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  1. His handlers better get a grip......Next thing he'll be talking about is how he was riding in the limo with Kennedy in Texas one time and some guy started shooting at them. https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/biden-jokes-about-trump-being-crushed-by-debt-after-ex-prezs-net-worth-soars-to-6-4b/ Biden jokes about Trump being ‘crushed by debt’ after the former president’s net worth soars to $6.4B
  2. Still waiting for the sane in the country to show up......When the current President piles on in front of his supporters but his comments are covered up by by his propaganda machine (main street media) it absolutely screams "Banana Republic".....This is just a frickin game to the Democrat Party and their ilk..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13219965/trump-bond-james-new-york-fraud-josh-hammer.html Nothing's better for Republican unity than Democratic lunacy! Biden and the Left are salivating at the chance of bankrupting Trump, but JOSH HAMMER reveals why the $454M ruling against Donald will end up costing THEM dearly By JOSH HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM The clock is ticking for Donald Trump to secure a $454 million bond by Monday or have his assets seized by New York Attorney General Letitia James - and liberals can't contain their glee. 'You-know-who says he cannot come up with the cash,' gushed Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View ' Wednesday. President Joe Biden couldn't resist twisting the knife when he spoke at a Democrat fundraiser Wednesday night 'Just the other day this defeated looking man came up to me and said: "Mr. President I need your help. I'm in crushing debt. I'm completely wiped out,"' Biden joked. His punchline: 'Donald, I'm sorry. I can't help you.' The crowd roared. Isn't it hysterical when the legal system targets your opponent? In February, a state Supreme Court ordered Trump to pay the giant penalty after he and the Trump Organization were found to have falsified financial statements, and misled banks and insurance companies. Now, the former president is being blocked by the Democrat AG from appealing the ruling until he pays up – and you'd think Christmas came early for the Left. 'I can't believe it,' chuckled Mika Brzezinski on her MSNBC show. Brzezinski was joined by former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies in the hoax Russian collusion investigation. You won't be shocked to hear that he fears — wait for it! — more Kremlin interference. 'Everyone's national security concern is that there will be somebody, just hypothetically, like a… Russian oligarch who thinks this is a very good investment [and bails Trump out], he said. 'No one wants to lend [Trump] the money in this country,' chirped 'The View' co-host Joy Behar. 'Who knows what will happen with Russia and Saudi Arabia…' It's Russia, Russia, Russia and 2016 all over again. Trump can't secure this gargantuan bond. No insurance company is in the business of taking real estate as collateral. So, he's in a tough spot and Democrats believe their lawfare has finally drawn blood. 'I can't wait to see the chains on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. I'm kind of excited about it,' squealed 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. How foolish. What these unhinged Leftists don't understand – and never will – is that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Nothing's better for Republican unity than Democratic lunacy. If anything will convince stubborn Never-Trumpers to overcome their misgivings and vote for the ex-president this November, it's this brazen, extra-legal, nation-destroying madness. Yes, it appears Trump inflated his assets. And fraud is never acceptable. But it is nearly half-a-billion dollars bad? Put this penalty in perspective — Bitcoin fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was $250 million. Trump's in a tough spot and Democrats believe their lawfare has finally drawn blood. 'I can't wait to see the chains on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. I'm kind of excited about it,' squealed 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. And that was for a criminal, not a civil case like Trump's. Notorious Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's bail was initially set at $10 million—and prosecutors eased the terms after he failed to secure it. Those men were potential flight risks who harmed real victims. They deserved a burdensome bail. But Trump is running for President, so he's not fleeing anywhere. And there are no victims in this supposed crime of the century. No financial institution lost money lending to the Trump Organization – and no one claimed to have been deceived, let alone 'defrauded,' by the Trump Organization. What's more, apparently all major real estate players juice their assets to secure favorable loans. Don't just take it from me. Here's 'Mr. Wonderful' Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, himself: 'If we're going to [fine Trump], let's penalize all the developers all across America. They've all done the same thing,' he said last month. 