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Politics as usual regarding Kusnierz
It’s dysfunctional, tyrannical politics as usual: Moreau (fake) Supervisor Theodore Kusnierz was reelected by his equally decrepit enablers as chairman of the archaic Saratoga County Board of Supervisors.
Still not a peep over Kusnierz as the main defendant in state and federal lawsuits stemming from his scheme to waste $1 million of county taxpayer funds to boost county employees’ salaries for showing up to work during the pandemic. Kusnierz secretly lures out-of-state, inexperienced developers to build a sewage sludge conversion plant in the moribund Moreau Industrial Park. Hazardous, chemical-laden biosolids from throughout the Northeast would be trucked in and processed into something called “biochar” fertilizer. Town and area residents rise up against the filthy project, but Kusnierz ignores his constituents and promotes developers who publicly insult the people he’s supposed to represent.
He has raised nearly $23,000 in campaign contributions from people and companies regularly doing business with the county and town, as well as the district attorney and her assistant and county administrators.
Kusnierz just booted the lone Democrat on the Moreau Town Board from all committees.
What will it take for state and federal officials to wake up, conduct audits and investigate Kusnierz and his sycophants who are driving the county and Moreau into the biosolids heap?
Must we have another Roslyn, Long Island, school district fiasco before something’s done?
DOMINIC TOM
Moreau
Trump helped the rich; divided nation
I am responding to Dave Edwards’ letter (“Biden responsible for bad economy”) in the Jan. 25 Gazette. With all due respect to Dave Edwards, he needs to move beyond Fox News.
The facts are straight forward that between COVID-19 epidemic and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on Feb. 23, 2022, the world economy has been struggling. Even China has been hit hard.
Also recall that Trump “jaw boned” the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when he was in command. Trump started the added payments schemes to deal with the lockdowns and not Biden.
In fact, Trump pushed for an additional $1,400 after Congress allocated $600. Trump did nothing for infrastructure and Biden did get through the Infrastructure Plan.
Both the near term need for fossil fuels and the near and future need for wind, solar, battery and green hydrogen power were addressed in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Don’t forget the American Rescue Plan that helped us during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Besides a huge tax break for big business and the already wealthy 1%, Trump didn’t accomplish much except divide this great country.
DOUG MCFADDEN
Niskayuna
Confront Stefanik, don’t coddle her
Congratulations to Gazette reporter Tyler McNeil and columnist Andrew Waite for their outstanding work in the Jan. 25 Gazette covering the GOP dropping Schenectady City Council candidate Jeff Moore due to his warped social media posts on Islam, LGBTQ+ issues, mass shootings and nationalism.
It surprised us, though, to see this story so prominent in a newspaper which recently endorsed Elise Stefanik, a politician who has abandoned her principles and embraced the dishonest, mean spirited, racist and often self-serving positions of our disgraced 45th president.
Stefanik and all others who fail to condemn Trump and all that he represents are the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.
They lie constantly, intimidate opponents, strip thousands of citizens of their voting rights and openly incite violence.
They need to be confronted, not coddled or encouraged with endorsements. Shame on The Gazette.
JOHN AND LYN KUCIJ
Schenectady
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This is the lies of the deep state. Resident Biden comments regarding Ukraine 03/2022
President Biden on Friday defended his decision to veto the US-facilitated transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine to repel Russia’s invasion, saying, “that’s called World War III.”
Biden faces bipartisan blowback for rejecting Poland’s offer to transfer 28 Soviet-designed MiG-29s — after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that Poland had a “green light.”
“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews — just understand, don’t kid yourself, no matter what y’all say, that’s called World War III,” Biden told a gathering of House Democrats in Philadelphia.
Poland offered to fly the jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where the US would facilitate the transfer. It was unclear whether US or Ukrainian pilots would fly the planes into Ukraine pursuant to the spiked Polish plan.
Biden went on to defend his economic record — blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for annual inflation hitting a fresh 40-year high of 7.9 percent in February, up from 7.5 percent in January.
Fast forward ALL THE way to 01/2023
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will equip Ukraine with the mighty M1A1 Abrams tank, a key reversal in the West’s effort to arm Kyiv as it prepares for a fresh Russian offensive.
The 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks, which amount to one Ukrainian tank battalion, will expand on the more than $27 billion the U.S. has committed to Kyiv’s fight since Russia invaded nearly a year ago.
So all along the end goal is WW3 this administration is going to start WW 3 to cover their money laundering country. Using the stooge Zelensky as a useful idiot. This is what the cabal in Washington is about.
McCarthy calls out Shifty Schiff and Swallwell explaining why they are off the intel committee
Schiff: Lied about Russian collusion
Lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Lied about knowing a whistle blower
Swallwell: had a relationship with a Chinese Spy
How dare McCarthy disqualify these traitors to the constitution. But Shifty Schiff goes on the social media site Tik Tok to complain. BTW that is a Chinese owned social media site.
NYP calls out Hunter’s dealing with selling Quid Pro Quo Joe’s classified information. Seems like those classified documents are related to Iran , Ukraine and China. The criminal syndicate of the deep state is falling apart. Also funny has anyone heard from or seen Hunter lately? He was all over the MSM selling paintings now to coin a phrase ” he disappeared like a fart in the wind”
The clock is ticking for the deep State players things are not making sense and the citizens are seeing how dysfunctional our government is.
Two great letters today recognizing Damsel Donnie and his minion Stefanik as traitors to this great Democracy.
Unfortunately b ecause he needs attention we get the same old nonsense from the tik tok loving dancing Brandies
G-F-B, Your posts today reflect your unreasoning hatred for Democrats and the Biden administration. They manipulate and distort facts and contain outright lies spread on social media. You don’t seek truth, only support for your world view. Working with his military advisers, Biden has determined that any military benefits from sending the jets to Ukraine would be outweighed by the increased potential for direct NATO military involvement and that would mean WWII. The sanctions on Russia, the military aid, and the Leopard and Abrams tanks being sent to help Ukraine defend and regain its territory have been and will be very effective.
You conveniently don’t mention the desire among many Republicans to reduce aid to Ukraine or Trump’s admiration for Putin whom he called “savvy” and “genius” in his planning for the Ukraine invasion.
