American Politics: A Brand New Day
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/01/day-133/
[h=1]Day 133: "An assault on democracy."[/h]
! 1/ Biden issued a presidential proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month, saying he “will not rest until full equality for LGBTQ+ Americans is finally achieved and codified into law.” The White House noted that “after four years of relentless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken historic actions to accelerate the march toward full LGBTQ+ equality.” On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to protect LGBTQ people under federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex. Biden also reversed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people openly enlisting and serving in the military, and issued an executive order expanding Title IX to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination. (NBC News / New York Times)
! 2/ The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undoing a move made by the Trump administration late last year. The Interior Department said a review of the Trump administration’s leasing program in the wildlife refuge found “multiple legal deficiencies,” including “insufficient analysis” required by environmental laws and a failure to assess alternatives. Last week, however, Justice Department attorneys defended a Trump-era oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska – an area that lies to the west of ANWR. (Politico / New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg)
! 3/ Texas Democrats abandoned the state House floor late Sunday night to block a vote on one of the most restrictive voting bills in the nation. Republicans faced a midnight deadline to approve the measure, which would have made it harder to vote by mail, limited early voting hours, empowered partisan poll watchers, and made it easier to overturn election results. Democrats staged the walkout with an hour left for the Legislature to approve the bill, leaving the House without a quorum needed to take a vote. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said he would order a special legislative session to revive the measure. Biden, meanwhile, called the restrictive voting bill “un-American” and “an assault on democracy.” (Texas Tribune / Washington Post / Associated Press / New York Times)
! 4/ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to defund the state Legislature after House Democrats staged a walkout to block one of his top legislative priorities. “No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities,” Abbott tweeted, pledging to veto the section of the state budget that funds the legislative branch. “Stay tuned.” Abbott has until June 20 to carry out the veto. (Texas Tribune / New York Times / NBC News / NPR / Washington Post)
! 5/ More than 100 scholars of democracy warned that “our entire democracy is now at risk” as a result of Republican-led states proposing or implementing “radical changes” to election laws. The public “Statement of Concern” calls on Senate Democrats to reform or kill the filibuster in order to pass the For the People Act, which already passed the House. Joe Manchin, meanwhile, has repeatedly pledged to protect the filibuster and has refused to sign on to the voting rights bill, calling the legislation “too darn broad” and partisan. The scholars conclude: “History will judge what we do at this moment.” (New York Times / Forbes / Washington Post)
! 6/ The Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits against Trump, former attorney general William Barr, and other officials for using U.S. military and police to violently clear peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square last June so Trump could hold a Bible in front of St. John’s Church for photographs to dispel the notion that he was “weak” for hiding in a bunker. Justice Department lawyers argued that the lawsuits from the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, other civil liberties groups, and individual protesters should be dismissed because the Biden administration does not share Trump’s hostility toward George Floyd and the racial justice movement. An attorney for DC Police, meanwhile, said in court that the department used tear gas on protesters around Lafayette Square Park last June. It was the first time MPD admitted that tear gas was used on peaceful protestors. (Washington Post / WUSA 9)
! 7/ The Justice Department added four new defendants to the federal criminal conspiracy case against the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group that participated in the pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. (CNN)
! 8/ Trump has reportedly been telling confidants that he expects to be reinstated as president by August as a result of ongoing election audits in states like Arizona and Georgia. Meanwhile, at a QAnon conference, Trump’s first national security adviser called for a Myanmar-like military coup in America. Michael Flynn later claimed that he didn’t endorse a coup despite video of him supporting the idea, and saying “it should happen here.” Trump pardoned Flynn in November after he lost the election. Sidney Powell, the lawyer who is being sued for $1.3 billion by Dominion Voting Systems for defamation over her claims that the company rigged the election against Trump, told conference attendees Trump “can simply be reinstated,” despite there being no constitutional or legal remedy to overturn election results that have been certified by Congress. (/ Business Insider / Yahoo News / CNN / HuffPost)
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The results of tonight's special election in NM-01 should probably scare the GOP. Specials are a good way to get an idea of where the country is at after a presidential election.
After Trump's narrow win in 2016, Jon Ossoff lost the special election for that GA house seat in 2017 but it was very close and then you had Doug Jones winning in Alabama. Both good signs for how 2018 and 2020 went for the Democratic Party.
Here in this NM special the Dems are doing about 2 to 3 points better than they did last year and turn out is great for them. The GOP turn out is awful tonight. A sign that the GOP will not have a great midterms.
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We can hope since Manchin & Synema are horribly fucking shit up.
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Senate wise, it's not super hard to see the Dems pick up a seat or two. Worst case is keeping it 50-50
The House is what's going to be harder to defend but I don't think it will be as easy for the GOP as some people are making it out to be. How the Virginia governor race goes could be another overall bad sign for the GOP if McAuliffe wins in a huge landslide. Which is likely.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace had her house vandalized by those darn Antifa!
However, they were very considerate vandals!
They wrote in her handwriting!
And did it with their backs to the house so it could be more easily read from the porch!
And only on areas that could easily be powerwashed!
And used the Anarchy symbol instead of antifa!
While not disturbing the bike that was standing there.
Or disturbing the dirt they walked across.
Or breaking anything.
Unfortunately the video from the camera on her door probably won't show anything helpful.[hide]
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace had her house vandalized by those darn Antifa!
However, they were very considerate vandals!
Um… I think you're really overreaching with this accusations.
They wrote in her handwriting!
I mean the handwriting does not look like hers at all, and the whole I thing is um…. a bit overreaching. Especially the lowercase As, as that a was made in cursive.
And did it with their backs to the house so it could be more easily read from the porch!
You kidding right? Someone who vandalizes doesn't give a fuck if it is in the porch or whatever. Maybe the vandal wanted it to be noticed for all to see. We don't know.
And only on areas that could easily be powerwashed!
O.o…. I think you are just speculating there.
And used the Anarchy symbol instead of antifa!
I mean some people might get the symbols confused, though this might be the work of a troll or prankster, which I think is the most likely culprit.
While not disturbing the bike that was standing there.
I mean, she could have moved it there, or they went around. I mean if you gonna vandalize someone's property you would be quiet about it.
Or disturbing the dirt they walked across.
Or breaking anything.I mean why couldn't the vandal just do graffiti? When I was younger, my family's property got only graffitied but never broken anything else. That's a whole lot of assumptions, especially this probably being the work of a troll/prankster to freak the woman out and try to blame it on antifa or whatever.
Unfortunately the video from the camera on her door probably won't show anything helpful.
We don't know that. I don't think she did it, like why would someone lie about their property being vandalized? That's a bit dumb to be honest. And in the comments it said this happened before of that specific tweet of hers.
I don't even know who this lady was till you mentioned her, and even I think these accusations are a bit ridiculous and unfounded.