'All of them should go to jail and we should stop building buildings.' 'I would never invest in New York now,' declared O'Leary. 'And I'm not the only person saying that.' A spooked New York Governor Kathy Hochul tried her best at damage control – but blundered into saying the quiet part out loud. 'This is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are businesspeople have nothing to worry about because they're very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,' she told a New York radio station. You see, Trump was prosecuted because he's Donald Trump. As long as New Yorkers don't threaten the Democratic establishment – they'll be safe, says the governor. It's official, we've gone full-blown banana republic! No financial institution lost money lending to the Trump Organization – and no one claimed to have been deceived, let alone 'defrauded,' by the Trump Organization. New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron denies Trump a jury trial, then assumes full control of the case and concludes mid-trial that Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate is worth as little as a laughable $18 million. And it gets worse. During Tish James's 2018 campaign for AG, she vowed to pursue Trump, calling him an 'illegitimate president.' Did anyone not think the fix was in the moment she filed the lawsuit? Then, there's this judge, New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. First, he denies Trump a jury trial, then assumes full control of the case and concludes mid-trial that Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate is worth as little as a laughable $18 million. Your Honor, have you ever taken a spin through Palm Beach on Zillow? Empty lots are going for $200 million. If your Spidey-sense is going off, it's not just you. During Tish James's 2018 campaign for AG, she vowed to pursue Trump, calling him an 'illegitimate president.' Did anyone not think the fix was in the moment she filed the lawsuit? In New York, there's no bail for murderous thugs who roam the streets of the Big Apple. Yet a Republican presidential candidate, leading in the polls against Uncle Joe, gets no such mercy. Folks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and other crime-ravaged NYC neighborhoods would love to see that reversed. No one can earnestly look at what's been done to Trump and see anything other than a vindictive witch hunt – and America is watching. Who wants to live in a country where you're targeted by the all-powerful state simply for holding the 'wrong' opinions? Never-Trumpers and supporters of Nikki Haley have a choice this November: It's either Trump or these vicious leftists, who'll stop at nothing to injure their political opponents. It won't be a hard choice.
  3. There's no crisis at the border......Especially when you just "fail" to file the paperwork..... https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/200000-migrant-deportation-cases-tossed-because-biden-administration-didnt-file-paperwork/ Immigration judges dismissed deportation cases against some 200,000 migrants under President Biden because the Department of Homeland Security failed to file the required paperwork before their court dates, according to a new report. The DHS’s failure to file thousands of notices to appear before scheduled hearing dates left courts without jurisdiction to handle deportation cases and rule on asylum claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. “These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the TRAC report, which includes data through February 2024, states. The nonpartisan research organization called it “troubling” that there was an “almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred.” “Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases,” the report notes. Notices to appear, or NTAs, are issued when migrants are apprehended illegally crossing the border into the US. Migrants claiming asylum are assigned a hearing date — often years in advance — where they are offered the opportunity to explain to an immigration judge why they shouldn’t be deported. But the NTA must also be filed with the court where the individual is told to appear for the hearing to take place. “Almost all Immigration Court cases are removal cases for which DHS must file an NTA for the case to go forward,” the TRAC report explains. Cases dismissed because of NTAs not being filed jumped when Biden took office, from 6,482 in 2020 to 33,802 in 2021. The amount of no NTAs ballooned to 79,592 in 2022 before falling t0 68,869 in 2023. So far in 2024, 10,598 deportation cases have been dismissed because of no NTAs, according to the report. Between 2014 and 2020, less than 1% of deportation cases were dismissed because of NTAs not being filed with courts.