Your lies about Schiff and Swalwell and your paranoid fantasies about the “deep state,” which exists only in the tortured minds of far right malcontents who see themselves as victims, is getting tiresome. Your search for scapegoats to help with your flagging self-esteem is apparent in many of your posts.
Does anyone actually read Mr. Brandon’s 🤡 ranting comments anymore? He seriously needs a mental health visit
We’re lucky the hapless and uneducated like F___youBiden have no strategy, or goals, as far as anyone can see. Can anyone imagine the hellscape where these people would actually shut up and be happy?
Instead we’re faced with what amounts to a large ant colony with all the organization of Brownian motion.
Mr Santo Varoma and Chuck you are correct when your main information source is tik tok dance videos what do you expect and boy is that dude getting unstablein his rants
LCI-AS you say the Schiff and Swalwell story is a lie? I could post 1000 youtube videos of Schiff saying he saw absolute proof of Russian collusion. And the same goes for Swalwell.
Rep. Eric Swalwell told CNN Wednesday that he was “shocked” when the FBI informed him several years ago that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative as part of a broader effort to establish ties with US politicians, reiterating that he immediately cooperated with federal investigators who were looking into the individual in question.
Swalwell was named in an Axios report detailing what US officials believed to be a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015.
The woman at the center of the operation, Fang Fang or Christine Fang, took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign and helped place an intern in the California Democrat’s office, according to Axios.
REP. SCHIFF ON CNN: EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION IS CLEAR, MUELLER WILL FIND OUT IF THERE’S BEEN A CRIME
On Thursday, January 10, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, joined Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s New Day to discuss the private Trump Campaign polling data former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort gave to someone linked to Russian Intelligence during the 2016 campaign and his concerns about the nomination of William Barr to be the next Attorney General, who would oversee Mueller’s investigation. Schiff also discussed the troubling possibility that President Trump may declare a national emergency to build his wall without approval from Congress or the American people. Schiff is Co-Chair of the Congressional Freedom of the Press Caucus, and he discussed the bipartisan event to remember Jamal Khashoggi on the 100th day after his murder. The event was planned to acknowledge the need to protect journalists around the world, the life and work of Khashoggi and the 52 other journalists killed in 2018.
Azealia Banks endorses Ron DeSantis: Rapper says she feels ‘way safer’ in Miami than woke LA – and reveals she moved to Florida because the governor is ‘practical’ and ‘focused on the basic s***
Rapper Azealia Banks, 31, said she swapped Los Angeles for Miami because she was tired of virtue signaling in California, and respected Ron DeSantis’s rule
New York City-born Banks said that she felt safer in Miami than in LA, and felt that people in Florida ‘mind their f****** business’
She praised DeSantis as practical and ‘focused on the basic s***’, saying he prioritized basic healthcare over gender reassignment surgery
Biden’s Numbers, January 2023 Update
-Factcheck.org
As of Jan. 20, President Joe Biden had been in office a full two years. How is the country doing under the Democratic president?
We provide some answers to that question in “Biden’s Numbers, January 2023 Update,” which includes data from when Biden took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2021, through Jan. 20 of this year.
…more
“They need to be confronted, not coddled or encouraged with endorsements. Shame on The Gazette.” -JOHN AND LYN KUCIJ Schenectady.
“They need to be confronted”, really now. The party of peace and love has turned into a party of violence. Of course in real life, I would almost guarantee John and Lyn wouldnt have the muscle to confront anyone. Talking smack on the DG doesnt make u a tough guy and lady. You might want to tone down the rhetoric a bit because some people will take u at your word.
I’ve got to give big Bm points I have no idea who Amelia Banks is crap how have I survived to this day. Guess I better start watching that khardashian show
ChuckD and christophe Stalka, The answer is no as to lgb’s posts.
Does he rise early or stay up late to be the first to post after the LTE’s are posted?
His first two rants today or everyday for that matter are explained by AS posts above yours. His first two posts at least have breaks where you assume he is taking a breath.
By his third post he is in full blown rant and just types on and on making anything he might have of value in the rant undecipherable from his lie’s and distorted facts, misinformation and whatever else he absorbs from his flawed sources. Phew!!
Now we wait for Flynn or BM to defend him and call names. How about you guys instead provide a factual and truthful source to support lgb’s many outright lies and being generous half truths in his rants, Can you rise to the occasion or just yell extreme libs as your answer?
Rightwingers, and their perverted imaginations, will try to push the sexy myth between Swalwell and Fang. Of course that’s the only place it exists; in their pants.
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What happened: Amid a widening counterintelligence probe, federal investigators became so alarmed by Fang’s behavior and activities that around 2015 they alerted Swalwell to their concerns — giving him what is known as a defensive briefing.
Swalwell immediately cut off all ties to Fang, according to a current U.S. intelligence official, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Fang left the country unexpectedly in mid-2015 amid the investigation. She did not respond to multiple attempts by Axios to reach her by email and Facebook.
axiosDOTcom/2020/12/08/china-spy-california-politicians
Re-posting from last night:
ANTHONY J SANTO
January 26th, 2023
The MAGAites, the pod-people, march in unison, echoing each others’ calls for an authoritarian state that will allow everyone to march to their insane drummers, free to be exactly what their masters tell them they can be. There are none so blind as those who will not see. They look into a mirror but fail to see their own worst enemy. Like the rubber balloon clown ChuckD described with the silly grin who bounced back up for another punch, they are indefatigable in their determination to take us all to hell with them.
Is that code word for Swallwell and Fang Fang broke off their relationship?
By David Cohen
04/21/2019 09:56 AM EDT
Updated: 04/21/2019 10:00 AM EDT
Responding to attacks by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Rep. Adam Schiff on Sunday insisted his criticism of the Trump administration was not wrong, saying there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
“I use that word very carefully,” the California Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week,” “because I also distinguish time and time again between collusion, that is acts of corruption that may or may not be criminal, and proof of a criminal conspiracy. And that is a distinction that Bob Mueller made within the first few pages of his report. In fact, every act that I’ve pointed to as evidence of collusion has now been borne out by the report.“
– politicoDOTcom/story/2019/04/21/adam-schiff-collusion-trump-1283786
“…and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.”
It’s been nearly 8 years, flynn. Where are the charges? Put up or shut up.
