that massive…..so they began to look for a lie to blame for the actions taken and they came upon a little known (at that time) of a group that were already known for their confrontation….the antifa.

Thus the government set about turning this loose group of protesters into this international organization that thrived on confrontation.

Then came the Goon Platoon (ICE) into LA and the protests grew bigger and louder and the government hit upon turning antifa into the excuse for the protests and confrontation.

While trying to build their case they came upon a book written by Mark Bray, the Antifa Handbook, and he became the ‘leader’ of this group.  The problem was that the book was a history book of the anti-fascist movement not a how to book….but that did not matter they kept pushing Bray as the ‘leader’ of the group….it got so bad Bray had to take his wife and kids and go overseas to avoid all the hate that the government had generated.

Now the government had to look for a new ‘leader’ that they could blame for all the unrest…..and they finally tagged another individual as the mastermind of antifa….

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 29-year-old Portland, Oregon resident Chandler Patey as “the leader of Antifa,” according to internal DHS documents leaked to journalist Kenneth Klippenstein. Klippenstein notes that Patey and other “Antifa protestors” identified in the federal documents demonstrate the shoddy reasoning the federal government will use to just to label any protestor as a domestic terrorist.

The DHS decided that Patey leads Antifa, which Trump has designated as a “domestic terrorist organization,” because Patey has been “seen in many videos advocating the principles of [anti-fascism]” and because he allows protestors to use his bathroom and medical supplies to rinse off tear gas inflicted by federal agents at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment facility near his downtown Portland apartment.

While Patey also provides medical equipment and gas mask filters that protestors might need after federal agents attack them for expressing their First Amendment rights, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and other right-wing media commentators have used these as a basis to claim that Patey is running an ominous-sounding “Antifa safehouse.”

In reality, Antifa is a decentralized political ideology with autonomous, local groups but no formal leaders. Antifa activists primarily oppose institutional fascism and racism in government.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/quick-hit-has-identified-the-leader-of-its-a-29-year-old-who-helps-tear-gassed-protestors/

So the lies begin again on some poor person that was a face in the crowd.

My biggest bitch is the term ‘domestic terrorist organization’…..organization implies an organized group with a leader, dues, headquarters, etc….antifa has NONE of these….more lies and bullshit from the sub-par mind of the Donny brigade.

STOP!  believing the bullshit….these are people that have had enough of racism and the fascist policies of Donny and his group of garden slugs.

You should be worried about the direction and the tactics of this government…..if not then you are NOT a true American.

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One Will Be King

The ‘king’ in this context is the new leader of the DNC. The Dems have been scratching their heads over their recent loss in the election and are looking for a new way forward with a new head of the DNC.

At present there are 4 people that have thrown their top hats into the ring and are vying for control of the party.

Let’s look at the 4 in the mix….

Four people so far are running to be the next Democratic National Committee chair, looking to take on the task of reinvigorating a party demoralized by a second loss to President-elect Trump. Others may still get into the race as the party reckons with the 2024 election, which saw Trump gain with nearly every demographic group in a decisive repudiation of the incumbent party. The committee’s roughly 450 members will elect a successor for outgoing Chair Jaime Harrison on Feb. 1. The four declared candidates—Ken Martin, Democratic chair in Minnesota and DNC vice chair; Martin O’Malley, former Maryland governor and current Social Security administrator; New York state Sen. James Skoufis; and Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party—spoke to the AP this week in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they were making their pitch in public and private at a meeting of state Democratic chairs. Here’s a sampling of their responses.

Should Joe Biden have dropped out of the presidential race sooner?

  • Martin: “To me it’s an academic exercise. You can’t change the past. So for us, it’s really about what lessons can we draw right now that can inform the future.”
  • O’Malley: “I don’t know. You guys playing this DC parlor game on me, I’m not going to engage in that. Sorry.”
  • Skoufis: “Yes. A 107-day runway made for an exceptionally difficult set of circumstances. And it was clear to most Democrats at the time that President Biden was not well-situated to run for reelection. And if dropping out sooner would have meant a primary, so be it. Vice President Harris, I’m very confident, still would have likely been the nominee if there was a primary. She would have been a stronger nominee with that longer runway.”
  • Wikler: “My campaign slogan is ‘Unite, fight, win.’ And to me, uniting means a reckoning with how we can adapt to do better, but not recriminations about different things in the past.”