  4. 1 - Term limits clears up a lot. (will never happen though) 2 - Biden won't make it to election day, something will happen. (thoughts of his proxy are scary)
  5. Interesting - So (quietly) AG James (NY) is OK with overvaluing property to entice better loans, except for when someone can actually pay it back......(like the Trump Organization) https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/opinion/an-irish-society-an-unpaid-loan-and-the-hypocrisy-of-letitia-james/ To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, here is a tale of financial shenanigans at the American Irish Historical Society, in which Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James is hoist with her own petard. It involves a grand old building on Fifth Avenue, an unpaid loan, a fading family dynasty, a James Joyce theatrical production which almost ended in fisticuffs, and hypocrisy from the AG as obvious as a glass of green beer. It all began when James Doyle, a wealthy Georgia businessman with a love of his Irish roots, joined the board of the nonprofit Society, whose jewel in the crown is a rare Gilded Age mansion at 991 Fifth Avenue, right across from Central Park and The Met. Over the years, financial mismanagement and misfortune had befallen the Society, and it was facing foreclosure. So, in 2017, the board turned to Doyle for a $3 million loan, structured like a private mortgage. He was told that the Beaux-Arts townhouse was worth $80 million that included valuable air rights. However, the Society only made a few repayments and Doyle soon found things weren’t quite as they seemed. The Society had been dominated for half a century by the Cahill family, and President Emeritus Dr. Kevin Cahill was accused of treating the townhouse as his own “private club,” with one of his four sons, Christopher, becoming its “well-compensated executive director,” according to the New York Times. Christopher earned $88,459 in 2020, and between $134,768 and $179,402 in previous years, according to IRS returns. Cahill, a tropical-disease specialist said to have treated Pope John Paul II after he was shot, reportedly raised the money to renovate the mansion to its former glory when he took over in the 1970s. A stocky man with bushy white eyebrows, he would dress each year in morning coat and Irish tri-color sash to preside over the St. Patrick’s Day parade from its Fifth Avenue balcony. He held a grand annual gala where he would hand out gold medals to the great and the good. Then, in 2019, his son Christopher, then 55, got embroiled in an ugly confrontation with the director of the Irish Repertory Theater, which was staging a play in the townhouse, adapted from the James Joyce short story, “The Dead.” “I’m going to kill you, Ciaran!” yelled Christopher, while lunging at the director after the performance, according to The Times. The Society’s financial woes and dysfunction had reached crisis point by 2021, when Cahill tried to sell the building for $52 million (later reduced to $44 million). He died the following year, and in stepped the New York Attorney General, citing a petition she had received opposing the sale. She announced that, by state law, any sale of a nonprofit asset had to be approved by her, effectively kyboshing the plan. “It’s an amazing place,” James gushed to the Irish Voice. “We had to save it, had to save it … One day people can come in there and enjoy it again.” Which was all very well, but Doyle still was owed $3 million. The AG appointed an interim Board of Directors and Doyle was persuaded not to try to collect his money or foreclose on the mortgage before July 2023. But by August 2023, he still hadn’t been repaid, so he initiated foreclosure proceedings — and promptly was blocked by the AG, who claimed the mortgage was invalid because he was a board member. On Friday, Doyle launched a lawsuit against the Society and requested a subpoena be issued against James requiring her to produce a raft of documents, including anything relating to campaign events hosted at the townhouse or any contributions to her political campaigns from the Society or any of its members or directors. Doyle’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, alleges that James’ enthusiastic involvement in the Doyle case may be driven by “connections with the Defendant.” And he points out the uncanny similarities between his client’s predicament and the notorious case James brought against Donald Trump for supposedly inflating the value of his properties to get a better mortgage, “although her office is now taking a polar opposite position.” The lawsuit alleges that Doyle was given “fraudulently inflated valuations” of the townhouse, putting its market value at over $80 million. Dr. Cahill and the Society’s current President-General, James Normile, “made representations to [Doyle] that the building had ‘air rights’ and could be built, or rebuilt, higher than its current height. “In reality, there were no ‘air rights’ and the actual value is closer to $20 million. [The Society] made a gross over-valuation” of the townhouse, which induced Doyle to make the $3 million loan. “Tish James said, ‘nobody is above the law,’ which should include Tish James, who seems to have actively aided and abetted in the Art of the Steal,” Parlatore told The Post. “This organization fraudulently inflated the value of their building to induce my client into giving them a mortgage which Tish James is now trying to help these fraudsters avoid having to repay. “The theory of fraud Tish James accused the Trump Organization of engaging in is identical to the fraud she is aiding and abetting here.” James has come down on the side of the Society against its lender, Doyle. And yet, in her signature case of People v. Trump, she took the opposite position, holding that “where an organization inflates the value of a property to obtain a loan, that is fraud, even where the lender was aware of the actual value and was paid in full,” Doyle’s lawsuit says. Trump was punished with a $355 million fine. So delighted was James by the verdict last month that she started live-tweeting Trump’s daily interest bill: “+$114,553.04.” Parlatore points out that the Society inflated the value of its property to obtain a loan, just like Trump was accused of doing, but the difference was that Doyle could not conduct the sort of “sophisticated due diligence” that Deutsche Bank did. Therefore, unlike Trump’s lenders, Doyle didn’t know the true value of the townhouse. An even more important difference is that Trump paid back every penny he owed, but the Society never paid back Doyle. As the old Irish proverb says, forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid.
  6. Yeah sure - Lets cut the work week to 32 hours. Then when the majority of people have to take a second job to make up for lost wages, we can call it a win with the increased job growth. No thanks Bernie.....