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Looking at this in a bit deeper, I found some articles with more information. The first is this:
Police investigating vandalism at home of Republican congresswoman
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/politics/nancy-mace-home-vandalized/index.htmlSo, it's being investigated by the police, and the second article is this where it talks about threats against all members of Congress have increased since the Jan 6. attack:
US Capitol Police says threats against members of Congress up 107% compared to 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/congress-threats-to-lawmakers-capitol-police/index.html And looking at this article that talks about the same thing, also has added stuff of previous threats against her. So, yeah this is not a joke and she really did get vandalized:US Rep Mace: Vandalism at South Carolina home 'very scary'
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She's the one who initially said she was disgusted with what happened on January 6 and sent her kids home early because she heard rumors.
Then called out AOC for exaggerating her experience.
like why would someone lie about their property being vandalized?
So they can get sympathy by looking like a victim, and make a stronger case for attacking their enemies.
Large chunks of the base just buy it up without hearing the follow up that it was faked, so the initial impression is all that matters.
Politicians have done this several times. They're always bad at it.
It's LITERALLY in her own handwriting.
It’s cursive vs manuscript. The dots on the i’s, the detached book of the a’s, the curve on the n's, and slant are maintained between cursive and manuscript. There's more pictures than just the two I included.
More than any of the handwriting characteristics, it's really the fact that these Antifa vandals took great pains to avoid sullying even one speck of the house paint.
We are also to accpet the anarchist graffiti bandit had a watershed ideological mind-shift between writing "ALL POLITICIANS ARE BASTARDS" and "Pass the Pro Act."
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So they can get sympathy by looking like a victim, and make a stronger case for attacking their enemies.
I guess, but looking at articles she gotten threats before, and there has been an increase against people of Congress since the Jan. 6 attack.
It's LITERALLY in her own handwriting. There's more pictures than just the two I included.
I looked at it all, it's not her handwriting at all. It was even posted by major news sources which have said nothing about saying she faked it. I wouldn't trust some random person on Twitter trying to put two things together, it's no different than conspiracy theorists and them making this crazy claims.
Regardless you can believe what you want, as goes for me. We see from the police investigation, I guess.
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Politicians have done this several times. They're always bad at it.
O.O
It's LITERALLY in her own handwriting.
It’s cursive vs manuscript. The dots on the i’s, the detached book of the a’s, and slant are maintained between cursive and manuscript.
I think I write my a's like that though…. and the i thing looks very out there like I said earlier.
More than any of the handwriting characteristics, it's really the fact that these Antifa vandals took great pains to avoid sullying even one speck of the house paint.
I think that is realllllly overreaching it, man.
We are also to accpet the anarchist graffiti bandit had a watershed ideological mind-shift between writing "ALL POLITICIANS ARE BASTARDS" and "Pass the Pro Act."
But this was obviously the work of a troll or prankster…. I mean even CNN mistaken the symbols as Antifa xD
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Looking at this article, her place was not the only one that was vandalized:
US Rep. Nancy Mace’s home and 3 parks vandalized over Memorial Day weekend
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/us-rep-nancy-maces-home-and-3-parks-vandalized-over-memorial-day-weekend/article_9e97fab4-c2d3-11eb-a815-0f1f77d6e3a7.htmlAnd this happened to her before:
In October, when she was still a Republican congressional candidate, someone scratched a profanity into her car as she prepared for her final debate with then-Democratic Rep. Joe Cunningham.
So, looking at all the evidence from various form of articles, it's clear to me that this was really the work of a vandal in the form of a troll/prankster. Especially with the fact it was happening in the area, and she had stuff like this happened before. Again, I say, you can believe what you want, but I just believe you really looking into something that isn't there.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/02/day-134/
[h=1]Day 134: "My Republican friends."[/h]
! 1/ Biden declared June a “national month of action” to meet his goal of having 70% of U.S. adults at least partially vaccinated and 160 million adults fully vaccinated by the Fourth of July. Just under 63% of American adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine. The administration announced a raft of new initiatives to encourage Americans to get vaccinated, including free child care for parents and caregivers while they get their shots, as well as a national canvassing effort to work with churches, colleges, businesses, and celebrities. (Washington Post / Bloomberg / New York Times / CNBC)
2/ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended the restrictive voting bill that failed to pass, while attacking Biden for his comments that the Texas voting bill is “part of an assault on democracy.” Abbott called the Texas voter law “far more accommodative and provides far more hours to vote than it does in President Biden’s home state of Delaware.” The state of Delaware does not currently have early voting, but new state law will allow for 10 days of early voting starting next year. Abbott added: “If there’s any voter suppression taking place, the easier allegation is say that voter suppression has taken place in Delaware, not Texas.” (Dallas Morning News)
! * Texas Republicans blamed a typographical error for a controversial provision in the failed voting bill, which would have limited voting on Sundays to the hours between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. Critics, however, say the provision would hurt get-out-the-vote efforts by Black churches. Despite no Republicans raising an issue with the start time during final debate over the bill last month, Republicans insisted that the 1 p.m. start time was an error and that it should have been 11 a.m. Republicans say they plan to use a special session to change the provision. (NBC News / Texas Tribune)
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3/ Biden tapped Harris to lead the administration’s efforts to protect voting rights. The move comes as several Republican-led state legislatures have pushed to enact voting restrictions, which Biden called an “unprecedented assault” on democracy. Harris said the administration “will not stand by when confronted with any effort that keeps Americans from voting.” Biden also vowed that his administration would “fight like heck” to enact the For the People Act, which would expand voting rights and change campaign finance rules. The bill already passed the House, but has stalled in the Senate, where Democrats need the support of at least 10 Republicans to overcome a filibuster. Joe Manchin, meanwhile, continues to protect the filibuster, while refusing to support the voting rights bill. (CBS News / NPR / New York Times)
4/ Biden called out Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for aligning too closely with Republicans and blocking efforts to pass the voting rights bill and other priorities. “I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” Biden said. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” Sinema and Manchin have frustrated Democrats with their defense of the filibuster as Republican-led state governments have moved to place new limits on voting. While Sinema is a sponsor of the voting rights bill, Manchin has refused to sign on, calling the measure “too broad.” (Washington Post / Yahoo News / Business Insider)
! 5/ Trump permanently shut down his blog after 29 days, frustrated by the lack of readership, which made him reportedly “look small and irrelevant.” The “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” blog was Trump’s attempt at influencing news coverage now that he’s out of office and still banned from Twitter and Facebook. (New York Times / CNBC) -
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/03/day-135/
! 1/ Confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. have fallen to the lowest level since March 2020, when the pandemic began. The U.S. averaged roughly 16,860 new cases per day over the past week, and new cases declined in 43 states, while holding steady elsewhere. (NBC News / Axios)
! 2/ Unemployment claims fell below 400,000 for the first time since March 2020. 385,000 people, however, filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, and continuing claims rose by 169,000 to 3.77 million. (CNBC)