How do Democrats do better with Latino voters, particularly Latino men?

  • Martin: “Every hot take right now that we see is completely garbage. It’s just hogwash because it’s not based in any research. … We don’t know what universes we targeted and how we were talking to the Latino community. … All of that has to be on the table to really figure out, what did we do, where were the gaps, how did we fall down?”
  • O’Malley: “I may sound like a broken record, but I really do believe it is the economic issues. It is the union jobs, living wages, opportunity for all … Too many people heard ‘defending America, defending democracy,’ and they thought this meant defending the status quo.”
  • Skoufis: “I think it’s showing up. We have to stop speaking in overly academic terms. Sometimes young voters in particular look at us and they think that we ought to be better running for chancellor of a small liberal arts college rather than public office.”
  • Wikler: “Most Latino voters, most Black voters, most white voters are working-class folks who have many issues that they care about. But all those issues take a back seat to the core question of whether you can keep a roof over your head and food on your table and make sure your kids have clothes to wear to school. The thing that Democrats have the chance to do is … to show that we’re on the side of those working folks.”
  • More here from the four current candidates, including on whether they think Vice President Kamala Harris spent too much time courting GOP voters.

All good responses but they sound like the normal responses given by Dems…..idle promises that never seem to matter once they are in control and pass us peasants by.

The party needs fresh blood and these guys are closing in on their ‘use by’ date.

Until they start producing for the working class they will always be the ‘also rans’…..in other words….LOSERS!

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Where O Where Can A Leader Be Found?

For decades now the American people have been looking for a real leader….instead we get mouth pieces for the monied few and the people have been pushed aside in the name of ‘progress’…..but sadly there is no ‘progress’ just continuing inequality and injustice.

America is divided. Partisanship is on the rise, and compromise is on the decline. Problems are getting worse instead of solved. The parties are fighting for power and rewarding loyalists. One presidential candidate is out for revenge, one struggles to read a teleprompter and a third has a brain worm.  

Americans are begging for real leadership.  

Too often, power is a chess game played by the political parties in charge, and too often, citizens are treated like pawns. Politicians point the finger at the other side to get a win for themselves, and voters are tired of that. 

Average voters have checked out because they don’t believe anything can change. They have watched the debt rise and the border be invaded — all because it’s more politically lucrative for those in power. It’s easier to fundraise off saving democracy than to actually do it. If America is serious about solving these and other problems, then Americans need to have a serious conversation about reform. 

Political power functions more efficiently through a small sphere; thus, political parties concentrate power to advance their agenda. However, our founders designed the American republic with an “extended sphere” to “take in a greater variety of parties and interests.” This makes it “less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.” However, the concentration of power makes it easier for wealthy and corrupt factions to manipulate the spheres of government.  

We live in an age of Spoiled Power, which has cast aside our system of checks and balances, designed to protect individual liberty and national sovereignty. Years of power politics have left our chessboard without the proper pieces to defend the people from anarchy or authoritarianism. The executive and judicial branches are bloated, and the legislative branch weakened. In Congress, power has become concentrated in the party leaders, the House Speaker, and the Senate majority leader. The states’ power is limited by the 17th Amendment, and the people’s power is limited to the few by the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. 

A spoiled patronage system is the fatal disease of a republic, but America has been infected before and survived. 

Historically, problems fester under the surface for years until they rise to infect the political mainstream. It starts with a small group of people educating one generation and then multiplies in the next generation, much like today. The modern spoiled system has been written about in books like “Act of Congress” and “Filthy Rich Politicians.” A generation of people including Phillip Wallach and Kevin Kosar have written about reform. If Americans are serious about self-government, now is the time to show it.

The beauty of our republic is that it runs on a multiplicity of small spheres. Staffed effectively with virtuous Americans, it’s the strongest form of government. Americans are thoughtful, hardworking intelligent people. The system of spoiled power, however, does not encourage America’s best to be politically active. This means we are not sending our best and brightest to Washington.  

Serious politicians should discuss reforming our republic. Citizens should demand it. As fictitious Madman Don Draper said, “If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.” 