  7. Atlanta - So the judge will allow only one perjurer to remain on the case, but not both......"Oh Dang" Evidence is such an inconvenience when you are trying to fib your way through something...... “Dang,” Merchant wrote back at the time. “They had a full on relationship.” Bradley, however, tried to backtrack on the stand and said that the text conversation with Merchant was “speculation” — though he was heard muttering, “Oh, dang” when presented with copies of the exchange. https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/georgia-da-fani-willis-can-remain-on-trump-election-fraud-case-judge-rules/ District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on and prosecute the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election — if special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps aside, a judge ruled Friday. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued the decision after deliberating for two weeks following testimony from Willis, Wade and others close to them. In the decision, he noted that the defense had produced evidence of “a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team.” However, he offered a choice, allowing Willis to continue if she drops Wade, with whom she has admitted being romantically involved, from her team. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office … Alternatively, [special attorney] Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case,” McAfee wrote. The allegations charged Willis had become romantically involved with Wade before 2021, when she appointed him special prosecutor in the election interference case, and claimed she benefited financially from his lucrative special prosecutor post when he treated her to luxurious vacations. The relationship was first revealed by Trump co-defendant Mike Roman in a bombshell court filing that said the situation presented a conflict of interest and asked for Willis to be removed from the case. Both Willis and Wade — who only reached a divorce agreement with his wife in January — admitted to the affair, but maintained under oath that the relationship only became official in 2022, after they had already brought the case against the former president and 18 others. Trump, Roman and 13 co-defendants remain actively involved in the case. Four other co-defendants reached plea deals. However, at the hearings into Willis’ conduct, witnesses presented testimony which contradicted the former lovers’ claims. However, at the hearings into Willis’ conduct, witnesses presented testimony which contradicted the former lovers’ claims. McAfee’s ruling was particularly damning of Willis and Wade’s conduct, calling it a “tremendous lapse in judgment” and adding that the defense raised “reasonable questions” about whether the pair had testified truthfully as to the timeline of their relationship. Explaining his decision, McAfee wrote: “The court finds the allegations and evidence legally insufficient to support a finding of an actual conflict of interest” over Willis and Wade’s relationship. However, he also noted that “the appearance of impropriety remains,” making his decision a split ruling, with some of the motions put forward by Trump and his co-defendants “granted in part and denied in part.” Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow was quick to respond: “While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began … We will use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place.” In mid-February, Robin Yeartie — a former DA’s office employee who also claimed to be one of Willis’ longtime friends — testified that she had “no doubt” Willis and Wade were romantically linked as early as 2019. 1857 What do you think? Post a comment. Yeartie said she saw the pair “kissing” and “hugging” at the time. Wade’s former law partner and one-time divorce attorney Terrence Bradley also told Roman’s attorney Ashleigh Merchant in January that the affair “absolutely” started before Wade was appointed to the Trump case. “It started when she left the DA’s office and was judge in South Fulton,” Bradley texted Merchant on Jan. 5, according to records that were referenced in court and later revealed in full on Megyn Kelly’s podcast. Part of the allegations against Willis include that she financially benefited from appointing Wade to the plum role in the Trump case, notably when he paid for her to go on trips with him using cash earned on the job. Bradley seemed to be aware of these excursions, texting to Merchant: “They took many trips to Florida…Texas….California.” “Dang,” Merchant wrote back at the time. “They had a full on relationship.” Bradley, however, tried to backtrack on the stand and said that the text conversation with Merchant was “speculation” — though he was heard muttering, “Oh, dang” when presented with copies of the exchange. During closing arguments, Sadow pointed out that Willis and Wade purposely concealed their relationship until it was revealed in court in January.