! 3/ The Biden administration outlined its plan for donating an initial 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to help low- and middle-income nations combat the pandemic. The U.S. will distribute about 75% of the doses through the global vaccine aid program COVAX, with the remaining 25% being sent directly to allies and “regional priorities,” including Mexico, Canada, West Bank and Gaza, Ukraine, Egypt, and Iraq. Overall, the White House plans to donate 80 million doses by the end of June, mostly through COVAX. (Politico / New York Times / Associated Press / ABC News)
! 4/ Biden’s latest infrastructure counteroffer would keep Trump’s 2017 tax cuts intact in exchange for $1 trillion in new spending on top of the $400 billion in baseline spending already approved for infrastructure needs. Instead of paying for the American Jobs Plan by raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, the bipartisan infrastructure package would be financed through a 15% minimum tax on U.S. corporations and other tax proposals, including beefing up IRS audits and tax enforcement on the wealthy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden was “absolutely not” abandoning efforts to raise the corporate rate to 28%, adding that it’s a way to “pay for a range of the bold proposals that he has put forward.” Biden has already reduced the cost of his American Jobs Plan to $1.7 trillion from $2.25 trillion. Republicans, meanwhile, have upped their offer to $928 billion from $586 billion, but their proposal only includes roughly $257 billion in new spending on top of the current $400 billion in projected federal spending. Biden wants at least $1 trillion over current levels. (Washington Post / USA Today / New York Times / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Politico)
! 5/ The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for potential violation of campaign finance law. The investigation focuses on allegations that DeJoy pressured employees at his former company, New Breed Logistics, to make contributions to Republican candidates or attend political fundraisers, which he would then reimburse through bonuses. FBI agents have interviewed current and former employees at New Breed Logistics, and prosecutors have also issued a subpoena to DeJoy himself for information. DeJoy, meanwhile, denied he ever “knowingly violated” campaign contribution laws. (Washington Post / Politico / New York Times / ABC News)
! 6/ Rep. Mo Brooks is reportedly avoiding a lawsuit from his colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell that seeks to hold him accountable for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Swalwell’s attorneys have hired a private investigator in order to serve the lawsuit that alleges he and other pro-Trump allies were “responsible for the injury and destruction” of the Capitol. The investigator reportedly “has spent many hours over many days” since April searching for Brooks, “to no avail.” (CNN / Axios)
! 7/ The Justice Department is investigating whether Rep. Matt Gaetz obstructed justice when he called a witness in a potential sex crimes investigation. The obstruction probe stems from an inquiry about whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her travels with him. The witness is one of the women allegedly connected to Gaetz through his “wingman” Joel Greenberg, a Florida tax collector who pleaded guilty to several crimes, including the sex-trafficking of a 17-year-old girl in 2017. While Gaetz has denied all wrongdoing, including obstructing justice or having sex with the trafficked 17-year-old, Greenberg struck a plea deal with prosecutors last month and is cooperating with authorities in the investigation. (Politico / NBC News / CNN / CNBC)
! 8/ The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters in 2017 as part of a leak investigation. The Justice Department informed the paper that it had seized the phone records of Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau, and Michael Schmidt spanning nearly four months in 2017. The department also secured a court order to seize phone logs – but not the contents – of their emails, but “no records were obtained.” Last month, the Biden Justice Department disclosed that the Trump administration had also seized the phone logs of reporters at the Washington Post, and the phone and email logs for a CNN reporter. (New York Times / Washington Post) -
Nancy Mace is saying today that there are no leads in the investigation of who vandalized her home.
She was probably too busy going out and partying as well as uninstalling her upper middle class security systems to be much of any help.
I guess from all of this we can safely say it was a ghost that did it. I feel bad for her kids who have to lived in fear of these radical left-wing ghosts.
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Shame that those security cameras that can be clearly seen in those photos just happened to not work that day.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/04/day-136/
[h=1]Day 136: "This is progress."[/h]
! 1/ The economy added 559,000 jobs last month – double April’s total. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.1%. Despite the gains, the U.S. has only replaced two-thirds of the jobs lost last year – about 7.4 million jobs shy of where it was February 2020. Biden defended the job gains, which were less than the 650,000 jobs economists had predicted, saying “you can’t reboot the world’s largest economy like flipping on a light switch […] This is progress that’s pulling our economy out of the worst crisis in the last 100 years.” Biden added: “We’re on the right track. Our plan is working. And we’re not going to let up now.” (CNN / NPR / NBC News / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / CNBC)
2/ CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged parents to vaccinate their teenagers against Covid-19, citing a rise in the number of teens hospitalized with the disease. The number of hospitalizations related to Covid-19 among U.S. teens in March and April was about three times greater than hospitalizations rates during three recent flu seasons. “Much of this suffering can be prevented,” Walensky said. “Vaccination is our way out of this pandemic.” Meanwhile, Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. 2 official at the CDC, said the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic “wasn’t a good performance,” and there’s still “a lot of work to do to get better prepared for the next one.” Schuchat is retiring this summer after 33 years at the agency. (NBC News / New York Times / Washington Post / NPR)
3/ Former White House counsel Don McGahn testified before the House Judiciary Committee about Trump’s attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation – two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony. The committee first asked to interview McGahn in 2019, but the Trump White House blocked him from appearing, citing a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion. McGahn was the most-cited witness in the Mueller report. (Associated Press / NPR / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / CNN)
4/ The senior vice president and controller at the Trump Organization testified before a special grand jury convened by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Jeff McConney is among a number of witnesses that have already appeared before the special grand jury, which will decide whether criminal charges are warranted against Trump, his company, or employees. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has been investigating whether Trump inflated the value of assets to obtain bank loans and deflated the value of those same assets for tax breaks. (ABC News)
5/ Pence called the Jan. 6 pro-Trump riot attack on the U.S. Capitol “a dark day in the history of the United States” and that he doubts he’ll ever see “eye to eye” with Trump on the event. Despite distancing himself from Trump, Pence said he was “proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years.” Pence then accused Democrats of using the riot to divide the country to “advance their radical agenda,” including what he called “the left-wing myth of systemic racism.” Two days after Biden attended a commemoration the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Pence asserted that “America is not a racist country.” (Politico / New York Times / NPR / NBC News / CNN)
! 6/ Trump’s Facebook account will remain suspended until at least January 2023 and will only be reinstated “if the risk to public safety has receded.” The decision came after Facebook’s Oversight Board said the platform was justified in removing Trump’s account following the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, but that it had been wrong to impose an indefinite ban. Facebook said that when the suspension is “eventually” lifted, Trump would be subject to a set of “rapidly escalating sanctions” for further violations, including the permanent suspension of his account. Meanwhile, Trump – in an emailed statement – complained that the “ruling is an insult” and that the social media company “shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing.” In a second emailed statement, Trump vowed not to dine privately with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg the “next time I’m in the White House,” adding: “It will be all business!” (Politico / NPR / NBC News / New York Times / Washington Post) -
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-texas-voter-suppression/
The cynic in me doesn’t believe this but it is interesting.