Steve, confronting someone does not imply violence as the Kucijs used the word. It should be obvious to anyone they didn’t threaten physical violence against the editorial staff of the DG. They are asking the editorial staff to “face up” to the mistake they made in endorsing a political sellout to Trump, Rep. Stefanik, once moderate and anti-MAGA, who switched to the Trump side for personal political gain. They are asking the Gazette to explain fully their endorsement in light of their criticisms of Rep. Stefanik.
MAGAites always twist the truth to impugn the opposition. They are sad, angry, unhappy people. The political equivalent of selfish spoiled brats who plug their ears and shut their eyes to block out anything that might make them think seriously about the consequences of continued support for a fascist, bigoted, autocratic movement in this country.
Trump continues to give democracy and traditional American values “the finger.” He lied about the “documents” he kept illegally, with contradictory explanations as to how they got to Mar a Lago; he claimed to have returned them all, yet a search warrant uncovered many more. He had dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. He is a felon and a racist.
It is a national shame that his stooges, men like Michael Cohen, Allen Weisselberg, and Elmer Stewart Rhodes have been convicted and sentenced while the “boss” continues to live free and spread his vile lies that undermine the foundations of American democracy. I hold Merrick Garland responsible for not holding up the principle “No man is above the law.” He is acting like a coward and should be replaced by a stronger person, Letitia James or Fani Willis work for me.
The real news of the day is …Special counsel John Durham’s team reportedly opened up a criminal probe into Trump’s financial dealings. And covered it up !
Mr Santo little Stevie is just trying to intimidate kucijs with his post their commentary obviously bothered him greatly.i thought they wrote a great letter and look forward to hearing from them again
I believe the writing is on the wall for the inevitable demise of America as depicted by the old time family TV shows.
Greed, indifference, stupidity, ignorance,
“Greed” is certainly part of the problem. The disparity between the wealthy and the average worker is only growing with no end is sight. More and more people are frustrated and become angry because of their inability to afford the necessities of life; Secure housing, healthy food, good healthcare, future financial security, etc. This obviously is not healthy for the nation.
“Indifference” to the plight of those in need by the wealthy, including many politicians, seems to be an obvious characteristic of human nature. I have all I need and most of what I want, my world is fine, screw you.
“Stupidity”, is an issue on two levels. Those that are not smart enough to figure out how to navigate through our modern society that lacks the old time family sustaining jobs such as in manufacturing are again screwed.- On the second level, the stupid are lied to and manipulated by by the greedy and indifferent, and foolishly play into their hand and keep them at the top of the pecking order.
To maintain their financial status and ruling power, the greedy and in different must keep the stupid “ignorant” of the truth of what is actually going on, ergo Fox News and the black side of the Internet.
What I’ve described above is continuing to rapidly grow, which indicates to me were as a nation are rapidly moving toward authoritarian rule.
You are so right Lou. In spite of a $2 trillion tax cut benefiting top earners and causing our national debt to soar, the man-in-the-street-MAGAite thinks this plutocrat is for them. I’ll never figure it out.
To make up for this gift to the rich, they propose cutting programs like Social Security, Medicare and the ACA which benefit ordinary Americans. Now they have the gall to call for a regressive national sales tax to replace a progressive income tax. I don’t get it.
Should we “confront” liberal politicians? You liberals talk out of bith sides of your mouth. If Trump said “confront liberal politicians” youd be accusing him of inciting violence. So hypocritical of you Anthony. Hell if I said it youd accuse me of it.
Lets hope the Pencil Resolution gets passed. Its a great bill.
Chris/Bob she only has a couple of million followers on her social media sites. Another Black person with a huge following left the Democrat plantation.
NTHONY J SANTO
January 27th, 2023
Re-posting from last night:
ANTHONY J SANTO
January 26th, 2023
The MAGAites, the pod-people, march in unison, echoing each others’ calls for an authoritarian state that will allow everyone to march to their insane drummers, free to be exactly what their masters tell them they can be. There are none so blind as those who will not see. They look into a mirror but fail to see their own worst enemy. Like the rubber balloon clown ChuckD described with the silly grin who bounced back up for another punch, they are indefatigable in their determination to take us all to hell with them.
Tell me LCI-AS how can conservatives and republicans make an authoritarian country when we are for less government, less regulations, less taxes, more freedom? Just because you as a Lefty Child Indoctinating fool says it does not mean its true. If genius skips a generation, your children will be brilliant.
Steve, by watching, believing then regurgitating the pure propagandized lies on Fox, regardless of ANYTHING, be it Republican (other than MEGA) or Democratic politics you, lgb, and Bill are the living proof of my above post.
ANTHONY J SANTO
January 27th, 2023
To make up for this gift to the rich, they propose cutting programs like Social Security, Medicare and the ACA which benefit ordinary Americans. Now they have the gall to call for a regressive national sales tax to replace a progressive income tax. I don’t get it.
Wow LCI-AS, you listen to all of the liberal lies, one Congressman said maybe we should look at a 30% flat tax and you lefties are lying and trying to say that is their plan. Just like the Republicans said maybe we should look at the solvency of social security and set up a committee so that we are not blindsided when it’s running out of money. Do you people ever tell the truth and tell me, what’s wrong with a bipartisan committee to keep track of SS solvency?
Lou, you are proof God has a sense of humor.
Lou. Why should I care what u think?
Youre an extreme liberal, i need not say more.
Sorry big Bm I don’t do social media but you rock on
Jeopardy!’ champ trashes ‘glorified reality show’ in unhinged rant, calls out racism.
Id bet all the money in China that he’s a woke liberal.
Sorry Big bm I forgot today was the return of damsel Donnie to social media so you’re all hyped up
He start the grift yet? How much does he need to save the country or to donate to Putin?
I see he’s selling bobble heads and diet pills on truth social
Bunch of winners I guess the only thing you have in common is your all liars
**Political Poseurs on Parade!**
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Kari Lake wants an appellate court to consider doing something they never do
Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror
January 26, 2023
While most of the world has moved past last year’s general election, with the state legislature and Gov. Katie Hobbs already working on bills and budgets, failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is still stuck in November 2022.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Lake’s second request for the high court to take up her election appeal currently being heard by the Arizona Court of Appeals Division I. Lake is asking the courts to overturn the results of the 2022 election and to require a revote — but only for her race, and just in Maricopa County.