(thehill.com)

I am sorry to say but I think the days of strong leadership is long gone….today it is weak leaders that are the beck and call of wealthy donors….the peasants are no long calling the shots.

I agree we need strong leadership….but where will we find such a person….in Biden?  Or in Trump?

There are your choices and sad choices they are.

More to come!

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When Is Old Too Old?

We have a president that looks fragile and slow….we have the Senate majority leader who has had a couple of brain farts at news conferences…..the there is Feinstein, the oldest member of the Senate who is having health issues and cognitive brain farts…… these ‘leaders’ (I use the term loosely) are showing their age and their fragility……and now word has come out that Pelosi will stand for re-election….she is 83….

Nancy Pelosi may be well above the median age (58) for members of the House of Representatives, but the 83-year-old Democratic congresswoman has no intentions of leaving anytime soon. Although the former speaker stepped away from any possible leadership post in Congress last fall, Pelosi announced Friday that she plans to run for reelection for her House seat next year, reports the Hill. “Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery,” she wrote Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with liberty and justice for ALL,” she added. “That is why I am running for reelection—and respectfully ask for your vote.” Politico notes that Pelosi’s reelection run would “[extend] a 36-year House career and [freeze] her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.” Per the AP, Pelosi was first elected to the House in 1987 and became the first female House speaker in 2007. She became speaker once again in 2019, a role she served in until last January.

Too damn old!

Time for all these old farts to move aside and let younger leaders step into the fray.

Even so-called liberals are too damn conservative…..we have no leadership on the Left where great ideas come from and then go to Congress and die an agonizing death.

Time for that to change!

Thoughts?

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McConnell And Democratic Centralism

I have often said that the US Senate is where great bills go to die…….and for the past decade it is more so than normal under the leadership of McConnell….but now the GOP Senate seems to be practicing ‘democratic centralism’…….

What is that?

Democratic centralism is a practice in which political decisions reached by voting processes are binding upon all members of the political party.

“The fundamental system of the Party is democratic centralism, which emphasizes both democracy and centralism. We pursue the goal of combining the two systems together, which neither overstresses democracy to suppress centralism, nor the other way around.”

… stipulates that if individuals hold different opinions, they can keep the differences to themselves but must obey the Party’s decision in action. 

Does that sound familiar in any way?

It should.

Looks like McConnell after demonizing Dems as socialist is taking a page from the playbook of Lenin.

  • That all directing bodies of the Party, from top to bottom, shall be elected.
  • That Party bodies shall give periodical accounts of their activities to their respective Party organizations.
  • That there shall be strict Party discipline and the subordination of the minority to the majority.
  • That all decisions of higher bodies shall be absolutely binding on lower bodies and on all Party members.

The members must fall into line and do what the party leadership tells it to do…..and those supposed individual loving party stooges do as they are told….no one wants to go against leadership for it could be disastrous to their long careers within the party.

Look at recent events…..McConnell has said that the main function of the GOP in the Senate is to thwart the Biden agenda…and the expects ALL GOP Senators to follow his lead and to vote against it all.

Before the fur starts to fly.  I am NOT calling McConnell a Leninist….all I am doing is pointing out the similarities between DC and the McConnell agenda.

Suggested Reading:

View at Medium.com

https://quizlet.com/246838121/chapter-6-democratic-centralism-flash-cards/

Democratic Centralism in Practice and Idea: A Critical Evaluation

But do not take my word for this situation….

When then-President Donald Trump called for mandatory “patriotic education” for all U.S. students in September 2020, Susan Rice (former national security adviser under the Obama Administration) slammed his authoritarian idea as profoundly unamerican and told CNN’s Erin Burnett, “I thought I was listening to Mao Tse Tung running Communist China.” Rice, however, isn’t the only one who sees parallels between Trumpism and the regime in Beijing. Never Trump conservative Max Boot, in a scathing Washington Post column published on July 5, argues that the Republican push to abolish the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools and replace it with “patriotic education” is exactly the type of thing the Chinese Communist Party would do.