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It's National Gun Violence Awareness Day and what happens? This motherfucker issues a ruling overturning California's 32 year ban on assault weapons, saying "Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."
This GWB appointee has issued similar shit rulings blocking California gun legislation in addition to one allowing public school teachers to put up religious banners in classrooms.
I'm extremely pissed right now.
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Forget the stars and stripes, this here symbolizes America and its culture far better and far more honestly.
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Take the eagle out of that, that actually implies some dignity.
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Trump Returns To Campaign Trail With Election Lies And Dark Warnings:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1003282315/silenced-on-facebook-and-twitter-trump-is-set-to-speak-out-again-on-campaign-traGosh, I can't believe he's still sticking with the narrative of the election being stolen, like what the fuck. Biden won fair and square. And hell, I hope he doesn't run in 2024, but if he does, I will protest like hell and vote in the Republican primary against him, so we don't get a man that should have stayed in the acting business. He's done enough with destroying the Republican party, we did proper Republicans like John Kaisch and others that stood up against Trump. Gosh, I hate Trump's narrative, oh the liberals are bad, like what? You're further dividing the country you dumbass, instead of trying to unite everyone, at least Biden is trying to work together, which I applaud him for that.
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Shame that those security cameras that can be clearly seen in those photos just happened to not work that day.
Don't worry, she was tweeting a picture of herself buying a gun. So she'll be safe AND earn more GOP cred.
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Trump Returns To Campaign Trail With Election Lies And Dark Warnings:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1003282315/silenced-on-facebook-and-twitter-trump-is-set-to-speak-out-again-on-campaign-traGosh, I can't believe he's still sticking with the narrative of the election being stolen, like what the fuck. Biden won fair and square. And hell, I hope he doesn't run in 2024, but if he does, I will protest like hell and vote in the Republican primary against him, so we don't get a man that should have stayed in the acting business. He's done enough with destroying the Republican party, we did proper Republicans like John Kaisch and others that stood up against Trump. Gosh, I hate Trump's narrative, oh the liberals are bad, like what? You're further dividing the country you dumbass, instead of trying to unite everyone, at least Biden is trying to work together, which I applaud him for that.
To Trump, to say otherwise would be to admit he was wrong, that he lost, and that's something Trump can not do.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/07/day-139/
Day 139: "A country that's divided."
! 1/ The U.S. reported an average of about 14,500 daily coronavirus cases over the past week with about 960,000 vaccinations administered each day. While more than half of Americans have received at least one vaccine dose, less than a quarter of Black Americans have received their first shot. 42% of Americans overall are fully vaccinated. (CNBC / Politico)
! 2/ Joe Manchin vowed to block the federal election reform bill. “I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act,” Manchin wrote in an op-ed. “Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.” The House approved the For the People Act in March with no Republican support. In the Senate, the bill would require at least 10 GOP votes or require elimination of the filibuster to be passed. Later, in a Fox News interview, Manchin called voting reform bill – which would require states to offer at least 15 days of early voting, universal access to mail-in voting, same-day registration for federal races, and make Election Day a national holiday – “the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I’m not supporting that, because I think it would divide us more. I don’t want to be in a country that’s divided any further.” A national security adviser, meanwhile, called protecting the rights of Americans to vote is a national security issue, saying “we are not updating, refurbishing, revamping our own democratic processes and procedures to meet the needs of the modern moment.” (Politico / Associated Press / New York Times / NBC News / CNN / Bloomberg / Axios / CNBC / Washington Post)
! 3/ Trump’s chief of staff repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to investigate unfounded conspiracy theories about election fraud. In five emails sent during the last week of December and early January, Mark Meadows asked Jeffrey Rosen, then the acting attorney general, to examine debunked claims of election fraud and baseless conspiracies. Rosen declined to open the investigations. (New York Times)
! 4/ Rep. Mo Brooks was finally served a lawsuit alleging that he and other pro-Trump allies were partially accountable for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. According to court filings, Rep. Eric Swalwell’s legal team had been trying since March to serve Brooks and had hired a private investigator to serve the suit. (CNN / Axios)
! 5/ The Justice Department imposed a gag order on New York Times executives over an attempt to obtain four NYT reporters’ email logs from Google, which operates the Times’s email system. Google resisted the effort to obtain the information, and the secret legal battle, which began during the Trump administration and continued under Biden, was ultimately unsuccessful. A federal court lifted the gag order on Friday, which had been in effect since March 3. The disclosure came two days after the Biden Justice Department notified the four reporters that the Trump administration in 2020 had secretly seized their phone records from early 2017. The Biden administration, meanwhile, disavowed any knowledge that the Justice Department tried to seize the email data of four New York Times reporters and had obtained a gag order. (New York Times)
! 6/ The Justice Department said it would no longer secretly obtain reporters’ records during government leak investigations. In a statement, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said that “in a change to its longstanding practice,” the department “will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs.” The reversal follows the recent disclosures that the Trump Justice Department had used court orders to obtain phone and email records for reporters at the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times. (Associated Press / Politico / Wall Street Journal)
! 7/ The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that thousands of immigrants living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are not eligible to apply to become permanent residents. The decision is a setback for as many as 400,000 immigrants in the U.S. who have Temporary Protected Status from deportation because of unsafe conditions in their home countries. The House, meanwhile, has already has passed legislation that would make it possible for TPS recipients to become permanent residents. The bill, however, faces uncertain prospects in the Senate. (Associated Press / Washington Post / ABC News / CNN)
! 8/ Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide hit levels not seen in more than 4 million years. According to scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA, atmospheric carbon dioxide peaked in May 2020, reaching a monthly average of nearly 419 parts per million – the highest levels in human history. In 2021, daily levels recorded have twice exceeded 420 parts per million. Despite the sharp decrease in global greenhouse gas emissions early in the pandemic, NOAA said there was “no discernible impact” on the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (Axios / Washington Post / USA Today) -
So not only does Marjorie Taylor-Greene not know how to spell, she doesn't know the calendar either:
https://secondnexus.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-june-31?fbclid=IwAR2leJPBXwqv7fnFwPYeylYPZzSJZcTr3gtXYnjD-K1t2mtsJUU5HOOP-3wVery nice of you to give Biden a nonexistent date to respond, MTG.