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Nevada Republicans tearing themselves apart after failed MAGA candidate’s vulgar speech goes viral
By Jessica Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 26, 2023 – 8:00 am
A recording of a vulgar rant by a failed Republican candidate has thrown Nevada’s GOP into turmoil.
Newly elected GOP delegate Drew Hirsty was expelled by the state Republican Party Central Committee earlier this month for recording and sharing a video of losing state attorney general candidate Michele Fiore slurring former state party chairwoman Amy Tarkanian as “Ms. Alcoholic” and a “panty dropper after two shots” after she endorsed her Democratic rival, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“[I was] appalled, offended and shocked,” Hirsty said.
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‘Scammed’ users rage at Trump over ‘misleading gimmicks’ on Truth Social
By Stuart A. Thompson, NY Times
Between posts about conspiracy theories and right-wing grievances was an unusual advertisement: a photo of former President Donald J. Trump holding a $1,000 bill made of gold, which he was apparently offering free to supporters. But there were a few catches: The bill was not free, it was not made of gold, and it was not offered by Mr. Trump.
The ad appeared on Truth Social, the right-wing social network started by Mr. Trump in late 2021, one of many pitches from hucksters and fringe marketers dominating the ads on the site. Ads from major brands are nonexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times.
“less government” – Rght, one authoritarian ruler.
“less regulations” – only one regulation\ law; whatever authoritarian ruler says.
“less taxes” – For the rich, like the Russian oligarchs.
“more freedom” To play Rambo and kill with your guns until the imbeciles like you get them taken permanently taken away.
Lou, I’m glad to see you’re not letting education get in the way of your ignorance.
Steven Flynn
January 27th, 2023
Lou. Why should I care what u think?
Because your freedom is at stake, and you’re not smart enough to realize that. That’s why.
And I really wouldn’t give two s – – t’s about anything you believe beyond people like you, lgb and little Willy are destroying democracy and my freedom. Pathetically you’re to stupid, yes stupid, to realize you’re eventually going down with the rest of us. Wake up man!
Steven Flynn
January 27th, 2023
Should we “confront” liberal politicians? You liberals talk out of bith sides of your mouth. If Trump said “confront liberal politicians” youd be accusing him of inciting violence. So hypocritical of you Anthony. Hell if I said it youd accuse me
Steve, when I hear the word confront, I infer the person confronting someone is presenting facts that he wants the person he is confronting to explain.
But, I guess you are a mind reader and “know” what I would do if Trump “confronted” someone. You are so certain of my reaction that you call me “hypocritical” without the event you describe ever having taken place.
Do you wonder why so many more people posting on this site dismiss you, PPBM, and GFB? There’s your answer. You don’t argue with reason and facts. Instead you resort to imaginary scenarios, lies, and distortions of the truth. You take things out of context and try to make fools of everyone else but only make fools of yourselves.
BTW, look up confront in the dictionary and it might even persuade someone as closed-minded as you, that the Kucij’s were not calling for violence against the DG editorial staff; they want a fuller explanation of what they feel was a totally inappropriate endorsement, better yet an admission on the DG”s part they made a mistake by endorsing a politician willing to sell her integrity to Trump in her quest for power. She must think as she falls into dreamland, VICE-President Stefanik, ewwww, weeeeee someday President Stefanik, ooohhh the power! It aint gonna happen Elise.
“Lou, I’m glad to see you’re not letting education get in the way of your ignorance.”
Little Willy, I’m not the one advocating for banning books in schools, you are.
In your eyes, I may be a joke to God, but you’re obviously a blunder of God, I guess everyone makes mistakes. You’re pathetic.
Lou, The only books I’m for banning are the pornographic ones that you want our little kids to read. A friend told me that you guys are soft on crime as a professional courtesy. You know one criminal to another. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and poop out a smarter statement than whatever you just said.
Little Willy, realize all you’ve already been doing is pooping out statements.
Why would Biden cut off an energy source for his green agenda? The last paragraph tells you why, here is a hint, China.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced that it would complete a 20-year withdrawal of 225,504 acres in a northern Minnesota forest area that is home to some of the largest domestic critical mineral reserves.
Last year, the DOI canceled two mineral leases held by the firm Twin Metals Minnesota, which had been located in the Superior National Forest located outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As a result of that decision and the action Thursday, domestic mining companies will effectively be banned from operating in the region for the foreseeable future and the forest’s vast critical mineral resources will be left untapped.
However, Twin Metals’ mining project contained about 88% of the nation’s cobalt reserves in addition to vast copper, nickel and platinum-group elements. Such critical minerals are vital for various green energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries, battery storage facilities, solar panels and wind turbines, which the Biden administration has aggressively pushed.
For example, an electric vehicle requires 500% more mineral resources than a traditional gas-powered car, while a single onshore wind turbine plant requires 800% more minerals than a typical fossil fuel plant, according to the International Energy Agency.
However, China, other hostile nations and countries with severe human rights concerns dominate the global mineral supply chain.
Lou, I’m not insulting you, I’m describing you.
Patriot little willy check out who owns that twin metals company you really are dangerous in your ignorance dude.
Little Willy, because I am the antithesis of you and everything you believe in, your describing me in a negative connotation is actually a compliment.
Bob/Chris it is owned by Andrónico Luksic of Chile, so what? And I already know that Jared and Ivanka rent a DC place from him, again, so what? All I will say is that it’s a nothing burger because I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.
Mr. Bill 🤡 did you watch the video of Paul Pelosi getting hit by a hammer? What the excuse now?
little willy nilly why so hot about a chilean mining company with ties to the TRumps why not put it out there ? The yeah its a nothing burger you really are a liar dude. im with Stalka youre a liar
Would someone please explain why no MAGAites have called out Jared Kushner for using his ties to the ex-president to get a $2B. investment from Saudi Arabia?
ByTimothy L. O’Brien
April 11, 2022, 1:27 PM EDT
“Jared Kushner’s new private equity firm got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia because maybe that’s how you can cash in when your investing experience is slender but your father-in-law may wind up back in the White House. It’s also possible that you can get billions for a firm with no track record because the White House did favors for the Saudis when your father-in-law still occupied the Oval Office.