“Woe to any person in China who challenges the official version of the past; that is a crime for which you can be sent to prison,” Boot explains. “The United States is different. We are a free country where nothing is off-limits. We can talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. Can’t we? Yes, we can — but Republicans are doing their level best to change that. How ironic that the GOP, which claims to be the ‘tough on China’ party, wants to make America more like China. As the party of white America, Republicans seek their own political legitimacy from history by trying to minimize the impact of racism.”

https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/conservative-explains-why-the-trumpified-gop-now-resembles-the-authoritarian-communist-party-of-china/

Independent thinking is sadly missing these days.

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Will Dems Slap Down McConnell?

Minority Senate GOP leader has been very vocal and threatening to the Dems over their policies……and most seem to think he can make good on his lame ass threats.

So what can the Dems do?

well a long forgotten obscure rule could be their answer……

According to a report from Politico’s Playbook, aides to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have found an obscure rule dating back to 1974 that will allow Democrats to fund President Joe Biden’s policy initiatives in such a manner that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) can’t filibuster them.

As the report notes, Congress can only use budget reconciliation once each fiscal year to fund projects with 51 votes instead of 60. Having already done so this — using reconciliation left over from fiscal year 2021 — for the passage of Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid package that the GOP turned its collective back on, Democrats would normally have to wait until next year to use reconciliation to fund infrastructure needs and social welfare initiatives.

However, according to Politico, Schumer believes he now can get the funding based on an obscure rule in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

“What if, buried in the rules of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, there were a magical parliamentary trick that Democrats could use to unlock a third reconciliation bill this year?” the Politico report states. “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer believes he has found it. It’s called Section 304, and you’re about to start hearing about it a lot. This section of the law that governs the congressional budgeting process essentially says that Congress may revisit and amend an already-passed budget resolution, like the one used to pass the Covid relief package. Or at least that’s what Schumer aides are arguing.”

https://www.rawstory.com/mcconnell-filibuster-2651243380/

I say do what you must to get the agenda passed those obstructionists in the GOP and the cowards that follow them in the Dem Party.

Made my thoughts known recently on the so-called filibuster…..

Kill The Filibuster

Can Policies Change?

We need something tom get bills through those Senatorial antics…..

Do what you must!

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DNC–The Idiocy Of Perez

The head of the DNC is a Clintonian slug and I have not thought he would do anything to help Dems get elected…..and in 2020 it has been proven in Iowa…..

Perez has weighed in on the caucuses in Iowa and the chaos it has given birth to……

The chairman of the Democratic National Committee called on Thursday for a “recanvass” of the results of Monday’s Iowa caucus, which was marred by technical problems and delays, per the AP. ”Enough is enough,” party leader Tom Perez wrote on Twitter. He said he was calling for the recanvass in order to “assure public confidence in the results.” With 97% of precincts reporting, Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are nearly tied. The Hill explains that a recanvass is different from a recount: It would require “a hand audit of caucus math worksheets and reporting forms to ensure they were properly tallied and reported.” Perez still wants results to be reported in the interim.

The caucus crisis is an embarrassing twist for state party officials after months of promoting Iowa as a chance for Democrats to find some clarity in a jumbled field. Instead, after a buildup that featured seven rounds of debates, nearly $1 billion spent nationwide, and a year of political jockeying, caucus day ended with no winner and no official results. At issue is an app that the Iowa Democratic Party used to tabulate the results of the contest. The app was rolled out shortly before caucusing began and did not go through rigorous testing. A coding error yielded problematic results Monday. And backup phone lines for reporting the outcomes were jammed, with many placed on hold for hours in order to report outcomes.

The chaos has petitions being passed around to Perez to step down….it may not be his fault directly but he is the head of the DNC so he has to fall on his sword for the good of the party.  But will he?

Calls for Tom Perez to step down as the head of the Democratic National Committee grew louder Tuesday in the aftermath of the Iowa caucus fiasco in which party mismanagement of the process delayed the results from Monday night’s contest and left the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in disarray.

“The Iowa caucus debacle is so insulting to the candidates, their volunteers, the caucus-goers, and the DNC’s own process,” tweeted HuffPost senior reporter Zach Carter. “Tom Perez has to resign.”

Multiple petitions on Change.org called on Perez to relinquish his position as chair of the DNC. One of the most popular ones had over 13,600 signatures at press time. #ResignTomPerez trended on Twitter overnight. 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/04/tomperezresign-dnc-chair-under-fire-iowa-disaster-favoritism-billionaire-oligarch

I agree Perez needs to go….I never thought he would do anything good for the party except keep the party glued to corporations…the same thing Clinton made “popular”…..