  8. The latest update to this almost forgotten story. FINALLY prosecutors are going after the sources of where the firearms were actually (illegally) purchased. 12 people pulled guns that day and 6 of them pulled triggers. I question how (at least 2 people) brought "AR-15" style rifles into a crowd like we saw. Specifically SF wants to point out the number of times this article utilizes the word "illegal". This means these thugs already broke existing laws simply to obtain the weapons they weren't lawfully able to purchase, then broke more laws by carrying them on their person, then broke more laws by actually shooting them. In other words, we don't need MORE gun laws, we simply need to enforce the laws on the books and execute prosecution when they are broke. The case in Michigan where the parents are being charged for buying their mentally ill kid a handgun, then not being responsible enough to secure it and keep their son from carrying it to school and murdering other kids is finally the start (SF hopes) of many more. https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-kansas-city-parade-57662b493b2d987288dabca4bc5fd6f1 Three Missouri men have been charged with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and guns with extended magazines after last month’s shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally left one person dead, roughly two dozen others injured and sent hundreds of people scrambling for cover, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Court documents unsealed Wednesday said 12 people brandished firearms and at least six people fired weapons at the Feb. 14 rally, which drew an estimated 1 million people to downtown Kansas City. The guns found at the scene included at least two AR-15-style rifles, court documents said. And U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore said in a news release that at least two of the guns recovered from the scene were illegally purchased. The federal charges come three weeks after state authorities charged two other men, Lyndell Mays and Dominic Miller, with second-degree murder and several weapons counts for the shootings. Authorities also last month detained two juveniles on gun-related and resisting arrest charges. Police said the shooting happened when one group of people confronted another for staring at them. Authorities have said a bullet from Miller’s gun killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was in a nearby crowd of people watching the rally. She was a mother of two and the host of a local radio program called “Taste of Tejano.” The people injured range in age from 8 to 47, according to police. Named in the new federal charges were 22-year-old Fedo Antonia Manning, Ronnel Dewayne Williams Jr., 21, and Chaelyn Hendrick Groves, 19, all from Kansas City. Manning is charged with one count each of conspiracy to traffic firearms and engaging in firearm sales without a license, and 10 counts of making a false statement on a federal form. Williams and Groves are charged with making false statements in the acquisition of firearms, and lying to a federal agent. According to online court records, Manning made his initial appearance Wednesday. He did not have an attorney listed, but asked that one be appointed for him. The online court record for Williams and Groves also did not list any attorneys to comment on their behalf. A phone call to the federal public defender’s office in Kansas City on Wednesday went unanswered. The new complaints made public Wednesday do not allege that the men were among the shooters. Instead, they are accused of involvement in straw purchases and trafficking firearms. “Stopping straw buyers and preventing illegal firearms trafficking is our first line of defense against gun violence,” Moore said in the news release. Federal prosecutors said that one weapon recovered at the rally scene was an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 .223-caliber pistol, found along a wall with a backpack next to two AR-15-style firearms and a backpack. The release said the firearm was in the “fire” position with 26 rounds in a magazine capable of holding 30 rounds — meaning some rounds may have been fired from it. The affidavit stated that Manning bought the AM-15 from a gun store in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a Kansas City suburb, on Aug. 7, 2022. It accuses him of illegally trafficking dozens of firearms, including many AM-15s.
  9. The original "All By Myself" artist........ https://www.wndu.com/2024/03/12/eric-carmen-raspberries-frontman-all-by-myself-singer-dies-74/?fbclid=IwAR3GuuDLq99WTTjn5hxka9qnIWlRjjaksJBhZ9fuE9UEFrXG33J-KOnDByE (Gray News) - Eric Carmen, frontman for the pop rock band the Raspberries, has died at 74, his family announced. Carmen’s wife Amy confirmed the news with a statement on the singer’s official website. “It is with tremendous sadness that we share the heartbreaking news of the passing of Eric Carmen. Our sweet, loving and talented Eric passed away in his sleep, over the weekend. It brought him great joy to know, that for decades, his music touched so many and will be his lasting legacy. Please respect the family’s privacy as we mourn our enormous loss. ‘Love Is All That Matters...Faithful and Forever.’” Carmen’s cause of death has not been released. Carmen was born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland and gained fame as the frontman of the Raspberries and as a solo artist in the ‘70s and ‘80s. “All by Myself”, a single from his debut album, reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 1 million copies before it was certified gold by the The Recording Industry Association of America. “Hungry Eyes,” which was featured on the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack, peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
  10. Nothing will change in DC until congressional term limits are put in place.
  11. John Kerry claimed that people would "feel better" about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would "make a greater effort to reduce emissions." Scary to think this guy was once (kinda) close to being our President....... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-says-people-feel-better-about-ukraine-war-russia-reduce-emissions?fbclid=IwAR1oRgSm8MwmMpxivaQ-ye883M74oB7gt9nsB-6gdheDmBgm6SMnDXedeRw Outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry claimed that people would "feel better" about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would "make a greater effort to reduce emissions." "If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now," Kerry said during a foreign press briefing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his last as the SPEC, as he departed from the position Wednesday to reportedly join President Biden's presidential re-election campaign. "Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time," he said.