It’s probably a mix of both. Regardless, it’s certainly not a reflection of Kushner’s investing prowess. Before entering the White House as an adviser to former President Donald Trump, Kushner, 41, inherited wealth and his first adult job from his father, then botched his biggest gambit: vastly overpaying for a Fifth Avenue skyscraper soon before financial and real estate markets tanked.”
Here is a list of 11 Trump administration actions that have favored Saudi Arabia:
1. Trump chooses Saudi Arabia for his first foreign presidential trip
In May 2017, Trump picks Riyadh for his first trip abroad since entering office, an unprecedented move for a newly elected president. The Saudis give him a regal welcome, awarding Trump a medal, announcing plans for arms and business deals and inviting the president to take part in a traditional sword dance.
2. Trump praises a blockade on Qatar
Shortly after Trump’s visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt impose a blockade on Qatar. Trump praises the move in a tweet June 6, 2017, contradicting officials in his own administration who had called for calm and compromise: “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar — look!” Then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis are blindsided by the blockade.
3. Trump resumes sales of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia
The Trump administration notifies Congress in June 2017 that it plans to resume sales of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia that were suspended by Obama over concerns about civilian deaths from Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen.
4. Trump welcomes the crackdown in Riyadh
After the crown prince detains hundreds of top businessmen, officials and members of the royal family at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in November 2017 and demands payment for alleged corruption, Trump praises the crackdown.
“I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing. Some of those they are harshly treating have been ‘milking’ their country for years!” Trump says in a tweet two days after the crackdown came to light.
Saudi crown prince should be investigated in Khashoggi killing, U.N. expert says
JUNE 19, 201901:08
5. Trump administration steers clear of condemnation of Saudi conduct in Yemen war
In response to a congressional deadline in September 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certifies the Saudis are abiding by the laws of war in Yemen and are allowing humanitarian access despite allegations from rights groups and objections from State Department officials.
6. Trump’s response to Khashoggi’s death
The Oct. 2, 2018, killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul sparks international outrage.
“Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!
“That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” that aired June 23, Trump renews his defense of Saudi Arabia as an important arms customer and dismisses the findings of a U.N. report calling for a full investigation of Khashoggi’s killing.
7. Administration approves nuclear technology transfers to Saudis after Khashoggi’s death
The administration acknowledges approving the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in two cases after Khashoggi’s murder — on Oct. 18, 2018 — 16 days after Khashoggi’s death — and Feb. 18. (Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia releases the information from the Department of Energy on June 4).
The transfers coincide with talks on a possible nuclear cooperation agreement with Riyadh. Energy Secretary Rick Perry at a hearing in March 2018 had sidestepped questions as to whether the administration would enter into agreement without the so-called “gold standard” prohibitions on enriching uranium and reprocessing plutonium.
8. U.S blocks U.N. Security Council resolution on Yemen
In December 2018, the Trump administration threatens to veto a resolution drafted by Britain demanding accountability for war crimes in the Yemen conflict and for Saudi Arabia and other states to ensure unfettered access for shipments of food and medicine to ports in Yemen. A resolution with watered-down language is eventually adopted.
9. Trump vetoes congressional resolution to end U.S. involvement in Saudi-led war in Yemen
Trump vetoes a bipartisan congressional resolution April 16 demanding the end of U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The resolution marks the first time both chambers of Congress passed a bill using its War Powers authority to restrict the president’s ability to deploy troops into battle.
10. U.S. blacklist on child soldiers leaves out Saudi Arabia
On June 20, Pompeo chooses not to include Saudi Arabia on an annual blacklist of countries recruiting child soldiers in battle, despite recommendations from officials inside the State Department.
11. Trump vetoes congressional bid to halt arms sales for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
President Trump blocks three congressional bills that would have stopped more than $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Jordan, including precision-guided bombs for Riyadh.
My God Tony, talk about relevant things, like Hillary, and Biden’s laptop. Oh yeah, and more guns and more god, and “less government” and “less regulations” except, of course, when it’s about books and women’s rights.
Anthony, No MAGAites of any stature, money or elected would call out Jared because they would most likely have similar arrangements with SA or someone similar in the Middle East.
As far as the Trump Saudi posting, my opinion is if he had been reelected and you could replace the Saudi name with Russia and they would be in control of Ukraine and who knows where else by now. Zelinski would be dead or living in Pennsylvania.
Hey Guy, as unbelievably and amazing it may sound, when Paul Pelosi’s head was struck by a hammer, the swelling actually went to the outside of his skull. Any moron would realize the impact from the outside of the skull would result in a lump on the inside only, and not the outside of the skull. Duh! Right Bill?
Yes I saw the video, Pelosi was smiling while holding a can of beer, it looked more like a lovers quarrel to me.
The BMDCs also known as The Blue-Anon crew are hard at it today. somewhere out there, there’s a tree whose single purpose on earth is to replace the oxygen you all waste. Go find it and apologize.
big billy im guessing you’d know about a lovers quarrel looked like the guy got attacked to me but guess ill take your word for it. you are one sick t
big billys getting nervous you can tell because the nonsense posting are starting pretty soon hell be in full attack mode. But the lies were particularly thick and the crap deep today
Why are all of these young healthy people dropping dead, nah, it can’t have anything to do with the jab, that’s a conspiracy theory?
Former USFL assistant coach Greg Patrick, who also spent two seasons as Arizona’s defensive line coach, has died, the league confirmed Thursday in a statement. He was 53.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of former Detroit Lion Jessie Lemonier,” the statement read. “Jessie was a model teammate and wonderful young man who is gone far too soon.” Lemonier, who last played in the NFL with the Detroit Lions in January 2022, passed away this week at 25, the team confirmed Thursday in a statement.
Bob/Chris I really would love to insult you but I’m afraid I won’t do it as well as nature did. You consistently set low expectations and fail to achieve them.
big billys getting
REALLYnervous you can tell because the nonsense posting are starting pretty soon hell be in full attack mode. But the lies were particularly thick and the crap deep today.
tell us more about your lovers quarrel theory liar give us some proof im betting youve got some mouth
come on big Billy give us your inside proof on Mr Pelosi and his affair .