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So not only does Marjorie Taylor-Greene not know how to spell, she doesn't know the calendar either:
https://secondnexus.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-june-31?fbclid=IwAR2leJPBXwqv7fnFwPYeylYPZzSJZcTr3gtXYnjD-K1t2mtsJUU5HOOP-3wVery nice of you to give Biden a nonexistent date to respond, MTG.
When calling someone a dumbfck would be an insult to dumbfcks everywhere. :getlost:
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I was baffled by the decision to make Merrick Garland (conservative judge beloved by the GOP before Obama nominated him) the Attorney General and now we have his DoJ DEFEND Trump in E. Jean Carroll's rape suit and even argue that he was justified in defaming her: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/biden-justice-department-defends-trump-in-suit-over-rape-denial-492088
This is weeks after that same DoJ is covering up Bill Barr's (you know, that guy who argued for full theocratic fascism in the later months of the election) crimes: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/997523749/doj-moves-to-block-full-memo-on-trump-obstruction-decision-from-release?t=1623162208887
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I was baffled by the decision to make Merrick Garland (conservative judge beloved by the GOP before Obama nominated him) the Attorney General and now we have his DoJ DEFEND Trump in E. Jean Carroll's rape suit and even argue that he was justified in defaming her: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/biden-justice-department-defends-trump-in-suit-over-rape-denial-492088
This is weeks after that same DoJ is covering up Bill Barr's (you know, that guy who argued for full theocratic fascism in the later months of the election) crimes: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/997523749/doj-moves-to-block-full-memo-on-trump-obstruction-decision-from-release?t=1623162208887
Regarding the defamation suit, my understanding is it's not actually about Trump directly, nor supressing/hurting Carroll. To borrow another's explanation when asked why the DoJ would go out of its way to defend Trump like this
tldr, because if you're allowed to sue the President for things they said while they were President, then suing the President into oblivion becomes an effective political strategy. If they were suing Trump over a clearly private matter — because the Trump Organization stiffed them for work they did, for example — then that would be a different issue. But if he's being sued over things he said in interviews, press conferences, or statements that he made in his capacity as President of the United States Donald J. Trump rather than Private Citizen Donald J. Trump, then you're not suing Donald J. Trump, you're suing the President, and thus it falls under the purview of government lawyers rather than his personal private ones. This still applies after he's out of office as long as the lawsuit is about things he did while in office.
Try thinking about it this way: if someone tried to sue Obama over something he did during his administration, and the Trump DOJ was arguing that they should be defending the case, would you still be upset over it?
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So not only does Marjorie Taylor-Greene not know how to spell, she doesn't know the calendar either:
https://secondnexus.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-june-31?fbclid=IwAR2leJPBXwqv7fnFwPYeylYPZzSJZcTr3gtXYnjD-K1t2mtsJUU5HOOP-3wVery nice of you to give Biden a nonexistent date to respond, MTG.
Anybody else I'd offer the benefit of the doubt and assume they meant July 31st.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/08/day-140/
Day 140: "Planned in plain sight."
! 1/ Biden’s Justice Department will continue to defend Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her 25 years ago. In a brief filed with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department argued that it should be permitted to substitute itself for Trump as defendant. The Justice Department, however, insisted that it did not endorse Trump’s “crude and disrespectful” remarks about Carroll, but instead argued that Trump could not be sued for defamation because he had made the statements as part of his official duties as president. Last September, the Justice Department and then-Attorney General William Barr intervened on Trump’s behalf to transfer the lawsuit from state court to federal court, substituting the federal government for Trump as the defendant. (CNN / Politico / New York Times / BuzzFeed News)
! 2/ The Koch network pressured Joe Manchin to oppose Biden’s key legislative items, including filibuster reform and the For the People Act. In a video series from Americans for Prosperity, a Koch super PAC, grassroots supporters were encouraged to push Manchin to “Reject Washington’s Partisan Agenda” and oppose his party’s own legislative priorities, including the idea of eliminating the filibuster, the For the People Act, and packing the Supreme Court. (CNBC)
! 3/ Capitol Police had intelligence that Trump supporters planned to attack the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot but failed to act on the threats. In a joint report from the Senate Rules and Administration and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees, the bipartisan investigation found that Capitol Police intelligence officers knew as early as Dec. 21 that pro-Trump extremists were threatening violence, including plans to “storm the Capitol,” infiltrate the tunnel system, and “bring guns.” The information was only shared with command officers. “The failure to adequately assess the threat of violence on that day contributed significantly to the breach of the Capitol,” Sen. Gary Peters said, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “The attack was quite frankly planned in plain sight.” (Washington Post / New York Times / NBC News)
! 4/ Trump’s impeachment lawyers are defending at least three people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Michael van der Veen is defending a member of the Oath Keepers that helped plan and participate in storming the Capitol. Bruce Castor, meanwhile, is representing a mother and daughter who failed to follow repeated police orders to disperse in violation of a curfew. During Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, van der Veen and Castor argued that those who participated in the riot deserve “robust and swift investigation and prosecution.” (NPR)
! 5/ Senate Republicans are blocking the confirmation for Biden’s nominee to lead the federal personnel agency because of her support for abortion rights and critical race theory, an academic framework centered on the idea that racism is systemic. The delay on Kiran Ahuja’s nomination to lead the Office of Personnel Management is being led by Sen. Josh Hawley, who is a dipshit. (Washington Post)
! 6/ The Biden administration determined that more than 3,900 children were separated from their families after the Trump administration implemented its “zero-tolerance policy.” The report from the Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force also found that fewer than 60 families are now in the process of being reunited. Nearly 400 children have been repatriated to their country of origin. (ABC News)
! 7/ The Biden administration threatened to sue Texas if its Republican Governor Greg Abbott moves forward with plans to close more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children. Abbott issued a disaster declaration last week, which directed a state agency to “take all necessary steps” to deny or discontinue licenses for child care facilities sheltering migrant children within 90 days. (CBS News)
! 8/ New audio reveals how Rudy Giuliani pressured the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about Biden. During the roughly 40-minute, July 2019 phone call between Giuliani, U.S. diplomat Kurt Volker, and Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Giuliani repeatedly pressed Yermak to have Zelensky publicly announce investigations into possible corruption by Biden in Ukraine, and into claims that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Trump. Both claims are untrue. “All we need from the President [Zelensky] is to say […] he’s gonna investigate and dig up the evidence, that presently exists and is there any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election, and then the Biden thing has to be run out,” Giuliani said, according to the audio. The call was a precursor to Trump’s July 25, 2019, call with Zelensky, where he pressured the Ukrainian president eight times to investigate Biden and his son. (CNN)
! * LISTEN: Rudy Giuliani’s 40-minute phone call with a Ukrainian presidential aide
! poll/ 70% of Americans support same-sex marriage – a record high. In 1996, 27% of Americans supported same-sex marriage. (Gallup)
! poll/ 51% of voters support Trump’s two-year Facebook ban. Among Republicans, 15% supported the suspension, while 86% of Democrats supported Trump’s temporary ban. 46% of independent voters, however, supported the suspension with and 40% opposing it. (Politico) -
Dem VA primary went as expected. Looking like the former governor won every county.