I read a letter by a self-identified as a centrist…asking Perez to do the right thing and step down…..

Dear DNC officials:

I come from a long line of Democrats. My grandparents survived the Great Depression because of FDR’s New Deal, and both of my parents were loyal Democrats as well. In my adult lifetime, I proudly registered as a Democrat at age 18, in the 1990s. Since then, I have become extremely disillusioned, watching the Democratic Party become more and more corporate-funded and corporate-aligned to the point where I do not recognize it anymore.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/04/open-letter-dnc-american-centrist

Perez needs to go before the elections get into full swing…..but sadly we are saddled with him….and sadly he will lead Dems to defeat in November.

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Mitch, You Devil

This post is about the Senate’s majority leader. Mitch McConnell…..his actions during the impeachment trial of Trump leaves lots to desire…but that is for a future post (maybe)……

I have said on numerous occasions and posts that the GOP is excellent at politics….and for that I tip my hat….respect for their tactics…..and Mitch has shown just how masterful he can be as well…..

It’s not a sure thing, but the smart money says the Senate is poised to acquit President Trump of impeachment charges without calling witnesses. That became clear after GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, whose vote was said to be in question, announced that he did not want to hear new testimony. At CNN, Chris Cillizza points out this means the trial might be wrapped up before Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 4, and he gives Mitch McConnell all the credit for orchestrating this political feat. This outcome “was unthinkable 10 days ago and is a testament to McConnell’s skills as a persuader and vote-counting virtuoso,” he writes. Cillizza recounts the strategy, beginning with McConnell’s “power play” move to go ahead with the trial with no guarantees on witnesses.

As the trial progressed, McConnell kept a low profile, but Cillizza likens him to a duck—placid on the surface but paddling furiously below water. He persuaded enough GOP senators, especially vulnerable ones, that allowing witnesses would prolong the trial and cause more them harm in the long run. And then there was the Alexander factor. The Tennessee senator is a longtime friend of McConnell’s. At Mediaite, John Ziegler thinks the whole will-he-or-won’t-he drama was a McConnell charade believed by gullible reporters. “It was always clear that McConnell was setting Alexander up for the role of the guy who, after careful and considerable contemplation, decided that it was somehow in the best interest of the country for Trump’s impeachment trial to be the first in history to not have witnesses.” But there was never any chance Alexander would vote otherwise, he adds. Read Ziegler’s full column here, and Cillizza’s full column here.

This whole Senatorial affair has been brilliantly played….my hat is off to Mitch.

But it is a cesspool of nonsense masquerading as a “fair trial”….that stated…..well done Mitch!

Then there is the Supreme Court thing in this trial…..

The Senate vote Friday against permitting more testimony or documents in the impeachment trial did more than put President Trump on the fast track to acquittal, Nancy Pelosi says; it forced John Roberts into a bad place. “It is a sad day for America to see Senator McConnell humiliate the Chief Justice of the United States into presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s judicial norms, precedents and institutions which uphold the Constitution and the rule of law,” she tweeted on Saturday. The 51 votes against witnesses all came from Republicans, NBC reports, including Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. Had the Senate vote been 50-50, Roberts could have stepped in to break the tie. The chief justice ruled that out Friday, saying, “I think it would be inappropriate.”

Two other senators alluded to the awkwardness for Roberts. In announcing Friday that she was voting against witnesses, Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said she didn’t want to “drag the Supreme Court into the fray.” The day before, Democrat Elizabeth Warren asked about the effect of the trial on the judiciary, per the Hill, saying that many Americans lack faith in their government. “Does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?” she asked.

I have said many many times….”Dems have great ideas but suck at politics”….and this whole impeachment thing has proved my point.

One last note about Mitch….recently the Dems have started calling him “Moscow Mitch”….a title I thought was a bit childish….but now with more information it may well be a good call….

McConnell recently voted to drop sanctions against Russian aluminum company RusAl which is still owned by one of Vladimir Putin’s sanctioned oligarchs, Oleg Deripaska. His action directly benefits one of the GOP leader’s major donors, whose fortune comes from Russian oil.