Trust me for your future libel shrieks/ claims this is Bob
you Sir are a spineless liar youre comments are disgusting crawl back in your hole dude your a pig
I don’t know Bob/Chris, maybe it was that he was holding a can of beer and smiling when the door opened. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m guessing it’s hard to pronounce.
oh and willy nilly correction you’re a pig
Mr. Bill 🤡 it was a fake hammer that hit him right?….It was all staged right? Paul Pelosi’s body on the floor was a body double right?
come on big Billy you can do better than that
my problem is youre slandering someone without proof lloser
is it that hard to understand or is your miserable life just one big fog filled lie?
“don’t know Bob/Chris, maybe it was that he was holding a can of beer and smiling when the door opened. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m guessing it’s hard to pronounce”
crawl back in your hole loser pronounce that
come on Big Billy put those thoughts to keyboard be a keyboard warrior loud mouth share your incredible insight tell us about that hammer and the glass shattering again trust me dude snort jr doesn’t have any proof either hes a loser too!
i dont really expect any sort of response dude we all know youre nothing but a liar
crawl back in your hole
What’s the matter Bob/Chris, you sound angry, have a Snickers. I don’t think you’re unintelligent. You just have bad luck when it comes to thinking. Maybe you saw the lefty version of the tape, I’m pretty certain that you couldn’t pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
“Why would Biden cut off an energy source for his green agenda? The last paragraph tells you why, here is a hint, China.”
Wrong, complete BS and not the whole story, as we’ve come to expect from you.
IN FACT, it was determined those permits were renewed unlawfully by the “previous administration”.
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“This renewal violated federal laws and regulations, including the legal requirement that the U.S. Forest Service must consent to mineral leases. In 2016, the U.S. Forest Service withheld its consent to the Twin Metals leases because of the risk to the BWCAW; this decision still stands.”
The leases were located adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In 2016, after a two-year scientific review, the U.S. Forest service exercised its statutory prerogative and withheld its consent to the renewal of two expired Twin Metals leases. These leases would have allowed Twin Metals to build highly toxic and polluting sulfide-ore copper mines along lakes and streams that flow directly into the Boundary Waters. The U.S. Forest Service found that “the inherent risk of irreparable harm” posed by such mining to the priceless Wilderness location could not be permitted consistent with its legal obligations to protect the Boundary Waters. Although the leases were not renewed and expired because the U.S. Forest Service withheld its consent, heavy lobbying by Antofagasta (including purchasing a house that was later rented by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump) led to the unlawful reinstatement by the Trump administration.
…more
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Lou, thank God you can still copy and paste, and I want to apologize for calling you a moron, I thought you knew.
come on Big Billy stop dodging the question the im not sure what the snickers comment means prove your statements
put those thoughts to keyboard be a keyboard warrior loud mouth share your incredible insight tell us about that hammer and the glass shattering again trust me dude snort jr doesn’t have any proof either hes a loser too!
i dont really expect any sort of response dude we all know youre nothing but a liar
crawl back in your hole
Bob/Chris So you are copying and pasting your own stuff now? It’s amazing to see how you don’t allow your knowledge to stand in the way of your stupidity. And BTW, you don’t enjoy being treated the way you treat me? It must be awful. It’s fine if you disagree with me. I can’t make you do what’s right, and of course, I speak like a moron. How else would you be able to perceive me?
come on Big Billy stop dodging the question the im not sure what the snickers comment means prove your statements
put those thoughts to keyboard be a keyboard warrior loud mouth share your incredible insight tell us about that hammer and the glass shattering again trust me dude snort jr doesn’t have any proof either hes a loser too!
i dont really expect any sort of response dude we all know youre nothing but a liar
crawl back in your hole loser show me the proof oh and for you libel case again just to clarify this is bob
come on big mouth
Bill Marincic “Yes I saw the video, Pelosi was smiling while holding a can of beer, it looked more like a lovers quarrel to me.”
loud mouth losers dont like getting called out for their lies
Mr. Bill 🤡 it amazes me on how you can continually shit on your own head to try to prove you are right about something…..you have talent and take your circus side show on the road.
Bob/Chris, Do you recall when I requested your opinion? neither do I. I’ve seen people like you before, but I was a kid and I had to pay admission at the circus. Would you please say hello to the clown you see in the mirror for me?
Aroma, Do you have to work hard to be this stupid, or is it just who you are? Good story, but in what chapter do you shut up? You remind me of a cloud, when you go, my day brightens up.
big BM youll be seeing my opinion a lot from now on every time you post more of your bull crap im going to start posting what ill call the moron digest a summary of your most full of crap postrs an lies. . you’re gonna be the star
bob gareat
January 27th, 2023
Bill Marincic “Yes I saw the video, Pelosi was smiling while holding a can of beer, it looked more like a lovers quarrel to me.”
loud mouth losers dont like getting called out for their lies
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. You are the reason why shampoo has instructions, you are not only dull, you cause dullness in whoever reads your crap.
Mr. Bill 🤡 did you watch the video of Paul Pelosi’s attacker breaking the window and the glass falling on the ground outside as he was smashing it? Wipe your head off of your feces and watch the video and give me your explanation ……..
the world needs to read the knowledge of big bill Marincic no one should miss a word or should I say a lie:
for example: little flaming gem #1
from earlier today this little nugget will not disappear to be repeated ad nauseum in 2 or 3 days
Bill Marincic
“Yes I saw the video, Pelosi was smiling while holding a can of beer, it looked more like a lovers quarrel to me.”
loud mouth losers dont like getting called out for their lies
Bob/Chris ya mad bro? Any similarity between you and someone intelligent is purely coincidental. I’m betting that your birth certificate is just an apology from a condom manufacturer to your parents. You know Bob/Chris You have the rest of your life to be an idiot, why not take the day off?
PPBM, you don’t have to try to be stupid; it comes naturally.
You prove again in your ridiculous unfounded interpretation of the Pelosi crime scene that you will twist any narrative to support your point of view. Your evidence and interpretations are simply what you want to believe. Your continued servitude to a lying, p—sy grabbing grifter who was put in office by insecure, fearful, dishonest, bigoted, heartless, dense, phony “Christians” says everything anyone needs to know about who you are. Repent. Your lies are an affront to any fair-minded person and the god you PRETEND to believe in. You and Trump share this in common, lying about being Christian; I mean actually Christian and not the suckers or operators in the televangelist scam that many call Christianity today.