And that schmuck and DSA grifter Lee Crater didn't even reach 3% of the vote but also lost his current seat he was running for reelection as a fallback to this stupid governor run.
I am sorry but these dumb white college socialists are awful at politics and it's great when women of color who are actually progressive topple them.
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There's a comedic "mockumentary" on Netflix called "Death to 2020", and Lisa Kudrow plays a right-wing politico in it and oh my god, she gets them so right:
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Merrick Garland (conservative judge beloved by the GOP before Obama nominated him)
you mean to tell me McConnell and the senate walled him just because Obama was the one that nominated him?
not surprising at all, but christ.
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There's a comedic "mockumentary" on Netflix called "Death to 2020", and Lisa Kudrow plays a right-wing politico in it and oh my god, she gets them so right:
Okay I want to see this! That clip was funny! xD
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Garland's DoJ is also keeping Trump Hotel docs under wraps:
you mean to tell me McConnell and the senate walled him just because Obama was the one that nominated him?
not surprising at all, but christ.
There's a quote out there from before Obama nominated him where McConnell says he would happily confirm a fine moderate judge like Garland, but Obama would obviously go with someone from the radical left.
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The last few days' worth of WTF Just Happened Today:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/09/day-141/
[h=1]Day 141: "Frustrated."[/h]
! 1/ Biden ended negotiations with a group of Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito over infrastructure legislation, telling Capito that the latest GOP offer didn’t “meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future, and create jobs.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden was disappointed that Republicans had “increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion” after he reduced his plan by more than $1 trillion. The White House and Capito ended up about $700 billion away. Capito, meanwhile, said she was “frustrated” with the White House and suggested that it “kept moving the goalposts” during negotiations. Biden will now focus on working with a bipartisan group of 20 senators who have been working separately on an alternative infrastructure proposal. Biden also spoke with Chuck Schumer about passing some of the infrastructure provisions through budget reconciliation, a fast-track procedure that would allow Democrats to avoid a filibuster and push through a package without support from Republicans. And, over in the House a bipartisan group calling themselves the Problem Solvers Caucus proposed a $1.249 trillion infrastructure plan that includes $761.8 billion in new spending. (CBS News / Washington Post / New York Times / ABC News / Politico / NBC News)
2/ The Biden administration will buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to donate to 92 lower income countries and the African Union. The first 200 million doses will be distributed this year through the global COVAX alliance, followed by another 300 million in the first half of 2022. The Biden administration previously announced it would share at least 80 million vaccine doses globally by the end of June. (Washington Post / Associated Press / Politico)
3/ The U.S. is averaging fewer than 1 million vaccinations per day, threatening Biden’s goal of getting at least 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated by July 4. At least 13 states have already vaccinated 70% of adult residents, and an additional 15 states, plus D.C., are over 60% and will likely reach Biden’s goal. Covid-19 hospitalizations rates, meanwhile, continue to rise in communities with low vaccination rates. (Washington Post / New York Times)
4/ Two days after Joe Manchin vowed to block the federal election reform bill, Mitch McConnell said he would not support the bipartisan John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which Manchin and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski have urged lawmakers to reauthorize. “There’s no threat to the voting rights law,” McConnell said. “It’s against the law to discriminate in voting based on race already. And so I think it’s unnecessary.” Manchin and Murkowski had proposed passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act as an alternative to the For The People Act, which would restore a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court struck down in 2013. That measure would also likely be blocked by a filibuster. Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, said the Senate will vote on the For the People Act, with or without Manchin. (The Hill / Vanity Fair / Business Insider / Politico / Washington Post / NBC News)
5/ The Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a $250 billion bill aimed at countering China’s technological influence by investing in American technology, science, and research. The final vote was 68-32, with 19 Senate Republicans – including Mitch McConnell – joining Democrats in voting for passage. Bernie Sanders was the only member of the Democratic caucus to vote against the bill. The legislation now heads to the House before going to Biden’s desk. (New York Times / CNN / CNBC)
6/ Biden revoked and replaced three Trump executive orders that sought to ban TikTok and WeChat from the U.S. over national security concerns. Biden’s new order would instead establish “clear intelligible criteria” to evaluate national security risks for apps connected to foreign governments and direct the Commerce Department to undertake an “evidence-based” analysis of transactions involving apps that are manufactured or supplied or controlled by China. (Associated Press / New York Times / CNBC / Wall Street Journal)
7/ Harris warned Guatemalans thinking of migrating to the U.S.: “Do not come.” In her first foreign trip since taking office, Harris said the Biden administration wanted “to help Guatemalans find hope at home.” She added: “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, called Harris’ statement “disappointing,” and that the U.S. needed to “acknowledge its contributions to destabilization and regime change in the region.” Harris responded to criticism from both Republicans and members of her own party, saying: “I’m really clear: We have to deal with the root causes and that is my hope. Period.” (NPR / Politico / ABC News / NBC News)
8/ The Biden administration moved to repeal a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of streams and wetlands. The Trump-era rule narrowed the types of waterways that qualify for federal protection under the Clean Water Act. EPA Administrator Michael Regan said his team determined that the Trump administration’s rollback is “leading to significant environmental degradation.” (Washington Post / Associated Press / Politico)
9/ House Democrats reintroduced legislation that would protect abortion access even if Roe v. Wade were weakened or overturned. The Women’s Health Protection Act would guarantee the right for health care professionals to provide abortion care and prohibit state and federal lawmakers from imposing certain limits on abortion care, including mandatory ultrasounds, waiting periods, and admitting privileges requirements. The bill was first introduced in 2013, but has never received a vote in either chamber. (NBC News)
poll/ 47% of Americans say abortion is morally acceptable, while 46% say it’s morally wrong. Overall, 48% of Americans believe abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while 32% favor it being legal “under any circumstances,” and 19% think it should be “illegal in all circumstances.” (Gallup)
poll/ 29% of Republican voters think it’s likely that Trump will be reinstated as president this year. Overall, 72% of voters say they believe America’s democracy is currently being threatened, including 82% of Republicans, 77% of Democrats, and 72% of independents. (Morning Consult)https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/10/day-142/
[h=1]Day 142: "Point of no return."[/h]