The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC run by Sen. McConnell’s former Chief of Staff, received a total of $3,500,000 ($2,500,000 in 2016 and $1,000,000 in 2017) via Access Industries and a subsidiary. Len Blavatnik is a Russian oligarch with US and UK citizenship who owns Access Industries and donated to Sen. McConnell’s 2016 Senate campaign vehicles.

Blavatnik’s Access Industries made many of its billions from Putin’s decisions about its Russian oil partnership. He is also a long-term business partner of Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska at RuSal, in which he is a major investor, as well as Viktor Vekselberg, who is entangled with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen through his U.S. family office Columbus Nova.

View at Medium.com

It all comes down to where his loyalties lie…..money can be a powerful motivator…..and buys a lot of loyalty…..no matter the party.

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Closing Thought–14Aug19

If you ever needed proof that this White House is manned by racists and bigots look NO further than Ken “The Cooch” Cuccinelli….his latest words…..(nickname is self-explanatory)

A major change to US immigration law unveiled on Monday has drawn attention to the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty that welcomes the “huddled masses” to US shores. The new law will favor would-be citizens who can step right into a job over those who might need federal assistance. That being the case, Rachel Martin of NPR asked Ken Cuccinelli—acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services—whether the poem still applies. “Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus’s words etched on the Statue of Liberty, ‘Give me your tired, give me your poor,’ are also a part of the American ethos?” she asked. “They certainly are,” said Cuccinelli, before adding a new twist to the words: “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”

A “public charge” is the government term for those who are a burden to the US, per the AP. “That plaque was put on the Statue of Liberty at almost the same time as the first public charge was passed—very interesting timing,” Cuccinelli added. CBS News notes that he’s a bit off on that: The plaque went up on the already erected statue in 1907, and the first public charge law went into effect in 1882. The issue has come up previously. White House aide and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller was asked about the poem in 2017 while pushing a skills-based immigration system over one that emphasizes family ties. “I don’t want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world,” he said. “The poem that you’re referring to was added later, it’s not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty.”

This is a racist bastard!

He is pathetic and disgusting and should leave NO doubt what this immigration policy is all about…..

To take something so noble as the Statue of Liberty and the poem and pervert it to mean something racist is just the depth of depravity….the sooner we rid the country of these types of leaders the better we will,be as a nation.

It cannot come too soon.

“Lego Ergo Scribo”

 

GOP Gets More Pathetic By The Day

Closing Thought–08May19

The GOP is doing what it does best…LIES!

They need to spend more time trying to govern than trying to belittle everyone that does not agree with them.

With that said the newest BS coming from the Senate’s leader is just a continuation of the comedy they call “leadership”.

Mitch McConnell summed up his view of the Mueller report in two words on Tuesday: “case closed.” The Senate majority leader criticized Democrats for wanting to continue related investigations and issued a plea to “finally end this Groundhog Day spectacle,” reports NBC News. “Remember, Russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in American politics and undermine confidence in our democracy,” McConnell said. “But on that front, given the left’s total fixation on delegitimizing the president—the president Americans chose—and shooting any messenger who tells them inconvenient truths, I’m afraid the Russians hardly needed to lift a finger.”

This is pretty much total bullshit.

I have not heard one person in Congress say they want to overturn the 2016 election….they may believe the he is a criminal and a corrupting influence but they know he is the president…..especially the Dems…..So Mitch is just spreading manure the way he always does……

But Mitchy Boy did what all GOPers do….blame everything on Obama…..

On the Russian angle, McConnell also got in a dig at former President Obama. “Maybe stronger leadership would have left the Kremlin less emboldened,” he said. “Maybe tampering with our democracy wouldn’t have seemed so very tempting.”

My one question is…has Mitch read the report? The entire unredacted report? (My guess is he has not and will not for he is a COWARD)

Silly political theater…but then I expect that from politicians…ALL politicians

Was it over when the Benghazi investigation found nothing?  Was it nothing  about the Clinton emails?  These were the same were the same things they are accusing the Dems of doing…..but you see the GOP does stuff it is for the good of the country (read party) and not so when the Dems do something similar……that is as simple as I can break this stupidity down.

The GOP no longer has a soul…..not all it is the enabler of an imperialistic presidency….PERIOD!

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