  12. Nikki Haley will not be down for breakfast......Now comes the head-to-head rematch New thread time - where SF wonders how long Biden is going to last in this race before the DNC removes him.......Will he last until the convention? Will he ever debate Trump? Trump has already shifted his focus on Biden and time will tell how ugly it's going to get. Border, Inflation, Age, Abortion, Climate, January 6, Russia/Ukraine, Middle East. SF just got a new popcorn popper and am getting ready to use it! https://www.wndu.com/2024/03/06/nikki-haley-campaign-pushed-brink-after-super-tuesday-trouncing/ NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead, she encouraged him to earn the support of the coalition of moderate Republicans and independent voters who supported her. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that,” she said. “At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people.” Haley, a former South Carolina governor and former U.N. ambassador, was Trump’s first significant rival when she jumped into the race in February 2023. She spent the final phase of her campaign aggressively warning the GOP against embracing Trump, whom she argued was too consumed by chaos and personal grievance to defeat President Joe Biden in the general election. Her departure clears Trump to focus solely on his likely rematch in November with Biden. The former president is on track to reach the necessary 1,215 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination later this month. Haley’s defeat marks a painful, if predictable, blow to those voters, donors and Republican Party officials who opposed Trump and his fiery brand of “Make America Great Again” politics. She was especially popular among moderates and college-educated voters, constituencies that will likely play a pivotal role in the general election. It’s unclear whether Trump, who recently declared that Haley donors would be permanently banned from his movement, can ultimately unify a deeply divided party. Trump on Tuesday night declared that the GOP was united behind him, but in a statement shortly afterward, Haley spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said, “Unity is not achieved by simply claiming, ‘We’re united.’” “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump,” Perez-Cubas said. “That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better.” Haley has made clear she doesn’t want to serve as Trump’s vice president or run on a third-party ticket arranged by the group No Labels. She leaves the race with an elevated national profile that could help her in a future presidential run. By staying in the campaign, Haley drew enough support from suburbanites and college-educated voters to highlight Trump’s apparent weaknesses with those groups. In AP VoteCast surveys conducted among Republican primary and caucus voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, between 61% and 76% of Haley’s supporters said they would be so dissatisfied if Trump became the GOP nominee that they wouldn’t vote for him in the November general election. Voters in the early Republican head-to-head contests who said they wouldn’t vote for Trump in the fall represented a small but significant segment of the electorate: 2 in 10 Iowa voters, one-third of New Hampshire voters, and one-quarter of South Carolina voters. Haley leaves the 2024 presidential contest having made history as the first woman to win a Republican primary contest. She beat Trump in the District of Columbia on Sunday and in Vermont on Tuesday. She had insisted she would stay in the race through Super Tuesday and crossed the country campaigning in states holding Republican contests. Ultimately, she was unable to knock Trump off his glide path to a third straight nomination. Haley’s allies note that she exceeded most of the political world’s expectations by making it as far as she did. She had initially ruled out running against Trump in 2024. But she changed her mind and ended up launching her bid three months after he did, citing among other things the country’s economic troubles and the need for “generational change.” Haley, 52, later called for competency tests for politicians over the age of 75 — a knock on both Trump, who is 77, and Biden, who is 81. Her candidacy was slow to attract donors and support, but she ultimately outlasted all of her other GOP rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott, her fellow South Carolinian whom she appointed to the Senate in 2012. And the money flowed in until the very end. Her campaign said it raised more than $12 million in February alone. She gained popularity with many Republican donors, independent voters and the so-called “Never Trump” crowd, even though she criticized the criminal cases against him as politically motivated and pledged that, if president, she would pardon him if he were convicted in federal court
  13. The views on voter ID laws from white folk at Berkley and black folk from Harlem. Very interesting comparison. My favorite line "Who don't have ID? That's ignorant to say we don't have ID" - "Who these people talking to?".