! 1/ The Interior Department’s inspector general concluded that U.S. Park Police did not clear the park outside the White House of protesters on June 1, 2020, so Trump could walk to a nearby church for a photo op. Mark Greenblatt instead found that Park Police had the authority to clear the park and surrounding areas so that a contractor could install anti-scale fencing and did not know that Trump would be leaving the White House and crossing Lafayette Park until “mid-to late afternoon” on June 1 – hours after the contractor had arrived to begin installation. Park Police officials said the plan to clear the area was in place before a 2 p.m. meeting that included then-Attorney General William Barr, who “did not mention a potential presidential visit to the park,” according to the report. Barr, however, did urge officials to speed up the clearing process after Trump decided to walk through the area around 6:10 p.m. (NPR / Politico / NBC News / CBS News / ABC News / CNBC / USA Today)
2/ Former White House counsel Don McGahn testified behind closed doors last week about Trump’s attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation. In a transcript of the interview with members of the House Judiciary Committee, McGahn described Trump’s efforts to get him to tell Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Robert Mueller over Trump’s claim that Mueller had a conflict of interest. McGahn refused to go along with Trump’s effort to fire Mueller, believing it could “cause this to spiral out of control.” McGahn also acknowledged that Trump told then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he should resign for having recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said “McGahn’s testimony gives us a fresh look at how dangerously close President Trump brought us to, in Mr. McGahn’s words, the ‘point of no return.’” (New York Times / NBC News / Bloomberg / Washington Post)
3/ The U.S. reportedly lost more than $400 billion to fraudulent unemployment claims over the past year. The bulk of the money – representing as much as 50% of all unemployment money – likely ended in the hands of foreign crime syndicates in China, Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere. (Axios)
4/ The Trump Justice Department continued to pursued a CNN reporter’s records for half a year after a federal judge said the argument for access to internal emails was “speculative” and “unanchored in any facts.” The Trump administration also put CNN general counsel David Vigilante under a gag order prohibiting him from sharing any details about the Justice Department’s effort to obtain two months’ of CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr’s 2017 email logs. The pursuit for Starr’s records began in July 2020 under then-Attorney General William Barr. (CNN)
5/ The Keystone XL oil pipeline project was canceled after Biden revoked a key permit. TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the project, said it terminated the $9 billion project after Canadian officials failed to persuade Biden to reverse his cancellation of the permit. Keystone XL was expected to carry 830,000 barrels per day of Alberta oil sands crude to Nebraska. (NBC News / Associated Press / CNN)
poll/ 75% of respondents from 12 nations said they were confident that Biden would “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” compared with 17% for Trump last year. 62% of respondents said they have a favorable view of the U.S. compared to 34% at the end of Trump’s presidency in 2020. (Pew Research Center / Washington Post)https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/11/day-143/
[h=1]Day 143: "A gross abuse of power."[/h]
! 1/ Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to double the size of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division staff to protect every American’s right to vote. “There are plenty of things up for debate in America, but the right of all eligible Americans to vote is not one of them,” Garland said, calling the expansion of voting rights as a “central pillar” to American democracy. Garland added that the Justice Department will “do everything in its power to prevent election fraud, and if found to vigorously prosecute” but will also scrutinize “new laws that seek to curb voter access.” The additional trial attorneys will be hired over the next the next 30 days. (New York Times / Washington Post / Politico / NBC News / Axios)2/ The Trump Justice Department secretly subpoenaed Apple for the metadata of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as their current and former staff, and family members, including a minor. The records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized, including Rep. Adam B. Schiff, then the panel’s ranking Democrat and now its chairman, and Rep. Eric Swalwell. Trump administration prosecutors, looking for the sources behind news stories about contacts between Trump associates and Russia, subpoenaed Apple in 2017 and early 2018, which included a gag order, seeking the metadata for more than 100 accounts as part of the investigation to determine who was leaking classified information. The data obtained, however, did not tie the committee to the leaks of classified information about Russia. The gag order was renewed three times before it expired this year and Apple notified at least 12 people in May connected to the panel of subpoenas. (New York Times / Washington Post / CNN)
3/ The Justice Department’s inspector general opened an investigation into the Trump administration’s secret seizure of data from Apple belonging to at least two Democratic lawmakers, their staff, and family members. Michael Horowitz said the review “will examine the Department’s compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures, and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations.” Horowitz added that the investigation would also look into the use of subpoenas to obtain journalists’ phone records, as well as “other legal authorities [used] to obtain communication records […] in connection with recent investigations of alleged unauthorized disclosures of information to the media by government officials.” Separately, Senate Democratic leaders demanded that former attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions testify under oath about the secret subpoenas of Rep. Adam B. Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, calling it “a gross abuse of power and an assault on the separation of powers.” The senators threatened to subpoena Barr and Sessions if they don’t appear voluntarily. The Biden administration, meanwhile, called the “behavior” of Trump’s attorneys general “appalling.” (Washington Post / New York Times / NPR / Bloomberg / USA Today / CNN / Associated Press / NBC News)
4/ The Biden administration will “repeal or replace” a rule allowing roads and development in more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The move revives protections originally put in place in 2001 by Clinton, which Trump stripped three months before leaving office. (Washington Post)
5/ A bipartisan group of senators said they reached an agreement on the framework for an infrastructure deal. The deal reportedly includes $579 billion in new spending and would “be fully paid for and not include tax increases.” The overall proposal would spend $974 billion over five years and about $1.2 trillion if it continued over eight years. Lawmakers in both parties sounded skeptical that the proposal, which expected to address a narrow range of physical infrastructure projects, can get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. (New York Times / Wall Street Journal / NBC News) -
So Biden is doing his president-thing at the G7 summit, and after the shitshow that is Trump even Boris Johnson is calling it "a breath of fresh air". There's even a mini-vid of Trump at the NATO conference vs Biden at the summit with the leaders, and you can tell the difference.
https://secondnexus.com/trump-biden-g7-summit-video?fbclid=IwAR0-7IvRUB0G4D0Tl94rx1BG9Z3IiUSeoR0FUq2vfZj36oBrfZ81TufnFjk -
What is the G7 Summit?
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It's the summit/meeting of seven of the most powerful nations on the planet, namely the US, the UK, Japan, France, Canada, Germany, and Italy. They meet to discuss various things, like for this summit the main discussion is definitely COVID-19, but they will also discuss things like climate change, world economy, and any problematic things other nations might be doing (looking at you, China and Russia).
When Trump was in office he was a ridiculous embarrassment for us, as the other world leaders clearly thought he was a POS like the rest of us and had no respect for him, especially as he wouldn't work with them on anything. Biden is acting as a world leader should, and you can clearly see the others are relieved to be working again with someone with a brain.