Billy don’t involve me in your nonsense but Bob I’m ready to help out if you need it I’m just catching up now but great idea! That condom comment is real special
Guy Varoma
January 27th, 2023
Mr. Bill 🤡 did you watch the video of Paul Pelosi’s attacker breaking the window and the glass falling on the ground outside as he was smashing it? Wipe your head off of your feces and watch the video and give me your explanation
Watch the video, once he gets a hole in the window he is hitting down and pulls out with the hammer, that’s why there was so much glass outside, I watched the video four times and saw the same thing, right before he climbs through. You still have a ways to go before reaching mediocrity. Unfortunately, your gene pool didn’t have a lifeguard.
I totally agree with Florida’s earlier post addressed to me. Of course, we have heard nothing about the $2b. scandal in the Saudi “investment” (payoff) to Jared from the MEGA LOUD MOUTH MAGAites.
I’m sure the incompetence of Jared and Trump’s bending over for the Saudis will be ignored by them. “The Chose One,” the one we know as the “Evil Clown” or the “Narcissistic Grifter” can NOT be criticized by his loyal lickspittles.
LCI-AS Lying Child Indoctrinating Anthony Santo, Is it wise to use your whole vocabulary in a sentence like that? In the land of the witless, you’d reign supreme. People who can tolerate you on the daily are the real heroes. How does it feel knowing your greatest accomplishment in life will be donating your organs? There are some incredibly dumb people in this world. Thanks for allowing me to see that.
It is too bad PPBM’s parents did not use condoms. He should encourage condom users to send him used condoms and rush them to hospitals that refuse to provide abortion. They are potential life and could be used to fertilize an egg (in vitro), from a young woman as adamantly anti-choice as PPBM. I am sure he would pay the overnight charge (sperm is viable for five days) to save the potential life in the sperm’s DNA. Think of the carnage that would end PPBM; all those little swimmers want to create more babies!
Good answer PPBM. You managed to avoid addressing the real issues entirely, without even the hint of a counter argument.
Before you answer, PPBM, remember Jesus doesn’t countenance liars and they make baby Jesus cry. How many words from various sane, informed posters did you have to look up today?
Is “countenance” another problem for you?
Mr. Bill 🤡 like i said …it amazes me how you shit on your own head daily….When you face the facts on anything ….you put put your head between your legs and blast on your own face ….Bravo you didn’t let me down….but in the future wear a face diaper
ChuckD
January 27th, 2023
“Why would Biden cut off an energy source for his green agenda? The last paragraph tells you why, here is a hint, China.”
Wrong, complete BS and not the whole story, as we’ve come to expect from you.
IN FACT, it was determined those permits were renewed unlawfully by the “previous administration”.
Thanks for the explanation ChuckD and the exposure of another low-life tactic regularly employed by the desperate bigoted right, lies of omission.
You BMDC are funny today, Jealousy is a disease and I hope, for your sake, they find a cure very soon. I’m curious as an outside observer, what do you think of the human race? None of you need to fear success, you have nothing to worry about. I’d love to insult you but I’ll never top what nature did.
Hey, little Willy, regardless of whether or not there is a cure for jealousy, you’re in big trouble because there is absolutely no cure for stupidity.
On a lighter note, I loved today’s comic strip of WuMo:
A man and women are standing in a lovely garden under an apple tree, wearing only fig leafs. The woman is attempting to hand a ripe apple to the man, and the man says;
So a snake told you to eat an apple, and a giant dude in the clouds told me not to? And now you on a quest to make me take a bite? Did you happen to eat some of the mushrooms as well?
Wow, multiple videos of the Paul Pelosi attack clearly showing the intruder breaking in.
I guess the righties here and everywhere are gonna need to find something else to keep their little pup tents up.
Bill Marincic
January 27th, 2023
Why are all of these young healthy people dropping dead, nah, it can’t have anything to do with the jab, that’s a conspiracy theory?
You figured it out! The CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States conspired to kill Americans by convincing them to get vaccinated against COVID. Trump must have been in on it
, because on May 25, 2021 he gave himself credit for the coronavirus vaccine, calling it “one of the greatest miracles of the ages.”
Explain that oh self anointed “Wise One.” You have been defeated so badly in today’s “discussions” that you should be whimpering in a corner licking your self-inflicted wounds.
Trust me, PPBM, no one is jealous of you. At times I feel pity for you but you are so consistently nasty, my sympathy fades very quickly.
Tony, programmed of robots, do not lick their wounds. They have no feelings.
By 9:27 p.m. (Brandon ) Bernard was dead. In that moment, he became the ninth of 13 people executed in the final six months of the Trump administration — more federal executions than in the previous 10 administrations combined. Of the 13, six were put to death after Trump lost the election, his Justice Department accelerating the schedule to ensure they would die before the incoming administration could intercede. Before Trump, there had been only three federal executions since 1963; in January 2021, Trump oversaw three executions during a single four-day stretch.
Two years before that stretch, Trump had signed perhaps the lone broadly popular major initiative of his presidency: a bipartisan criminal-justice reform bill. By 2020, however, his political calculus had changed. As he geared up for another election, Trump White House sources say, the president was telling advisers that carrying out capital punishment would insulate him from criticism that he was soft on crime. And in his attorney general, Bill Barr, a longtime death-penalty advocate, he had the perfect accomplice.
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You people who have and still are waving the Trump banner are no better than primates. And I know, that’s insulting to primates.
Pro-life, my axx.
“According to psychologist, speaker and author Guy Winch, most people who consistently refuse to admit they’re wrong do so because they have incredibly fragile egos. They clam up and insist they’re right, demonstrating what experts term “psychological rigidity”, as a defense mechanism. Their subconscious feeling is that, if they dig in their heels, they can protect themselves from the consequences that might come from their imperfection and fallibility (e.g., being seen as weak, loss or retaliation). Winch also notes that some people go to extraordinary lengths in this process, even changing facts and convincing themselves of new realities in their own minds to escape culpability.”
Sound familiar? Come on little Willy, now talk to us about the Paul Pelosi situation.
PPBM, you have now been proven to be a liar and/or an idiot. I just watched the video footage of Pelosi’s attacker BREAKING INTO THE HOUSE; there was also footage of the scene in the doorway after police arrived clearly showing the “perp” viciously attacking an old man with a hammer. To see a lover’s quarrel in that scene makes absolutely no sense. The footage was broadcast on Ari Melber’s show, “The Beat.” Watch it on Demand tonight. It is at the very beginning of the show. Then come back and acknowledge HOW WRONG YOU WERE.