  14. Can anyone anymore even be the least bit unconvinced the Biden family, led by "The Big Guy" Joe, was complicit in this corruption? This is about to come out as fact and may be the catalyst that ends the Biden Presidency. https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/hunter-biden-helped-hire-aides-who-mishandled-joes-classified-documents/ Within hours of the release of a special prosecutor’s report finding he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen, President Biden rushed to the White House podium to blame his former “staff.” “I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,” the president maintained. Like Biden, these staffers have avoided any criminal charges. Who are they? Without identifying them by name, special counsel Robert Hur narrowed the suspects to two former aides: “Executive Assistant” and “Staff Assistant 3.” He said they gathered up more than 180 classified records totaling more than 600 pages and packed them into 15 boxes as Biden left the White House in January 2017. Gatekeepers Documents confirm that the staffers in question are Kathy S. Chung, who worked with Hunter Biden at the Commerce Department, and Anne Marie Muldoon, nee Person, who worked for him at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a key pass-through for foreign wire payments to Hunter Biden. Chung and Muldoon were the two most important people in Joe Biden’s office suite. They were the gatekeepers who controlled the front office that adjoined his West Wing office, and they stored his classified papers in file cabinets and in his safe. Biden trusted them implicitly since they came to him on the recommendation of his son Hunter. In effect, it was Hunter who placed them in their sensitive posts inside the White House, where they had unfettered access to “the most highly classified, sensitive, and compartmented materials recovered during our investigation,” Hur noted in his report. And they continued to communicate with Hunter throughout their tenure in his father’s office, assisting his foreign business schemes, according to emails obtained from his abandoned laptop and from the National Archives. Recommended Hunter got his old Commerce colleague Chung her White House job in 2012, the year before Hunter traveled with the vice president on Air Force Two to Beijing to seal a lucrative investment deal with the Chinese. Chung booked the trip, records show. The executive assistant post opened up in his father’s office in May 2012, and Hunter proposed his old chum take it. He described the job as replacing the “primary gatekeeper for the VP [and the] conduit everyone goes through to get to [Joe Biden].” In addition, she’d handle “all personal stuff” for the vice president, according to Hunter’s email to Chung. That meant, as it turned out, acting as the custodian of all of Biden’s White House records, including classified material. Chung was thrilled to be considered for the position, which required Top Secret security clearance — “Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” she emailed Hunter — and agreed to an interview. “I just met with your Dad again and he officially offered me the job,” she gushed in a June 13, 2012, email to Hunter. “I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this.” Then in mid-2014, Hunter recommended Muldoon for the job of Chung’s assistant. At the time, she was working as Hunter’s aide at Rosemont Seneca. Her husband, Mike Muldoon, had also worked for Hunter at Rosemont Seneca years earlier. Family business Records show Chung and Muldoon still arranged overseas trips for Hunter Biden and his Rosemont partners while working in VP Biden’s office. They sent and received hundreds of emails with Hunter and Rosemont. Between July 2012 (when Chung came aboard) and April 2015, the latest data available, Rosemont Seneca shows up in a whopping 921 emails generated from the vice president’s office, according to a recent partial release of Vice President Biden’s records by the National Archives concerning “Hunter Biden, James Biden and their foreign business dealings.” The records reveal that, among other things, Chung and Muldoon fielded requests from Hunter for signed photos of Joe Biden, letters from the vice president for his associates and tickets to White House events, including several state dinners and luncheons with foreign leaders. In September 2015, for example, Chung emailed Hunter to invite him to a lunch with Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted by Biden. In August 2016, according to Secret Service visitor logs, Muldoon escorted into the West Wing James Bulger — nephew of the notorious Irish mobster Whitey Bulger — after Bulger and Hunter formed BHR Partners, an investment fund controlled by the state-owned Bank of China. A month after Chung oversaw the removal of the secret vice presidential papers in 2017, Hunter Biden attempted to poach her to work for him directly. “Come work with me,” he wrote, “so that I can make everybody money.” At the time, Hunter was courting Chinese businessmen who ended up paying him and other Biden family members $6 million for unspecified services. Though Chung said she was interested in Hunter’s offer, she ultimately stayed on as Joe Biden’s assistant at his new digs at the Penn Biden Center in DC, where Hunter had VIP access. It was there that Biden’s classified docs were first “discovered” by his lawyers, who were concerned about his own liability after the Justice Department raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida and seized boxes of classified papers. Cozy relationship Chung told Hur she never noticed any classified papers among the records she packed and unpacked, before filing them in unlocked cabinets and closets in Biden’s unlocked office, according to Hur. Just weeks before she and Muldoon boxed up Biden’s records, however, they received a Jan. 3, 2017, email from the National Security Council warning them not to pack anything classified and that “only unclassified personal records” could be removed from the White House at the end of the administration, noted Hur, who ultimately punted on indicting either of them, even for gross negligence. A lawyer for Chung — who now serves as a top aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — did not respond to requests for comment. Attempts to reach Muldoon were unsuccessful. The issue of Hunter Biden’s cozy relationship with these aides could break into the open during Hur’s March 12 testimony on the Hill. Sources say lawmakers will press him on whether he investigated Hunter or his uncle Jim to see if either of them gained access to the stolen White House docs. Last week, the House Oversight Committee, as part of its joint impeachment inquiry, subpoenaed the attorney general for Hur’s investigative files, including recovered classified documents about Ukraine and China. In a statement, the panel said it is “concerned that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family’s foreign business dealings.”