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How you know Biden is doing the G7 better than Trump:
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/06/14/day-146/
[h=1]Day 146: "Accountability."[/h]
! 1/ Biden reaffirmed NATO’s Article 5 – the central tenet of collective defense – calling it “a sacred obligation,” adding that the alliance is “critically important for U.S. interests.” The comments were a sharp contrast to Trump, who once declined to endorse Article 5 and called the alliance “obsolete.” NATO leaders, meanwhile, in a summit statement said China’s growing military and “assertive behavior” was “presenting challenges,” accusing the Chinese of working to undermine global order with “systemic challenges to the rules-based international order.” Separately, Biden said the U.S. would “respond in kind” if Putin “chooses not to cooperate” on cybersecurity. (New York Times / ABC News / Wall Street Journal / Associated Press / Washington Post)
2/ The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for information about an account that belonged to the sitting White House counsel, and then barred the company from telling him about it. Donald McGahn and his wife received disclosures from Apple last month that their accounts were subpoenaed by the Justice Department in February 2018. It’s not clear what the FBI was investigating, but the Justice Department appears to have accessed McGahn’s information around the same time it was reported that Trump had ordered McGahn the previous June to have Robert Mueller fired. McGahn, however, threatened to quit and Trump backed down. The seizure of McGahn’s records also happened the same month the Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data related to the leaks of information about the Russia inquiry, which included more than 12 people connected to the House Intelligence Committee, including two of its Democratic members. Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, called on former attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions, as well as Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the time, to testify under oath in the House about what they knew. (New York Times / Associated Press / CNN / Politico)
3/ Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted Democratic members of Congress. At the time of the subpoena, Jeff Sessions was recused from the Russia probe, meaning the leak investigation would have fallen under Rosenstein. Jeff Sessions has also told people he does not recall approving a subpoena for lawmakers’ data in a leak case. And, former Attorney General William Barr, who took office a year after the subpoena was issued, said he does not recall discussing a probe for lawmakers’ data during his time leading the department, adding that he “never discussed the leak cases with Trump.” (CNN / Politico / Washington Post)
4/ Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will tighten its rules around seizing information about members of Congress and their aides and vowed “strict accountability” for officials who let politics affect their work. Garland said his deputy, Lisa Monaco, will review and update the department’s existing policies “for obtaining records of the legislative branch,” noting that “we must ensure that full weight is accorded to separation-of-powers concerns moving forward.” The announcement came as John Demers, a Trump-era official who leads the Justice Department’s National Security Division, which oversees leak investigations, said he’ll resign at the end of next week. Garland will also meet with executives from CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post to discuss the Trump administration’s leak investigation that involved seeking reporter records from all three media outlets. (New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post / NBC News / CNN)
5/ Mitch McConnell threatened to block any Supreme Court nominee put forward by Biden during the 2024 election cycle if Republicans regain control of the Senate next year. McConnell suggested that if he became majority leader again, he would give a Biden Supreme Court nominee in 2023 “a fair shot at a hearing” if the person was “not a radical, but a normal mainstream mainstream liberal.” McConnell, however, admitted that the prospects were “highly unlikely,” adding “we’d have to wait and see what happens.” (The Hill / New York Times / NBC News / Bloomberg)
poll/ 52% of Americans trust Biden to negotiate on the country’s behalf with other world leaders, and 49% trust him to negotiate with Putin specifically. 57% of Americans have confidence in Biden to do the right thing regarding world affairs. (ABC News) -
]Mitch McConnell threatened to block any Supreme Court nominee put forward by Biden during the 2024 election cycle if Republicans regain control of the Senate next year. McConnell suggested that if he became majority leader again, he would give a Biden Supreme Court nominee in 2023 “a fair shot at a hearing” if the person was “not a radical, but a normal mainstream mainstream liberal.” McConnell, however, admitted that the prospects were “highly unlikely,” adding “we’d have to wait and see what happens.”
Mitch, don't lie, you'd just block any nominee no matter when they were nominated. Even if it meant stalling the process out for six years.
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It's the summit/meeting of seven of the most powerful nations on the planet, namely the US, the UK, Japan, France, Canada, Germany, and Italy. They meet to discuss various things, like for this summit the main discussion is definitely COVID-19, but they will also discuss things like climate change, world economy, and any problematic things other nations might be doing (looking at you, China and Russia).
Ooooo, so does the public know exactly what was talked about or is some stuff secret?
When Trump was in office he was a ridiculous embarrassment for us, as the other world leaders clearly thought he was a POS like the rest of us and had no respect for him, especially as he wouldn't work with them on anything.
Well, Trump is technically a man-child if anything. Yeah, he probably "listened" but it went out from one ear to another, effectively not paying attention.
Biden is acting as a world leader should, and you can clearly see the others are relieved to be working again with someone with a brain.
I'm glad about this. Honestly Biden is like that good uncle you have in the family, while Trump is the creepy one.
How you know Biden is doing the G7 better than Trump:
Yeah world leaders should be friends with other world leaders like how Biden is showing compared to Trump who only cared about himself. Like if you gonna be president, you should work well with others in my honest opinion.
Also, speaking of Trump, a funny caption for that image with him Macron would be Trump pooping his diaper with Macron turning his head like that wtf Monsieur Trump. 0.0
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Police connect vandalism at Nancy Mace’s home to incident at Bishop England High School:
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/police-connect-vandalism-at-nancy-maces-home-to-incident-at-bishop-england-high-school/article_6b0d3996-ca1e-11eb-a80f-23815e8ea2c2.htmlFinally, this can be put to rest since now with the police investigation showing that she didn't do it, and it is connected to another incident in that very same area.
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Ooooo, so does the public know exactly what was talked about or is some stuff secret?
A bit of both. They'll make some announcements but we don't know everything that goes on behind those doors.
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Mitch, don't lie, you'd just block any nominee no matter when they were nominated. Even if it meant stalling the process out for six years.
You’re expecting honesty from a politician much less a Republican?
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A bit of both. They'll make some announcements but we don't know everything that goes on behind those doors.
Oh! I get it! Well, hopefully now that Biden is president he can work with the others to battle climate change and make Earth a better place. Climate change to me is a big issue that needs to be resolved now than later.
You’re expecting honesty from a politician much less a Republican?
Is there any politician out there that is 100% honest? Why do politicians lie in the first place?
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Is there any politician out there that is 100% honest? Why do politicians lie in the first place?
Money and power generally.
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Some are full blown sociopaths that take pleasure in exercising control and creating mass misery.
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Oh! I get it! Well, hopefully now that Biden is president he can work with the others to battle climate change and make Earth a better place. Climate change to me is a big issue that needs to be resolved now than later.
Climate change is a VERY big issue that needs to be resolved NOW or there won't be a later.
Money and power generally.
What he said.
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Is there any politician out there that is 100% honest? Why do politicians lie in the first place?
100%? No But the majority can at least be expected to be 10% honest. Most current Republicans can't even break that double digit expectation.
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I honestly don't think 95% of the republicans can reach single digits of honesty.
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Some are full blown sociopaths that take pleasure in exercising control and creating mass misery.
And yet looking at other parts of the world there are worse.
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And yet looking at other parts of the world there are worse.
Bozo's political minion have less than 0,1% of dignity, their honesty and morals are even worst.