DONKEY CLOWNS MY schedule goes as follows
5 AM wake up have coffee and hit the elliptical listen to the news
6:15 AM make my lunch and get on the computer check into my business accounts.
7:30 am head to my F/T job
12 noon hour lunch
4 PM complete my F/T hours
4:30 head to my shop and look at business prospects for the upcoming weekend
5:30 PM get home walk my dogs for an hour
6 PM have dinner
talk with my wife play a game or watch a movie until 9PM
go to bed hoping Biden does not start WW3 while sleeping
take respite in the fact if he does I will be asleep and won’t know its happened.
I hope that clears up what a working person does to make a living in the cesspool of a country you Democratic Socialist created.
New flash a mass shooting some where in America
MEDIA when are we going to stop these white gun toting god loving men from committing these crimes against humanity.
Oh wait never mind it was an African American guy, or an asian guy
New headline
MEDIA when are we going to confiscate all these guns and stop the people from mass shootings?
Loser
The issue here is both sides do not trust what the government is doing. There is zero credibility in anything we see or hear from the MSM. The trust in our government is gone. People no longer believe that our government has the citizens best interest. This is by design.
Cloward and Pivens
Cloward and Piven’s article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of the United States Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They stated that full enrollment of those eligible for welfare “would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments” that would: “…deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas.”[2]
They further wrote:
The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.[2]
Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that Cloward and Piven “proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy.”[3]
Saul Alinsky
1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
The issue here is both sides do not trust what the government is doing. There is zero credibility in anything we see or hear from the MSM. The trust in our government is gone. People no longer believe that our government has the citizens best interest. This is by design. Cloward and Pivens
Cloward and Piven’s article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of the United States Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They stated that full enrollment of those eligible for welfare “would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments” that would: “…deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas.”[2]
They further wrote:
The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.[2]
Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that Cloward and Piven “proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy.”[3]
One political party is documented committing fraud in an orchestrated attempt to overthrow an election. They are further documented committing armed insurrection for the same purpose based on drubbed up and fraudulent accusations of election corruption.
That political party will pay a heavy price for their behavior.
Not much else matters right now.
Your defense of that by trying to equate the two parties is foolhardy, and noted.
lets-go-no-brain post your crap on your Facebook profile or wherever because here on this forum, as your buddy says;
Bill Marincic
November 26th, 2022
Do we even care what you think with your cowardly fake name? You are just a keyboard warrior.
Hey Dumb Chuck do you really think anyone gives a CHUCK what you say? Maybe we can call you Chuckles the DONKEY CLOWN. At least I am not a Dumb Chuck, so please tell your children not to be a dumb Chuck and listen to Socialist Dumb Chucks. Hey that’s a good fit for you Chuck. LOSER
Yeah, I don’t engage in that BS. Your pain and frustration are also noted.
PPBM has been discreet enough to stop posting following his total humiliation.
I have read enough of G-F—Biden to know he is consistently incoherent, unintelligble, and garbled. I don’t waste my time even skimming his BS.
Maybe he will go away if no one gives him the attention he so desperately craves.
Humiliated? It seems like all of you were humiliated today, I may just do the same thing tomorrow. And just for the record, I watched him break into the house too, just so you know, in my lifetime I’ve read about many scorned lovers that broke into houses of their former lovers, and attacked them. Again Pelosi had a beer in his hand and was somewhat smiling. He didn’t say help me or anything else. Again it looked like a lovers quarrel gone bad. I know you guys love everything liberal, especially insider trade Pelosi and you’ll make any excuse you can. Before tomorrow, do me a favor and all of you read a couple books if you can or have someone read them to you so you have a few more words that you can bore us with tomorrow
“According to psychologist, speaker and author Guy Winch, most people who consistently refuse to admit they’re wrong do so because they have incredibly fragile egos. They clam up and insist they’re right, demonstrating what experts term “psychological rigidity”, as a defense mechanism. Their subconscious feeling is that, if they dig in their heels, they can protect themselves from the consequences that might come from their imperfection and fallibility (e.g., being seen as weak, loss or retaliation). Winch also notes that some people go to extraordinary lengths in this process, even changing facts and convincing themselves of new realities in their own minds to escape culpability.”
“According to psychologist, speaker and author Guy Winch, most people who consistently refuse to admit they’re wrong do so because they have incredibly fragile egos. They clam up and insist they’re right, demonstrating what experts term “psychological rigidity”, as a defense mechanism. Their subconscious feeling is that, if they dig in their heels, they can protect themselves from the consequences that might come from their imperfection and fallibility (e.g., being seen as weak, loss or retaliation). Winch also notes that some people go to extraordinary lengths in this process, even changing facts and convincing themselves of new realities in their own minds to escape culpability.”
“According to psychologist, speaker and author Guy Winch, most people who consistently refuse to admit they’re wrong do so because they have incredibly fragile egos. They clam up and insist they’re right, demonstrating what experts term “psychological rigidity”, as a defense mechanism. Their subconscious feeling is that, if they dig in their heels, they can protect themselves from the consequences that might come from their imperfection and fallibility (e.g., being seen as weak, loss or retaliation). Winch also notes that some people go to extraordinary lengths in this process, even changing facts and convincing themselves of new realities in their own minds to escape culpability.”
Second opinion for Bill:
Marham
Why Some People Will Never Admit They Are Wrong?
By Rida Faqeer Muhammad:
“Some people have such a fragile ego and such brittle self-esteem, with a weak “psychological constitution,” that admitting a mistake or being wrong is basically too dangerous for their egos to bear. Accepting that they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically damaging that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so — they distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening.
Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by altering the facts in their minds, making them no longer wrong or culpable. Some people have such a weak ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak “psychological constitution,” that admitting a mistake or being wrong is fundamentally too dangerous for their egos to tolerate.
Accepting that they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically damaging that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so — they distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by altering the facts in their minds, making them no longer wrong or culpable. This is Why Some People Will Never Admit They Are Wrong.”….
“There is professional help available for people with low self-esteem.
Get the necessary help Bill
Marincic i prove you wrong (at best) daily. Daily, sir.
You are in a perpetual state of denial. At least that’s the persona you portray here.