  15. SCOTUS says Individual States can't take the former President off the ballot by claiming insurrection. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/breaking-supreme-court-unanimously-overturns-colorado-ruling-throwing-trump-off-ballot/
  16. It took a "study" to figure this one out? https://studyfinds.org/female-psychopaths-are-surprisingly-common/ Study: Female psychopaths are surprisingly common 44 MINS AGOADD A COMMENT by John Anderer CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — While the word psychopath usually conjures up images of knife-wielding attackers and masked assailants for most people, not all psychopaths are serial killers. The vast majority simply blend in with the rest of society, all the while masking their cold and calculating true nature. Now, new research set for presentation at Cambridge may just disprove yet another psychopath falsity. Most depictions and popular examples of psychopaths in the media are male, but the study argues female psychopaths are up to five times more common than currently believed. Dr. Clive Boddy, an expert in corporate psychopathy from Anglia Ruskin University, is set to present his findings at the Cambridge Festival. While current estimates tell us male psychopaths outnumber females by roughly six to one, Dr. Boddy believes prior studies have failed to properly identify female psychopaths. This is in large part due to solely basing profiles around criminal and male psychopaths. Dr. Boddy posits the characteristics of female psychopaths are quite different from males. He also notes gender bias likely plays a role in the under-reporting, as society tends to ignore perceived male traits when they’re displayed by women. According to his latest research, the real ratio of male-female psychopathy may be roughly 1.2:1, or up to five times higher than previously estimated. He reached this conclusion by using measures of primary psychopathy, or excluding psychopathy’s antisocial behavioral characteristics and instead concentrating on its core elements. Referencing research pertaining to corporate psychopaths and how they operate in high-achieving roles in workplaces, Dr. Boddy explains female psychopaths tend to be more manipulative than males, use different techniques to create good impressions, and use deceit and sexually seductive behavior to gain social and financial advantages more often than male psychopaths. “People generally attribute psychopathic characteristics to males rather than to females. So even when females display some of the key traits associated with psychopathy – such as being insincere, deceitful, antagonistic, unempathetic and lacking in emotional depth – because these are seen as male characteristics they may not be labeled as such, even when they should be,” Boddy says in a media release. “Also, female psychopaths tend to use words, rather than violence, to achieve their aims, differing from how male psychopaths tend to operate. If female psychopathy expresses differently, then measures designed to capture and identify male, criminal, psychopaths may be inadequate at identifying female non-criminal, psychopaths,” he continues. “Female psychopaths, while not as severely psychopathic or as psychopathic as often as males are, have nevertheless been underestimated in their incidence levels and are therefore more of a potential threat to business and society than anyone previously suspected.” “This has implications for the criminal justice system because current risk management decisions involving partners and children may be faulty. It also has implications for organizational leadership selection decisions because female leaders cannot automatically be assumed to be more honest, caring and concerned with issues such as corporate social responsibility.”
  17. Term Limits. Get someone who is actually interested in fixing things instead of lining their own pockets.....
  18. Don't forget - there is no such thing as reverse - racism.......
  19. Very interesting case - in order for the couples whose embryos were (accidentally) destroyed to get any serious monetary recompense, the court would have to determine embryos were actually human lives. This has nothing to do with the overturning of Roe V Wade, but the WH spokesperson had to draw a connection there anyway since this was Alabama...... White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Alabama decision reflected the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and blamed Republican elected officials from blocking access to reproductive and emergency care to women. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/us/alabama-embryo-law-ruling-supreme-court/index.html In unprecedented decision, Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are children. It could have chilling effects on IVF, critics say
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